John Innes Centre

Prof Giles Oldroyd

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Curriculum Vitae

  • 1990-1994 University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. 1st class B.S. Honours Biology
  • 1994-1998 University of California, Berkeley. PhD, Plant Biology,
  • 1998-2002 Postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Sharon Long, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Stanford University.
  • 2002 - present David Phillips Fellow and Project leader at the John Innes Centre

Giles Oldroyd

Programme Leader

Disease and Stress Biology

Contact details

giles.oldroyd@jic.ac.uk

Research interests

Legumes form symbiotic interactions with rhizobial bacteria that lead to the formation of nodules on the roots of the host plant. The bacteria reside inside the cells within the nodule and convert molecular dinitrogen (atmospheric nitrogen) to ammonia, a form of nitrogen readily available to the plant. The initial stages of this interaction involve molecular communication between the plant and the bacteria. Nod factor is a critical signalling molecule generated by the bacteria that activates key responses in the plant. The work in this laboratory looks at a number of aspects of the legume/rhizobial symbiosis with a focus on Nod factor perception and signal transduction in the plant. We work on the model legume Medicago truncatula which interacts with the rhizobial species Sinorhizobium meliloti.

Recent Publications

Capoen W., Sun J., Wysham D., Otegui M. S., Venkateshwaran M., Hirsch S., Miwa H., Downie J. A., Morris R. J., Ané J. M., Oldroyd G. E. (2011)
Nuclear membranes control symbiotic calcium signaling of legumes
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108 (34) 14348-14353
DOI:10.1073/pnas.1107912108
Granqvist E., Oldroyd G. E., Morris R. J. (2011)
Automated Bayesian model development for frequency detection in biological time series
BMC Systems Biology 5 (1) 97
DOI:10.1186/1752-0509-5-97
Grierson C. S., Barnes S. R., Chase M. W., Clarke M., Grierson D., Edwards K. J., Jellis G. J., Jones J. D., Knapp S., Oldroyd G., Poppy G., Temple P., Williams R., Bastow R. (2011)
One hundred important questions facing plant science research.
New Phytologist 192 (1) 6-12
DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2011.03859.x
Horváth B., Yeun L. H., Domonkos A., Halász G., Gobbato E., Ayaydin F., Miró K., Hirsch S., Sun J., Tadege M., Ratet P., Mysore K. S., Ané J. M., Oldroyd G. E., Kaló P. (2011)
Medicago truncatula IPD3 is a member of the common symbiotic signaling pathway required for rhizobial and mycorrhizal symbioses.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 24 (11) 1345-58
DOI:10.1094/MPMI-01-11-0015
Kosuta S., Held M., Hossain M. S., Morieri G., Macgillivary A., Johansen C., Antolín-Llovera M., Parniske M., Oldroyd G. E., Downie J. A., Karas B., Szczyglowski K. (2011)
Lotus japonicus symRK-14 uncouples the cortical and epidermal symbiotic program.
Plant Journal 67 (5) 929-940
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2011.04645.x
Murray J. D., Muni R. R., Torres-Jerez I., Tang Y., Allen S., Andriankaja M., Li G., Laxmi A., Cheng X., Wen J., Vaughan D., Schultze M., Sun J., Charpentier M., Oldroyd G., Tadege M., Ratet P., Mysore K. S., Chen R., Udvardi M. K. (2011)
Vapyrin, a gene essential for intracellular progression of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, is also essential for infection by rhizobia in the nodule symbiosis of Medicago truncatula
Plant Journal 65 (2) 244-52
DOI:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2010.04415.x
Oldroyd G. E., Murray J. D., Poole P. S., Downie J. A. (2011)
The rules of engagement in the legume-rhizobial symbiosis
Annual Review of Genetics 45 119-144
DOI:10.1146/annurev-genet-110410-132549
Oldroyd G. E., Robatzek S. (2011)
The broad spectrum of plant associations with other organisms.
Current Opinion in Plant Biology 14 (4) 347-50
DOI:10.1016/j.pbi.2011.06.001
Schnabel E. L., Kassaw T. K., Smith L. S., Marsh J. F., Oldroyd G. E., Long S. R., Frugoli J. A. (2011)
The ROOT DETERMINED NODULATION1 gene regulates nodule number in roots of Medicago truncatula and defines a highly conserved, uncharacterized plant gene family.
Plant Physiology 157 (1) 328-40
DOI:10.1104/pp.111.178756
Young N. D., Debellé F., Oldroyd G. E., Geurts R., Cannon S. B., Udvardi M. K., Benedito V. A., Mayer K. F., Gouzy J., Schoof H., Van de Peer Y., Proost S., Cook D. R., Meyers B. C., Spannagl M., Cheung F., De Mita S., Krishnakumar V., Gundlach H., Zhou S., Mudge J., Bharti A. K., Murray J. D., Naoumkina M. A., Rosen B., Silverstein K. A., Tang H., Rombauts S., Zhao P. X., Zhou P., Barbe V., Bardou P., Bechner M., Bellec A., Berger A., Bergčs H., Bidwell S., Bisseling T., Choisne N., Couloux A., Denny R., Deshpande S., Dai X., Doyle J. J., Dudez A. M., Farmer A. D., Fouteau S., Rogers J., Town C. D., Roe B. A. (2011)
The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses.
Nature 480 (7378) 520-524
DOI:10.1038/nature10625
Charpentier M., Oldroyd G. (2010)
How close are we to nitrogen-fixing cereals?
Current Opinion in Plant Biology 13 (5) 556-564
DOI:10.1016/j.pbi.2010.08.003
Miyahara A., Richens J., Starker C., Morieri G., Smith L., Long S., Downie J. A., Oldroyd G. E. (2010)
Conservation in function of a SCAR/WAVE component during infection thread and root hair growth in Medicago truncatula.
Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 23 (12) 1553-62
DOI:10.1094/MPMI-06-10-0144