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  • 401. Jones A, Bridle S, Denby K, Bhunnoo R, Morton D, Stanbrough L, Coupe B, Pilley V, Benton T, Falloon P, Matthews T, Hasnain S, Heslop-Harrison JS (Pat), Beard SJ, Pierce J, Pretty J, Zurek M, Johnstone A, Smith P, Gunn N, Watson M, Pope E, Tzachor A, Douglas C, Reynolds C, Ward N, Fredenburgh J, Pettinger C, Quested T, Cordero JP, Mitchell C, Bewick C, Brown C, Brown C, Burgess P, Challinor A, Cottrell A, Crocker T, George T, Godfray C, Hails R, Ingram J, Lang T, Lyon F, Lusher S, MacMillan T, Newton S, Pearson S, Pritchard S, Sanders D, Bellamy AS, Steven M, Trickett A, Voysey A, Watson C, Whitby D, Whiteside K. 2023. Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: results of a structured expert elicitation. Submitted August 2023.. https://doi.org/to come.
  • 400. Heslop-Harrison JS, 2023. Algae and the ruminant diet: calories and functional feed additives reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Submitted August 2023. https://doi.org/10.10 to come. under review.
  • 399. Masters LE, Tomaszewska P, Zuntini AR, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Vorontsova MS. 2023. Phylogenomic analysis reveals the evolutionary origins of five independent clades of forage grasses within the African genus Urochloa. bioRxiv. 2023:2023-07 Submitted and BioRxiv July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.07.03.547487.
  • 398. Balzter H, Macul M, Delaney B, Tansey K, Espirito-Santo F, Ofoegbu C, Petrovskii S, Forchtner B, Nicholes N, Payo E, Heslop-Harrison P, Burns M, Basell L, Egberts E, Stockley E, Desorgher M, Upton C, Whelan M, Yildiz A. 2023. Loss and damage from climate change: knowledge gaps and interdisciplinary approaches. Sustainability 15: 11864. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511864
  • 397. Alisawi O, Richert-Pöggeler KR, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T. 2023. The nature and organisation of tandemly repeated satellite DNAs in Petunia hybrida, related, and ancestral genomes. Submitted May 2023.
  • 396. White O, Biswas M, Abebe WM, Dussert Y, Kebede F, Nichols R, Buggs RJ, Demissew S, Woldeyes F, Papadopulos AS, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Wilkin P, Borrell JS. 2023  Maintenance and expansion of genetic and trait variation following domestication in a clonal crop. Molecular Ecology 32: 4165-4180. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17033.
  • TS. Desjardins SD, Bailey JP, Zhang B, Zhao K, Schwarzacher T. 2023. New insights into the phylogenetic relationships of Japanese knotweed (Reynoutria japonica) and allied taxa in subtribe Reynoutriinae (Polygonaceae). PhytoKeys 220: 83-108. https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.220.96922.
  • TS. Schmidt N, Seibt KM, Weber B, Schwarzacher T, Schmidt T, Heitkam T. 2021. Broken, silent, and in hiding: tamed endogenous pararetroviruses escape elimination from the genome of sugar beet (Beta vulgaris). Annals of Botany 128: 281-299. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcab042
  • 395. Wang Z-F, Rouard M, Droc G, Heslop-Harrison JS, Ge X-J. 2023. Genome assembly of Musa beccarii shows extensive chromosomal rearrangements and genome expansion during evolution of Musaceae genomes. Gigascience 12: 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giad005.
  • 394. Liu Q, Yuan H, Xu J, Cui D, Xiong G, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2023. The mitochondrial genome of the diploid oat Avena longiglumis. BMC Plant Biology 23: 218. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-023-04217-8
  • 393. Gori GB, Aschner M, Borgert CJ, Cohen S, Dietrich DR, Galli CL, Greim H, Heslop-Harrison JS, Kacew S, Kaminski NE, Klaunig JE, Marquardt HWJ, Moretto A, Pelkonen O, Roberts R, Savolainen KM, Tsatsakis A, Yamazaki H. 2023. US regulations to curb alleged cancer causes are ineffectual and compromised by scientific, constitutional and ethical violations. Archives of Toxicology 97: 1813-1822. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00204-022-03429-5
  • 392. Dwivedi SW, Heslop-Harrison JS, Spillane C, McKeown PC, Edwards D, Goldman I, Ortiz R. 2023. Evolutionary dynamics and adaptive benefits of deleterious mutations in crop genepools. Trends in Plant Science 28: 685-697. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2023.01.006.
  • 391. Schwarzacher T, Liu Q, Heslop-Harrison, JS. 2023. Plant cytogenetics: from chromosomes to cytogenomics, in: Tony Heitkam and Sònia Garcia (eds) Plant Cytogenetics: Methods and Protocols Methods in Molecular Biology MIMB, vol. 2672. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3226-0_1. Humana Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-0716-3226-0 (eBook). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-3226-0.
