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2016
Peters JC, Harper G, Brierley JL, Lees AK, Wale SJ, Hilton A, Gladders P, Boonham N, Cunnington AC.  2016.  Factors influencing the development of black dot (Colletotrichum coccodes) on potato. Plant Pathology. 65:1484-1491.
Bolleman JT, Mungall CJ, Strozzi F, Baran J, Dumontier M, Bonnal RJP, Buels R, Hoehndorf R, Fujisawa T, Katayama T et al..  2016.  FALDO: a semantic standard for describing the location of nucleotide and protein feature annotation. Journal of Biomedical Semantics. 7
Lea RG, Amezaga MR, Loup B, Mandon-Pépin B, Stefansdottir A, Filis P, Kyle C, Zhang ZL, Allen C, Purdie L et al..  2016.  The fetal ovary exhibits temporal sensitivity to a "real-life" mixture of environmental chemicals. Scientific Reports. 6:22279.
Clark LF, Thivierge MC, Kidd CA, McGeoch SC, Abraham P, Pearson DWM, Horgan GW, Holtrop G, Thies F, Lobley GE.  2016.  Fish oil supplemented for 9 months does not improve glycaemic control or insulin sensitivity in subjects with impaired glucose regulation: a parallel randomised controlled trial. British Journal of Nutrition. 115:75-86.
Vicente CSL, Nascimento FX, Ikuyo Y, Cock PJA, Mota M, Hasegawa K.  2016.  The genome and genetics of a high oxidative stress tolerant Serratia sp LCN16 isolated from the plant parasitic nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. BMC Genomics. 17:ArticleNo.301.
Eves-van den Akker S, Laetsch DR, Thorpe P, Lilley CJ, Danchin EGJ, Da Rocha M, Rancurel C, Holroyd NE, Cotton JA, Szitenberg A et al..  2016.  The genome of the yellow potato cyst nematode, Globodera rostochiensis, reveals insights into the basis of parasitism and virulence. Genome Biology. 17
Oakey H, Cullis B, Thompson R, Comadran J, Halpin C, Waugh R.  2016.  Genomic selection in multi-environment crop trials. G3- Genes Genomes Genetics. 6:1313-1326.
Currie M, Lackova P, Dinnie E.  2016.  Greenspace matters: exploring links between greenspace, gender and well-being with conservation volunteers. Landscape Research. 41:641-651.
Menezes-Blackburn D, Zhang H, Stutter MI, Giles CD, Darch T, George TS, Shand CA, Lumsdon D, Blackwell M, Wearing C et al..  2016.  A holistic approach to understanding the desorption of phosphorus in soils. Environmental Science and Technology. 50:3371-3381.
Mignatti A, Boag B, Cattadori IM.  2016.  Host immunity shapes the impact of climate changes on the dynamics of parasite infections. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 113:2970-2975.
Prager K, Labarthe P, Caggiano M, Lorenzo-Arribas A.  2016.  How does commercialisation impact on the provision of farm advisory services? Evidence from Belgium, Italy, Ireland and the UK Land Use Policy. 52:329-344.
Espada M, Silva AC, van Den Akker SE, Cock PJA, Mota M, Jones JT.  2016.  Identification and characterization of parasitism genes from the pinewood nematode Bursaphelenchus xylophilus reveals a multilayered detoxification strategy. Molecular Plant Pathology. 17:286-295.
Hoffmann H, Zhao G, Asseng S, Bindi M, Biernath C, Constantin J, Coucheney E, Dechow R, Doro L, Eckersten H et al..  2016.  Impact of spatial soil and climate input data aggregation on regional yield simulations. PLoS ONE. 11:e0151782.
Ge Y, Cai YM, Bonneau L, Rotari V, Danon A, McKenzie EA, McLellan H, Mach L, Gallois P.  2016.  Inhibition of cathepsin B by caspase-3 inhibitors blocks programmed cell death in Arabidopsis. Cell Death and Differentiation. 23:1493-1501.
Jackson-Blake LA, Wade AJ, Futter MN, Butterfield D, Couture RM, Cox BA, Crossman J, Ekholm P, Halliday SJ, Jin L et al..  2016.  The INtegrated CAtchment model of phosphorus dynamics (INCA-P): Description and demonstration of new model structure and equations. Environmental Modelling and Software. 83:356-386.
