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  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Anne Osbourn is affiliated with the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology, plant science, biotechnology, biochemistry, and pharmacology as subfields.

The main topics explored in their work include plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, natural product bioactivities and synthesis, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, phytochemical compounds biological activities, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant gene expression analysis, and microbial natural products and biosynthesis.

Among the prominent publication venues for Anne Osbourn's work are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Plants

Frequent co-authors include:

  • James Reed
  • Charlotte Owen
  • Michael J. Stephenson
  • Guy Polturak
  • Rajesh Chandra Misra

Notable recent papers published by Anne Osbourn with their year and venue are:

  • Root-secreted bitter triterpene modulates the rhizosphere microbiota to improve plant fitness, 2022, Nature Plants
  • Elucidation of the pathway for biosynthesis of saponin adjuvants from the soapbark tree, 2023, Science
  • Active and repressed biosynthetic gene clusters have spatially distinct chromosome states, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Complex scaffold remodeling in plant triterpene biosynthesis, 2023, Science
  • The emerging role of biosynthetic gene clusters in plant defense and plant interactions, 2021, PLoS Pathogens

Anne Osbourn has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, an award received in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Preformed Antimicrobial Compounds and Plant Defense against Fungal Attack.

    Anne E. Osbourn

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Fungal Resistance to Plant Antibiotics as a Mechanism of Pathogenesis

    John P. Morrissey;Anne E. Osbourn

  • MYB Transcription Factors as Regulators of Phenylpropanoid Metabolism in Plants

    Jingying Liu;Anne Osbourn;Pengda Ma;Pengda Ma

  • Triterpene Biosynthesis in Plants

    Ramesha Thimmappa;Katrin Geisler;Thomas Louveau;Paul O'Maille

  • Biosynthesis of triterpenoid saponins in plants.

    Kosmas Haralampidis;Miranda Trojanowska;Anne E Osbourn

  • Compromised disease resistance in saponin-deficient plants

    K. Papadopoulou;R. E. Melton;M. Leggett;M. J. Daniels

  • A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota.

    Ancheng C. Huang;Ting Jiang;Yong Xin Liu;Yue Chen Bai

  • Metabolic and functional diversity of saponins, biosynthetic intermediates and semi-synthetic derivatives.

    Tessa Moses;Kalliope K. Papadopoulou;Anne Osbourn

  • Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions

    Michael J. Daniels;J. Allan Downie;Anne E. Osbourn

  • Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants

    Thomas R Turner;Karunakaran Ramakrishnan;John Walshaw;Darren Heavens

  • Speed breeding in growth chambers and glasshouses for crop breeding and model plant research.

    Sreya Ghosh;Amy Watson;Oscar E. Gonzalez-Navarro;Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez

  • Saponins and plant defence — a soap story

    Anne Osbourn

  • Metabolic Diversification—Independent Assembly of Operon-Like Gene Clusters in Different Plants

    Ben Field;Anne E. Osbourn

  • The rice leaf blast pathogen undergoes developmental processes typical of root-infecting fungi

    Ane Sesma;Anne E. Osbourn

  • Comparative transcriptomics of rice reveals an ancient pattern of response to microbial colonization

    Sonia Güimil;Hur-Song Chang;Tong Zhu;Ane Sesma

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions: Chemical Diversity in Plant Defense

    Paweł Bednarek;Anne Osbourn

  • A gene cluster for secondary metabolism in oat: Implications for the evolution of metabolic diversity in plants

    X. Qi;S. Bakht;J. Michael Leggett;C. Maxwell

  • Host range of a plant pathogenic fungus determined by a saponin detoxifying enzyme

    P Bowyer;B R Clarke;P Lunness;M J Daniels

  • Secondary metabolic gene clusters: evolutionary toolkits for chemical innovation

    Anne Osbourn

Frequent Co-Authors

Marnix H. Medema
Marnix H. Medema Wageningen University & Research
Xiaoquan Qi
Xiaoquan Qi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael J. Daniels
Michael J. Daniels Norwich Research Park
Stephen H. Gillespie
Stephen H. Gillespie University of St Andrews
Geoffrey L. Smith
Geoffrey L. Smith University of Oxford
Andrew D. Bond
Andrew D. Bond University of Cambridge
Dean J. Tantillo
Dean J. Tantillo University of California, Davis
Paul Bowyer
Paul Bowyer University of Manchester
Robert A. Field
Robert A. Field University of Manchester
Alain Goossens
Alain Goossens Ghent University

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