Genome wide analysis of auxin-cytokinin interaction

植物能够协调它们在整个植物体内的生长和发育，从而使根和茎的生长保持平衡，在根和茎之间上下输送营养的维管系统保持在适合这些生长系统的大小。此外，茎、根和维管系统的生长根据环境条件是平衡的，例如，当营养物质有限时，根的生长比地上部分的生长更有利。这种复杂的生长协调是通过生长调节激素网络的作用实现的，这些激素在植物中移动并相互作用来调节生长。这个项目旨在了解这个网络中的两个关键角色--生长素和细胞分裂素--如何共同发挥作用，以实现整个植物体内的平衡生长。

Plants are able to co-ordinate their growth and development throughout the plant body, so that root and shoot growth balance, and the vascular system carrying nutrients up and down between the root and shoot is maintained at an appropriate size for these growing systems. In addition, growth of the shoot system, root system and vascular system is balanced in accordance with environmental conditions, so that for example root growth is favoured over shoot growth when nutrients are limitting. This complex co-ordination of growth is acheived through the action of a network of growth-regulating hormones that move through the plant and interact to regulate growth. This project is aimed at understanding how two key players in this network, auxin and cytokinin, function together to acheive balanced growth across the plant body.