Correia B, Valledor L, Hancock RD, Renaut J, Pascual J, Soares AMVM, Pinto G.  2016.  Integrated proteomics and metabolomics to unlock global and clonal responses of Eucalyptus globulus recovery from water deficit. Metabolomics. 12:ArticleNo.141.
Capet A, Meysman FJR, Akoumianaki I, Soetaert K, Gregoire M.  2016.  Integrating sediment biogeochemistry into 3D oceanic models: A study of benthic-pelagic coupling in the Black Sea. Ocean Modelling. 101:83-100.
Capet A, Meysman FJR, Akoumianaki I, Soetaert K, Gregoire M.  2016.  Integrating sediment biogeochemistry into 3D oceanic models: a study of benthic-pelagic coupling in the Black Sea. Ocean Modelling. 101:83-100.
Penrose B, Payne KAJN, Arkhipov A, Maksimenko A, Gaschak S, Meacham MC, Crout NJM, White PJ, Beresford NA, Broadley MR.  2016.  Inter-cultivar variation in soil-to-plant transfer of radiocaesium and radiostrontium in Brassica oleracea. Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. 155:112-121.
Wallace JM, Bhattacharya S, Campbell DM, Horgan GW.  2016.  Inter-pregnancy weight change and the risk of recurrent pregnancy complications. PLoS ONE. 11:e0154812.
Cameron AR, Logie L, Patel K, Bacon S, Forteath C, Harthill J, Roberts A, Sutherland CD, Stewart D, Viollet B et al..  2016.  Investigation of salicylate hepatic responses in comparison with chemical analogues of the drug. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Molecular Basis of Disease. 1862:1412-1422.
Zhou JG, Haygarth PM, Withers PJA, Macleod CJA, Falloon PD, Beven KJ, Ockenden MC, Forber KJ, Hollaway MJ, Evans R et al..  2016.  Lattice Boltzmann method for the fractional advection-diffusion equation. Physical Review E. 93:ArticleNo.043310.
Raven JA, Colmer TD.  2016.  Life at the boundary: photosynthesis at the soil-fluid interface. A synthesis focusing on mosses. Journal of Experimental Botany. 67:1613-1623.
Pakeman RJ, Alexander J, Brooker R, Cummins R, Fielding D, Gore S, Hewison R, Mitchell R, Moore E, Erford K et al..  2016.  Long-term impacts of nitrogen deposition on coastal plant communities. Environmental Pollution. 221:337-347.
Schillereff DN, Boyle JF, Toberman H, Adams JL, Bryant CL, Chiverrell R, Helliwell RC, Keenan P, Lilly A, Tipping E.  2016.  Long-term macronutrient stoichiometry of UK ombrotrophic peatlands. Science of the Total Environment. 572:1561-1572.
Rutgers M, Orgiazzi A, Gardi C, Rombke J, Jansch S, Keith AM, Neilson R, Boag B, Schmidt O, Murchie AK et al..  2016.  Mapping earthworm communities in Europe. Applied Soil Ecology. 97:98-111.
Aitkenhead MJ, Coull MC.  2016.  Mapping soil carbon stocks across Scotland using a neural network model. Geoderma. 262:187-188.
Prigigallo MI, Abdelfattah A, Cacciola SO, Faedda R, Sanzani SM, Cooke DEL, Schena L.  2016.  Metabarcoding analysis of phytophthora diversity using genus-specific primers and 454 pyrosequencing. Phytopathology. 106:305-313.
Cuttle SP, Newell-Price JP, Harris D, Chadwick DR, Shepherd MA, Anthony SGA, Macleod CJA, Haygarth PM, Chambers BJ.  2016.  A method-centric 'User Manual' for the mitigation of diffuse water pollution from agriculture. Soil Use and Management. 32:162-171.
Conniff A, Craig T.  2016.  A methodological approach to understanding the wellbeing and restorative benefits associated with greenspace. Urban Forestry and Urban Greening. 19:103-109.