  • 390. Li L, Schwarzacher T, Tomaszewska P, Liu Q, Li X, Yi K, Wu W, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2023. Protocols for chromosome preparations: molecular cytogenetics and studying genome organization in coffee. In: ILW Ingelbrecht, M do Céu Lavado da Silva and J Jankowicz-Cieslak (eds) Mutation Breeding in Coffee with Special Reference to Coffee Leaf Rust. Springer Nature, Cham, Switzerland. ISBN Free download from 10/2023: 978-3-662-67273-0 maybe https://doi.org/978-3-662-67273-0.
  • 389. Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T, Liu Q. 2023. Polyploidy: its consequences and enabling role in plant diversification and evolution. Annals of Botany 131: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac132.
  • 388. Tomaszewska P, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2022. Oat chromosome and genome evolution defined by widespread terminal intergenomic translocations in polyploids. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 1026364. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.1026364.
  • 387. Droc G, Martin G, Guignon V, Summo M, Sempéré G, Durant E, Soriano A, Baurens F-C, Cenci A, Breton C, Shah T, Aury J-M, Ge X-J, Heslop Harrison P, Yahiaoui N, D’Hont A, Rouard M. 2022. The Banana Genome Hub: a community database for genomics in the Musaceae. Horticulture Research 9: uhac221. https://doi.org/10.1093/hr/uhac221.
  • 386. Rathore P, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JP, Bhat V, Tomaszewska P. 2022. The repetitive DNA sequence landscape and DNA methylation in chromosomes of an apomictic tropical forage grass, Cenchrus ciliaris. Frontiers in Plant Science 13: 952968. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2022.952968.
  • 385. Biswas MK, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2022. Large scale genome analysis: genome sequences, chromosomal reorganization, and repetitive DNA in Brassica juncea and relatives. In The Brassica juncea Genome eds Chittaranjan Kole, Trilochan Mohapatra. pp. 269-281. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91507-0_15.
  • 384. Mustafa SI, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T. 2022. The complete mitochondrial genome from Iraqi Meriz goats and the maternal lineage using whole genome sequencing data. Iranian Journal of Applied Animal Science Jun 1;12(2):321-8. https://journals.iau.ir/article_691854.html.
  • 383. Alisawi ON, Salih RH, Heslop-Harrison P. 2022. Variable ratios of two endogenous pararetroviruses in the genomes of Taraxacum. Journal of Jilin University (Engineering and Technology Edition) 41 (9-2022): 1-10. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/5A32T..
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  • 381. Taheri S, Teo CH, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T, Tan YS, Wee WY, Khalid N, Biswas MK, Mutha NV, Mohd-Yusuf Y, Gan HM. 2022. Genome assembly and analysis of the flavonoid and phenylpropanoid biosynthetic pathways in Fingerroot ginger (Boesenbergia rotunda). International Journal of Molecular Sciences Jan;23(13):7269. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms23137269.
  • 380. Zhang F, Chen F, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Teng N. 2023. The nature and genomic landscape of repetitive DNA classes in Chrysanthemum nankingense shows recent genomic changes. Annals of Botany 131(1)215–228. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac066.
  • 379. Wang Z, Rouard M, Biswas MK, Droc G, Cui D, Roux N, Baurens FC, Ge XJ, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Liu Q. 2022. A chromosome-level reference genome of Ensete glaucum gives insight into diversity, chromosomal and repetitive sequence evolution in the Musaceae. Gigascience 11: 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giac027.
  • 378. Li R, Gong M, Zhang X, Wang F, Liu Z, Zhang L, Xu M, Zhang Y, Dai X, Zhang Z, Fang W, Yang Y, Zhang H, Fu W, Cao C, Yang P, Ghanatsaman ZAG, Negari NJ, Nanaei HA, Yue X, Song Y, Lan X, Deng W, Wang X, Xiang R, Ibeagha-Awemu EM, Heslop-Harrison JS, Lenstra JA, Gan S, Jiang Y. 2023. A sheep pangenome reveals the spectrum of structural variations and their effects on tail phenotypes. Genome Research 33(3): 463-477. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/gr.277372.122
  • 377. Zhou S, Richert-Pöggeler KR, Wang Z, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Liu Q. 2022. High throughput RNA sequencing discovers symptomatic and latent viruses: an example from ornamental Hibiscus. Acta Horticulturae in press. bioRxiv 2022.01.25.477650; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.01.25.477650
  • 376. Liu Q, Yuan HY, Li MZ, Wang ZW, Cui DL, Ye Y, Sun Z, Tan X, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2022. Chromosome-scale genome assembly of the diploid oat Avena longiglumis reveals the landscape of repetitive sequences, genes and chromosome evolution in grasses  bioRxiv 2022.02.09.479819; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.09.479819
  • 375. Mustafa SI, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2022. The nature and chromosomal landscape of endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) integrated in the sheep nuclear genome. DNA 2(1): 86-103. doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/dna2010007
  • 374. Tomaszewska P, Vorontsova MS, Renvoize SA, Ficinski SZ, Tohme J, Schwarzacher T, Castiblanco V, de Vega JJ, Mitchell RA, Heslop-Harrison P. 2023. Complex polyploid and hybrid species in an apomictic and sexual tropical forage grass group: genomic composition and evolution in Urochloa (Brachiaria). Annals of Botany 131(1).: 87–108. doi:10.1093/aob/mcab147
