Publications

Key publications have been chosen that showcase the influential voice DCCIT has within the field of crop science. 

Dr Heather Knight 

• Panter, Paige E., Kent, Olivia, Dale, Maeve, Smith, Sarah J., Skipsey, Mark, Thorlby, Glenn, Cummins, Ian, Ramsay, Nathan, Begum, Rifat A., Sanhueza, Dayan, Fry, Stephen C., Knight, Marc R. & Knight, Heather (2019). MUR1-mediated cell-wall fucosylation is required for freezing tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 224(2): 1518-1531. 

• Calixto, Cristiane P.G., Guo, Wenbin, James, Allan B., Tzioutziou, Nikoleta A., Entizne, Juan Carlos, Panter, Paige E., Knight, Heather, Nimmo, Hugh G., Zhang, Runxuan & Brown, John W.S. (2018). Rapid and Dynamic Alternative Splicing Impacts the Arabidopsis Cold Response Transcriptome. The Plant Cell 30(7): 1424-1444. 

Professor Marc Knight 

• Lenzoni G, Liu JL, Knight MR (2018) Predicting plant immunity gene expression by identifying the decoding mechanism of calcium signatures. New Phytologist 217: 1598-1609. 

• In this publication we have uncovered the mechanism by which plant cells "decode" information received during plant immunity responses via specific calcium signatures. This work explains how pathogenic signals can be encrypted within a "cellular language" which can be decoded by the nucleus to bring about the correct gene expression responses to mount a successful resistance response. 

• Liu JL, Lenzoni G, Knight MR (2020) Design Principle for Decoding Calcium Signals to Generate Specific Gene Expression Via Transcription(1). Plant Physiology 182: 1743-1761 

• In this publication we expand our understanding of how calcium signals are decoded in general in plant stress responses to mediate appropriate changes in transcription, through study of the underlying design principle. 

Professor Keith Lindsey 

• Wang, Maojun, Tu, Lili, Yuan, Daojun, Zhu, De, Shen, Chao, Li, Jianying, Liu, Fuyan, Pei, Liuling, Wang, Pengcheng, Zhao, Guannan, Ye, Zhengxiu, Huang, Hui, Yan, Feilin, Ma, Yizan, Zhang, Lin, Liu, Min, You, Jiaqi, Yang, Yicheng, Liu, Zhenping, Huang, Fan, Li, Baoqi, Qiu, Ping, Zhang, Qinghua, Zhu, Longfu, Jin, Shuangxia, Yang, Xiyan, Min, Ling, Li, Guoliang, Chen, Ling-Ling, Zheng, Hongkun, Lindsey, Keith, Lin, Zhongxu, Udall, Joshua A. & Zhang, Xianlong (2019). Reference genome sequences of two cultivated allotetraploid cottons, Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium barbadense. Nature Genetics 51: 224-229. 

• Wang, M., Tu, L., Lin, M., Lin, Z., Wang, P., Yang, Q., Ye, Z., Shen, C., Zhou, X., Zhang, L., Li, J., Nie, X., Li, Z., Guo, K., Ma, Y., Jin,S., Zhu, L., Yang, X., Min, L., Zhang, Q., Lindsey, K. & Zhang, X. (2017). Asymmetric subgenome selection and cis-regulatory divergence during cotton domestication. Nature Genetics 49(4): 579-587.