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Environmental and farming practice controls of productivity of Cyrtosperma merkusii (giant swamp taro), an underutilised wetland and potential paludiculture crop (2023)
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Mendiondo, G., Moko, E. M., Sparkes, D. L., Rahardiyan, D., Welham, S. J. M., O'Reilly, P., Wilson, P., Thomas, M. L., Ngangi, J., & Sjögersten, S. (2023). Environmental and farming practice controls of productivity of Cyrtosperma merkusii (giant swamp taro), an underutilised wetland and potential paludiculture crop. Food and Energy Security, 13(1), Article e490. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.490

Growing recognition of the potential vulnerabilities of major crop systems has spurred a growing interest in the potential of alternative crops which may be resilient to climate change and also help mitigate its effects. In Indonesia, such issues are... Read More about Environmental and farming practice controls of productivity of Cyrtosperma merkusii (giant swamp taro), an underutilised wetland and potential paludiculture crop.

African Leafy Vegetables for Improved Human Nutrition and Food System Resilience in Southern Africa: A Scoping Review (2021)
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Isaac, A., Shayanowako, T., Morrissey, O., Tanzi, A., Muchuweti, M., Mendiondo, G. M., Mayes, S., Modi, A. T., Mabhaudhi, T., & Durazzo, A. (2021). African Leafy Vegetables for Improved Human Nutrition and Food System Resilience in Southern Africa: A Scoping Review. Sustainability, 13(5), Article 2896. https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052896

The economic potential of African leafy vegetables (ALVs) remains obscured by a poorly developed value chain. This scoping review assembled and examined scattered knowledge generated on ALVs across southern Africa, focusing on production, processing,... Read More about African Leafy Vegetables for Improved Human Nutrition and Food System Resilience in Southern Africa: A Scoping Review.

Distinct branches of the N‐end rule pathway modulate the plant immune response (2018)
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Vicente, J., Mendiondo, G. M., Pauwels, J., Pastor, V., Izquierdo, Y., Naumann, C., Movahedi, M., Rooney, D. J., Gibbs, D. J., Smart, K., Bachmair, A., Gray, J. E., Dissmeyer, N., Castresana, C., Ray, R. V., Gevaert, K., & Holdsworth, M. J. (2019). Distinct branches of the N‐end rule pathway modulate the plant immune response. New Phytologist, 221(2), 988-1000. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.15387

© 2018 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2018 New Phytologist Trust The N-end rule pathway is a highly conserved constituent of the ubiquitin proteasome system, yet little is known about its biological roles. Here we explored the role of the N-end rule... Read More about Distinct branches of the N‐end rule pathway modulate the plant immune response.

Sumoylation and phosphorylation: hidden and overt links (2018)
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Tomanov, K., Nukarinen, E., Vicente, J., Mendiondo, G. M., Winter, N., Nehlin, L., Weckwerth, W., Holdsworth, M. J., Teige, M., & Bachmair, A. (in press). Sumoylation and phosphorylation: hidden and overt links. Journal of Experimental Botany, https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery167

Post-translational modifications are essential mediators between stimuli from development or the environment and adaptive transcriptional patterns. Recent data allow a first glimpse at how two modifications, phosphorylation and sumoylation, act inter... Read More about Sumoylation and phosphorylation: hidden and overt links.

The Cys-Arg/N-end rule pathway is a general sensor of abiotic stress in flowering plants (2017)
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Vicente, J., Mendiondo, G. M., Movahedi, M., Peirats-Llobet, M., Juan, Y.-T., Shen, Y.-Y., Dambire, C., Smart, K., Rodriguez, P. L., Charng, Y.-Y., Gray, J. E., & Holdsworth, M. J. (2017). The Cys-Arg/N-end rule pathway is a general sensor of abiotic stress in flowering plants. Current Biology, 27(20), Article 3183-3190.e4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.006

Abiotic stresses impact negatively on plant growth, profoundly affecting yield and quality of crops. Although much is known about plant responses, very little is understood at the molecular level about the initial sensing of environmental stress. In... Read More about The Cys-Arg/N-end rule pathway is a general sensor of abiotic stress in flowering plants.

Group VII ethylene response factors coordinate oxygen and nitric oxide signal transduction and stress responses in plants (2015)
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Gibbs, D. J., Vincente Conde, J., Berckhan, S., Prasad, G., Mendiondo, G. M., & Holdsworth, M. J. (2015). Group VII ethylene response factors coordinate oxygen and nitric oxide signal transduction and stress responses in plants. Plant Physiology, 169(1), https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.15.00338

The group VII ethylene response factors (ERFVIIs) are plant-specific transcription factors that have emerged as important regulators of abiotic and biotic stress responses, in particular, low-oxygen stress. A defining feature of ERFVIIs is their cons... Read More about Group VII ethylene response factors coordinate oxygen and nitric oxide signal transduction and stress responses in plants.

Enhanced waterlogging tolerance in barley by manipulation of expression of the N-end rule pathway E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS6 (2015)
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Mendiondo, G. M., Gibbs, D. J., Szurman-Zubrzycka, M., Korn, A., Marquez, J., Szarejko, I., Maluszynski, M., King, J., Axcell, B., Smart, K., Corbineau, F., & Holdsworth, M. J. (2016). Enhanced waterlogging tolerance in barley by manipulation of expression of the N-end rule pathway E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS6. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 14(1), 40-50. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12334

© 2016 Society for Experimental Biology, Association of Applied Biologists and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Increased tolerance of crops to low oxygen (hypoxia) during flooding is a key target for food security. In Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh., the N... Read More about Enhanced waterlogging tolerance in barley by manipulation of expression of the N-end rule pathway E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS6.

Barley has two peroxisomal ABC transporters with multiple functions in ?-oxidation (2014)
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Mendiondo, G. M., Medhurst, A., van Roermund, C., Zhang, X., Devonshire, J., Scholefield, D., Fernández, J., Axcell, B., Ramsay, L., Waterham, H., Waugh, R., Theodoulou, F., & Holdsworth, M. (2014). Barley has two peroxisomal ABC transporters with multiple functions in β-oxidation. Journal of Experimental Botany, 65(17), 4833-4847. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eru243

In oilseed plants, peroxisomal ?-oxidation functions not only in lipid catabolism but also in jasmonate biosynthesis and metabolism of pro-auxins. Subfamily D ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters mediate import of ?-oxidation substrates into the p... Read More about Barley has two peroxisomal ABC transporters with multiple functions in ?-oxidation.

Nitric oxide sensing in plants is mediated by proteolytic control of Group VII ERF transcription factors (2014)
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Gibbs, D. J., Md Isa, N., Movahedi, M., Lozano-Juste, J., Mendiondo, G. M., Berckhan, S., Marín-de la Rosa, N., Vicente Conde, J., Sousa Correia, C., Pearce, S. P., Bassel, G. W., Hamali, B., Talloji, P., Tomé, D. F., Coego, A., Beynon, J., Alabadí, D., Bachmair, A., León, J., Gray, J. E., …Holdsworth, M. J. (2014). Nitric oxide sensing in plants is mediated by proteolytic control of Group VII ERF transcription factors. Molecular Cell, 53(3), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molcel.2013.12.020

Nitric oxide (NO) is an important signaling compound in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. In plants, NO regulates critical developmental transitions and stress responses. Here, we identify a mechanism for NO sensing that coordinates responses throughout de... Read More about Nitric oxide sensing in plants is mediated by proteolytic control of Group VII ERF transcription factors.