  • 373. Higgins J, Tomaszewska P, Pellny TK, Castiblanco V, Arango J, Tohme J, Schwarzacher T, Mitchell RA, Heslop-Harrison JS, De Vega JJ. 2022. Diverged subpopulations in tropical Urochloa (Brachiaria) forage species indicate a role for facultative apomixis and varying ploidy in their population structure and evolution. Annals of Botany 130: 657-669. doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcac115
  • 372. Hanley SJ, Pellny TK, de Vega JJ, Castiblanco V, Arango J, Eastmond PJ, Heslop-Harrison JSP, Mitchell RAC. 2021. Allele mining in diverse accessions of tropical grasses to improve forage quality and reduce environmental impact. Annals of Botany 128: 627-637. doi:10.1093/aob/mcab101
  • 371. Richert-Pöggeler KR, Vijverberg K, Alisawi O, Chofong GN, Heslop-Harrison JSP, Schwarzacher T. 2021. Participation of multifunctional RNA in replication, recombination and regulation of Endogenous Plant PararetroViruses (EPRVs). Frontiers in Plant Science Jun 21;12: 689307. doi:10.3389/fpls.2021.689307
  • 370. Barile FA, Berry SC, Blaauboer B, Boobis A, Bolt HM, Borgert C, Dekant W, Dietrich D, Domingo JL, Galli CL, Gori GB, Hengstler JG, Heslop-Harrison P, Kacew S, Marquardt H, Mally A, Pelkonen O, Savolainen K, Testai E, Tsatsakis A, Vermeulen NP. 2021. The EU chemicals strategy for sustainability: in support of the BfR position. Archives of Toxicology Sep;95(9):3133-6. doi:10.1007/s00204-021-03125-w
  • 369. Barile FA, Berry SC, Blaauboer B, Boobis A, Bolt HM, Borgert C, Dekant W, Dietrich D, Domingo JL, Galli CL, Gori GB, Hengstler JG, Kacew S, Marquardt H, Pelkonen O, Savolainen K, Heslop-Harrison JS, Tsatsakis A, Vermeulen NP. 2021. Critique of the "Comment" entitled "Pyrethroid exposure: Not so harmless after all" by Demeneix et al. (2020) published in the Lancet Diabetes Endocrinology. Toxicology Letters Apr 1;340:1-3. doi:10.1016/j.toxlet.2020.12.020
  • 368. Tomaszewska P, Pellny TK, Hernández LM, Mitchell RAC, Castiblanco V, de Vega JJ, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2021. Flow cytometry-based determination of ploidy from dried leaf specimens in genomically complex collections of the tropical forage grass Urochloa s.l. Genes Jun 23;12(7):957. doi:10.3390/genes12070957
  • 367. Pasa R, Menegídio FB, Rodrigues-Oliveira IH, da Silva IB, de Campos ML, Rocha-Reis DA, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T, Kavalco KF. 2021. Ten complete mitochondrial genomes of Gymnocharacini (Stethaprioninae, Characiformes): insights into evolutionary relationships and a repetitive element in the Control Region (D-loop) Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 22 July 2021. doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.650783
  • 366. Agrawal N, Gupta M, Atri C, Akhatar J, Kumar S, Heslop-Harrison JS, Banga SS. 2021. Anchoring alien chromosome segment substitutions bearing gene(s) for resistance to mustard aphid in Brassica juncea-B. fruticulosa introgression lines and their possible disruption through gamma irradiation. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 134(10):3209-3224. doi:10.1007/s00122-021-03886-z
  • 365.Gao JG, Heslop-Harrison P, Liu PL, Zhang RG. 2021. Panicum virgatum (Poaceae). Trends in Genetics Aug;37(8):771-772. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2021.04.009
  • 364. Resende SV, Pasa R, Menegídio FB, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T, Kavalco KF. 2020. Complete mitochondrial genome of the endangered species Brycon nattereri (Characiformes, Characidae). F1000 Research 2020, 9:1343. doi: 10.12688/f1000research.26524.1
  • 363. Agrawal N, Gupta M, Banga SS, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2021. Identification of chromosomes and chromosome rearrangements in crop Brassicas and Raphanus sativus: a cytogenetic toolkit using synthesized massive oligonucleotide libraries. Frontiers in Plant Science Dec 23;11: 598039. doi:10.3389/fpls.2020.598039
  • 362. Escudeiro A, Adega F, Robinson TJ, Heslop-Harrison JS, Chaves R. 2021. Analysis of the Robertsonian (1;29) fusion in Bovinae reveals a common mechanism: insights into its clinical occurrence and chromosomal evolution. Chromosome Research 29, 301–312 . doi:10.1007/s10577-021-09667-0
  • 361.Zaki NM, Schwarzacher T, Singh R, Madon M, Wischmeyer C, Hanim Mohd Nor N, Zulkifli MA, Heslop-Harrison JSP. 2021. Chromosome identification in oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) using in situ hybridization with massive pools of single copy oligonucleotides and transferability across Arecaceae species. Chromosome Research 29: 373–390. doi: 10.1007/s10577-021-09675-0
  • 360. Rocha-Reis DA, Pasa R, Menegidio FB, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T, Kavalco KF. 2020. The complete mitochondrial genome of two armored catfish populations of the genus Hypostomus (Siluriformes, Loricariidae, Hypostominae. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 04 December 2020. . doi: 10.3389/fevo.2020.579965
  • 359. Nuraga GW, Feyissa T, Tesfaye K, Biswas MK, Schwarzacher T, Borrell JS, Wilkin P, Demissew S, Tadele Z, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2020. The genetic diversity of enset (Ensete ventricosum) landraces used in traditional medicine is similar to the diversity found in non-medicinal landraces. Frontiers in Plant Science 12, p. 756182. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.756182 .
