Our recent publications

Institute of Food Research:

Craig Faulds

  • Mandalari G, Bisignano G, Lo Curto RB, Waldron KW, Faulds CB. 2008) Production of feruloyl esterases and xylanases by Talaromyces stipitatus and Humicola grisea var. thermoidea on industrial food processing by-products. Bioresource Technology99, 5130-5133.
  • Robertson J. A. , Faulds C. B. , Smith A. C. , Waldron K. W.(2008) Peroxidase-mediated oxidative crosslinking and its potential to modify mechanical properties in water-soluble polysaccharide extracts and cereal grain residues. J. Agricultural and Food Chemistry56, 1720-1726.
  • Waldron K. W., Faulds C. B., Robertson J. A.(2008) The effect of pH on the solubilisation of brewers' spent grain by microbial carbohydrases and proteases. J. Agricultural and Food Chemistry 56, 7038-7043.
  • Mandalari G., Nueno-Palop C., Tuohy K., Gibson G. R., Bennett R. N., Waldron K. W., Bisignano G., Narbad A., Faulds C. B.(2007) In vitro evaluation of the prebiotic activity of a pectic oligosaccharide-rich extract enzymatically derived from bergamot peel. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology 73, 1173-1179.

Nathalie Juge

  • Berrin, J.G. and Juge, N. (2008) Factors affecting xylanase functionality in the degradation of arabinoxylans. Biotechnol Lett. 30, 1139-1150.
  • André-Leroux, G., Berrin, J.G., Georis, J., Arnaut, F. and Juge, N. (2008). Structure-based mutagenesis of Penicillium griseofulvum xylanase using computational design. Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics 72,1298-1307.
  • Juge N. (2006). Plant protein inhibitors of cell wall polysaccharide degrading enzymes. Trends Plant Sci. 11, 359-367.
  • Juge, N., Nøhr, J., Le Gal-Coëffet, M.-F., Kramhøft, B., Furniss, C.S.M., Planchot, V., Archer, D.B., Williamson, G. and Svensson, B (2006)."Barley a-amylase acquires insoluble starch activity by fusion of a starch binding domain from Aspergillus niger glucoamylase". Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1764, 275-284.

Vic Morris

  • Gunning, A. P., Bongaerts, R. J. M and Morris, V. J. (2009) Recognition of galactan components of pectin by galectin 3. FASEB J.23, 415–424.
  • Parker M. L., Kirby A. R., Morris V. J.(2008) In situ imaging of pea starch in seeds. Food Biophysics 3, 66-78.
  • Gunning A. P., Chambers S., Pin C., Man A. L., Morris V. J., Nicoletti C. (2008) Mapping specific adhesive interactions on living intestinal epithelial cells with atomic force microscopy. FASEB J. 22, 2331-2339.
  • Morris V. J., Gunning A. P., Faulds C. B., Williamson G., Svensson B.. (2005) AFM images of complexes between amylose and Aspergillus niger glucoamylase mutants, native and mutant starch binding domains: a model for the action of glucoamylase. Starke 57, 1-7.

Keith Waldron

  • Treimo J, Westereng B, Horn SJ, Forssell P, Robertson JA, Faulds CB, Waldron KW, Buchert J, Eijsink VGH (2009). Enzymatic solubilisation of brewers' spent grain by combined action of carbohydrases and peptidases. J. Agricultural & Food Chemistry 57, 3316-3324.
  • Jaramillo-Carmona S., Fuentes-Alventosa J. M., Rodriguez-Gutierrez G., Waldron K. W., Smith A. C., Guillen-Bejarano R., Fernandez-Bolanos J., Jiminez-Arauio A., Rodriguez-Arcos R. (2008). Characterization of asparagus lignin by HPLC. J. Food Science73, C526-C532.
  • Jay A. J., Parker M. L., Faulks R. M., Husband F., Wilde P., Smith A. C., Faulds C. B., Waldron K. W.(2008) A systematic micro-dissection of Brewers' spent grain. J. Cereal Science47 357-364.
  • Kang Y. H., Parker C. C., Smith A. C., Waldron K. W.(2008) Characterisation and distribution of phenolics in carrot cell walls. J. Agricultural and Food Chemistry 56 8558-8564.


John Innes Centre

Stephen Bornemann

  • Clé, C., Gunning, A.P., Syson, K., Bowater, L., Field, R.A., and Bornemann, S. (2008). Detection of transglucosidase-catalyzed polysaccharide synthesis on a surface in real-time using surface plasmon resonance spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 130, 15234-15235.
  • Hussain, H., Mant, A., Seale, R., Zeeman, S., Hinchliffe, E., Edwards, A., Hylton, C., Bornemann, S., Smith, A., Martin, C., and Bustos, R. (2003). Three isoforms of isoamylase contribute different catalytic properties for the debranching of potato glucans. Plant Cell 15, 133-149.
  • Edwards, A., Borthakur, A., Bornemann, S., Venail, J., Denyer, K., Waite, D., Fulton, D., Smith, A., and Martin, C. (1999). Specificity of starch synthase isoforms from potato. Eur J Biochem 266, 724-736.

