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Effects of elevated soil CO2 concentration on growth and competition in a grass-clover mix (2016)
Journal Article
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.

The wheat Phs-A1 pre-harvest sprouting resistance locus delays the rate of seed dormancy loss and maps 0.3 cM distal to the PM19 genes in UK germplasm (2016)
Journal Article
Shorinola, O., Bird, N., Simmonds, J., Berry, S., Henriksson, T., Jack, P., …Uauy, C. (2016). The wheat Phs-A1 pre-harvest sprouting resistance locus delays the rate of seed dormancy loss and maps 0.3 cM distal to the PM19 genes in UK germplasm. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(14), 4169-4178. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erw194

The precocious germination of cereal grains before harvest, also known as pre-harvest sprouting, is an important source of yield and quality loss in cereal production. Pre-harvest sprouting is a complex grain defect and is becoming an increasing chal... Read More about The wheat Phs-A1 pre-harvest sprouting resistance locus delays the rate of seed dormancy loss and maps 0.3 cM distal to the PM19 genes in UK germplasm.

Plant ionomics: from elemental profiling to environmental adaptation (2016)
Journal Article
Huang, X., & Salt, D. E. (in press). Plant ionomics: from elemental profiling to environmental adaptation. Molecular Plant, 9(6), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2016.05.003

Ionomics is a high-throughput elemental profiling approach to study the molecular mechanistic basis underlying mineral nutrient and trace element composition (also known as the ionome) of living organisms. Since the concept of ionomics was first intr... Read More about Plant ionomics: from elemental profiling to environmental adaptation.

Evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex bacteraemia in intradermal skin test positive cattle detected using phage-RPA (2016)
Journal Article
Swift, B., Convery, T., & Rees, C. (2016). Evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex bacteraemia in intradermal skin test positive cattle detected using phage-RPA. Virulence, 7(7), 779-788. https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2016.1191729

Bovine tuberculosis is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis 19 that affects cattle and can cause tuberculosis in a range of wildlife animals. A 20 bacteriophage-based method combined with PCR (phage-PCR) has been recently used... Read More about Evidence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex bacteraemia in intradermal skin test positive cattle detected using phage-RPA.

Anti-Food allergic activity of sulfated polysaccharide from Gracilaria lemaneiformisis dependent in immunosuppression and inhibition of p38 MAPK (2016)
Journal Article
Liu, Q., Yang, Y., Maleki, S. J., Alcocer, M., Xu, S., Shi, C., …Liu, G. (in press). Anti-Food allergic activity of sulfated polysaccharide from Gracilaria lemaneiformisis dependent in immunosuppression and inhibition of p38 MAPK. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 64(22), https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jafc.6b01086

Polysaccharides from Gracilaria lemaneiformis in particular possess various bioactive functions, but their antiallergic activity remains incompletely defined. Sulfated polysaccharide from Gracilaria lemaneiformis (GLSP) was obtained by water extracti... Read More about Anti-Food allergic activity of sulfated polysaccharide from Gracilaria lemaneiformisis dependent in immunosuppression and inhibition of p38 MAPK.

Deep Machine Learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping (2016)
Working Paper
Pound, M. P., Burgess, A. J., Wilson, M. H., Atkinson, J. A., Griffiths, M., Jackson, A. S., …French, A. P. Deep Machine Learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping

Deep learning is an emerging field that promises unparalleled results on many data analysis problems. We show the success offered by such techniques when applied to the challenging problem of image-based plant phenotyping, and demonstrate state-of-th... Read More about Deep Machine Learning provides state-of-the-art performance in image-based plant phenotyping.

Direct and host-mediated interactions between Fusarium pathogens and herbivorous arthropods in cereals (2016)
Journal Article
Drakulic, J., Bruce, T., & Ray, R. V. (2017). Direct and host-mediated interactions between Fusarium pathogens and herbivorous arthropods in cereals. Plant Pathology, 66(1), 3-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.12546

Fusarium head blight and fusarium ear rot diseases of cereal crops are significant global problems, causing yield and grain quality losses and accumulation of harmful mycotoxins. Safety limits have been set by the European Commission for several Fusa... Read More about Direct and host-mediated interactions between Fusarium pathogens and herbivorous arthropods in cereals.