  • 358. Yemataw Z, Borrell JS, Biswas MK, White O, Mengesha W, Muzemil S, Jaypal N. Darbar JN, Ondo I, Heslop Harrison JS, Blomme G, Wilkin P. 2020. The distribution of enset pests and pathogens and a genomic survey of enset Xanthomonas wilt. bioRXiv doi: 10.1101/2020.06.18.144261 Posted 18 June, 2020.
  • 357. Biswas MK, Darbar JN, Borrell JS, Bagchi M, Biswas D, Nuraga GW, Demissew S, Wilkin P, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2020. The landscape of microsatellites in the enset (Ensete ventricosum) genome and web-based marker resource development. Scientific Reports Sep 17;10(1): 15312. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71984-x
  • 356. Liu Q, Li X, Li M, Xu W, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2020. Comparative chloroplast genome analyses of Avena: insights into evolutionary dynamics and phylogeny. BMC Plant Biology 20: 406. doi: 10.1186/s12870-020-02621-y
  • 355. Tamrat S, Borrell JS, Biswas MK, Gashu D, Wondimu T, Vásquez-Londoño CA, Heslop-Harrison JS, Demissew S, Wilkin P, Howes M-JR. 2020. Micronutrient composition and microbial community analysis across diverse landraces of the Ethiopian orphan crop enset. Food Research International 2020: 109636. doi: 10.1016/j.foodres.2020.109636
  • TS. Sepsi A, Schwarzacher T. 2020. Chromosome-nuclear envelope tethering - a process that orchestrates homologue pairing during plant meiosis? Journal of Cell Science 133(15): doi: 10.1242/jcs.243667
  • 354. Autrup H, Barile FA, Berry C, Blaauboer BJ, Boobis A, Bolt H, Borgert CJ, Dekant W, Dietrich D, Domingo JL, Gori GB, Greim H, Hengstler J, Kacew S, Marquardt H, Pelkonen O, Savolainen K, Heslop-Harrison P, Vermeulen NP. 2020. Human exposure to synthetic endocrine disrupting chemicals (S-EDCs) is generally negligible as compared to natural compounds with higher or comparable endocrine activity. How to evaluate the risk of the S-EDCs? Computational Toxicology 14: 100124. doi:10.1016/j.comtox.2020.100124. ALSO published as "Guest Editorial" Archives of Toxicology. Archiv für Toxikologie 94(7): 2549-2557. doi: 10.1007/s00204-020-02800-8 AND J Toxicol Environ Health A. 2020 Jul 17;83(13-14):485-494. doi: 10.1080/15287394.2020.1756592. Epub 2020 Jun 18 AND Chem Biol Interact. 2020 Aug 1;326:109099. doi: 10.1016/j.cbi.2020.109099. Epub 2020 May 1. PMID: 32370863 AND Toxicol Lett. 2020 Oct 1;331:259-264. doi: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2020.04.008. Epub 2020 Apr 30 AND Toxicol In Vitro. 2020 Sep;67:104861. doi: 10.1016/j.tiv.2020.104861. Epub 2020 Apr 30.
