Molecular Plant Pathology

Thermotolerance

Brachypodium distachyon:

A potential model grass species?

Rhizobium-induced gene expression

in Lotus japonicus

Current Grants

BBSRC Grants

“What Controls Lesion Development During HR-Type Cell Death in Arabidopsis” £185,524. 01/11/99 - 31/01/02

“Genetic analysis of the defensive oxidative burst in Arabidopsis” £239,719. 01/02/99 - 1/11/02

“Salicylic acid and H₂O₂ in abiotic stress acclimation in plants” £164,890 01/3/00 - 27/2/03

BBSRC JREI

“Application of high-resolution, sensitive quantification to research in functional genomics” (1999) £74,435

Royal Society

"Plant Culture models for defence" (2000) £10,000

IBS Studentships

(vi) A comparison of pathogen-elicited signal transduction pathways in model dicot species and grasses/cereals

(vii) Rhizobium-induced gene expression Lotus japonicus

Collaborators

Prof. John Draper IBS: Salicylic acid signaling in dicot and monocot plant species.
Prof. Mike Hall & Dr. Aileen Smith, IBS: Ethylene signalling.
Dr. Paul Kenton., IBS; Jasmonic acid signalling.
Prof. John Mansfield, Wye College University of London: The oxidative burst
Dr. Mark Robbins and Dr. Mike Abberton, IGER: Mechanisms of programmed cell death in plants.
Dr. Ian Scott, IBS: Salicylic acid interaction with hydrogen peroxide in thermoresistance. .
Dr. Judith Webb, IGER. Lotus japonicus / Rhizobium interactions.

Editorships

I am an editor of Molecular Plant Pathology

Publications

Vivian, A., Atherton, G., Bevan, J. Crute, I.R., Mur, L. and Taylor, J. (1989) isolation and characterisation of cloned DNA conferring specific avirulence in Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi to pea (Pisum sativum) cultivars which possess the resistance allele R2. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 34, 335-344.

Dangl, J.L., Ritter, C., Gibbon, M.J., Mur, L.A.J., Wood, J.R., Goss, S., Mansfield, J., Taylor, J.D. and Vivian, A. (1992) Functional homologuess of the Arabidopsis RPM1 disease resistance gene in bean and pea. Plant Cell. 4, 1359-1369.

Mur, L.A.J., Gill A., Gill, B.S., McCabe, M., Sidell, R., Warner, SA.J. and Draper, J. (1993) Investigations into the transcription and translation of a wound-inducible gene in homologous and heterologous systems. J. Expt. Bot. 44, 32.

Mur, L.A.J., Gill, A., Naylor, G.W., Warner, S.A.J. and Draper J. (1994) The effects of pathogen attack and salicylic acid on the expression of AoPR1, and intracellular PR protein from Asparagus officinalis. J. Expt. Bot. 45, 12.

Darby, R.M., Firek, S., Mur, L.A.J. , Bi, Y-M. and Draper, J. (1994) Characterisation of a PR-5 gene from Asparagus officinalis. J. Expt. Bot. 45, 12.

Bi, Y-M., Kenton, P., Mur, L., Darby, R. and Draper, J. (1995). Hydrogen peroxide does not function downstream of salicylic acid in PR protein expression. Plant J. 8, 235-245.

Mur, L.A.J. , Naylor, G., Warner, S.A.J., Sugars, J.M., White, R.F. and Draper, J, (1996). Salicylic acid potentiates defence gene expression in tissue exhibiting acquired resistance to pathogen attack. Plant J. 9, 559-572.

Mur, L.A.J., Kenton, P. and Draper, J, (1997) Something in the air: Volatile signals in plant defence. Trends Microbiol. 8, 297-300.

Gibbon MJ, Jenner C, Mur LAJ, Puri N, Mansfield JW, Taylor JD and Vivian A (1997) Avirulence gene avrPpiA from Pseudomonas syringae pv pisi is not required for full virulence on pea Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol, 50, 219-236

Mur, L.A.J., Bi, Y-M, Darby, R.M., Firek, S. and Draper, J. (1997). Compromising early SA accumulation delays the hypersensitive response and increases viral dispersal during lesion establishment in TMV-infected tobacco. Plant J. 12, 1113-1126.

Kenton, P., Mur, L.A.J., Wasternack, C., Atzorn,R. and Draper J. (1999). –(-) Jasmonic acid rises during the hypersensitive response in tobacco. Mol. Plant Path. Interact.12 74-78

Kenton, P., Mur, L.A.J., and Draper J. (1999).A requirement for calcium and protein phosphatase in the jasmonate-induced increase in tobacco leaf acid phosphatase specific activity. J. Expt. Bot. 50, 1331-1341.

Darby, R.M., Maddison, A., Mur, L. A.J. , Bi,, Y-M. and Draper, J. (2000) Cell specific expression of salicylate hydroxylase to separate localised HR and systemic signalling establishing SAR in tobacco 1, 115-123. Mol. Plant Pathol.

Mur, L. A. J., Brown, I. R., Darby, R. M., Bestwick, C. S., Bi, Y. M., Mansfield, J. W., and Draper, J. (2000). A loss of resistance to avirulent bacterial pathogens in tobacco is associated with the attenuation of a salicylic acid-potentiated oxidative burst. Plant J 23, 609-621.