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List of works by Nigel G. Halford

A beta-turn rich barley seed protein is correctly folded in Escherichia coli.

scientific article

Acrylamide concentrations in potato crisps in Europe from 2002 to 2011

scientific article published on 04 July 2013

Acrylamide in food: Progress in and prospects for genetic and agronomic solutions

scientific article published on 07 August 2019

Acrylamide in potato crisps prepared from 20 UK-grown varieties: effects of variety and tuber storage time.

scientific article published on 26 February 2015

Acrylamide levels in potato crisps in Europe from 2002 to 2016.

scientific article published on 27 September 2017

Acrylamide-forming potential of potatoes grown at different locations, and the ratio of free asparagine to reducing sugars at which free asparagine becomes a limiting factor for acrylamide formation

scientific article published on 30 September 2016

Analysis of HMW glutenin subunits encoded by chromosome 1A of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) indicates quantitative effects on grain quality

scientific article published in January 1992

Antisense SNF1-related (SnRK1) protein kinase gene represses transient activity of an alpha-amylase (alpha-Amy2) gene promoter in cultured wheat embryos

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Carbon metabolite sensing and signalling.

scientific article published on November 2003

Cereal seed storage proteins: structures, properties and role in grain utilization.

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Changes in Free Amino Acid Concentration in Rye Grain in Response to Nitrogen and Sulfur Availability, and Expression Analysis of Genes Involved in Asparagine Metabolism.

scientific article published on 22 June 2016

Changes in Free Amino Acids and Sugars in Potatoes Due to Sulfate Fertilization and the Effect on Acrylamide Formation

scientific article published in June 2007

Changes in protein secondary structure during gluten deformation studied by dynamic fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

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Comparative analysis of the D genome-encoded high-molecular weight subunits of glutenin

scientific article published on 11 October 2005

Comparison of repetitive sequences derived from high molecular weight subunits of wheat glutenin, an elastomeric plant protein

scientific article published in April 2006

Concentrations of free amino acids and sugars in nine potato varieties: effects of storage and relationship with acrylamide formation

scientific article published on 26 November 2012

Construction of a network describing asparagine metabolism in plants and its application to the identification of genes affecting asparagine metabolism in wheat under drought and nutritional stress.

scientific article published on 25 February 2018

Contrasting gene expression patterns in grain of high and low asparagine wheat genotypes in response to sulphur supply

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Crop Biotechnology: Genetic modification genome editing

text book of crop biotechnology

DNA sequences from Arabidopsis, which encode protein kinases and function as upstream regulators of Snf1 in yeast

scientific article published on 19 January 2007

Design, expression and characterisation of lysine-rich forms of the barley seed protein CI-2.

scientific article published on 4 January 2005

Differential expression of two barley SNF1-related protein kinase genes

scientific article published in March 1995

Effects of Fungicide Treatment on Free Amino Acid Concentration and Acrylamide-Forming Potential in Wheat

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Effects of abiotic stress and crop management on cereal grain composition: implications for food quality and safety

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Effects of genotype and environment on free amino acid levels in wheat grain: implications for acrylamide formation during processing

scientific article published in February 2009

Effects of nitrogen and sulfur fertilization on free amino acids, sugars, and acrylamide-forming potential in potato.

scientific article published on 27 June 2013

Effects of plant sulfur nutrition on acrylamide and aroma compounds in cooked wheat

scientific article published on 15 July 2008

Effects of variety and nutrient availability on the acrylamide-forming potential of rye grain

scientific article published in May 2013

Effects of variety, year of cultivation and sulphur supply on the accumulation of free asparagine in the grain of commercial wheat varieties

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Effects of water availability on free amino acids, sugars, and acrylamide-forming potential in potato

scientific article published on 2 March 2015

Enhanced seed phytosterol accumulation through expression of a modified HMG-CoA reductase

scientific article published in March 2006

Evidence of diversity within the SnRK1b gene family of Hordeum species.

scientific article published in August 2005

Evidence that SNF1-related kinase and hexokinase are involved in separate sugar-signalling pathways modulating post-translational redox activation of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in potato tubers

scientific article published in August 2003

Evidence that abscisic acid promotes degradation of SNF1-related protein kinase (SnRK) 1 in wheat and activation of a putative calcium-dependent SnRK2

scientific article published on 11 October 2011

Expression analysis of abscisic acid (ABA) and metabolic signalling factors in developing endosperm and embryo of barley

scientific article published on September 2013

Expression of the gamma-zein protein of maize in seeds of transgenic barley: effects on grain composition and properties

scientific article published on 28 February 2003

Food safety: Structure and expression of the asparagine synthetase gene family of wheat

scientific article published on March 2016

Food security: the challenge of increasing wheat yield and the importance of not compromising food safety

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Formation of High Levels of Acrylamide during the Processing of Flour Derived from Sulfate-Deprived Wheat

scientific article published in November 2006

Free amino acids and sugars in rye grain: implications for acrylamide formation

scientific article published in February 2010

GCN2-dependent phosphorylation of eukaryotic translation initiation factor-2alpha in Arabidopsis.

scientific article published on 4 July 2008

Genetic and agronomic approaches to decreasing acrylamide precursors in crop plants.

