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Liam Elliott

Liam Elliott has never been good enough at Latin to be able to claim to be a botanist, but can legitimately claim to be a researcher in Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford. He did his undergraduate degree at Cambridge before moving to Oxford to do his PhD, focussing on control of membrane trafficking in plant cells (in a nutshell, how what gets where in a plant cell). His main interests are in how membrane trafficking contributes to growth and division of plant cells but he is broadly excited by most aspects of plant cell and molecular biology, which he will likely be talking about on Botany One.
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Growth & Development Taxonomy & Evolution

A long-lasting connection? Links between genome size and stomata size in plants

by Liam ElliottJune 6, 2020June 5, 2020
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Ecosystems Growth & Development

Even plants want it to snow! The effects of cold stress on plant communities and how snow may offset these

Snow may not necessarily be a bad thing for plants

by Liam ElliottJune 4, 2020June 4, 2020
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Close Encounters Growth & Development

Seeing red isn’t the same everywhere! How and why red flowers differ between locations.

The precise colouration of red flowers differs according to where they are and what they interact with.

by Liam ElliottJune 2, 2020June 2, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Ecosystems

It’s epigenetics after all! How environmentally-induced traits might support plant ecosystems

Diversity of parental environments could have comparable effects to genetic diversity in Arabidopsis.

by Liam ElliottJune 1, 2020June 1, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Close Encounters

Life in the canopy is different : How genetics impacts variation in herbivory on oak trees

Trees may invest more in protecting their canopy leaves from munching insects than their other leaves

by Liam ElliottMay 29, 2020May 29, 2020
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Growth & Development Taxonomy & Evolution

To C4 or not to C4 if you’re a tree? Some possible answers

C4 photosynthesis is an efficient way of harnessing energy, yet trees rarely use it. Why is that?

by Liam ElliottMay 22, 2020May 22, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Growth & Development

How to eat bugs without really trying? Insights from the genomes of carnivorous plants

Genes for carnivory arose from a duplication of the genome turning plants into hunters.

by Liam ElliottMay 20, 2020May 19, 2020
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Ecosystems Growth & Development

How do some plants become flammable? Insights from Dracophyllum

Why would a plant not frequently exposed to fire evolve to burn well?

by Liam ElliottMay 19, 2020May 19, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules

The mystery element: building a variable plant cuticle

Cutan must play a role in plant cuticles, but it’s not clear how much cutan a cuticle contains.

by Liam ElliottMay 17, 2020May 15, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules Growth & Development

Success the hard way: iron-dependent cell death in a rice pathogen

by Liam ElliottMay 16, 2020May 15, 2020
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Ecosystems

‘Out of Iberia’: How Bristol rock cress got to where it is today

Is a population of rare cress found near Bristol, UK, a remnant of an ice age population, or is it part of a wider European population that survived in refugia somewhere?

by Liam ElliottMay 15, 2020May 15, 2020
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Ecosystems

‘Two households, both alike …’? How differences between sexes varies with time in flowering plants

by Liam ElliottMay 13, 2020May 12, 2020
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Cells, Genes & Molecules

Bloody plants! How soybean uses haemoglobins to obtain nitrogen

Excess nitrogen significantly accelerated nodule senescence and the production of green leghaemoglobin in nodules.

by Liam ElliottMay 12, 2020May 11, 2020
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Growth & Development

Job-sharing by the barley cuticle

In addition to preventing water loss, plant cuticles must also regulate nutrient loss, leaching. The eceriferum mutants in Hordeum vulgare (barley) potentially influence these functions by altering epicuticular wax structure and composition.

by Liam ElliottMay 11, 2020May 11, 2020
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