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Detecting non-binomial sex allocation when developmental mortality operates (2016)
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Wilkinson, R. D., Kapranas, A., & Hardy, I. C. (2016). Detecting non-binomial sex allocation when developmental mortality operates. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 408, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.08.008

Optimal sex allocation theory is one of the most intricately developed areas of evolutionary ecology. Under a range of conditions, particularly under population sub-division, selection favours sex being allocated to offspring non-randomly, generating... Read More about Detecting non-binomial sex allocation when developmental mortality operates.

Quiescent center initiation in the Arabidopsis lateral root primordia is dependent on the SCARECROW transcription factor (2016)
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Goh, T., Toyokura, K., Wells, D. M., Swarup, K., Yamamoto, M., Mimura, T., …Guyomarc'h, S. (2016). Quiescent center initiation in the Arabidopsis lateral root primordia is dependent on the SCARECROW transcription factor. Development, 143(18), 3363-3371. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.135319

Lateral root (LR) formation is an important determinant of root system architecture. In Arabidopsis, LRs originate from pericycle cells, which undergo a programme of morphogenesis to generate a new LR meristem. Despite its importance for root meriste... Read More about Quiescent center initiation in the Arabidopsis lateral root primordia is dependent on the SCARECROW transcription factor.

Recent advances in food allergy (2016)
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Alcocer, M. J. C., Ares, S. D. L. C., & López-Calleja, I. (in press). Recent advances in food allergy. Brazilian Journal of Food Technology, 19, Article e2016047. https://doi.org/10.1590/1981-6723.4716

Food allergy is a public health issue that has significantly increased worldwide in the past decade, affecting consumers’ quality of life and making increasing demands on health service resources. Despite recent advances in many areas of diagnosis an... Read More about Recent advances in food allergy.

Approaches to three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoot topology and geometry (2016)
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Gibbs, J., Pound, M. P., French, A. P., Wells, D. M., Murchie, E. H., & Pridmore, T. P. (2016). Approaches to three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoot topology and geometry. Functional Plant Biology, 44(1), 62-75. https://doi.org/10.1071/FP16167

There are currently 805 million people classified as chronically undernourished, and yet the World’s population is still increasing. At the same time, global warming is causing more frequent and severe flooding and drought, thus destroying crops and... Read More about Approaches to three-dimensional reconstruction of plant shoot topology and geometry.

Genetic improvement of tomato by targeted control of fruit softening (2016)
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Uluisik, S., Chapman, N. H., Smith, R., Poole, M., Adams, G., Gillis, R. B., …Seymour, G. B. (2016). Genetic improvement of tomato by targeted control of fruit softening. Nature Biotechnology, 34, 950-952. https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.3602

Controlling the rate of softening to extend shelf life was a key target for researchers engineering genetically modified (GM) tomatoes in the 1990s, but only modest improvements were achieved. Hybrids grown nowadays contain 'non-ripening mutations' t... Read More about Genetic improvement of tomato by targeted control of fruit softening.

Application of novel analytical ultracentrifuge analysis to solutions of fungal mannans (2016)
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Gillis, R. B., Adams, G. G., Besong, D. T., Machová, E., Ebringerová, A., Rowe, A. J., …Patel, T. R. (2017). Application of novel analytical ultracentrifuge analysis to solutions of fungal mannans. European Biophysics Journal, 46(3), 235-245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00249-016-1159-5

Polysaccharides, the most abundant biopolymers, are required for a host of activities in lower organisms, animals, and plants. Their solution characterization is challenging due to their complex shape, heterogeneity, and size. Here, recently develope... Read More about Application of novel analytical ultracentrifuge analysis to solutions of fungal mannans.

From start to finish: amino-terminal protein modifications as degradation signals in plants (2016)
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Gibbs, D. J., Bailey, M., Tedds, H. M., & Holdsworth, M. J. (2016). From start to finish: amino-terminal protein modifications as degradation signals in plants. New Phytologist, 211(4), 1188-1194. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14105

The amino- (N-) terminus (Nt) of a protein can undergo a diverse array of co- and posttranslational modifications. Many of these create degradation signals (N-degrons) that mediate protein destruction via the N-end rule pathway of ubiquitin-mediated... Read More about From start to finish: amino-terminal protein modifications as degradation signals in plants.