Kay Denyer

  • Comparot-Moss S., Denyer K. (2009). The evolution of the starch biosynthetic pathway in cereals and other grasses. J. Experimental Botany 60, 2481-2492.
  • Ceballos H., Sánchez T., Denyer K., Tofiño A. P., Rosero E. A., Dufour D., Smith A., Morante N., Pérez J. C., Fahy B. (2008) Induction and identification of a small-granule, high-amylose mutant in cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz). J. Agricultural and Food Chemistry 56, 7215-22.
  • Rosti S., Denyer K. (2007). Two paralogous genes encoding small subunits of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in maize, Bt2 and L2, replace the single alternatively-spliced gene found in other cereal species. J. Molecular Evolution 65, 316-327.
  • Rosti S., Fahy B., Denyer K. (2007) A mutant of rice lacking the leaf large subunit of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase has drastically reduced leaf starch content but grows normally. Functional Plant Biology 34, 480-48.

Rob Field

  • Synthesis of triazole-linked pseudo-starch fragments. S. A. Nepogodiev, S. Dedola, L. Marmuse, M. T. de Oliveira, R. A. Field, Carbohydr. Res., 2007, 342, 529-540.
  • Synthesis of the branched-chain sugar aceric acid: a unique component of the pectic polysaccharide rhamnogalacturonan II. N. A. Jones,S. A. Nepogodiev, C. J. McDonald, D. L. Hughes, R. A. Field, J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 8556-8559.
  • Synthesis of lycotetraose, the tetrasaccharide constituent of the plant defence glycoalkaloid a-tomatine. N. A. Jones, S. A. Nepogodiev, R. A. Field, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, 3, 3201-3206.
  • Synthesis of a 2,3,4-triglycosylated rhamnoside fragment of rhamnogalacturonan-II side chain A using a late stage oxidation approach. A. Chauvin, S. A. Nepogodiev, R. A. Field, J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 960-966.

Anne Osbourn

  • Townsend B, Jenner H and Osbourn A. (2006) Saponin glycosylation in cereals. Phytochemistry Reviews 5, 109-114.
  • Simons V, Morrissey JP, Latijnhouwers M, Csukai M, Cleaver A and Osbourn A.(2006) Dual effects of plant steroidal alkaloids on Saccharomyces cerevisiae.Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, 50: 2732-2740.
  • Mylona P, Owatworakit A, Papadopoulou K, Jenner H, Qin B, Findlay K, Hill L, Qi X, Bakht S, Melton R & Osbourn A.(2008) Sad3 and Sad4 are required for saponin biosynthesis and root development in oat.The Plant Cell 20: 201-212.

Alison Smith

  • Morley-Smith E. R., Pike M. J., Findlay K., Köckenberger W., Hill L. M., Smith A. M., Rawsthorne S. (2008). The transport of sugars to developing embryos is not via the bulk endosperm in oilseed rape seeds. Plant Physiology 147, 2121-30.
  • Smith A. M. (2008). Prospects for increasing starch and sucrose yields for bioethanol production. Plant Journal 54, 546-58.
  • Kötting, O., Santelia, D., Edner, C., Eicke, S., Marthaler, T., Gentry, M.S., Comparot-Moss, S., Chen, J., Smith, A.M., Steup, M., Ritte, G., Zeeman, S.C. (2009) STARCH-EXCESS4 is a laforin-like phosphoglucan phosphatase required for starch degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell, 21: 334-346.
  • Barratt, D.H.P., Derbyshire,P., Findlay, K., Pike, M., Wellner, M., Lunn, J., Feil, R., Simpson, C., Maule, A., Smith, A.M. (2009) Normal growth of Arabidopsis plants requires cytosolic invertase but not sucrose synthase. Proc Natl Acad Sci USAdoi:10.1073/pnas.0900689106.
  • Smith, A.M., Stitt, M. (2007) Coordination of carbon supply and plant growth. Plant Cell Env. 30, 1128-1149.
  • Fulton, D.C., Stettler, M., Mettler, T., Vaughan, C.K., Li, J., Franscisco, P., Gil. M., Reinhold, H., Eicke, S., Messerli, G., Dorken, G., Halliday, K., Smith A.M., Smith, S.M., Zeeman, S.C. (2008) ß-AMYLASE4, a noncatalytic protein required for starch breakdown, acts upstream of three active -amylases in Arabidopsis chloroplasts. Plant Cell 20, 1040-105.

Trevor Wang

  • Horst I., WelhamT., Kelly S., Kaneko T., Sato S.,Tabata S., Parniske M., Wang TL. TILLING mutants of Lotus japonicus reveal that nitrogen assimilation and fixation can occur in the absence of nodule-enhanced sucrose synthase. Plant Physiology 144, 806-820, 2007.
  • Zhou Y., Chan K., Wang T. L., Hedley C. L., Offler C. E., Patrick J. W. (2009). Intracellular sucrose communicates metabolic demand to sucrose transporters in developing pea cotyledons. J. Experimental Botany 60, 71-85.
  • Welham T.,Pike P., Horst I., Flemetakis E., Katinakis P., Kaneko T., Sato, S. Tabata S., Perry J., Parniske P., Wang TL., (2009). A cytosolic invertase is required for normal growth and cell development in the model legume, Lotus japonicus. Journal of Experimental Botany 60, doi:10.1093/jxb/erp169.