Organisationsprofil

Plants are central to life on this planet. They produce the oxygen we breathe, are the main source of our nutrition along with fibre and bioenergy. Plants are also a rich source of pharmaceutical and other novel products. The rapidly increasing demand of food and fibre together with the requirement for sustainable energy such as biofuels requires extensive research and training of experts in different areas of plant sciences. The central aim of the Doctoral Programme in Plant Sciences (DPPS) is to meet these challenges and to train world-class experts in the fields of basic and translational plant sciences including plant biology and associated biotic interactions, plant production and other applications such as bioenergy to fulfil the ever growing needs for well qualified and highly motivated researchers in modern plant sciences and its industrial applications in Finland and globally.

The doctoral programme aims to train scientific researchers in the following themes:

molecular plant biology
genetics, genomics and breeding
physiology and biochemistry
developmental biology
pathology and biotechnology
plant production
ecophysiology
systematics
bioenergy

Internationellt och inhemskt samarbete Publikationer och projekt inom de senaste fem åren.

Personer

Juan Antonio Alonso Serra

juan.alonsoserra@helsinki.fi

Doctoral Programme in Plant Sciences

Person

Javier Andres Jimenez

javier.andresjimenez@helsinki.fi

Person: U1 Undervisnings- och forskningspersonal, HU

Pedro Aphalo

pedro.aphalo@helsinki.fi

Viikki Plant Science Centre (ViPS)
Sensory and Physiological Ecology of Plants (SenPEP)
Forskningsprogrammet för organism- och evolutionsbiologi - universitetslektor
Doctoral Programme in Plant Sciences - Handledare för doktorandprogram

Person: U3 Undervisnings- och forskningspersonal, HU

Fred Asiegbu

fred.asiegbu@helsinki.fi

Avdelningen för skogsvetenskaper - professor
Centret för hållbarhetsvetenskap (HELSUS)
Viikki Plant Science Centre (ViPS)
Forest Ecology and Management
Doctoral Programme in Plant Sciences - Handledare för doktorandprogram
Doctoral Programme in Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources - Handledare för doktorandprogram

Person: HU, undervisnings- och forskningspersonal, U4 Undervisnings- och forskningspersonal

Jon Atherton

jon.atherton@helsinki.fi

Avdelningen för skogsvetenskaper - forskardoktor
Ecosystem processes (INAR Forest Sciences)
Forest Ecology and Management
Doctoral Programme in Plant Sciences - Handledare för doktorandprogram

Person: U2 Undervisnings- och forskningspersonal, HU, undervisnings- och forskningspersonal

Utrustning

National Plant Phenotyping Infrastructure

Kristiina Himanen (Chef)

Utrustning/facilitet: Central servicefacilitet

Projekt

2 Slutfört
4 Ej startad
8 Aktiv

Methane and soil - tree networks: Adding dimensions to greenhouse-gas studies (METNET)

Lauren, A., Raivonen, M., Grönholm, T., Palviainen, M., Pihlatie, M., Hölttä, T., Gauci, V., Swadrup, S. & Urzainqui Aramburu, I.

01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Signal integration through plasma membrane-localized proteins during stress signaling in plants

Wrzaczek, M.

01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Canopy level photosynthesis under conditions of diffuse and direct sunlight and its implications for light use efficiency by plants under future climates

Robson, T. M., Aphalo, P., Lindfors, A. V., Solanki, T., Shapiguzov, A., Kotilainen, T., Urban, O., Robinson, S. A., Murchie, E. & Madronich, S.

01/09/2019 → 31/08/2023

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Legumes Translated

Lindström, K., Stoddard, F., Sontag-Strohm, T. & Schauman, C.

01/11/2018 → 31/10/2021

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

MEMETRE: From processes to modelling of methane emissions from trees

Pihlatie, M., Putkinen, A., Seppälä, E., Kohl, L., Vainio, E., Koskinen, M., Tenhovirta, S. A. M., Patama, M. R., Tikkanen, O. & Anttila, J.

01/02/2018 → 01/03/2023

Projekt: Forskningsprojekt

Publikationer

Chloroplot: an online program for the versatile plotting of organelle genomes

Zheng, S., Poczai, P., Hyvönen, J., Tang, J. & Amiryousefi, A., 2020, (!!In preparation) I : Bioinformatics.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Comparative plastomics of ashwagandha (Withania, Solanaceae) and identification of mutational hotspots for barcoding medicinal plants

Mehmood, F., Abdullah, Ubaid, Z., Ahmed, I., Waheed, M. T., Bao, Y., Poczai, P. & Mirza, B., 2020, (Insänt) I : Genes.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Comparison among the first representative chloroplast genomes of Orontium, Lasia, Zamioculcas, and Stylochaeton of the plant family Araceae: inverted repeat dynamics are not linked to phylogenetic signaling

Abdullah, Henriquez, C. L., Mehmood, F., Shahzadi, I., Ali, Z., Waheed, M. T., Croat, T. B., Poczai, P. & Ahmed, I., 2020, (Insänt) I : Plants.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review

Complete chloroplast genomes of Anthurium huixtlense and Pothos scandens (Pothoideae, Araceae): unique inverted repeat expansion and contraction affect rate evolution.

Abdullah, Henriquez, C. L., Mehmood, F., Carlsen, M. M., Waheed, M. T., Poczai, P., Croat, T. B. & Ahmed, I., 2020, (Insänt) I : Journal of Molecular Evolution.

Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel › Vetenskaplig › Peer review