  • 353. Heslop-Harrison P. 2019. Book review: Tropical Plant Collections: Legacies from the Past? Essential Tools for the Future? Scientia Danica. Series B, Biologica eds Ib Friis and Henrik Balslev. 2017. 306 pp. ISBN 978-87-7304-407-0.Annals of Botany 123(6): vii-viii (freely accessible). doi: 10.1093/aob/mcz049
  • 353a. Zaki NM, Singh R, Nor NH, Zulkifli MA, Smith SW, Schwarzacher T, Madon M, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Towards development of Elaeis guineensis chromosome-arm specific markers and their utility across the Elaeis genus. Journal of Oil Palm Research 29 (4): 594-599. doi: 10.21894/jopr.2017.0001
  • 352. Liu Q, Li X, Zhou X, Li M, Zhang F, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2019. The repetitive DNA landscape in Avena (Poaceae): chromosome and genome evolution defined by major repeat classes in whole-genome sequence reads. BMC Plant Biology Dec;19(1):226. pp 1-17 doi:10.1186/s12870-019-1769-z
  • 351. Heslop-Harrison P. 2019. Editorial: Introducing Commentaries to Annals of Botany. Annals of Botany 124(2): iv–v (freely accessible). doi:10.1093/aob/mcz090
  • 350. Escudeiro A, Adega F, Robinson TJ, Heslop-Harrison JS, Chaves R. 2019. Conservation, divergence and functions of centromeric satellite DNA families in the Bovidae. Genome Biology and Evolution 11(4): 1152-1165 (open access). https://doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz061 
  • 349. Borrell JS, Biswas MK, Goodwin M, Blomme G, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Wendawek AM, Berhanu A, Kallow S, Janssens S, Molla EL, Davis AP, Woldeyes F, Willis K, Demissew S, Wilkin P. 2019. Enset in Ethiopia: a poorly characterized but resilient starch staple. Annals of Botany 123(5): 747-766 (freely accessible). https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcy214
  • 348. Escudeiro A, Ferreira D, Mendes-da-Silva A, Heslop-Harrison JS, Adega F, Chaves R. 2019. Bovine satellite DNAs–a history of the evolution of complexity and its impact in the Bovidae family. European Zoological Journal 86(1): 20-37 (open access). https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2018.1558294
  • 347. Wilkin P, Davis A, Demissew S, Etherington T, Goodwin M, Heslop-Harrison P, Schwarzacher T, Willis K. 2018. A perspective to enhance innovative research with emphasis on varietal diversity and sustainable utilization of enset (Ensete ventricosum). Ethiopian Journal of Biological Sciences 17(Suppl.): 201–209. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00717
  • 346. Nielen S, Forster BP, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2018. Mutagen effects in the first generation after seed treatment: biological effects of mutation treatments. Chapter 4 In: FAO/IAEA. Manual on Mutation Breeding – Third edition. Spencer-Lopes MM, Forster BP, Jankuloski L (eds), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Rome, Italy. 301 pp. Free download of whole book:

    http://www.fao.org/3/I9285EN/i9285en.pdf

  • 345. Baudouin L, Heslop-Harrison P, Pereira MG. 2018. 3.9.2 Preparing the era of marker-assisted breeding - Chapter 3. Where we need to be to secure diversity and promote use. In Bourdeix R & Prades A (Eds.), A Global Strategy for the Conservation and Use of Coconut Genetic Resources 2018-2028. pp 169-171. Montpellier, France. Bioversity International. ISBN 13:978-92-9043-984-4 Download from Bioversity Website.
  • 344. Sepsi A, Fábián A, Jäger K, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T. 2018. ImmunoFISH: simultaneous visualisation of proteins and DNA sequences gives insight into meiotic processes in nuclei of grasses. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: article 1193. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.01193
  • 343. Velmurugan J, Milbourne D, Connolly V, Heslop-Harrison JS, Anhalt UC, Lynch MB, Barth S. 2018. An immortalized genetic mapping population for perennial ryegrass: a resource for phenotyping and complex trait mapping. Frontiers in Plant Science 9: article 717. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2018.00717
  • 342. Mhiret WN, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2018. Biodiversity in Ethiopian linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.): molecular characterization of landraces and some wild species. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 65: 1603-1614. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10722-018-0636-3 and author version https://molcyt.wordpress.com/?p=1301&preview=true
  • 341. Mustafa SI, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2018. Complete mitogenomes from Kurdistani sheep: abundant centromeric nuclear copies representing diverse ancestors. Mitochondrial DNA Part A https://doi.org/10.1080/24701394.2018.1431226 (publisher – or limited free publisher link http://www.tandfonline.com/eprintREMOVE/YSxE33mSJiBMVEuMXIyv/full) AND Mustafa et al_2018 AuthorVersion
  • 340. Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Morphology, adaptation and speciation. Annals of Botany 120(7): 621-624. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx130
  • 339. Gouveia JG, Wolf IR, Vilas-Boas LA, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T, Dias AL. 2017. Repetitive DNA in the catfish genome: rDNA, microsatellites, and Tc1-mariner transposon sequences in Imparfinis species (Siluriformes, Heptapteridae). Journal of Heredity 108(6): 650-657. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhered/esx065
  • 338. Nouroz FA, Noreen SH, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Identification and evolutionary dynamics of CACTA DNA transposons in Brassica. Pakistan Journal of Botany 49(2): 789-798.https://www.pakbs.org/pjbot/PDFs/49(2)/51.pdf
  • 337. Alix K, Gérard PR, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Polyploidy and interspecific hybridisation: partners for adaptation, speciation and evolution in plants. Annals of Botany 120: 183-194. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcx079
