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The effect of soil properties on zinc lability and solubility in soils of Ethiopia - an isotopic dilution study (2021)
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Mossa, A. W., Gashu, D., Broadley, M. R., Dunham, S. J., McGrath, S. P., Bailey, E. H., & Young, S. D. (2021). The effect of soil properties on zinc lability and solubility in soils of Ethiopia - an isotopic dilution study. SOIL, 7(1), 255-268. https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-255-2021

Zinc (Zn) deficiency is a widespread nutritional problem in human populations, especially in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The Zn concentration of crops consumed depends in part on the Zn status of the soil. Improved understanding of factors controlling... Read More about The effect of soil properties on zinc lability and solubility in soils of Ethiopia - an isotopic dilution study.

OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate starvation responses in rice (2021)
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Pandey, B. K., Verma, L., Prusty, A., Singh, A. P., Bennett, M. J., Tyagi, A. K., …Mehra, P. (2021). OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate starvation responses in rice. Planta, 254(1), 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00425-021-03657-6

Main conclusion: OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate homeostasis by suppressing jasmonic acid signaling and biosynthesis in rice roots. Abstract: Jasmonic Acid (JA) is a key plant signaling molecule which negatively regulates growth processes including root... Read More about OsJAZ11 regulates phosphate starvation responses in rice.

Identifying quantitative trait loci for lodging-associated traits in the wheat doubled-haploid population Avalon × Cadenza (2021)
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Piñera-Chavez, F. J., Berry, P. M., Foulkes, M. J., Sukumaran, S., & Reynolds, M. P. (2021). Identifying quantitative trait loci for lodging-associated traits in the wheat doubled-haploid population Avalon × Cadenza. Crop Science, 61(4), 2371-2386. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20485

Lodging affects grain quality and grain yield in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and is difficult to breed for because its sporadic incidence and laborious protocols to measure lodging traits. Thus, developing molecular markers for these traits can incr... Read More about Identifying quantitative trait loci for lodging-associated traits in the wheat doubled-haploid population Avalon × Cadenza.

Mapping the interaction between eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A) and the inhibitor hippuristanol using carbene footprinting and mass spectrometry (2021)
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Lloyd, J. R., Hogan, A., Paschalis, V., Bellamy-Carter, J., Bottley, A., Seymour, G. B., Hayes, C. J., & Oldham, N. J. (2021). Mapping the interaction between eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A) and the inhibitor hippuristanol using carbene footprinting and mass spectrometry. Proteomics, 21(21-22), Article 2000288. https://doi.org/10.1002/pmic.202000288

Protein-ligand interactions are central to protein activity and cell functionality. Improved knowledge of these relationships greatly benefits our understanding of key biological processes and aids in rational drug design towards the treatment of cli... Read More about Mapping the interaction between eukaryotic initiation factor 4A (eIF4A) and the inhibitor hippuristanol using carbene footprinting and mass spectrometry.

Ten challenges for the future of pedometrics (2021)
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Wadoux, A. M., Heuvelink, G. B., Lark, R. M., Lagacherie, P., Bouma, J., Mulder, V. L., …McBratney, A. B. (2021). Ten challenges for the future of pedometrics. Geoderma, 401, Article 115155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115155

Pedometrics, the application of mathematical and statistical methods to the study of the distribution and genesis of soils, has broadened its scope over the past two decades. The primary focus of pedometricians has traditionally been on spatial and s... Read More about Ten challenges for the future of pedometrics.

A comparison between three legacy soil maps of Zambia at national scale: The spatial patterns of legend units and their relation to soil properties (2021)
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Mukumbuta, I., Chabala, L. M., Sichinga, S., Miti, C., & Lark, R. M. (2021). A comparison between three legacy soil maps of Zambia at national scale: The spatial patterns of legend units and their relation to soil properties. Geoderma, 402, Article 115193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.115193

We examined three soil maps of Zambia, two published at scales of 1:1 million – the Exploratory Soil Map of Zambia (ESMZ) and the Vegetation–Soil Map produced by Trapnell and colleagues in 1947 – and one at 1:3 million, the Soil Atlas of Africa (SAA)... Read More about A comparison between three legacy soil maps of Zambia at national scale: The spatial patterns of legend units and their relation to soil properties.

