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Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation (2017)
Journal Article
Munoz-Concha, D., Davey, M. R., Ribas, G., & Mayes, S. (in press). Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation. New Zealand Journal of Botany, 55(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/0028825X.2017.1343737

Temperate forests have been affected extensively by human activities, resulting in land cover changes and population fragmentation. However, these anthropogenic effects can be superimposed onto the natural history of species, making it difficult to d... Read More about Microsatellite analysis of populations of the endangered tree Gomortega keule suggests pre-Columbian differentiation.

Reduction of IAA methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in arabidopsis (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Abbas, M., Hernández-García, J., Blanco-Touriñán, N., Aliaga, N., Minguet, E. G., Alabadí, D., & Blázquez, M. A. (2017). Reduction of IAA methyltransferase activity compensates for high-temperature male sterility in arabidopsis.

OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models (2017)
Journal Article
Postma, J. A., Kuppe, C., Owen, M. R., Mellor, N. L., Griffiths, M., Bennett, M. J., …Watt, M. (2017). OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models. New Phytologist, 215(3), 1274-1286. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14641

© 2017 The Authors. New Phytologist © 2017 New Phytologist Trust OpenSimRoot is an open-source, functional–structural plant model and mathematical description of root growth and function. We describe OpenSimRoot and its functionality to broaden the b... Read More about OpenSimRoot: widening the scope and application of root architectural models.

Differential gene expression at different stages of mesocarp development in high- and low-yielding oil palm (2017)
Journal Article
Wong, Y. C., Teh, H. F., Mebus, K., Ooi, T. E. K., Kwong, Q. B., Koo, K. L., …Kulaveerasingam, H. (2017). Differential gene expression at different stages of mesocarp development in high- and low-yielding oil palm. BMC Genomics, 18(1), Article 470. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-3855-7

Background

The oil yield trait of oil palm is expected to involve multiple genes, environmental influences and interactions. Many of the underlying mechanisms that contribute to oil yield are still poorly understood. In this study, we used a micro... Read More about Differential gene expression at different stages of mesocarp development in high- and low-yielding oil palm.

Biomass and elemental concentrations of 22 rice cultivars grown under alternate wetting and drying conditions at three field sites in Bangladesh (2017)
Journal Article
Norton, G. J., Travis, A. J., Danku, J., Salt, D. E., Hossain, M., Islam, M. R., & Price, A. H. (2017). Biomass and elemental concentrations of 22 rice cultivars grown under alternate wetting and drying conditions at three field sites in Bangladesh. Food and Energy Security, 6(3), https://doi.org/10.1002/fes3.110

As the global population grows, demand on food production will also rise. For rice, one limiting factor effecting production could be availability of fresh water, hence adoption of techniques that decrease water usage while maintaining or increasing... Read More about Biomass and elemental concentrations of 22 rice cultivars grown under alternate wetting and drying conditions at three field sites in Bangladesh.

Characterising variation in wheat traits under hostile soil conditions in India (2017)
Journal Article
Khokhar, J. S., Sareen, S., Tyagi, B. S., Singh, G., Chowdhury, A. K., Dhar, T., …Broadley, M. R. (2017). Characterising variation in wheat traits under hostile soil conditions in India. PLoS ONE, 12(6), Article e0179208. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179208

Intensive crop breeding has increased wheat yields and production in India. Wheat improvement in India typically involves selecting yield and component traits under non-hostile soil conditions at regional scales. The aim of this study is to quantify... Read More about Characterising variation in wheat traits under hostile soil conditions in India.

Safety conscious or living dangerously: what is the ‘right’ level of plant photoprotection for fitness and productivity? (2017)
Journal Article
Murchie, E. H. (2017). Safety conscious or living dangerously: what is the ‘right’ level of plant photoprotection for fitness and productivity?. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40(8), https://doi.org/10.1111/pce.12965

Due to their sessile nature, plants could be perceived to be relatively slow and rather un-reactive. However, a plant scientist will tell you that the inability to run away (tropism notwithstanding) actually demands a highly sophisticated physiologic... Read More about Safety conscious or living dangerously: what is the ‘right’ level of plant photoprotection for fitness and productivity?.

