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Univeristy of Hertfordshire
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Huang YJ, Balesdent MH, Li ZQ, Evans N, Rouxel T and Fitt BDL (2010). Fitness cost of virulence differs between the AvrLm1 and AvrLm4 loci in Leptosphaeria maculans (phoma stem canker of oilseed rape). European Journal of Plant Pathology 126: 279–291. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-009-9539-7.
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University of York
Guangyuan L, Harper AL, Trick M, Morgan C, Fraser F, O’Neill C, Bancroft I. Associative Transcriptomics study dissects the genetic architecture of seed glucosinolate content in Brassica napus. DNA Research 21:613-625, 2014
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Rothamsted Research
King KM, West JS. 2021. Detection of the Phoma pathogens Plenodomus biglobosus subclades ‘brassicae’ and ‘canadensis’ on wasabi, and ‘canadensis’ in Europe. European Journal of Plant Pathology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10658-021-02428-z
University of Warwick
Hilton S, Picot E, Schreiter S, Bass D, Norman K, Oliver AE, Moore JD, Mauchline TH, Mills PR, Teakle GR, Clark IM, Hirsch PR, van der Gast CJ, Bending GD (2021). Identification of microbial signatures linked to oilseed rape yield decline at the landscape scale. Microbiome, 9:19. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-020-00972-0
George Muscatt, Sally Hilton, Sebastien Raguideau, Graham Teakle, Ian D. E. A. Lidbury, Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Christopher Quince, Andrew Millard, Gary D. Bending, Eleanor Jameson (2022) Crop management shapes the diversity and activity of both DNA and RNA viruses in the rhizosphere. Microbiome, 10:181
Emma J. Bennett, Christopher J. Brignell, Pierre W. C. Carion,
Samantha M. Cook, Peter J. Eastmond, Graham Teakle, John P. Hammond, Clare Love, Graham King, Jeremy A. Roberts, Carol Wagstaff (2017) Development of a statistical crop model to explain the relationship between seed yield and phenotypic diversity within the Brassica napus genepool. Agronomy, 7:31(1-26)
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Moreau C, Warren FJ, Rayner T, Perez-Moral N, Lawson DM, Wang TL, Domoney C (2022) An allelic series of starch-branching enzyme mutants in pea (Pisum sativum L.) reveals complex relationships with seed starch phenotypes. Carbohydrate Polymers 288: 119386. doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2022.119386
Sawada C, Moreau C, Robinson GHJ, Steuernagel B, Wingen LU, Cheema J, Sizer-Coverdale E, Lloyd D, Domoney C, Ellis N (2022) An integrated linkage map of three recombinant inbred populations of pea (Pisum sativum L.) Genes 13: 196. doi:10.3390/genes13020196
Björnsdotter E, Nadzieja M, Chang W, Escobar-Herrera L, Mancinotti D, Angra D, Xia X, Tacke R, Khazaei H, Crocoll C, Vandenberg A, Link W, Stoddard FL, O’Sullivan DM, Stougaard J, Schulman AH, Andersen SU, Geu-Flores F (2021) VC1 catalyses a key step in the biosynthesis of vicine in faba bean. Nature Plants 7: 923–931 doi:10.1038/s41477-021-00950-w
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Domoney C. (2021) Reaching for the pulse of the planet and its population. The Biochemist 43: 26-30. doi:10.1042/bio_2021_136
Robinson G.H.J., Domoney C. (2021) Perspectives on the genetic improvement of health- and nutrition-related traits in pea. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 158: 353-362. doi:10.1016/j.plaphy.2020.11.020
Capstaff N.M., Domoney C., Miller A.J. (2021) Real-time monitoring of rhizosphere nitrate fluctuations under crops following defoliation. Plant methods doi:10.1186/s13007-021-00713-w
Khazaei H., O’Sullivan D. M., Stoddard F. L., Adhikari K. N., Paull J. G., Schulman A. H., Andersen S. U. and Vandenberg A. (2021) Recent advances in faba bean genetic and genomic tools for crop improvement. Legume Science. doi:10.1002/leg3.75
