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Acrylamide in food: Progress in and prospects for genetic and agronomic solutions by Raffan, Sarah, Halford, Nigel G.

“…Acrylamide is a processing contaminant and Group 2a carcinogen that was discovered in foodstuffs in 2002. Its presence in a range of popular foods has become…”
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Food security: the challenge of increasing wheat yield and the importance of not compromising food safety by Curtis, T, Halford, N. G

“…Current wheat yield and consumption is considered in the context of the historical development of wheat, from early domestication through to modern plant…”
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Snf1-related protein kinases (SnRKs) act within an intricate network that links metabolic and stress signalling in plants by Halford, Nigel G, Hey, Sandra J

“…The phosphorylation and dephosphorylation of proteins, catalysed by protein kinases and phosphatases, is the major mechanism for the transduction of…”
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Cereal asparagine synthetase genes by Raffan, Sarah, Halford, Nigel G.

“…Asparagine synthetase catalyses the transfer of an amino group from glutamine to aspartate to form glutamate and asparagine. The accumulation of free…”
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The Sulphur Response in Wheat Grain and Its Implications for Acrylamide Formation and Food Safety by Raffan, Sarah, Oddy, Joseph, Halford, Nigel G

“…Free (soluble, non-protein) asparagine concentration can increase many-fold in wheat grain in response to sulphur deficiency. This exacerbates a major food…”
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sucrose non-fermenting-1-related (SnRK) family of protein kinases: potential for manipulation to improve stress tolerance and increase yield by Coello, Patricia, Hey, Sandra J, Halford, Nigel G

“…Sucrose non-fermenting-1 (SNF1)-related protein kinases (SnRKs) take their name from their fungal homologue, SNF1, a global regulator of carbon metabolism. The…”
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Vulnerability of European wheat to extreme heat and drought around flowering under future climate by Senapati, Nimai, Halford, Nigel G, Semenov, Mikhail A

“…Identifying the future threats to crop yields from climate change is vital to underpin the continuous production increases needed for global food security. In…”
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Satiety-enhancing products for appetite control: science and regulation of functional foods for weight management by Halford, Jason C. G., Harrold, Joanne A.

“…The current review considers satiety-based approaches to weight management in the context of health claims. Health benefits, defined as beneficial…”
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Cereal seed storage proteins: structures, properties and role in grain utilization by Shewry, Peter R., Halford, Nigel G.

“…Storage proteins account for about 50% of the total protein in mature cereal grains and have important impacts on their nutritional quality for humans and…”
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Low asparagine wheat: Europe’s first field trial of genome edited wheat amid rapidly changing regulations on acrylamide in food and genome editing of crops by Kaur, Navneet, Brock, Natasha, Raffan, Sarah, Halford, Nigel G.

“…We review the undertaking of a field trial of low asparagine wheat lines in which the asparagine synthetase gene, TaASN2, has been knocked out using…”
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A smartphone based attentive eating intervention for energy intake and weight loss: results from a randomised controlled trial by Whitelock, Victoria, Kersbergen, Inge, Higgs, Suzanne, Aveyard, Paul, Halford, Jason C G, Robinson, Eric

“…Laboratory studies suggest that eating more 'attentively' (e.g. attending to food being eaten and recalling eating episodes) can reduce food intake among…”
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Reducing the Risk of Acrylamide and Other Processing Contaminant Formation in Wheat Products by Kaur, Navneet, Halford, Nigel G

“…Wheat is a staple crop, consumed worldwide as a major source of starch and protein. Global intake of wheat has increased in recent years, and overall, wheat is…”
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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 by Chen, Zhiwei, Zhou, Longhua, Jiang, Panpan, Lu, Ruiju, Halford, Nigel G, Liu, Chenghong

“…Sucrose nonfermenting-1 (SNF1)-related protein kinases (SnRKs) play important roles in regulating metabolism and stress responses in plants, providing a…”
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Real-Time Quantitative PCR: Primer Design, Reference Gene Selection, Calculations and Statistics by Chen, Zhiwei, Halford, Nigel G, Liu, Chenghong

“…Real-time quantitative PCR is a technique that can measure the content of the target nucleic acid sequence of interest in a given sample. It is mainly divided…”
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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 by Xu, Hongwei, Halford, Nigel G, Guo, Guimei, Chen, Zhiwei, Li, Yingbo, Zhou, Longhua, Liu, Chenghong, Xu, Rugen

“…Barley is the most salt-tolerant cereal crop. However, little attention has been paid to the salt-tolerant doubled haploids of barley derived from mutagenesis…”
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Novel low-nitrogen stress-responsive long non-coding RNAs (lncRNA) in barley landrace B968 (Liuzhutouzidamai) at seedling stage by Chen, Zhiwei, Jiang, Qi, Jiang, Panpan, Zhang, Wan, Huang, Jianhua, Liu, Chenghong, Halford, Nigel G, Lu, Ruiju

“…Reducing the dependence of crop production on chemical fertilizer with its associated costs, carbon footprint and other environmental problems is a challenge…”
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Food and Beverage Cues Featured in YouTube Videos of Social Media Influencers Popular With Children: An Exploratory Study by Coates, Anna E., Hardman, Charlotte A., Halford, Jason C. G., Christiansen, Paul, Boyland, Emma J.

“…Food and beverage cues (visual displays of food or beverage products/brands) featured in traditional broadcast and digital marketing are predominantly for…”
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Contrasting gene expression patterns in grain of high and low asparagine wheat genotypes in response to sulphur supply by Curtis, Tanya Y, Raffan, Sarah, Wan, Yongfang, King, Robert, Gonzalez-Uriarte, Asier, Halford, Nigel G

“…Free asparagine is the precursor for acrylamide formation during cooking and processing of grains, tubers, beans and other crop products. In wheat grain, free…”
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interface between metabolic and stress signalling by Hey, Sandra J, Byrne, Edward, Halford, Nigel G

“…BACKGROUND: It is becoming increasingly clear that stress and metabolic signalling networks interact and that this interaction is important in plant responses…”
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Genetic Diversity and Genome-Wide Association Analysis of the Hulled/Naked Trait in a Barley Collection from Shanghai Agricultural Gene Bank by Chen, Zhiwei, Guo, Zhenzhu, Li, Luli, Halford, Nigel G, Guo, Guimei, Zhang, Shuwei, Zong, Yingjie, Liu, Shiseng, Liu, Chenghong, Zhou, Longhua

“…Barley is one of the most important cereal crops in the world, and its value as a food is constantly being revealed, so the research into and the use of barley…”
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