Agronomic practices influence the infection of an oats cultivar with Fusarium langsethiae (2017)
Journal Article
Imathiu, S. M., Ray, R. V., Back, M., Hare, M. C., & Edwards, S. G. (2017). Agronomic practices influence the infection of an oats cultivar with Fusarium langsethiae. Acta Phytopathologica et Entomologica Hungarica, 52(1), 15-27. https://doi.org/10.1556/038.52.2017.009

© 2017 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest. Fusarium langsethiae, a toxigenic fungus known to contaminate small-grain cereals with type A trichothecene mycotoxins, HT-2 and T-2 was described as a new species in 2004. HT-2 and T-2 are some of the most potent Fu... Read More about Agronomic practices influence the infection of an oats cultivar with Fusarium langsethiae.

Development of high-throughput methods to screen disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG 2-1 in oilseed rape (2017)
Journal Article
Drizou, F., Graham, N. S., Bruce, T. J. A., & Ray, R. V. (2017). Development of high-throughput methods to screen disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG 2-1 in oilseed rape. Plant Methods, 13(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-017-0195-1

Background: Rhizoctonia solani (Kühn) is a soil-borne, necrotrophic fungus causing damping off, root rot and stem canker in many cultivated plants worldwide. Oilseed rape (OSR, Brassica napus) is the primary host for anastomosis group (AG) 2-1 of R.... Read More about Development of high-throughput methods to screen disease caused by Rhizoctonia solani AG 2-1 in oilseed rape.

Exploring Relationships between Canopy Architecture, Light Distribution, and Photosynthesis in Contrasting Rice Genotypes Using 3D Canopy Reconstruction (2017)
Journal Article
Burgess, A. J., Retkute, R., Herman, T., & Murchie, E. H. (2017). Exploring Relationships between Canopy Architecture, Light Distribution, and Photosynthesis in Contrasting Rice Genotypes Using 3D Canopy Reconstruction. Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, Article 734. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.00734

The arrangement of leaf material is critical in determining the light environment, and subsequently the photosynthetic productivity of complex crop canopies. However, links between specific canopy architectural traits and photosynthetic productivity... Read More about Exploring Relationships between Canopy Architecture, Light Distribution, and Photosynthesis in Contrasting Rice Genotypes Using 3D Canopy Reconstruction.

A scanner-based rhizobox system enabling the quantification of root system development and response of Brassica rapa seedlings to external P availability (2017)
Journal Article
Adu, M. O., Yawson, D. O., Bennett, M. J., Broadley, M. R., Dupuy, L. X., & White, P. J. (2017). A scanner-based rhizobox system enabling the quantification of root system development and response of Brassica rapa seedlings to external P availability. https://doi.org/10.3117/plantroot.11.16

Rhizoboxes are soil-root compartments that may well provide the closest naturalistic conditions for studying root systems architectures (RSAs) in controlled environments. Rhizobox-based studies can however lead to mis-estimation of root traits due to... Read More about A scanner-based rhizobox system enabling the quantification of root system development and response of Brassica rapa seedlings to external P availability.

Identification of factors required for m6A mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis reveals a role for the conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase HAKAI (2017)
Journal Article
Růžička, K., Zhang, M., Campilho, A., Bodi, Z., Kashif, M., Saleh, M., …Fray, R. G. (2017). Identification of factors required for m6A mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis reveals a role for the conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase HAKAI. New Phytologist, 215(1), 157-172. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.14586

N6-adenosine methylation (m6A) of mRNA is an essential process in most eukaryotes, but its role and the status of factors accompanying this modification are still poorly understood.

Using combined methods of genetics, proteomics and RNA biochemis... Read More about Identification of factors required for m6A mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis reveals a role for the conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase HAKAI.

Breeding histories and selection criteria for oilseed rape in Europe and China identified by genome wide pedigree dissection (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Long, Y., Wang, N., Zou, J., Ding, G., Broadley, M. R., …Shi, L. (2017). Breeding histories and selection criteria for oilseed rape in Europe and China identified by genome wide pedigree dissection. Scientific Reports, 7(1), Article 1916. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-02188-z

Selection breeding has played a key role in the improvement of seed yield and quality in oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.). We genotyped Tapidor (European), Ningyou7 (Chinese) and their progenitors with the Brassica 60 K Illumina Infinium SNP array an... Read More about Breeding histories and selection criteria for oilseed rape in Europe and China identified by genome wide pedigree dissection.