Bishop J. and Nakagawa S. (2021) Quantifying crop pollinator dependence and its heterogeneity using multi-level meta-analysis. Journal of Applied Ecology. ISSN 0021-8901 doi:10.1111/1365-2664.13830
Petropoulou K., Salt L.J., Edwards C.H., Warren F.J., Garcia-Perez I., Chambers E.S., Alshaalan R., Khatib M., Perez-Moral N., Gotts K.L., Kellingray L., Stanley R., Koev T., Khimyak Y.Z., Narbad A., Penney N., Serrano-Contreras J.I., Charalambides M.N., Blanco J.M., Seoane R.C., McDonald J.A.K., Marchesi J.R., Holmes E., Godsland I.F., Morrison D.J., Preston T., Domoney C., Wilde P.J., Frost G.S. (2020) A natural mutation in Pisum sativum L. (pea) alters starch assembly and improves glucose homeostasis in humans Nature Food 1 doi:10.1038/s43016-020-00159-8
Capstaff N.M., Morrison F., Cheema J., Brett P., Hill L., Muñoz-García J.C., Khimyak Y.Z., Domoney C., Miller A.J. (2020) Fulvic acid increases forage legume growth inducing preferential upregulation of nodulation and signalling-related genes. Journal of experimental botany doi:10.1093/jxb/eraa283
Björnsdotter E., Nadzieja M., Chang W., Escobar-Herrera L., Mancinotti D., Angra D., Khazaei H., Crocoll C., Vandenberg A., Stoddard F.L., O’Sullivan D.M., Stougaard J., Schulman A.H., Andersen S.U., Geu-Flores F. (2020) VC1 catalyses a rate-limiting step in vicine biosynthesis from GTP in faba bean, BioArxiv
Abd El-Wahab M. M. H., Aljabri M., Sarhan M. S., Osman G., Wang S., Mabrouk M., El-Shabrawi H. M., Gabr A. M. M., Abd El-Haliem A. M., O’Sullivan D. M. and El-Soda M. (2020) High-density SNP-based association mapping of seed traits in fenugreek reveals homology with clover. Genes 11: 893. doi:10.3390/genes11080893
Warsame A. O., Michael N., O’Sullivan D. M. and Tosi, P. (2020) Identification and quantification of major faba bean seed proteins. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 68: 8535-8544. doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.0c02927
Bishop J., Garratt M. and Breeze T. (2020) Yield benefits of additional pollination to faba bean vary with cultivar, scale, yield parameter and experimental method. Scientific Reports, 10. 2102. ISSN 2045-2322 doi:10.1038/s41598-020-58518-1
Gali K.K., Sackville A., Tafesse E.G., Lachagari V.B.R., McPhee K.E., Hybl M., Mikic A., Smýkal P., McGee, R., Burstin J., Domoney C., Ellis T.H.N., Tar’an B. and Warkentin T. (2019) Genome-wide association mapping for agronomic and seed quality traits of field pea (Pisum sativum L.). Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 1538 doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01538
Santos C.S., Carbas B., Castanho A., Vasconcelos M.W., Vaz Patto M.C., Domoney C., Brites C. (2019) Variation in pea (Pisum sativum L.) seed quality traits defined by physicochemical functional properties. Foods 8: 570 doi:10.3390/foods8110570
Robinson G. H. J., Balk J., Domoney C. (2019) Improving pulse crops as a source of protein, starch and micronutrients. Nutrition Bulletin 44: 202-215 doi:10.1111/nbu.12399
Khazaei, H., Purves, R., Hughes, J., Link, W., O’Sullivan, D. M., Schulman, A., Björnsdotter, E., Geu-Flores, F., Nadzieja, M., Andersen, S., Stougaard, J., Vandenberg, A., Stoddard, F. (2019) Eliminating vicine and convicine, the main anti-nutritional factors restricting faba bean usage J. Agric. Food Chem. 91:549-556
Moreau C., Knox M., Turner L., Rayner T., Thomas J., Philpott H., Belcher S., Fox K., Ellis N., Domoney C. (2018) Recombinant inbred lines derived from cultivars of pea for understanding the genetic basis of variation in breeders’ traits. Plant Genetic Resources 16: 424-436 doi:10.1017/S1479262118000345
