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Luis A. J. Mur is affiliated with Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily focused on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with substantial contributions to plant science and molecular biology.

Their notable subfields of study include Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine. Within these areas, Luis A. J. Mur has contributed significantly to topics such as Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

Some of their recent publications include:

  • Unravelling the Roles of Nitrogen Nutrition in Plant Disease Defences, 2020, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • Functions of silicon in plant drought stress responses, 2021, Horticulture Research
  • Gradual polyploid genome evolution revealed by pan-genomic analysis of Brachypodium hybridum and its diploid progenitors, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide protect plasma membrane integrity and mitigate chromium-induced methylglyoxal toxicity in maize seedlings, 2020, Plant Physiology and Biochemistry
  • Unravelling Plant Responses to Stress-The Importance of Targeted and Untargeted Metabolomics, 2021, Metabolites

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Physiologia Plantarum, Metabolomics, and Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research).

Luis A. J. Mur often collaborates with several co-authors, including:

  • Manfred Beckmann
  • R. Glyn Hewinson
  • David Rooke
  • Emma N. Taylor
  • John H. Doonan

Best Publications

  • The Outcomes of Concentration-Specific Interactions between Salicylate and Jasmonate Signaling Include Synergy, Antagonism, and Oxidative Stress Leading to Cell Death

    Luis A.J. Mur;Paul Kenton;Rainer Atzorn;Otto Miersch

  • The hypersensitive response; the centenary is upon us but how much do we know?

    Luis A. J. Mur;Paul Kenton;Amanda J. Lloyd;Helen J. Ougham

  • Brachypodium distachyon. A new model system for functional genomics in grasses.

    John Draper;Luis A.J. Mur;Glyn Jenkins;Gadab C. Ghosh-Biswas

  • Morphological classification of plant cell deaths.

    W G van Doorn;E P Beers;J L Dangl;V E Franklin-Tong

  • Nitric oxide in plants: an assessment of the current state of knowledge

    Luis A. J. Mur;Julien Mandon;Stefan Persijn;Simona M. Cristescu

  • Salicylic acid dependent signaling promotes basal thermotolerance but is not essential for acquired thermotolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Shannon M. Clarke;Luis A. J. Mur;Jacqueline E. Wood;Ian M. Scott

  • Jasmonates act with salicylic acid to confer basal thermotolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Shannon M. Clarke;Shannon M. Clarke;Simona M. Cristescu;Otto Miersch;Frans J. M. Harren

  • Aspirin, salicylates, and cancer

    Peter Creighton Elwood;Alison M. Gallagher;Garry G. Duthie;Luis A. J. Mur

  • Hydrogen peroxide does not function downstream of salicylic acid in the induction of PR protein expression

    Yong-Mei Bi;Paul Kenton;Luis Mur;Robert Darby

  • Salicylate Accumulation Inhibits Growth at Chilling Temperature in Arabidopsis

    Ian M. Scott;Shannon M. Clarke;Jacqueline E. Wood;Luis A.J. Mur

  • Brachypodium as a Model for the Grasses: Today and the Future

    Jelena Brkljacic;Erich Grotewold;Randy Scholl;Todd C. Mockler

  • Extensive gene content variation in the Brachypodium distachyon pan-genome correlates with population structure

    Sean P. Gordon;Bruno Contreras-Moreira;Daniel P. Woods;Daniel P. Woods;David L. Des Marais;David L. Des Marais

  • NO way to live; the various roles of nitric oxide in plant–pathogen interactions

    Luis A. J. Mur;Timothy L. W. Carver;Elena Prats

  • Moving nitrogen to the centre of plant defence against pathogens.

    Luis A. J. Mur;Catherine Simpson;Aprajita Kumari;Alok Kumar Gupta

  • Salicylic acid potentiates defence gene expression in tissue exhibiting acquired resistance to pathogen attack

    Luis A.J. Mur;Grant Naylor;Simon A.J. Warner;Jane M. Sugars

  • Evolution and taxonomic split of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    Pilar Catalán;Jochen Müller;Robert Hasterok;Glyn Jenkins

  • Evaluation of FTIR Spectroscopy as a diagnostic tool for lung cancer using sputum

    Paul D. Lewis;Keir E. Lewis;Robin Ghosal;Sion Bayliss

  • Development of Genetic and Genomic Research Resources for Brachypodium distachyon, a New Model System for Grass Crop Research

    David F. Garvin;Yong-Qiang Gu;Robert Hasterok;Samuel P. Hazen

  • Compromising early salicylic acid accumulation delays the hypersensitive response and increases viral dispersal during lesion establishment in TMV-infected tobacco.

    Luis A.J. Mur;Yong-Mei Bi;Robert M. Darby;Simon Firek

  • Functional homologs of the Arabidopsis RPM1 disease resistance gene in bean and pea.

    Jeffery L. Dangl;Claudia Ritter;Marjorie J. Gibbon;Luis A. J. Mur

Frequent Co-Authors

Elena Prats
Elena Prats Spanish National Research Council
Kapuganti Jagadis Gupta
Kapuganti Jagadis Gupta University of Oxford
Alison H. Kingston-Smith
Alison H. Kingston-Smith Aberystwyth University
Diego Rubiales
Diego Rubiales Spanish National Research Council
John Draper
John Draper Aberystwyth University
John P. Vogel
John P. Vogel University of California, Berkeley
Shiwei Guo
Shiwei Guo Nanjing Agricultural University
Min Wang
Min Wang Qingdao University
John H. Doonan
John H. Doonan Aberystwyth University
Daniela Riccardi
Daniela Riccardi Cardiff University

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