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• Working in very high dilutions, 1: 10 000 1h/RT incubation
• Broad species reactivity, including higher plants, mosses, algae, cyanobacteria and diatoms. One and the same antibody will detect and quantify Rubisco in thousands of species
• Suitable for Western blot, immunolocalization and tissue printing
• Possibility of quantification in quantitative Western blot and ELISA
• Cited in hundreds of publications, over the last 20 years

• Anti-Chicken IgY (AS10 1489)
• Anti-Goat IgG (AS09 605)
• Anti-Mouse IgG (AS09 627)
• Anti-Rabbit IgG (AS09 602)*
• Anti-Rat IgG (AS10 1187)

Over the last 20 years, Agrisera has developed antibodies to study Photosystem I (PSI). This protein complex plays a central role in the conversion of light energy into chemical energy, in the form of ATP and NADPH. This energy is then used to power the biochemical reactions of photosynthesis, and ultimately produce carbohydrates. Agrisera antibodies specifically targeting PSI components can help accurately identify and quantify these proteins in plant, algal and diatom samples. This enables comparative studies, and facilitates the understanding of photosynthetic processes across a wide taxonomic range.

Agrisera PSI antibodies can be applied in:

Agrisera supports the Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference 2024, held between 12th and 14th of April, at The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA, USA.

The conference program will includes the following topics:

• Mechanism of Light Harvesting and Regulation
• Light Driven Reactions
• Carbon Fixation and Concentration
• Evolution and Applications of Photosynthesis

Agrisera Educational Posters, focused on photosynthesis, will be available as hard copies for the meeting participants. Agrisera will also conduct an online quiz, with the first prize being the book Photosynthesis: Solar Energy for Life, by Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee.

Agrisera's antibody collection to proteins involved in photosynthesis has been developed over the last 20 years, in close collaboration with researches in the field, from all around the world.

The collection contains antibodies targeting proteins from the following groups: 

ATPsynthase | Carotenoid metabolism | Chaperones/Transporters | Chloroplast biogenesis/architecture | Chlorophyll | Green Cut | LHC | Light acclimation | Kinases | PSI (Photosystem I) | PSII (Photosystem II) | Proteases | Protein standards-quantitation | Rubisco/Carbon metabolism | Sucrose metabolism

Each year, hundreds of publications are published, using these antibodies, which makes them the most used photosynthetic antibodies on the market. Agrisera antibodies place 31st of over 250 catalog antibody suppliers, based on publication record, not limited to plant science.

As plants cannot move and change their habitat quickly as animals can, they have instead developed other amazing strategies to cope with various pathogen attacks. Listed below are some examples of plant pathogens.

Fungal diseases: These pathogens typically thrive in warm, moist conditions and can infect various parts of the plant, such as leaves, stems, fruits, and roots.
Bacterial diseases: Bacterial pathogens infect plants through wounds or natural openings, causing diseases like bacterial wilt, leaf spot, and soft rot, and can spread rapidly through the whole plant.
Viral diseases: Viruses can infect plants through vectors such as insects, nematodes, and even human activities, like grafting. Viral diseases can significantly reduce crop yields and quality.
Nematode damage: Nematodes are microscopic roundworms that feed on plant roots, leading to reduced nutrient uptake and stunted growth. Root-knot nematodes, for example, cause the formation of galls on roots, interfering with water and nutrient absorption.

Agrisera is sponsoring this year's Jan Anderson Award, granted by the Australian Society of Plant Scientists. 

Joan (Jan) Mary Anderson was an adjunct professor at the Australian National University. She received an honorary doctorate at Umeå University (Sweden) in 1998.  She was an internationally acclaimed plant biologist, renowned for her discoveries on the organization of the intricate membrane structures that carry out solar energy conversion in cells of green plants. Her work was the first to show that the photosynthetic mechanisms consists of two fundamental components; Photosystem I and Photosystem II. Her research career spanned over 55 years, mostly at the Division of Plant Industry CSIRO Canberra (1961-97), and later at the Research School of Biological Sciences at the Australian National University.

Jan was a passionate and creative female scientist who was well ahead of her time. She was an inspiration to young researchers, for whom her enthusiasm and curiosity were infectious. Professor Jan Anderson died on 28 August 2015 after a short illness. In recognition of her life and achievements in photosynthesis research as a pioneering female scientist, this award will acknowledge talented female plant science researchers. 

Oxidative stress response in plants involves a complex network of proteins that work together to mitigate the damage caused by reactive oxygen species (ROS), such as superoxide radicals, hydrogen peroxide, and hydroxyl radicals. Below is a list of the main proteins involved in this process:

• Superoxide dismutase (SOD): Enzyme that catalyzes the dismutation of superoxide radicals into oxygen and hydrogen peroxide. There are different isoforms of SOD found in various cellular compartments, such as cytosol, mitochondria and chloroplast.
• Catalase (CAT): Enzyme that catalyzes the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide into water and oxygen. It is primarily located in peroxisomes and helps neutralize excess hydrogen peroxide, generated during oxidative stress.
• Ascorbate peroxidase (APX): Enzyme that uses ascorbate as a reducing agent to scavenge hydrogen peroxide and convert it into water, while oxidizing ascorbate to monodehydroascorbate. This enzyme is crucial for maintaining the redox balance in chloroplasts and other cellular compartments.
• Glutathione peroxidase (GPX): Enzyme that utilizes glutathione (GSH) as a cofactor to reduce hydrogen peroxide and lipid hydroperoxides to their corresponding alcohols. It plays a significant role in protecting cells from oxidative damage by ROS.
• Glutathione S-transferases (GSTs): Family of enzymes that catalyze the conjugation of glutathione to a wide range of electrophilic compounds, like lipid peroxides and xenobiotics. They are involved in both detoxification processes and in the regulation of cellular redox status.
  
