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Dr Trevor Wang

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Curriculum Vitae

  • 1973 BSc Hons (1st,), University of London, UK
  • 1977 PhD, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK
  • 1976-8 SERC Personal Fellowship, Botany, University of Leicester, UK
  • 1978-9 Postodoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics, University of Leeds, UK
  • 1979-2001 Project Leader, Applied Genetics, John Innes Centre UK
  • 1980 Honorary Lecturer, University fo East Anglia, UK
  • 1999 Honorary Reader, University of East Anglia, UK
  • 2002 to date Group Leader, Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, UK
  • 2005 to date Associate Head of Department, Metabolic Biology, John Innes Centre, UK

Trevor Wang

Associate Head of Department

Metabolic Biology

Contact details

Tel: +44 (0)1603 450283
trevor.wang@bbsrc.ac.uk

Research interests

My group at present is involved in research on the model legume, Lotus japonicus.  We are concentrating on carbon partitioning and on secondary metabolism. We have generated numerous mutants using both forward and reverse genetics especially mutants in starch metabolism, sucrose breakdown and isoflavonoid synthesis.  For this research, we make extensive use of our reverse genetics TILLING platform. We also operate metabolomics as a platform technology for the Centre and use it as a discovery tool for all our research.

For links on pea research go to peas.ac.uk, for Lotus research go to lotusjaponicus.org and for reverse genetics go to revgenuk.jic.ac.uk. For past research programmes on peas, starch or mosses, go to my archive.

See more information on our new reverse genetics platform at my home page.

 

Selected Publications

Maekawa-Yoshikawa M., Müller J., Takeda N., Maekawa T., Sato S., Tabata S., Perry J., Wang T. L., Groth M., Brachmann A., Parniske M. (2009)
The temperature-sensitive brush mutant of the legume Lotus japonicus reveals a link between root development and nodule infection by rhizobia
Plant Physiology 149 (4) 1785-96
DOI:10.1104/pp.108.135160

Recent Publications

Hill L., Wang T. (2009)
Approaches to the analysis of plant-derived natural products.
Plant-Derived Natural Products: Synthesis, Function and Application
Springer
(4) 97-125
Perry J., Brachmann A., Welham T., Binder A., Charpentier M., Groth M., Haage K., Markmann K., Wang T., Parniske M. (2009)
Tilling in Lotus japonicus identified large allelic series for symbiosis genes and revealed a bias in functionally defective ethyl methanesulfonate alleles towards glycine replacements
Plant Physiology 151 (3) 1281-1291
DOI:10.1104/pp.109.142190
Tadege M., Wang T. L., Wen J., Ratet P., Mysore K. S. (2009)
Mutagenesis and beyond! Tools for understanding legume biology.
Plant Physiology 151 (3) 978-84
DOI:10.1104/pp.109.144097
Wang T. (2009)
Functional genomics in legumes: reversing the grain drain
Grain Legumes 53 13
Welham T., Pike J., Horst I., Flemetakis E., Katinakis P., Kaneko T., Sato S., Tabata S., Perry J., Parniske M., Wang T. L. (2009)
A cytosolic invertase is required for normal growth and cell development in the model legume, Lotus japonicus.
Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (12) 3353-3365
DOI:10.1093/jxb/erp169
Zhou Y., Chan K., Wang T. L., Hedley C. L., Offler C. E., Patrick J. W. (2009)
Intracellular sucrose communicates metabolic demand to sucrose transporters in developing pea cotyledons.
Journal of Experimental Botany 60 (1) 71-85
DOI:10.1093/jxb/ern254
Bailey P. C., Dicks J., Wang T. L., Martin C. (2008)
IT3F: a web-based tool for functional analysis of transcription factors in plants.
Phytochemistry 69 (13) 2417-2425
DOI:10.1016/j.phytochem.2008.08.003
Yano K., Yoshida S., Müller J., Singh S., Banba M., Vickers K., Markmann K., White C., Schuller B., Sato S., Asamizu E., Tabata S., Murooka Y., Perry J., Wang T. L., Kawaguchi M., Imaizumi-Anraku H., Hayashi M., Parniske M. (2008)
CYCLOPS, a mediator of symbiotic intracellular accommodation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105 (51) 20540-20545
DOI:10.1073/pnas.0806858105