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Overview

Murray Grant is affiliated with the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of research falls within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a notable focus on Plant Science. Additional subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Physiology, Epidemiology, and Cell Biology.

Their scholarly output includes contributions to a diverse range of topics, prominently addressing Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis. Other research areas include Plant Parasitism and Resistance, Calcium Signaling and Nucleotide Metabolism, Banana Cultivation and Research, and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

Frequent co-authors in their work consist of:

  • David J. Studholme
  • Lijiang Song
  • Adam M. Bayless
  • Marc T. Nishimura
  • Thomas Ve

Murray Grant's research has been published in multiple venues, with a particular concentration in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science Advances
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Nature Plants

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Murray Grant include:

  • "Chloroplast immunity illuminated," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "Cyclic ADP ribose isomers: Production, chemical structures, and immune signaling," 2022, Science
  • "Unravelling Plant Responses to Stress-The Importance of Targeted and Untargeted Metabolomics," 2021, Metabolites
  • "An Emerging Role for Chloroplasts in Disease and Defense," 2021, Annual Review of Phytopathology
  • "Bioelectrical understanding and engineering of cell biology," 2020, Journal of The Royal Society Interface

Best Publications

  • Hormone Crosstalk in Plant Disease and Defense: More Than Just JASMONATE-SALICYLATE Antagonism

    Alexandre Robert-Seilaniantz;Murray Grant;Jonathan D G Jones

  • Structure of the Arabidopsis RPM1 gene enabling dual specificity disease resistance

    Murray R. Grant;Laurence Godiard;Laurence Godiard;Esther Straube;Tom Ashfield

  • Salicylic acid in plant defence--the players and protagonists.

    Gary Loake;Murray Grant

  • Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato hijacks the Arabidopsis abscisic acid signalling pathway to cause disease

    Marta de Torres-Zabala;Marta de Torres-Zabala;William Truman;William Truman;Mark H Bennett;Guillaume Lafforgue

  • Plant responses to potassium deficiencies: a role for potassium transport proteins

    M. K. Ashley;Murray Grant;A. Grabov

  • Arabidopsis systemic immunity uses conserved defense signaling pathways and is mediated by jasmonates

    William Truman;Mark H. Bennett;Ines Kubigsteltig;Colin Turnbull

  • The RPM1 plant disease resistance gene facilitates a rapid and sustained increase in cytosolic calcium that is necessary for the oxidative burst and hypersensitive cell death

    Murray Grant;Ian Brown;Sally Adams;Marc Knight

  • Hormone (Dis)harmony Moulds Plant Health and Disease

    Murray R. Grant;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • Versatile Gene-Specific Sequence Tags for Arabidopsis Functional Genomics: Transcript Profiling and Reverse Genetics Applications

    Pierre Hilson;Joke Allemeersch;Thomas Altmann;Sébastien Aubourg

  • Antagonism between salicylic and abscisic acid reflects early host–pathogen conflict and moulds plant defence responses

    Marta de Torres Zabala;Mark H. Bennett;William H. Truman;Murray R. Grant

  • MAPK machinery in plants: Recognition and response to different stresses through multiple signal transduction pathways

    Gohar Taj;Payal Agarwal;Murray Grant;Anil Kumar

  • Chloroplasts play a central role in plant defence and are targeted by pathogen effectors

    Marta de Torres Zabala;George Littlejohn;Siddharth Jayaraman;David Studholme

  • Type III effectors orchestrate a complex interplay between transcriptional networks to modify basal defence responses during pathogenesis and resistance.

    William Truman;Marta Torres de Zabala;Murray Grant

  • Transcriptional regulation by an NAC (NAM-ATAF1,2-CUC2) transcription factor attenuates ABA signalling for efficient basal defence towards Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei in Arabidopsis.

    Michael Krogh Jensen;Peter Hagedorn;Marta De Torres-Zabala;Murray R. Grant

  • A rapid and robust method for simultaneously measuring changes in the phytohormones ABA, JA and SA in plants following biotic and abiotic stress

    Silvia Forcat;Mark H Bennett;John W Mansfield;Murray R Grant

  • Modifications to the Arabidopsis Defense Proteome Occur Prior to Significant Transcriptional Change in Response to Inoculation with Pseudomonas syringae

    Alexandra M.E. Jones;Vincent Thomas;Mark H. Bennett;John Mansfield

  • ATAF1 transcription factor directly regulates abscisic acid biosynthetic gene NCED3 in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Michael Krogh Jensen;Søren Lindemose;Federico De Masi;Julia J Reimer

  • The metabolic transition during disease following infection of Arabidopsis thaliana by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato

    Jane L. Ward;Silvia Forcat;Manfred Beckmann;Mark Bennett

  • Pseudomonas syringae effector AvrPtoB suppresses basal defence in Arabidopsis

    Marta de Torres;John W. Mansfield;Nina Grabov;Ian R. Brown

  • Genome sequence and genetic diversity of European ash trees

    Elizabeth S. A. Sollars;Andrea L. Harper;Laura J. Kelly;Christine M. Sambles

Frequent Co-Authors

David J. Studholme
David J. Studholme University of Exeter
John W. Mansfield
John W. Mansfield Imperial College London
Nicholas Smirnoff
Nicholas Smirnoff University of Exeter
M. Azim Surani
M. Azim Surani University of Cambridge
Jonathan D. G. Jones
Jonathan D. G. Jones University of East Anglia
Zoubin Ghahramani
Zoubin Ghahramani University of Cambridge
Alexandra M. E. Jones
Alexandra M. E. Jones University of Warwick
Jeffery L. Dangl
Jeffery L. Dangl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Richard M. Everson
Richard M. Everson University of Exeter
Kemal Kazan
Kemal Kazan Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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