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Sugar and ABA response pathways and the control of gene expression.

• Fred Rook, Sophie A Hadingham, Yunhai Li, Michael W. Bevan
• Plant, cell & environment
• 2006

Sugars are essential to plant growth and metabolism, both as energy source and as structural components. Sugar production and use are in part controlled at the level of gene expression by the sugars… (More)

How insects overcome two-component plant chemical defence: plant β-glucosidases as the main target for herbivore adaptation.

• Stefan Pentzold, Mika Zagrobelny, Fred Rook, Søren Bak
• Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical…
• 2014

Insect herbivory is often restricted by glucosylated plant chemical defence compounds that are activated by plant β-glucosidases to release toxic aglucones upon plant tissue damage. Such… (More)

Genomic clustering of cyanogenic glucoside biosynthetic genes aids their identification in Lotus japonicus and suggests the repeated evolution of this chemical defence pathway.

• Adam M. Takos, C. Knudsen, +9 authors Fred Rook
• The Plant journal : for cell and molecular…
• 2011

Cyanogenic glucosides are amino acid-derived defence compounds found in a large number of vascular plants. Their hydrolysis by specific β-glucosidases following tissue damage results in the release… (More)

Genetic screening identifies cyanogenesis-deficient mutants of Lotus japonicus and reveals enzymatic specificity in hydroxynitrile glucoside metabolism.

• Adam M. Takos, Daniela Lai, +7 authors Fred Rook
• The Plant cell
• 2010

Cyanogenesis, the release of hydrogen cyanide from damaged plant tissues, involves the enzymatic degradation of amino acid-derived cyanogenic glucosides (alpha-hydroxynitrile glucosides) by specific… (More)

Characterization of mutants in Arabidopsis showing increased sugar-specific gene expression, growth, and developmental responses.

• Margarete Baier, Georg Hemmann, +5 authors Michael W. Bevan
• Plant physiology
• 2004

Sugars such as sucrose serve dual functions as transported carbohydrates in vascular plants and as signal molecules that regulate gene expression and plant development. Sugar-mediated signals… (More)

Visualizing metabolite distribution and enzymatic conversion in plant tissues by desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging.

• Bin Li, C. Knudsen, +9 authors Nanna Bjarnholt
• The Plant journal : for cell and molecular…
• 2013

In comparison with the technology platforms developed to localize transcripts and proteins, imaging tools for visualization of metabolite distributions in plant tissues are less well developed and… (More)

Lotus japonicus flowers are defended by a cyanogenic β-glucosidase with highly restricted expression to essential reproductive organs

• Daniela Lai, Martina Pičmanová, +5 authors Adam M. Takos
• Plant Molecular Biology
• 2015

Flowers and leaves of Lotus japonicus contain α-, β-, and γ-hydroxynitrile glucoside (HNG) defense compounds, which are bioactivated by β-glucosidase enzymes (BGDs). The α-HNGs are referred to as… (More)

Diversification of an ancient theme: hydroxynitrile glucosides.

• Nanna Bjarnholt, Fred Rook, +6 authors Birger Lindberg Møller
• Phytochemistry
• 2008

Many plants produce cyanogenic glucosides as part of their chemical defense. They are alpha-hydroxynitrile glucosides, which release toxic hydrogen cyanide (HCN) upon cleavage by endogenous plant… (More)

The light-regulated Arabidopsis bZIP transcription factor gene ATB2 encodes a protein with an unusually long leucine zipper domain

• Fred Rook, Peter Weisbeek, Sjef Cm Smeekens
• Plant Molecular Biology
• 1998

A light-regulated basic domain/leucine zipper gene, ATB2, was identified in an Arabidopsis thaliana transcription factor gene collection. Both genomic and cDNA clones of ATB2 were isolated. The gene… (More)

Genetic approaches to understanding sugar-response pathways.

• Fred Rook, Michael W. Bevan
• Journal of experimental botany
• 2003

Plants as photoautotrophic organisms are able to produce the carbohydrates they require and have developed mechanisms to co-ordinate carbohydrate production and its metabolism. Carbohydrate-derived… (More)

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