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Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome (2021)
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Bergero, R., Ellis, P., Haerty, W., Larcombe, L., Macaulay, I., Mehta, T., …Immler, S. (2021). Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome. Biological Reviews, 96(3), 822-841. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12680

The separation of germ cell populations from the soma is part of the evolutionary transition to multicellularity. Only genetic information present in the germ cells will be inherited by future generations, and any molecular processes affecting the ge... Read More about Meiosis and beyond – understanding the mechanistic and evolutionary processes shaping the germline genome.

Interactions between nitrogen nutrition, canopy architecture and photosynthesis in rice, assessed using high-resolution 3D reconstruction (2020)
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Burgess, A. J., Herman, T., Ali, A., & Murchie, E. H. (2021). Interactions between nitrogen nutrition, canopy architecture and photosynthesis in rice, assessed using high-resolution 3D reconstruction. in silico Plants, 3(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/insilicoplants/diaa017

Increasing nitrogen use efficiency is a key target for yield improvement programs. Here we identify features of rice canopy architecture during altered N availability and link them to photosynthetic productivity. Empirical mathematical modelling, hig... Read More about Interactions between nitrogen nutrition, canopy architecture and photosynthesis in rice, assessed using high-resolution 3D reconstruction.

Population dynamics of Rhizoctonia, Oculimacula, and Microdochium species in soil, roots, and stems of English wheat crops (2020)
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Brown, M., Woodhall, J. W., Nielsen, L. K., Tomlinson, D., Farooqi, A., & Ray, R. V. (2021). Population dynamics of Rhizoctonia, Oculimacula, and Microdochium species in soil, roots, and stems of English wheat crops. Plant Pathology, 70(4), 862-874. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppa.13329

© 2020 The Authors. Plant Pathology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Society for Plant Pathology This study aimed to elucidate the population dynamics of Rhizoctonia, Oculimacula, and Microdochium species, causing the stem ba... Read More about Population dynamics of Rhizoctonia, Oculimacula, and Microdochium species in soil, roots, and stems of English wheat crops.

Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition (2020)
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Tan, X. L., Azam-Ali, S., Goh, E. V., Mustafa, M., Chai, H. H., Ho, W. K., …Massawe, F. (2020). Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition. Frontiers in Nutrition, 7, Article 601496. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnut.2020.601496

© Copyright © 2020 Tan, Azam-Ali, Goh, Mustafa, Chai, Ho, Mayes, Mabhaudhi, Azam-Ali and Massawe. Rapid population growth, climate change, intensive monoculture farming, and resource depletion are among the challenges that threaten the increasingly v... Read More about Bambara Groundnut: An Underutilized Leguminous Crop for Global Food Security and Nutrition.

Insects: A Potential Source of Protein and Other Nutrients for Feed and Food (2020)
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Hawkey, K. J., Lopez-Viso, C., Brameld, J. M., Parr, T., & Salter, A. M. (2021). Insects: A Potential Source of Protein and Other Nutrients for Feed and Food. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, 9(1), 333-354. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-animal-021419-083930

© 2021 Annual Reviews Inc.. All rights reserved. Sustainable production of healthy food for a growing global population, in the face of the uncertainties of climate change, represents a major challenge for the coming decade. Livestock provide food wi... Read More about Insects: A Potential Source of Protein and Other Nutrients for Feed and Food.

Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis (2020)
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Salas-González, I., Reyt, G., Flis, P., Custódio, V., Gopaulchan, D., Bakhoum, N., …Castrillo, G. (2021). Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis. Science, 371(6525), Article eabd0695. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abd0695

Copyright © 2021, American Association for the Advancement of Science. Plant roots and animal guts have evolved specialized cell layers to control mineral nutrient homeostasis. These layers must tolerate the resident microbiota while keeping homeosta... Read More about Coordination between microbiota and root endodermis supports plant mineral nutrient homeostasis.

Biofortification of wheat with zinc for eliminating deficiency in Pakistan: study protocol for a cluster-randomised, double-blind, controlled effectiveness study (BIZIFED2) (2020)
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Khan, M. J., Mahboob, U., Joy, E. J., Broadley, M. R., Ander, E. L., Fatima, S., …Young, S. D. (2020). Biofortification of wheat with zinc for eliminating deficiency in Pakistan: study protocol for a cluster-randomised, double-blind, controlled effectiveness study (BIZIFED2). BMJ Open, 10(11), Article e039231. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-039231

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. INTRODUCTION: Micronutrient deficiencies, commonly referred to as 'hidden hunger', affect more than two bill... Read More about Biofortification of wheat with zinc for eliminating deficiency in Pakistan: study protocol for a cluster-randomised, double-blind, controlled effectiveness study (BIZIFED2).