The nutritional quality of cereals varies geospatially in Ethiopia and Malawi (2021)
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Gashu, D., Nalivata, P. C., Amede, T., Ander, E. L., Bailey, E. H., Botoman, L., …Broadley, M. R. (2021). The nutritional quality of cereals varies geospatially in Ethiopia and Malawi. Nature, 594, 71-76. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03559-3

Micronutrient deficiencies (MNDs) remain widespread among people in sub-Saharan Africa where access to sufficient food from plant and animal sources that is rich in micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) is limited due to socioeconomic and geographic... Read More about The nutritional quality of cereals varies geospatially in Ethiopia and Malawi.

Challenges for FAIR-compliant description and comparison of crop phenotype data with standardized controlled vocabularies (2021)
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Andrés-Hernández, L., Halimi, R. A., Mauleon, R., Mayes, S., Baten, A., & King, G. J. (2021). Challenges for FAIR-compliant description and comparison of crop phenotype data with standardized controlled vocabularies. Database, 2021, Article baab028. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab028

Crop phenotypic data underpin many pre-breeding efforts to characterize variation within germplasm collections. Although there has been an increase in the global capacity for accumulating and comparing such data, a lack of consistency in the systemat... Read More about Challenges for FAIR-compliant description and comparison of crop phenotype data with standardized controlled vocabularies.

Application of sodium selenate to cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) increases shoot and grain Se partitioning with strong genotypic interactions (2021)
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Silva, V. M., Nardeli, A. J., Mendes, N. A. C., Alcock, T. D., Rocha, M. D. M., Putti, F. F., …Reis, A. R. D. (2021). Application of sodium selenate to cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) increases shoot and grain Se partitioning with strong genotypic interactions. Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, 67, Article 126781. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtemb.2021.126781

Backgorund: Cowpea is a crop widely used in developing countries due its rusticity. Besides its rich genotypic variability, most breeding programs do not explore its potential to improve elements uptake. Selenium (Se) is a scarce element in most soil... Read More about Application of sodium selenate to cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) increases shoot and grain Se partitioning with strong genotypic interactions.

Generation of Doubled Haploid Wheat-Triticum urartu Introgression Lines and Their Characterisation Using Chromosome-Specific KASP Markers (2021)
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Grewal, S., Guwela, V., Newell, C., Yang, C. Y., Ashling, S., Scholefield, D., …King, J. (2021). Generation of Doubled Haploid Wheat-Triticum urartu Introgression Lines and Their Characterisation Using Chromosome-Specific KASP Markers. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, Article 643636. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.643636

Wheat is one of the most important food and protein sources in the world and although, in recent years wheat breeders have achieved yield gains, they are not sufficient to meet the demands of an ever-growing population. Development of high yielding w... Read More about Generation of Doubled Haploid Wheat-Triticum urartu Introgression Lines and Their Characterisation Using Chromosome-Specific KASP Markers.

Comparison of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with yield components in two commercial Dura × Pisifera breeding crosses (2021)
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Zolkafli, S. H., Ngoot-Chin, T., Shazana, N., Ithnin, M., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., …Singh, R. (2021). Comparison of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with yield components in two commercial Dura × Pisifera breeding crosses. Euphytica, 217, Article 104. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10681-021-02825-9

The high yielding tenera is the commercial oil palm planting material of choice in Southeast Asia. Notwithstanding this, there is continuous effort to further improve the yield and one way to do this is by addressing the yield components (YCs ). Usin... Read More about Comparison of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) associated with yield components in two commercial Dura × Pisifera breeding crosses.

The role of photoprotection in defence of two wheat genotypes against Zymoseptoria tritici (2021)
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Ajigboye, O. O., Jayaweera, D. P., Angelopoulou, D., Ruban, A. V., Murchie, E. H., Pastor, V., …Ray, R. V. (2021). The role of photoprotection in defence of two wheat genotypes against Zymoseptoria tritici. Plant Pathology, 70(6), 1421-1435. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13392

This study provides new insights into the role of photoprotection in preformed and induced defence of two wheat genotypes with contrasting phenotypes to infection by Zymoseptoria tritici. We investigated the mechanisms of the photoprotective response... Read More about The role of photoprotection in defence of two wheat genotypes against Zymoseptoria tritici.

