Plant Sciences

Projects

Projects per year 2008 2013 2015 2016 2017 2018 2022 2030

• 17 Active
• 41 Not started
• 79 Finished

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  How Plant-Colonising Fungi Interact With Rhamnogalacturonan-ll

  Ndeh, D. (Investigator)

  1/12/23 → 31/05/25

  Project: Research

• BBSRC Seeding Awards for Novel Crops for UK Arable Farming

  Halpin, C. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/09/22 → 10/02/23

  Project: Research

• 22 RO MITIGATION FUND Dundee

  Halpin, C. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/09/22 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Microbiota 100%
  • Host Genetics 100%
  • Microflora 100%
  • Genetics 100%
  • Quantitative Traits 33%

• Australia Partnering Award International Pooling for Advanced Cereal Science - IPAC (Joint with James Hutton Institute (JHI), Waite Institute of University of Adelaide, La Trobe University, Australian National University) (Travel Grant)

  McKim, S. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/05/22 → 30/04/25

  Project: Research

• Depicting the richest source of pathogen linked miscellaneous gene expression in orphan crops by Nanopore (OCNANO)

  Simpson, G. (Investigator)

  COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

  1/09/21 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

  • Arabidopsis 100%
  • Spliceosome 100%
  • Eukaryote 100%
  • Precursor mRNA 100%
  • Alternative Splicing 100%

• Control of PolyA Site Choice by m6A RNA Modification

  Barton, G. (Investigator) & Simpson, G. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/07/21 → 13/02/25

  Project: Research

  • 5′ Splice Site 100%
  • U6 snRNA 70%
  • Pre-mRNA 50%
  • Precursor mRNA 50%
  • Eukaryote 50%

• Employing Pathogen Enrichment Sequencing to inform late blight resistance gene deployment in potato (ESoLaB)

  Hein, I. (Investigator)

  Teagasc - Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority

  15/06/21 → 14/12/22

  Project: Research

  • Potato 100%
  • James Hutton 50%
  • Disease Resistant 50%
  • Dundee 50%
  • New Disease 50%

• Target Enrichment-Based Potato Disease Resistance Gene Studies and Late-Blight Pathogen Diversity Research (Joint with China Agricultural University) (Newton Advanced Fellowship 2020)

  Hein, I. (Investigator)

  31/03/20 → 30/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Lycopersicon 100%
  • Phytophthora infestans 94%
  • Potato 61%
  • RenSeq 61%
  • Disease Genes 55%

• Studying Co Evolution in Agriculture to Inform NLR Deployment (Industrial Partnership Award - IPA)

  Hein, I. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/12/19 → 31/08/23

  Project: Research

  • Potato 100%
  • Infectious Agent 95%
  • Phytophthora infestans 93%
  • Enrichment Sequencing 88%
  • Phytophthora Infestans 79%

• Characterising Late Blight Disease Resistance Genes in Potato and Studying their Role in Shaping Pathogen Effector Diversity (International Exchanges) (Joint with the James Hutton Institute and the Federal Research Centre NI - Russian Institute of Plant Genetic Resources)

  Birch, P. (Investigator) & Hein, I. (Investigator)

  1/11/19 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Potato 100%
  • James Hutton 50%
  • Disease Resistant 50%
  • Dundee 50%
  • New Disease 50%

• Unravelling the Composition of the Maize Seed Microbiota and its Potential Contribution to Pathogen Protection

  Bulgarelli, D. (Investigator)

  29/04/19 → 28/07/19

  Project: Research

• The Roles of Extracellular Vesicle Transport in Late Blight Disease Development (Industrial Partnership Award (IPA))

  Birch, P. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/03/19 → 30/09/24

  Project: Research

  • Infectious Agent 100%
  • Phytophthora infestans 49%
  • Oomycetes 47%
  • Phytophthora Infestans 45%
  • Extracellular Vesicles 43%

• Assess the Potential of a New Method to Prevent Potato Blight Disease

  Birch, P. (Investigator) & He, Q. (Investigator)

  1/02/19 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Unravelling the Barley Genetic Control of the Rhizosphere Microbiota

  Barton, G. (Investigator), Bulgarelli, D. (Investigator) & Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  17/12/18 → 16/05/22

  Project: Research

  • Microflora 100%
  • Barley 68%
  • Microbiota 61%
  • Rhizosphere Microbiome 58%
  • Plant Microbiome 56%

• Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems (CIRCLES) (joint with Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna as lead, PanepistimioThessalias, Bolton Alimentari and 26 others)

  Bulgarelli, D. (Investigator)

  COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

  1/11/18 → 31/10/24

  Project: Research

  • Microbiota 100%
  • Microflora 100%
  • Rhizosphere Microbiome 75%
  • Barley 68%
  • Rhizosphere 54%

• A Reference Transcript Database for Improved Analysis of RNA-seq Data from Barley

