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Collaborating for Impact: Navigating Partnerships and Overcoming Challenges across the Sustainable Development Goals (2025)
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Azim, H., Johnston, A.-L., Nixon, M., Woodliffe, J. L., Theunissen, R., Suresh, R., Sivapalan, S., Bobo, J., & Licence, P. (2025). Collaborating for Impact: Navigating Partnerships and Overcoming Challenges across the Sustainable Development Goals. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 13(3), 1164-1173. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c10171

We illustrate the importance of early career perspectives and diverse partnerships to develop solutions and overcome key challenges to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Valorisation of hop leaves for their bioactive compounds: Identification and quantification of phenolics across different varieties, crop years and stages of development (2024)
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Calvert, D., Dew, T., Gadon, A., Gros, J., & Cook, D. (2025). Valorisation of hop leaves for their bioactive compounds: Identification and quantification of phenolics across different varieties, crop years and stages of development. Food Chemistry, 465(Part 2), Article 142005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2024.142005

Hop leaves, a by-product from hop cone harvesting, contain phenolic compounds of potential value for food or beverage applications. However, the abundant phenolics in hop leaves remain largely unquantified. This study quantified phenolics in hop leav... Read More about Valorisation of hop leaves for their bioactive compounds: Identification and quantification of phenolics across different varieties, crop years and stages of development.

Untargeted metabolomic profiling of 100% malt beers versus those containing barley adjunct (2024)
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Yorke, J., Dew, T., & Cook, D. (2024). Untargeted metabolomic profiling of 100% malt beers versus those containing barley adjunct. Journal of the Institute of Brewing, 130(1), 31-46. https://doi.org/10.58430/jib.v130i1.46

Why was the work done: The incorporation of unmalted barley at high proportion in the grist can introduce unfavourable bitter and astringent characteristics to beer, resulting in an upper limit on the proportion used. The flavour active compounds fro... Read More about Untargeted metabolomic profiling of 100% malt beers versus those containing barley adjunct.

Environmental regulation of male fertility is mediated through Arabidopsis bHLH89, 91 and 10 (2023)
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Robson, J. K., Tidy, A. C., Thomas, S. G., & Wilson, Z. A. (2024). Environmental regulation of male fertility is mediated through Arabidopsis bHLH89, 91 and 10. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(7), 1934-1947. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad480

Formation of functional pollen and successful fertilization rely on the spatial and temporal regulation of anther and pollen development. This process responds to environmental cues to maintain optimal fertility despite climatic changes. Arabidopsi... Read More about Environmental regulation of male fertility is mediated through Arabidopsis bHLH89, 91 and 10.

New Germplasm for Breeding: Pink-flowered and White-fruited Strawberry (2023)
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Guan, L., Wilson, Z. A., Zhao, M., Qiao, Y., Wu, E., Wang, Q., Yuan, H., Xu, L., Pang, F., Cai, W., Chen, X., & Xia, J. (2023). New Germplasm for Breeding: Pink-flowered and White-fruited Strawberry. HortScience, 58(9), 1005-1009. https://doi.org/10.21273/hortsci17047-22

Most strawberry plants have white flowers and red fruit. We developed a new strawberry selection with pink flowers and white fruit, and named it G23. Basic phenotypic data were recorded over years of observation and experimentation with the flower cr... Read More about New Germplasm for Breeding: Pink-flowered and White-fruited Strawberry.

Barley TAPETAL DEVELOPMENT and FUNCTION1 (HvTDF1) gene reveals conserved and unique roles in controlling anther tapetum development in dicot and monocot plants (2023)
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Hua, M., Yin, W., Fernández Gómez, J., Tidy, A., Xing, G., Zong, J., Shi, S., & Wilson, Z. A. (2023). Barley TAPETAL DEVELOPMENT and FUNCTION1 (HvTDF1) gene reveals conserved and unique roles in controlling anther tapetum development in dicot and monocot plants. New Phytologist, 240(1), 173-190. https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19161

The anther tapetum helps control microspore release and essential components for pollen wall formation. TAPETAL DEVELOPMENT and FUNCTION1 (TDF1) is an essential R2R3 MYB tapetum transcription factor in Arabidopsis thaliana; however, little is known a... Read More about Barley TAPETAL DEVELOPMENT and FUNCTION1 (HvTDF1) gene reveals conserved and unique roles in controlling anther tapetum development in dicot and monocot plants.

