Publications Below is a list of selected DSW publications
PUBLICATION YEAR 2026
INDETERMINATE DOMAIN-DELLA protein interactions orchestrate gibberellin-mediated cell elongation in wheat and barley
CONTRIBUTORS: Sokolowska, P; Jost, M; Buss, W; Ford, B; Chandler, PM; Spielmeyer, W; Phillips, A; Huttly, AK; Tarkowská, D; Alarcón-Reverte, R; Clark, SJ; Pearce, S; Hedden, P; Thomas, SG
JOURNAL: PNAS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2528934123
Spatial Transcriptomics Reveals Expression Gradients in Developing Wheat Inflorescences at Cellular Resolution
CONTRIBUTORS: Long, KA; Lister, A; Jones, MRW; Adamski, NM; Ellis, RE; Chedid, C; Carpenter, SJ; Liu, X; Backhaus, AE; Goldson, A; Knitlhoffer, V; Pei, Y; Vickers, M; Steuernagel, B; Kaithakottil, GG; Xiao, J; Haerty, W; Macaulay, IC; Uauy, C
JOURNAL: The Plant Cell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf282
Controlling GRF4-GIF1 expression for efficient, genotype-independent transformation across wheat cultivars
CONTRIBUTORS: Hayta, S; Smedley, MA; Bayraktar, M; Forner, M; Backhaus, A; Lister, C; Clarke, M; Uauy, C; Griffiths, S
JOURNAL: The Plant Journal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111%2Ftpj.70799
Extreme heat and drought at flowering could threaten global wheat yields under climate change
CONTRIBUTORS: Senapati, N; Halford, NG; Hawkesford, MJ; Shewry, PR ; Semenov, MA
JOURNAL: CLIMATIC CHANGE
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10584-025-04054-8
A High Soluble-Fibre Allele in Wheat Encodes a Defective Cell Wall Peroxidase Responsible for Dimerization of Ferulate Moieties on Arabinoxylan
CONTRIBUTORS: Mitchell, RAC; Kosik, O; Alabdullah, AK; Prins, A; Oszvald, M; Pellny, TK; Freeman, J; Halsey, K; Sparks, CA; Huttly, A; Brett, J; Leverington-Waite, M (; Griffiths, S; Shewry, PR; Lovegrove, A
JOURNAL: Plant Biotechnology Journal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fpbi.70527
PUBLICATION YEAR 2025
Evolutionary genomics reveals variation in structure and genetic content implicated in virulence and lifestyle in the genus Gaeumannomyces
CONTRIBUTORS: Hill, R; Grey, M; Fedi, MO; Smith, D; Canning, G; Ward, SJ; Irish, N; Smith, J; Mcmillan, VE; Hammond, J; Osborne, SJ; Reynolds, G; Smith, E; Chancellor, T; Swarbreck, D; Hall, N; Palma-Guerrero, J; Hammond-Kosack, KE; McMullan, M
JOURNAL: BMC GENOMICS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-025-11432-0
Future crop breeding needs to consider future soils
CONTRIBUTORS: Raza, S; Pandey, BK; Hawkesford, MJ; Griffiths, S; Bennett, MJ; Mooney, SJ
JOURNAL: NATURE PLANTS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-025-01977-z
De novo annotation reveals transcriptomic complexity across the hexaploid wheat pan-genome
CONTRIBUTORS: White, B; Lux, T; Rusholme-Pilcher, R; Juhász, A; Kaithakottil, G; Duncan, S; Simmonds, J; Rees, H; Wright, J; Colmer, J; Ward, S; Joynson, R; Coombes, B; Irish, N; Henderson, S; Barker, T; Chapman, H; Catchpole, L; Gharbi, K; Bose, U; Okada, M; Handa, H; Nasuda, S; Shimizu, K.K; Gundlach, H; Lang, D; Naamati, G; Legg, E.J; Bharti, A.K; Colgrave, M.L; Haerty, W; Uauy, C; Swarbreck, D; Borrill, P; Poland, J.A; Krattinger, S.G; Stein, N; Mayer, K.F.X; Pozniak, C; 10+ Wheat Genome Project, Spannagl, M; Hall, A
JOURNAL: Nature Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-64046-1
Fine-tuning wheat development for the winter to spring transition
CONTRIBUTORS: Gauley, A; Lacey, I; González-Suárez, P; Taylor, H; Hirsz, D; Hayta, S; Smedley, M; Harwood, W; Griffiths, S; Cheng, SF; Dixon, L
JOURNAL: Plant Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xplc.2025.101501
GIBBERELLIN 3-OXIDASE genes regulate height and grain size in bread wheat
CONTRIBUTORS: Phillips, AL; Huttly, AK; Alarcon-Reverte, R; Clark, SJ; Jaworek, P; Tarkowská, D; Sokolowska, P; Steele, D; Riche, A; Hawkesford, MJ; Thomas, SG; Hedden, P; Pearce, S
JOURNAL: Journal of Experimental Botany
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/eraf151
Membrane-permeable trehalose 6-phosphate precursor spray increases wheat yields in field trials
