Dr Karolina Jarzyniak, Eng. from the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, Poznań University of Life Sciences, has been awarded the 10th competition for the Prof. Wacław Szybalski Award of the Biotechnology Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences for a young researcher for the best scientific work published in 2021.
The prize was awarded for the publication ‘Early stages of legume-rhizobia symbiosis are controlled by ABCG-mediated transport of active cytokinins’, published in the journal Nature Plants.
The winning publication provides a comprehensive functional analysis of one of the ABCG transporters, in the model legume Medicago truncatula. The work answers the question of how active transport systems affect the process of plant symbiosis with atmospheric nitrogen-fixing bacteria. The results obtained allowed ABCG proteins to be linked to the transport of cytokinins, plant hormones crucial in the process of root papilla formation.
