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Deep rooting and drought screening of cereal crops: A novel field-based method and its application by McKenzie, B.M., Bengough, A.G., Hallett, P.D., Thomas, W.T.B., Forster, B., McNicol, J.W.

“…Lack of water is a major limitation to crop production, particularly where roots of cereal crops are not able to access water stored in the subsoil. One way…”
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Spatial structure in soil chemical and microbiological properties in an upland grassland by Ritz, K, McNicol, J.W, Nunan, N, Grayston, S, Millard, P, Atkinson, D, Gollotte, A, Habeshaw, D, Boag, B, Clegg, C.D, Griffiths, B.S, Wheatley, R.E, Glover, L.A, McCaig, A.E, Prosser, J.I

“…We characterised the spatial structure of soil microbial communities in an unimproved grazed upland grassland in the Scottish Borders. A range of soil chemical…”
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Variation in acrylamide producing potential in potato: Segregation of the trait in a breeding population by Shepherd, L.V.T., Bradshaw, J.E., Dale, M.F.B., McNicol, J.W., Pont, S.D.A., Mottram, D.S., Davies, H.V.

“…Acrylamide is a neurotoxin and possible carcinogen, and concern has been voiced over human exposure to acrylamide in cooked foods. Processed potato products…”
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Genome analyses of an aggressive and invasive lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen by Cooke, David E L, Cano, Liliana M, Raffaele, Sylvain, Bain, Ruairidh A, Cooke, Louise R, Etherington, Graham J, Deahl, Kenneth L, Farrer, Rhys A, Gilroy, Eleanor M, Goss, Erica M, Grünwald, Niklaus J, Hein, Ingo, MacLean, Daniel, McNicol, James W, Randall, Eva, Oliva, Ricardo F, Pel, Mathieu A, Shaw, David S, Squires, Julie N, Taylor, Moray C, Vleeshouwers, Vivianne G A A, Birch, Paul R J, Lees, Alison K, Kamoun, Sophien

“…Pest and pathogen losses jeopardise global food security and ever since the 19(th) century Irish famine, potato late blight has exemplified this threat. The…”
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Soil organic carbon contents in long-term experimental grassland plots in the UK (Palace Leas and Park Grass) have not changed consistently in recent decades by HOPKINS, D.W, WAITE, I.S, McNICOL, J.W, POULTON, P.R, MACDONALD, A.J, O'DONNELL, A.G

“…A recent report of widespread declines in soil organic C (SOC) in the UK over the 10-25 years until the early 2000s has focussed attention on the importance of…”
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Spatial trends in the wind abrasion resistance of cultivated machair soil, South Uist, Scottish Outer Hebrides by Young, E.J., McKenzie, B.M., McNicol, J.W., Robertson, A.H.J., Wendler, R., Dawson, S.

“…The machair is a low-lying coastal grassland system with internationally recognised conservation importance, found only in parts of northern and western…”
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The centenary of Annals of Applied Biology in 2014: Centenary of Annals by Azevedo, R.A., Lea, P.J., Leather, S.R., McNicol, J.W., Millman, C.A., Haslam, R.P., Valkonen, J.P.T.

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Community DNA hybridisation and %G+C profiles of microbial communities from heavy metal polluted soils by Griffiths, B.S, Diaz-Ravina, M, Ritz, K, McNicol, J.W, Ebblewhite, N, Baath, E

“…Microbial community DNA was extracted directly from an arabic soil experimentally polluted with Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb or Zn, and incubated for 34 months. Broad-scale…”
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Modelling faba bean production in an uncertain future climate by Gu, Yiqun, Crawford, John W., Peiris, D.Ramanee, Grashoff, Cornelius, McNicol, James W., Marshall, Bruce

“…Future climate change may bring risk or benefit to crop production. In this paper, the possible impact of climate change on faba bean production in Scotland is…”
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Modelling the persistence of volunteer oilseed rape ( Brassica napus) by Begg, G.S., Hockaday, S., McNicol, J.W., Askew, M., Squire, G.R.

