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Plant Developmental Biology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

 

WELCOME to the Schneitz lab! We are interested in the genetic and molecular basis of the regulatory pathways controlling organ development.

 

The lab is located at the Life Sciences Center Weihenstephan (WZW) of the Technical University of Munich. We also participate in the Munich Center of Molecular Life Sciences and the lab is a member of the Munich Systems Biology Forum.

 

Our work focuses on several aspects:

 

SEM picture of Arabidopsis ovule

Pattern formation

We use the ovules, a floral organ essential for sexual reproduction in higher plants, as a model system to study pattern formation in an organ primordium of Arabidopsis thaliana. In particular we are investigating the molecular mechanism coordinating polarity development along the proximal-distal and adaxial-abaxial axes.

Arabidopsis flower with more petals

Shaping beauty

How do flowers know how big they have to grow? What controls organ number, size and shape? We want to elucidate the molecular mechanism underlying the cell-cell communication network that regulates apical and floral meristem development.

cartoon of an SRF evolutionary tree

Functional genomics of receptor-kinase genes

With a reverse genetics approach we are investigating the function of the STRUBBELIG RECEPTOR FAMILY (SRF, also known as LRRV) of receptor-like kinases in plant development.

 

Financial Support:

 

Our present research is supported by the German Research Community, the Free State of Bavaria and the TU Munich.

 

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