Cutin and wax biosynthesis of Arabidopsis (Panikashvili et al. 2011) is investigated together with Asaph Aharoni, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel.
Chemical
composition of cutin and waxes is analysed together with Jose Graca, Centro de Estudos Florestais, Departamento de Engenharia
Florestal, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade Tecnica de
Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal (Santos et
al. 2007).
The
effect of hypergravity on elongation growth and lignin formation in Arabidopsis (Tamaoki
et al. 2009) is studied together with Ichirou Karahara, Toyama University, Japan.
Interactions between leaf surface microorganisms and plant cuticles (Remus-Emsermann et al. 2011) are studied together with Johan H.J. Leveau, Plant Pathology,
University of California, Davis, USA.
Casparian band formation in the endodermis and exodermis of rice roots (Ranathunge at al. 2011 ) is investigated together with Jinxing Lin, Key Laboratory of Photosynthesis and Molecular Environmental Physiology, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing.
The effect of salt stress on rice root suberization (Krishnamurthy et. al. 2011) is studied together with Mathew. K. Mathew, National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore, India.
In
collaboration with Frank Pinot, Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, CNRS,
University Strasbourg, France we are interested in the function of P450 hydroxylases involved in cutin, wax and suberin biosynthesis (Kastner et al. 2011).
Together
with Jiri Santrucek, Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Academy of
Sciences, Budweis, Czech Republic the ecology of cuticular transpiration
is investigated (Mackova
et al. 2010).
Rice cutin biosynthesis (Shi et al. 2011) is studied together with Dabing Zhang, School of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China.
