Plant Proteolysis and Signalling 

We investigate how plants use protein degradation as a mechanism for regulating cellular processes and sensing diverse signals.  We are particularly interested in hypoxia and flooding stress, co-translational protein quality control, and how targeted degradation of chromatin modifying proteins contributes to the epigenetic regulation of development and stress responses.

The general aim of our work is to increase our understanding of how plants develop and survive in dynamic environments, and to identify promising targets that can be manipulated in agriculturally important crops to improve growth, productivity and stress tolerance.

Current and previous grant funding:

Panorama of the plant lab in the west corridor of Biosciences

School of Biosciences

Aston Webb building at the University of Birmingham

Research in the lab is funded by: