Lars OstergaardHead of DepartmentCrop GeneticsContact detailsResearch interestsIn 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 PublicationsGirin T., Sorefan K., Ostergaard L. (2009) Meristematic sculpting in fruit development Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (5) 1493-1502 DOI:10.1093/jxb/erp031 Recent PublicationsArnaud N., Lawrenson T., Ostergaard L., Sablowski R. (2011) The same regulatory point mutation changed seed-dispersal structures in evolution and domestication. Current Biology 21 (14) 1215-9 DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2011.06.008 Girin T., Paicu T., Stephenson P., Fuentes S., Koerner E., O'Brien M., Sorefan K., Wood T. A., Balanzá V., Ferrándiz C., Smyth D. R., Ostergaard L. (2011) INDEHISCENT and SPATULA interact to specify carpel and valve margin tissue and thus promote seed dispersal in Arabidopsis Plant Cell 23 (10) 3641-3653 DOI:10.1105/tpc.111.090944 O Lochlainn S., Amoah S., Graham N. S., Alamer K., Rios J. J., Kurup S., Stoute A., Hammond J. P., Ostergaard L., King G. J., White P. J., Broadley M. R. (2011) High Resolution Melt (HRM) analysis is an efficient tool to genotype EMS mutants in complex crop genomes. Plant Methods 7 (1) 43 DOI:10.1186/1746-4811-7-43 Sparrow P. A. C., Goldsack C., Ostergaard L. (2011) Transformation technology in the Brassicaceae Genetics and Genomics of the Brassicaceae Springer (18) 505-526 Wood T., Stephenson P., Ostergaard L. (2011) Resources for reverse genetics resources in Brassica species Genetics and Genomics of the Brassicaceae Springer (20) 561-583 (2010) Fruit Development and Seed Dispersal Blackwell Publishing Ltd Arnaud N., Girin T., Sorefan K., Fuentes S., Wood T. A., Lawrenson T., Sablowski R., Ostergaard L. (2010) Gibberellins control fruit patterning in Arabidopsis thaliana Genes & Development 24 (19) 2127-2132 DOI:10.1101/gad.593410 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 |