Plant Disease Resistance
Our Research
Since 2016, Professor Murray Grant has been Elizabeth Creak Chair in Food Security at the University of 糖心TV.
Prof. Grant's group focuses on plant-microbe interactions, particularly host responses to pathogenic bacteria. Additionally, Murray's group studies the mechanisms underpinning biocontrol and applies various 鈥渙mics鈥� techniques (including transcriptomics and untargeted metabolomics) to study disease and disease resistance in essential plant species such as ash, enset and banana.
Please find out more about the specific projects here.
Group Members
For more information about current group members and projects, visit our group members page.
Contact Information
Feel free to contact Murray about potential student projects and collaborations.
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Phone: 024 765 75136
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Group News
On October 22nd, Shanita John attended the inauguralConference at Cambridge University.
Conference 2024 in Oxford.
Grant's group attending 34th International Conference on Arabidopsis Research (ICAR).
Grant Group attends this year's BSPP Conference in Birmingham. at the MBPP Early Careers Conference.Murray and Laura head to Z眉rich for the Chloroplast Biology Conference. Find out more here.
Robyn her visit to Scotland as part of the Xanthomonas Threats project.
Murray presents at the webinar for the Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme
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Recent Publications
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Rapid local and systemic jasmonate signalling drives the initiation and establishment of plant systemic immunity. .
- NAD(H) and NADP(H) in plants and mammals.
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The potential of bacteriocins and bacteriophages to control bacterial disease of crops with a focus on Xanthomonas spp. .
- The current status, challenges, and future perspectives for managing diseases of brassicas.
- Plant and prokaryotic TIR domains generate distinct cyclic ADPR NADase products.
- Broader functions of TIR domains in Arabidopsis immunity.
- A tell tail sign: A conserved C-terminal tail-anchor domain targets a subset of pathogen effectors to the plant endoplasmic reticulum.
- Phylogenomic Analysis Supports the Transfer of 20 Pathovars from Xanthomonas campestris into Xanthomonas euvesicatoria. .
- Draft genome sequences for ten strains of Xanthomonas species that have phylogenomic importance.
- DNA extraction using the Qiagen 67563 MagAttract HMW DNA Kit.
- Chloroplasts play a central role in facilitating MAMP鈥恡riggered immunity, pathogen suppression of immunity and crosstalk with abiotic stress.
- First report of black rot caused by Xanthomonas nasturtii on watercress in Spain and Portugal.
- Cyclic ADP ribose isomers: Production, chemical structures, and immune signaling.