Our long-term goal is to understand how lipid-mediated
signaling events are regulated in plants. Our
current focus is on the regulation of the phosphoinositide
and sphingolipid biosynthesis. We are taking an
integrated biochemical and molecular genetic approach
to understand where the inositol lipids are synthesized,
how their synthesis is regulated, and to identify
upstream and downstream components of the lipid-mediated
signaling pathways.
Key words: lipid signaling, phosphoinositide,
phosphatidylinositol, sphingolipids, lipid kinases,
protein phosphorylation, calcium, inositol trisphosphate,
gravitropism, osmotic stress |