  • 336. Nouroz F, Noreen S, Khan MF, Ahmed S, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Identification and characterization of mobile genetic elements LINEs from Brassica genomes. Gene 627: 94-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2017.06.015
  • 335. Otwe EP, Agyirifo DS, Galyuon IK, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Molecular Diversity in some Ghanaian Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata L.(Walp)] Accessions. Tropical Plant Biology 10 (2-3): 57-67. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12042-017-9184-9
  • 334. Nouroz F, Noreen S, Ahmad H, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. The landscape and structural diversity of LTR retrotransposons in Musa genomes. Molecular Genetics and Genomics 292(5): 1051-1067. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00438-017-1333-1
  • 333. Salih RHM, Majeský L, Schwarzacher T, Gornall R, Heslop-Harrison P. 2017. Complete chloroplast genomes from apomictic Taraxacum(Asteraceae): identity and variation between three microspecies. PLoS One 12(2): e0168008. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168008
  • 332. Noorka IR, Taufiqullah, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T. 2016. The Agriculture-nutrition-health nexus at the cost of water availability in maize diverse genotypes to ensure food security. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Water Resources and the Arid Environments (ICWRAE 7): 569-578. https://www.icwrae-psipw.org/images/stories/2016/Session_4A-Agriculture/Noorka-Agriculture_Nutrition_Health_Nexus_at_the_Cost_of_Water_Availability.pdf
  • 331. Nouroz F, Noreen S, Heslop-Harrison J.S. 2016. Characterization and diversity of novel PIF/Harbinger DNA transposons in Brassica genomes. Pakistan Journal of Botany 48(1): 167-178. www.pakbs.org/pjbot/PDFs/48(1)/21.pdf
  • 330. Sepsi A, Higgins JD, Heslop‐Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T. 2017. CENH3 morphogenesis reveals dynamic centromere associations during synaptonemal complex formation and the progression through male meiosis in hexaploid wheat. Plant Journal 89(2): 235–249. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13379 Author version https://molcyt.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/sepsietal_wheatmeiosisplantj2016.pdf Videos: https://youtu.be/8lBdErxq2Kk
  • 329. Dietrich D, Dekant W, Greim H, Heslop-Harrison P, Berry C, Boobis A, Hengstler J, Sharpe R. 2016. Allowing pseudoscience into EU risk assessment processes is eroding public trust in science experts and in science as a whole. Chemico-Biological Interactions 257: 1-3. 21 July 2016.https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbi.2016.07.023 (££$$€€) author version https://molcyt.org/2016/07/28/allowing-pseudoscience-into-eu-risk-assessment-processes-is-eroding-public-trust-in-science-experts-and-in-science-as-a-whole-the-bigger-picture/
  • 328. Dietrich DR, Dekant W, Greim H, Heslop-Harrison P, Berry C, Boobis A, Hengstler JG, Sharpe R. 2016. EU safety regulations: Don’t mar legislation with pseudoscience. Nature 535: 355 (21 July 2016) doi:10.1038/535355c
  • 327. Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Polyploidy. Reference Module in Life Sciences (LIFE). Elsevier. ISBN: 978-0-12-809633-8 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-809633-8.06934-X
  • 326. Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Plant Genomes. Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences 2nd Edition, Volume 2. pp 243-247. Eds Thomas B, Murray BG, Murphy DJ. ISBN-9780123948076 https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-394807-6.00198-2 Plant Genomes EAPS publisher site.
  • 325b. Bombarely A, Moser M, Amrad A, Bao M, Bapaume L, Barry CS, Bliek M, Boersma MR, Borghi L, Bruggmann R, Bucher M, D’Agostino N, Davies K, Druege U, Dudareva N, Egea-Cortines M, Delledonne M, Fernandez-Pozo N, Franken P, Grandont L, Heslop-Harrison JS, Hintzsche J, Johns M, Koes R, Lv X, Lyons E, Malla D, Martinoia E, Mattson NS, Morel P, Mueller LA, Muhlemann J, Nouri E, Passeri V, Pezzotti M, Qi Q, Reinhardt D, Rich M, Richert-Pöggeler KR, Robbins TP, Schatz MC, Schranz ME, Schuurink RC, Schwarzacher T, Spelt K, Tang H, Urbanus S, Vandenbussche M, Vijverberg K, Villarino GH, Warner RM, Weiss J, Yue Z, Zethof J, Quattrocchio F, Sims TL, Kuhlemeier C. 2016. Insight into the evolution of the Solanaceae from the parental genomes of Petunia hybrida. Nature Plants 2:16074.  https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nplants.2016.74 or https://www.nature.com/articles/nplants201674
  • 325a. Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS, Richert-Pöggeler KR. 2016. Analysis of Petunia vein clearing virus (PVCV) sequences, retroelements and tandem repeats in Petunia axillaris N and P. inflata S6. Supplementary manuscript 2. Nature Plants 2 https://www.nature.com/article-assets/npg/nplants/2016/nplants201674/extref/nplants201674-s2.pdf
  • 324. Ali N, Heslop-Harrison JS, Ahmad H, Graybosch RA, Hein GL, Schwarzacher T. 2016. Introgression of chromosome segments from multiple alien species in wheat breeding lines with wheat streak mosaic virus resistance. Heredity 117, 114–123. 10.1038/hdy.2016.36. https://www.nature.com/hdy/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/hdy201636a.html
  • TS. Schwarzacher T. 2016. Preparation and fluorescent analysis of plant metaphase chromosomes. Chapter 7. In: Plant Cell Division: Methods and Protocols, ed Caillaud M-C; Methods in Molecular Biology 1370: 87-103. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3142-2_7. Humana Press, Springer, New York. Local Copy: Chromosome Preparation. Trude Schwarzacher. www.molcyt.com
  • 323. Zaki NM, Madon M, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2017. Chapter 9.2. Chromosomes, cytology and molecular cytogenetics of oil palm. pp 239-236 + colour inset pages. In Oil Palm Breeding: Genetics and Genomics. Eds Aik Chin Soh, Sean Mayes and Jerry Roberts. CRC Press.