  

• New knowledge
• Possibility to win a useful prize
• Link to the workshop recording
• Pdf of the presentation with links
• Certificate of participation

• Confirmed reactivity: The antibody has been confirmed to be reactive in the species in question, experimentally
• Predicted reactivity: The antibody has been confirmed to be reactive in the species in question, through sequence homology
• Tested applications: The applications in which you can use the antibody in question
• Clonality: Polyclonal/monoclonal

• Host: The host species for the antibody in question
• Conjugation: ALP, Biotin, a wide range of Fluorencent dyes, HRP and Unconjugated
• Tested applications: The applications in which you can use the antibody in question

• Short life cycle
• Ease of propagation and crossing
• High frequency of transformation
• Haploidy
• Small genome (approximately 280 Mb)

• HSP70 | Heat shock protein 70 (cytoplasmic)
• HSP70 | Heat shock protein 70 (chloroplastic)
• HSP70 | Heat shock protein 70 (mitochondrial)

• Photosynthesis antibodies (PEPC, PRK, PsbA, RbcL, SPS)
• Compartment marker antibodies (BiP, Clathrin heeavy-chain, H3, H+ATPase, VDAC1)
• Epitope tag antibodies (3xHisBC2, C-YFP, LUC, GFP, GST, N-YFP, TurboID)
• Loading control antibodies (H3, RbcL)

• Alkaline phosphatase (ALP)
• Biotin 
• Fluorophores: DyLight® in the range of 350 to 850 nm
• Horse radish peroxidase (HRP)

• Monitoring Stress Conditions: Antibodies to plant HSPs can be used to monitor the expression levels of these proteins under different stress conditions, such as heat stress, and lead to understanding of  the plant's response to environmental challenges.
• Understanding Cellular Responses: Antibodies can be employed to determine the cellular localization of specific HSPs. This information is valuable in understanding how these proteins function within different cellular compartments.
• Molecular Biology and Biochemistry: Researchers can use antibodies to detect and quantify specific plant HSPs, providing insights into their expression patterns and regulation.
• Immunoprecipitation: Antibodies can be used for immunoprecipitation studies to isolate and analyze specific HSP-protein interactions. This helps in understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying stress responses.
• Biotechnological applications: Understanding the role of HSPs and their regulation can aid in the development of genetically engineered plants with improved stress tolerance. Antibodies can assist in validating the expression of these proteins in genetically modified plants.
• Biomarker development: HSPs may serve as biomarkers for stress in plants. Antibodies can be used to develop diagnostic tools for assessing the stress levels in plants, which is essential for crop management.
• Environmental monitoring: Antibodies can be applied to monitor the levels of plant HSPs in natural environments. This can be useful for assessing the impact of environmental stress on plant populations.

• Osmotic adjustment
• Antioxidant defense system
• Change in root morphology
• Stomatal regulation
• Metabolic adjustment
• Dormancy and shedding
• Hormonal regulation
• Symbiotic relationships
• Epigenetic changes

"The calendar is about inclusion, education and quality. We promote smaller, local meetings along with the big, popular ones," says Agrisera's Technical Support Manager, Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund, in a recent interview conducted by ASPB. 

She continues; "And you can think about it like this: if you dive into the cell and look at the organelles and research about it, and then if you take that up and translate it into the tree standing in the forest and being exposed to the climate, the calendar will cover almost every event remotely related to that process. So, this is a metaphor for what this calendar is really covering. It’s all the factors of plant science, internal and external. Big and small."

• Design and Construction of TurboID Fusion Protein with the protein of interest (POI).
  The TurboID enzyme biotinylates nearby proteins within a certain radius (typically tens of nanometers) when activated by the addition of biotin-tyramide and hydrogen peroxide.
• Expression of POI with TurboID. After expressing the TurboID fusion proteins, cells are treated with biotin-tyramide and hydrogen peroxide to activate TurboID. TurboID then catalyzes the covalent attachment of biotin to nearby proteins within its labeling radius.
• Protein Extraction: Biotinylated proteins are enriched using streptavidin beads or other methods, isolating the proteins that were in close proximity to the TurboID-fused protein.
• Protein Identification by Mass Spectrometry. The enriched protein sample is subjected to to mass spectrometry for identification. This helps identify the proteins that were labeled by TurboID.
• Validation. Identified protein-protein interactions are often validated using additional experimental techniques, such as Western blot.
  

• Growth & development
• Abiotic stress
• Plant-pathogen interactions
• Cell biology

• Dr. Mehran Dastmalchi, McGill University
• Dr. Thomas DeFalco, University of Western Ontario
• Dr. Shelley Hepworth, Carleton University 
  

Agrisera's Educational Photosynthesis Posters were available for free for all conference participants, along with the Agrisera Product Catalog, and very popular Western Blot Troubleshooting Guide. 

• Primary antibodies for research on Plant & Algal Cell Biology, including: loading controls, compartment markers, and specific antibodies to various research areas, such as cell wall, developmental biology, epigenetics, hormones, photosynthesis, environmental stress and more.
• Epitope tag antibodies for the most popular, as well as not so commonly used, tags (TurboID, GFP, HIS, FLAG and many more)
• High-titer matching secondary antibodies with various labels, such as ALP, HRP, Biotin and DyLights® with the whole wave light spectrum 350-850 nm
• Development Reagents for Western blot and ELISA: chromogenic and chemiluminescent of high and medium sensitivity

• The Global Plant Events Calendar, which is a community resource, developed by ASPB/Plantae and Agrisera, that lists both in-person and online conferences, workshops and webinars, all around the world. 
• Agrisera Educational Posters, developed in collaboration with researchers from specific fields, available for download and to request as hard copies. 
• Agrisera Free Images, extracted from educational posters, offered for free use in presentations and publications.

Auxentric 2024, February 27th-29th, Umeå, Sweden
2nd American Photosynthesis Congress, June 3rd-6th, Georgia State University, USA
ASPB's Plant Biology 2024, June 22nd-26th, Honolulu, USA
ICAR 2024, July 15th-19th, UC SanDiego, USA
Plant Meiosis Meeting, September 4th-6th, Poznań, Poland
International Conference of the German Society of Plant Sciences, September 15th-19th, Halle, Germany

Agrisera supports the following meetings in 2024

33rd Western Photosynthesis Conference, January 5th-7th, Oracle, Arizona
15th UCMR Day 2024, January 18th, Umeå University, Sweden
37th Conference Molecular Biology of Plants, March 4th-7th, Germany
41st Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, April 12th-14th, Woods Hole MA, USA
BioLock, Wrocław University, Poland, May
9th Plant Biochemistry Symposium: Plant Metabolites and Signaling, May 13th-14th, Leibniz-Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle, Germany
13th International Coference for Plant Mitochondrial Biology, May 26th-30th, St Malo, France
International Society of Root Research, 12th International Symposium, June 2nd-7th, Leipzig, Germany
2nd European Congress on Photosynthesis Research, June, 25th-28th, Padova, Italy
Young Researchers Symposium on Plant Photobiology, July 3rd-5th, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Plant Epigenetics, July 10th-12th, Clermont-Ferrand, France
12th European Workshop on the Biology of Cyanobacteria, September 3rd-6th, Seville, Spain
International Symposium oo Photosynthesis Research in honour of Eva-Mari Aro, September 8th-11th, Turku, Finland
Plant peptides and receptors meeting, September 11th-13th, Wageningen, The Netherlands
12th Plant peptides and receptors meeting, September 11th-13th, Wageningen, The Netherlands
KBC Days 2024, Umeå University, Sweden

 

Left to right: Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund, at the Agrisera display. Dr. Stefan Björklund, awardee of the best elevator talk, PhD candidate Ololade Awoyomi, Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund.
 