SilE is an intrinsically disordered periplasmic ‘molecular sponge' involved in bacterial silver resistance (2016)
Journal Article
Asiani, K. R., Williams, H. E. L., Bird, L., Jenner, M., Searle, M. S., Hobman, J. L., …Soultanas, P. (2016). SilE is an intrinsically disordered periplasmic ‘molecular sponge' involved in bacterial silver resistance. Molecular Microbiology, 101(5), 731-742. https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.13399

Ag+ resistance was initially found on the Salmonella enetrica serovar Typhimurium multi-resistance plasmid pMG101 from burns patients in 1975. The putative model of Ag+ resistance, encoded by the sil operon from pMG101, involves export of Ag+ via an... Read More about SilE is an intrinsically disordered periplasmic ‘molecular sponge' involved in bacterial silver resistance.

A multi-scale model of the interplay between cell signalling and hormone transport in specifying the root meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana (2016)
Journal Article
Muraro, D., Larrieu, A., Lucas, M., Chopard, J., Byrne, H. M., Godin, C., & King, J. R. (in press). A multi-scale model of the interplay between cell signalling and hormone transport in specifying the root meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 404, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.04.036

The growth of the root of Arabidopsis thaliana is sustained by the meristem, a region of cell proliferation and differentiation which is located in the root apex and generates cells which move shootwards, expanding rapidly to cause root growth. The b... Read More about A multi-scale model of the interplay between cell signalling and hormone transport in specifying the root meristem of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Molecular weight analysis of starches: which technique? (2016)
Journal Article
Harding, S. E., Adams, G. G., & Gillis, R. B. (2016). Molecular weight analysis of starches: which technique?. Starch/Stärke, 68(9-10), https://doi.org/10.1002/star.201600042

A number of methods are available to researchers for estimating molecular weights (molar masses) and molecular weight distributions of starches ? or those in solution, using an appropriate solvent/solubilisation protocol. We outline the methods avail... Read More about Molecular weight analysis of starches: which technique?.

Aspects of the analytical ultracentrifuge determination of the molar mass distribution of polysaccharides (2016)
Book Chapter
Harding, S. E., Adams, G. G., Gillis, R. B., Almutairi, F. M., & Morris, G. A. (2016). Aspects of the analytical ultracentrifuge determination of the molar mass distribution of polysaccharides. In S. Uchiyama, F. Arisaka, W. F. Stafford, & T. M. Laue (Eds.), Analytical ultracentrifugation: instrumentation, software and applications (375-386). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-55985-6_18

Molar mass or ‘molecular weight’ is one of the most fundamental parameters describing a macromolecule. Because of their polydisperse nature, polysaccharides are usually described by distributions of molar mass. SEC-MALS (size exclusion chromatography... Read More about Aspects of the analytical ultracentrifuge determination of the molar mass distribution of polysaccharides.

Sex ratios, virginity, and local resource enhancement in a quasisocial parasitoid (2016)
Journal Article
Kapranas, A., Hardy, I. C., Tang, X., Gardner, A., & Li, B. (2016). Sex ratios, virginity, and local resource enhancement in a quasisocial parasitoid. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 159(2), 243-251. https://doi.org/10.1111/eea.12418

Sclerodermus harmandi (Buysson) (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae) is an economically beneficial 2 species of parasitoid wasp that has an unusual level of sociality: groups of female foundresses 3 reproduce on a single host and exhibit cooperative post-ovipos... Read More about Sex ratios, virginity, and local resource enhancement in a quasisocial parasitoid.

Partially-constrained sex allocation and the indirect effects of assisted reproductive technologies on the human sex ratio (2016)
Journal Article
Hardy, I. C., & Maalouf, W. E. (in press). Partially-constrained sex allocation and the indirect effects of assisted reproductive technologies on the human sex ratio. Journal of Biosocial Science, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021932016000146

Infertility affects around 15% of human couples and in many countries approximately 1–4% of babies are born following Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). Several ART techniques are used and these differentially affect the sex ratio of offspring... Read More about Partially-constrained sex allocation and the indirect effects of assisted reproductive technologies on the human sex ratio.

