Jemima is a Postdoctoral Researcher working in the Uauy lab on grain size and yield in wheat.
Specifically, Jemima is using a range of approaches including genetic mapping, physiology, microscopy and transcriptomics to understand the mechanisms that control grain length and grain width in bread wheat.
Jemima completed a Rotation PhD in plant biology at the John Innes Centre, funded by the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, and studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge.
Awards
2017 – Monogram Early Career Excellence Award (PhD)
Selected Publications
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Brinton J., Simmonds J., Minter F., Leverington-Waite M., Snape J., Uauy C. (2017)Increased pericarp cell length underlies a major quantitative trait locus for grain weight in hexaploid wheat.New Phytologist (online)Publisher's version: 0028-646X
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Simmonds J., Scott P., Brinton J., Mestre T. C., Bush M., Del Blanco A., Dubcovsky J., Uauy C. (2016)A splice acceptor site mutation in TaGW2-A1 increases thousandgrain weight in tetraploid and hexaploid wheat through widerand longer grainsTheoretical and Applied Genetics (in press)Publisher's version: 0040-5752