  Brown, J. (Investigator) & Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/10/18 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

  • Barley 100%
  • RNA Sequencing 90%
  • Transcriptome 61%
  • RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) 57%
  • Reference Transcriptome 55%

• DogTag - A Genetically Encoded Proximity Labelling Strategy to Capture Problematic Protein-Protein Interactions

  Hemsley, P. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  3/09/18 → 2/12/22

  Project: Research

• 16 ERA-CAPS Barley Yield Associated Networks (Joint with IPK Gatersleben as lead and University of Minnesota)

  Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  13/08/18 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Barley 100%
  • RNA Sequencing 73%
  • Reference Transcriptome 54%
  • RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) 48%
  • Transcriptome 48%

• Defining and Deploying Rpi gene Diversity in S. Americanum to Control Late Blight in Potato (Joint with James Hutton Institute and The Sainsbury Lab, Norwich)

  Birch, P. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  4/07/18 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • Infectious Agent 100%
  • Pathogen Effectors 64%
  • Phytophthora infestans 41%
  • P. Infestans 31%
  • Oomycetes 31%

• Barley Mutant Workshop 2018

  Bulgarelli, D. (Investigator), Halpin, C. (Investigator), McKim, S. (Investigator) & Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  25/06/18 → 24/07/18

  Project: Research

• RSE IEP Bilateral Exchange Visit - Dr R Aswati Nair

  Simpson, G. (Investigator)

  Royal Society of Edinburgh

  1/05/18 → 31/05/18

  Project: Research

• Mechanisms Underlying Variation in Barley Hull Adhesion

  Campoli, C. (Investigator), Cook, S. (Investigator), McKim, S. (Investigator) & Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/04/18 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Barley 100%
  • Spadix 62%
  • Grains 58%
  • Cereals 50%
  • Embryophyta 50%

• IBH Rutherford Strategic Partners

  Halpin, C. (Investigator) & Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  1/03/18 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

  • Sodium Content 100%
  • Na+ Transporter 100%
  • Natural Variants 100%
  • Barley 100%
  • Na + 100%

• A Newly Discovered Role for mRNA Methylation in Controlling Plant Gene Expression (PLANT-RNA-MET)

  Simpson, G. (Investigator)

  COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

  1/03/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • RNA Sequence 100%
  • Arabidopsis 90%
  • RNA 75%
  • Direct RNA Nanopore Sequencing 60%
  • Arabidopsis Thaliana 60%

• The Molecular Cell Biology of Plant-oomycete Interactions: Understanding Disease and Disease Resistance (Wolfson Research Merit Award)

  Birch, P. (Investigator)

  1/01/18 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Understanding Transcriptional Regulatory Network Involved in the Drought Response in Arabidopsis and Banana (Joint with University of Malaya)

  Simpson, G. (Investigator)

  1/12/17 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

• Understanding Barley Straw Traits to Improve Sustainability and Crop Yields in Ethiopia

  Halpin, C. (Investigator)

  1/12/17 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

• New Approaches to Undermine Late Blight Disease by Exploiting an Understanding of Ubiquitin E3 Ligases that Positively Regulate Immunity

  Birch, P. (Investigator)

  Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/10/17 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Phytophthora infestans 100%
  • Infectious Agent 91%
  • Phytophthora Infestans 73%
  • Pathogen Effectors 64%
  • P. Infestans 63%

• Parasitism Master Regulators of Parasitic Nematodes

  Eves-van den Akker, S. (Investigator)

  Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland

  1/07/17 → 31/12/17

  Project: Research

• Control of Dynamic Palmitoylation: Identification of De-palmitoylating Enzymes and their Substrates in Plants

  Hemsley, P. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  29/06/17 → 28/11/20

  Project: Research

  • Acylation 100%
  • Protein Palmitoylation 70%
  • Receptor-interacting Protein Kinase 1 (RIPK1) 70%
  • Kinase 47%
  • Phosphotransferase 47%

• Australia-UK Interdisciplinary Partnership to Speed Cereal Breeding (Joint with University of York)

  Halpin, C. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/05/17 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

  • Barley 100%
  • Germplasm 56%
  • Sodium Content 50%
  • Na+ Transporter 50%
  • SNP Array 50%

• Developing Rice Straw for Animal Feed (Joint with Aberystwyth University and University of York)

  Halpin, C. (Investigator) & Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/05/17 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

  • Rice Straw 100%
  • Quantitative Trait Loci 100%
  • Association Mapping 100%
  • Quantitative Trait Locus 100%
  • Saccharification 100%

• Functional Analyses of Anti-Meiotic Crossover Genes in Large Genome Cereals

  Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  1/10/16 → 30/09/20

  Project: Research

• Regulation of Barley Architecture by HvAP2-like Transcription Factors (EASTBIO)

  MacKintosh, C. (Investigator) & McKim, S. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  5/09/16 → 4/09/20

