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Mechanistic insight into the role of AUXIN RESISTANCE4 in trafficking of AUXIN1 and LIKE AUX1-2 (2023)
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Tidy, A., Abu Bakar, N., Carrier, D., Kerr, I. D., Hodgman, C., Bennett, M. J., & Swarup, R. (2024). Mechanistic insight into the role of AUXIN RESISTANCE4 in trafficking of AUXIN1 and LIKE AUX1-2. Plant Physiology, 194(1), 422-433. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad506

AUXIN RESISTANCE4 (AXR4) regulates the trafficking of auxin influx carrier AUXIN1 (AUX1), a plasma-membrane protein that predominantly localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) in the absence of AXR4. In Arabidopsis (Arabidopsis thaliana), AUX1 is... Read More about Mechanistic insight into the role of AUXIN RESISTANCE4 in trafficking of AUXIN1 and LIKE AUX1-2.

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.

Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome (2021)
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Bergero, R., Ellis, P., Haerty, W., Larcombe, L., Macaulay, I., Mehta, T., …Immler, S. (2021). Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome. Biological Reviews, 96(3), 822-841. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12680

The separation of germ cell populations from the soma is part of the evolutionary transition to multicellularity. Only genetic information present in the germ cells will be inherited by future generations, and any molecular processes affecting the ge... Read More about Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome.

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.

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.

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.

The effect of adenosine monophosphate deaminase overexpression on the accumulation of umami-related metabolites in tomatoes (2016)
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Chew, B. L., Fisk, I. D., Fray, R., Tucker, G. A., Bodi, Z., Ferguson, A., …Seymour, G. B. (in press). The effect of adenosine monophosphate deaminase overexpression on the accumulation of umami-related metabolites in tomatoes. Plant Cell Reports, 36(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00299-016-2058-z

Taste is perceived as one of a combination of five sensations, sweet, sour, bitter, salty, and umami. The umami taste is best known as a savoury sensation and plays a central role in food flavour, palatability, and eating satisfaction. Umami flavour... Read More about The effect of adenosine monophosphate deaminase overexpression on the accumulation of umami-related metabolites in tomatoes.

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.