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Dr Chris Ridout

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Curriculum Vitae

  • 1983 BSc. Liverpool Polytechnic
  • 1986 Ph. D. University of Hull
  • 1986 Senior Scientific Officer, AEA technolgy, Harwell
  • 1990 Visiting Scientist, USDA Beltsville, Maryland, USA
  • 1993 Senior Research Associate, University of East Anglia
  • 1996 Senior Project Scientist, John Innes Centre
  • 2008-2010 Strategic Research Scientist, John Innes Centre

Chris Ridout

Cluster Leader

Disease and Stress Biology

Contact details

Tel: +44 (0)1603 450286
christopher.ridout@jic.ac.uk

Research interests

I lead the disease resistance innovation cluster, a research programme on control of pests and diseases in crops. We develop fundamental research discoveries about plant pathogen interactions for application in agriculture and work with plant breeders on an increasing range of projects. The main focus is on characterising the early immune response in cereals and brassicas using both natural genetic variation and transgenic approaches. In particular, we are investigating how these plants respond to pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) such as fungal chitin and bacterial flagellin.  We also work on Turnip Yellows virus of oilseed rape, to understand how it is transmitted by aphids and to investigate its impact on oil quality. The group is also developing projects on take-all and the effect of climate change on wheat immunity including resistance to yellow rust.

Please enquire about summer student work in plant pathology

Recent Publications

López-Ruiz F. J., Chartrain L., Pérez-Garcia A., Ridout C. J., Tóres J. A., Brown J. K. M. (2011)
Exploring the molecular basis of azole resistance in powdery mildew fungi
Modern Fungicides and Antifungal Compounds VI
DPG Spectrum Phytomedizin
(20) 135-142
Pitino M., Coleman A. D., Maffei M. E., Ridout C. J., Hogenhout S. A. (2011)
Silencing of aphid genes by dsRNA feeding from plants
PLoS ONE 6 (10) e25709
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0025709
Yildirim-Ersoy F., Ridout C. J., Akkaya M. S. (2011)
Detection of physically interacting proteins with the CC and NB-ARC domains of a putative yellow rust resistance protein, Yr10, in wheat
Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection 118 (3-4) 119-126
Nowara D., Gay A., Lacomme C., Shaw J., Ridout C., Douchov D., Hensel G., Kumlehn J., Schweizer P. (2010)
HIGS: Host-induced gene silencing in the obligate biotrophic fungal pathogen Blumeria graminis
Plant Cell 22 (9) 3130-3141
Spanu P. D., Abbott J. C., Amselem J., Burgis T. A., Soanes D. M., Stüber K., Ver Loren van Themaat E., Brown J. K. M., Butcher S. A., Gurr S. J., Lebrun M. H., Ridout C. J., Schulze-Lefert P., Talbot N. J., Ahmadinejad N., Ametz C., Barton G. R., Benjdia M., Bidzinski P., Bindschedler L. V., Both M., Brewer M. T., Cadle-Davidson L., Cadle-Davidson M. M., Collemare J., Cramer R., Frenkel O., Godfrey D., Harriman J., Hoede C., King B. C., Klages S., Kleemann J., Knoll D., Koti P. S., Kreplak J., López-Ruiz F. J., Lu X., Maekawa T., Mahanil S., Micali C., Milgroom M. G., Montana G., Noir S., O'Connell R. J., Oberhaensli S., Parlange F., Pedersen C., Vigouroux M., Panstruga R. (2010)
Genome expansion and gene loss in powdery mildew fungi reveal tradeoffs in extreme parasitism.
Science 330 (6010) 1543-6
DOI:10.1126/science.1194573