Brassica oleracea, Capsicum annuum, Chlamydomonas acidophila, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, Physcomitrium patens, Salicornia europaea, Solanum lycopersicum, Solanum sogarandinum, Solanum tuberosum, Vicia faba, Zea mays Brachypodium distachyon, Brassica napus, Hordeum vulgare, Nicotiana tabacum, Malus domestica, Medicago sativa, Nannochloropsis gaditana, Triticum aestivum, Pinus pinaster, Pisum sativum, Zea mays, Vitis vinifera, Volvox sp.

• Dr. Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb: "Metalloproteins in Chlorophyll Biosynthesis"
• Dr. Himadri Pakrasi: "Photosynthesis and Nitrogen Fixation in a Unicellular Cyanobacterium"  

• Plant responses to stress
• Animal and plant genomics
• Plant synthetic biology and metabolic engineering
• Plant development and signal transduction

• Loading controls for plant and algal samples
• Available off-the-shelf
• Tested in a wide range of species
• Cited in thousands of publications
• Suitable for various applications
• Target different comparments and MW

All loading control antibodies can be found here.

Agrisera loading controls are offered at a 20% discount until the end of 2023.

Use discount code: LC20
Valid October-December 2023

• Abiotic and Oxidative Stress
• Bioinformatics and Computational Modelling
• Biotechnology
• Evolutionary Biology
• Genetics and Genomics
• Molecular Biology
• Molecular Breeding
• Plant Signalling and Development
• Plant Systems Biology

• Cell structure and function
• Gene expression and plant development
• Epigenetic and epitranscriptomic regulation of gene expression
• Transport and intercellular communication
• Mitochondria and chloroplasts in cell metabolism
• Integrating plant functions via signaling molecules
• Mechanisms of stress tolerance
• Plant–microbe interaction
• Plant secondary metabolites

 
Left image: Agrisera booth.

Right image, left to right: Joanna Wójtowicz (awardee), Michał Rurek (Organizing cometee), Joanna Porankiewicz Asplund (Agrisera).

Agrisera supported the 6th Plants and People (P&P) Conferences, organized by PhD students at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, in Potsdam-Golm, Germany, between the 6th and 7th of September.

The theme for this year's Plants and People Conference was "Exploring Plan(t)s", which brought together a diverse collection of international speakers, both from academic and non-academic fields of plant science. The academic aspect of the conference featured talks on a multitude of subjects in plant biology, including photosynthesis, epigenetics, plant-microbe interactions, and metabolomics. 

Participants could pick up their own copies of Agrisera Educational Posters, and the Agrisera Best Poster Prize was awarded. 

Since Agrisera's start in 1985, we have always delivered on our promises, and if there are ever any delays in shipments, we inform you very promptly.

We pride ourselves in being, what our customers have described as: Prompt, collaborative and efficient. This is how we have been working to deliver catalog antibodies and reagents, worldwide, for over 20 years.

You can count on us, and plan your experiments with the confidence that the reagents will arrive on time.

Here we have collected some testimonials from our customers, regarding product quality, delivery time, technical support and our educational materials.

You are welcome to download the pdf or request a hard copy of this very informative poster on plant Argonautes.

The first poster from the plant epigenetics collection, "Plant small RNAs", can be downloaded or the hard copy can be requested here. 

We always welcome your ideas and suggestions for new educational posters. Do not hesitate to tell us!

Agrisera supported the 4th Brassinosteroid meeting, which took place between the 16th and 18th of August in Ghent, Belgium.  

• "Low-temperature and circadian signals are integrated by the sigma factor SIG5". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to PsbD, PsaC and RbcL.
  
  
• "The pentatricopeptide repeat protein EMP601 functions in maize seed development by affecting RNA editing of mitochondrial transcript ccmC". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to Cyt c and AOX1/2.
  
  
• "Sequence Characteristics and Expression Analysis of the Gene Encoding Sedoheptulose-1,7-Bisphosphatase, an Important Calvin Cycle Enzyme in Upland Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.)". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to SBPase.
  
  
• "Light-independent regulation of algal photoprotection by CO2 availability". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to LHCSR1, LHCSR3 and AtpB.
  
  
• "Insights into genomic variations in rice Hsp100 genes across diverse rice accessions". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to HSP101.
  
  
• "Comparing plastid proteomes points towards a higher plastidial redox turnover in vascular tissues than in mesophyll cells". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to RbcL, Lhcb1, GDC-H, IDH, Histone H3, Cat and UGPase.
  
  
• "The plant FYVE domain-containing protein FREE1 associates with microprocessor components to repress miRNA biogenesis". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to HYL1.
  
  
• "Carbon assimilation in upper subtidal macroalgae is determined by an inverse correlation between Rubisco carboxylation efficiency and CO2 concentrating mechanism effectiveness". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies and standard to RbcL.
  
  
• "Poly(ADP-ribose)-binding protein RCD1 is a plant PARylation reader regulated by Photoregulatory Protein Kinases". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to AOX1/2.
  
  
• "Along with cyclic electron flow and non-photochemical quenching, water-water cycle is involved uniquely in alleviating Zn stress-caused photodamage in Melia azedarach". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera protein extraction buffer.
  
  
• "Differential metal sensing and metal-dependent degradation of the broad spectrum root metal transporter IRT1". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to IRT1.
  
  
• "Exogenous hydrogen sulphide alleviates nodule senescence in Glycine max-Sinorhizobium fredii symbiotic system". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to NifH and NodGS.
  
  
• "Maize tubulin folding cofactor B is required for cell division and cell growth through modulating microtubule homeostasis". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to Tubulin alpha chain.
  
  
• "A Phytophthora nucleolar effector, Pi23226, targets to host ribosome biogenesis for inducing necrotrophic cell death". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to L13-1.
  
  
• "Rubredoxin 1 promotes the proper folding of D1 and is not required for heme b559 assembly in Chlamydomonas photosystem II". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to PsbA and PsbD.
  
  
• "CRISPRa-mediated transcriptional activation of the SlPR-1 gene in edited tomato plants". Link to article.
  - With Agrisera antibodies to PR-1.

