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Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
9843
World Ranking
16191
National Ranking
1278

Overview

Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, they have contributed extensively to Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Biochemistry.

The scientist's main research topics include Plant Reproductive Biology, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant and animal studies, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant Parasitism and Resistance, and Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies.

Franklin-Tong has published in several scientific venues, frequently contributing to:

  • Current Biology
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Nature Plants

Their recent notable papers include:

  • Evolution of self-compatibility by a mutant Sm-RNase in citrus (2020, Nature Plants)
  • Contrasting self-recognition rejection systems for self-incompatibility in Brassica and Papaver (2023, Current Biology)
  • Ectopic Expression of a Self-Incompatibility Module Triggers Growth Arrest and Cell Death in Vegetative Cells (2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)
  • New opportunities and insights into Papaver self-incompatibility by imaging engineered Arabidopsis pollen (2020, Journal of Experimental Botany)
  • Self-incompatibility requires GPI anchor remodeling by the poppy PGAP1 ortholog HLD1 (2022, Current Biology)

Collaborations have been an important aspect of their scientific work. The most frequent co-authors include:

  • Maurice Bosch
  • Zongcheng Lin
  • Marina Muñoz Triviño
  • Moritz K. Nowack
  • Ludi Wang

The scope of Franklin-Tong's work spans studies on self-incompatibility mechanisms in plants, molecular pathways influencing cell growth, and diverse aspects of plant reproductive biology and molecular biology research.

Best Publications

  • Morphological classification of plant cell deaths.

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

  • Signaling and the modulation of pollen tube growth

    Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

  • Unravelling response‐specificity in Ca2+ signalling pathways in plant cells

    Jason J. Rudd;Vernonica E. Franklin‐Tong

  • Growth of Pollen Tubes of Papaver rhoeas Is Regulated by a Slow-Moving Calcium Wave Propagated by Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate.

    Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong;Bjorn K. Drobak;Andrew C. Allan;Peter A. C. Watkins

  • Self-incompatibility triggers programmed cell death in Papaver pollen.

    Steven G. Thomas;Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

  • Cloning and expression of a distinctive class of self-incompatibility (S) gene from Papaver rhoeas L.

    H C Foote;J P Ride;V E Franklin-Tong;E A Walker

  • The self‐incompatibility response in Papaver rhoeas is mediated by cytosolic free calcium

    Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong;Jon P. Ride;Nick D. Read;Anthony J. Trewavas

  • A role for actin in regulating apoptosis/programmed cell death: evidence spanning yeast, plants and animals.

    Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong;Campbell W. Gourlay

  • Gametophytic self-incompatibility: understanding the cellular mechanisms involved in “self” pollen tube inhibition

    Bruce A. McClure;Vernonica Franklin-Tong

  • Signal-Mediated Depolymerization of Actin in Pollen during the Self-Incompatibility Response

    Benjamin N. Snowman;David R. Kovar;Galina Shevchenko;Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

  • Pollination in species with dry stigmas: the nature of the early stigmatic response and the pathway taken by pollen tubes

    C. J. Elleman;V. Franklin-Tong;H. G. Dickinson

  • Alterations in the Actin Cytoskeleton of Pollen Tubes Are Induced by the Self-Incompatibility Reaction in Papaver rhoeas

    Anja Geitmann;Benjamin N. Snowman;Anne Mie C. Emons;Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

  • Actin depolymerization is sufficient to induce programmed cell death in self-incompatible pollen

    Steven G. Thomas;Shanjin Huang;Shutian Li;Christopher J. Staiger

  • Self-incompatibility in flowering plants : evolution, diversity, and mechanisms

    Vernonica E Franklin-Tong

  • Regulation of actin dynamics by actin-binding proteins in pollen

    Christopher J. Staiger;Natalie S. Poulter;Jessica L. Henty;Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

  • Ratio‐imaging of Ca2+i in the self‐incompatibility response in pollen tubes of Papaver rhoeas

    Vernonica E. Franklin‐Tong;Grant Hackett;Peter K. Hepler

  • Reactive Oxygen Species and Nitric Oxide Mediate Actin Reorganization and Programmed Cell Death in the Self-Incompatibility Response of Papaver

    Katie A. Wilkins;James Bancroft;Maurice Bosch;Jennifer Ings

  • Temporal and spatial activation of caspase-like enzymes induced by self-incompatibility in Papaver pollen.

    Maurice Bosch;Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong

  • Increased Phosphorylation of a 26-kD Pollen Protein Is Induced by the Self-incompatibility Response in Papaver rhoeas

    J. J. Rudd;F. C. H. Franklin;J. M. Lord;V. E. Franklin-Tong

  • The role of the actin cytoskeleton in plant cell signaling

    B. K. Drøbak;V. E. Franklin-Tong;C. J. Staiger

Frequent Co-Authors

F. Christopher H. Franklin
F. Christopher H. Franklin University of Birmingham
Anja Geitmann
Anja Geitmann McGill University
Christopher J. Staiger
Christopher J. Staiger Purdue University West Lafayette
Anne Mie C. Emons
Anne Mie C. Emons Wageningen University & Research
Anthony Trewavas
Anthony Trewavas University of Edinburgh
Andrew C. Allan
Andrew C. Allan Plant & Food Research
Shanjin Huang
Shanjin Huang Tsinghua University
Peter K. Hepler
Peter K. Hepler University of Massachusetts Amherst
Yongbiao Xue
Yongbiao Xue Chinese Academy of Sciences
Peter Shaw
Peter Shaw Norwich Research Park

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