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Barley TAPETAL DEVELOPMENT and FUNCTION1 (HvTDF1) gene reveals conserved and unique roles in controlling anther tapetum development in dicot and monocot plants (2023)
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Hua, M., Yin, W., Fernández Gómez, J., Tidy, A., Xing, G., Zong, J., …Wilson, Z. A. (2023). Barley TAPETAL DEVELOPMENT and FUNCTION1 (HvTDF1) gene reveals conserved and unique roles in controlling anther tapetum development in dicot and monocot plants. New Phytologist, 240(1), 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19161

The anther tapetum helps control microspore release and essential components for pollen wall formation. TAPETAL DEVELOPMENT and FUNCTION1 (TDF1) is an essential R2R3 MYB tapetum transcription factor in Arabidopsis thaliana; however, little is known a... Read More about Barley TAPETAL DEVELOPMENT and FUNCTION1 (HvTDF1) gene reveals conserved and unique roles in controlling anther tapetum development in dicot and monocot plants.

Sporophytic control of pollen meiotic progression is mediated by tapetum expression of ABORTED MICROSPORES (2022)
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Tidy, A. C., Ferjentsikova, I., Vizcay-Barrena, G., Liu, B., Yin, W., Higgins, J. D., …Wilson, Z. A. (2022). Sporophytic control of pollen meiotic progression is mediated by tapetum expression of ABORTED MICROSPORES. Journal of Experimental Botany, 73(16), 5543-5558. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac225

Pollen development is dependent on the tapetum, a sporophytic anther cell layer surrounding the microspores that functions in pollen wall formation but is also essential for meiosis-associated development. There is clear evidence of crosstalk and co-... Read More about Sporophytic control of pollen meiotic progression is mediated by tapetum expression of ABORTED MICROSPORES.

Increased expression of the HvMALE STERILITY1 Transcription Factor Results in Temperature-Sensitive Male Sterility in Barley (2020)
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Fernandez Gomez, J., Talle, B., & Wilson, Z. (2020). Increased expression of the HvMALE STERILITY1 Transcription Factor Results in Temperature-Sensitive Male Sterility in Barley. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(20), 6328–6339. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa382

Understanding the control of fertility is critical for crop yield and breeding, this is particularly important for hybrid breeding to capitalise upon the resultant hybrid vigour. Different hybrid breeding systems have been adopted, however these are... Read More about Increased expression of the HvMALE STERILITY1 Transcription Factor Results in Temperature-Sensitive Male Sterility in Barley.

Auxin export from proximal fruits drives arrest in temporally competent inflorescences (2020)
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Walker, C. H., Ware, A., Walker, C. H., Šimura, J., González-Suárez, P., Ljung, K., …Bennett, T. (2020). Auxin export from proximal fruits drives arrest in temporally competent inflorescences. Nature Plants, 6, 699–707. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-020-0661-z

© 2020, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited. A well-defined set of regulatory pathways control entry into the reproductive phase in flowering plants, but little is known about the mechanistic control of the end-of-flower... Read More about Auxin export from proximal fruits drives arrest in temporally competent inflorescences.

MS1, a direct target of MS188, regulates the expression of key sporophytic pollen coat protein genes in Arabidopsis (2020)
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Lu, J. Y., Xiong, S. X., Yin, W., Teng, X. D., Lou, Y., Zhu, J., …Yang, Z. N. (2020). MS1, a direct target of MS188, regulates the expression of key sporophytic pollen coat protein genes in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(16), 4877-4889. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa219

© 2020 Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Sporophytic pollen coat proteins (sPCPs) derived from the anther tapetum are deposited into pollen wall cavities and function in pollen-stigma interactions, pollen hydration, and environmental prot... Read More about MS1, a direct target of MS188, regulates the expression of key sporophytic pollen coat protein genes in Arabidopsis.

Accurate staging of reproduction development in Cadenza wheat by non-destructive spike analysis (2020)
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Fernández-Gómez, J., Talle, B., Tidy, A., & Wilson, Z. A. (2020). Accurate staging of reproduction development in Cadenza wheat by non-destructive spike analysis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 71(12), 3475-3484. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa156

© 2020 The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Experimental Biology. Wheat is one of the most important crops in the world; however, loss of genetic variability and abiotic stress caused by variable clima... Read More about Accurate staging of reproduction development in Cadenza wheat by non-destructive spike analysis.

