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  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

Overview

Lesley Torrance is affiliated with the James Hutton Institute in the United Kingdom and has a research focus within the broader field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work predominantly centers on plant science, with contributions also in food science, insect science, and endocrinology.

Their research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Potato Plant Research
  • Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research

Lesley Torrance has published several papers spanning important themes in plant pathology and genetics. Key recent publications include:

  • Potato Virus Y Emergence and Evolution from the Andes of South America to Become a Major Destructive Pathogen of Potato and Other Solanaceous Crops Worldwide, 2020, Viruses
  • Natural resistance to Potato virus Y in Solanum tuberosum Group Phureja, 2020, Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • TERMINAL FLOWER-1/CENTRORADIALIS inhibits tuberisation via protein interaction with the tuberigen activation complex, 2020, The Plant Journal
  • Foresight and trade-off analyses: Tools for science strategy development in agriculture and food systems research, 2020, Q Open
  • Allelic variants of a potato HEAT SHOCK COGNATE 70 gene confer improved tuber yield under a wide range of environmental conditions, 2022, Food and Energy Security

Their work is published across several venues notably including:

  • Viruses
  • Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • The Plant Journal
  • Q Open
  • npj Sustainable Agriculture

Lesley Torrance frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Regular co-authors include:

  • Graham H. Cowan
  • Glenn J. Bryan
  • Raymond Campbell
  • Laurence J. M. Ducreux
  • Alison G. Roberts

In 2020, Lesley Torrance was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Best Publications

  • Crops that feed the world 8: Potato: are the trends of increased global production sustainable?

    Paul R. J. Birch;Paul R. J. Birch;Glenn Bryan;Brian Fenton;Eleanor M. Gilroy

  • Unusual features of pomoviral RNA movement.

    Lesley Torrance;Kathryn M. Wright;François Crutzen;Graham H. Cowan

  • Status and prospects of plant virus control through interference with vector transmission

    Claude Bragard;P. Caciagli;O. Lemaire;J.J. Lopez-Moya

  • Seed degeneration in potato: the need for an integrated seed health strategy to mitigate the problem in developing countries

    S. Thomas-Sharma;A.A. Abdurahman;S. Ali;J.L. Andrade-Piedra

  • Two Plant–Viral Movement Proteins Traffic in the Endocytic Recycling Pathway

    Sophie Haupt;Graham H. Cowan;Angelika Ziegler;Alison G. Roberts

  • Varied Movement Strategies Employed by Triple Gene Block-Encoding Viruses

    Jeanmarie Verchot-Lubicz;Lesley Torrance;Andrey G. Solovyev;Sergey Yu Morozov

  • Phytaspase, a relocalisable cell death promoting plant protease with caspase specificity

    Nina V Chichkova;Jane Shaw;Raisa A Galiullina;Georgina E Drury

  • Plasmodesmata viewed as specialised membrane adhesion sites

    Jens Tilsner;Khalid Amari;Lesley Torrance

  • An unusual structure at one end of potato potyvirus particles.

    Lesley Torrance;Igor A. Andreev;Igor A. Andreev;Rasa Gabrenaite-Verhovskaya;Graham Cowan

  • Viral Diagnostics in Plants Using Next Generation Sequencing: Computational Analysis in Practice.

    Susan Jones;Amanda Baizan-Edge;Stuart MacFarlane;Lesley Torrance;Lesley Torrance

  • Oriented immobilisation of engineered single-chain antibodies to develop biosensors for virus detection.

    L Torrance;A Ziegler;H Pittman;M Paterson

  • Viruses in soils: morphological diversity and abundance in the rhizosphere

    M.M. Swanson;G. Fraser;T.J. Daniell;L. Torrance

  • Recent developments in serological methods suited for use in routine testing for plant viruses

    L. Torrance;R. A. C. Jones

  • Role of plant virus movement proteins.

    Michael Taliansky;Lesley Torrance;Natalia O. Kalinina

  • Discrimination among luteoviruses and their strains by monoclonal antibodies and identification of common epitopes

    C. J. D'arcy;L. Torrance;R. R. Martin

  • Association of sequences in the coat protein/readthrough domain of potato mop-top virus with transmission by Spongospora subterranea.

    B Reavy;M Arif;G H Cowan;L Torrance

  • Subcellular localisation, protein interactions, and RNA binding of Potato mop-top virus triple gene block proteins.

    G.H. Cowan;F. Lioliopoulou;A. Ziegler;L. Torrance

  • In Situ Spatial Organization of Potato Virus A Coat Protein Subunits as Assessed by Tritium Bombardment

    Ludmila A. Baratova;Aleksander V. Efimov;Eugenie N. Dobrov;Natalija V. Fedorova

  • Cylindrical inclusion protein of potato virus A is associated with a subpopulation of particles isolated from infected plants.

    Rasa Gabrenaite-Verkhovskaya;Igor A. Andreev;Natalia O. Kalinina;Lesley Torrance

  • Distinct Circular Single-Stranded DNA Viruses Exist in Different Soil Types

    Brian Reavy;Maud M. Swanson;Peter J. A. Cock;Lorna Dawson

Frequent Co-Authors

M. A. Mayo
M. A. Mayo James Hutton Institute
Michael E. Taliansky
Michael E. Taliansky James Hutton Institute
Glenn J. Bryan
Glenn J. Bryan James Hutton Institute
Rainer Fischer
Rainer Fischer Purdue University West Lafayette
Bryan D. Harrison
Bryan D. Harrison James Hutton Institute
Ian K. Toth
Ian K. Toth James Hutton Institute
Roger A. C. Jones
Roger A. C. Jones University of Western Australia
David J. Robinson
David J. Robinson University of Aberdeen
Kishan Dholakia
Kishan Dholakia University of St Andrews
Karen A. Garrett
Karen A. Garrett University of Florida

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