Publications by authors named "Huw Dylan Jones"
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- - The study investigates the effects of a specific aquaporin protein (SbPIP2) from the halophyte Salicornia brachiata on enhancing stress tolerance in transgenic plants under salt and drought conditions, finding improved performance in physiological and biochemical traits.
- - Transgenic plants that overexpress the SbPIP2 gene exhibited increased levels of osmolytes, antioxidants, and pigments, indicating a correlation with their enhanced resilience to water and salinity stress.
- - Additionally, these SbPIP2-overexpressing plants demonstrated superior photosynthetic efficiency compared to control plants, suggesting that targeting the SbPIP2 gene could be a viable strategy for developing crops that can withstand abiotic stresses.
Genetic improvement through breeding is one of the key approaches to increasing biomass supply. This paper documents the breeding progress to date for four perennial biomass crops (PBCs) that have high output-input energy ratios: namely (switchgrass), species of the genera (miscanthus), (willow) and (poplar). For each crop, we report on the size of germplasm collections, the efforts to date to phenotype and genotype, the diversity available for breeding and on the scale of breeding work as indicated by number of attempted crosses.
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