Marc Knight
Professor
Department of Biosciences
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Marc Knight is Professor in the Department of Biosciences, Member of the Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution Research (BEER) Centre and Member of the Biophysical Sciences Institute.
Research Interest
There are 2 main areas of research in my lab: 1. The role of calcium in plant gene expression. 2. The molecular basis of freezing tolerance in plants.
Publications
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Johnson, Stephanie M., Cummins, Ian, Lim, Fei Ling, Slabas, Antoni R. & Knight, Marc R. (2015). Transcriptomic analysis comparing stay-green and senescent Sorghum bicolor lines identifies a role for proline biosynthesis in the stay-green trait. Journal of Experimental Botany 66(22): 7061-7073.
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Fenyk, Stepan, Townsend, Philip D., Dixon, Christopher H., Spies, Gerhard B., de San Eustaquio Campillo, Alba, Slootweg, Erik J., Westerhof, Lotte B., Gawehns, Fleur K.K., Knight, Marc R., Sharples, Gary J., Goverse, Aska, PÃ¥lsson, Lars-Olof, Takken, Frank L.W. & Cann, Martin J. (2015). The Potato Nucleotide-Binding Leucine-Rich Repeat (NLR) Immune Receptor Rx1 is a Pathogen Dependent DNA-Deforming Protein. Journal of Biological Chemistry 290(41): 24945-24960.
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Liu, J., Whalley, H.J. & Knight, M.R. (2015). Combining modelling and experimental approaches to explain how calcium signatures are decoded by calmodulin-binding transcription activators (CAMTAs) to produce specific gene expression responses. New Phytologist 208(1): 174-187.