Derivation of irrigation requirements for radiological impact assessments (2016)
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Almahayni, T., & Crout, N. M. (2016). Derivation of irrigation requirements for radiological impact assessments. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 164, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvrad.2016.06.022

When assessing the radiological impacts of radioactive waste disposal, irrigation using groundwater contaminated with releases from the disposal system is a principal means of crop and soil contamination. In spite of their importance for radiological... Read More about Derivation of irrigation requirements for radiological impact assessments.

RBOH-mediated ROS production facilitates lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis (2016)
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Orman-Ligeza, B., Parizot, B., de Rycke, R., Fernandez, A., Himschoot, E., Van Breusegem, F., …Draye, X. (2016). RBOH-mediated ROS production facilitates lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis. Development, 143(18), 3328-3339. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.136465

Lateral root (LR) emergence represents a highly coordinated process in which the plant hormone auxin plays a central role. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have been proposed to function as important signals during auxin-regulated LR formation, however... Read More about RBOH-mediated ROS production facilitates lateral root emergence in Arabidopsis.

Valuing increased zinc (Zn) fertiliser-use in Pakistan (2016)
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Joy, E. J., Ahmad, W., Zia, M. H., Kumssa, D. B., Young, S. D., Ander, E. L., …Broadley, M. R. (2017). Valuing increased zinc (Zn) fertiliser-use in Pakistan. Plant and Soil, 411(1-2), 139–150. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-2961-7

Background and Aims: Use of zinc (Zn) fertilisers may be cost-effective in increasing crop yields and in alleviating dietary Zn deficiency. However, Zn fertilisers are underutilised in many countries despite the widespread occurrence of Zn-deficient... Read More about Valuing increased zinc (Zn) fertiliser-use in Pakistan.

A heavy metal P-type ATPase OsHMA4 prevents copper accumulation in rice grain (2016)
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Huang, X., Deng, F., Yamaji, N., Pinson, S. R., Fujii-Kashino, M., Danku, J., …Ma, J. F. (2016). A heavy metal P-type ATPase OsHMA4 prevents copper accumulation in rice grain. Nature Communications, 7(12138), https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12138

Rice is a major source of calories and mineral nutrients for over half the world’s human population. However, little is known in rice about the genetic basis of variation in accumulation of copper (Cu), an essential but potentially toxic nutrient. He... Read More about A heavy metal P-type ATPase OsHMA4 prevents copper accumulation in rice grain.

On the origin of carbon dioxide released from rewetted soils (2016)
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Fraser, F., Corstanje, R., Deeks, L., Harris, J., Pawlett, M., Todman, L., …Ritz, K. (in press). On the origin of carbon dioxide released from rewetted soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 101, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.06.032

When dry soils are rewetted a pulse of CO2 is invariably released, and whilst this phenomenon has been studied for decades, the precise origins of this CO2 remain obscure. We postulate that it could be of chemical (i.e. via abiotic pathways), biochem... Read More about On the origin of carbon dioxide released from rewetted soils.

Mitochondrial phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK-M) and serine biosynthetic pathway genes are co-ordinately increased during anabolic agent-induced skeletal muscle growth (2016)
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Brown, D. M., Williams, H., Ryan, K., Wilson, T., Daniel, Z. C., Mareko, M. H. D., …Parr, T. (2016). Mitochondrial phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK-M) and serine biosynthetic pathway genes are co-ordinately increased during anabolic agent-induced skeletal muscle growth. Scientific Reports, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep28693

We aimed to identify novel molecular mechanisms for muscle growth during administration of anabolic agents. Growing pigs (Duroc/(Landrace/Large-White)) were administered Ractopamine (a beta-adrenergic agonist; BA; 20 ppm in feed) or Reporcin (recombi... Read More about Mitochondrial phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase (PEPCK-M) and serine biosynthetic pathway genes are co-ordinately increased during anabolic agent-induced skeletal muscle growth.