Van der Linden I, Cottyn B, Uyttendaele M, Vlaemynck G, Heyndrickx M, Maes M, Holden N.  2016.  Microarray-based screening of differentially expressed genes of e. coli O157:H7 sakai during preharvest survival on butterhead lettuce. Agriculture-Basel. 6
Delgado-Baquerizo M, Maestre FT, Reich PB, Jeffries TC, Gaitán JJ, Encinar D, Berdugo M, Campbell CD, Singh BK.  2016.  Microbial diversity drives multifunctionality in terrestrial ecosystems. Nature Communications. 7
Pan FX, Li YY, Chapman SJ, Khan S, Yao HY.  2016.  Microbial utilization of rice straw and its derived biochar in a paddy soil. Science of the Total Environment.
Stutter MI, Cairns J.  2016.  The mineralisation of dissolved organic matter recovered from temperate waterbodies during summer. Aquatic Sciences. 78:447-482.
Simonsson M, Court M, Bergholm J, Lemarchand D, Hillier S.  2016.  Mineralogy and biogeochemistry of potassium in the Skogaby experimental forest, southwest Sweden: pools, fluxes and K/Rb ratios in soil and biomass. Biogeochemistry. Published online..
Senapati N, Chabbi A, Giostri AF, Yeluripati JB, Smith P.  2016.  Modelling nitrous oxide emissions from mown-grass and grain-cropping systems: Testing and sensitivity analysis of DailyDayCent using high frequency measurements. Science of the Total Environment. 572:955-977.
Melo PC, Copus A, Coombes M.  2016.  Modelling small area at-risk-of-poverty rates for the UK using the World Bank methodology and the EU-SILC. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy. 9:97-117.
McKenzie BM, Braga RA, Coelho DEC, Krol M, Horgan GW.  2016.  Moire as a low-cost, robust, optical-technique to quantify soil surface condition. Soil and Tillage Research. 158:147-155.
Oliver DM, Hanley ND, van Niekerk M, Kay D, Heathwaite AL, Rabinovici SJM, Kinzelman JL, Fleming LE, Porter J, Shaikh S et al..  2016.  Molecular tools for bathing water assessment in Europe: Balancing social science research with a rapidly developing environmental science evidence-base. Ambio. 45:52-62.
Oliver DM, Hanley ND, van Niekerk M, Kay D, Heathwaite AL, Rabinovici SJM, Kinzelman JL, Fleming LE, Porter J, Shaikh S et al..  2016.  Molecular tools for bathing water assessment in Europe: balancing social science research with a rapidly developing environmental science evidence-base. Ambio. 45:52-62.
Ruane AC, Hudson NI, Asseng S, Camarrano D, Ewert F, Martre P, Boote KJ, Thorburn PJ, Aggarwal PK, Angulo C et al..  2016.  Multi-wheat-model ensemble responses to interannual climate variability. Environmental Modelling and Software. 81:86-101.
Koutsovoulos G, Kumar S, Laetsch DR, Stevens L, Daub J, Conlon C, Maroon H, Thomas F, Aboobaker AA, Blaxter M.  2016.  No evidence for extensive horizontal gene transfer in the genome of the tardigrade Hypsibius dujardini. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 1135053
Multari S, Neacsu M, Scobbie L, Cantlay L, Duncan G, Vaughan N, Stewart D, Russell WR.  2016.  Nutritional and phytochemical content of high-protein crops. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 64:7800-7811.
Sjogersten S, Caul S, Daniell TJ, Jurd APS, O'Sullivan OS, Stapleton CS, Titman JJ.  2016.  Organic matter chemistry controls greenhouse gas emissions from permafrost peatlands. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 98:42-53.
Schimmelrnann A, Qi HP, Coplen TB, Brand WA, Fong J, Meier-Augenstein W, Kemp HF, Toman B, Ackermann A, Assonov S et al..  2016.  Organic reference materials for hydrogen, carbon, and nitrogen stable isotope-ratio measurements: caffeines, n-alkanes, fatty acid methyl esters, glycines, L-valines, polyethylenes, and oils. Analytical Chemistry. 88:4294-4302.
Liang X, Kierans M, Ceci A, Hillier S, Gadd GM.  2016.  Phosphatase-mediated bioprecipitation of lead by soil fungi. Environmental Microbiology. 18:219-231.
Pagaling E, Gatica J, Yang K, Cytryn E, Yan T.  2016.  Phylogenetic diversity of ceftriaxone resistance and the presence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase genes in the culturable soil resistome. Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance.
