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Welcome to the Portal for the Research Group of Professor Michael Holdsworth

by root last modified 25-10-2011 11:10

The University web page of Professor Michael Holdsworth is here.
The web page for the ERANET-PG funded vSEED consortium is here

Research programmes focus on:

  • The The role of the N-end rule pathway of targeted proteolysis in the control of plant growth and development.

  • The function of the hormone Abscisic Acid (ABA), and plant responses to abiotic stress.

  • Understanding the control of seed germination and seedling establishment.

  • Systems approaches, integrating genetics, post-genomics, physiology, mathematics, computer science and engineering, are being used to understand and manipulate plant development and environmental responses.

  • Emphasis is placed on the transfer of molecular genetic information from studies in model species such as Arabidopsis and rice, to address important agricultural problems associated with plant developmental biology and response to abiotic stress.



  • Current Lab members:

    • Dr Daniel Gibbs

    • Dr Guillermina Mendiondo

    • Nurulhikma Md Isa, PhD student

    • Sophie Berckhan, PhD student

    • Duncan Scholefield

    • Dr Cristina Mariana Sousa Correia

    • Julietta Marquez

    vSEED associated staff, our ERANET-PG project aims to develop a virtual germinating seed here:
    • Dr Simon Pearce

    • Anthony Hampstead IDTC, PhD student

    • Melania Ghita IDTC, PhD student

    • Arnd Korn, PhD student


    Visiting lab members:
    • Dr George Bassel, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow

    • Dr Kerstin Muller, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, currently in lab of Professor Allison Kermode

    Community resources:
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    The Virtual Seed Web Resource vseed.nottingham.ac.uk:
    This online resource provides queryable interfaces for Gene Networks assocaited with seed development, dormancy and germination, e.g. SeedNet, a genome-wide network model describing transcriptional interactions in dormant and germinating Arabidopsis seeds (original reference: Bassel et al PNAS (USA) 2011)). Users can zoom into networks, search and highlight genes of interest and download images of network representations.

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    TAGGIT analysis of seed transcriptome datasets (original reference: Carrera et al Plant Physiology 2007):
    TAGGIT uses a seed germination/dormancy ontology to annotate 'omics datasets, thus allowing more biologically informed analysis. A guide and most up-to-date version (although not updated since 2009, you can also use your own gene lists) of the TAGGIT workflow is available at:
    http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/~sbzmjh/files/TAGGITguide.xls




    Contact Details:

    Professor Michael Holdsworth
    Director of Crop Sciences
    Division of Plant & Crop Sciences
    University of Nottingham
    Sutton Bonington Campus
    Loughborough Leics
    LE12 5RD, UK
    Phone : +44 (0)115 951 6046
    Fax : +44 (0)115 951 6233

    Detailed instructions for reaching the campus are available.



    Thanks to the University of Nottingham MyCIB (Multidisciplinary Centre for Integrative Biology), especially Tom Gallagher, John Veasey and Alex Marshall for help setting up and managing this portal.
    Site managed by Professor Michael Holdsworth, University of Nottingham.

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