Knockdown of Arabidopsis ROOT UVB SENSITIVE4 Disrupts Anther Dehiscence by Suppressing Secondary Thickening in the Endothecium (2019)
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Zhao, S., Li, W., Zhang, Y., Tidy, A. C., & Wilson, Z. A. (2019). Knockdown of Arabidopsis ROOT UVB SENSITIVE4 Disrupts Anther Dehiscence by Suppressing Secondary Thickening in the Endothecium. Plant and Cell Physiology, 60(10), 2293–2306. https://doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcz127

ROOT UV-B SENSITIVE4 (RUS4) encodes a protein with no known function that contains a conserved Domain of Unknown Function 647 (DUF647). The DUF647-containing proteins RUS1 and RUS2 have previously been associated with root UV-B-sensing pathway that p... Read More about Knockdown of Arabidopsis ROOT UVB SENSITIVE4 Disrupts Anther Dehiscence by Suppressing Secondary Thickening in the Endothecium.

Yielding to the image: how phenotyping reproductive growth can assist crop improvement and production (2018)
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Dreccer, M. F., Molero, G., Rivera-Amado, C., John-Bejai, C., & Wilson, Z. (in press). Yielding to the image: how phenotyping reproductive growth can assist crop improvement and production. Plant Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2018.06.008

Reproductive organs are the main reason we grow and harvest most plant species as crops, yet they receive less attention from phenotyping due to their complexity and inaccessibility for analysis. This review highlights recent progress towards the qua... Read More about Yielding to the image: how phenotyping reproductive growth can assist crop improvement and production.

Dissecting the role of MADS-box genes in monocot floral development and diversity (2018)
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Callens, C., Tucker, M. R., Zhang, D., & Wilson, Z. (2018). Dissecting the role of MADS-box genes in monocot floral development and diversity. Journal of Experimental Botany, 69(10), 2435-2459. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery086

Many monocot plants have high social and economic value. These include grasses such as rice (Oryza sativa), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and barley (Hordeum vulgare), which produce soft commodities for many food and beverage industries, and ornamental f... Read More about Dissecting the role of MADS-box genes in monocot floral development and diversity.

The early inflorescence of Arabidopsis thaliana demonstrates positional effects in floral organ growth and meristem patterning (2017)
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Plackett, A. R. G., Powers, S. J., Phillips, A. L., Wilson, Z. A., Hedden, P., & Thomas, S. G. (2018). The early inflorescence of Arabidopsis thaliana demonstrates positional effects in floral organ growth and meristem patterning. Plant Reproduction, 31(2), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00497-017-0320-3

Most flowering plants, including the genetic model Arabidopsis thaliana, produce multiple flowers in sequence from a reproductive shoot apex to form a flower spike (inflorescence). The development of individual flowers on an Arabidopsis inflorescence... Read More about The early inflorescence of Arabidopsis thaliana demonstrates positional effects in floral organ growth and meristem patterning.

Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 overexpression increases yield in Nicotiana Tabacum under drought stress by improving source and sink metabolism (2017)
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Barreto, P., Yassitepe, J. E., Wilson, Z. A., & Arruda, P. (2017). Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 overexpression increases yield in Nicotiana Tabacum under drought stress by improving source and sink metabolism. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, Article 1836. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01836

Mitochondrial uncoupling proteins (UCPs) sustain mitochondrial respiration independent of intracellular ATP concentration. Uncoupled respiration is particularly beneficial under stress conditions, during which both photosynthesis and respiration may... Read More about Mitochondrial uncoupling protein 1 overexpression increases yield in Nicotiana Tabacum under drought stress by improving source and sink metabolism.

RiceAntherNet: a gene co-expression network for identifying anther and pollen development genes (2017)
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Lin, H., Yu, J., Pearce, S., Zhang, D., & Wilson, Z. A. (2017). RiceAntherNet: a gene co-expression network for identifying anther and pollen development genes. Plant Journal, 92(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13744

In plants, normal anther and pollen development involves many important biological events and complex molecular regulatory coordination. Understanding gene regulatory relationships during male reproductive development is essential for fundamental bio... Read More about RiceAntherNet: a gene co-expression network for identifying anther and pollen development genes.

Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation (2017)
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Yang, C., Song, J., Ferguson, A. C., Klisch, D., Simpson, K., Mo, R., …Wilson, Z. A. (2017). Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation. Plant Physiology, 175(1), https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00719

Successful fertilization relies on the production and effective release of viable pollen. Failure of anther opening (dehiscence), results in male sterility, although the pollen may be fully functional. MYB26 regulates the formation of secondary thick... Read More about Transcription factor MYB26 is key to spatial specificity in anther secondary thickening formation.

