Theses - Plant Sciences: Recent submissions
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Understanding C4 Photosynthesis Through Quantitative Genetics
Photosynthesis is fundamental to all life on Earth. In terrestrial plants it relies exclusively on RuBisCO to fix atmospheric CO2 into the sugar-generating Calvin-Benson-Bassham cycle. RuBisCO however, binds with oxygen ... -
Dissecting the genetic basis of wheat yellow rust resistance in the NIAB Elite MAGIC population
Yellow rust, caused by the biotrophic fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), poses a major challenge for wheat breeders and growers globally. The past two decades have seen the rise of Pst populations that are ... -
Development of image analysis techniques to enable low-cost tropical rain forest monitoring
Tropical rain forests are important carbon stores and harbours of biodiversity but are being cleared at an unprecedented rate. There is an estimated 2 billion hectares of degraded forest globally, which retains a large ... -
Virus-induced effects on aphid-host interactions in Solanaceous plants
Cucumber mosaic virus (CMV) has three genomic RNA segments, RNAs 1, 2 and 3, that encode five proteins. In some hosts, CMV induces biochemical or physiological changes that may influence virus transmission by aphids. In ...
