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Longitudinal analysis of a long-Term conservation agriculture experiment in Malawi and lessons for future experimental design (2020)
Journal Article
Lark, R. M., Ligowe, I. S., Thierfelder, C., Magwero, N., Namaona, W., Njira, K., …Nalivata, P. C. (2020). Longitudinal analysis of a long-Term conservation agriculture experiment in Malawi and lessons for future experimental design. Experimental Agriculture, 56(4), 506-527. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479720000125

Resilient cropping systems are required to achieve food security in the presence of climate change, and so several long-Term conservation agriculture (CA) trials have been established in southern Africa-one of them at the Chitedze Agriculture Researc... Read More about Longitudinal analysis of a long-Term conservation agriculture experiment in Malawi and lessons for future experimental design.

Eliciting experts’ tacit models for the interpretation of soil information, an example from the evaluation of potential benefits from conservation agriculture (2020)
Journal Article
Chabala, L. M., Chimungu, J. G., Lark, R. M., Mtambanengwe, F., Nalivata, P. C., Phiri, E., & Sakala, G. M. (2020). Eliciting experts’ tacit models for the interpretation of soil information, an example from the evaluation of potential benefits from conservation agriculture. Geoderma, 376, Article 114545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114545

© 2020 The Authors We examined a procedure to elicit the tacit models underlying expert opinions on environmental factors that affect the absolute yield benefits expected from the adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) practices in southern Africa... Read More about Eliciting experts’ tacit models for the interpretation of soil information, an example from the evaluation of potential benefits from conservation agriculture.

Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding (2020)
Journal Article
Teh, C. K., Ong, A. L., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., & Appleton, D. R. (2020). Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding. Genes, 11(7), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.3390/genes11070826

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Superior oil yield is always the top priority of the oil palm industry. Short trunk height (THT) and compactness traits have become increasingly important to improve harvesting efficiency sinc... Read More about Major qtls for trunk height and correlated agronomic traits provide insights into multiple trait integration in oil palm breeding.

Current status of the multinational Arabidopsis community (2020)
Journal Article
Parry, G., Provart, N. J., Brady, S. M., Uzilday, B., Adams, K., Araújo, W., …The Multinational Arabidopsis Steering Committee. (2020). Current status of the multinational Arabidopsis community. Plant Direct, 4(7), https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.248

© 2020 The Authors. Plant Direct published by American Society of Plant Biologists and the Society for Experimental Biology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd The multinational Arabidopsis research community is highly collaborative and over the past thirty... Read More about Current status of the multinational Arabidopsis community.

Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot (2020)
Journal Article
Baskin, T. I., Preston, S., Zelinsky, E., Yang, X., Elmali, M., Bellos, D., …Bennett, M. J. (2020). Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot. iScience, 23(7), Article 101309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2020.101309

In the root, meristem and elongation zone lengths remain stable, despite growth and division of cells. To gain insight into zone stability, we imaged individual Arabidopsis thaliana roots through a horizontal microscope, and used image analysis to ob... Read More about Positioning the Root Elongation Zone Is Saltatory and Receives Input from the Shoot.

Suberin plasticity to developmental and exogenous cues is regulated by a set of MYB transcription factors (2020)
Working Paper
Shukla, V., Han, J., Cléard, F., Legendre-Lefebvre, L., Gully, K., Flis, P., …Barberon, M. Suberin plasticity to developmental and exogenous cues is regulated by a set of MYB transcription factors

Suberin is a hydrophobic biopolymer that can be deposited at the periphery of cells, forming protective barriers against biotic and abiotic stress. In roots, suberin forms lamellae at the periphery of endodermal cells where it plays crucial roles in... Read More about Suberin plasticity to developmental and exogenous cues is regulated by a set of MYB transcription factors.

Minerals and potentially toxic elements in corn silage from tropical and subtropical Brazil (2020)
Journal Article
Motta, A. C. V., Araujo, E. M., Broadley, M. R., Young, S. D., Barbosa, J. Z., Prior, S. A., & Schmidt, P. (2020). Minerals and potentially toxic elements in corn silage from tropical and subtropical Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 49, https://doi.org/10.37496/rbz4920190214

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided th... Read More about Minerals and potentially toxic elements in corn silage from tropical and subtropical Brazil.

Inflammation Adjustment by Two Methods Decreases the Estimated Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency in Malawi (2020)
Journal Article
Likoswe, B. H., Phiri, F. P., Broadley, M. R., Joy, E. J. M., Patson, N., Maleta, K. M., & Phuka, J. C. (2020). Inflammation Adjustment by Two Methods Decreases the Estimated Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency in Malawi. Nutrients, 12(6), -. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12061563

Serum zinc concentration (SZC) is used widely to assess population-level zinc status. Its concentration decreases during inflammatory responses, which can affect the interpretation of the results. This study aimed to re-estimate the prevalence of zin... Read More about Inflammation Adjustment by Two Methods Decreases the Estimated Prevalence of Zinc Deficiency in Malawi.

Auxin export from proximal fruits drives arrest in temporally competent inflorescences (2020)
Journal Article
Walker, C. H., Ware, A., Walker, C. H., Šimura, J., González-Suárez, P., Ljung, K., …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.

Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango (2020)
Journal Article
Lawson, T., Lycett, G. W., Mayes, S., Ho, W. K., & Chin, C. F. (2020). Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango. Molecular Biology Reports, 47, 4183–4197. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11033-020-05519-y

© 2020, Springer Nature B.V. The Rab GTPase family plays a vital role in several plant physiological processes including fruit ripening. Fruit softening during ripening involves trafficking of cell wall polymers and enzymes between cellular compartme... Read More about Transcriptome-wide identification and characterization of the Rab GTPase family in mango.

Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage (2020)
Journal Article
Mateva, K. I., Mateva, K., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., & Chai, H. H. (2020). Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage. Plants, 9(5), https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9050645

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Characterizing the morphological variability in root system architecture (RSA) during the sensitive pre-flowering growth stage is important for crop performance. To assess this variation, eigh... Read More about Root foraging capacity in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) core parental lines depends on the root system architecture during the pre-flowering stage.

The CEP5 peptide promotes abiotic stress tolerance, as revealed by quantitative proteomics, and attenuates the AUX/IAA equilibrium in Arabidopsis (2020)
Journal Article
Smith, S., Zhu, S., Joos, L., Roberts, I., Nikonorova, N., Vu, L. D., …De Smet, I. (2020). The CEP5 peptide promotes abiotic stress tolerance, as revealed by quantitative proteomics, and attenuates the AUX/IAA equilibrium in Arabidopsis. Molecular and Cellular Proteomics, 19(8), 1248-1262. https://doi.org/10.1074/mcp.ra119.001826

Peptides derived from non-functional precursors play important roles in various developmental processes, but also in (a)biotic stress signaling. Our (phospho)proteome-wide analyses of C-terminally encoded peptide 5 (CEP5)-mediated changes revealed an... Read More about The CEP5 peptide promotes abiotic stress tolerance, as revealed by quantitative proteomics, and attenuates the AUX/IAA equilibrium in Arabidopsis.

An extended root phenotype: the rhizosphere, its formation and impacts on plant fitness (2020)
Journal Article
Cantó, C. D. L. F., Simonin, M., King, E., Moulin, L., Bennett, M. J., Castrillo, G., & Laplaze, L. (2020). An extended root phenotype: the rhizosphere, its formation and impacts on plant fitness. Plant Journal, 103(3), 951-964. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14781

© 2020 Society for Experimental Biology and John Wiley & Sons Ltd Plants forage soil for water and nutrients, whose distribution is patchy and often dynamic. To improve their foraging activities, plants have evolved mechanisms to modify the physico... Read More about An extended root phenotype: the rhizosphere, its formation and impacts on plant fitness.

