Dr Mauren Jaudal Seminar

In kiwifruit, fruit sugar content contributes to sweetness, which is an important consumer quality trait. In kiwiberry (Actinidia arguta), adequate storage of soluble sugars in the form of starch or dry matter (DM) reserve produces fruit with acceptable flavour. However, the molecular mechanisms of sugar transport and accumulation in kiwifruit remain obscure. In this talk, I will give an overview of our characterisation of selected sugar transporters in kiwiberry including AaSTP3, AaSTP14 and AaSWEET1. Kiwiberry has two copies of AaSWEET1 and disruption of these genes using RNAi lines contributes to changes in sugar unloading and other aspects of flower and fruit growth, development, and physiology. Apart from scientific presentation, I will also give an overview of my institute: the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research and the research themes I am involved with. Lastly, I will briefly talk about the work I have done here as part of the Science New Zealand-INRAE joint collaboration grant.

Mauren Jaudal, Plant and Food Research Institute, Auckland, Nouvelle Zélande

Invitation: Rozenn Le Hir, contact, "Carbon, Allocation, Transport and Signaling" CATS team 


Seminar in connection with the research developed at the Institute Jean-Pierre Bourgin for Plant Sciences.