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Abscisic acid acts essentially on stomata, not on xylem, to improve drought resistance in tomato

Haverroth, Eduardo J.; Oliveira, Leonardo A.; Andrade, Moab T.; Taggart, Matthew; McAdam, Scott A. M.; Zsögön, Agustin; Thompson, Andrew J.; Martins, Samuel C. V.; Cardoso, Amanda A. (Wiley, 2023-08-01)

Drought resistance is essential for plant production under water-limiting environments. Abscisic acid (ABA) plays a critical role in stomata but its impact on hydraulic function beyond the stomata is far less studied. We ...
Automatic detection of regions in spinach canopies responding to soil moisture deficit using combined visible and thermal imagery

Raza, Shan-e-Ahmed; Smith, Hazel K.; Clarkson, Graham J. J.; Taylor, Gail; Thompson, Andrew J.; Clarkson, John; Rajpoot, Nasir M. (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-06-03)

Thermal imaging has been used in the past for remote detection of regions of canopy showing symptoms of stress, including water deficit stress. Stress indices derived from thermal images have been used as an indicator of ...
BIFURCATE FLOWER TRUSS: a novel locus controlling inflorescence branching in tomato contains a defective MAP kinase gene

Silva Ferreira, Demetryus; Kevei, Zoltan; Kurowski, Tomasz J.; de Noronha Fonseca, Maria Esther; Mohareb, Fady R.; Boiteux, Leonardo S.; Thompson, Andrew J. (Oxford University Press, 2018-03-02)

A mutant line, bifurcate flower truss (bif), was recovered from a tomato breeding program. Plants from the control line LAM183 produced a mean of 0.16 branches per truss, whereas the value for bif plants was 4.1. This ...
Biochemical characterization and selective inhibition of β-carotene cis-trans isomerase D27 and carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase CCD8 on the strigolactone biosynthetic pathway

Harrison, Peter J.; Newgas, Sophie A.; Decombes, Flora; Shepherd, Sarah A.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Bugg, Timothy D. H. (Wiley, 2015-08-31)

The first three enzymatic steps of the strigolactone biosynthetic pathway catalysed by β-carotene cis-trans isomerase Dwarf27 (D27) from Oryza sativa and carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases CCD7 and CCD8 from Arabidopsis ...
A bioinformatics and genotyping approach exploring personalised nutrition.

Molitor, Corentin (Cranfield UniversitySWEE, 2021-11)

Personalised nutrition is at its early stages but shows the potential of improving the health of the general population, at a time when diabetes and obesity are becoming worldwide epidemics. However, it will need to be ...
Chapter 3: Rootstock breeding: current practices and future technologies

Thompson, Andrew J.; Belen Pico, Maria; Yetişir, Halit; Cohen, Roni; Bebeli, Penelope J. (CAB eBooks, 2017-01-31)

This chapter explores how genetic diversity can be exploited more deeply to create new rootstock cultivars, and describes the current and future breeding strategies applicable to rootstocks. It considers how to combine ...
Control of water-use efficiency by florigen

Robledo, Jessenia M.; Medeiros, David; Vicente, Mateus H.; Azevedo, Aristéa A.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Peres, Lázaro E. P.; Ribeiro, Dimas M.; Araújo, Wagner L.; Zsögön, Agustin (Wiley, 2019-11-05)

A major issue in modern agriculture is water loss through stomata during photosynthetic carbon assimilation. In water‐limited ecosystems, annual plants have strategies to synchronize their growth and reproduction to the ...
The effects of controlled atmosphere and ethylene on the postharvest quality of sweet potato during storage.

Sowe, Sulaiman (2018-04)

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas Lam) is the third most important food commodity in Sierra Leone and global demand for the commodity is growing. To meet this demand requires the use of effective storage methods due to the ...
Elevated CO2 and high endogenous ABA level alleviate PEG-induced short-term osmotic stress in tomato plants

Li, Shenglan; Wang, Xizi; Liu, Xiaojuan; Thompson, Andrew J.; Liu, Fulai (Elsevier, 2021-12-18)

Elevated CO2 concentration (e[CO2]) alleviates the impact of drought stress on plants where abscisic acid (ABA) is involved. To explore the mechanisms by which tomato plants respond to short-term osmotic stress, Solanum ...
Environmental, developmental, and genetic factors controlling root system architecture

Mansoorkhani, F. M.; Seymour, G. B.; Swarup, R.; Moeiniyan Bagheri, H.; Ramsey, R. J. L.; Thompson, Andrew J. (Taylor & Francis, 2014-12-31)

A better understanding of the development and architecture of roots is essential to develop strategies to increase crop yield and optimize agricultural land use. Roots control nutrient and water uptake, provide anchoring ...
Ethylene and 1-methylcyclopropene differentially regulate gene expression during onion sprout suppression.

