N*-(carboxymethyl)lysine content of foods commonly consumed in a Western style diet (2012)
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The potential adverse effects on health of diet-derived advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) is of current interest, due to their proposed involvement in the disease progression of diabetic and uraemic conditions. However, accurate information abou... Read More about N*-(carboxymethyl)lysine content of foods commonly consumed in a Western style diet.

The critical scale of small-scale spatial variation in ecological patterns and processes in intertidal macrobenthic seagrass assemblages (2012)
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Earlier work on benthic faunal assemblages in intertidal seagrass beds has shown maximal structural variation at spatial scales

The significance of shore height in intertidal macrobenthic seagrass ecology and conservation (2011)
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Benthic faunal assemblages of an intertidal seagrass bed were sampled at three shore heights (LWN, MLW, LWS) at the mouth, mid-point and head of the Steenbok Channel in South Africa's premier seagrass site, the warm-temperate Knysna estuarine bay, Ga... Read More about The significance of shore height in intertidal macrobenthic seagrass ecology and conservation.

Macrobenthic assemblage structure in a cool-temperate intertidal dwarf eelgrass bed in comparison with those from lower latitudes (2011)
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The evolution and ecology of latitudinal patterns in marine macrofaunal biodiversity and assemblage structure are contentious. With the aim of investigating the occurrence of such patterns in intertidal dwarf eelgrass beds (Nanozosteraspp.), those at... Read More about Macrobenthic assemblage structure in a cool-temperate intertidal dwarf eelgrass bed in comparison with those from lower latitudes.

Control of the Maillard reaction by ferulic acid (2011)
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This study investigated how ferulic acid (FA) affects the formation of certain Maillard reaction products (MRPs), i.e., early MRPs, fluorescent and non-fluorescent advanced glycation end products (AGEs), and melanoidins in model systems. Glycation mi... Read More about Control of the Maillard reaction by ferulic acid.

Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola: From 'has bean' to supermodel (2011)
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Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola causes halo blight of the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris, worldwide and remains difficult to control. Races of the pathogen cause either disease symptoms or a resistant hypersensitive response on a series of dif... Read More about Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola: From 'has bean' to supermodel.

On the vapour trail of an atmospheric imprint in insects (2011)
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Terrestrial arthropods, at constant risk from desiccation, are highly sensitive to atmospheric temperature and humidity. A physiological marker of these abiotic conditions could highlight phenotypic adaptations, indicate niche partitioning, and predi... Read More about On the vapour trail of an atmospheric imprint in insects.

Bacterial genomes: Evolution of pathogenicity (2011)
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Bacterial pathogens continue to pose a major threat to economically important plant resources. Disease outbreaks can occur through rapid evolution of a pathogen to overcome host defences. The advent of genome sequencing, especially next-generation te... Read More about Bacterial genomes: Evolution of pathogenicity.

Exploiting the soft constraints hypothesis to mitigate interruption effects (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The soft constraints hypothesis (Gray et al., 2006) posits that a more memory-based strategy is induced
with increasing costs of accessing goal-state information. This relationship was used advantageously to reduce forgetting in an interrupted visuo... Read More about Exploiting the soft constraints hypothesis to mitigate interruption effects.

The stealth episome: Suppression of gene expression on the excised genomic island PPHGI-1 from Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola (2011)
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Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola is the causative agent of halo blight in the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris. P. syringae pv. phaseolicola race 4 strain 1302A contains the avirulence gene avrPphB (syn. hopAR1), which resides on PPHGI-1, a 106 k... Read More about The stealth episome: Suppression of gene expression on the excised genomic island PPHGI-1 from Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola.

In planta conditions induce genomic changes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola (2011)
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The co-evolution of bacterial plant pathogens and their hosts is a complex and dynamic process. Plant resistance can impose stress on invading pathogens that can lead to, and select for, beneficial changes in the bacterial genome. The Pseudomonas syr... Read More about In planta conditions induce genomic changes in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola.

Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia (2011)
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The conversion of natural forest to oil palm plantation is a major current threat to the conservation of biodiversity in South East Asia. Most animal taxa decrease in both species richness and abundance on conversion of forest to oil palm, and there... Read More about Establishing the evidence base for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem function in the oil palm landscapes of South East Asia.

Nitric oxide and ABA in the control of plant function (2011)
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Abscisic acid (ABA) and nitric oxide (NO) are both extremely important signalling molecules employed by plants to control many aspects of physiology. ABA has been extensively studied in the mechanisms which control stomatal movement as well as in see... Read More about Nitric oxide and ABA in the control of plant function.

Bacterial pathogen evolution: Breaking news (2011)
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The immense social and economic impact of bacterial pathogens, from drug-resistant infections in hospitals to the devastation of agricultural resources, has resulted in major investment to understand the causes and consequences of pathogen evolution.... Read More about Bacterial pathogen evolution: Breaking news.

Confocal imaging of pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola colony development in bean reveals reduced multiplication of strains containing the genomic island PPHGI-1 (2010)
Journal Article

Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola is the seed borne causativeagent of halo blight in the common bean Phaseolus vulgaris. Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola race 4 strain 1302A contains the avirulence gene hopAR1 (located on a 106-kb genomic is... Read More about Confocal imaging of pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola colony development in bean reveals reduced multiplication of strains containing the genomic island PPHGI-1.

Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum (2010)
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A recently emerging bleeding canker disease, caused by Pseudomonas syringae pathovar aesculi (Pae), is threatening European horse chestnut in northwest Europe. Very little is known about the origin and biology of this new disease. We used the nucleot... Read More about Comparative genome analysis provides insights into the evolution and adaptation of Pseudomonas syringae pv. aesculi on Aesculus hippocastanum.

Increasing information access costs to protect against interruption effects during problem solving (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Karma chameleons: How bacterial plant pathogens escape their fate in disease-resistant plants (2010)
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Role of nitrate reductase signalling in hypoxic and waterlogging stress in Arabidopsis thaliana (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Overexpression of OsRAN2 in rice and Arabidopsis renders transgenic plants hypersensitive to salinity and osmotic stress (2010)
Journal Article

Nucleo-cytoplasmic partitioning of regulatory proteins is increasingly being recognized as a major control mechanism for the regulation of signalling in plants. Ras-related nuclear protein (Ran) GTPase is required for regulating transport of proteins... Read More about Overexpression of OsRAN2 in rice and Arabidopsis renders transgenic plants hypersensitive to salinity and osmotic stress.