All Outputs (569)

Chromosome-specific KASP markers for detecting Amblyopyrum muticum segments in wheat introgression lines (2022)
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Grewal, S., Coombes, B., Joynson, R., Hall, A., Fellers, J., Yang, C. Y., …King, J. (2022). Chromosome-specific KASP markers for detecting Amblyopyrum muticum segments in wheat introgression lines. Plant Genome, The, 15(1), Article e20193. https://doi.org/10.1002/tpg2.20193

Many wild-relative species are being used in prebreeding programs to increase the genetic diversity of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Genotyping tools such as single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based arrays and molecular markers have been widely use... Read More about Chromosome-specific KASP markers for detecting Amblyopyrum muticum segments in wheat introgression lines.

Biofortified Wheat Increases Dietary Zinc Intake: A Randomised Controlled Efficacy Study of Zincol-2016 in Rural Pakistan (2022)
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Lowe, N. M., Zaman, M., Khan, M. J., Brazier, A. K., Shahzad, B., Ullah, U., …Tishkovskaya, S. (2022). Biofortified Wheat Increases Dietary Zinc Intake: A Randomised Controlled Efficacy Study of Zincol-2016 in Rural Pakistan. Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, Article 809783. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.809783

A new variety of zinc biofortified wheat (Zincol-2016) was released in Pakistan in 2016. The primary aim of this study was to examine the effects of consuming Zincol-2016 wheat flour on biochemical and functional markers of zinc status in a populatio... Read More about Biofortified Wheat Increases Dietary Zinc Intake: A Randomised Controlled Efficacy Study of Zincol-2016 in Rural Pakistan.

Orchestration of ethylene and gibberellin signals determines primary root elongation in rice (2022)
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Qin, H., Pandey, B. K., Li, Y., Huang, G., Wang, J., Quan, R., …Huang, R. (2022). Orchestration of ethylene and gibberellin signals determines primary root elongation in rice. Plant Cell, 34(4), 1273-1288. https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koac008

Primary root growth in cereal crops is fundamental for early establishment of the seedling and grain yield. In young rice (Oryza sativa) seedlings, the primary root grows rapidly for 7-10 days after germination and then stops; however, the underlying... Read More about Orchestration of ethylene and gibberellin signals determines primary root elongation in rice.

The potential of Bambara groundnut: An analysis for the People’s Republic of China (2022)
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Jahanshiri, E., Goh, E. V., Wimalasiri, E. M., Azam-Ali, S., Mayes, S., Tengku Mohd Suhairi, T. A. S., …Mohd Sinin, S. S. (2022). The potential of Bambara groundnut: An analysis for the People’s Republic of China. Food and Energy Security, 11(2), Article e358. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.358

While China has transformed its economy over recent decades, challenges such as climate change and land degradation have continued to impact its agriculture. These effects along with changes in diets and growing food imports will force China to look... Read More about The potential of Bambara groundnut: An analysis for the People’s Republic of China.

A Yeast-Based Functional Assay to Study Plant N-Degron – N-Recognin Interactions (2022)
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Kozlic, A., Winter, N., Telser, T., Reimann, J., Rose, K., Nehlin, L., …Bachmair, A. (2022). A Yeast-Based Functional Assay to Study Plant N-Degron – N-Recognin Interactions. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, Article 806129. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.806129

The N-degron pathway is a branch of the ubiquitin-proteasome system where amino-terminal residues serve as degradation signals. In a synthetic biology approach, we expressed ubiquitin ligase PRT6 and ubiquitin conjugating enzyme 2 (AtUBC2) from Arabi... Read More about A Yeast-Based Functional Assay to Study Plant N-Degron – N-Recognin Interactions.

Variation of Macro-and Microelements, and Trace Metals in Spring Wheat Genetic Resources in Siberia (2022)
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Shepelev, S., Morgounov, A., Flis, P., Koksel, H., Li, H., Savin, T., …Shamanin, V. (2022). Variation of Macro-and Microelements, and Trace Metals in Spring Wheat Genetic Resources in Siberia. Plants, 11(2), Article 149. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11020149

Western Siberia is one of the major spring wheat regions of Russia, cultivating over 7 Mha. The objective of the study was to evaluate the variation of macro-and microelements, and of trace metals in four distinct groups of genetic resources: primary... Read More about Variation of Macro-and Microelements, and Trace Metals in Spring Wheat Genetic Resources in Siberia.