scientific article published on January 2007

Genetic control of grain amino acid composition in a UK soft wheat mapping population

scientific article published in 2023

Genetics of wheat gluten proteins

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Genome-wide identification of sucrose nonfermenting-1-related protein kinase (SnRK) genes in barley and RNA-seq analyses of their expression in response to abscisic acid treatment

scientific article published on 26 April 2021

Genomic advancement: Aiming to affirm and improve human life

scientific article published on 9 November 2016

Genomic, Biochemical, and Modeling Analyses of Asparagine Synthetases from Wheat.

scientific article published in January 2017

Highly conserved protein kinases involved in the regulation of carbon and amino acid metabolism.

scientific article published on 28 November 2003

Identification of a novel beta-turn-rich repeat motif in the D hordeins of barley.

scientific article published in July 1992

Identifying target traits and molecular mechanisms for wheat breeding under a changing climate

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Isolation and characterisation of genes encoding rye prolamins containing a highly repetitive sequence motif

scientific article published in November 1991

Isolation and characterization of five novel high molecular weight subunit of glutenin genes from Triticum timopheevi and Aegilops cylindrica

scientific article published in April 2002

Legislation governing genetically modified and genome-edited crops in Europe: the need for change

scientific article published on 19 August 2018

Metabolic signalling and carbon partitioning: role of Snf1-related (SnRK1) protein kinase.

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Molecular cloning of a novel barley seed protein gene that is repressed by abscisic acid

scientific article published in April 1992

Molecular cloning of an arabidopsis homologue of GCN2, a protein kinase involved in co-ordinated response to amino acid starvation.

scientific article published on 28 March 2003

Molecular structures and interactions of repetitive peptides based on wheat glutenin subunits depend on chain length

scientific article published in 2003

New insights on the effects of heat stress on crops

scientific article published on 23 October 2009

Novel low-nitrogen stress-responsive long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) in barley landrace B968 (Liuzhutouzidamai) at seedling stage

scientific article published on 06 April 2020

Nutrient sensing in plant meristems

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Opportunities for manipulating the seed protein composition of wheat and barley in order to improve quality.

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Overexpression of GCN2-type protein kinase in wheat has profound effects on free amino acid concentration and gene expression

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Photosynthetic assimilation of ¹⁴C into amino acids in potato (Solanum tuberosum) and asparagine in the tubers

scientific article published on 15 October 2013

Producing a road map that enables plants to cope with future climate change

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Production of high-starch, low-glucose potatoes through over-expression of the metabolic regulator SnRK1

scientific article published in July 2006

Reduced free asparagine in wheat grain resulting from a natural deletion of TaASN-B2: investigating and exploiting diversity in the asparagine synthetase gene family to improve wheat quality

scientific article published on 29 June 2021

Reducing acrylamide precursors in raw materials derived from wheat and potato.

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Reducing the potential for processing contaminant formation in cereal products

scientific article (publication date: May 2014)

Research on the genetic control of flowering in potato set to blossom

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Roles of the Snf1/Rkin1/AMP-activated protein kinase family in the response to environmental and nutritional stress.

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Safety assessment of genetically modified plants with deliberately altered composition

scientific article published on 16 April 2014

Sequence and properties of HMW subunit 1Bx20 from pasta wheat (Triticum durum) which is associated with poor end use properties

scientific article published on 31 October 2002

Snf1-related protein kinases (SnRKs) act within an intricate network that links metabolic and stress signalling in plants.

scientific article published on April 2009

Sulphur nutrition differentially affects the distribution of asparagine in wheat grain

The Arabidopsis 14-3-3 protein, GF14omega, binds to the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Cdc25 phosphatase and rescues checkpoint defects in the rad24- mutant.

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The Arabidopsis CDPK-SnRK superfamily of protein kinases.

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The Sulphur Response in Wheat Grain and Its Implications for Acrylamide Formation and Food Safety

scientific article published on 29 May 2020

The acrylamide problem: a plant and agronomic science issue.

scientific article published on 16 February 2012

The high molecular weight subunits of wheat glutenin and their role in determining wheat processing properties

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The interface between metabolic and stress signalling

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The structure and properties of gluten: an elastic protein from wheat grain

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The sucrose non-fermenting-1-related (SnRK) family of protein kinases: potential for manipulation to improve stress tolerance and increase yield.

scientific article published on 25 October 2010

The wheat SnRK1α family and its contribution to Fusarium toxin tolerance

scientific article published on 13 August 2019

Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Analyses Reveal the Importance of Lipid Metabolism and Photosynthesis Regulation in High Salinity Tolerance in Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) Leaves Derived from Mutagenesis Combined with Microspore Culture

scientific article published in 2023

Understanding the Relationships between Free Asparagine in Grain and Other Traits to Breed Low-Asparagine Wheat

scientific article published in 2022

Vulnerability of European wheat to extreme heat and drought around flowering under future climate

scientific article published in 2021

Wheat with greatly reduced accumulation of free asparagine in the grain, produced by CRISPR/Cas9 editing of asparagine synthetase gene TaASN2

scientific article published on 28 March 2021