Selected publications Tanya Curtis
Nigel G Halford, Tanya Y Curtis, Acrylamide in Food, World Scientific Europe Ltd (28 Feb. 2019).
Curtis, T; Halford, NG; Food security: the challenge of increasing wheat yield and the importance of not compromising food safety Annals of Applied Biology, 164, 3, 354-372 2014 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK
Halford, NG; Curtis, TY; Muttucumaru, N; Postles, J; Mottram, DS; Sugars in crop plants Annals of Applied Biology 158 1 Jan-25 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK
Halford, N G; Curtis, T Y; Muttucumaru, N; Postles, J; Elmore, JS; Mottram, DS; The acrylamide problem: a plant and agronomic science issue Journal of experimental botany 63 8 2841-2851 2012 Oxford University Press
Curtis, T Y; Muttucumaru, N; Shewry, PR; Parry, M AJ; Powers, S J; Elmore, JS; Mottram, DS; Hook, S; Halford, N G; Effects of genotype and environment on free amino acid levels in wheat grain: implications for acrylamide formation during processing Journal of agricultural and food chemistry 57 3 1013-1021 2009 American Chemical Society
Curtis, T Y; Powers, S J; Balagiannis, D; Elmore, JS; Mottram, DS; Parry, M AJ; Rakszegi, M; Bedo, Z; Shewry, P R; Halford, N G; Free amino acids and sugars in rye grain: implications for acrylamide formation Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 58 3 1959-1969 2010 American Chemical Society
Muttucumaru, Nira; Elmore, J Stephen; Curtis, Tanya; Mottram, Donald S; Parry, Martin AJ; Halford, Nigel G; Reducing acrylamide precursors in raw materials derived from wheat and potato Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 56 15 6167-6172 2008 ACS Publications
Halford, Nigel G; Curtis, Tanya Y; Chen, Zhiwei; Huang, Jianhua; Effects of abiotic stress and crop management on cereal grain composition: implications for food quality and safety Journal of Experimental Botany 66 5 1145-1156 2014 Oxford University Press UK
Halford, N G; Muttucumaru, N; Curtis, T Y; Parry, M AJ; Genetic and agronomic approaches to decreasing acrylamide precursors in crop plants Food additives and contaminants 24 sup1 26-36 2007 Taylor & Francis
Byrne, EH; Prosser, I; Muttucumaru, N; Curtis, T Y; Wingler, A; Powers, S; Halford, N G; Overexpression of GCN2‐type protein kinase in wheat has profound effects on free amino acid concentration and gene expression Plant biotechnology journal 10 3 328-340 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Oxford, UK
CURTIS, TANYA; GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS CONTROLLING ACRYLAMIDE FORMATION IN WHEAT PRODUCTS 2010
Selected publications Sarah Usher
Rentel, M. C., Lecourieux, D., Ouaked, F., Usher, S. L., Petersen, L., Okamoto, H., Knight, H., Peck, S. C., Grierson, C. S., Hirt, H., Knight, M. R. (2004). OXI1 kinase is necessary for oxidative burst-mediated signalling in Arabidopsis. Nature 427:858-861
Betancor, M. B., Sprague, M., Usher, S., Sayanova, O., Campbell, P. J., Napier, J. A., Tocher, D. R. (2015). A nutritionally-enhanced oil from transgenic Camelina sativa effectively replaces fish oil as a source of eicosapentaenoic acid for fish. Scientific Reports: 5:8104. doi: 10.1038
Ruiz-Lopez, N., Haslam, R. P., Usher, S. L., Napier, J. A., Sayanova, O. (2013). Reconstitution of EPA and DHA biosynthesis in arabidopsis: iterative metabolic engineering for the synthesis of n-3 LC-PUFAs in transgenic plants. Metabolic Engineering; 17: 30-41
Betancor, M. B., Sprague, M., Sayanova, O., Usher, S., Campbell, P. J., Napier, J. A., Caballero, M. J., Tocher, D. R. (2015). Evaluation of a high-EPA oil from transgenic Camelina sativa in feeds for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L.): Effects on tissue fatty acid composition, histology and gene expression. Aquaculture; 444: 1-12.