Biofortified Maize Improves Selenium Status of Women and Children in a Rural Community in Malawi: Results of the Addressing Hidden Hunger With Agronomy Randomized Controlled Trial (2022)
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Joy, E. J., Kalimbira, A. A., Sturgess, J., Banda, L., Chiutsi-Phiri, G., Manase, H., …Allen, E. (2022). Biofortified Maize Improves Selenium Status of Women and Children in a Rural Community in Malawi: Results of the Addressing Hidden Hunger With Agronomy Randomized Controlled Trial. Frontiers in Nutrition, 8, Article 788096. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2021.788096

Background: Selenium deficiency is widespread in the Malawi population. The selenium concentration in maize, the staple food crop of Malawi, can be increased by applying selenium-enriched fertilizers. It is unknown whether this strategy, called agron... Read More about Biofortified Maize Improves Selenium Status of Women and Children in a Rural Community in Malawi: Results of the Addressing Hidden Hunger With Agronomy Randomized Controlled Trial.

Development of selection indices for improvement of seed yield and lipid composition in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (l.) verdc.) (2021)
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Halimi, R. A., Raymond, C. A., Barkla, B. J., Mayes, S., & King, G. J. (2022). Development of selection indices for improvement of seed yield and lipid composition in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (l.) verdc.). Foods, 11(1), Article 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11010086

The underutilised grain legume bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea) has the potential to contribute significantly to nutritional security. However, the lack of commercial cultivars has hindered its wider adoption and utilisation as a food source. Th... Read More about Development of selection indices for improvement of seed yield and lipid composition in bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (l.) verdc.).

Domain Adaptation of Synthetic Images for Wheat Head Detection (2021)
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Hartley, Z. K., & French, A. P. (2021). Domain Adaptation of Synthetic Images for Wheat Head Detection. Plants, 10(12), Article 2633. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants10122633

Wheat head detection is a core computer vision problem related to plant phenotyping that in recent years has seen increased interest as large-scale datasets have been made available for use in research. In deep learning problems with limited training... Read More about Domain Adaptation of Synthetic Images for Wheat Head Detection.

A European perspective on opportunities and demands for field-based crop phenotyping (2021)
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Morisse, M., Wells, D. M., Millet, E. J., Lillemo, M., Fahrner, S., Cellini, F., …Janni, M. (2022). A European perspective on opportunities and demands for field-based crop phenotyping. Field Crops Research, 276, Article 108371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2021.108371

The challenges of securing future food security will require deployment of innovative technologies to accelerate crop production. Plant phenotyping methods have advanced significantly, spanning low-cost hand-held devices to large-scale satellite imag... Read More about A European perspective on opportunities and demands for field-based crop phenotyping.

Considering the ethical implications of digital collaboration in the Food Sector (2021)
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Jacobs, N., Brewer, S., Craigon, P. J., Frey, J., Gutierrez, A., Kanza, S., …Sacks, J. (2021). Considering the ethical implications of digital collaboration in the Food Sector. Patterns, 2(11), Article 100335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patter.2021.100335

The Internet of Food Things Network+ (IoFT) and the Artificial Intelligence and Augmented Intelligence for Automated Investigation for Scientific Discovery Network+ (AI3SD) brought together an interdisciplinary multi-institution working group to crea... Read More about Considering the ethical implications of digital collaboration in the Food Sector.

Sculpting the soil microbiota (2021)
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Custódio, V., Gonin, M., Stabl, G., Bakhoum, N., Oliveira, M. M., Gutjahr, C., & Castrillo, G. (2022). Sculpting the soil microbiota. Plant Journal, 109(3), 508-522. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.15568

Soil is a living ecosystem, the health of which depends on fine interactions among its abiotic and biotic components. These form a delicate equilibrium maintained through a multilayer network that absorbs certain perturbations and guarantees soil fun... Read More about Sculpting the soil microbiota.

Phosphorylated B6 vitamer deficiency in SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE 4 mutants compromises shoot and root development (2021)
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Gorelova, V., Colinas, M., Dell’Aglio, E., Flis, P., Salt, D. E., & Fitzpatrick, T. B. (2022). Phosphorylated B6 vitamer deficiency in SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE 4 mutants compromises shoot and root development. Plant Physiology, 188(1), 220-240. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab475

Stunted growth in saline conditions is a signature phenotype of the Arabidopsis SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE mutants (sos1-5) affected in pathways regulating the salt stress response. One of the mutants isolated, sos4, encodes a kinase that phosphorylates p... Read More about Phosphorylated B6 vitamer deficiency in SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE 4 mutants compromises shoot and root development.

