Job Title
Professor
Department
Life Sciences
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Research Interests
Plant senescence, including the functional analysis of regulatory genes that control leaf senescence in Arabidopsis and the molecular and biochemical analysis of post harvest senescence in green vegetables, particularly broccoli. Plant signalling networks using Systems Biology.
Plant Response to Environmental STress in Arabidopsis
Systems Biology of signalling networks in leaf senescence
Functional analysis of regulatory genes involved in Arabidopsis leaf senescence
Genetics and genomics of post harvest senescence in broccoli
Biography
I did my PhD at the John Innes Institute, Norwich, UK on molecular genetics of Rhizobium leguminosarum , and then was a post doc for 3 years at the Unit of Nitrogen Fixation, Sussex working on molecular genetics of N fixation in Klebsiella pneumoniae . I then spent 7 years in the US working for BioTechnica International in Cambridge MA where I switched my attention to Agrobacterium and development of plant transformation systems. I then moved back to the UK and became a lecturer at Wye College, University of London where I started my research programme on plant senescence, initially in leaves of Brassica napus. In 1997 I moved to Horticulture Research International, which is now the School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick. In 2006 I was appointed a Reader in Plant Science at the University of Warwick and an associate of the Warwick Systems Biology Centre. In June 2007 I was appointed Director of the Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre.
Currently Chair of the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) Plant Section and sits on SEB Council.
Represents SEB on the Executive of the UK Plant Sciences Federation (UKPSF).
Eelected, in an international election, to the Executive Board of the Global Plant Council (GPC).
- 'Goren-Saglam, Nihal, 'Harrison, Elizabeth, 'Breeze, Emily, 'Oz, Gul, 'Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2020. 'Analysis of the impact of indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) on gene expression during leaf senescence in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants, 26 (4), pp. 733-745
- Walley, Peter Glen, Hough, Gemma, Moore, Jonathan D., Carder, John, Elliott, Marian, Mead, A. (Andrew), Jones, Julie, Teakle, Graham R., Barker, Guy C., Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Hand, Paul, Pink, David, Collier, Rosemary, 2017. Towards new sources of resistance to the currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri). Molecular Breeding, 37 (1)
- Bechtold, Ulrike, Penfold, Christopher A., Jenkins, Dafyd J., Legaie, Roxane, Moore, Jonathan D., Lawson, Tracy, Matthews, Jack S.A., Vialet-Chabrand, Silvere R. M., Baxter, Laura, Subramaniam, Sunitha, Hickman, Richard J., Florance, Hannah, Sambles, Christine, Salmon, Deborah L., Feil, Regina, Bowden, Laura, Hill, Claire, Baker, Neil R., Lunn, John E., Finkenstädt, Bärbel et al (Select to open full list), 2016. Time-series transcriptomics reveals that AGAMOUS-LIKE22 affects primary metabolism and developmental processes in drought-stressed Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell, 28 (2), pp. 345-366
- Lewis, Laura, Polanskia, Krzysztof, de Torres-Zabala, Marta, Jayaraman, Siddharth, Bowden, Laura, Moore, Jonathan D., Penfold, Christopher A., Jenkins, Dafyd J., Hills, Claire E., Baxter, Laura, Kulasekaran, Satish, Truman, William, Littlejohn, George, Prusinska, Justyna, Mead, Andrew, Steinbrenner, Jens, Hickman, Richard J., Rand, D. A., Wild, David L., Ott, Sascha et al (Select to open full list), 2015. Transcriptional dynamics driving MAMP-triggered immunity and pathogen effector-mediated immunosuppression in Arabidopsis leaves following infection with pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000. The Plant Cell, 27 (11), pp. 3038-3064
