RESEARCH PROFILE

Plant senescence, including the functional analysis of regulatory genes that control  leaf senescence in Arabidopsis and  the molecular and biochemical analysis of post harvest senescence in green vegetables, particularly broccoli. Plant signalling networks using Systems Biology.

AGRON-OMICS

Plant Response to Environmental STress in Arabidopsis

Systems Biology of signalling networks in leaf senescence

Functional analysis of regulatory genes involved in Arabidopsis leaf senescence

Genetics and genomics of post harvest senescence in broccoli

Molecular analysis of petal senescence

Vegetable Genetic Improvement Network (VeGIN)

BACKGROUND

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Elucidating Signalling Networks in Plant Stress Responses - SABR 1, with Beynon Jim, Warwick HRI, Ott, Sascha~Denby, Katherine J~Rand, David A~Finkenstadt, Barbel F~Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky~Beynon, Jim L~Wild, David L~ Systems Biology Centre~Warwick HRI~Mathematics~Statistics~Systems Biology Centre~Warwick HRI~Systems Biology Centre~, Funded by: BBSRC, Project Start Date: 07/04/2008 Project End Date: 06/04/2013
• VeGIN: Leafy vegetable and salads, with Guy Barker, Graham Teakle, John Walsh, Rosemary Collier - Life Sciences, Funded by: DEFRA, Project Start Date: 01/04/2009 Project End Date: 31/12/2012
• Systems Approaches to Biological Research (SABR) Studentships, Funded by: BBSRC, Project Start Date: 01/10/2008 Project End Date: 30/09/2012
  
  

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Breeze, E., Harrison, E., McHattie, S., Hughes, L., Hickman, R.D.G., Hill, C., Kiddle, S.J., Kim, Y.-S., Penfold, C.A., Jenkins, D.J., Zhang, C., Morris, K., Jenner, C.E., Jackson, S.D., Thomas, B., Tabrett, A., Legaie, R., Moore, J.D., Wild, D.L., Ott, S., Rand, D.A., Beynon, J., Denby, K.J., Mead, A. and Buchanan-Wollaston, V.(2011) 'High-resolution temporal profiling of transcripts during Arabidopsis leaf senescence reveals a distinct chronology of processes and regulation' The Plant Cell 23 (3), 873 - 894 (1040-4651) [article]
• Wagstaff, C., Bramke, I., Breeze, E., Thornber, S., Harrison, E., Thomas, B., Buchanan-Wollaston, V., Stead, T. and Rogers, H.(2010) 'A specific group of genes respond to cold dehydration stress in cut Alstroemeria flowers whereas ambient dehydration stress accelerates developmental senescence expression patterns' Journal Of Experimental Botany 61 (11), 2905 - 2921 (0022-0957) [article]
• Massonnet, C., Vile, D., Fabre, J., Hannah, M. A., Caldana, C., Lisec, J., Beemster, G. T. S., Meyer, R. C., Messerli, G., Gronlund, J. T., Perkovic, J., Wigmore, E., May, S., Bevan, M. W., Meyer, C., Rubio-Díaz, S., Weigel, D., Micol, J. L., Buchanan-Wollaston, V., Fiorani, F., Walsh, S., Rinn, B., Gruissem, W., Hilson, P., Hennig, L., Willmitzer, L. and Granier, C.(2010) 'Probing the reproducibility of leaf growth and molecular phenotypes: a comparison of three Arabidopsis accessions cultivated in ten laboratories' Plant Physiology 152 (4), 2142 - 2157 (0032-0889) [article]
• Kiddle, S. J., Windram, O. P. F., McHattie, S., Mead, A., Beynon, J., Buchanan-Wollaston, V., Denby, K. J. and Mukherjee, S.(2010) 'Temporal clustering by affinity propagation reveals putative transcriptional modules in Arabidopsis thaliana' Bioinformatics (UK - Print) 26 (3), 355 - 362 (1367-4803) [article]
• Krishna, R., Li, C. T. and Buchanan-Wollaston, V.(2010) 'A temporal precedence based clustering method for gene expression microarray data' BMC Bioinformatics 11 68 (1471-2105) [article]

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