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Large scale phenotyping on the effect of heat and cold stress on Brassica napus during floral development (2025)
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Tidy, A. C., Siles, L., Jacott, C., Wells, R., Kurup, S., & Wilson, Z. A. (in press). Large scale phenotyping on the effect of heat and cold stress on Brassica napus during floral development. Plant Stress,

As a result of climate change temperature extremes are being frequently experienced, which are endangering agricultural production. Oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.; OSR) is an important cool-season oil crop grown worldwide; however, extremes of cold... Read More about Large scale phenotyping on the effect of heat and cold stress on Brassica napus during floral development.

Environmental regulation of male fertility is mediated through Arabidopsis bHLH89, 91 and 10 (2023)
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Robson, J. K., Tidy, A. C., Thomas, S. G., & Wilson, Z. A. (2024). Environmental regulation of male fertility is mediated through Arabidopsis bHLH89, 91 and 10. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(7), 1934-1947. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad480

Formation of functional pollen and successful fertilization rely on the spatial and temporal regulation of anther and pollen development. This process responds to environmental cues to maintain optimal fertility despite climatic changes. Arabidopsi... Read More about Environmental regulation of male fertility is mediated through Arabidopsis bHLH89, 91 and 10.

New Germplasm for Breeding: Pink-flowered and White-fruited Strawberry (2023)
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Guan, L., Wilson, Z. A., Zhao, M., Qiao, Y., Wu, E., Wang, Q., Yuan, H., Xu, L., Pang, F., Cai, W., Chen, X., & Xia, J. (2023). New Germplasm for Breeding: Pink-flowered and White-fruited Strawberry. HortScience, 58(9), 1005-1009. https://doi.org/10.21273/hortsci17047-22

Most strawberry plants have white flowers and red fruit. We developed a new strawberry selection with pink flowers and white fruit, and named it G23. Basic phenotypic data were recorded over years of observation and experimentation with the flower cr... Read More about New Germplasm for Breeding: Pink-flowered and White-fruited Strawberry.

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., Shi, S., & 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.

Chlorophyll fluorescence-based high-throughput phenotyping facilitates the genetic dissection of photosynthetic heat tolerance in African (Oryza glaberrima) and Asian (Oryza sativa) rice (2023)
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Robson, J. K., Ferguson, J. N., McAusland, L., Atkinson, J. A., Tranchant-Dubreuil, C., Cubry, P., Sabot, F., Wells, D. M., Price, A. H., Wilson, Z. A., & Murchie, E. H. (2023). Chlorophyll fluorescence-based high-throughput phenotyping facilitates the genetic dissection of photosynthetic heat tolerance in African (Oryza glaberrima) and Asian (Oryza sativa) rice. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74(17), 5181-5197. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad239

Rising temperatures and extreme heat events threaten rice production. Half of the global population relies on rice for basic nutrition, and therefore developing heat-tolerant rice is essential. During vegetative development, reduced photosynthetic ra... Read More about Chlorophyll fluorescence-based high-throughput phenotyping facilitates the genetic dissection of photosynthetic heat tolerance in African (Oryza glaberrima) and Asian (Oryza sativa) rice.

Rice HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN60-3B maintains male fertility under high temperature by starch granule biogenesis (2023)
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Lin, S., Liu, Z., Sun, S., Xue, F., Li, H., Tursun, A., Cao, L., Zhang, L., Wilson, Z. A., Zhang, D., & Liang, W. (2023). Rice HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN60-3B maintains male fertility under high temperature by starch granule biogenesis. Plant Physiology, 192(3), 2301-2317. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad136

Heat stress has a deleterious effect on male fertility in rice (Oryza sativa), but mechanisms to protect against heat stress in rice male gametophytes are poorly understood. Here, we have isolated and characterized a heat-sensitive male-sterile rice... Read More about Rice HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN60-3B maintains male fertility under high temperature by starch granule biogenesis.

Cytokinin signaling regulates two-stage inflorescence arrest in Arabidopsis (2022)
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Walker, C. H., Ware, A., Simura, J., Ljung, K., Wilson, Z., & Bennett, T. (2023). Cytokinin signaling regulates two-stage inflorescence arrest in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 191(1), 479-495. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac514

To maximize reproductive success, flowering plants must correctly time entry and exit from the reproductive phase. While much is known about mechanisms that regulate initiation of flowering, end-of-flowering remains largely uncharacterized. End-of-fl... Read More about Cytokinin signaling regulates two-stage inflorescence arrest in Arabidopsis.

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., Jie, X., Zhang, D., Geelen, 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., Bishopp, A., Wilson, Z. A., & 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., Zhang, C., Gu, J. N., Wilson, Z. A., & 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.-Q., Li, W.-C., 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., Taylor, B., Mitsuda, N., & 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.