Keith Edwards
Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Bristol
United Kingdom
Biography
Chair in Cereal Functional Genomics : Jan 2001 to present Head of Crop Genetics, IACR-Long Ashton Research Station : 1995-2001 Plant Genome Team Leader, Zeneca Seeds : 1990-1995
Research Interest
His research is designed to exploit genomics based technologies to identify, map, isolate, manipulate and express different alleles controlling traits of importance for improved performanc
Publications
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King, J, Grewal, S, Yang, Hubbart, S, Scholefield, D, Ashling, S, Edwards, K, Przewieslik-Allen, S, Burridge, A, Bloor, C, Davassi, A, Silva, Gd, Chalmers, K & King, I, 2017, ‘A step change in the transfer of interspecific variation into wheat from Amblyopyrum muticum’. Plant Biotechnology Journal, vol 15., pp. 217?226
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Wingen, LU, West, C, Leverington-Waite, M, Collier, S, Orford, S, Goram, R, Yang, C, King, J, Allen, AM, Burridge, A, Edwards, KJ & Griffiths, S, 2017, ‘Wheat Landrace Genome Diversity’. Genetics, vol 205., pp. 1657-1676
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Winfield, MO, Allen, AM, Wilkinson, PA, Burridge, AJ, Barker, GL, Coghill, J, Waterfall, C, Wingen, LU, Griffiths, S & Edwards, KJ, 2017, ‘High-density genotyping of the A.E. Watkins Collection of hexaploid landraces identifies a large molecular diversity compared to elite bread wheat’. Plant Biotechnology Journal.
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Allen, AM, Winfield, MO, Burridge, AJ, Downie, RC, Benbow, HL, Barker, GLA, Wilkinson, PA, Coghill, JA, Waterfall, CM, Davassi, A, Scopes, G, Pirani, A, Webster, T, Brew, F, Bloor, C, Griffiths, S, Bentley, A, Alda, M, Jack, P, Phillips, AL & Edwards, KJ, 2017, ‘Characterisation of a Wheat Breeders’ Array suitable for high throughput SNP genotyping of global accessions of hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivium)’. Plant Biotechnology Journal, vol 15., pp. 390?401