Ghosh S., Watson A., Gonzalez-Navarro O. E., Ramirez-Gonzalez R., Yanes L., Mendoza-Suarez M., Simmonds J., Wells R., Rayner T., Green P., Hafeez A., Hayta S., Melton R. E., Steed A., Sarkar A., Carter J., Perkins L., Lord J., Tester M., Osbourn A., Moscou M. J., NICHOLSON P., Harwood W., Martin C., Domoney C., Uauy C., Hazard B., Wulff B. B. H., Hickey L. (2018) Speed breeding in growth chambers and glasshouses for crop breeding and model plant research. Nature Protocols 13: 2944-2963 doi:10.1038/s41596-018-0072-z
Ellis N., Hattori C., Cheema J., Donarski J., Charlton A., Dickinson M., Venditti G., Kaló P., Szabó Z., Kiss G., Domoney C. (2018) NMR metabolomics defining genetic variation in pea seed metabolites. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: 102.2 doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.01022
Perez-Moral N., Plankeele J. M., Domoney C., Warren F. J. (2018) Ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-size exclusion chromatography (UPLC-SEC) as an efficient tool for the rapid and highly informative characterisation of biopolymers. Carbohydrate Polymers 196: 422-426 doi:10.1016/j.carbpol.2018.05.049
Rayner T., Moreau C., Isaac P. G., Domoney C. (2018) Genetic diversity and strategies for seed quality enhancement in Pisum (pea). Aspects of Applied Biology 138: 141-147
Maalouf F., Hu J., O’Sullivan D.M., Zong X., Hamwieh A., Kumar S. Baum M. (2018) Breeding and genomics status in faba bean (Vicia faba L) Plant Breeding 2018: 1-9 doi:138:465-473
Ghosh S., Watson A., Gonzalez-Navarro O. E., Ramirez-Gonzalez R., Yanes L., Mendoza-Suárez M., Simmonds J., Wells R., Rayner T., Green P., Hafeez A., Hayta S., Melton R. E., Steed A., Sarkar A., Carter J., Perkins L., Lord J., Tester M., Osbourn A., Moscou M. J., Nicholson P., Harwood W., Martin C., Domoney C., Uauy C., Hazard B., Wulff B. B. H., Hickey L. T. (2018) Speed breeding in growth chambers and glasshouses for crop breeding and model plant research. bioRxiv doi:10.1038/s41596-018-0072-z
Moreau C., Hofer J. M. I., Eléouët M., Sinjushin A., Ambrose M., Skøt K., Blackmore T., Swain M., Hegarty M., Balanzà V., Ferrándiz C., Ellis T. H. N. (2018) Identification of Stipules reduced, a leaf morphology gene in pea (Pisum sativum). New Phytologist doi:10.1111/nph.15286
Moore K. L., Rodriguez-Ramiro I., Jones E. R., Jones E. J., Rodriguez-Celma J., Halsey K., Domoney C., Shewry P. R., Fairweather-Tait S., Balk J. (2018) The stage of seed development influences iron bioavailability in pea (Pisum sativum L.). Scientific Reports 8: 6865 doi:10.1038/s41598-018-25130-3
Watson A., Ghosh S., Williams M. J., Cuddy W. S., Simmonds J., Rey M-D., Hatta M. A. M., Hinchliffe A., Steed A., Reynolds D., Adamski N. M., Breakspear A., Korolev A., Rayner T., Dixon L.E., Riaz A., Martin W., Ryan M., Edwards D., Batley J., Raman H., Carter J., Rogers C., Domoney C., Moore G., Harwood W., Nicholson P., Dieters M. J., Delacy I. H., Zhou J., Uauy C., Boden S. A., Park R. F., Wulff B. B. H., Hickey L. T. (2018) Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding. Nature Plants 4: 23–29 doi:10.1038/s41477-017-0083-8
Warsame, A., O’Sullivan, D. M., Tosi, P. (2018) Seed storage proteins of faba bean (Vicia faba): current status and prospects for genetic improvement. J. Agric. Food Chem. 66:12617-12626
Rayner T., Moreau C., Ambrose M., Isaac P. G., Ellis N., Domoney C. (2017) Genetic variation controlling wrinkled seed phenotypes in Pisum: how lucky was Mendel? International Journal of Molecular Sciences 18(6): 1205. doi:10.3390/ijms18061205
Bishop J., Jones H.E., O’sullivan D.M., Potts S.G. (2017). Elevated temperature drives a shift from selfing to outcrossing in the insect-pollinated legume, faba bean (Vicia faba). Journal of Experimental Botany 68: 2055-63. doi:10.1093/jxb/erw430