CONTRIBUTORS: Griffiths, CA; Xue, XC; Miret, JA; Salvagiotti, F; Acevedo-Siaca, LG; Gimeno, J; Reynolds, MP; Hassall, KL; Halsey, K; Puranik, S; Oszvald, M; Kurup, S; Davis, BG; Paul, MJ
JOURNAL: Nature Biotechnology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-025-02611-1
PUBLICATION YEAR 2024
Harnessing landrace diversity empowers wheat breeding
CONTRIBUTORS: Cheng, S; Feng, C; Wingen, LU; Cheng, H; Riche, AB; Jiang, M; Leverington-Waite, M; Huang, Z; Collier, S; Orford, S; Wang, X; Awal, R; Barker, G; O’Hara, T; Lister, C; Siluveru, A; Quiroz-Chavez, J; Ramirez-Gonzalez, RH; Bryant, R; Berry, S; Bansal, U; Bariana, HS; Bennett, MJ; Bicego, B; Bilham, L; Brown, JKM; Burridge, A; Burt, C; Buurman, M; Castle, M; Chartrain, L; Chen, B; Denbel, W; Elkot, AF; Fenwick, P; Feuerhelm, D; Foulkes, J; Gaju, O; Gauley, A; Gaurav, K; Hafeez, AN; Han, R; Horler, R; Hou, J; Iqbal, MS; Kerton, M; Kondic-Spica, A; Kowalski, A; Lage, J; Li, X; Liu, H; Liu, S; Lovegrove, A; Ma, L; Mumford, C; Parmar, S; Philp, C; Playford, D; Przewieslik-Allen, AM; Sarfraz, Z; Schafer, D; Shewry, PR; Shi, Y; Slafer, GA; Song, B; Song, B; Steele, D; Steuernagel, B; Tailby, P; Tyrrell, S; Waheed, A; Wamalwa, MN; Wang, X; Wei, Y; Winfield, M; Wu, S; Wu, Y; Wulff, BBH; Xian, W; Xu, Y; Xu, Y; Yuan, Q; Zhang, X; Edwards, K J; Dixon, L; Nicholson, P; Chayut, N; Hawkesford, MJ; Uauy, C; Sanders, D; Huang, S; Griffiths, S
JOURNAL: NATURE
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-07682-9
Identification and functional characterisation of a locus for target site integration in Fusarium graminearum
CONTRIBUTORS: Darino, M; Urban, M; Kaur, N; Machado Wood, A; Grimwade-Mann, M; Smith, D; Beacham, A; Hammond-Kosack KE
JOURNAL: Fungal Biology and Biotechnology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40694-024-00171-8
The wheat powdery mildew resistance gene Pm4 also confers resistance to wheat blast
CONTRIBUTORS: O’Hara, T; Steed, A; Goddard, R; Gaurav, K; Arora, S; Quiroz-Chavez, J; Ramirez-Gonzalez, R; Badgami, R; Gilbert, D; Sanchez-Martin, J; Wingen, L; Feng, C; Jiang, M; Cheng, S; Dreisigacker, S; Keller, B; Wulff, BBH; Uauy, C; Nicholson, P
JOURNAL: NATURE PLANTS
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41477-024-01718-8
PHI-base – the multi-species pathogen-host interaction database in 2025
CONTRIBUTORS: Urban, M; Cuzick, A; Seager, J; Nonavinakere, N; Sahoo, J; Sahu, P; Iyer, VL; Khamari, L; Martinez, MC; Hammond-Kosack, KE
JOURNAL: NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkae1084
The effects of soil compaction on wheat seedling root growth are specific to soil texture and soil moisture status
CONTRIBUTORS: Yu, C; Mawodza, T; Atkinson, BS; Atkinson, JA; Sturrock, CJ; Whalley, R; Hawkesford, MJ; Cooper, H; Zhang, X; Zhou, H; Mooney, SJ
JOURNAL: RHIZOSPHERE
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rhisph.2023.100838
PUBLICATION YEAR 2023
Regulation of Rubisco activity in crops
CONTRIBUTORS: Amaral, J; Lobo, AKM; Carmo-Silva, E
JOURNAL: NEW PHYTOLOGIST
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/nph.19369
Initiation of B-type starch granules in wheat endosperm requires the plastidial α-glucan phosphorylase PHS1
CONTRIBUTORS: Kamble, NU; Makhamadjonov, F; Fahy, B; Martins, C; Saalbach, G; Seung, D
JOURNAL: PLANT CELL
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koad217
Machine Learning Methods for Automatic Segmentation of Images of Field- and Glasshouse-Based Plants for High-Throughput Phenotyping
CONTRIBUTORS: Okyere, FG; Cudjoe, D; Sadeghi-Tehran, P; Virlet, N; Riche, ABB; Castle, M; Greche, L; Mohareb, F; Simms, D; Mhada, M; Hawkesford, MJ
JOURNAL: PLANTS-BASEL
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/plants12102035
Comparative compositions of grain of tritordeum, durum wheat and bread wheat grown in multi-environment trials
CONTRIBUTORS: Shewry, PR; Brouns, F; Dunn, J; Hood, J; Burridge, A J; America, AHP; Gilissen, L; Proos-Huijsmans, ZAM; van Straaten, JP; Jonkers, D; Lazzeri, PA; Ward, JL; Lovegrove, A
JOURNAL: FOOD CHEMISTRY
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2023.136312