Houston K, Tucker MR, Chowdhury J, Shirley N, Little A.  2016.  The plant cell wall: a complex and dynamic structure as revealed by the responses of genes under stress conditions. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7
Mortimer CL, Misawa N, Ducreux L, Campbell R, Bramley PM, Taylor M, Fraser PD.  2016.  Product stability and sequestration mechanisms in Solanum tuberosum engineered to biosynthesize high value ketocarotenoids. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 14:140-152.
Tur JN, Copus A.  2016.  A proposal for classification of non-urban regions in the European Union. Cuadernos Geograficos. 55:92-124.
Donald KJ, Clarke HV, Mitchell C, Cornwell RM, Hubbard SF, Karley AJ.  2016.  Protection of pea aphids associated with coinfecting bacterial symbionts persists during superparasitism by a braconid wasp. Microbial Ecology. 71:1-4.
Zhang Y, Thomas CL, Xiang JX, Long Y, Wang XH, Zou J, Luo ZL, Ding GD, Cai HM, Graham NS et al..  2016.  QTL meta-analysis of root traits in Brassica napus under contrasting phosphorus supply in two growth systems. Scientific Reports. 6
Edwards AC, Sinclair AH, Coull MC, Crooks W, Rees RM, Lumsdon DG.  2016.  Regional trends in Scottish advisory soil acidity and phosphorus results: significance of management history, land use and soil attributes. Soil Use and Management. 32:44-53.
Brewer MJ, Butler A, Cooksley SL.  2016.  The relative performance of AIC, AIC(C) and BIC in the presence of unobserved heterogeneity. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Douglas DJT, Buchanan GM, Thompson P, Smith T, Cole T, Amar A, Fielding DA, Redpath SM, Wilson JD.  2016.  Reply to comment on: Vegetation burning for game management in the UK uplands is increasing and overlaps spatially with soil carbon and protected areas. Biological Conservation. 195:295-296.
Churchman J, Pasbakhsh P, Hillier S.  2016.  The rise and rise of halloysite. Clay Minerals. 51:303-308.
Hunter LJR, Brockington SF, Murphy AM, Pate AE, Gruden K, MacFarlane SA, Palukaitis P, Carr JP.  2016.  RNA-dependent RNA polymerase 1 in potato (Solanum tuberosum) and its relationship to other plant RNA-dependent RNA polymerases. Scientific Reports. 6
Campetella G, Canullo R, Gimona A, Garadnai J, Chiarucci A, Giorgini D, Angelini E, Cervellini M, Chelli S, Bartha S.  2016.  Scale-dependent effects of coppicing on the species pool of late successional beech forests in the central Apennines, Italy. Applied Vegetation Science. 19:474-485.
Borjesson G, Menichetti L, Thornton B, Campbell CD, Katterer T.  2016.  Seasonal dynamics of the soil microbial community: assimilation of old and young carbon sources in a long-term field experiment as revealed by natural C-13 abundance. European Journal of Soil Science. 67:79-89.
Thomas-Sharma S, Abdurahman A, Ali S, Andrade-Piedra JL, Bao S, Charkowski AO, Crooke D, Kadian M, Kromann P, Struik PC et al..  2016.  Seed degeneration in potato: the need for an integrated seed health strategy to mitigate the problem in developing countries. Plant Pathology. 65:3-16.
Callaby R, Toye P, Jennings A, Thumbi SM, Coetzer JAW, Van Wyk ICC, Hanotte O, Mbole-Kariuki MN, Bronsvoort BMD, Kruuk LEB et al..  2016.  Seroprevalence of respiratory viral pathogens of indigenous calves in Western Kenya. Research in Veterinary Science. 108:120-124.
Dahlin AS, Eriksson J, Campbell CD, Oborn I.  2016.  Soil amendment affects Cd uptake by wheat - are we underestimating the risks from chloride inputs? Science of the Total Environment. 554:349-357.
Beckert MR, Smith P, Lilly A, Chapman SJ.  2016.  Soil and tree biomass carbon sequestration potential of silvopastoral and woodland pasture systems in North East Scotland. Agroforestry Systems. 90:371-383.
Hopkins DW, Wheatley RE, Coakley CM, Daniell TJ, Mitchell SM, Newton AC, Neilson R.  2016.  Soil carbon and nitrogen and barley yield responses to repeated additions of compost and slurry. Journal of Agricultural Science. Published online..