Agrisera attended the Plant Biology 2023 conference (PB23), in Savannah, GA, USA, held between the 5th and 9th of August. Agrisera was represented by Edith Kalén and Chris Brown.

The conference covered topics such as Developmental biology, Plant hormones, Plant RNA and Environmental stress.

Thank you to everyone who visited Agrisera's booth to discuss antibodies and plant science, and to the conference organizers for yet another successful meeting!

Agrisera's Educational Posers were available free of charge at the conference. In case you did not get a chance to obtain copies, you can request them, free of charge, here.

Hope to see you again for Plant Biology 2024!

Top to bottom: Agrisera's booth at Plant Biology 2023, Fountain at Forsyth Park, Savannah.

• Provided in 2 flexible sample sizes: 1 mg and 10 µl
• Minimum dilution 1: 25 000 1h/RT incubation, which allows for hundreds experiments to be conducted
• High sensitivity
• Minimized background
• Tested on a wide range of plant, algal and bacterial samples
• Used in hundreds of publications
• Lyophilized and delivered in ambient temperature, in an environmentally-friendly way

The flowering process in plants is a crucial stage in their life cycle, where the reproductive structures called flowers are produced and regulated, both by internal genetic factors and external environmental cues. Agrisera's antibody collection for plant developmental biology contains antibodies for proteins involved in plant flowering, such as:

AP2 | Floral homeotic protein APETALA 2
CO | Constans
ELF3 | Early Flowering 3
ELF4 | Early flowering 4 (N-terminal)
FT/TSF | Flowering locus T and twin sister of FT
GI | Gigantea
LFY | Leafy
LUX | Transcription factor LUX
RAD23c | Ubiquitin receptor RAD23c
SOC1 | Suppressor of constans overexpression 1
ZTL (ADO1) | Zeitlupe (Adagio protein 1)


Take an advantage of Agrisera's ongoing promotion, with a 20% discount on developmental biology antibodies. Use discount code Dev20. Valid until September 30th.

• Pdf with slides and useful links
• Recording of the webinar
• Certificate of participation (optional)

Loading control antibodies are used to assess if the protein samples have been loaded equally across the gel, as well as transferred to the membrane. Such controls need to be ubiquitously and constitutively expressed proteins. Commonly used loading controls are the following proteins: actin, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and tubulin. 

Actin and tubulin are highly conserved proteins, which play essential roles in the plant cytoskeleton. Actin is involved in cellular processes, such as cell division, cell share maintenance and intracellular transport. 
Tubulin is a component of micotubules, which are critical for cell division, intracellular transport and maintaining cell structure. 
 
A protein that is chosen to be used as a loading control should remain stable across the applied experimental conditions. Please note that in certain stresses in plants, actin levels may change. 

Take an advantage of Agrisera's ongoing promotion for plant developmental biology antibodies, which are offered at a 20% discount until end of September, and use promotional code Dev20. 

• Polyclonal antibodies to plant actin (most published) AS13 2640 with a wide species range of di and monocotyl plants.
• Monoclonal/recombinant antibodies to plant actin (most published) AS21 4615 with a wide species range of di and monocotyl plants. 
• Polyclonal antibodies to: Tubulin alpha chain | Tubulin beta chain | Tubulin gamma chain  
• Monoclonal antibodies to: Tubulin alpha chain | Tubulin beta chain | Tubulin gamma chain
  
  
  Available for immunolocalization as well as Western blot techniques.

Agrisera supported the Portuguese Spanish Congress of Plant Biology 2023, which took place between the 9th and 12th of July in Braga, Portugal. Congress topics covered diverse fields, like the adaptation of plants, biotic and abiotic stresses, molecular mechanisms that control plant development and function, plant biotechnology and sustainable crop production.

The winners of Agrisera Best Poster Prizes, who will receive a free antibody of their choice from the Agrisera catalog, were:

• Dr. Fernando Evaristo Díaz‐Manzano from Universidad de Castilla‐La Mancha, Toledo, Spain for the poster "Bacillus spp. as a phytopathogenic biocontrol tool against the nematode Meloidogyne spp. in tomato"
  
• PhD student Ana Álvarez from Plant Physiology, Faculty of Biology, Department of Organisms and Systems Biology, University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain and Institute of Biotechnology of Asturias (IUBA), University of Oviedo, Asturias, Spain, for the poster "Combined effect of heat and drought stress reveal specific responses in different plant species mediated by common and species‐specific mechanisms".

• Dr. Liudmyla Kozeko from M. G. Kholodny, Institute of Botany of NAS of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine, currently Nature Research Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania, and
• Dr. Sónia Silva from University of Aveiro, Portugal.

• To study plant organelles such as chloroplasts, mitochondria, peroxisomes, and the endoplasmic reticulum.
  
  
• To study plant cell biology and development by visualizing cell division, differentiation and other cellular processes in real-time and on intact plant tissues.
  
  
• To monitor plant stress response, by fusing GFP to stress-responsive genes, changes in GFP fluorescence in response to various environmental stresses can be monitored.
  
  
• For investigation of plant-microbe (bacteria and fungi) interactions by tagging those microorganisms with GFP.
  
  
• For transgenic plant studies, where GFP is used as a marker in the generation and selection of transgenic plants.
  
  
• For environmental monitoring in ecological studies, GFP has been used as a biomarker to detect and monitor pollution, like algae.
  
  
• In pollination and seed dispersal studies.

Feedback from the participants:

"The feedback from your workshop was quite good our students really enjoyed it and said it was very practical and addressed real questions."

"Thank you very much for the prizes and the information of the workshop. As a starter to the western blot world, the knowledge that has been delivered from the workshop really helped me build up a general understanding of western blot as well as trouble shooting the potential problems. I love the FAQ part of each section as I hold the same questions many times."

"I would like to know whether you have a GFP antibody which works well to detect fusion proteins generated in plants? The GFP we used is eGFP from Aequorea victoria. We tried anti-GFP antibodies from other suppliers, but neither works well for our protein driven by native promoter."

Here is our answer: 

Yes, Agrisera offers both polyclonal and monoclonal antibodies to GFP (Green Fluorescent Protein), which detect fusions with plant proteins. Below are links to some of these products.

Anti-Venus polyclonal antibodies
for Western blot. 

Anti-GFP, polyclonal antibodies
for ELISA, Immunofluorescence (IF), Immunoprecipitation (IP), Western blot (WB).

Anti-GFP polyclonal antibodies
for Immunofluorescent localization in plant tissue and Western blot (WB).

Anti-GFP, monoclonal antibodies

Particular focus of the conference was given to plants and climate change, algal biology and bioenergy.