  Project: Research

• MaxBio - Maximising Conversion Yields in Biorefining (Joint with Universities of York and Nottingham)

  Halpin, C. (Investigator) & Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/09/16 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Barley 100%
  • Saccharification 40%
  • Digestibility 40%
  • Lignin 38%
  • Grass 34%

• Developing Rice Resources for Resilience to Climate Change and Mitigation of Carbon Emissions (Joint with University of York and Institute of Food Research)

  Halpin, C. (Investigator) & Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/06/16 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

• Explosion-to-Implosion (Joint with Institute of Food Research, Norwich, University of Birmingham and Industrial Partner)

  Halpin, C. (Investigator)

  1/06/16 → 28/02/17

  Project: Research

• LBNet Feedstock Resource (joint with University of Warwick and University of London, Royal Holloway)

  Halpin, C. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/05/16 → 30/04/17

  Project: Research

• Undermining Effector-Targeted Susceptibility Factors to Provide Late Blight Resistance (Industrial Partnership award)

  Birch, P. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/04/16 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

  • Phytophthora infestans 100%
  • Infectious Agent 87%
  • Phytophthora Infestans 76%
  • P. Infestans 63%
  • RXLR Effector 54%

• The Genetic and Molecular Basis of Aphid Virulence (Joint with Imperial College London)

  Bos, J. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/03/16 → 31/12/19

  Project: Research

  • Avirulent 100%
  • Omics Approaches 100%
  • Aphid Effectors 100%
  • Differentially Expressed 100%
  • Avirulence 100%

• Genomic Selection for Accelerated Barley Breeding (Industrial CASE Studentship)

  Halpin, C. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  19/10/15 → 18/10/19

  Project: Research

• Unravelling the Contribution of the Cereal Bacterial Rhixosheath Formation and Functioning (Industrial CASE Studentship)

  Bulgarelli, D. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

  • HCN Channels 100%
  • Cultivated Barley 100%
  • Plant Sciences 100%
  • Barley 100%
  • Hordeum Vulgare 100%

• OMICS-Enabled Detection and Studies of Phytophthora Capsici Disease in the Field (Industrial CASE Studentship)

  Huitema, E. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/10/15 → 1/10/19

  Project: Research

• Receptor-Like Kinase Palmitoylation: A New Mode of Regulation

  Hemsley, P. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  31/08/15 → 30/01/19

  Project: Research

  • Receptor-interacting Protein Kinase 1 (RIPK1) 100%
  • Kinase 67%
  • Phosphotransferase 67%
  • Acylation 66%
  • FLS2 59%

• Diversifying Transcription Termination Function

  Barton, G. (Investigator) & Simpson, G. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/06/15 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

  • RNA Sequencing 100%
  • Arabidopsis 100%
  • RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) 86%
  • RNA Sequence 80%
  • Arabidopsis Thaliana 65%

• The Arabidopsis Epitranscriptome (Joint with University of Nottingham)

  Barton, G. (Investigator) & Simpson, G. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/04/15 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • RNA Sequencing 100%
  • Arabidopsis 87%
  • RNA Sequencing (RNA-seq) 86%
  • RNA Sequence 80%
  • Arabidopsis Thaliana 61%

• Identification of Proteins Regulated by Dynamic Palmitoylation during Pathogen Perception in Plants

  Hemsley, P. (Investigator)

  31/03/15 → 30/03/17

  Project: Research

• A Synthetic Biology Approach to Develop Durable Disease Resistance in Crops (Anniversary Fellowship)

  Birch, P. (Investigator) & Eves-van den Akker, S. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  2/02/15 → 1/04/18

  Project: Research

  • Nematode 100%
  • Plant-parasitic Nematodes 95%
  • Parasitic Nematodes 75%
  • Parasitism 47%
  • Cyst Nematode 41%

• An Integrated Approach to Evaluate and Harvest Genetic Diversity for Breeding Climate-Resistent Barley (FACCE-JPI ERANET) (Joint with Univerities of Helsinki, Copenhagen, East Anglia, Milan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Spanish National Research Council, Leibniz Institute of Plant Genetic and Crop Pland Research and Agricultural Research Council, Spain)

  Waugh, R. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  2/02/15 → 1/02/18

  Project: Research

  • Barley 100%
  • Exome 42%
  • Hordeum Vulgare 34%
  • Exome Sequencing 34%
  • Genotyping 34%

• High Throughput Biolayer Interferometry at Dundee for Anti-Microbial and Interaction Studies

  Birch, P. (Investigator), Ciulli, A. (Investigator), Fairlamb, A. (Investigator), Gray, D. (Investigator), Hunter, B. (Investigator), Owen-Hughes, T. (Investigator), Palmer, T. (Investigator), Ryan, R. (Investigator), Sargent, F. (Investigator), Stanley-Wall, N. (Investigator) & van Aalten, D. (Investigator)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  22/01/15 → 21/01/16

  Project: Research