- Szakonyi, Dóra, Van Landeghem, Sofie, Baerenfaller, Katja, Baeyens, Lieven, Blomme, Jonas, Casanova-Sáez, Rubén, De Bodt, Stefanie, Esteve-Bruna, David, Fiorani, Fabio, Gonzalez, Nathalie, Gronlund, Jesper T., Immink, Richard G. H., Jover-Gil, Sara, Kuwabara, Asuka, Muñoz-Nortes, Tamara, van Dijk, Aalt D.J., Wilson-Sánchez, David, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Angenent, Gerco C., Van de Peer, Yves et al (Select to open full list), 2015. The KnownLeaf literature curation system captures knowledge about Arabidopsis leaf growth and development and facilitates integrated data mining. Current Plant Biology, 2, pp. 1-11
- Polanski, Krzysztof, Rhodes, Johanna, Hills, Claire E., Zhang, Peijun, Jenkins, Dafyd J., Kiddle, Steven J., Jironkin, Aleksey, Beynon, Jim, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Ott, Sascha, Denby, Katherine J., 2014. Wigwams : identifying gene modules co-regulated across multiple biological conditions. Bioinformatics, 30 (7), pp. 962-970
- Penfold, Christopher A., Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2014. Modelling transcriptional networks in leaf senescence. Journal of Experimental Botany, 65 (14), pp. 3859-3873
- Bechtold, Ulrike, Albihlal, Waleed S., Lawson, Tracy, Fryer, Michael J., Sparrow, Penelope A. C., Richard, François, Persad, Ramona, Bowden, Laura, Hickman, Richard D. G., Martin, Cathie, Beynon, Jim, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Baker, N. R., Morison, James I. L., Schoffl, Friedrich, Ott, Sascha, Mullineaux, Philip M., 2013. Arabidopsis HEAT SHOCK TRANSCRIPTION FACTORA1b overexpression enhances water productivity, resistance to drought, and infection. Journal of Experimental Botany, 64 (11), pp. 3467-3481
- Hickman, Richard J., Hill, C., Penfold, Christopher A., Breeze, Emily, Bowden, Laura, Moore, Jonathan D., Zhang, Peijun, Jackson, Alison C., Cooke, Emma J., Bewicke-Copley, Findlay, Mead, A. (Andrew), Beynon, Jim, Wild, David L., Denby, Katherine J., Ott, Sascha, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2013. A local regulatory network around three NAC transcription factors in stress responses and senescence in Arabidopsis leaves. The Plant Journal, 75 (1), pp. 26-39
- Walley, Peter Glen, Teakle, Graham R., Moore, Jonathan D., Allender, Charlotte J., Pink, David A. C., Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Barker, Guy C., 2012. Developing genetic resources for pre-breeding in Brassica oleracea L. : an overview of the UK perspective. Journal of Plant Biotechnology, 39 (1), pp. 62-68
- Grønlund, Jesper T., Eyres, Alison, Kumar, Sanjeev, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Gifford, Miriam L., 2012. Cell specific analysis of Arabidopsis leaves using fluorescence activated cell sorting. Journal of Visualized Experiments
- Walley, Peter Glen, Carder, John, Skipper, Emma, Mathas, Evy, Lynn, James R., Pink, David, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2012. A new broccoli × broccoli immortal mapping population and framework genetic map: tools for breeders and complex trait analysis. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 124 (3), pp. 467-484
- Spadafora, Natasha, Parfitt, David, Marchbank, Angela, Li, Sherong, Bruno, Leonardo, Vaughan, Rhys, Nieuwland, Jeroen, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Herbert, Robert, Bitonti, Maria Beatrice, Doonan, John, Albani, Diego, Prinsen, Els, Francis, D. (Dennis), Rogers, Hilary, 2012. Perturbation of cytokinin and ethylene-signalling pathways explain the strong rooting phenotype exhibited by Arabidopsis expressing the Schizosaccharomyces pombe mitotic inducer, cdc25. BMC Plant Biology, Vol.12 (No.1)
- Baxter, Laura, Jironkin, Aleksey, Hickman, R. D. G., Moore, Jonathan D., Barrington, Christopher, Krusche, Peter, Dyer, Nigel, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Tiskin, Alexander, Beynon, Jim, Denby, Katherine J., Ott, Sascha, 2012. Conserved noncoding sequences highlight shared components of regulatory networks in dicotyledonous plants. The Plant Cell, Vol.24 (No.10), pp. 3949-3965
- Penfold, Christopher A., Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Denby, Katherine J., Wild, David L., 2012. Nonparametric Bayesian inference for perturbed and orthologous gene regulatory networks. Bioinformatics, Vol.28 (No.12), pp. i233-i241
- Windram, Oliver P., Madhou, Priyadharshini, McHattie, Stuart, Hill, Claire, Hickman, Richard J., Cooke, Emma J., Jenkins, Dafyd J., Penfold, Christopher A., Baxter, Laura, Breeze, Emily, Kiddle, Steven J., Rhodes, Johanna, Atwell, Susanna, Kliebenstein, Daniel James, Kim, Youn-sung, Stegle, Oliver, Borgwardt, Karsten M., Zhang, Cunjin, Tabrett, Alex, Legaie, Roxane et al (Select to open full list), 2012. Arabidopsis defense against Botrytis cinerea : chronology and regulation deciphered by high-resolution temporal transcriptomic analysis. The Plant Cell, Vol.24 (No.9), pp. 3530-3557
- Breeze, Emily, Harrison, Elizabeth, McHattie, Stuart, Hughes, Linda Karen, Hickman, Richard J., Hill, Claire, Kiddle, Steven J., Kim, Youn-sung, Penfold, Christopher A., Jenkins, Dafyd J., Zhang, Cunjin, Morris, Karl, Jenner, Carol E., Jackson, Stephen D., Thomas, Brian, Tabrett, Alex, Legaie, Roxane, Moore, Jonathan D., Wild, David L., Ott, Sascha et al (Select to open full list), 2011. High-resolution temporal profiling of transcripts during Arabidopsis leaf senescence reveals a distinct chronology of processes and regulation. Plant Cell, The, Vol.23 (No.3), pp. 873-894
- Wagstaff, Carol, Bramke, Irene, Breeze, Emily, Thornber, Sarah Elizabeth, Harrison, Elizabeth, Thomas, Brian, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Stead, Tony, Rogers, Hilary, 2010. A specific group of genes respond to cold dehydration stress in cut Alstroemeria flowers whereas ambient dehydration stress accelerates developmental senescence expression patterns. Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.61 (No.11), pp. 2905-2921
- Krishna, Ritesh V., Li, Chang-Tsun, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2010. A temporal precedence based clustering method for gene expression microarray data. BMC Bioinformatics, Vol.11
- Massonnet, Catherine, Vile, Denis, Fabre, Juliette, Hannah, Matthew A., Caldana, Camila, Lisec, Jan, Beemster, Gerrit T. S., Meyer, Rhonda C., Messerli, Gaelle, Gronlund, Jesper T., Perkovic, Josip, Wigmore, Emma, May, Sean T., Bevan, Michael W., Meyer, Christian, Rubio-Diaz, Silvia, Weigel, Detlef, Micol, Jose Luis, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Fiorani, Fabio et al (Select to open full list), 2010. Probing the reproducibility of leaf growth and molecular phenotypes : a comparison of three Arabidopsis accessions cultivated in ten laboratories. Plant Physiology, Vol.152 (No.4), pp. 2142-2157
- Kiddle, Steven J., Windram, Oliver P., McHattie, Stuart, Mead, A. (Andrew), Beynon, Jim, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Denby, Katherine J., Mukherjee, Sach, 2009. Temporal clustering by affinity propagation reveals transcriptional modules in Arabidopsis thaliana. Bioinformatics, Vol.26 (No.3), pp. 355-362
- Wu, Jianhua, Sinfield, James Lister, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Feng, Jianfeng, 2009. Impact of environmental inputs on reverse-engineering approach to network structures. BMC Systems Biology, Vol.3
- Feng, Jianfeng, Yi, Dongyun, Krishna, Ritesh, Guo, Shuixia, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2009. Listen to genes : dealing with microarray data in the frequency domain. PL o S One, Vol.4 (No.4)
- Wagstaff, Carol, Yang, Thomas J.W., Stead, Anthony D., Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Roberts, Jeremy A., 2009. A molecular and structural characterization of senescing Arabidopsis siliques and comparison of transcriptional profiles with senescing petals and leaves. Plant Journal, Vol.57 (No.4), pp. 690-705
- Pink, David, Bailey, Elizabeth H., McClement, Sandy, Hand, Paul, Mathas, Evy, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Astley, Dave, King , Graham J., Teakle, Graham R., 2008. Double haploids, markers and QTL analysis in vegetable brassicas. Euphytica, 164 (2), pp. 509-514
- Breeze, Emily, Harrison, E., Page, Tania, Warner, N., Shen, C., Zhang, Cunjin, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2008. Transcriptional regulation of plant senescence : from functional genomics to systems biology. Plant Biology, Vol.10 (Suppl.1), pp. 99-109