Harnessing diversity from ecosystems to crops to genes (2017)
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Buchanan-Wollaston, V., Wilson, Z. A., Tardieu, F., Beynon, J., & Denby, K. (2017). Harnessing diversity from ecosystems to crops to genes. Food and Energy Security, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.106

To feed humanity, while maintaining a stable and diverse biosphere, crop science needs to adapt to an open research environment where genetic resources and the data demonstrating the environments in which they are effective are freely shared. The cha... Read More about Harnessing diversity from ecosystems to crops to genes.

Non-destructive determination of floral staging in cereals using X-ray micro computed tomography (µCT) (2017)
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Tracy, S. R., Gómez, J. F., Sturrock, C., Wilson, Z. A., & Ferguson, A. (2017). Non-destructive determination of floral staging in cereals using X-ray micro computed tomography (µCT). Plant Methods, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-017-0162-x

Background Accurate floral staging is required to aid research into pollen and flower development, in particular male development. Pollen development is highly sensitive to stress and is critical for crop yields. Research into male development under... Read More about Non-destructive determination of floral staging in cereals using X-ray micro computed tomography (µCT).

Biphasic regulation of the transcription factor ABORTED MICROSPORES (AMS) is essential for tapetum and pollen development in Arabidopsis (2016)
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Ferguson, A., Pearce, S., Band, L. R., Yang, C., Ferjentsikova, I., King, J., …Wilson, Z. A. (in press). Biphasic regulation of the transcription factor ABORTED MICROSPORES (AMS) is essential for tapetum and pollen development in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist, 213, https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14200

Viable pollen is essential for plant reproduction and crop yield. Its production requires coordinated expression at specific stages during anther development, involving early meiosis-associated events and late pollen wall formation. The ABORTED MICRO... Read More about Biphasic regulation of the transcription factor ABORTED MICROSPORES (AMS) is essential for tapetum and pollen development in Arabidopsis.

Conferred resistance to Botrytis cinerea in Lilium by overexpression of the RCH10 chitinase gene (2015)
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Núñez de Cáceres González, F., Davey, M. R., Cancho Sánchez, E., & Wilson, Z. A. (2015). Conferred resistance to Botrytis cinerea in Lilium by overexpression of the RCH10 chitinase gene. Plant Cell Reports, 34(7), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-015-1778-9

The production of ornamentals is an important global industry, with Lilium being one of the six major bulb crops in the world. The international trade in ornamentals is in the order of £60-75 billion and is expected to increase worldwide by 2-4 % per... Read More about Conferred resistance to Botrytis cinerea in Lilium by overexpression of the RCH10 chitinase gene.

FlowerNet: a gene expression correlation metwork for anther and pollen development (2015)
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Pearce, S., Ferguson, A., King, J., & Wilson, Z. A. (2015). FlowerNet: a gene expression correlation metwork for anther and pollen development. Plant Physiology, 167(4), https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.114.253807

Floral formation, in particular anther and pollen development, is a complex biological process with critical importance for seed set and for targeted plant breeding. Many key transcription factors regulating this process have been identified; however... Read More about FlowerNet: a gene expression correlation metwork for anther and pollen development.

Aborted microspores acts as a master regulator of pollen wall formation in Arabidopsis (2014)
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Xu, J., Ding, Z., Vizcay-Barrena, G., Shi, J., Liang, W., Yuan, Z., …Zhang, D. (2014). Aborted microspores acts as a master regulator of pollen wall formation in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 26(4), https://doi.org/10.1105/tpc.114.122986

Mature pollen is covered by durable cell walls, principally composed of sporopollenin, an evolutionary conserved, highly resilient, but not fully characterized, biopolymer of aliphatic and aromatic components. Here, we report that ABORTED MICROSPORES... Read More about Aborted microspores acts as a master regulator of pollen wall formation in Arabidopsis.

A barley PHD finger transcription factor that confers male sterility by affecting tapetal development (2014)
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Fernandez Gomez, J. F., & Wilson, Z. A. (2014). A barley PHD finger transcription factor that confers male sterility by affecting tapetal development. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 12(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.12181

Controlling pollen development is of major commercial importance in generating hybrid crops and selective breeding, but characterized genes for male sterility in crops are rare, with no current examples in barley. However, translation of knowledge fr... Read More about A barley PHD finger transcription factor that confers male sterility by affecting tapetal development.