Tailoring Plant Metabolism (TPM) - Work package 2 (WP2) - Designer Willows: high value phenolic glycosides for health and industry

Repository project

Project dates01 Apr 2017 to end of 31 Mar 2023
Researchers
Principal InvestigatorJane Ward
Co-InvestigatorFreddie Theodoulou
FunderBiotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
Project numberI0410
DepartmentComputational and Analytical Sciences
Research fish codeBBS/E/C/000I0410
Grant IDBBS/E/C/000I0410

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Breeding Novel Chemistry in Willow: New Hetero Diels–Alder Cyclodimers from Arbusculoidin and Salicortin Suggest Parallel Biosynthetic Pathways

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Noleto-Dias, C., Lomax, C., Bellisai, A., Ruvo, G., Harflett, C., Macalpine, W. J., Hanley, S. J., Beale, M. H. and Ward, J. L. 2024. Breeding Novel Chemistry in Willow: New Hetero Diels–Alder Cyclodimers from Arbusculoidin and Salicortin Suggest Parallel Biosynthetic Pathways. Plants - Basel. 13 (12), p. 1609. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants13121609

Editorial: Targeted and untargeted metabolomics for the evaluation of plant metabolites in response to the environment

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Han, W., Ward, J. L., Kong, Y. and Li, X. 2023. Editorial: Targeted and untargeted metabolomics for the evaluation of plant metabolites in response to the environment. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14, p. 1167513. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1167513

Diverting phenylpropanoid pathway flux from sinapine to produce industrially useful 4-vinyl derivatives of hydroxycinnamic acids in Brassicaceous oilseeds

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Menard, G. N., Langdon, M., Bhunia, R., Shankhapal, A., Noleto-Dias, C., Lomax, C., Ward, J. L., Kurup, S. and Eastmond, P. J. 2022. Diverting phenylpropanoid pathway flux from sinapine to produce industrially useful 4-vinyl derivatives of hydroxycinnamic acids in Brassicaceous oilseeds. Metabolic Engineering. 70, pp. 196-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ymben.2022.01.016

Inhibitors of α-Synuclein Fibrillation and Oligomer Toxicity in Rosa damascena: The All-Pervading Powers of Flavonoids and Phenolic Glycosides

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Eskandari, H., Ghanadian, M., Noleto-Dias, C., Lomax, C., Tawfike, A., Christiansen, G., Sutherland, D. S., Ward, J. L., Mohammad-Beigi, H. and Otzen, D. E. 2020. Inhibitors of α-Synuclein Fibrillation and Oligomer Toxicity in Rosa damascena: The All-Pervading Powers of Flavonoids and Phenolic Glycosides. ACS Chemical Neuroscience. 11 (19), pp. 3161-3173. https://doi.org/10.1021/acschemneuro.0c00528

A willow UDP-glycosyltransferase involved in salicinoid biosynthesis

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Kulasekaran, S., Cerezo-Medina, S., Harflett, C., Lomax, C., DeJong, F., Rendour, A., Ruvo, G., Hanley, S. J., Beale, M. H. and Ward, J. L. 2020. A willow UDP-glycosyltransferase involved in salicinoid biosynthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72 (5), p. 1634–1648. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraa562

Miyabeacin: A new cyclodimer presents a potential role for willow in cancer therapy.

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Ward, J. L., Wu, Y., Harflett, C., Onafuye, H., Corol, D. I., Lomax, C., Macalpine, W. J., Cinatl, J., Wass, M. N., Michaelis, M. and Beale, M. H. 2020. Miyabeacin: A new cyclodimer presents a potential role for willow in cancer therapy. Scientific Reports. 10, p. 6477. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-63349-1

Down‐regulation of key genes involved in carbon metabolism in Medicago truncatula results in increased lipid accumulation in vegetative tissue

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Wijekoon, C., Singer, S. D., Weselake, R. J., Petrie, J. R., Chen, G., Singh, S., Eastmond, P. J. and Acharya, S. N. 2020. Down‐regulation of key genes involved in carbon metabolism in Medicago truncatula results in increased lipid accumulation in vegetative tissue . Crop Science. 60 (4), pp. 1798-1808. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20124

Sulfated flavanones and dihydroflavonols from willow

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Noleto-Dias, C., Harflett, C., Beale, M. H. and Ward, J. L. 2020. Sulfated flavanones and dihydroflavonols from willow. Phytochemistry Letters. 35 (February), pp. 88-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phytol.2019.11.008

The Arabidopsis thaliana N-recognin E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS1 influences the immune response.