Chlorophyll fluorescence-based high-throughput phenotyping facilitates the genetic dissection of photosynthetic heat tolerance in African (Oryza glaberrima) and Asian (Oryza sativa) rice (2023)
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Robson, J. K., Ferguson, J. N., McAusland, L., Atkinson, J. A., Tranchant-Dubreuil, C., Cubry, P., Sabot, F., Wells, D. M., Price, A. H., Wilson, Z. A., & Murchie, E. H. (2023). Chlorophyll fluorescence-based high-throughput phenotyping facilitates the genetic dissection of photosynthetic heat tolerance in African (Oryza glaberrima) and Asian (Oryza sativa) rice. Journal of Experimental Botany, 74(17), 5181-5197. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erad239

Rising temperatures and extreme heat events threaten rice production. Half of the global population relies on rice for basic nutrition, and therefore developing heat-tolerant rice is essential. During vegetative development, reduced photosynthetic ra... Read More about Chlorophyll fluorescence-based high-throughput phenotyping facilitates the genetic dissection of photosynthetic heat tolerance in African (Oryza glaberrima) and Asian (Oryza sativa) rice.

Rice HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN60-3B maintains male fertility under high temperature by starch granule biogenesis (2023)
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Lin, S., Liu, Z., Sun, S., Xue, F., Li, H., Tursun, A., Cao, L., Zhang, L., Wilson, Z. A., Zhang, D., & Liang, W. (2023). Rice HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN60-3B maintains male fertility under high temperature by starch granule biogenesis. Plant Physiology, 192(3), 2301-2317. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiad136

Heat stress has a deleterious effect on male fertility in rice (Oryza sativa), but mechanisms to protect against heat stress in rice male gametophytes are poorly understood. Here, we have isolated and characterized a heat-sensitive male-sterile rice... Read More about Rice HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN60-3B maintains male fertility under high temperature by starch granule biogenesis.

Cytokinin signaling regulates two-stage inflorescence arrest in Arabidopsis (2022)
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Walker, C. H., Ware, A., Simura, J., Ljung, K., Wilson, Z., & Bennett, T. (2023). Cytokinin signaling regulates two-stage inflorescence arrest in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 191(1), 479-495. https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac514

To maximize reproductive success, flowering plants must correctly time entry and exit from the reproductive phase. While much is known about mechanisms that regulate initiation of flowering, end-of-flowering remains largely uncharacterized. End-of-fl... Read More about Cytokinin signaling regulates two-stage inflorescence arrest in Arabidopsis.

Sporophytic control of pollen meiotic progression is mediated by tapetum expression of ABORTED MICROSPORES (2022)
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Tidy, A. C., Ferjentsikova, I., Vizcay-Barrena, G., Liu, B., Yin, W., Higgins, J. D., Jie, X., Zhang, D., Geelen, D., & Wilson, Z. A. (2022). Sporophytic control of pollen meiotic progression is mediated by tapetum expression of ABORTED MICROSPORES. Journal of Experimental Botany, 73(16), 5543-5558. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erac225

Pollen development is dependent on the tapetum, a sporophytic anther cell layer surrounding the microspores that functions in pollen wall formation but is also essential for meiosis-associated development. There is clear evidence of crosstalk and co-... Read More about Sporophytic control of pollen meiotic progression is mediated by tapetum expression of ABORTED MICROSPORES.

A population history of Tokelau – genetic variation and change in atoll populations (2021)
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Gosling, A. L., Lord, E., Boocock, J., Cameron-Christie, S., Horsburgh, K. A., Kardailsky, O., Prost, S., Wilcox, S., Addison, D., Thompson, A., Kalolo, J., Clarke, A. C., & Matisoo-Smith, E. A. (2023). A population history of Tokelau – genetic variation and change in atoll populations. Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 18(1), 100-117. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564894.2021.1901805

Tokelau is a remote archipelago of atolls in western Polynesia, located approximately 500 km north of Samoa. It is thought to have been settled as part of the Austronesian expansion(s). However, its exact role in this population dispersal is not comp... Read More about A population history of Tokelau – genetic variation and change in atoll populations.

The interaction of procedural skill, conceptual understanding and working memory in early mathematics achievement (2017)
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Gilmore, C., Keeble, S., Richardson, S., & Cragg, L. (2017). The interaction of procedural skill, conceptual understanding and working memory in early mathematics achievement. Journal of Numerical Cognition, 3(2), 400-416. https://doi.org/10.23668/PSYCHARCHIVES.1452

Large individual differences in children’s mathematics achievement are observed from the start of schooling. Previous research has identified three cognitive skills that are independent predictors of mathematics achievement: procedural skill, concept... Read More about The interaction of procedural skill, conceptual understanding and working memory in early mathematics achievement.