Cools, Katherine; Chope, Gemma Amy; Hammond, John P.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Terry, Leon A. (American Society of Plant Biologists, 2011-07-31)

Onion (Allium cepa) is regarded as a nonclimacteric vegetable. In onions, however, ethylene can suppress sprouting while the ethylene-binding inhibitor 1- methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) can also suppress sprout growth; yet, ...
Fructans redistribution prior to sprouting in stored onion bulbs is a potential marker for dormancy break

Ohanenye, Ikenna Christian; Alamar, M. Carmen; Thompson, Andrew J.; Terry, Leon A. (Elsevier, 2018-12-18)

Continuous supply of high quality onion bulbs to meet year-round demand is dependent on maintaining dormancy and bulb quality during storage. Sprouting impacts negatively on the storage quality of onion bulbs. Ethylene ...
Genes involved in auxin biosynthesis, transport and signalling underlie the extreme adventitious root phenotype of the tomato aer mutant

Kevei, Zoltan; Larriba, Eduardo; Romero‑Bosquet, María Dolores; Nicolás‑Albujer, Miriam; Kurowski, Tomasz J.; Mohareb, Fady; Rickett, Daniel; Pérez‑Pérez, José Manuel; Thompson, Andrew J. (Springer, 2024-03-03)

The use of tomato rootstocks has helped to alleviate the soaring abiotic stresses provoked by the adverse effects of climate change. Lateral and adventitious roots can improve topsoil exploration and nutrient uptake, shoot ...
Guidelines to use tomato in experiments with a controlled environment

Schwarz, Dietmar; Thompson, Andrew J.; Kläring, Hans-Peter (Frontiers Media, 2014-11-18)

Domesticated tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) is the most important horticultural crop worldwide. Low polymorphism at the DNA level conflicts with the wealth of morphological variation. Fruits vary widely in size, shape, and ...
Identification of novel stress-responsive biomarkers from gene expression datasets in tomato roots

Thompson, Andrew J.; Kevei, Zoltan (CSIRO Publishing, 2016-05-17)

Abiotic stresses such as heat, drought or salinity have been widely studied individually. Nevertheless, in the nature and in the field, plants and crops are commonly exposed to a different combination of stresses, which ...
Identifying opportunities to improve management of water stress in banana production

Panigrahi, Niranjan; Thompson, Andrew J.; Zubelzu, Sergio; Knox, Jerry W. (Elsevier, 2020-09-19)

Banana (Musa spp.) is one of the most valuable global agricultural commodities, with commercial plantations responsible for supplying nearly 15 % of total global banana production. These plantations are underpinned by major ...
Impact of overexpression of 9-cis-epoxycarotenoid dioxygenase on growth and gene expression under salinity stress

Martínez-Andújar, Cristina; Martínez-Pérez, Ascensión; Ferrández-Ayela, Almudena; Albacete, Alfonso; Martínez-Melgarejo, Purificación A.; Dodd, Ian C.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Pérez, José Manuel; Pérez-Alfocea, Francisco (Elsevier, 2019-09-12)

To better understand abscisic acid (ABA)’s role in the salinity response of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.), two independent transgenic lines, sp5 and sp12, constitutively overexpressing the LeNCED1 gene (encoding ...
Improving the tea withering process using ethylene or UV-C

Collings, Emma R.; Alamar, M. Carmen; Bogaerts Márquez, Maria; Kourmpetli, Sofia; Kevei, Zoltan; Thompson, Andrew J.; Mohareb, Fady; Terry, Leon A. (American Chemical Society, 2021-11-05)

Using a combination of biochemical, transcriptomic, and physiological analyses, we elucidated the mechanisms of physical and chemical withering of tea shoots subjected to UV-C and ethylene treatments. UV-C irradiation (15 ...
Kinetic characterisation of a single chain antibody against the hormone abscisic acid: comparison with its parental monoclonal

Badescu, George; Marsh, Andrew; Smith, Timothy R.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Napier, Richard M. (Public Library of Science, 2016-03-09)

A single-chain Fv fragment antibody (scFv) specific for the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) has been expressed in the bacterium Escherichia coli as a fusion protein. The kinetics of ABA binding have been measured using ...
A loss-of-function allele of a TAC1-like gene (SlTAC1) located on tomato chromosome 10 is a candidate for the Erectoid leaf (Erl) mutation

González-Arcos, Matías; de Noronha Fonseca, Maria Esther; Basílio Zandonadi, Daniel; Peres, Lázaro E. P.; Arruabarrena, Ana; Ferreira, Demetryus S.; Kevei, Zoltan; Mohareb, Fady R.; Thompson, Andrew J.; Boiteux, Leonardo S. (Springer Verlag, 2019-04-16)

The genetic basis of an erectoid leaf phenotype was investigated in distinct tomato breeding populations, including one derived from Solanum lycopersicum ‘LT05’ (with the erectoid leaf phenotype and uniform ripening, ...

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