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Alison M. Smith is affiliated with the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Plant Science. Additional subfields of study relevant to their work include Nutrition and Dietetics, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Infectious Diseases.

Their research addresses a variety of topics including:

  • Food composition and properties
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant stress responses and tolerance
  • Photosynthetic processes and mechanisms
  • Plant molecular biology research
  • Phytase and its applications
  • Plant responses to water stress

Alison M. Smith has authored several papers, among which are:

  • "Starch: A Flexible, Adaptable Carbon Store Coupled to Plant Growth" (2020), published in Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • "Rising rates of starch degradation during daytime and trehalose 6-phosphate optimize carbon availability" (2022), published in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "Sucrose synthases are not involved in starch synthesis in Arabidopsis leaves" (2022), published in Nature Plants
  • "Restriction of cytosolic sucrose hydrolysis profoundly alters development, metabolism, and gene expression in Arabidopsis roots" (2020), published in Journal of Experimental Botany
  • "Loss of PROTEIN TARGETING TO STARCH 2 has variable effects on starch synthesis across organs and species" (2022), published in Journal of Experimental Botany

Frequently, their work appears in publication venues including:

  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • Nature Plants

Throughout their career, Alison M. Smith has collaborated extensively with a number of researchers. Regular coauthors include:

  • Mark Stitt
  • Samuel C. Zeeman
  • Regina Feil
  • John E. Lunn
  • Hirofumi Ishihara

Best Publications

  • Coordination of carbon supply and plant growth

    Alison M. Smith;Mark Stitt

  • Functional Genomic Analysis of the AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR Gene Family Members in Arabidopsis thaliana : Unique and Overlapping Functions of ARF7 and ARF19

    Yoko Okushima;Paul J. Overvoorde;Kazunari Arima;Jose M. Alonso

  • Starch: its metabolism, evolution, and biotechnological modification in plants.

    Samuel C. Zeeman;Jens Kossmann;Alison M. Smith

  • THE SYNTHESIS OF THE STARCH GRANULE

    A. M. Smith;K. Denyer;C. Martin

  • Circadian control of carbohydrate availability for growth in Arabidopsis plants at night

    Alexander Graf;Armin Schlereth;Mark Stitt;Alison M. Smith

  • The wrinkled-seed character of pea described by Mendel is caused by a transposon-like insertion in a gene encoding starch-branching enzyme

    Madan K. Bhattacharyya;Alison M. Smith;T.H.Noel Ellis;Cliff Hedley

  • Diurnal Changes in the Transcriptome Encoding Enzymes of Starch Metabolism Provide Evidence for Both Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Regulation of Starch Metabolism in Arabidopsis Leaves

    Steven M. Smith;Daniel C. Fulton;Tansy Chia;David Thorneycroft

  • A Previously Unknown Maltose Transporter Essential for Starch Degradation in Leaves

    Totte Niittylä;Gaëlle Messerli;Martine Trevisan;Jychian Chen

  • Normal growth of Arabidopsis requires cytosolic invertase but not sucrose synthase

    D. H. Paul Barratt;Paul Derbyshire;Kim Findlay;Marilyn Pike

  • Quantification of starch in plant tissues

    Alison M Smith;Samuel C Zeeman

  • The diurnal metabolism of leaf starch.

    Samuel C. Zeeman;Steven M. Smith;Alison M. Smith

  • Functional genomic analysis of the AUXIN/INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID gene family members in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Paul J. Overvoorde;Yoko Okushima;José M. Alonso;April Chan

  • The Arabidopsis sex1 Mutant Is Defective in the R1 Protein, a General Regulator of Starch Degradation in Plants, and Not in the Chloroplast Hexose Transporter

    Tien-Shin Yu;Heike Kofler;Rainer E. Häusler;Diana Hille

  • Analysis of the sucrose synthase gene family in Arabidopsis.

    Zuzanna Bieniawska;D. H. Paul Barratt;Andrew P. Garlick;Vera Thole

  • β-AMYLASE4, a Noncatalytic Protein Required for Starch Breakdown, Acts Upstream of Three Active β-Amylases in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts

    Daniel C. Fulton;Michaela Stettler;Tabea Mettler;Cara K. Vaughan

  • A Mutant of Arabidopsis Lacking a Chloroplastic Isoamylase Accumulates Both Starch and Phytoglycogen

    Samuel C. Zeeman;Takayuki Umemoto;Wei-Ling Lue;Pui Au-Yeung

  • The biosynthesis of starch granules.

    Alison M. Smith

  • The major form of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase in maize endosperm is extra-plastidial.

    Kay Denyer;Francie Dunlap;Tine Thorbjørnsen;Peter Keeling

  • A cytosolic glucosyltransferase is required for conversion of starch to sucrose in Arabidopsis leaves at night

    Tansy Chia;David Thorneycroft;Andrew Chapple;Gaëlle Messerli

  • A critical role for disproportionating enzyme in starch breakdown is revealed by a knock‐out mutation in Arabidopsis

    Joanna H. Critchley;Samuel C. Zeeman;Takeshi Takaha;Alison M. Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Cathie Martin
Cathie Martin Norwich Research Park
Steven M. Smith
Steven M. Smith University of Tasmania
Trevor L. Wang
Trevor L. Wang John Innes Centre
Robert A. Field
Robert A. Field University of Manchester
John E. Lunn
John E. Lunn Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Mark Stitt
Mark Stitt Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Regina Feil
Regina Feil Max Planck Society
Birte Svensson
Birte Svensson Technical University of Denmark
Richard C. Leegood
Richard C. Leegood University of Sheffield

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