The Plant Stress and Disease group has research interests in:
- Molecular and physiological adaptations to biotic and abiotic stress in plants
- Plant resistance to parasites and pathogens
- Signalling mechanisms in plant responses to disease
- RNA silencing as an antiviral mechanism in plants
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Prof John Turner Jasmonate-mediated adaptation to biotic and abiotic stress COI1-dependent signalling RPW8-mediated resistance to powdery mildew |
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Prof Jonathan Jones Plant disease resistance Plant pathogen effectors and their targets Plant/pathogen coevolution |
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Dr Charles Brearley Inositol hexakisphosphate biosynthesis and signalling Inositol and calcium signalling in Medicago truncatula Metabolic biochemistry of disease resistance mediated by the resistance genes RPW8.1 & 2 |
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Dr Mark Coleman Plant disease Plant disease resistance Plant resistance to genotoxic stress |
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Silvia Costa Root patterning Role of chromatin organisation in cell fate specification Cell fate changes and regeneration |
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Dr Tamas Dalmay Post-transcriptional gene silencing against viral infections in wild grasses Characterisation of SDE5, an Arabidopsis preotein required for RNA silencing Investigating the function of short RNAs in tomato fruit |
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Dr Ane Sesma Organ-specificity and fungal pathogenesis Role of RNA-binding proteins during fungal infection Molecular mechanisms of surface sensing in the rice blast fungus |
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Dr Colwyn Thomas Plant-pathogen interactions Disease resistance Resistance gene evolution |
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Dr Sophien Kamoun Oomycete genomics Filamentous pathogen effector function and evolution Filamentous pathogen effector trafficking |
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Dr Cyril Zipfel PAMP perception PAMP signalling Bacterial disease resistance |
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Silke Robatzek Cell biology and plant immunity Pathogen-triggered Membrane trafficking Receptor endocytosis |
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Mark Banfield Structure/function studies of pathogen effector proteins Molecular studies of pathogen/host interactions Medium-throughput protein production for structural studies |
