Centre de Recerca en Agrigenòmica (CRAG)
Life & Medical Sciences
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Research interests
We study transcriptional regulation and development, using Arabidopsis thaliana as a model system. In particular, studies on the floral transition and flower development, genomic analyses of transcription factors, and global gene expression analyses. The current focus of the laboratory is the study at a global level of some of gene regulatory networks that control flower development in Arabidopsis. An additional current area of activity in the group is to combine genomic, proteomic, and peptidomic technologies to study these processes. During the past year, we have concentrated our efforts on the chronology of protein expression throughout early Arabidopsis flower development and its correlation to unbiased transcript expression data, and the definition and characterization of the Arabidopsis peptidome, sORFs and hidden coding sequences in the Arabidopsis genome, and of the possible roles of these small proteins in flower development and other processes.