Comparative Biology of Oxygen Sensing in Plants and Animals (2020)
Journal Article
Gibbs, D. J., & Holdsworth, M. J. (2020). Comparative Biology of Oxygen Sensing in Plants and Animals. Current Biology, 30(8), R362-R369. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.03.021

© 2020 Elsevier Inc. Aerobic respiration is essential to almost all eukaryotes and sensing oxygen is a key determinant of survival. Analogous but mechanistically different oxygen-sensing pathways were adopted in plants and metazoan animals, and inclu... Read More about Comparative Biology of Oxygen Sensing in Plants and Animals.

Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess (2020)
Book Chapter
Ajmera, I., Stekel, D., Band, L., & Hodgman, C. (2020). Roots or Flowers? Take a Guess. In F. Matthäus, S. Matthäus, S. Harris, & T. Hillen (Eds.), The Art of Theoretical Biology (66-67). Springer

Phosphorus is a growth-limiting nutrient for plants. The use of phosphate (Pi) fertiliser is unsustainable because its stocks are non-renew-able and the run-off of surplus fertiliser damages the environment.

Nitrogen effect on zinc biofortification of maize and cowpea in Zimbabwean smallholder farms (2020)
Journal Article
Watts, M. J., Manzeke, M. G., Mtambanengwe, F., Broadley, M. R., Lark, M., & Mapfumo, P. (2020). Nitrogen effect on zinc biofortification of maize and cowpea in Zimbabwean smallholder farms. Agronomy Journal, 112(3), 2256-2274. https://doi.org/10.1002/agj2.20175

© 2020 The Authors. Agronomy Journal published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of American Society of Agronomy Agronomic biofortification of crops with zinc (Zn) can be enhanced under increased nitrogen (N) supply. Here, the effects of N fertili... Read More about Nitrogen effect on zinc biofortification of maize and cowpea in Zimbabwean smallholder farms.

Selenium deficiency risks in sub-Saharan African food systems and their geospatial linkages (2020)
Journal Article
Ligowe, I. S., Phiri, F. P., Ander, E. L., Bailey, E. H., Chilimba, A. D. C., Gashu, D., …Broadley, M. R. (2020). Selenium deficiency risks in sub-Saharan African food systems and their geospatial linkages. Proceedings of the Nutrition Society, 79(4), 457-467. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0029665120006904

Selenium (Se) is an essential element for human health. However, our knowledge of the prevalence of Se deficiency is less than for other micronutrients of public health concern such as iodine, iron and zinc, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). St... Read More about Selenium deficiency risks in sub-Saharan African food systems and their geospatial linkages.

Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars (2020)
Journal Article
Nehe, A. S., Misra, S., Murchie, E. H., Chinnathambi, K., Singh Tyagi, B., & Foulkes, M. J. (2020). Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars. Field Crops Research, 251, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107778

© 2020 The Authors Nitrogen (N) fertilizer represents a significant cost for the grower and may also have environmental impacts through nitrate leaching and N2O (a greenhouse gas) emissions associated with denitrification. The objectives of this stud... Read More about Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and protein concentration in Indian wheat cultivars.

Identification of wheat cultivars for low nitrogen tolerance using multivariable screening approaches (2020)
Journal Article
Tyagi, B. S., Foulkes, J., Singh, G., Sareen, S., Kumar, P., Broadley, M. R., …Singh, G. P. (2020). Identification of wheat cultivars for low nitrogen tolerance using multivariable screening approaches. Agronomy, 10(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10030417

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). A set of th... Read More about Identification of wheat cultivars for low nitrogen tolerance using multivariable screening approaches.

Auxin fluxes through plasmodesmata modify root-tip auxin distribution (2020)
Journal Article
Mellor, N. L., Voß, U., Janes, G., Bennett, M. J., Wells, D. M., & Band, L. R. (2020). Auxin fluxes through plasmodesmata modify root-tip auxin distribution. Development, 147(6), Article dev181669. https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.181669

© 2020. Published by The Company of Biologists Ltd. Auxin is a key signal regulating plant growth and development. It is well established that auxin dynamics depend on the spatial distribution of efflux and influx carriers on the cell membranes. In t... Read More about Auxin fluxes through plasmodesmata modify root-tip auxin distribution.