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Nicholas Smirnoff is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on plant science and molecular biology subfields. Additional areas of study include oceanography, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and ecology.

The main topics addressed in their work cover photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant stress responses and tolerance, algal biology and biofuel production, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, plant responses to water stress, marine and coastal ecosystems, and ocean acidification effects and responses.

Smirnoff has contributed to numerous scientific papers, including the following recent works:

  • "Chloroplast immunity illuminated," 2020, New Phytologist
  • "Evolutionary temperature compensation of carbon fixation in marine phytoplankton," 2020, Ecology Letters
  • "The role of GDP-l-galactose phosphorylase in the control of ascorbate biosynthesis," 2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "Spatial chloroplast-to-nucleus signalling involving plastid-nuclear complexes and stromules," 2020, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • "Photosynthesis-independent production of reactive oxygen species in the rice bundle sheath during high light is mediated by NADPH oxidase," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include Dominique Arnaud, Mario Fenech, Katherine E. Helliwell, Glen L. Wheeler, and Michael J. Deeks.

Smirnoff has published extensively in several scientific venues, with multiple contributions to PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and bioRxiv, as well as publications in New Phytologist, Journal of Experimental Botany, and The Plant Journal.

Best Publications

  • Hydroxyl radical scavenging activity of compatible solutes

    Nicholas Smirnoff;Quinton J. Cumbes

  • The role of active oxygen in the response of plants to water deficit and desiccation.

    Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Plant L‐ascorbic acid: chemistry, function, metabolism, bioavailability and effects of processing

    M. W. Davey;M. Van Montagu;D. Inze;M. Sanmartin

  • The biosynthetic pathway of vitamin C in higher plants

    Glen L. Wheeler;Mark A. Jones;Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Ascorbic acid in plants: biosynthesis and function.

    Nicholas Smirnoff;Glen L. Wheeler

  • THE FUNCTION AND METABOLISM OF ASCORBIC ACID IN PLANTS

    Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Ascorbic acid: metabolism and functions of a multi-facetted molecule.

    Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Plant resistance to environmental stress

    Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Hydrogen peroxide metabolism and functions in plants.

    Nicholas Smirnoff;Dominique Arnaud

  • Glycerol generates turgor in rice blast

    J.C. de Jong;B.J. McCormack;N. Smirnoff;N.J. Talbot

  • BIOSYNTHESIS OF ASCORBIC ACID IN PLANTS: A Renaissance.

    Nicholas Smirnoff;Patricia L Conklin;Frank A Loewus

  • Ascorbic acid metabolism and functions: A comparison of plants and mammals

    Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Genetic evidence for the role of GDP-mannose in plant ascorbic acid (vitamin C) biosynthesis.

    Patricia L. Conklin;Susan R. Norris;Glen L. Wheeler;Elizabeth H. Williams

  • Two genes in Arabidopsis thaliana encoding GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase are required for ascorbate biosynthesis and seedling viability.

    John Dowdle;Takahiro Ishikawa;Stephan Gatzek;Susanne Rolinski

  • Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase are involved in pollen tube growth.

    Martin Potocký;Mark A. Jones;Radek Bezvoda;Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Generation of reactive oxygen species by fungal NADPH oxidases is required for rice blast disease

    Martin J. Egan;Zheng-Yi Wang;Mark A. Jones;Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Ascorbate biosynthesis and function in photoprotection

    Nicholas Smirnoff

  • Independent signaling pathways regulate cellular turgor during hyperosmotic stress and appressorium-mediated plant infection by Magnaporthe grisea.

    Katherine P. Dixon;Jin-Rong Xu;Nicholas Smirnoff;Nicholas J. Talbot

  • Nitrate assimilation and translocation by higher plants: Comparative physiology and ecological consequences

    N. Smirnoff;G. R. Stewart

  • Antioxidants and reactive oxygen species in plants

    Nicholas Smirnoff

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray Grant
Murray Grant University of Warwick
Takahiro Ishikawa
Takahiro Ishikawa Shimane University
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher
Gabriel Yvon-Durocher University of Exeter
Philip M. Mullineaux
Philip M. Mullineaux University of Essex
Angus Buckling
Angus Buckling University of Exeter
David J. Studholme
David J. Studholme University of Exeter
Cheryl A. Kerfeld
Cheryl A. Kerfeld Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Michael C. F. Proctor
Michael C. F. Proctor University of Exeter
Viktor Žárský
Viktor Žárský Czech Academy of Sciences
John A. Raven
John A. Raven University of Dundee

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