University of Helsinki
Prof. Novoplansky will arrive tomorrow and stay in Helsinki until Saturday.
He will give a talk on Monday 13 September at 15:15 titled “Ecological implications of plant communication”. (INFO building, lecture hall 2)
Knowing his earlier work, and having heard from him about current work in his lab, this promises to be a very very interesting talk.
Some key papers from Ariel’s lab:
Shemesh, H., A. Arbiv, M. Gersani, O. Ovadia, and A. Novoplansky. 2010. The effects of nutrient dynamics on root patch choice. PLoS ONE 5.
Novoplansky, A. 2009. Picking battles wisely: plant behaviour under competition. Plant Cell & Environment 32: 726-741.
Falik, O., Reides, P., Gersani, M. and Novoplansky, A. 2005. Root navigation by self inhibition. Plant Cell & Environment 28: 562-569.
Gruntman M, Novoplansky A. 2004. Physiologically-mediated self/nonself discrimination in roots. PNAS 101: 3863–3867.
Ariel Novoplansky’s visit was very important to us. We had discussions about future collaboration, and about plant communication, plasticity and stomata. The talk on Monday was great, and included very exciting yet to be published experimental results. Ariel also gave an informal presentation on his ideas about plasticity, which are very interesting and useful. We also had very enjoyable talks about other topics not related to science.