Crosstalk between gibberellin signaling and iron uptake in plants: an Achilles’ heel for modern cereal varieties? (2016)
Journal Article
Von Wirén, N., & Bennett, M. J. (2016). Crosstalk between gibberellin signaling and iron uptake in plants: an Achilles’ heel for modern cereal varieties?. Developmental Cell, 37(2), 110-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.devcel.2016.04.003

© 2016 Elsevier Inc. Plants utilize sophisticated morphological and physiological mechanisms to acquire iron from soil. In this issue of Developmental Cell, Wild et al. (2016) find that the hormone signal gibberellic acid is key in integrating these... Read More about Crosstalk between gibberellin signaling and iron uptake in plants: an Achilles’ heel for modern cereal varieties?.

Production of in vivo biotinylated scFv specific to almond (Prunus dulcis) proteins by recombinant Pichia pastoris (2016)
Journal Article
de la Cruz, S., Alcocer, M., Madrid, R., García, A., Martín, R., González, I., & García, T. (2016). Production of in vivo biotinylated scFv specific to almond (Prunus dulcis) proteins by recombinant Pichia pastoris. Journal of Biotechnology, 227, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbiotec.2016.04.024

The methylotropic yeast Pichia pastoris has demonstrated its suitability for large-scale production of recombinant proteins. As an eukaryotic organism P. pastoris presents a series of advantages at expression and processing of heterologous proteins w... Read More about Production of in vivo biotinylated scFv specific to almond (Prunus dulcis) proteins by recombinant Pichia pastoris.

Organic matter chemistry controls greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost peatlands (2016)
Journal Article
Sjögersten, S., Caul, S., Daniell, T., Jurd, A., O'Sullivan, O., Stapleton, C., & Titman, J. J. (2016). Organic matter chemistry controls greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost peatlands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 98, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.03.016

Large tracts of arctic and subarctic peatlands are underlain by permafrost. These peatlands store large quantities of carbon (C), and are currently under severe threat from climate change. The aim of this study was to determine the size and organic c... Read More about Organic matter chemistry controls greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost peatlands.

South Africa, Urban (2016)
Book Chapter
Earl, L. (2016). South Africa, Urban. In K. Albala (Ed.), At the Table: Food and Family around the World, 275-282. Greenwood, an Imprint of ABC-CLIO

Development of an in planta infection system for the early detection of Ganoderma spp. in oil palm (2016)
Journal Article
Goh, K. M., Dickinson, M., Alderson, P., Yap, L., & Supramaniam, C. V. (2016). Development of an in planta infection system for the early detection of Ganoderma spp. in oil palm. Journal of plant pathology : an international journal of the Italian Phytopathological Society, 98(2), https://doi.org/10.4454/JPP.V98I2.019

Basal stem rot (BSR) disease caused by the white rot fungus, Ganoderma spp. is a serious threat to the growth and production of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.). Traditional in planta infection technique using inoculated rubber wood block can be in... Read More about Development of an in planta infection system for the early detection of Ganoderma spp. in oil palm.

A patch-based approach to 3D plant shoot phenotyping (2016)
Journal Article
Pound, M. P., French, A. P., Fozard, J. A., Murchie, E. H., & Pridmore, T. P. (2016). A patch-based approach to 3D plant shoot phenotyping. Machine Vision and Applications, 27(5), 767-779. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-016-0756-8

The emerging discipline of plant phenomics aims to measure key plant characteristics, or traits, though as yet the set of plant traits that should be measured by automated systems is not well defined. Methods capable of recovering generic representat... Read More about A patch-based approach to 3D plant shoot phenotyping.

Flexibility of KorA, a plasmid-encoded, global transcription regulator, in the presence and the absence of its operator (2016)
Journal Article
Bingle, L. E., Rajasekar, K. V., Lovering, A. L., Dancea, F., Scott, D. J., Harris, S. A., …White, S. A. (2016). Flexibility of KorA, a plasmid-encoded, global transcription regulator, in the presence and the absence of its operator. Nucleic Acids Research, 44(10), 4947-4956. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkw191

The IncP (Incompatibility group P) plasmids are important carriers in the spread of antibiotic resistance across Gram-negative bacteria. Gene expression in the IncP-1 plasmids is stringently controlled by a network of four global repressors, KorA, Ko... Read More about Flexibility of KorA, a plasmid-encoded, global transcription regulator, in the presence and the absence of its operator.