Comparative mapping and targeted-capture sequencing of the gametocidal loci in Aegilops sharonensis (2017)
Journal Article
Grewal, S., Gardiner, L.-J., Ndreca, B., Knight, E., Moore, G., King, I. P., & King, J. (2017). Comparative mapping and targeted-capture sequencing of the gametocidal loci in Aegilops sharonensis. Plant Genome, The, 10(2), https://doi.org/10.3835/plantgenome2016.09.0090

Gametocidal (Gc) chromosomes or elements in species such as Aegilops sharonensis are preferentially transmitted to the next generation through both the male and female gametes when introduced into wheat. Furthermore, any genes, e.g. genes that contro... Read More about Comparative mapping and targeted-capture sequencing of the gametocidal loci in Aegilops sharonensis.

Root hydrotropism is controlled via a cortex-specific growth mechanism (2017)
Journal Article
Dietrich, D., Pang, L., Kobayashi, A., Fozard, J. A., Boudolf, V., Bhosale, R., …Bennett, M. J. (2017). Root hydrotropism is controlled via a cortex-specific growth mechanism. Nature Plants, 3(6), Article 17057. https://doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2017.57

Plants can acclimate by using tropisms to link the direction of growth to environmental conditions. Hydrotropism allows roots to forage for water, a process known to depend on abscisic acid (ABA) but whose molecular and cellular basis remains unclear... Read More about Root hydrotropism is controlled via a cortex-specific growth mechanism.

Tomato flavor: lost and found? (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, D., & Seymour, G. B. (2017). Tomato flavor: lost and found?. Molecular Plant, 10(6), 782-784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molp.2017.04.010

Approaches to reduce zinc and iron deficits in food systems (2017)
Journal Article
Gregory, P. J., Wahbi, A., Adu-Gyamfi, J., Heiling, M., Gruber, R., Joy, E. J., & Broadley, M. R. (2017). Approaches to reduce zinc and iron deficits in food systems. Global Food Security, 15, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2017.03.003

There is a deficit of mineral micronutrients in global food systems, known as ‘hidden hunger’, especially in the global south. This review focuses on zinc (Zn) and iron (Fe), whose entry into food systems depends primarily on soil and crop factors. A... Read More about Approaches to reduce zinc and iron deficits in food systems.

Genetic variants associated with the root system architecture of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) under contrasting phosphate supply (2017)
Journal Article
Wang, X., Chen, Y., Thomas, C. L., Ding, G., Xu, P., Shi, D., …Shi, L. (2017). Genetic variants associated with the root system architecture of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) under contrasting phosphate supply. DNA Research, 24(4), 407-417. https://doi.org/10.1093/dnares/dsx013

Breeding crops with ideal root system architecture for efficient absorption of phosphorus is an important strategy to reduce the use of phosphate fertilizers. To investigate genetic variants leading to changes in root system architecture, 405 oilseed... Read More about Genetic variants associated with the root system architecture of oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.) under contrasting phosphate supply.

Insect haptoelectrical stimulation of Venus flytrap triggers exocytosis in gland cells (2017)
Journal Article
Scherzer, S., Shabala, L., Hedrich, B., Fromm, J., Bauer, H., Munz, E., …Hedrich, R. (2017). Insect haptoelectrical stimulation of Venus flytrap triggers exocytosis in gland cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114(18), 4822-4827. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1701860114

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula captures insects and consumes their flesh. Prey contacting touch-sensitive hairs trigger traveling electrical waves. These action potentials (APs) cause rapid closure of the trap and activate secretory functions of... Read More about Insect haptoelectrical stimulation of Venus flytrap triggers exocytosis in gland cells.

Temporal dynamics of stomatal behavior: modeling and implications for photosynthesis and water use (2017)
Journal Article
Vialet-Chabrand, S. R., Matthews, J. S., McAusland, L., Blatt, M. R., Griffiths, H., & Lawson, T. (2017). Temporal dynamics of stomatal behavior: modeling and implications for photosynthesis and water use. Plant Physiology, 174(2), https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.17.00125

Stomata control gaseous exchange between the leaf and bulk atmosphere limiting CO2 uptake for photosynthesis and water loss by transpiration, and therefore determine plant productivity and water use efficiency. In order to function efficiently, stoma... Read More about Temporal dynamics of stomatal behavior: modeling and implications for photosynthesis and water use.