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posted on 2012-01-03, 00:00 authored by Danielle Nunnelly
Our lab investigates how plants respond to different environmental stresses. Such knowledge could yield great agricultural rewards, especially with regard to global climate changes affecting our environment and the current world hunger crisis. In response to increasing levels of ultraviolet radiation, we found that a G-protein-coupled signaling pathway is activated, which allows plants to produce their own “natural sunscreen” compounds. Pictured is the tip of a baby Arabidopsis leaf (cotyledon) after UV irradiation. Deconvolution microscopy was used to capture this image. The naturally fluorescent compounds at the tip of the leaf were produced in response to the ultraviolent radiation exposure.

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Third Place 2011 in The Image of Research, a competition for students in graduate or professional degree programs at UIC, sponsored by UIC's Graduate College and the University Library. Images of award recipients and honorable mention images on exhibition in the Richard J. Daley Library, April 13-May 30, 2011.

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2011-01-01

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