Plant Science
Metabolic Regulation: Molecular Nutrition


Research Leader: Dr Malcolm J Hawkesford


Introduction

The challenge for crop nutritionalists is to optimise nutrient inputs for crop production whilst minimising potential adverse environmental impacts. Implicit in this is sustainable use of precious resources. An essential requirement is a basic understanding of the processes affecting efficient nutrient acquisition and utilisation by plants. We are engaged in a number of projects investigating the molecular basis of these processes.

Projects

• Optimising nutrient use in cereals
• Enhancing yield for bioenergy with stay-green phenotypes in wheat
• Selenium uptake by plants
• An integrative transcriptome and metabolic profiling study of resource mobilization in wheat
• An evaluation of nitrogen form and remobilization in Miscanthus and impact of emissions in combustion and gasification
• SMART plants
• Sulphate transporters and their regulation

Publications

1991-2009

Group Details

Dr Malcolm Hawkesford Group Leader

Dr Peter Buchner Post-doctoral researcher (sulphate transporters)

Mrs Saroj Parmar Research assistant

Dr Peter Barraclough Consultant physiologist and crop agronomist

Emmanuelle Cabannes PhD student

Adinda Derkx PhD student