= Kasper van Gelderen
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<Kasper van Gelderen> investigates how developmental signals shape <plants>. He coauthored a 2016 study of <INDEHISCENT>, <auxin> response and formation of the <separation layer> in <Arabidopsis thaliana> <fruits>. Comparing normal and altered <fruits> connected a regulatory <gene> with the local <cell divisions> that establish a controlled opening site.<An INDEHISCENT-Controlled Auxin Response Specifies the Separation Layer in Early Arabidopsis Fruit by Kasper van Gelderen and others>[Abstract; early mutant anatomy and cell divisions]{ref}
The study distinguished early tissue specification from later <fruit dehiscence>. Altering <auxin> transport during early stages prevented the normal developmental outcome, showing why the time of a perturbation matters as well as its location.<An INDEHISCENT-Controlled Auxin Response Specifies the Separation Layer in Early Arabidopsis Fruit by Kasper van Gelderen and others>[Abstract; tissue-targeted transport perturbations during stages14–16]{ref} A signal that has one role while a tissue is forming need not have the same role when the mature tissue opens.
Institutional research profile: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-the-faculty-of-science/kasper-van-gelderen .
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