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Till, C. J., Vicente, J., Zhang, H., Oszvald, M., Deery, M. J., Pastor, V., Lilley, K. S., Ray, R. V., Theodoulou, F. L. and Holdsworth, M. J. 2019. The Arabidopsis thaliana N-recognin E3 ligase PROTEOLYSIS1 influences the immune response. Plant Direct. 3 (12), p. e00194. https://doi.org/10.1002/pld3.194

The impact of reducing fatty acid desaturation on the composition and thermal stability of rapeseed oil

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Kaur, H., Wang, L., Stawniak, N., Sloan, R., Van-Erp, H., Eastmond, P. J. and Bancroft, I. 2019. The impact of reducing fatty acid desaturation on the composition and thermal stability of rapeseed oil . Plant Biotechnology Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/pbi.13263

The overexpression of rice ACYL-CoA-BINDING PROTEIN2 increases grain size and bran oil content in transgenic rice

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Guo, Z.-H., Haslam, R. P., Michaelson, L. V., Young, E. C., Lung, S. C., Napier, J. A. and Chye, M.L. 2019. The overexpression of rice ACYL-CoA-BINDING PROTEIN2 increases grain size and bran oil content in transgenic rice. The Plant Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14503

Phenylalkanoid glycosides (non-salicinoids) from wood chips of Salix triandra × dasyclados hybrid willow

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Noleto-Dias, C., Wu, Y., Bellisai, A., Macalpine, W. J., Beale, M. H. and Ward, J. L. 2019. Phenylalkanoid glycosides (non-salicinoids) from wood chips of Salix triandra × dasyclados hybrid willow. Molecules. 24 (6), p. 1152. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules24061152

A Possible Connection Between Plant Longevity and the Absence of Protein Fibrillation: Basis for Identifying Aggregation Inhibitors in Plants

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Mohammed-Beigi, H., Kjaer, L., Eskandari, H., Aliakbari, F., Christiansen, G., Ruvo, G., Ward, J. L. and Otzen, D.E. 2019. A Possible Connection Between Plant Longevity and the Absence of Protein Fibrillation: Basis for Identifying Aggregation Inhibitors in Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10, p. 148. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00148

Oleuropein derivatives from olive fruit extracts reduce α-synuclein fibrillation and oligomer toxicity

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Mohammed-Beigi, H., Aliakbari, F., Sahin, C., Lomax, C., Tawfike, A., Shafer, N.P., Amiri-Nowdijeh, A., Eskandari, E., Moller, I.M., Hosseini-Mazinani, M., Christiansen, G., Ward, J. L., Morshedi, D. and Otzen, D.E 2019. Oleuropein derivatives from olive fruit extracts reduce α-synuclein fibrillation and oligomer toxicity. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 294, pp. 4215-4232. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.RA118.005723

Genomic index selection provides a pragmatic framework for setting and refining multi-objective breeding targets in Miscanthus

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Slavov, G. T., Davey, C. L., Bosch, M., Robson, P. R. H., Donnison, I. S. and MacKay, I. J. 2018. Genomic index selection provides a pragmatic framework for setting and refining multi-objective breeding targets in Miscanthus. Annals of Botany. pp. 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcy187

Breeding progress and preparedness for mass-scale deployment of perennial lignocellulosic biomass crops switchgrass, miscanthus, willow, and poplar

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Clifton-Brown, J., Harfouche, A., Casler, M. D., Jones, H. D., Macalpine, W. J., Murphy-Bokern, D., Smart, L. B., Adler, A., Ashman, C., Awty-Carroll, D., Bastien, C., Bopper, S., Botnari, V., Brancourt-Hulmel, M., Chen, Z., Clark, L. V., Cosentino, S., Dalton, S., Davey, C., Dolstra, O., Donnison, I., Flavell, R., Greef, J., Hanley, S. J., Hastings, A., Hertzberg, M., Hsu, T., Huang, L., Iurato, A., Jensen, E., Jin, X., Jørgensen, U., Kiesel, A., Kim, D., Liu, J., McCalmont, J. P., McMahon, B. G., Mos, M., Robson, P., Sacks, E. J., Sandu, A., Scalici, G., Schwarz, K., Scordia, D., Shafiei, R., Shield, I. F., Slavov, G., Stanton, B. J., Swaminathan, K., Taylor, G., Torres, A. F., Trindade, L. M., Tschaplinski, T., Tuskan, J., Yamada, T., Yu, C. Y., Zalesny, R., Zong, J. and Lewandowski, I. 2018. Breeding progress and preparedness for mass-scale deployment of perennial lignocellulosic biomass crops switchgrass, miscanthus, willow, and poplar. Global Change Biology. Bioenergy. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12566

Species and Genotype Effects of Bioenergy Crops on Root Production, Carbon and Nitrogen in Temperate Agricultural Soil

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Gregory, A. S., Dungait, J. A. J., Shield, I. F., Macalpine, W. J., Cunniff, J., Durenkamp, M., White, R. P., Joynes, A. and Richter, G. M. 2018. Species and Genotype Effects of Bioenergy Crops on Root Production, Carbon and Nitrogen in Temperate Agricultural Soil. BioEnergy Research. 11 (2), pp. 382-397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-018-9903-6

Salicin-7-sulfate: A new salicinoid from willow and implications for herbal medicine

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Noleto-Dias, C., Ward, J. L., Bellisai, A., Lomax, C. and Beale, M. H. 2018. Salicin-7-sulfate: A new salicinoid from willow and implications for herbal medicine. Fitoterapia. 127 (June), pp. 166-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fitote.2018.02.009