Susan R. Verrall

TL;DR: A more physiologically–relevant model of the colonic milieu is created to study gut pathogen biology, incorporating human faecal water into growth media and assessing the physiological effects of this on C. difficile strain 630, and it is shown that interaction with FW causes fundamental changes in C. diffusion biology that will lead to increased disease transmissibility.

TL;DR: The data indicate that potato plants grown at moderately elevated temperatures do not exhibit classic symptoms of abiotic stress but that tuber development responds via a diversity of biochemical and molecular signals.

TL;DR: The results of a study to examine the role of volatile organic compounds produced by four bacterial and three yeast isolates on the growth and pigment production by a range of five sapstain fungi on three media types show production of inhibitory VOCs was highly dependent on the specific antagonist as well as its growth substrate.

TL;DR: Comparison of tolerant and susceptible potato cultivars indicates that single and multiple abiotic stress tolerance in potato is associated with a maintenance of CO2 assimilation and protection of PSII by a reduction of light harvesting capacity and suggests that stress tolerant cultivars suppress cell death and maintain growth and development via fine tuning of hormone signaling, and primary and secondary metabolism.

TL;DR: An examination of the transcriptome, coupled with metabolite data from purple pigmented sectors and from non-pigmented sectors of the same tuber, was undertaken to identify these genes whose expression correlated with elevated or altered polyphenol composition.