Betancor MB, Li K, Bucerzan VS, Sprague M, Sayanova O, Usher S, Han L, Norambuena F, Torrissen O, Napier JA, Tocher DR, Olsen RE. (2018). Oil from transgenic Camelina sativa containing over 25 % n-3 long-chain PUFA as the major lipid source in feed for Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). British Journal of Nutrition; 119(12):1378-1392
Usher, S., Haslam, R. P., Ruiz-Lopez, N., Sayanova, O., Napier, J. A. (2015). Field trial evaluation of the accumulation of omega-3 long chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in transgenic Camelina sativa: Making fish oil substitutes in plants. Metabolic Engineering Communications; 2: 93-98
Napier, J. A., Usher, S., Haslam, R. P., Ruiz-Lopez, N., Sayanova, O. (2015). Transgenic plants as a sustainable, terrestrial source of fish oils. European Journal of Lipid Science and Technology; 117(9): 1317-1324.
Ruiz-Lopez, N., Usher, S., Sayanova, O. V., Napier, J. A., Haslam, R. P. (2014). Modifying the lipid content and composition of plant seeds: engineering the production of LC-PUFA. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology; 99(1): 143-54
Ruiz-Lopez, N., Haslam, R. P., Usher, S., Napier, J.A., Sayanova, O. (2015). An alternative pathway for the effective production of the omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturates EPA and ETA in transgenic oilseeds. Plant Biotechnology Journal; 13(9):1264-75
PhD thesis: Nucleosome Positioning in Arabidopsis
Selected publications Ondrej Kosik
Cabib E., Farkas V., Kosik O., Blanco N., Arroyo J., McPhie P. (2008) Assembly of the yeast cell wall: Crh1p and Crh2p act as transglycosylases in vivo and in vitro. Journal of Biological Chemistry 283(44), 29859-29872.
Derba-Maceluch M., Awano T., Takahashi J., Lucenius J., Ratke C., Kontro I., Busse-Wicher M., Kosik O., Tanaka R., Winzell A., Kallas A., Lesniewska J., Berthold F., Immerzeel P., Teeri T.T., Ezcurra I., Dupree P., Serimaa R. Mellerowicz E.J. (2015) Suppression of xylan endotransglycosylase PtxtXyn10A affects cellulose microfibril angle in secondary wall in aspen wood. New Phytologist 205(2), 666-681.
Kosik O., Auburn R.P., Russell S., Stratilova E., Garajova S., Hrmova M., Farkas V. (2008) Polysaccharide microarrays for high-throughput screening of transglycosylase activities in plant extracts. Glycoconjugate Journal 27(1), 79-87.
Chatzifragkou A., Kosik O., Prabhakumari P.C.; Lovegrove A., Frazier R.A., Shewry P.R., Charalampopoulos D. (2015) Biorefinery strategies for upgrading Distillers’ Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS). 50(12), 2194-2207.
Kosik O. and Farkas V. (2008) One-pot fluorescent labeling of xyloglucan oligosaccharides with sulforhodamine. Analytical Biochemistry 375(2), 232-236.
Ho A.L., Kosik O., Lovegrove A., Charalampopoulos D., Rastall R.A. (2018) In vitro fermentability of xylo-oligosaccharide and xylo-polysaccharide fractions with different molecular weights by human faecal bacteria. Carbohydrate Polymers 179, 50-58.
Zielke C., Kosik O., Ainalem M-L., Lovegrove A., Stradner A., Nilsson L. (2017) Characterization of cereal β-glucan extracts from oat and barley and quantification of proteinaceous matter. PLOS One 12(2), e0172034.
Chatzifragkou A., Prabhakumari P.C.; Kosik O., Lovegrove A., Shewry P.R., Charalampopoulos D. (2016) Extractability and characteristics of proteins deriving from wheat DDGS. Food Chemistry 198, 12-19.
De Santis M.A., Kosik O., Passmore D., Flagella Z., Shewry P.R., Lovegrove A. (2018) Comparison of the dietary fibre composition of old and modern durum wheat (Triticum turgidum spp. durum) genotypes. Food Chemistry, 244, 304-310.
Freeman J., Ward J.L., Kosik O., Lovegrove A., Wilkinson M.D., Shewry P.R., Mitchell R.A.C. (2017) Feruloylation and structure of arabinoxylan in wheat endosperm cell walls from RNAi lines with suppression of genes responsible for backbone synthesis and decoration. Plant Biotechnology Journal 15(11), 1429-1438.