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Jim M. Dunwell

Emeritus Professor of Plant Biotechnology
Verified email at reading.ac.uk
Cited by 14370

Land plants and DNA barcodes: short-term and long-term goals

…, M Wilkinson, JM Dunwell… - … of the Royal …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Land plants have had the reputation of being problematic for DNA barcoding for two general
reasons: (i) the standard DNA regions used in algae, animals and fungi have exceedingly …

Cupins: the most functionally diverse protein superfamily?

JM Dunwell, A Purvis, S Khuri - Phytochemistry, 2004 - Elsevier
… Recent analysis of genomic data has identified several examples of proteins that contain
multiple (>2) copies of cupin domains (Dunwell, unpublished). These include potential …

Haploids in flowering plants: origins and exploitation

JM Dunwell - Plant biotechnology journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The first haploid angiosperm, a dwarf form of cotton with half the normal chromosome
complement, was discovered in 1920, and in the ninety years since then such plants have been …

Germin, a protein marker of early plant development, is an oxalate oxidase

BG Lane, JM Dunwell, JA Ray, MR Schmitt… - Journal of Biological …, 1993 - ASBMB
Germin is a homopentameric glycoprotein, the synthesis of which coincides with the onset of
growth in germinating wheat embryos. There have been detailed studies of germin structure…

Evolution of functional diversity in the cupin superfamily

JM Dunwell, A Culham, CE Carter… - Trends in biochemical …, 2001 - cell.com
The cupin superfamily of proteins is among the most functionally diverse of any described to
date. It was named on the basis of the conserved β-barrel fold (‘cupa' is the Latin term for a …

Germin is a manganese containing homohexamer with oxalate oxidase and superoxide dismutase activities

EJ Woo, JM Dunwell, PW Goodenough… - Nature structural …, 2000 - nature.com
Germin is a hydrogen peroxide generating oxalate oxidase with extreme thermal stability; it
is involved in the defense against biotic and abiotic stress in plants. The structure, …

Microbial relatives of the seed storage proteins of higher plants: conservation of structure and diversification of function during evolution of the cupin superfamily

JM Dunwell, S Khuri, PJ Gane - Microbiology and Molecular …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Analysis from the various genome-sequencing projects (JM Dunwell, unpublished data)
has now revealed a total of more than 200 microbial sequences with this 15-residue spacing. …

[HTML][HTML] Improving power and accuracy of genome-wide association studies via a multi-locus mixed linear model methodology

…, B Huang, L Zhou, YJ Wen, J Zhang, JM Dunwell… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have been widely used in genetic dissection of
complex traits. However, common methods are all based on a fixed-SNP-effect mixed linear …

[PDF][PDF] Cupins: a new superfamily of functionally diverse proteins that include germins and plant storage proteins

JM Dunwell - Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
… Field studies are Inost advanced on transgenic oilseed rape material containing the fonner
gene (JM Dunwell and C. Thompson, unpublished results). When grown in field conditions …

Methodological implementation of mixed linear models in multi-locus genome-wide association studies

…, J Zhang, JY Feng, SB Wang, JM Dunwell… - Briefings in …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
… Jim M Dunwell , Jim M DunwellDunwell is a full professor in the School of Agriculture,
Policy and Development at the University of Reading, United Kingdom. …