• Agrisera high-titer secondary antibodies, 1: 25 000 1h/RT (AS09 602)
• Agrisera outstanding ECL reagents, with mid picogram detection range (ECL Bright), and extreme low femtogram detection range (ECL SuperBright)

• Lenny Maliham-Yap from the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology in Austria for the poster tilted "Probing the role of Ferredoxins in Cyanobacterial Biotransformations", and
• Malene Olsen from the Department of Food Science, University of Copenhagen, Danmark, for the poster tilted "Breeding of Nannochloropsis oceanica for increaased growth rates using random mutagenesis".

Sample: Maize protoplasts fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde in 1X PBS pH 7.4 for 1 hour and washed 3 times in 1XPBS buffer

Primary antibodies: Agrisera AS21 4615 actin monoclonal; clone 14H4G8;

Secondary antibodies: Agrisera Donkey anti-Mouse IgG (H&L), DyLight® 488 conjugated AS10 1201

Other reagents: 30% Bovine Serum Albumin solution, Sigma Aldrich Cat # A8577-50ML; Phosphate Buffered Saline 10X, Electron Microscopy Sciences Cat # 19342-10; Imaging spacer, Millipore Sigma Grace Bio-Labs SecureSeal™ imaging spacer Cat # GBL654008

Protocol:

1. Block isolated protoplasts in a blocking buffer (2% BSA in 1x PBS) for 1 h at room temperature.
2. Dilute the primary antibody to 1: 500 in a blocking buffer, mix well, and spin down at 150 x g for 3 min:
3. Spin down protoplasts in a blocking buffer at 150 g for 1 -3 min and remove as much supernatant as possible using a pipette tip with a cut end (wide opening).
4. Resuspend protoplasts in diluted antibody and incubate for 1 h at room temperature.
5. Spin down protoplasts at 150 g for 1 min and remove as much supernatant as possible using a pipette tip with a cut end.
6. Wash protoplasts in a blocking buffer 3 times for 5 minutes each. Spin and resuspend as described in step 5 between each washing step.
7. Dilute the secondary antibody AS10 1201 to 1: 400, mix well, and spin down at 150 x g for 3 min:
8. Incubate protoplasts in diluted antibody for 1 h at room temperature.
9. Repeat the washing steps as described in 5-6.
10. Resuspend a protoplast pellet in a small volume of PBS 1X, pH 7.4.
11. Prepare microscopy slide: attach imaging spacer on top of the slide, peal off top adhesive membrane, add protoplast suspension on to the slide inside the spacer opening, cover with 22x22 mm cover glass No 1.5.
12. Imaging: Zeiss Elyra 7 SIM

Courtesy of Dr. Anastasiya Klebanovych, Dr. Kirk Czymmek, Dr. Kevin Cox, Dr. Blake Meyers, at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, USA

Agrisera supported the 5th International Plant Proteomics Organization (INPPO) conference, held between the 22nd and 25th of May 2023, in Thessaloniki, Greece. The conference focused on basic and applied plant proteomics research. 

The meeting covered the following topics:

• Plant stress under climate crisis
• Developmental proteomics
• Signaling in plant interactions
• Systems biology studies
• Technical/methodological advances in proteomic analysis

The winners of Agrisera Best Poster Prizes, as well as a free antibody of their choice from the Agrisera catalog, were Dr. Jingjing Huang from Department of Plant Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Ghent University and VIB Center for Plant Systems Biology,Belgium. and PhD student Siel Goethals from VIB-UGent Plant Systems Biology, Belgium. 

Awaiting your free antibody choices!

• Actin (AS22 4615)
• Clathrin heavy chain 1,2 (AS10 690)
• Histone 3 (AS10 710A), and
• GFP (AS21 4443)

• Donkey anti-mouse IgG (H&L), DyLight® 488-conjugated secondary antibodies (AS10 1261), and
• Donkey anti-Rabbit IgG (H&L), DyLight® 550-conjugated secondary antibody (AS12 1962)

As climate change becomes more noticeable, and affect all life on Earth, research on how plants respond to environmental stress intensifies in many laboratories worldwide. Agrisera antibodies, to key proteins involved in plant stress response, help solve many pressing questions of how plants tackle changes to, and threats in, their environment. New antibodies are added continuously to our collection, which includes antibodies to proteins involved in:

Cold stress | Drought stress | Heat shock | Heavy metals | Hypoxia | Oxidative stress | Pathogen attack | Salt stress | UV radiation | Wounding

Research area

Agrisera supported the 32nd Western Photosynthesis Conference, held between the 28th and 30th of April 2023, in Bodega Biological Marine Laboratory, California, USA.

The meeting covered the following topics:

• Structure-Function Relations in Photosynthesis
• Electron Transfer and Organization of Photosynthetic Complexes
• Applied/Artificial Photosynthesis and Bioenergy
• Global Ecology and Photosynthetic Response to the Dynamic Environment
• Genomes and Evolution of Photosynthesis
• Carbon Fixation and Central Carbon Metabolism

The winners of Agrisera Best Talk Prizes, and a free antibody of their choice from the Agrisera catalog, were: 

For your convenience, chosen Agrisera antibodies can be purchased as sets at very favorabe pricing. The sets also include high-titer matching secondary antibodies, which can be used at 1: 25 000 1h/RT incubation, and Agrisera's ECL reagents, which offer versatile detection.

Agrisera offers the following antibody sets: 

Educational antibody set for photosynthesis | Photosynthesis Tool kit – quantitation (includes standards for quantification of PSI and PSII) | Oxidative stress antibody set | Argonaute antibody set | Rubisco quantitation set (for Western blot or ELISA) | Plant Cell Compartment Antibody Marker Set for 3, 5 or 10 marker antibodies of your choice.

You are always welcome to suggest a new antibody set to us!

Antibodies to Arabidopsis thaliana proteins involved in photosynthesis are a core collection of the Agrisera catalog. This group of products has been developed in collaboration with research laboratories worldwide, for the last 20 years. Agrisera photosynthetic antibodies have the following features:

• Developed to well-conserved peptides, which allows for broad species reactivity
• Can be used at high dilutions, which allows many tests to be conducted
• Validated in independent laboratories, with appropriate sets of endogenous samples (no recombinant protein validation only)
• Available since the year 2000, meaning this collection is prided by an extensive publication record
• For your convenience, some of the antibodies to major photosynthetic proteins, are put together into sets, at discounted pricing. In some cases, these are also accompanied by quantitation standards, to allow estimation of PSI/PSII ratio.