A network of transcriptional repressors modulates auxin responses (2020)
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Truskina, J., Han, J., Chrysanthou, E., Galvan-Ampudia, C. S., Lainé, S., Brunoud, G., …Vernoux, T. (2020). A network of transcriptional repressors modulates auxin responses. Nature, 589, 116–119. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2940-2

The regulation of signalling capacity, combined with the spatiotemporal distribution of developmental signals themselves, is pivotal in setting developmental responses in both plants and animals. The hormone auxin is a key signal for plant growth and... Read More about A network of transcriptional repressors modulates auxin responses.

Do soil amendments used to improve agricultural productivity have consequences for soils contaminated with heavy metals? (2020)
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Kaninga, B., Chishala, B. H., Maseka, K. K., Sakala, G. M., Young, S. D., Lark, R. M., …Watts, M. J. (2020). Do soil amendments used to improve agricultural productivity have consequences for soils contaminated with heavy metals?. Heliyon, 6(11), Article E05502. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e05502

This study presents an analysis of the effects of manure and lime commonly used to improve agricultural productivity and evaluates the potential for such soil amendments to mobilise/immobilise metal fractions in soils contaminated from nearby mine ta... Read More about Do soil amendments used to improve agricultural productivity have consequences for soils contaminated with heavy metals?.

Micronutrient Status and Dietary Diversity of Women of Reproductive Age in Rural Pakistan (2020)
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Khan, M. J., Bailey, E. H., Broadley, M. R., Ullah, U., McArdle, H. J., Ohly, H., …Brazier, A. K. M. (2020). Micronutrient Status and Dietary Diversity of Women of Reproductive Age in Rural Pakistan. Nutrients, 12(11), Article 3407. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12113407

Consuming a diverse diet is essential to ensure an adequate intake of micronutrients. The aim of this study was to assess the nutritional status and dietary diversity of women of reproductive age (WRA) living in a marginalized community in rural Paki... Read More about Micronutrient Status and Dietary Diversity of Women of Reproductive Age in Rural Pakistan.

Suboptimal mid-luteal progesterone concentrations are associated with aberrant endometrial gene expression, potentially resulting in implantation failure (2020)
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Suthaporn, S., Jayaprakasan, K., Thornton, J., Walker, K., Medrano, J. H., Castellanos, M., …Maalouf, W. E. (2021). Suboptimal mid-luteal progesterone concentrations are associated with aberrant endometrial gene expression, potentially resulting in implantation failure. Reproductive BioMedicine Online, 42(3), 595-608. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rbmo.2020.10.018

Research question What is the difference in endometrial transcriptomics between women with normal and with low mid-luteal progesterone during the implantation window? Design An endometrial biopsy and serum progesterone concentration were taken f... Read More about Suboptimal mid-luteal progesterone concentrations are associated with aberrant endometrial gene expression, potentially resulting in implantation failure.

Exploring genetic diversity for grain partitioning traits to enhance yield in a high biomass spring wheat panel (2020)
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Sierra-Gonzalez, A., Molero, G., Rivera-Amado, C., Babar, M. A., Reynolds, M. P., & Foulkes, M. J. (2021). Exploring genetic diversity for grain partitioning traits to enhance yield in a high biomass spring wheat panel. Field Crops Research, 260, Article 107979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fcr.2020.107979

© 2020 Breeding to raise yield potential through enhancing photosynthesis will have limited impact unless harvest index (HI: proportion of above-ground biomass as grain yield) is maintained or ideally increased. Boosting grain dry matter (DM) partiti... Read More about Exploring genetic diversity for grain partitioning traits to enhance yield in a high biomass spring wheat panel.

An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily (2020)
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Ong, A. L., Teh, C. K., Mayes, S., Massawe, F., Appleton, D. R., & Kulaveerasingam, H. (2020). An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily. Plants, 9(11), Article 1476. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants9111476

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) is the most traded crop among the economically important palm species. Here, we report an extended version genome of E. guineensis that is 1.2 Gb in length,... Read More about An improved oil palm genome assembly as a valuable resource for crop improvement and comparative genomics in the Arecoideae subfamily.