Petropoulou K., Chambers E.S., Morrison D.J., Preston T., Godsland I.F., Wilde P., Narbad A, Parker R, Salt L., Morris V.J., Domoney C, Persaud S.J., Holmes E., Penson S., Watson J., Stocks M., Buurman M., Luterbacher M., Frost G. (2016) Identifying crop variants with high resistant starch content to maintain healthy glucose homeostasis. Nutrition Bulletin 41(4): p372–377. doi:10.1111/nbu.12240
Smýkal P., Varshney R.K., Singh V.K., Coyne C.J. Domoney C., Kejnovský E., Warkentin T. (2016) From Mendel’s discovery on pea to today’s plant genetics and breeding, Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the reading of Mendel’s discovery. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 129(12): p2267–2280. doi:10.1007/s00122-016-2803-2
O’Sullivan D.M., Angra D. (2016) Advances in faba bean genetics and genomics. Frontiers in Genetics 7: 150. doi:10.3389/fgene.2016.00150
Webb A., Cottage A., Wood T., Khamassi K., Hobbs D., Gostkiewicz K., Duc G., Stoddard F., Maalouf F., Ogbonnaya F., Link W., Thomas J. O’Sullivan D.M. (2016) A SNP-based consensus genetic map for synteny-based trait targeting in faba bean (Vicia faba L.). Plant Biotechnology Journal 14:177-85. doi:10.1111/pbi.12371
Bell A., Moreau C., Chinoy C., Spanner R., Dalmais M., Le Signor C., Bendahmane A., Klenell M., Domoney C. (2015) SGRL can regulate chlorophyll metabolism and contributes to normal plant growth and development in Pisum sativum L. Plant Molecular Biology 89(6): p539-558. doi:10.1007/s11103-015-0372-4
Clemente A., Arques M.C., Dalmais M., Le Signor C., Chinoy C., Olias R., Rayner T., Isaac P.G., Lawson D.M., Bendahmane A., Domoney C. (2015) Eliminating anti-nutritional plant food proteins: the case of seed protease inhibitors in Pea. PLoS ONE 10(8): e0134634. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0134634
Khazaei H., O’Sullivan D.M., Jones H., Pitt N., Sillanpää M.J., Pärssinen P., Manninen O. Stoddard F. (2015) SNP markers linked to the locus controlling levels of the anti-nutritional factors vicine and convicine in Vicia faba L. Molecular Breeding, 35: 38. doi:10.1007/s11032-015-0214-8
Warkentin T., Smykal P., Coyne C., Weeden N., Domoney C., Bing D., Leonforte T., Xuxiao Z., Dixit G., Boros L., Mcphee K., Mcgee R., Burstin J., Ellis N. (2014) Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Grain Legumes. (Handbook of Plant Breeding Vol 10) Springer Science and Business Media Grain Legumes. ISBN 978-1-4939-2796-8
Vaz Patto M., Amarowicz R., Aryee A., Boye J., Chung H., Martin-Cabrejas M., Domoney C. (2014) Achievements and challenges in improving the nutritional quality of food legumes. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 34(1-3): 105-143. doi:10.1080/07352689.2014.897907
Khazaei H., O’Sullivan D.M., Sillanpaa M.J., Stoddard F.L. (2014). Use of synteny to identify candidate genes underlying QTL controlling stomatal traits in faba bean (Vicia faba L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics 127: 2371-85. doi:10.1007/s00122-014-2383-y
Khazaei H., O’Sullivan D.M., Sillanpää M.J. Stoddard F.L. (2014) Genetic analysis reveals a novel locus in Vicia faba decoupling pigmentation in the flower from that in the extra-floral nectaries. Molecular Breeding 3:1507-1513.
Domoney C., Knox M., Moreau C., Ambrose M., Palmer S., Smith P., Christodoulou V., Isaac P., Hegarty M., Blackmore T., Swain M., Ellis N. (2013) Exploiting a fast neutron mutant genetic resource in Pisum sativum (pea) for functional genomics. Functional Plant Biology 40: 1261-1270. doi:10.1071/FP13147
Clemente A., Marin-Manzano M., Arques M., Domoney C. (2013) Bowman-Birk inhibitors from legumes: utilisation in disease prevention and therapy. Bioactive Food Peptides in Health and Disease (Editors: Hernandez-Ledesma B., Hsieh C. C.) INTECH 23-44. doi:10.5772/51262
Khamassi K., Ben Jeddi F., Hobbs D., Irigoyen J., Stoddard F., O’Sullivan D.M., Jones H. (2013). A baseline study of vicine-convicine levels in faba bean (Vicia faba L.) germplasm. Plant Genetic Resources 11: 250-7.