Communicating uncertainties in spatial predictions of grain micronutrient concentration (2021)
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Chagumaira, C., Chimungu, J. G., Gashu, D., Nalivata, P. C., Broadley, M. R., Milne, A. E., & Lark, R. M. (2021). Communicating uncertainties in spatial predictions of grain micronutrient concentration. Geoscience Communication, 4(2), 245-265. https://doi.org/10.5194/gc-4-245-2021

The concentration of micronutrients in staple crops varies spatially. Quantitative information about this can help in designing efficient interventions to address micronutrient deficiency. Concentration of a micronutrient in a staple crop can be mapp... Read More about Communicating uncertainties in spatial predictions of grain micronutrient concentration.

Uncovering How Auxin Optimizes Root Systems Architecture in Response to Environmental Stresses (2021)
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Leftley, N., Banda, J., Pandey, B., Bennett, M., & Voß, U. (2021). Uncovering How Auxin Optimizes Root Systems Architecture in Response to Environmental Stresses. Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology, 13(11), Article a040014. https://doi.org/10.1101/cshperspect.a040014

Since colonizing land, plants have developed mechanisms to tolerate a broad range of abiotic stresses that include flooding, drought, high salinity, and nutrient limitation. Roots play a key role acclimating plants to these as their developmental pla... Read More about Uncovering How Auxin Optimizes Root Systems Architecture in Response to Environmental Stresses.

Multiple geochemical factors may cause iodine and selenium deficiency in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan (2021)
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Ahmad, S., Bailey, E. H., Arshad, M., Ahmed, S., Watts, M., & Young, S. (2021). Multiple geochemical factors may cause iodine and selenium deficiency in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Environmental Geochemistry and Health, 43(11), 4493-4513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10653-021-00936-9

Deficiencies of the micronutrients iodine and selenium are particularly prevalent where populations consume local agricultural produce grown on soils with low iodine and selenium availability. This study focussed on such an area, Gilgit-Baltistan in... Read More about Multiple geochemical factors may cause iodine and selenium deficiency in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan.

Mast Cell Tryptase Release Contributes to Disease Progression in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (2021)
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Babaei-Jadidi, R., Dongre, A., Miller, S., Castellanos Uribe, M., Stewart, I. D., Thompson, Z. M., …Johnson, S. R. (2021). Mast Cell Tryptase Release Contributes to Disease Progression in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 204(4), 431-444. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202007-2854OC

Rationale: Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) is a multisystem disease that causes lung cysts and respiratory failure. Loss of TSC (tuberous sclerosis complex) gene function results in a clone of “LAM cells” with dysregulated mTOR (mechanistic target of... Read More about Mast Cell Tryptase Release Contributes to Disease Progression in Lymphangioleiomyomatosis.

Integrated Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Using an Optimised Dual Extraction Process to Study Human Brain Cancer Cells and Tissues (2021)
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Rahman, R., Woodward, A., Pandele, A., Abdelrazig, S., Ortori, C., Khan, I., …Kim, D.-H. (2021). Integrated Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Using an Optimised Dual Extraction Process to Study Human Brain Cancer Cells and Tissues. Metabolites, 11(4), Article 240. https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11040240

The integration of untargeted metabolomics and transcriptomics from the same population of cells or tissue enhances the confidence in the identified metabolic pathways and understanding of the enzyme–metabolite relationship. Here, we optimised a simu... Read More about Integrated Metabolomics and Transcriptomics Using an Optimised Dual Extraction Process to Study Human Brain Cancer Cells and Tissues.

Magnesium and calcium overaccumulate in the leaves of a schengen3 mutant of Brassica rapa (2021)
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Alcock, T. D., Thomas, C. L., Ó Lochlainn, S., Pongrac, P., Wilson, M., Moore, C., …Broadley, M. R. (2021). Magnesium and calcium overaccumulate in the leaves of a schengen3 mutant of Brassica rapa. Plant Physiology, 186(3), 1616-1631. https://doi.org/10.1093/PLPHYS/KIAB150

Magnesium (Mg) and calcium (Ca) are essential mineral nutrients poorly supplied in many human food systems. In grazing livestock, Mg and Ca deficiencies are costly welfare issues. Here, we report a Brassica rapa loss-of-function schengen3 (sgn3) muta... Read More about Magnesium and calcium overaccumulate in the leaves of a schengen3 mutant of Brassica rapa.