Professor John Newbury

Biochemical Society

Society for Experimental Biology

Member of Institute for Learning and Teaching 

Higgins JD, Newbury HJ, Barbara DJ, Muthumeenakshi S and Puddephat IJ.  (2006). The production of marker-free genetically engineered broccoli with sense and antisense ACC synthase 1 and ACC oxidases 1 and 2 to delay chlorophyll loss.  Molecular Breeding, 17, 7-20.

Hall D, Evans AR, Newbury HJ and Pritchard J (2006) Functional analysis of CHX21: a putative sodium transporter in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 57, 1201-1210.

Filatov V, Dowdle J, Smirnoff N, Ford-Lloyd BV, Newbury HJ, Macnair MR (2006) Comparison of gene expression in segregating families identifies genes and genomic regions involved in a novel adaptation, zinc hyper-accumulation. Molecular Ecology, 15, 3045-3059.

Hunt EJ, Pritchard J, Bennett MJ, Zhu X, Barrett DA, Allen T, Bale JS and HJ Newbury (2006). The Arabidopsis thaliana/Myzus persicae model system demonstrates that a single gene can influence the interaction between a plant and a sucking insect pest. Molecular Ecology 15, 4203-4213.

Cureton A, Newbury HJ, Raybould A and Ford-Lloyd BV (2006) Genetic structure and gene flow in wild beet populations: insight into transgene spread and risk assessment. Journal of Applied Ecology 43, 1203-1212.

Doering-Saad C, Newbury HJ, Couldridge CE, Bale JS and Pritchard J (2006) A phloem-enriched cDNA library from Ricinus: insights into phloem function. Journal of Experimental Botany 57, 3183-3193.

Filatov, V., Dowdle, J., Smirnoff, N., Ford-Lloyd, B.V., Newbury, H.J. and McNair, M.R. (2007) A Quantitative Trait Loci analysis of zinc hyperaccumulation in Arabidopsis halleri. New Phytologist 174, 580-590.

Couldridge CE, Newbury HJ, Ford-Lloyd BV, Bale JS and Pritchard J (2007) Exploring plant responses to aphid feeding using a full Arabidopsis microarray reveals a small number of genes with significantly altered expression. Bulletin of Entomological Research 97, 523-532.

H. Razi, E.C. Howell, H.J. Newbury and M. J. Kearsey (2008) Does sequence polymorphism of FLC paralogues underlie flowering time QTL in Brassica oleracea? Theoretical and Applied Genetics 116, 179-192.

Kiambi, D.K., Newbury H.J., Maxted N. and Ford-Lloyd B.V. (2008)  Molecular genetic variation in the African wild rice Oryza longistaminata A. Chev. et Roehr. and its association with environmental variables. African Journal of Biotechnology 7, 1446-1460.

Gattolin S., H.J. Newbury, J.S. Bale, H.-M. Tseng, D.A. Barrett, J. Pritchard (2008) Analysis of amino acid composition reveals significant variability between the sieve tube contents in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant Physiology 147, 919-921.

Matt Kerton, H. John Newbury, David Hand and Jeremy Pritchard (2009) Accumulation of calcium in the centre of leaves of coriander (Coriandrum sativum L.) is due to an uncoupling of water and ion transport across the leaf. Journal of Experimental Botany 60, 227-235.

Tseng H.-M., Gattolin S., Pritchard J., Newbury H.J. and Barrett D.A. (2009) Analysis of mono-, di- and oligosaccharides by a two stage derivatization method, capillary electrophoresis and laser induced fluorescence detection. Electrophoresis, 30, 1399-1405.

M. Daniels, J. S. Bale, H. J. Newbury, R. Lind, J. Pritchard (2009) A sub-lethal dose of thiamethoxam causes a reduction in xylem feeding by the bird cherry-oat aphid aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi), which is associated with dehydration and reduced performance. The Journal of Insect Physiology, 55, 758-765.

Emma Hunt, Stefano Gattolin, H. John Newbury, Jeffrey S. Bale, Hua-Ming Tseng, David A. Barrett and Jeremy Pritchard. (2009) A mutation in amino acid permease AAP6 reduces the amino acid content of the Arabidopsis sieve elements but leaves aphid herbivores unaffected. Journal of Experimental Botany, 61, 55-64 H.

John Newbury (2009) Letter to Darwin. The Biochemist. Feb 2009. 3-5.

Honorary Professor in the School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham

Member of Council of the Biochemical Society

Chair of the Education Committee, Biochemical Society

Editor for the journal Euphytica