  • 322. Biscotti MA, Olmo E, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2015. Repetitive DNA in eukaryotic genomes. Chromosome Research 23(3): 415-420. DOI: 10.1007/s10577-015-9499-z

    Biscotti Repetitive DNA Author Version

  • TS. Sola-Campoy PJ, Robles F, Schwarzacher T, Ruiz Rejón C, de la Herrán R, Navajas-Pérez R. 2015. The molecular cytogenetic characterization of Pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) suggests the arrest of recombination in the largest heteropycnotic pair HC1. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0143861. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0143861. Local copy here.
  • 321. Braben DW, Edwards P, Glover A, Hall J, Herschbach D, Kroto H, Mattick J, Roberts RJ, Seddon, K ... Heslop-Harrison JS and 39 others. 2015. Letter: Innovative science, Blue Sky research, scientific enterprise and prosperity. The Times (London) 23 September 2015. p. 28.  Link to text
  • TS. Lau S-E, Schwarzacher T, Othman RY, Harikrishna JA. 2015. dsRNA silencing of an R2R3-MYB transcription factor affects flower cell shape in a Dendrobium hybrid. BMC Plant Biology 15(1): 194. https://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2229/15/194 DOI 10.1186/s12870-015-0577-3 Local free copy

  • 320. Nouroz F, Noreen S, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2015. Molecular characterization and diversity of a novel nonautonomous Mutator-like transposon family in Brassica. Pakistan Journal of Botany 47(4): 1367-1375. Publisher abstract Publisher free full text. Local free copy

  • TS. Desjardins SD, Leslie AC, Stace CA, Schwarzacher T, Bailey JP. 2015. Intergeneric hybridisation between Berula erecta and Helosciadium nodiflorum (Apiaceae). Taxon 64: 784-794. DOI: 10.12705/644.9 Publisher link££ Author version Intergeneric hybridisation
  • 319. Santos FC, Guyot R, Valle CB do, Chiari L, Techio VH, Heslop-Harrison P, Vanzela ALL. 2015. Chromosomal distribution and evolution of abundant retrotransposons in plants: gypsy elements in diploid and polyploid Brachiaria forage grasses. Chromosome Research 23(3): 571-582. doi: 10.1007/s10577-015-9492-6.
  • 318. Patokar C, Sepsi A, Schwarzacher T, Kishii M, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2016. Molecular cytogenetic characterization of novel wheat-Thinopyrum bessarabicum recombinant lines carrying intercalary translocations. Chromosoma 125: 163-172. 10.1007/s00412-015-0537-6 Publisher website. Author version from Wheat-Thinopyrum introgression and chromosomal recombinants
  • 317. Nouroz F, Noreen S, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2015. Evolutionary genomics of miniature inverted-repeat transposable elements (MITEs) in Brassica. Molecular Genetics and Genomics (MGG) 290(6): 2297-2312. DOI: 10.1007/s00438-015-1076-9
  • 316. Alsayied N, Fernández JA, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2015. Diversity and relationships of Crocus sativus and its relatives analysed by Inter Retroelement Amplified Polymorphism (IRAP). Annals of Botany 116(3): 359-368.doi:10.1093/aob/mcv103
  • 315. Nouroz F, Noreen S, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2015. Identification and evolutionary genomics of Novel LTR retrotransposons in Brassica. Turkish Journal of Biology 39: 740-757.DOI: 10.3906/biy-1501-77. Manuscript pdf.

