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Effects of pathogens and disease on plant physiology (2024)
Book Chapter
Ray, R. V. (2024). Effects of pathogens and disease on plant physiology. In Agrios' Plant Pathology (63-92). (6). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-822429-8.00002-9

Plant disease is the lasting departure from the normal physiological functioning of a plant caused by a pathogen interfering with the metabolism of its host for the purposes of nutrition acquisition, reproduction, and survival. The effects of disease... Read More about Effects of pathogens and disease on plant physiology.

Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) (2023)
Book Chapter
Eagleton, G. E., Tanzi, A. S., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Ho, W. K., Kuswanto, K., Stephenson, R. A., & Khan, T. N. (2023). Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.). In Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food (437-486). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-90537-4.00022-3

Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.) is a viny, leguminous, vegetable crop of humid regions in Southern Asia and New Guinea. In 1975, a review of 36 underexploited tropical plants by a US National Academy of Sciences select committee hi... Read More about Winged bean (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC.).

Genetics (2023)
Book Chapter
Beukeboom, L. W., Zwaan, B. J., Mayes, S., & Majerus, T. M. (2023). Genetics. In I. C. Hardy, & E. Wajnberg (Eds.), Jervis's Insects as Natural Enemies: Practical Perspectives (233-294). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23880-2_3

Genetic research on insect natural enemies was, until relatively recently, rare and was essentially limited to parasitoid wasps and some coccinellid beetles.

Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) (2023)
Book Chapter
Mateva, K. I., Tan, X. L., Halimi, R. A., Chai, H. H., Makonya, G. M., Gao, X., Shayanowako, A. I., Ho, W. K., Tanzi, A. S., Farrant, J., Mabhaudhi, T., King, G. J., Mayes, S., & Massawe, F. (2023). Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.). In Neglected and Underutilized Crops: Future Smart Food (557-615). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-323-90537-4.00021-1

Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) represents an untapped potential for developing robust food systems. This promising but underutilized African grain legume has high nutritional qualities comparable to popular and widely consumed legu... Read More about Bambara groundnut (Vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.).

Safeguarding and Using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity (2023)
Book Chapter
van Zonneveld, M., Volk, G. M., Dulloo, M. E., Kindt, R., Mayes, S., Quintero, M., Choudhury, D., Achigan-Dako, E. G., & Guarino, L. (2023). Safeguarding and Using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity. . Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_30

Fruit and vegetable species and varieties, their wild relatives, and pollinators and other associated organisms underpin diverse food production systems and contribute to worldwide health and nutrition. This biodiversity, however, is threatened, rema... Read More about Safeguarding and Using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity.

Safeguarding and using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity (2023)
Book Chapter
van Zonneveld, M., Volk, G. M., Ehsan Dulloo, M., Kindt, R., Mayes, S., Quintero, M., Choudhury, D., Achigan-Dako, E. G., & Guarino, L. (2023). Safeguarding and using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity. In J. von Braun, K. Afsana, L. O. Fresco, & M. Hag Ali Hassan (Eds.), Science and Innovations for Food Systems Transformation (553-567). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_30

Fruit and vegetable species and varieties, their wild relatives, and pollinators and other associated organisms underpin diverse food production systems and contribute to worldwide health and nutrition. This biodiversity, however, is threatened, rema... Read More about Safeguarding and using Fruit and Vegetable Biodiversity.

The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket (2022)
Book Chapter
Tsoutsoura, N., Chong, Y. T., Ho, W. K., Chai, H. H., Tanzi, A. S., Salazar-Licea, L., Massawe, F., Brameld, J., Salter, A., & Mayes, S. (2022). The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket. In M. A. Chapman (Ed.), Underutilised Crop Genomes (315-336). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00848-1_17

Climate change, population growth and increasingly homogenised diets are a threat to food security and human nutritional status. There is an urgent need to incorporate highly nutritious crops into the human diet to provide new sources of nutrition, t... Read More about The Winged Bean Genome: Winged Bean—One Species Supermarket.

Genomic designing for improved abiotic tolerance in amaranth: An integrated approach of genetic diversity and tolerance phenotyping (2022)
Book Chapter
Jamalluddin, N., Symonds, R., Chai, H. H., Ho, W. K., Razi, F., Mayes, S., & Massawe, F. (2022). Genomic designing for improved abiotic tolerance in amaranth: An integrated approach of genetic diversity and tolerance phenotyping. In C. Kole (Ed.), . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03964-5_8

Amaranth (Amaranthus spp.) is an underutilized C4 vegetable and grain crop which grows successfully in low input environments and has diverse abiotic stress tolerance traits. In addition to being highly nutritious, it is genetically diverse and pheno... Read More about Genomic designing for improved abiotic tolerance in amaranth: An integrated approach of genetic diversity and tolerance phenotyping.

Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security (2022)
Book Chapter
King, J., Grewal, S., Fellers, J. P., & King, I. P. (2022). Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security. In Wheat Improvement: Food Security in a Changing Climate (319-340). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90673-3_18

Increasing the genetic diversity of wheat is key to its future production in terms of increasing yields, resistance to diseases and adaptability to fluctuations in global climate. The use of the progenitor species of wheat and also its wild relatives... Read More about Exploring Untapped Wheat Genetic Resources to Boost Food Security.

Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes (2022)
Book Chapter
Murchie, E. H., McAusland, L., & Burgess, A. J. (2022). Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes. In A. Ruban, C. H. Foyer, & E. H. Murchie (Eds.), Photosynthesis in Action: Harvesting Light, Generating Electrons, Fixing Carbon (103-132). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-823781-6.00011-3

Chloroplast CO2 assimilation rate is highly sensitive to environmental changes, and this has a great influence on productivity. Changes in temperature, light, humidity, nutrients, and salinity can all affect processes that limit photosynthesis. In th... Read More about Abiotic stress, acclimation, and adaptation in carbon fixation processes.

Diversifying crops for food and nutrition security: A case of vegetable amaranth, an ancient climate-smart crop (2021)
Book Chapter
Jamalluddin, N., Symonds, R. C., Mayes, S., Ho, W. K., & Massawe, F. (2021). Diversifying crops for food and nutrition security: A case of vegetable amaranth, an ancient climate-smart crop. In C. M. Galanakis (Ed.), . https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-820521-1.00006-X

Drought is major abiotic stress that causes severe crop losses worldwide. Climate predictions indicate that the frequency of droughts will increase, impacting on global food supply. Currently, the agricultural sector is dominated by the three major c... Read More about Diversifying crops for food and nutrition security: A case of vegetable amaranth, an ancient climate-smart crop.

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.

Deep Hourglass for Brain Tumor Segmentation (2019)
Book Chapter
Benson, E., Pound, M. P., French, A. P., Jackson, A. S., & Pridmore, T. P. (2019). Deep Hourglass for Brain Tumor Segmentation. In BrainLes 2018: Brainlesion: Glioma, Multiple Sclerosis, Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injuries (419-428). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11726-9_37

The segmentation of a brain tumour in an MRI scan is a challenging task, in this paper we present our results for this problem via the BraTS 2018 challenge, consisting of 210 high grade glioma (HGG) and 75 low grade glioma (LGG) volumes for training.... Read More about Deep Hourglass for Brain Tumor Segmentation.

Imaging and Quantitative Methods for Studying Cytoskeletal Rearrangements During Root Development and Gravitropism (2015)
Book Chapter
Jacques, E., Wells, D. M., Bennett, M. J., & Vissenberg, K. (2015). Imaging and Quantitative Methods for Studying Cytoskeletal Rearrangements During Root Development and Gravitropism. In E. B. Blancaflor (Ed.), Plant Gravitropism; Methods and Protocols (81-89). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2697-8_8

High-resolution imaging of cytoskeletal structures paves the way for standardized methods to quantify cytoskeletal organization. Here we provide a detailed description of the analysis performed to determine the microtubule patterns in gravistimulated... Read More about Imaging and Quantitative Methods for Studying Cytoskeletal Rearrangements During Root Development and Gravitropism.

Adaptation for climate-sensitive crops using agroforestry: case studies for coffee and rice (2015)
Book Chapter
Lin, B., Murchie, E., & Burgess, A. (2015). Adaptation for climate-sensitive crops using agroforestry: case studies for coffee and rice. In C. K. Ong, C. R. Black, & J. Wilson (Eds.), Tree-crop interactions: agroforestry in a changing climate (278-308). CAB International. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781780645117.0278

This chapter examines how agroforestry systems can provide an effective adaptive strategy for agricultural production in the face of climate change and analyses its effectiveness using case studies for two important commercial crops produced by small... Read More about Adaptation for climate-sensitive crops using agroforestry: case studies for coffee and rice.

Time-Profiling Fluorescent Reporters in the Arabidopsis Root (2013)
Book Chapter
Larrieu, A. P., French, A. P., Pridmore, T. P., Bennett, M. J., & Wells, D. M. (2014). Time-Profiling Fluorescent Reporters in the Arabidopsis Root. In Plant chemical genomics : methods and protocols (11-17). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-62703-592-7_2

Confocal laser scanning microscopy is a useful nondestructive approach for the visualization of fluorescent reporters in planta. Samples are usually placed between a slide and a cover slip which, although suited to single time-point imaging, does not... Read More about Time-Profiling Fluorescent Reporters in the Arabidopsis Root.

Root Gravitropism (2013)
Book Chapter
Swarup, R., Wells, D. M., & Bennett, M. J. (2013). Root Gravitropism. In A. Eshel, & T. Beeckman (Eds.), Roots: the Hidden Half (265-278). (4th). CRC Press

Plants adapt their development in response to environmental signals in order to optimize their chances of survival. These environmental cues include directional signals such as gravity and light. Plant organs adjust their position relative to such si... Read More about Root Gravitropism.