All Outputs (731)

Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth is associated with early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet (2024)
Journal Article
de la Fuente, C., Grondin, A., Sine, B., Debieu, M., Belin, C., Hajjarpoor, A., Atkinson, J. A., Passot, S., Salson, M., Orjuela, J., Tranchant-Dubreuil, C., Brossier, J.-R., Steffen, M., Morgado, C., Dinh, H. N., Pandey, B. K., Darmau, J., Champion, A., Petitot, A.-. S., Barrachina, C., …Laplaze, L. (2024). Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth is associated with early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet. eLife, https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.86169

Seedling root traits impact plant establishment under challenging environments. Pearl millet is one of the most heat and drought tolerant cereal crops that provides a vital food source across the sub-Saharan Sahel region. Pearl millet’s early root sy... Read More about Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth is associated with early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet.

Chromosome-scale genome assembly of bread wheat’s wild relativeTriticum timopheevii (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Grewal, S., Yang, C.-Y., Scholefield, D., Ashling, S., Ghosh, S., Swarbreck, D., Collins, J., Yao, E., Sen, T. Z., Wilson, M., Yant, L., King, I. P., & King, J. (2024). Chromosome-scale genome assembly of bread wheat’s wild relativeTriticum timopheevii

Wheat (Triticum aestivum) is one of the most important food crops with an urgent need for increase in its production to feed the growing world. Triticum timopheevii (2n = 4x = 28) is an allotetraploid wheat wild relative species containing the At and... Read More about Chromosome-scale genome assembly of bread wheat’s wild relativeTriticum timopheevii.

Author Response: Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth is associated with early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
de la Fuente, C., Grondin, A., Sine, B., Debieu, M., Belin, C., Hajjarpoor, A., Atkinson, J. A., Passot, S., Salson, M., Orjuela, J., Tranchant-Dubreuil, C., Brossier, J.-R., Steffen, M., Morgado, C., Dinh, H. N., Pandey, B. K., Darmau, J., Champion, A., Petitot, A.-S., Barrachina, C., …Laplaze, L. Author Response: Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth is associated with early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet

Seedling root traits impact plant establishment under challenging environments. Pearl millet is one of the most heat and drought tolerant cereal crops that provides a vital food source across the sub-Saharan Sahel region. Pearl millet’s early root sy... Read More about Author Response: Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth is associated with early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet.

Physiological adaptation to irradiance in duckweeds is species and accession specific and depends on light habitat niche (2024)
Journal Article
Smith, K. E., Cowan, L., Taylor, B., McAusland, L., Heatley, M., Yant, L., & Murchie, E. H. (2024). Physiological adaptation to irradiance in duckweeds is species and accession specific and depends on light habitat niche. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(7), 2046-2063. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad499

Duckweeds span 36 species of free-floating aquatic organisms with body sizes ranging from 2 mm to 10 mm, where each plant body plan is reduced to a largely leaf-like structure. As an emerging crop, their fast growth rates offer potential for cultivat... Read More about Physiological adaptation to irradiance in duckweeds is species and accession specific and depends on light habitat niche.

Physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanism of action of the biostimulant Quantis™ for increased thermotolerance of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) (2024)
Journal Article
Jayaweera, D. P., Dambire, C., Angelopoulou, D., Munné-Bosch, S., Swarup, R., & Ray, R. V. (2024). Physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanism of action of the biostimulant Quantis™ for increased thermotolerance of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, 11(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40538-023-00531-3

Background: Raising global temperatures limit crop productivity and new strategies are needed to improve the resilience of thermosensitive crops such as potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Biostimulants are emerging as potential crop protection products a... Read More about Physiological, molecular, and genetic mechanism of action of the biostimulant Quantis™ for increased thermotolerance of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.).

Mehlich 3 as an indicator of grain nutrient concentration for five cereals in sub-Saharan Africa (2024)
Journal Article
Haefele, S. M., Mossa, A. W., Gashu, D., Nalivata, P. C., Broadley, M. R., McGrath, S. P., & Thomas, C. L. (2024). Mehlich 3 as an indicator of grain nutrient concentration for five cereals in sub-Saharan Africa. Field Crops Research, 307, Article 109243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2023.109243

Context or Problem: Soil testing for available nutrients is an important tool to determine fertilizer rates, however many standard methods test the availability of a single nutrient only. In contrast, Mehlich 3 (M3) is a multi-element test for predic... Read More about Mehlich 3 as an indicator of grain nutrient concentration for five cereals in sub-Saharan Africa.

