PhD fellowship in Plant Biochemistry

Official occupation: ph.d., naturvidenskab og teknik. Employment conditions: Almindelige vilkår. Employer CVR: 29979812.

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Public Sector, Education & Impact (occupation evidence). The Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Plant Biochemistry Laboratory invites applicants for a PhD fellowship in ”The Signalling Processes Controlling Plant Plasticity”. The project is supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council entitled “ARC Research Hub for Engineering Plants to Replace Fossil Carbon”.

Start date is (expected to be 1 January 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter. The project Earlier this year, our research group discovered that cytochrome P450s of the CYP79 family are signature enzymes in the biosynthesis of the pivotal signal molecule nitric oxide in plants.

The objective of the PhD project is to identify the transcription factors (TFs) controlling the spaciotemporal expression patterns of the CYP79 encoding genes in specific meristematic plant tissues, using sorghum as the experimental system.

Using the large FIND-IT collection of sorghum mutants developed at the Carlsberg Research Laboratory, knock-out variants and variants harboring specific selected mutations will be isolated to monitor the in planta impact of individual TFs on NO signaling1 …