head of Future-proofing our food: exploiting landrace diversity for more efficient and resilient wheat
selected publications article Genome structural evolution in Brassica crops. Nature plants. 2021 Modelling of gene loss propensity in the pangenomes of three Brassica species suggests different mechanisms between polyploids and diploids. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2021 Assembly and comparison of two closely related Brassica napus genomes. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2017 Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome. Science. 2014 The brassica oleracea genome reveals the asymmetrical evolution of polyploid genomes. Nature Communications. 2014 Transcriptome and methylome profiling reveals relics of genome dominance in the mesopolyploid Brassica oleracea. Genome Biology. 2014 The genome of the mesopolyploid crop species Brassica rapa. Nature Genetics. 2011 Sequence and structure of Brassica rapa chromosome A3. Genome Biology. 2010 A survey of the Brassica rapa genome by BAC-end sequence analysis and comparison with Arabidopsis thaliana. Molecules and Cells. 2006
principal investigator on Optimization of wheat and oilseed rape straw co-products for bio-alcohol production 2009 - 2012