Publications

 

 

Wan Y., Underwood C., Toole G.A., Skeggs P., Zhu T., Leverington M., Griffiths S., Wheeler T., Gooding M., Poole R., Edwards K.J., Gezan S., Welham S., Snape J., Mills E.N.C., Mitchell R.A.C., Shewry P.R. (2009).  Identification of transcripts that correlate with grain quality traits in wheat.  Plant Biotechnology Journal 7: 401-410

 

Al-Kaff N., Knight E., Bertin I., Foote T., Hart N., Griffiths S., Moore G. (2008).  Detailed dissection of the chromosomal region containing the Ph1 locus in wheat Triticum aestivum: with deletion mutants and expression profiling.  Annals of Botany 101: 863-872

 

Beales J., Turner A., Griffiths S., Snape J.W., Laurie D. (2007).  A pseudo-response regulator is misexpressed in the photoperiod insensitive Ppd-D1a mutant of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 115: 721-733

 

Griffiths S., Sharp R., Foote T.N., Bertin I., Wanous M., Reader S., Colas I., Moore G. (2006).  Molecular analysis of Ph1 as a major chromosome pairing locus in polyploid wheat.  Nature 439: 749-752

 

S. Griffiths, R. Sharp, T.N. Foote, I. Bertin, M. Wanous, S. Reader, I. Colas, and G. Moore. 2006. Molecular characterization of Ph1 as a major chromosome pairing locus in polyploid wheat. Nature 439: 749-752.

  

Dunford, R.P., S. Griffiths, V. Christodoulou, and D.A. Laurie. 2005. Characterisation of a barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) homologue of the Arabidopsis flowering time regulator GIGANTEA. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 110: 925-931.

 

David A. Laurie, Simon Griffiths, Roy P. Dunford, Vangelis Christodoulou, Scott A. Taylor, James Cockram, James Beales, Adrian Turner. 2004.  Comparative genetic approaches to the identification of flowering time genes in temperate cereals.  Field Crops Research.  Special issue for American Society of Agronomy Annual Meeting, Denver 2nd-6th November 2003 (submitted).

 

Foote TN, Griffiths S, Allouis S, Moore G. 2004.  Construction and analysis of a BAC library in the grass Brachypodium Sylvaticum: its use as a tool to bridge the gap between rice and wheat in elucidating gene content.  Functional and Integrative Genomics 4: 26-33.

 

Allouis S, Moore G, Bellec A, Sharp R, Faivre Rampant P, Mortimer K, Pateyron S, Foote T N, Griffiths S, Caboche M, Chaloub B. 2003. Construction and characterisation of a hexaploid wheat BAC library from the reference germplasm ‘Chinese Spring’. Cereal Research Communications 31 3-4: 331-338.

 

Griffiths S, Dunford RP, Coupland G, Laurie DA.  2003. The evolution of CONSTANS-like gene families in barley, rice, and Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol.  Apr 131(4): 1855-67.

 

Laurie DA, Griffiths S (2002) Molecular markers for flowering time genes in crop plants. Chapter 8 in Molecular Techniques in Crop Improvement. Jain MS, Brar DS and Ahloowalia BS (eds.). Kluwer Academic publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, London. pp 239-263.

 

Laurie DA, Griffiths S, Dunford RP, Christodoulou V. Cockram J (2001). The genetic control of flowering in cereals and its implications for crop adaptation. Proceedings of the 4th International Triticeae Symposium, Cordoba, Spain, 10-12th September, 2001. Editors Hernández P, Moreno MT, Cubero JI and Martín A.  Junta de Adelucia, Consejeria de Agricultura y Pesca.  p 177-182.

 

Decousset L, Griffiths S, Dunford RP, Pratchett N, Laurie DA. Development of STS markers closely linked to the Ppd-H1 photoperiod response gene of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).  Theoretical and Applied Genetics 101: 1202-1206 (2000).

 

Kohli A, Griffiths S, Palacios N, Twyman RM, Vain P, Laurie DA, Christou P. Molecular characterization of transforming plasmid rearrangements in transgenic rice reveals a recombination hotspot in the CaMV 35S promoter and confirms the predominance of microhomology mediated recombination.  Plant J. 1999 Mar, 17(6): 591-601.