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Dr Lars Ostergaard

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Lars Ostergaard

Project Leader

Crop Genetics

Contact details

lars.ostergaard@bbsrc.ac.uk

Research interests

In the Østergaard lab, we use genetic and molecular approaches to study fruit development in Brassica (oilseed rape) as well as in Arabidopsis (see Research Interests for more details).

At JIC, we have access to a wealth of germplasms and genomics resources in both organisms. Please visit the websites of Ian Bancroft and Martin Trick for details on the current status of Brassica genomics and development of Brassica bioinformatics tools.

Selected Publications

Girin T., Sorefan K., Ostergaard L. (2009)
Meristematic sculpting in fruit development
Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (5) 1493-1502
DOI:doi:10.1093/jxb/erp031

Recent Publications

(2010)
Fruit Development and Seed Dispersal
Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Fuentes S., Pires N., Ostergaard L. (2010)
A clade in the QUASIMODO2 family evolved with vascular plants and supports a role for cell wall composition in adaptation to environmental changes.
Plant Molecular Biology 73 (6) 605-615
DOI:10.1007/s11103-010-9640-5
Girin T., Stephenson P., Goldsack C. M., Kempin S. A., Perez A., Pires N., Sparrow P. A., Wood T. A., Yanofsky M. F., Ostergaard L. (2010)
Brassicaceae INDEHISCENT genes specify valve margin cell fate and repress replum formation
Plant Journal 63 (2) 329-338
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04244.x
Stephenson P., Baker D., Girin T., Perez A., Amoah S., King G. J., Ostergaard L. (2010)
A rich TILLING resource for studying gene function in Brassica rapa.
BMC Plant Biology 10 (1) 62
DOI:10.1186/1471-2229-10-62
Ostergaard L. (2009)
Don't 'leaf' now. The making of a fruit
Current Opinion in Plant Biology 12 (1) 36-41
Sorefan K., Girin T., Liljegren S. J., Ljung K., Robles P., Galván-Ampudia C. S., Offringa R., Friml J., Yanofsky M. F., Østergaard L. (2009)
A regulated auxin minimum is required for seed dispersal in Arabidopsis
Nature 459 (7246) 583-6
DOI:10.1038/nature07875
Sundberg E., Ostergaard L. (2009)
Distinct and dynamic auxin activities during reproductive development.
Auxin Signaling
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
1 (6) a001628
DOI:10.1101/cshperspect.a001628
Ostergaard L., King G. J. (2008)
Standardized gene nomenclature for the Brassica genus.
Plant Methods 4 article 10
DOI:10.1186/1746-4811-4-10