Ubiquitin: the protein protecting plants from attack - Steven Spoel 🛡️🌱 

Animals have immune systems to fight diseases, but how do plants defend themselves when they get infected? Changes in gene expression enable the plant to fight back and establish long-term immunity to future attacks. Understanding these processes are important if we are to protect crops from diseases and pests.
00:00 Introduction
00:44 Career pathway
01:49 Food security and plant attackers
03:18 Using chemicals to protect crops
04:16 Different pathogen attack strategies
07:06 Career pathway continued...
09:16 Salicylic acid in healthcare & agriculture
10:26 NPR1 is an activator of salicylic acid-responsive genes
12:15 Ubiquitin signalling 101
14:49 Beyond a PhD...
15:32 What can ubiquitin do?
20:31 Applying this research to protect crops
Speaker profile: Steven Spoel is Head of Institute of Molecular Plant Sciences and Professor of Cell Signalling and Proteostasis at the University of Edinburgh. The Spoel Lab aims to understand the mechanisms that govern the activation of gene expression by gene activators in plants.
Filmed at the Gatsby Plant Science Summer School online, 2021.

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