“…The mixing of volunteer oilseed rape ( Brassica napus) within the crop has been tolerated by farmers. However, the coexistence of volunteer and crop…”
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The centenary of Annals of Applied Biology in 2014 by Azevedo, R.A., Lea, P.J., Leather, S.R., McNicol, J.W., Millman, C.A., Haslam, R.P., Valkonen, J.P.T.

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Evidence of neutral transcriptome evolution in plants by Broadley, M. R., White, P. J., Hammond, J. P., Graham, N. S., Bowen, H. C., Emmerson, Z. F., Fray, R. G., Iannetta, P. P. M., McNicol, J. W., May, S. T.

“…The transcriptome of an organism is its set of gene transcripts (mRNAs) at a defined spatial and temporal locus. Because gene expression is affected markedly…”
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Comparison of Fatty Acid and Polar Lipid Contents of Tubers from Two Potato Species, Solanum tuberosum and Solanum phureja by Dobson, Gary, Griffiths, D. Wynne, Davies, Howard V, McNicol, James W

“…Total and individual fatty acid contents were determined in raw tubers of four genotypes from each of the two species Solanum phureja and S. tuberosum. The…”
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Tri-trophic interactions involving pest aphids, predatory 2-spot ladybirds and transgenic potatoes expressing snowdrop lectin for aphid resistance by Birch, A.N.E. (Scottish Crop Research Inst., Invergowrie, Dundee (United Kingdom).), Geoghegan, I.E, Majerus, M.E.N, McNicol, J.W, Hackett, C.A, Gatehouse, A.M.R, Gatehouse, J.A

“…Transgenic crops genetically engineered for enhanced insect resistance should be compatible with other components of IPM for the pest resistance to be durable…”
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Evaluating genetic relationships between indigenous coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) accessions from Sri Lanka by means of AFLP profiling by Perera, L, Russell, J.R, Provan, J, McNicol, J.W, Powell, W

“…PCR-based DNA profiling of coconut palms indigenous to Sri Lanka was conducted using amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLPs). A total of 322…”
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The Impact of Bacterial Diet on the Migration and Navigation of Caenorhabditis elegans by Rodger, S., Griffiths, B. S., McNicol, J. W., Wheatley, R. W., Young, I. M.

“…Can diet have a significant impact on the ability of organisms to sense and locate food? Focusing on the bacterial feeder Caenorhabditis elegans, we…”
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Stable isotope natural abundances of soil, plants and soil invertebrates in an upland pasture by Neilson, R., Hamilton, D., Wishart, J., Marriott, C.A., Boag, B., Handley, L.L., Scrimgeour, C.M., McNicol, J.W., Robinson, D.

“…In an exploratory study of below-ground trophic relations, natural abundances of the stable isotope pairs 13C/ 12C and 15N/ 14N ( δ 13C and δ 15N) were…”
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Identification of AFLP and SSR markers associated with quantitative resistance to Globodera pallida (Stone) in tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum subsp. tuberosum) with a view to marker-assisted selection by Bradshaw, J.E, Hackett, C.A, Meyer, R.C, Milbourne, D, McNicol, J.W, Phillips, M.S, Waugh, R

“…Seventy eight clones from the cross between SCRI clone 12601ab1 and cv Stirling were used to explore the possibility of genetical linkage analysis in…”
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use of AFLPs to examine genetic relatedness in barley by Ellis, R.P, McNicol, J.W, Baird, E, Booth, A, Lawrence, P, Thomas, B, Powell, W

“…The generation of AFLPs in spring barley cultivars provided genetic information relating to the development of the crop in the UK since 1953. Principal…”
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Community DNA hybridisation and %G+C profiles of microbial communities from heavy metal polluted soils by Griffiths, B.S, Dı́az-Raviña, M, Ritz, K, McNicol, J.W, Ebblewhite, N, Bååth, E

“…Microbial community DNA was extracted directly from an arable soil experimentally polluted with Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb or Zn, and incubated for 34 months. Broad-scale…”
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