Clemente A., Marin-Manzano C., Jimenez E., Arques M., Domoney C. (2012) The anti-proliferative effect of TI1B, a major Bowman-Birk isoinhibitor from pea (Pisum sativum L.), on HT29 colon cancer cells is mediated through protease inhibition. British Journal of Nutrition 108: S135-S144. doi:10.1017/S000711451200075X
Cottage A., Gostkiewicz K., Thomas J., Borrows R., Torres A-M., O’Sullivan D. (2012) Heterozygosity and diversity analysis using mapped SNPs in a faba bean inbreeding programme. Molecular Breeding 30: 1799–1809. doi:10.1007/s11032-012-9745-4
Clemente A., Sonnante G., Domoney C. (2011) Bowman-Birk inhibitors from legumes and human gastrointestinal health: current status and perspectives. Current Protein and Peptide Science 12: 358-373. PMID:21418025
Rubiales D., Ambrose M., Domoney C., Burstin J. (2011) Pea (Pisum sativum L.) Genetics, Genomics and Breeding in Crop Plants: Cool Season Food Legumes (Editors: de la Vega M. P., Torres A. M., Cubero J. I., Kole C.) Science Pubs Inc., USA, New Hampshire, Jersey, Plymouth, 1-49. ISBN:978-1-4398-8339-6
Clemente A., Marin-Manzano M., Domoney C. (2011) Exploiting natural variation in legume Bowman-Birk inhibitors to dissect their potential role in human health-promoting programmes. Canadian Journal of Plant Science 91: 377-378. doi:10.4141/CJPS11501
Chinoy C., Welham T., Turner L., Moreau C., Domoney C. (2011) The genetic control of seed quality traits: effects of allelic variation at the Tri and Vc-2 genetic loci in Pisum sativum L. Euphytica 180: 107-122 doi:10.1007/s10681-011-0363-8
Ellis N. (2011) Germplasm resources in legumes. Plant Genetic Resources 9: 1-3. doi:10.1017/S1479262110000432
Smykal P., Kenicer G., Flavell A., Corander J., Kosterin O., Redden R., Ford R., Coyne C., Maxted N., Ambrose M., Ellis N. (2011) Phylogeny, phylogeography and genetic diversity of the Pisum genus. Plant Genetic Resources 9: 4-18. doi:10.1017/S147926211000033X
Clemente A., Moreno F., Marin-Manzano M., Jimenez E., Domoney C. (2010) The cytotoxic effect of Bowman-Birk isoinhibitors, IBB1 and IBBD2, from soybean (Glycine max) on HT29 human colorectal cancer cells is related to their intrinsic ability to inhibit serine proteases. Molecular Nutrition & Food Research 54: 396-405. doi:10.1002/mnfr.200900122
Hofer J., Turner L., Moreau C., Ambrose M., Isaac P., Butcher S., Weller J., Dupin A., Dalmais M., Le Signor C., Bendahmane A., Ellis N. (2009) Tendril-less regulates tendril formation in pea leaves. Plant Cell 21: 420-428. doi:10.1105/tpc.108.064071
Vigeolas H., Chinoy C., Zuther E., Blessington B., Geigenberger P., Domoney C. (2008) Combined metabolomic and genetic approaches reveal a link between the polyamine pathway and albumin 2 in developing pea seeds. Plant Physiology 146: 74-82. doi:10.1104/pp.107.111369
Charlton A., Donarski J., Harrison M., Jones S., Godward J., Oehlschlager S., Arques J., Ambrose M., Chinoy C., Mullineaux P., Domoney C. (2008) Responses of the pea (Pisum sativum L.) leaf metabolome to drought stress assessed by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Metabolomics 4: 312-327. doi:10.1007/s11306-008-0128-0
VeGIN
Pereira N., Hales K. R., Mead A., Chappell L., Barker G. C., Clarkson J. P. (2024) Development of artificial inoculation techniques for Pythium violae to identify carrot resistance crop protection products for cavity spot control (under review)
Cousins O., Harris E., Beacham A. M., Monaghan J. M. (2024) Identification of abiotic stress resilience in half-sib populations of carrot (Daucus carota subsp. sativus) and onion (Allium cepa). In preparation.
Monaghan J. M., Beacham A. M., Cousins O., Barker G., Allender C. (2024) Development and utilisation of phenotyping pipelines to assess resilience to transient abiotic stress in vegetable crop populations. Acta Hortic 1372. ISHS 2023.
Cottrell A., Barker G, Chappell L., Crocker T., Falloon P. (2023) Building resilience in horticulture: Integrating crop breeding programs with climate information; Adaptation partnership: VeGIN and MOHC case study, Joint Met Office / VeGIN report for Defra
Beacham A. M., Wilkins K. A., Davies J. M., Monaghan J. M. (2023) Vacuolar Ca2+/H+ exchanger and Ca2+-ATPase homologues are differentially regulated in tipburn-resistant and susceptible lettuce (Lactuca sativa) cultivars. Plant Physiol Biochem 201: 107792.
Macleod K., Greer S. F., Bramham L. E., Pimenta R. J. G., Nellist C. F., Hackenburg D., Teakle G. R., Barker G. C., Walsh, J. A. (2023) A review of sources of resistance to turnip yellows virus (TuYV) in Brassica species. Ann Appl Biol, 1–9.
Beacham A. M., Hand P., Teakle G. R., Barker G. C., Pink D. A. C., Monaghan J. M. (2023) Tipburn resilience in lettuce (Lactuca spp.) – the importance of germplasm resources and production system-specific assays. J Sci Food Agric 103: 4481-4488.
Beacham A. M., Hand P., Pink D. A., Monaghan J. M. (2017) Analysis of Brassica oleracea early stage abiotic stress responses reveals tolerance in multiple crop types and for multiple sources of stress. J Sci Food Ag 97:5271-5277.
Hunter P. J., Atkinson L. D., Vickers L., Lignou S., Oruna-Concha M. J., Pink D., Hand P., Barker G., Wagstaff C., Monaghan J. M. (2017) Oxidative discolouration in whole-head and cut lettuce: Biochemical and environmental influences on a complex phenotype and potential breeding strategies to improve shelf-life. Euphytica 213:180-196.