Defining and quantifying the resilience of responses to disturbance: a conceptual and modelling approach from soil science (2016)
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Todman, L., Fraser, F., Corstanje, R., Deeks, L., Harris, J., Pawlett, M., …Whitmore, A. (2016). Defining and quantifying the resilience of responses to disturbance: a conceptual and modelling approach from soil science. Scientific Reports, 6(1), Article 28426. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep28426

There are several conceptual definitions of resilience pertaining to environmental systems and, even if resilience is clearly defined in a particular context, it is challenging to quantify. We identify four characteristics of the response of a system... Read More about Defining and quantifying the resilience of responses to disturbance: a conceptual and modelling approach from soil science.

A novel analytical ultracentrifugation based approach to the low resolution structure of gum arabic (2016)
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Gillis, R. B., Adams, G. G., Alzahrani, Q., Harding, S. E., & Allen Bush, C. (2016). A novel analytical ultracentrifugation based approach to the low resolution structure of gum arabic. Biopolymers, 105(9), 618-625. https://doi.org/10.1002/bip.22823

Under investigation are the structural properties of gum arabic, an industrially important biopolymer for use as a stabilizer or in drug delivery, using Analytical Ultracentrifugation—a well-established, matrix-free probe for macromolecular size and... Read More about A novel analytical ultracentrifugation based approach to the low resolution structure of gum arabic.

Purification of bacterial membrane sensor kinases and biophysical methods for determination of their ligand and inhibitor interactions (2016)
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Hussain, R., Harding, S. E., Hughes, C. S., Ma, P., Patching, S. G., Edara, S., …Phillips-Jones, M. K. (2016). Purification of bacterial membrane sensor kinases and biophysical methods for determination of their ligand and inhibitor interactions. Biochemical Society Transactions, 44(3), 810-823. https://doi.org/10.1042/BST20160023

This article reviews current methods for the reliable heterologous overexpression in Escherichia coli and purification of milligram quantities of bacterial membrane sensor kinase (MSK) proteins belonging to the two-component signal transduction famil... Read More about Purification of bacterial membrane sensor kinases and biophysical methods for determination of their ligand and inhibitor interactions.

The chelation of colonic luminal iron by a unique sodium alginate for the improvement of gastrointestinal health (2016)
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Horniblow, R. D., Latunde-Dada, G. O., Harding, S. E., Schneider, M., Almutairi, F. M., Sahni, M., …Tselepis, C. (2016). The chelation of colonic luminal iron by a unique sodium alginate for the improvement of gastrointestinal health. Molecular Nutrition and Food Research, 60(9), 2098-2108. https://doi.org/10.1002/mnfr.201500882

Scope Iron is an essential nutrient. However, in animal models, excess unabsorbed dietary iron residing within the colonic lumen has been shown to exacerbate inflammatory bowel disease and intestinal cancer. Therefore, the aims of this study were... Read More about The chelation of colonic luminal iron by a unique sodium alginate for the improvement of gastrointestinal health.

A novel Brassica–rhizotron system to unravel the dynamic changes in root system architecture of oilseed rape under phosphorus deficiency (2016)
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Yuan, P., Ding, G., Cai, H., Jin, K., Broadley, M. R., Xu, F., & Shi, L. (in press). A novel Brassica–rhizotron system to unravel the dynamic changes in root system architecture of oilseed rape under phosphorus deficiency. Annals of Botany, 118(2), https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcw083

Background and Aims: An important adaptation of plants to phosphorus (P) deficiency is to alter root system architecture (RSA) to increase P acquisition from the soil, but soil-based observations of RSA are technically challenging, especially in matu... Read More about A novel Brassica–rhizotron system to unravel the dynamic changes in root system architecture of oilseed rape under phosphorus deficiency.

Effects of elevated soil CO2 concentration on growth and competition in a grass-clover mix (2016)
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Smith, K. L., Lake, J. A., Steven, M. D., & Lomax, B. H. (in press). Effects of elevated soil CO2 concentration on growth and competition in a grass-clover mix. International Journal of Greenhouse Gas Control, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijggc.2016.04.032

To investigate potential environmental affects in the context of carbon dioxide (CO2) leakage from Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) schemes. The ASGARD (Artificial Soil Gassing and Response Detection) facility was established, where CO2 can be inject... Read More about Effects of elevated soil CO2 concentration on growth and competition in a grass-clover mix.