Beside antibodies, Agrisera has also developed Educational Posters on Photosynthesis, that are engaging and packed with up-to-date information. These posters are available for download, and as hard copies that can be requested here. Each poster was created in consultation with leading researchers from the scientific community, and the information in the posters is updated regularly. Specific figures and schemes from the posters are available free of charge for download, to be used in publications and presentations.

Samples: 

1: 13.5 µg of Eucalyptus grandis whole leaf extract clone one (g1)
4: 13.5 µg of Eucalyptus grandis whole leaf extract clone two (g2)
6: 13.5 µg of one clone Eucalyptus grandis x Eucalyptus camaldulensis whole leaf extract (gc)
8: 13.5 µg of one clone Eucalyptus grandis x Eucalyptus tereticornis whole leaf extract (gt)

Presented data courtesy of Ing. Agr. MSc. Matías Nión from Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Agronomía, UdelaR. Montevideo, Uruguay.

With millions of antibodies offered worldwide, by hundreds of suppliers, it may be a bit overwhelming, especially for beginners, to choose the correct antibody to answer a specific questions in a research project. Here is a short checklist with what to pay attention to:

Species reactivity – Has the antibody been used to detect the protein from the species we are working with? If not, a request should be sent to the supplier to confirm if the antibody may have so-called predicted reactivity to the target protein. If not, the antibody is not suitable, and false positive results can be produced.  

Validation data – Is validation data available on a product information sheet? For non-essential proteins, validation data should include results obtained with knockdown or knockout mutants. Western blot results showing that an antibody binds to a recombinant protein, are not relevant to the binding in a specific sample, extracted from a specific tissue or organism. Here we explain why.

Application – If the antibody has only been used in Western blot, it may not work in immunoprecipitation or immunolocalization. Each of these techniques requires separate validation data.

Recommended antibody dilution – The lower the dilution, the fewer tests can be conducted using an antibody. Here we explain why. 

Publication record – Being citet in scientific articles definitely confirms the performance of a given antibody. However, as there is no worldwide standard, product numbers are oftentimes not included in the "Material and Method" section. This makes it difficult to identify what antibody has been used to obtain the presented results. How to cite antibodies in scientific publication, is explained in this short video.

Well-validated antibodies to specific cellular compartments are crucial to support data regarding localization studies of novel proteins. Agrisera's Cellular compartment antibody collection contains of marker antibodies to:

Cell wall | Chloroplast | Cytoplasm | Microsomal membranes | Mitochondria | Nuclei | Peroxisomes | Plasma membrane | Vacuole

Agrisera compartment marker antibodies have been used in in a wide range of publications over the last 15 years. For many compartments we offer several antibodies, to proteins of different molecular weight, to match your experimental requirements.

Not certain which compartment marker antibody to choose? Ask Agrisera's techincal staff for an advice.  


Until end of June 2023, Agrisera Antibody Collection for Arabidopsis thaliana is provided with a 10% discount. 

Agrisera offers an extensive and well-published collection of antibodies to support research on the biology of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

Advantages of this collection include:

• Validation data, often provided with Agrisera high-titer matching secondary antibodies and outstanding detection reagents
• Antibodies detecting proteins involved in various processes, and specific cellular compartments (compartment markers)
• Extensive publication record. Some of Agrisera antibodies have been available for over 20 years.
• Minimal lot-to-lot variation
• Provided in a safe and economical format (lyophilized) for environmentally-friendly shipments that do not require heavy packages or dry ice
• Prompt technical support

Find a matching antibody to a gene ID | Complete list of antibodies with confirmed and predicted reactivity to Arabidopsis thaliana | Examples of publications with Agrisera Antibodies | Benefit from a 10% discount until end of June with the discount code Arabi10

Extensive collection of antibodies to Arabidopsis thaliana proteins involved in photosynthesis

Extensive collection of antibodies to Arabidopsis thaliana proteins involved in a stress response

Agrisera's Arabidopsis thaliana antibodies are suitable for a wide range of techniques, including immunofluorescence, ChIP, IP and Western Blot. Over 100 antibodies are available free of charge for testing, in return for results. Check the list here. 

• High sensitivity
• High average dilution antibody can be used at
• Long-term stability
  
• Superior lot-to-lot consistency
• Most of Agrisera primary antibodies were validated in pair with Agrisera secondary antibodies 

 

Poster price award, 1st place. From left to right: Trang Vuong, Prof. Dr. Andreas Holzinger. Photograph by: PD Dr. Volker Wagner

• High sensitivity
• Long-term stability
  
• Suitable for PVDF and nitrocellulose membranes
• Superior lot-to-lot consistency
• Competitive pricing

Glutamine synthetase GlnA is the key enzyme in the incorporation of mineral nitrogen into glutamine. The activity of this enzyme is controlled by adenylarion under conditions of abundant glutamine.

Agrisera Global GlnA antibodies are reactive to this enzyme from the following species, as confirmed experimentally: Deinococcus radioduransm Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942, Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803, Trichodesmium IMS

Confirmed and predicted reactivity is explained further here. 

By using GlnA Global antibodies, combined with GlnA protein standard it is possible to quantify GlnA using quantitative Western blot, described here, and in this video tutorial.

• The antigen used to elicit the antibody
• Confirmed and predicted reactivity of the antibody
• Applications and recommended starting dilution
• Recently published articles

• Plant cell wall properties and dynamics
• Epigenetic regulation
• Population genetics
• Omics approaches
• Plant nutrition
• Development and Signaling
• Response to mechanical stress
• Adaptation to abiotic stress 

Nitrogenase NifH is involved in the biological fixation of atmospheric nitrogen to ammonia. Alternative protein names are Nitrogenase component II, Nitrogenase Fe protein, Nitrogenase reductase, and FeMoCo-nitrogenase.

Agrisera Global anti-NifH antibodies are reactivie to this enzyme from the following species, as confirmed experimentally: Anabaena PCC7120, Clostridium butyricum, Codakia orbicularis, Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii CS-505, Dolichospermum sp., Nostoc sp, Rhodopseudomonas palustris, Trichodesmium sp., nodules of Trifolium repens L., Vibrio natriegens ATCC 14048

Confirmed and predicted reactivity is explained further here. 

By using NifH antibodies, combined with NifH protein standard it is possible to quantify the enzyme using quantitative Western blot, described here, and in this video tutorial.

Agrisera goat anti-rabbit IgG secondary antibodies, conjugated to horseradish peroxidase (HRP), perform in dilution > 1: 25 000 in Western blot and ELISA, which is supported by a long list of publications.