Monaghan J. M., Vickers L. V., Grove I. G., Beacham A. M. (2017) Deficit Irrigation Reduces Postharvest Rib Pinking in Wholehead Iceberg Lettuce, but at the Expense of Head Fresh Weight. J Sci Food Ag 97(5):1524–1528.
Presentations
Eucarpia Leafy Vegetables Congress, June 2019. Attended by C. Allender, Jim Monaghan and Andrew Beacham. Jim Monaghan gave a key note talk “Discovering traits of commercial interest in diversity collections”.
UK Plant Phenotyping Network Meeting at the University of Sheffield, 12–13 January 2020. Andrew Beacham presented a poster and short presentation on the HAU VeGIN project entitled “Developing Methods to Assess and Quantify Abiotic Stress Response in Brassica oleracea”.
HAPI dissemination event, December 2019. Presentation on the HAPI funded project on post-harvest discolouration in lettuce, which acknowledged use of lettuce plant resources developed within VeGIN. This meeting was attended by G. Barker and Jim Monagahan.
International Symposium on Edible Alliaceae, Nigde, Turkey. 21–25 May. Andrew Taylor gave a talk on “Understanding the genetic control of pathogenicity and resistance for Fusarium oxysporum in onion”; Harun Rashid gave a talk on “Regulation of daylength adaptation and bulb formation in onion” and Brian Thomas presented a poster on “Allium research in the UK vegetable genetic improvement network (VeGIN)”.
Attendance and active participation in the FACCE-JPI and ERA-NET Cofund SusCrop Joint Exploratory Workshop on Application of Novel Breeding Techniques in Crops in the context of Food Security and Climate Change, held in Madrid, 27–28 June, 2019. This meeting was attended by G. Barker and M. Cannell.
WGIN
Note: a leading asterisk (*) is used for publications where the first and/or last author is not funded by WGIN.
Hill R., Grey M., Fedi M. O., Smith D. P., Ward S. J., Canning G., Irish N., Smith J., McMillan V., Hammond J., Osborne S., Chancellor T., Swarbreck D., Hall N., Palma-Guerrero J., Hammond-Kosack K. E., McMullan M. (2024) Evolutionary genomics reveals variation in structure and genetic content implicated in virulence and lifestyle in the genus Gaeumannomyces. BioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.15.580261. WGIN Resource used: Isolate methods to recover Take-all isolations from soil cores and the WGIN Diversity field trial
Cheng S., … & Griffiths S. (2024) Harnessing Landrace Diversity Empowers Wheat Breeding for Climate Resilience https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.04.560903v1. WGIN Resource used: Watkins wheat collection
* Al Zadjali M.; Rabiey M.; McMillan V.; Shaw L.J.; Hammond-Kosack K. E. Malone, J.G.; Mauchline T. H.; Jackson, R. W. Characterising the Influence of First-Year Wheat Cultivar on Pseudomonas Selection and Function in a Take-All Infected Field. Crops 2023, 3, 195-208. https://doi.org/10.3390/crops3030019
Chancellor T., Smith D. P., Chen W., Clark S. J., Venter E., Halsey K., McMillan V., Canning G., Hammond-Kosack K.E., Palma-Guerrero J. (2023) Exploring the family feud: a fungal endophyte induces local cell wall-mediated resistance in wheat roots against the closely related “take-all” pathogen. BioRxiv https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.11.23.568424 WGIN resources used: WGIN diversity trial and take-all fungal isolates recovered from the soil cores taken from this trial.
* Oszvald M., Hassall K. L., Hughes D., Torres-Ballesteros A., Clark I., Riche A. B. and Heuer S. (2022) Genetic Diversity in Nitrogen Fertiliser Responses and N Gas Emission in Modern Wheat, Frontiers in Plant Science, section Plant Nutrition. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.816475. Note: all authors, except Andrew Riche, are not part of the WGIN project.
Chapman, E.A., Orford, S., Lage, J. & Griffiths S. (2021) Capturing and Selecting Senescence Variation in Wheat Frontiers In Plant Science http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.638738
Chapman, E. A., Orford, S., Lage, J., & Griffiths, S. (2021). Delaying or delivering: identification of novel NAM-1 alleles that delay senescence to extend wheat grain fill duration. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(22), 7710-7728.
Dreisigacker, S., Burgueño, J., Pacheco, A., Molero, G., Sukumaran, S., Rivera-Amado, C., … & Griffiths, S. (2021). Effect of flowering time-related genes on biomass, harvest index, and grain yield in CIMMYT elite spring bread wheat. Biology, 10(9), 855.