- Price, Anna Marie, Orellana, Danilo F. Aros, Salleh, Faezah Mohd, Stevens, Ryan, Acock, Rosemary, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Stead, A. D., Rogers, Hilary J., 2008. A comparison of leaf and petal senescence in wallflower reveals common and distinct patterns of gene expression and physiology. Plant Physiology, 147 (4), pp. 1898-1912
- Lim, Pyung Ok, Kim, Yumi, Breeze, Emily, Koo, Ja Choon, Woo, Hye Ryun, Ryu, Jong Sang, Park, Don Ha, Beynon, Jim, Tabrett, Alex, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Nam, Hong Gil, 2007. Overexpression of a chromatin architecture-controlling AT-hook protein extends leaf longevity and increases the post-harvest storage life of plants. PLANT JOURNAL, 52 (6), pp. 1140-1153
- Walley, Peter Glen, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2011. Brassicas. In Terry, L. (ed.), Health promoting properties of fruit and vegetables, Oxfordshire, UK, CABI, pp. 74-90
- Krishna, Ritesh, Li, Chang-Tsun, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2009. Interaction based functional clustering of genomic data. 9th IEEE International Conference on BioInformatics and BioEngineering, Taichung, Taiwan, 22-24 June 2009, Published in 2009 9th IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering, pp. 130-137
- Walley, Peter Glen, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Skipper, Emma, Pink, David, Carder, John, 2009. The identification of QTLs for quality traits in broccoli. UK Brassica Research Community Annual Meeting 2009, John Innes Centre, Norwich, 7th May 2009, Published in Proceedings of the 2009 UK Brassica Research Community Annual Meeting
- Walley, Peter Glen, Carder, John, Skipper, Emma, Puddephat, I., Pink, David, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2008. Mapping and analysis of genetic loci controlling quality traits in broccoli. Brassica 2008: 5th ISHS International Symposium on Brassicas and the 16th Crucifer Genetics Workshop, Lillehammer, Norway, 8 - 12 Sept, 2008, Published in Programme and Abstract Book of Brassica 2008
- Walley, Peter Glen, Carder, John, Skipper, Emma, Puddephat, I., Pink, David, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, 2008. Mapping and analysis of genetic loci controlling quality traits in broccoli - a new broccoli linkage map and mapped quality trait QTLs. Chinese broccoli breeder and the Syngenta broccoli breeding team, Syngenta Seeds, Enkhuizen, NL
- Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky, Harrison, Elizabeth, Breeze, Emily, 2007. Elucidating signaling pathways that control Arabidopsis leaf senescence. Annual Main Meeting of the Society for Experimental Biology, Glasgow, Scotland, March 31 - April 4, 2007, Published in Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A: Molecular & Integrative Physiology, pp. S53-S54
| Title | Funder | Award start | Award end |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extension to VeGIN: Vegetable Genetic Improvement Network for leafy and field vegetables CH0101 | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 01 Mar 2014 | 30 Sep 2014 |
| Warwick Systems Biology Doctoral Training Centre | EPSRC | 01 Oct 2006 | 01 Oct 2013 |
| Systems Approaches to Biological Research (SABR) Studentships | BBSRC | 01 Oct 2008 | 30 Sep 2013 |
| Additional resource for maintenance of genetic resources | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 01 May 2013 | 31 Aug 2013 |
| Elucidating Signalling Networks in Plant Stress Responses - SABR 1 | BBSRC | 07 Apr 2008 | 06 Apr 2013 |
| Commonwealth Fellowship: Dr Prasajith Kapila Dissanayake | Commonwealth Scholarship Commision in the UK | 01 Oct 2011 | 31 Mar 2012 |
| Dietary Activators of antioxidant response element-linked gene expression for good vascular health | BBSRC | 01 Oct 2008 | 30 Sep 2011 |
| Industrial support for BBSRC Mapping and analysis of genetic loci controlling quality traits in broccoli (16796) RHRVB3004 | Syngenta Ltd | 01 Apr 2007 | 31 Mar 2011 |
| Agronomics - Integrated Project | EU | 01 Apr 2007 | 31 Mar 2011 |
| Mapping and Analysis on Genetic Loci Controlling Quality Traits in Broccoli. | BBSRC | 01 Jan 2007 | 31 Dec 2010 |
| Scoping Study on maintaining the quality of fruit and veg in the supply chain (core grant) | Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs | 01 Dec 2006 | 31 Mar 2007 |
