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Gail M. Preston is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, they have contributed extensively to Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Genetics, and Aging.

Their work focuses on topics such as Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, Evolution and Genetic Dynamics, Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms, RNA Research and Splicing, and RNA and Protein Synthesis Mechanisms.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Discovering the RNA-Binding Proteome of Plant Leaves with an Improved RNA Interactome Capture Method (2020, Biomolecules)
  • The effect of plant domestication on host control of the microbiota (2021, Communications Biology)
  • Holistic assessment of the microbiome dynamics in the substrates used for commercial champignon (Agaricus bisporus) cultivation (2020, Microbial Biotechnology)
  • How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants (2022, Current Opinion in Plant Biology)
  • Pleiotropic constraints promote the evolution of cooperation in cellular groups (2022, PLoS Biology)

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Marcel Bach-Pages
  • Renier A. L. van der Hoorn
  • Nattapong Sanguankiattichai
  • Riccardo Soldan
  • Pierre Buscaill

Preston's work is often published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Journal
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Microbiology

Best Publications

  • Genomic and genetic analyses of diversity and plant interactions of Pseudomonas fluorescens

    Mark W. Silby;Ana M. Cerdeño-Tárraga;Georgios S. Vernikos;Stephen R. Giddens

  • Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 Uses Constitutive and Apoplast-Induced Nutrient Assimilation Pathways to Catabolize Nutrients That Are Abundant in the Tomato Apoplast

    Arantza Rico;Gail M. Preston

  • Plant perceptions of plant growth-promoting Pseudomonas.

    Gail M. Preston

  • The Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato HrpW protein has domains similar to harpins and pectate lyases and can elicit the plant hypersensitive response and bind to pectate.

    Amy O. Charkowski;James R. Alfano;Gail Preston;Jing Yuan

  • Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato: the right pathogen, of the right plant, at the right time.

    Gail M. Preston

  • Bacterial mycophagy: definition and diagnosis of a unique bacterial–fungal interaction

    Johan H. J. Leveau;Gail M. Preston

  • Type III secretion in plant growth‐promoting Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25

    Gail M. Preston;Nicolas Bertrand;Paul B. Rainey

  • The HrpZ proteins of Pseudomonas syringae pvs. syringae, glycinea, and tomato are encoded by an operon containing Yersinia ysc homologs and elicit the hypersensitive response in tomato but not soybean.

    G. Preston;Hsiou-Chen Huang;Sheng Yang He;A. Collmer

  • Oxygenase-catalyzed ribosome hydroxylation occurs in prokaryotes and humans.

    Wei Ge;Alexander Wolf;Tianshu Feng;Chia Hua Ho

  • Genes encoding a cellulosic polymer contribute toward the ecological success of Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 on plant surfaces

    Micaela Gal;Gail M. Preston;Ruth C. Massey;Andrew J. Spiers

  • Characterization of the hrpC and hrpRS Operons of Pseudomonas syringae Pathovars Syringae, Tomato, and Glycinea and Analysis of the Ability of hrpF, hrpG, hrcC, hrpT, and hrpV Mutants To Elicit the Hypersensitive Response and Disease in Plants

    Wen-Ling Deng;Gail Preston;Alan Collmer;Chun-Jung Chang

  • Negative regulation of hrp genes in Pseudomonas syringae by HrpV

    Gail Preston;Wen-Ling Deng;Hsiou-Chen Huang;Alan Collmer

  • Early changes in apoplast composition associated with defence and disease in interactions between Phaseolus vulgaris and the halo blight pathogen Pseudomonas syringae Pv. phaseolicola.

    Brendan M. O'Leary;Brendan M. O'Leary;Helen C. Neale;Christoph-Martin Geilfus;Robert W. Jackson

  • Mutations in γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) transaminase genes in plants or Pseudomonas syringae reduce bacterial virulence.

    Duck Hwan Park;Rossana Mirabella;Philip A. Bronstein;Philip A. Bronstein;Gail M. Preston

  • Metal Hyperaccumulation Armors Plants against Disease

    Helen Fones;Calum A. R. Davis;Arantza Rico;Fang Fang

  • Supplementation in mushroom crops and its impact on yield and quality

    Jaime Carrasco;Diego C. Zied;Jose E. Pardo;Gail M. Preston

  • The impact of transition metals on bacterial plant disease.

    Helen Fones;Gail M. Preston

  • Quantitative in situ assay of salicylic acid in tobacco leaves using a genetically modified biosensor strain of Acinetobacter sp. ADP1.

    Wei E. Huang;Linfeng Huang;Gail M. Preston;Martin Naylor

  • Glycosidase and glycan polymorphism control hydrolytic release of immunogenic flagellin peptides.

    Pierre Buscaill;Balakumaran Chandrasekar;Nattapong Sanguankiattichai;Jiorgos Kourelis

  • Reactive oxygen and oxidative stress tolerance in plant pathogenic Pseudomonas.

    Helen Fones;Gail M. Preston

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul B. Rainey
Paul B. Rainey Max Planck Society
Alan Collmer
Alan Collmer Cornell University
Renier A. L. van der Hoorn
Renier A. L. van der Hoorn University of Oxford
Jotun Hein
Jotun Hein University of Oxford
J. Andrew C. Smith
J. Andrew C. Smith University of Oxford
Alfredo Castello
Alfredo Castello MRC-University of Glasgow Centre For Virus Research
Sheng Yang He
Sheng Yang He Howard Hughes Medical Institute
David J. Studholme
David J. Studholme University of Exeter
James R. Alfano
James R. Alfano University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Brendan O'Leary
Brendan O'Leary University of Pennsylvania

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