Hammond-Kosack, M. C. U., King, R., Kanyuka, K. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. (2021) Exploring the diversity of promoter and 5’UTR sequences in ancestral, historic and modern wheat. Plant Biotechnology Journal Volume 19, Issue 12 December 2021 Pages 2469-2487 (accepted 8 July 2021) Impact factor – 8.154. Invited by Journal to provide the Front Cover image With RRes press release on 28th October 2021 – https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/new-targets-crop-genetic-improvement-found. WGIN resources used: WGIN promotome capture data set, Watkins lines and T. monococcum lines
Palma-Guerrero, J., Chancellor, T., Spong, J., Canning, G., Hammond, J., McMillan V. E. and Hammond-Kosack, K.E. (2021) Take-all disease: New insights into an important wheat root pathogen. Trends in Plant Sciences https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.02.009 (published March 2021). WGIN Resource used: WGIN Diversity trial over multiple years
* Zhou H., Riche A. B., Hawkesford M. J., Whalley W. R., Atkinson B. S., Sturrock C .J., Mooney S. J. (2021) Determination of wheat spike and spikelet architecture and grain traits using X-ray Computed Tomography imaging. Plant Methods https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-101191/v1.
Chapman, E.A., Orford, S., Lage, J. & Griffiths S. (2021) Capturing and Selecting Senescence Variation in Wheat Frontiers In Plant Science (http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2021.638738)
Chapman, E. A., Orford, S., Lage, J., & Griffiths, S. (2021). Delaying or delivering: identification of novel NAM-1 alleles that delay senescence to extend wheat grain fill duration. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72(22), 7710-7728.
Dreisigacker, S., Burgueño, J., Pacheco, A., Molero, G., Sukumaran, S., Rivera-Amado, C., … & Griffiths, S. (2021). Effect of flowering time-related genes on biomass, harvest index, and grain yield in CIMMYT elite spring bread wheat. Biology, 10(9), 855.Hammond-Kosack, M.C.U., King, R., Kanyuka, K. and Hammond-Kosack, K.E. (2021) Exploring the diversity of promoter and 5’UTR sequences in ancestral, historic and modern wheat. Plant Biotechnology Journal Volume 19, Issue 12 December 2021 Pages 2469-2487 (accepted 8 July 2021) Impact factor – 8.154. Invited by Journal to provide the Front Cover image With RRes press release on 28th October 2021 – https://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/news/new-targets-crop-genetic-improvement-found. WGIN resources used: WGIN promotome capture data set, Watkins lines and T. monococcum lines
Palma-Guerrero, J., Chancellor, T., Spong, J., Canning, G., Hammond, J., McMillan V. E. and Hammond-Kosack, K.E. (2021) Take-all disease: New insights into an important wheat root pathogen. Trends in Plant Sciences https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2021.02.009 (published March 2021). WGIN Resource used: WGIN Diversity trial over multiple years
* Zhou H., Riche A. B., Hawkesford M. J., Whalley W. R., Atkinson B. S., Sturrock C .J., * Mooney S.J. (2021) Determination of wheat spike and spikelet architecture and grain traits using X-ray Computed Tomography imaging. Plant Methods https://doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-101191/v1.
Hawkesford M.J., Riche A.B. (2020) Impacts of G x E x M on Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Wheat and Future Prospects. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, 1157. doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.01157.
An evaluation of recent trends in nitrogen use efficiency of UK wheat. (2020) DEFRA report EVID 4 CH0109
AHDB Science report No 50 (published May 2020)
* Dixon L. E., et al (2019) VERNALIZATION1 controls developmental responses of winter wheat under high ambient temperatures. Development 146.3 doi:10.1242/dev.172684
* Alba Farre Martinez, Clare Lister, Sue Freeman, Jun Ma, Simon Berry, Luzie Wingen and Simon Griffiths (2021) Resolving a QTL complex for height, heading, and grain yield on chromosome 3A in bread wheat (2021) Journal of Experimental Botany 72, 2965–2978. doi:10.1093/jxb/erab058 (published Feb 2021).
* Zhou H., Riche A.B., Hawkesford M.J., Whalley W.R., Atkinson B.S., Sturrock C.J., Mooney S.J. (2021) Determination of wheat spike and spikelet architecture and grain traits using X-ray Computed Tomography imaging. Plant Methods 17. doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-101191/v1.
Palma-Guerrero, J., Chancellor, T., Spong, J., Canning, G., Hammond, J., McMillan V. E. and Hammond-Kosack, K.E. (2021) Take-all disease: New insights into an important wheat root pathogen. Trends in Plant Sciences. doi:10.1016/j.tplants.2021.02.009 (published March 2021).
