Underpinning data to enhance plant oil accumulation
Lead Research Organisation:
Cardiff University
Department Name: School of Biosciences
Abstract
United States/Singapore
People |
ORCID iD |
| John Harwood (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Chen G
(2015)
Acyl-Trafficking During Plant Oil Accumulation.
in Lipids
Fell DA
(2023)
Metabolic Control Analysis of triacylglycerol accumulation in oilseed rape.
in Bio Systems
Fenyk S
(2022)
Overexpression of phospholipid: diacylglycerol acyltransferase in Brassica napus results in changes in lipid metabolism and oil accumulation.
in The Biochemical journal
Low E
(2020)
Characterization of Oil Palm Acyl-CoA-Binding Proteins and Correlation of Their Gene Expression with Oil Synthesis
in Plant and Cell Physiology
Woodfield HK
(2018)
Using lipidomics to reveal details of lipid accumulation in developing seeds from oilseed rape (Brassica napus L.).
in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Molecular and cell biology of lipids
Woodfield HK
(2017)
Spatial and Temporal Mapping of Key Lipid Species in Brassica napus Seeds.
in Plant physiology
| Description | DOI:10.1104/pp.16.01705 Exciting new data on lipid accumulation in seeds of oilseed rape |
| Exploitation Route | Additional international collaborations have been set up to continue with this work |
| Sectors | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Education |
| Description | Findings already of interest to industry as evidenced by collaborative interest from various industrial organisations. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Agriculture, Food and Drink,Education |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Title | Regulation of oil production in Brassica napus |
| Description | Flux control analysis applied to oil-seed rape embryos including radiolabelling of metabolites |
| Type Of Material | Biological samples |
| Year Produced | 2014 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | World leaders in this sort of methodology |
| Title | Oil accumulation in oilseed rape |
| Description | Together with our collaborators, we are evaluating labelling results by metabolic control analysis methods. We are also developing transgenic lines which have enzyme activities changed to use in the above techniques |
| Type Of Material | Data handling & control |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | We are world leaders in the application of control analysis to lipid synthesis |
| Description | National University of Singapore |
| Organisation | National University of Singapore |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Visit to NUS and mass spec. analysis of samples sent. Collaborators visited Cardiff in September 2015. Prof. Harwood visited Singapore in 2016 for joint discussions. A joint paper has been written and a first draft has been sent. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Mass spectroscopy analysis of samples and discussion of joint paper |
| Impact | Five presentations at international meetings |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | University of North Texas |
| Organisation | University of North Texas |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Visit to UNT and work there by post-doctoral. Tissue distribution of products by MALDI-MS. We are continuing this collaboration using samples from transgenic plants |
| Collaborator Contribution | Training of post-doctoral and analysis of samples sent. |
| Impact | Presentations at six international meetings |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Univesity of Hong Kong |
| Organisation | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
| Department | Division of Life Science |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Royal Society grant to facilitate expansion of the project to include study of acyl-CoA binding proteins in Brassica napus. We are providing transgenic lines for analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | Identifying ACBPs and following their expression during development. |
| Impact | Project has just begun. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | EFL conference 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Poster presentation and discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Plant Lipid Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | EFL meeting Rothamsted, Harpenden. Poster presentation. AOSC meeting, Orlando. Invited talk. ISLS meeting, Singapore. Invited talk. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Visit to the Philippines |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation and discussions with staff at IRRI (the International Rice Research Institute, Los Banos) to inform them about oils in crops and ways of enhancing the utility of harvested materials. This had relevance to government policy in the Philippines as well as further development of crops in the Far East. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |