Research Interests
Plants are remarkably sensitive to changes in the amount, quality (colour) and daily duration of light. These changes often serve as important signals that inform plants about their environment and influence the way they grow.
I am interested in understanding how plants detect and respond to light, and how changes in daylength, temperature and light quality influence whether or not a plant will flower. My work uses a combination of genetic, physiological and molecular approaches and several different model species including pea, lentil, tomato, Medicago and Brassica. I am also interested in characterizing flowering responses in other crop and native species.
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UnitsSelected Publications:- Liew LC, Hecht V, Laurie RE, Knowles CL, Vander Schoor JK, Macknight RC, Weller JL, 2009, 'DIE NEUTRALIS and LATE BLOOMER 1 contribute to regulation of the pea circadian clock', Plant Cell, in press, pgs. accepted 11 Aug 2009
- Weller JL, Hecht V, Vander Schoor JK, Davidson SE, Ross JJ , 2009, 'Light regulation of gibberellin biosynthesis in pea is mediated through the COP1/HY5 pathway', Plant Cell, 21, pgs. 800-813
- Hecht V, Knowles CL, Vander Schoor JK, Liew LC, Jones SE, Lambert MJM, Weller JL , 2007, 'Pea LATE BLOOMER 1 is a GIGANTEA ortholog with roles in photoperiodic flowering, de-etiolation and transcriptional regulation of circadian clock gene homologs. ', Plant Physiol., 144, pgs. 648-661
- Foo E, Ross JJ, Davies N, Reid JB, Weller JL , 2006, 'A role for ethylene in the phytochrome-mediated control of vegetative development', Plant J., 46, pgs. 911-921
- Platten JD, Foo E, Elliott RC, Hecht V, Reid JB, Weller JL, 2005, 'Cryptochrome 1 contributes to blue light sensing in pea', Plant Physiol. , 139, pgs. 1472-1482
- Weller JL, Batge SL, Smith JJ, Kerckhoffs LHJ, Sineshchekov VA, Murfet IC, Reid JB, 2004, 'A dominant mutation in the pea PHYA gene confers enhanced responses to light and impairs the light-dependent degradation of phytochrome A', Plant Physiol., 135, pgs. 2186-2195
- Hecht V, Foucher F, Ferrándiz C, Macknight R, Navarro C, Morin J, Vardy ME, Ellis N, Beltrán JP, Rameau C, Weller JL, 2005, 'Conservation of Arabidopsis flowering genes in model legumes', Plant Physiol., 137, pgs. 1420-1434
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