  • 314. Li J, Webster M, Wright J, Cocker JM, Smith MC, Badakshi F, Heslop-Harrison P, Gilmartin PM. 2015. Integration of genetic and physical maps of the Primula vulgaris S locus and localization by chromosome in situ hybridisation. New Phytologist 208: 137–148. doi: 10.1111/nph.13373

  • 313. Noorka IR, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2014. Agriculture and climate change in Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Breeding, climate change adaptation, agronomy, and water security. In: Handbook of Climate Change Adaptation, Ed Leal Filho W. 1-8.  Springer Berlin Heidelberg https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40455-9_74-1 Link to Noorka Heslop-Harrison Breeding for Climate Change Author Version with colour figures

  • 312. Molina RV, Guardiola JL, García-Luis D, Renau-Morata B, Sanchis E, González-Nebauer S, de los Mozos M, Rodríguez-Conde MF, Santana O, Pastor-Férriz MT, Fernández JA, Santaella M, Roldán M, Tsimidou M, Polissiou M, Heslop-Harrison JS, Branca F, Mathew B. 2015. Descriptors for Crocus (Crocus spp.). 74pp. Bioversity International, Rome. ISBN-13: 978-92-9043-999-8 https://www.bioversityinternational.org/uploads/tx_news/Descriptors_for_Crocus_1872_01.pdf

  • 311. Worku N, Heslop-Harrison JS, Wakjira A. 2015. Diversity in 198 Ethiopian linseed (Linum usitatissimum) accessions based on morphological and seed oil characteristics. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution 62:1037–1053. doi:10.1007/s10722-014-0207-1 
  • 310. Menzel G, Heitkam T, Seibt KM, Nouroz F, Müller-Stoerme M, Heslop-Harrison JS, Schmidt T. 2015. The diversification and activity of hAT transposons in Musa genomes. Chromosome Research 22: 559–571. doi: 10.1007/s10577-014-9445-5 and Pubmed link ID: 25377178  Author Version
  • 309. Braben DW, Allen JF, Amos W, Ball R, Birkhead T, Cameron P, Cogdell R, Colquhoun D, Dowler R, Engle I, Fernández-Armesto F, Fitzgerald D, Hall J, Heslop-Harrison P. Herschbach D, Kimble HJ, Kroto H, Ladyman J, Lawrence P, MacIntyre A, Mattick J, Pelloni B, Randall D, Ray D, Roberts RJ, Seddon K, Self C, Swinney H, Vita-Finzi C. 2014. The damaging bureaucracy of academic peer preview. Letters. The Daily Telegraph 3 June 2014; p 21 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/10870609/The-damaging-bureaucracy-of-academic-peer-preview.html; commentary at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10870995/Nobel-winners-say-scientific-discovery-virtually-impossible-due-to-funding-bureaucracy.html

  • TS. Ottolini B, Hornsby MJ, Abujaber R, Macarthur JA, Badge RM, Schwarzacher T, Albertson DG, Bevins CL, Solnick JV, Hollox EJ. 2014. Evidence of convergent evolution in humans and macaques supports an adaptive role for copy number variation of the β-defensin-2 gene. Genome Biology and Evolution 6(11): 3025-3038. doi: 10.1093/gbe/evu236 https://gbe.oxfordjournals.org/content/6/11/3025

  • 308. DJ Bertioli, ACG Araujo, S Nielen, P Heslop-Harrison, PM Guimarães, T Schwarzacher, S Isobe, K Shirasawa, Leal-Bertioli SCM. 2014. An overview of peanut genome structure. Chapter 6 in Genetics, Genomics and Breeding of Peanuts. Eds Nalini Mallikarjuna, Rajeev K. Varshney. Peanut genome structure manuscript Author Version pp. 114-138. CRC Press, Florida. https://www.crcnetbase.com/doi/abs/10.1201/b16872-7
  • 307. Hunt HV, Badakshi F, Romanova O, Howe CJ, Jones M, Heslop-Harrison JS. 2014. Reticulate evolution in Panicum (Poaceae): the origin of tetraploid broomcorn millet, P. miliaceum. Journal of Experimental Botany 65 (12): 3165-3175.  DOI:10.1093/jxb/eru161 . (Link to local copy J. Exp. Bot.-2014-Hunt-3165-75)
  • 306. Braben DW, Allen JF, Amos W, Ball R, Birkhead T, Cameron P, Cogdell R, Colquhoun D, Dowler R, Engle I, Fernández-Armesto F, Fitzgerald D, Heslop-Harrison P, Herschbach D, Kimble HJ, Kroto H, Ladyman J, Lane N, Lawrence P, MacIntyre A,  Mattick J, Pelloni B, Poliakoff M, Randall D, Ray D, Roberts RJ, Seddon K, Self C, Swinney H, Vita-Finzi C. 2014. We need more scientific mavericks. Letter. The Guardian 19 March 2014. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/18/we-need-more-scientific-mavericks
  • 305. Alsayied N, Schwarzacher T, Heslop-Harrison P. 2014. Crocus: research into the origin of saffron. Leicester Botanic Garden Newsletter 5: 3. Link to scan of Crocus and the origin of saffron
  • 304. Heslop-Harrison JS, Schwarzacher T. 2013. Nucleosomes and centromeric DNA packaging. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 150 (50): 19974–19975. https://www.pnas.org/content/110/50/19974.full.pdf+html - https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1319945110 - Author manuscript: Author Version 2013
  • TS. Noorka IR, Schwarzacher T. 2013. Water a response factor to screen suitable genotypes to fight and traverse periodic onslaughts of water scarcity in spring wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). International Journal of Water Resources and Arid Environments 3(1): 37-44. ISSN 2079-7079
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