As this anti-rabbit IgG secondary antibody performs in high dilutions, it offers advantages to other secondary antibodies in terms of minimizing background signal, and the number of experiments it can be used for. This makes it very economical, and strengthens experimental reproducibility.

Additionally, this antibody is provided in lyophilized format, which makes shipment economical and environmentally friendly, as there is no need to include dry ice. Shipments are done at ambient temperature, with perserved antibody performance, which has been tested and evaluated over the last 20 years.

Until the end of 2023, this product is offered at a 10% discount using the discount code: Conj10.

Secondary antibodies conjugated to HRP (Horseradish peroxidase) and ALP (Alkaline phosphatase) enzymes are most frequently used to visualize target proteins in Western blot, ELISA and immunolocalization. When using secondary antibodies conjugated to HRP, the detection is performed using chemiluminescence (recorded by a CCD camera or another imager), which gives high sensitivity and good resolution in both Western blot and chemiluminescent ELISA. When using antibodies conjugated to ALP, visualization of the antibody binding to the target is achieved using chromogenic reagents, and no CCD camera is necessary.  

Agrisera's secondary antibody collection is composed of over 220 antibodies; both highly purified and available in a basic format, suitable for Western blot, as well as adsorbed to serum from a wide range of animal species, suitable for immunolocalization and ELISA. Based on the analysis of antibody performance in available publications, conducted by CiteAB, it became very clear that Agrisera secondary antibodies are performing above market average. This means that Agrisera secondary antibodies conjugated to ALP or HRP can be used at high dilutions and are price-worthy reagents, and will provide you with a consistent performance over many experiments.

Broad species reactivity

• Broad species reactivity, including both di- and monocols and microalgae
• Can be used in dilutions of >1: 1000 in Western blot
• Extensive publication record
• Promptly and environmentally-friendly delivery

Agrisera will participate in the following meetings in 2023:

3^rd INUPRAG Symposium on Integrative Plant Biology, 21^st-22^nd of February, Umeå Plant Science Centre, Umeå, Sweden
The 33^rd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research, 5^th-9^th of June, Chiba, Japan
Nordic Photosynthesis Congress and Nordic Algae Symposium, 19^th-21^st of June, Umeå, Sweden
Plant Biology Europe, 3^rd-6^th of July, Marseille, France
Plant Biology 2023 (ASPB), 5^th-8^th of August, Savannah, Georgia, USA
11^th Conference of Polish Society of Experimental Plant Biology, 19^th-22^nd of September, Poznań, Poland
KBC Days 2023, November, Umeå University, Sweden 

Agrisera supports the following meetings in 2023:

Umeå Center for Microbial Research Day (UCMR Day 2023), 19^th of January, Umeå University, Sweden
36^th Molecular Biology of Plants (MBP2023), 6^th-9^th of February, Bonn, Germany
20^th Scientific Conference of the Phycology Section, 12^th-14^th of March, Jena, Germany
19th International Workshop on Plant Membrane Biology, 27^th-31^st of March, Taipei, Taiwan
ATSPB 2023: Plants in the context of food security, biodiversity and climate change, 13^th-15^th of April, Tirol, Austria
32^nd Western Photosynthesis Conference, 28^th-30^th of April, Bodega Bay, California, USA
5^th Conference of the International Plant Proteomics Organization, 22^nd-25^th of May, Thesaloniki, Greece
IPG 2023 Symposium - Redox Regulation of Plant Stress and Development, 23^th - 26^th of May, University of Missouri, USA
6^th UNIGE PostDoc Day, 8^th of June at the University of Geneva, Switzerland
Chlamy2023, The 20th International Conference on the Cell and Molecular Biology of Chlamydomonas, 4^th-9^th of June, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Plant Biology 2023, XXV Meeting of the Spanish Society of Plant Biology, 9^th-12^th of July, Braga, Portugal
4^th International Brassinosteroid Conference, 16^th-18^th of August, Ghent, Belgium
Plants and People, 6t^h-7^th of September, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam, Germany
Research Day, 20^th of September, Oslo, Norway
11^th Conference of Polish Society of Experimental Plant Biology, 19^th-22^nd of September, Poznań, Poland
2^nd International Conference on Plant Systems Biology and Biotechnology (ICPSBB), 25^th-30^th of September, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
12^th SPPS PhD conference PhD 101: Everything is hard before it gets easy, 27^th-29^th of September, Lund, Sweden
4^th Annual Congress of Young Researchers (ACYR), 9^th-10^th of October, CRAG auditorium, Spain
49th Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Conference, , 27^th-29^th of October, Turkey Run State Park, USA
The Canadian Society of Plant Biologists (CSPB), Eastern Regional Meeting, 1^st-2^nd of December, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

 

In the image, left to right: Dr. Rikesh Bhalerao (UPSC), Dr. Sara Raggi (UPSC) and Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund (Agrisera).
 
"The prize gives us the opportunity to thank our personnel for their work and commitment. It is always very difficult to choose between the candidates, as they all highly deserve this prize," says Rishikesh Bhalerao who announced the winner of the prize this year.

Photo by Prof. Stephanie Robert.

 

Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz-Asplund, at Agrisera display.
 

• High-titer, matching secondary antibodies, to be used at 1: 25 000, 1h/RT incubation
• Agrisera ECL reagents of mid-picogram or extreme low femtogram detection range
• Suggested protocol

 

Check the list of available antibodies and send your antibody request today to [email protected]

 
Request your hard copy today, or download the pdf. 

Each year, hundreds of posters are shipped worldwide by Agrisera, free of charge, to spread knowledge and decorate the walls of offices, classrooms and laboratories. 

Left to right: Prof. Frank Van Breusegem (Ghent University) and awardee Dr. Anna Moseler.

As the prize, he received the book "Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life" by Dr. Dmitry Shevela, Prof. Lars Olof Björn, Prof. Govindjee, as well as Agrisera Educational Posters on photosynthesis. 


Good luck with your research! 
 

Agrisera's Educational Posters, focused on photosynthesis, and product catalog were available as give-aways for the conference participants.

Agrisera's photosynthetic posters are developed by Dr. Dmitry Shevela and Prof. Govindjee, in collaboration with leading scientists in the field. Graphic design by Dr. Dmitry Shevela/SciGrafik. Agrisera has sponsored the printing and free, worldwide distribution of these posters since the development of Poster 1 in 2016. 

Images found in the posters can be downloaded for free, to be used in your publication or on your website. To access the free images, and read testimonials on the posters, please click the buttons below.

Agrisera's Educational Posters and catalog were available as give-aways for conference participants.