Targeted expression of the arsenate reductase HAC1 identifies cell type specificity of arsenic metabolism and transport in plant roots (2020)
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Fischer, S., Sánchez-Bermejo, E., Xu, X., Flis, P., Ramakrishna, P., Guerinot, M. L., …Salt, D. E. (2021). Targeted expression of the arsenate reductase HAC1 identifies cell type specificity of arsenic metabolism and transport in plant roots. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(2), 415-425. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa465

High Arsenic Concentration 1 (HAC1), an Arabidopsis thaliana arsenate reductase, plays a key role in arsenate [As(V)] tolerance. Through conversion of As(V) to arsenite [As(III)], HAC1 enables As(III) export from roots, and restricts translocation of... Read More about Targeted expression of the arsenate reductase HAC1 identifies cell type specificity of arsenic metabolism and transport in plant roots.

Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance (2020)
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Rivera-Amado, C., Molero, G., Trujillo-Negrellos, E., Reynolds, M., & Foulkes, J. (2020). Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance. Agronomy, 10(10), Article 1527. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101527

© 2020 by the authors. Grain filling may be limited by the joint source and sink capacity in modern wheat cultivars, indicating a need to research the co-limitation of yield by both photosynthesis and the number and potential size of grains. The exte... Read More about Estimating organ contribution to grain filling and potential for source upregulation in wheat cultivars with a contrasting source-sink balance.

TWIST1 DNA methylation is a cell marker of airway and parenchymal lung fibroblasts that are differentially methylated in asthma (2020)
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Clifford, R. L., Yang, C. X., Fishbane, N., Patel, J., MacIsaac, J. L., McEwen, L. M., …Hackett, T. L. (2020). TWIST1 DNA methylation is a cell marker of airway and parenchymal lung fibroblasts that are differentially methylated in asthma. Clinical Epigenetics, 12(1), Article 145. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13148-020-00931-4

© 2020 The Author(s). Background: Mesenchymal fibroblasts are ubiquitous cells that maintain the extracellular matrix of organs. Within the lung, airway and parenchymal fibroblasts are crucial for lung development and are altered with disease, but it... Read More about TWIST1 DNA methylation is a cell marker of airway and parenchymal lung fibroblasts that are differentially methylated in asthma.

Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes (2020)
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Botoman, L., Nalivata, P. C., Chimungu, J. G., Munthali, M. W., Bailey, E. H., Ander, E. L., …Broadley, M. R. (2020). Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes. Plant Direct, 4(10), Article e00277. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.277

The prevalence of micronutrient deficiencies including zinc (Zn) is widespread in Malawi, especially among poor and marginalized rural populations. This is due to low concentrations of Zn in most staple cereal crops and limited consumption of animal... Read More about Increasing zinc concentration in maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi through agronomic biofortification: Trial protocol for a field experiment to detect small effect sizes.

Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm (2020)
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Ting, N. C., Sherbina, K., Khoo, J. S., Kamaruddin, K., Chan, P. L., Chan, K. L., …Singh, R. (2020). Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm. Scientific Reports, 10, Article 16296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73170-5

© 2020, The Author(s). Evaluation of transcriptome data in combination with QTL information has been applied in many crops to study the expression of genes responsible for specific phenotypes. In oil palm, the mesocarp oil extracted from E. oleifera... Read More about Expression of fatty acid and triacylglycerol synthesis genes in interspecific hybrids of oil palm.

Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations (2020)
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Gao, X., Bamba, A. S. A., Kundy, A. C., Mateva, K. I., Chai, H. H., Ho, W. K., …Massawe, F. (2020). Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations. Agronomy, 10(10), Article 1451. https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy10101451

© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Underutilis... Read More about Variation of phenotypic traits in twelve bambara groundnut (vigna subterranea (L.) Verdc.) genotypes and Two F2 Bi-Parental Segregating Populations.

Site-Specific Factors Influence the Field Performance of a Zn-Biofortified Wheat Variety (2020)
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Broadley, M. R., Ahmed, I., Zia, M. H., Zaman, M., Wilson, L., Joy, E. J., …Bailey, E. H. (2020). Site-Specific Factors Influence the Field Performance of a Zn-Biofortified Wheat Variety. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 4, Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2020.00135

© Copyright © 2020 Zia, Ahmed, Bailey, Lark, Young, Lowe, Joy, Wilson, Zaman and Broadley. Background: Biofortification of wheat with zinc (Zn) through breeding and agronomy can reduce Zn deficiencies and improve human health. “High-Zn” wheat varieti... Read More about Site-Specific Factors Influence the Field Performance of a Zn-Biofortified Wheat Variety.