Li YY, Wang J, Pan FX, Chapman SJ, Yao HY.  2016.  Soil nitrogen availability alters rhizodeposition carbon flux into the soil microbial community. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 16:1472-1480.
Cheng YH, Jiang Y, Wu Y, Valentine TA, Li HX.  2016.  Soil nitrogen status modifies rice root response to nematode-bacteria interactions in the rhizosphere. PLoS ONE. 11
Melo LCA, Puga AP, Coscione AR, Beesley L, Abreu CA, Camargo OA.  2016.  Sorption and desorption of cadmium and zinc in two tropical soils amended with sugarcane-straw-derived biochar. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 16:226-234.
van Bussel LGJ, Ewert F, Zhao G, Hoffmann H, Enders A, Wallach D, Asseng S, Baigorria GA, Basso B, Biernath C et al..  2016.  Spatial sampling of weather data for regional crop yield simulations. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. 220:101-115.
Colas I, Macaulay M, Higgins JD, Phillips D, Barakate A, Posch M, Armstrong SJ, Franklin FCH, Halpin C, Waugh R et al..  2016.  A spontaneous mutation in MutL-Homolog 3 (HvMLH3) affects synapsis and crossover resolution in the barley desynaptic mutant des10. New Phytologist. 212:693-707.
Bailey M, Srivastava A, Conti L, Nelis S, Zhang CJ, Florance H, Love A, Milner J, Napier R, Grant M et al..  2016.  Stability of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteases OVERLY TOLERANT TO SALT1 and-2 modulates salicylic acid signalling and SUMO1/2 conjugation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany. 67:353-363.
Stocker BD, Prentice IC, Cornell SE, Davies-Barnard T, Finzi AC, Franklin O, Janssens I, Larmola T, Manzoni S, Nasholm T et al..  2016.  Terrestrial nitrogen cycling in earth system models revisited. New Phytologist. 210:1165-1168.
Creaney R, Niewiamdomski P.  2016.  Tourism and sustainable development on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland. Scottish Geographical Journal. Published online..
Creaney R, Niewiamdomski P.  2016.  Tourism and sustainable development on the Isle of Eigg, Scotland. Scottish Geographical Journal. 132:210-233.
Basso B, Giola P, Dumont B, Migliorati MD, Cammarano D, Pruneddu G, Giunta F.  2016.  Tradeoffs between maize silage yield and nitrate leaching in a Mediterranean nitrate-vulnerable zone under current and projected climate scenarios. PLoS ONE. 11:e0146360.
Jager NW, Challies E, Kochskämper E, Newig J, Benson D, Blackstock KL, Collins K, Ernst A, Evers M, Feichtinger J et al..  2016.  Transforming European water governance? EU water framework directive implementation in 13 member states Water. :ArticleNo.156.
Velmurugan J, Mollison E, Barth S, Marshall D, Milne L, Creevey CJ, Lynch B, Meally H, McCabe M, Milbourne D.  2016.  An ultra-high density genetic linkage map of perennial ryegrass (Lolium perenne) using genotyping by sequencing (GBS) based on a reference shotgun genome assembly. Annals of Botany. 118:71-87.
Cammarano D, Rotter RP, Asseng S, Ewert F, Wallach D, Martre P, Hatfield JL, Jones JW, Rosenzweig C, Ruane AC et al..  2016.  Uncertainty of wheat water use: Simulated patterns and sensitivity to temperature and CO2. Field Crops Research. 198:80-92.
Lu YW, Yin MY, Wang XD, Chen BH, Yang X, Peng JJ, Zheng HY, Zhao JP, Lin L, Yu CL et al..  2016.  The unfolded protein response and programmed cell death are induced by expression of garlic virus X p11 in Nicotiana benthamiana. Journal of General Virology. 97:1462-1468.
Cammarano D, Zierden D, Stefanova L, Asseng S, O'Brien JJ, Jones JW.  2016.  Using historical climate observations to understand future climate change crop yield impacts in the Southeastern US. Climatic Change. 134:311-326.
Prager K, Curfs M.  2016.  Using mental models to understand soil management. Soil Use and Management.
Prager K, Curfs M.  2016.  Using mental models to understand soil management. Soil Use and Management. 32:36-44.