Hawkesford, M. J., Griffiths, S. (2019) Exploiting genetic variation in nitrogen use efficiency for cereal crop improvement. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 49: 35–42. doi:10.1016/j.pbi.2019.05.003
* Heyneke, E., Watanabe, M., Erban, A., Duan, G., Buchner, P. H., Walther, D., Kopka, J., Hawkesford, M. J., Hoefgen, R. (2019) Effect of Senescence Phenotypes and Nitrate Availability on Wheat Leaf Metabolome during Grain Filling. Agronomy, 9: 305.
Holman, F. H., Riche, A., Castle, M., Wooster, M., Hawkesford, M. J. (2019) Radiometric calibration of ‘Commercial off the shelf’ cameras for UAV-based high-resolution temporal phenotyping of reflectance and NDVI. Remote Sensing, 11: 1657. doi:10.3390/rs11141657
Kanyuka K, Rudd JJ (2019) Cell surface immune receptors: the guardians of the plant’s extracellular spaces. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 50: 1-8
McMillan, V.E., Canning, G., Moughan, J. R.P. White, J.R.P., Gutteridge, R.J. and Hammond-Kosack, K.E.(2018) Exploring the resilience of wheat crops grown in short rotations through minimising the build-up of an important soil-borne fungal pathogen. Nature Scientific Reports 8: 9550. (Rothamsted press release)
Ochagavía, Helga, Paula Prieto, Meluleki Zikhali, Simon Griffiths, and Gustavo A. Slafer. “Earliness Per Se by Temperature Interaction on Wheat Development.” Nature Scientific Reports 9, no. 1 (2019): 2584.
* Rossmann, A., Buchner, P., Savill, G. P., Powers, S. J., Hawkesford, M. J., Muhling, K. H. (2019) Foliar N Application at Anthesis Stimulates Gene Expression of Grain Protein Fractions and Alters Protein Body Distribution in Winter Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 67 (46): 12709-12719. doi:10.1021/acs.jafc.9b04634
* Rossmann, A., Buchner. P., Savill. G., Hawkesford, M. J., Scherf, K. A., Mühling, K. H. (2019) Foliar N application at anthesis alters grain protein composition and enhances baking quality in winter wheat only under a low N fertiliser regimen. European Journal of Agronomy, 109: 125909. doi:10.1016/j.eja.2019.04.004
Reynolds, Daniel, Joshua Ball, Alan Bauer, Robert Davey, Simon Griffiths, and Ji Zhou. “CropSight: A scalable and open-source information management system for distributed plant phenotyping and IoT-based crop management.” GigaScience 8, 1-11(2019).
Saintenac, C., Lee, W-S., Cambon, F., Rudd, J.J., King, R., Marande, W., Helene Berges, Phillips, A.L., Uauy, C., Hammond-Kosack, K.E., Langin, T. and Kanyuka, K. (2018) “An evolutionary conserved pattern-recognition receptor like protein controls gene-for-gene resistance to a fungal pathogen in wheat”. Nature Genetics 50, 368-374. (Press release January 2018)
McMillan, V.E., Canning, G., Moughan, J. R.P. White, J.R.P., Gutteridge, R.J. and Hammond-Kosack, K.E. (2018) Exploring the resilience of wheat crops grown in short rotations through minimising the build-up of an important soil-borne fungal pathogen. Nature Scientific Reports 8, 9550 (accepted, 29th March 2018). Press release May 2018
Osborne, S.-J., McMillan, V., White R. and Hammond-Kosack, K. E. (2018) Elite UK winter wheat cultivars differ in their ability to support the colonisation of beneficial root-infecting fungi Phialophora. Journal of Experimental Botany 69, 3103-3115 (Press release June 2018)
Prieto, Paula, Helga Ochagavía, Roxana Savin, Simon Griffiths, and Gustavo A. Slafer. “Dynamics of floret initiation/death determining spike fertility in wheat as affected by Ppd genes under field conditions.” Journal of Experimental Botany 69, no.10 (2018): 2633-2645.
Ochagavía, Helga, Paula Prieto, Roxana Savin, Simon Griffiths, and Gustavo A. Slafer. “Dynamics of leaf and spikelet primordia initiation in wheat as affected by Ppd-1a alleles under field conditions.” Journal of Experimental Botany 69, no.10 (2018): 2621-2631.
Prieto, Paula, Helga Ochagavía, Roxana Savin, Simon Griffiths, and Gustavo A. Slafer. “Physiological determinants of fertile floret survival in wheat as affected by earliness per se genes under field conditions.” European Journal of Agronomy 99 (2018): 206-213.
Zhou, Ji, Francois Tardieu, Tony Pridmore, John Doonan, Daniel Reynolds, Neil Hall, Simon Griffiths et al. “Plant phenomics: history, present status and challenges.” Journal of Nanjing Agricultural University 41, no. 4 (2018): 580-588.