Non-cell autonomous and spatiotemporal signalling from a tissue organizer orchestrates root vascular development (2021)
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Yang, B. J., Minne, M., Brunoni, F., Plačková, L., Petřík, I., Sun, Y., …De Rybel, B. (2021). Non-cell autonomous and spatiotemporal signalling from a tissue organizer orchestrates root vascular development. Nature Plants, 7(11), 1485-1494. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-021-01017-6

During plant development, a precise balance of cytokinin is crucial for correct growth and patterning, but it remains unclear how this is achieved across different cell types and in the context of a growing organ. Here we show that in the root apical... Read More about Non-cell autonomous and spatiotemporal signalling from a tissue organizer orchestrates root vascular development.

Dual expression and anatomy lines allow simultaneous visualization of gene expression and anatomy (2021)
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Kümpers, B. M. C., Han, J., Vaughan-Hirsch, J., Redman, N., Ware, A., Atkinson, J. A., …Bishopp, A. (2022). Dual expression and anatomy lines allow simultaneous visualization of gene expression and anatomy. Plant Physiology, 188(1), 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiab503

Studying the developmental genetics of plant organs, requires following gene expression in specific tissues. To facilitate this, we have developed the Dual Expression Anatomy Lines (DEAL), which incorporate a red plasma membrane marker alongside a fl... Read More about Dual expression and anatomy lines allow simultaneous visualization of gene expression and anatomy.

Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops (2021)
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Scharff, L. B., Saltenis, V. L., Jensen, P. E., Baekelandt, A., Burgess, A. J., Burow, M., …Pribil, M. (2022). Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops. Food and Energy Security, 11(1), Article e327. https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.327

A growing world population as well as the need to enhance sustainability and health create challenges for crop breeding. To address these challenges, not only quantitative but also qualitative improvements are needed, especially regarding the macro-... Read More about Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops.

Modifying the m6A brain methylome by ALKBH5-mediated demethylation: a new contender for synaptic tagging (2021)
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Martinez De La Cruz, B., Markus, R., Malla, S., Haig, M. I., Gell, C., Sang, F., …Knight, H. M. (2021). Modifying the m6A brain methylome by ALKBH5-mediated demethylation: a new contender for synaptic tagging. Molecular Psychiatry, 26(12), 7141-7153. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01282-z

Synaptic plasticity processes, which underlie learning and memory formation, require RNA to be translated local to synapses. The synaptic tagging hypothesis has previously been proposed to explain how mRNAs are available at specific activated synapse... Read More about Modifying the m6A brain methylome by ALKBH5-mediated demethylation: a new contender for synaptic tagging.

Out of Africa: characterising the natural variation in dynamic photosynthetic traits in a diverse population of African rice (Oryza glaberrima) (2021)
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Cowling, S. B., Treeintong, P., Ferguson, J., Soltani, H., Swarup, R., Mayes, S., & Murchie, E. H. (2022). Out of Africa: characterising the natural variation in dynamic photosynthetic traits in a diverse population of African rice (Oryza glaberrima). Journal of Experimental Botany, 73(10), 3283–3298. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erab459

African rice (Oryza glaberrima) has adapted to challenging environments and is a promising source of genetic variation. We analysed dynamics of photosynthesis and morphology in a reference set of 155 O. glaberrima accessions. Plants were grown in an... Read More about Out of Africa: characterising the natural variation in dynamic photosynthetic traits in a diverse population of African rice (Oryza glaberrima).

Sodium hyperaccumulators in the Caryophyllales are characterized by both abnormally large shoot sodium concentrations and [Na]shoot/[Na]root quotients greater than unity (2021)
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Neugebauer, K., Broadley, M. R., El-Serehy, H. A., George, T. S., Graham, N. S., Thompson, J. A., …White, P. J. (2022). Sodium hyperaccumulators in the Caryophyllales are characterized by both abnormally large shoot sodium concentrations and [Na]shoot/[Na]root quotients greater than unity. Annals of Botany, 129(1), 65-78. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab126

BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Some Caryophyllales species accumulate abnormally large shoot sodium (Na) concentrations in non-saline environments. It is not known whether this is a consequence of altered Na partitioning between roots and shoots. This paper te... Read More about Sodium hyperaccumulators in the Caryophyllales are characterized by both abnormally large shoot sodium concentrations and [Na]shoot/[Na]root quotients greater than unity.

Physiological screening for drought tolerance traits in vegetable amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor) germplasm (2021)
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Jamalluddin, N., Massawe, F. J., Mayes, S., Ho, W. K., Singh, A., & Symonds, R. C. (2021). Physiological screening for drought tolerance traits in vegetable amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor) germplasm. Agriculture, 11(10), Article 994. https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11100994

Amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor), an underutilized climate smart crop, is highly nutritious and possesses diverse drought tolerance traits, making it an ideal crop to thrive in a rapidly changing climate. Despite considerable studies on the growth and... Read More about Physiological screening for drought tolerance traits in vegetable amaranth (Amaranthus tricolor) germplasm.