Stone D, Costa D, Daniell TJ, Mitchell SM, Topp CFE, Griffiths BS.  2016.  Using nematode communities to test a European scale soil biological monitoring programme for policy development. Applied Soil Ecology. 97:78-85.
Van Weymers PSM, Baker K, Chen XW, Harrower B, Cooke DEL, Gilroy EM, Birch PRJ, Thilliez GJA, Lees AK, Lynott JS et al..  2016.  Utilizing 'Omic' technologies to identify and prioritize novel sources of resistance to the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora infestans in potato germplasm collections. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7
Basso B, Fiorentino C, Cammarano D, Schulthess U.  2016.  Variable rate nitrogen fertilizer response in wheat using remote sensing. Precision Agriculture. 17:168-182.
Wang C, Miller DR, Brown I, Jiang Y, Castellazzi M.  2016.  Visualisation techniques to support public interpretation of future climate change and land use choices: a case study from N-E Scotland. International Journal of Digital Earth. 9:586-605.
Wang C, Miller D, Brown I, Jiang Y, Castellazzi M.  2016.  Visualisation techniques to support public interpretation of future climate change and land use choices: a case study from NE Scotland. International Journal of Digital Earth. Published online..
Crozier L, Hedley PE, Morris J, Wagstaff C, Andrews SC, Toth I, Jackson RW, Holden N.  2016.  Whole-transcriptome analysis of verocytotoxigenic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (Sakai) suggests plant-species-specific metabolic responses on exposure to spinach and lettuce extracts. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7
2015
Huang Y, Long X, Chapman SJ, Yao HY.  2015.  Acidophilic denitrifiers dominate the N2O production in a 100-year-old tea orchard soil. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 22:4173-4182.
Sanchez-Marono N, Alonso-Betanzos A, Fontenla-Romero O, Brinquis-Nunez C, Polhill JG, Craig T, Dumitru A, Garcia-Mira R.  2015.  An agent-based model for simulating environmental behavior in an educational organization. Neural Processing Letters. 42:89-118.
Knierim A, Boenning K, Caggiano M, Cristóvão A, Dirimanova V, Koehnen T, Labarthe P, Prager K.  2015.  The AKIS concept and its relevance in selected EU member states. Outlook on Agriculture.
Ferreira LMM, Celaya R, Santos AS, Mayes RW, Rodrigues MAM, Osoro K.  2015.  Application of long-chain alcohols as diet-composition markers in sheep fed on grass-white clover and heather-gorse plant species. Grass and Forage Science. 70:30-43.
Ramezanian A, Dahlin AS, Campbell CD, Hillier S, Oborn I.  2015.  Assessing biogas digestate, pot ale, wood ash and rockdust as soil amendments: effects on soil chemistry and microbial community composition. Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section B: Soil and Plant Science.
Lilly A, Chapman SJ.  2015.  Assessing changes in carbon stocks of Scottish soils: lessons learnt. Earth and Environmental Science. 25:ArticleNo.01201.
Zhang RX, Calixto CPG, Tzioutziou NA, James AB, Simpson CG, Guo WB, Marquez Y, Kalyna M, Patro R, Eyras E et al..  2015.  AtRTD - a comprehensive reference transcript dataset resource for accurate quantification of transcript-specific expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist. 208:96-101.
Sheu SY, Chen MH, Liu WYY, Andrews M, James EK, Ardley JK, De Meyer SE, James TK, Howieson JG, Coutinho BG et al..  2015.  Burkholderia dipogonis sp. Nov., isolated from root nodules of Dipogon lignosus in New Zealand and Western Australia. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. 65:4716-4723.
Yao HY, Chapman SJ, Thornton B, Paterson E.  2015.  C-13 PLFAs: a key to open the soil microbial black box? Plant and Soil. 392:3-15.
Quin S, Artz RRE, Coupar AM, Woodin SJ.  2015.  Calluna vulgaris-dominated upland heathland sequesters more CO2 annually than grass-dominated upland heathland. Science of the Total Environment.. 505:740-747.
Christen B, Kjeldsen C, Dalgaard T, Martin-Ortega J.  2015.  Can fuzzy cognitive mapping help in agricultural policy design and communication? Land Use Policy. 45:64-75.
Madigan A, Belka M, Taylor AFS, Kirisits T, Cleary M, Nguyen D, Elfstrand M, Woodward S.  2015.  Can Hymenoscyphus fraxineus infect hardy members of the Oleaceae other than ash species? Forest Pathology. 45:426-429.
Quilliam RS, van Niekerk MA, Chadwick DR, Cross P, Hanley N, Jones DL, Vinten AJA, Olivers DM.  2015.  Can macrophyte harvesting from eutrophic water close the loop on nutrient loss from agricultural land? Journal of Environmental Management. 152:210-217.
Duckett D, Wynne B, Christley RM, Heathwaite AL, Mort M, Austin Z, Wastling JM, Latham SM, Alcock R, Haygarth P.  2015.  Can policy be risk-based? The cultural theory of risk and the case of livestock disease containment Sociologia Ruralis. 55:379-399.
Waylen KA, Martin-Ortega J, Blackstock KL, Brown I, Uribe BEA, Hernández SB, Bertoni MB, Bustos ML, Bayer AXC, Semerena RIE et al..  2015.  Can scenario-planning support community based natural resource management? Experiences from three countries in Latin America Ecology and Society. 20:ArticleNo.28.
Brown I, Castellazzi M.  2015.  Changes in climate variability with reference to land quality and agriculture in Scotland. International Journal of Biometeorology. 59:717-732.
Baker K, Dhillon T, Colas I, Cook N, Milne I, Milne L, Bayer M, Flavell AJ.  2015.  Chromatin state analysis of the barley epigenome reveals a higher-order structure defined by H3K27me1 and H3K27me3 abundance. Plant Journal. 84:111-124.
Chapman JA, Mascher M, Buluc A, Barry K, Georganas E, Session A, Strnadova V, Jenkins J, Seghal S, Oliker L et al..  2015.  Chromosome-scale assembly of the hexaploid wheat genome from whole genome shotgun sequencing. Genome Biology. 16
Van Straaten O, Corre MD, Wolf K, Tchienkoua M, Cuellar E, Matthews RB, Veldkamp E.  2015.  Conversion of lowland tropical forests to tree cash crop plantations loses up to one-half of stored soil organic carbon. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). 112:9956-9960.
Edwards D, Cherns L, Raven JA.  2015.  Could land-based early photosynthesizing ecosystems have bioengineered the planet in mid-Palaeozoic times? Palaeontology. 58:803-837.
Powell J, Karunaratne S, Campbell CD, Yao HY, Robinson L, Singh BK.  2015.  Deterministic processes vary during community assembly for ecologically dissimilar taxa. Nature Communications. 6
Reavy B, Swanson MM, Cock PJA, Dawson LA, Freitag TE, Singh BK, Torrance L, Mushegain AR, Taliansky M.  2015.  Distinct circular single-stranded DNA viruses exist in different soil types. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 81:3934-3945.
Thornton B, Martin G, Procee M, Miller DR, Coull MC, Yao HY, Chapman SJ, Hudson G, Midwood AJ.  2015.  Distributions of carbon and nitrogen isotopes in Scotland's topsoil: a national-scale study. European Journal of Soil Science. 66:1002-1011.
Tian D, Asseng S, Martinez CJ, Misra V, Cammarano D, Ortiz B.  2015.  Does decadal climate variation influence Wheat and Maize production in the southeast USA? Agricultural Forest Meteorology. 204:1-9.
Wang J, Chapman SJ, Yao H.  2015.  The effect of storage on microbial activity and community structure of drained and flooded paddy soils. Journal of Soils and Sediments. 15:880-889.
Phillips D, Jenkins G, Macaulay M, Nibau C, Wnetrzak J, Fallding D, Colas I, Oakey H, Waugh R, Ramsay L.  2015.  The effect of temperature on the male and female recombination landscape of barley. New Phytologist. 208:421-429.
Zhao G, Hoffmann H, van Bussel LGJ, Enders A, Specka X, Sosa C, Yeluripati JB, Tao FL, Constantin J, Raynal H et al..  2015.  Effect of weather data aggregation on regional crop simulation for different crops, production conditions, and response variables. Climate Research. 65:141-157.
Cerekovic N, Jarret D, Pagter M, Cullen DW, Morris JM, Hedley PE, Brennan R, Petersen KK.  2015.  The effects of drought stress on leaf gene expression during flowering in blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum L.). European Journal of Horticultural Science. 80:39-46.
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