Agrisera supported the 4th Network Meeting of the UV4Plants Association, which took place between the 3rd and 6th of July at Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. UV4Plants Association focuses on promoting research of UV impact on plants and the climate. 

During the conference, participants could listen to 24 talks, grouped into six sessions, on plant adaptation and acclimation, UV light under natural conditions, different aspects of UVR8 and other photoreceptor signalling or UV/induced DNA damage and repair. The best poster was awarded with the Agrisera Best Poster Prize to Dr. Neha Rai from the Department of Botany and Plant Biology at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. The title of the awarded poster was: "UV-B photoreceptor mediated transcriptional regulation in plants".

Agrisera Educational Posters and Western blot brochure were included in the conference bag. 

Agrisera's well-published Antibody Collection for Photosynthetic Research can be found here. 

Agrisera attended the Plant Biology 2022 conference (PB22), in Portland, OR, USA, held between the 9th and 13th of July.

Thank you to everyone who visited Agrisera's booth to discuss antibodies and plant science, and for all the kind words about Agrisera.

Agrisera's Educational Posers were available free of charge at the conference. In case you did not get a chance to obtain your copies, they can be requested here.

Agrisera also arranged a model species recognition quiz, where the winner will receive a free antibody of their choice! Even though the winner has been picked, you can still test your species recongition skills just for fun by doing the quiz here.

Search for antibodies by species here, or browse Agrisera's full collection of plant antibodies.

Top to bottom: Agrisera's booth at Plant Biology 2022, and The Oregon Convention Center where the conference was held.

Agrisera recently supported a conference organized by the Polish Botanical Society. This meeting was held together with the 100 years anniversary of the society, in the spirit described by the Latin phrase:

“Amor plantarum nos unit” – which means "The love of plants unites us".

Dr. Joanna Porankiewicz Asplund conducted a technical Western blot workshop in Polish, as well as a quiz about the technique. The winner of the quiz was Dr. Justyna Fidler from the Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Institute of Biology, Warsaw University of Life Sciences-SGGW. She will be awarded a free antibody from Agrisera's plant antibody collection as her prize.

We are awaiting your free antibody choice!

Between the 20th and 23rd of June, Agrisera attended the 32nd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR 2022), in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Thank you to the participants for the discussions, new product suggestions and kind words about Agrisera. We always enjoy the interaction with you, especially after two years without in-person meetings.

Agrisera's Educational Posers were available free of charge at the conference. In case you did not get a chance to obtain your copies, they can be requested here.

Browse Agrisera's collection of antibodies for Arabidopsis research.

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Our warmest congratulations to Dr. Alexander Kukreja in Prof. Guido Grossmann's lab at Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Germany who was awarded the Best Poster Prize at ICAR 2022.

Dr. Kukreja's poster title was "Lateral sorting and immobilization in nanodomains drive polarization of the small GTPase ROP2 in root hair cells”.

Good luck with your research!
We are awaiting your free antibody choice! 

Top to bottom: Agrisera at ICAR 2022, the winner of the Best Poster Prize, Dr. Alex Kukreja.

"Thanks for the excellent talk and sharing your experience on Western. I found it very useful."

Agrisera is participating in the following meetings:

1st hormone, cell wall and morphogenesis workshop, 9.03-10.03, SLU, Umeå, Sweden
12th International Conference for Plant Mitochondiral Biology, 22.05-27.05, Malmö, Sweden
Pivotal Links 2022, 8th-9th June, Oxford, UK
32nd International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR2022), 20.06-24.06, Belfast, Irland
Plant Biology 2022, 9.07-13.07, Portland, Oregon, USA
KBC Days at Umeå University, November, Umeå, Sweden

Agrisera is supporting the following meetings:

Umeå Centre for Microbial Research Day at Umeå University, Sweden, 20.01
35th conference on Molecular Biology of Plants (MBP2022), 15.02-16.02, online
The 31st Western Photosynthesis Conference, 24.03-25.03, online
Eastern Regional Photosynthesis Conference, 22.04-24.04, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, USA
Elevating Nordic algal biotechnology: from fundamental photosynthesis to industry, 8.06-10.06, Biocity, Turku, Finland
59th meeting of the Polish Botanical Society, 26.06-3.07, Warsaw, Poland
4th Network Meeting of the UV4Plants Association, 3.07-6.07, Kraków, Poland
Plant Calcium Signaling Conference, 11.07-13.07, Milano, Italy
International Congress on Photosynthetic Research, 31.07-5.08, Dunedin Centre, New Zealand
17th International Symposium on Phototrophic Prokaryotes, 21.08-25.08, Liverpool, UK
Redox Biology Congress 2022, 24.08-26.08, Ghent, Belgium
Botanik-Tagung, International Conference of the German Society for Plant Sciences, 28.08-1.09, Bonn, Germany
29th congress of the Societas Physiologiae Plantarum Scandinavica (SPPS), 30.08-2.09, Svalbard, Norway
5th Conference on Plant Proteases, 5.09-7-09, Ljubljana, Slovenia
100th Anniversary of the Department of Plant Physiology, 15.09-16.09, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
The Plant Synthetic Biology Conference, 19.09-21.09, Barcelona, Spain
Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop, 27.10-28.10, Umeå University, Sweden
48th Midwest/Southeast Photosynthesis Meeting, 28.10-30.10, Marshall Indiana, USA
Canadian Society of Plant Biologists Eastern Regional Meeting, 3.12, University of Toronto, Canada
Annual Meeting of Chilean Society of Plant Biologists, 5.12-7.12, Chile

Warmest congratulations to Dr. Clément Boussardon who has received The Umeå Plant Science Centre Agrisera Prize 2021 to acknowledge his scientific achievements and his engagement to improve the work environment at UPSC. The UPSC Agrisera Prize is awarded every year to a person working at UPSC and was announced today during the virtual UPSC Christmas Celebration.

Dr. Clément Boussardon works as a postdoc in Olivier Keech's group at the Umeå Plant Science Centre.

Clément developed methods to tissue-specifically isolate plant organelles and contributed to establish a gene atlas for iron containing proteins. Most of these tools are already published and available for the scientific community at UPSC and beyond. Clément Boussardon engages actively in scientific discussions at UPSC trying to help to advance also other research projects.

Six nomination letters were sent in for this year’s UPSC Agrisera Prize. Two of them were for Clément Boussardon. The Prize - a travel voucher - is sponsored by Agrisera and awards every year a PhD student, postdoc or technician for excellent scientific achievement and great commitment to improve the work environment at UPSC. Everyone working at UPSC can nominate a colleague for the UPSC Agrisera Prize, and the members of the UPSC board select the winner of the prize.