Differences in the nutritional quality of improved finger millet genotypes in Ethiopia (2024)
Journal Article
Teklu, D., Gashu, D., Joy, E. J. M., Bailey, E. H., Wilson, L., Amede, T., & Broadley, M. R. (2024). Differences in the nutritional quality of improved finger millet genotypes in Ethiopia. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 460. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-48749-3

Improved crop genotypes are constantly introduced. However, information on their nutritional quality is generally limited. The present study reports the proximate composition and the concentration and relative bioavailability of minerals of improved... Read More about Differences in the nutritional quality of improved finger millet genotypes in Ethiopia.

Soil zinc surveillance frameworks can inform human nutrition studies: opportunities in India (2024)
Journal Article
Khokhar, J. S., Broadley, M. R., & Ander, E. L. (2024). Soil zinc surveillance frameworks can inform human nutrition studies: opportunities in India. Frontiers in Soil Science, 4, Article 1421652. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoil.2024.1421652

Mineral micronutrient deficiencies are widespread in global food systems and can affect plant growth, crop quality, and human and livestock health. The mapping of soils and soil properties linked to micronutrient supply in food systems is now enablin... Read More about Soil zinc surveillance frameworks can inform human nutrition studies: opportunities in India.

An introduction to conducting responsible and reproducible agricultural research (2024)
Journal Article
Sichinga-Ligowe, I., Joy, E. J., Manzeke-Kangara, M. G., Pino, L., Rivero, M. J., Devkota, M., Broadley, M. R., Haefele, S. M., & McGrath, S. P. (2024). An introduction to conducting responsible and reproducible agricultural research. CABI Reviews, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1079/cabireviews.2024.0058

This article aims to provide researchers with introductory guidance to good practices in the design, conduct and reporting of agricultural research. This narrative review considers issues related to research co-design, ethics and integrity, equity, d... Read More about An introduction to conducting responsible and reproducible agricultural research.

Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) (2023)
Book Chapter
Eagleton, G. E., Tanzi, A. S., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Ho, W. K., Kuswanto, K., Stephenson, R. A., & Khan, T. N. (2023). Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.). In Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food (437-486). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-90537-4.00022-3

Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) is a viny, leguminous, vegetable crop of humid regions in Southern Asia and New Guinea. In 1975, a review of 36 underexploited tropical plants by a US National Academy of Sciences select committee hi... Read More about Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.).

Unlocking Comparative Plant Scoring with Siamese Neural Networks and Pairwise Pseudo Labelling (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hartley, Z. K., Lind, R. J., Smith, N., Collison, B., & French, A. P. (2023, October). Unlocking Comparative Plant Scoring with Siamese Neural Networks and Pairwise Pseudo Labelling. Presented at 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW), Paris, France

Phenotypic assessment of plants for herbicide discovery is a complex visual task and involves the comparison of a non-treated plant to those treated with herbicides to assign a phytotoxicity score. It is often subjective and difficult to quantify by... Read More about Unlocking Comparative Plant Scoring with Siamese Neural Networks and Pairwise Pseudo Labelling.

FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains (2023)
Journal Article
Katsi, F., Kent, M. S., Jones, M., Fraser, W. T., Jardine, P. E., Eastwood, W., Mariani, M., Osborne, C., Edwards, S., & Lomax, B. H. (2024). FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 321, Article 105039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.revpalbo.2023.105039

Palynological analysis based on spore and pollen morphology is well established in the field of palaeo-environmental reconstruction but is currently not fully exploited for understanding the history and development of cereal cultivation due to diffic... Read More about FTIR spectra from grass pollen: A quest for species-level resolution of Poaceae and Cerealia-type pollen grains.

Environmental regulation of male fertility is mediated through Arabidopsis bHLH89, 91 and 10 (2023)
Journal Article
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.

Lack of detection of SARS-CoV-2 in British wildlife 2020–21 and first description of a stoat (Mustela erminea) Minacovirus (2023)
Journal Article
Apaa, T., Withers, A. J., Mackenzie, L., Staley, C., Dessi, N., Blanchard, A., Bennett, M., Bremner-Harrison, S., Chadwick, E. A., Hailer, F., Harrison, S. W. R., Lambin, X., Loose, M., Mathews, F., & Tarlinton, R. (2023). Lack of detection of SARS-CoV-2 in British wildlife 2020–21 and first description of a stoat (Mustela erminea) Minacovirus. Journal of General Virology, 104(12), https://doi.org/10.1099/jgv.0.001917

Repeat spillover of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) into new hosts has highlighted the critical role of cross-species transmission of coronaviruses and establishment of new reservoirs of virus in pandemic and epizootic sp... Read More about Lack of detection of SARS-CoV-2 in British wildlife 2020–21 and first description of a stoat (Mustela erminea) Minacovirus.

Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth confers early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet (2023)
Preprint / Working Paper
de la Fuente, C., Grondin, A., Sine, B., Debieu, M., Belin, C., Hajjarpoor, A., Atkinson, J. A., Passot, S., Salson, M., Orjuela, J., Tranchant-Dubreuil, C., Brossier, J.-R., Steffen, M., Morgado, C., Dinh, H. N., Pandey, B. K., Darmau, J., Champion, A., Petitot, A.-. S., Barrachina, C., …Laplaze, L. Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth confers early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet

Seedling root traits impact plant establishment under challenging environments. Pearl millet is one of the most heat and drought tolerant cereal crops that provides a vital food source across the sub-Saharan Sahel region. Pearl millet’s early root sy... Read More about Glutaredoxin regulation of primary root growth confers early drought stress tolerance in pearl millet.

Fluctuations in auxin levels depend upon synchronicity of cell divisions in a one-dimensional model of auxin transport (2023)
Journal Article
Bellows, S., Janes, G., Avitabile, D., King, J. R., Bishopp, A., & Farcot, E. (2023). Fluctuations in auxin levels depend upon synchronicity of cell divisions in a one-dimensional model of auxin transport. PLoS Computational Biology, 19(11), Article e1011646. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011646

Auxin is a well-studied plant hormone, the spatial distribution of which remains incompletely understood. Here, we investigate the effects of cell growth and divisions on the dynamics of auxin patterning, using a combination of mathematical modelling... Read More about Fluctuations in auxin levels depend upon synchronicity of cell divisions in a one-dimensional model of auxin transport.

Associations between endogenous spike cytokinins and grain-number traits in spring wheat genotypes (2023)
Journal Article
Love, B., Molero, G., Rivera-Amado, C., Müller, M., Munné-Bosch, S., Reynolds, M. P., & Foulkes, M. J. (2024). Associations between endogenous spike cytokinins and grain-number traits in spring wheat genotypes. European Journal of Agronomy, 152, Article 127011. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eja.2023.127011

Genetic variation in grain number has been positively associated with levels of cytokinins in inflorescences in cereals, although studies quantifying endogenous levels in the field are currently lacking. The present study, using a spring wheat associ... Read More about Associations between endogenous spike cytokinins and grain-number traits in spring wheat genotypes.

Linking soil adsorption-desorption characteristics with grain zinc concentrations and uptake by teff, wheat and maize in different landscape positions in Ethiopia (2023)
Journal Article
Desta, M. K., Broadley, M. R., McGrath, S. P., Hernandez-Allica, J., Hassall, K. L., Gameda, S., Amede, T., & Haefele, S. M. (2023). Linking soil adsorption-desorption characteristics with grain zinc concentrations and uptake by teff, wheat and maize in different landscape positions in Ethiopia. Frontiers in Agronomy, 5, Article 1285880. https://doi.org/10.3389/fagro.2023.1285880

Aim: Zinc deficiencies are widespread in many soils, limiting crop growth and contributing to Zn deficiencies in human diets. This study aimed at understanding soil factors influencing grain Zn concentrations and uptake of crops grown in different la... Read More about Linking soil adsorption-desorption characteristics with grain zinc concentrations and uptake by teff, wheat and maize in different landscape positions in Ethiopia.

Genetics (2023)
Book Chapter
Beukeboom, L. W., Zwaan, B. J., Mayes, S., & Majerus, T. M. (2023). Genetics. In I. C. Hardy, & E. Wajnberg (Eds.), Jervis's Insects as Natural Enemies: Practical Perspectives (233-294). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23880-2_3

Genetic research on insect natural enemies was, until relatively recently, rare and was essentially limited to parasitoid wasps and some coccinellid beetles.

Uncovering root compaction response mechanisms: new insights and opportunities (2023)
Journal Article
Pandey, B. K., & Bennett, M. J. (2024). Uncovering root compaction response mechanisms: new insights and opportunities. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(2), 578-583. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad389

Compaction disrupts soil structure, reducing root growth, nutrient and water uptake, gas exchange, and microbial growth. Root growth inhibition by soil compaction was originally thought to reflect the impact of mechanical impedance and reduced water... Read More about Uncovering root compaction response mechanisms: new insights and opportunities.