Grape Ripening and Plant Defence

UNDERSTANDING GRAPE RIPENING IN THE CONTEXT OF PLANT CELL WALLS

John P. Moore, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats and Melané A Vivier. 2014. Pectic-β(1,4)-galactan, extensin and arabinogalactan-protein epitopes differentiate ripening stages in wine and table grape cell walls. Annals of Botany (Invited Special Issue on Plant Cell Walls), 114(6), 1279-1294. 

John P Moore and Benoit Divol. 2010. Tracking the careers of grape and wine polymers using biotechnology and systems biology. In Biotechnology in Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals (Eds. D, Bagchi; F, Lau and D, Ghosh) Taylor and Francis Publishers, USA


                                                  GRAPE RIPENING IN SHIRAZ

UNDERSTANDING FUNGAL DISEASES IN THE CONTEXT OF PLANT CELL WALLS

Eric Nguema-Ona, John P. Moore, Alexandra Fagerstrom, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Annatjie Hugo and Melané A Vivier. 2012. Profiling the main cell wall polysaccharides of tobacco leaves using high-throughput and fractionation techniques. Carbohydrate Polymers 88(3), pp. 939-949. 

Eric E. Nguema-Ona, John P. Moore, Alexandra Fagerstrom, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Annatjie Hugo and Melané A Vivier. 2013. Overexpression of the grapevine PGIP1 in tobacco leaves results in an altered arabinoxyloglucan composition in the absence of fungal infection. BMC Plant Biology 13(46), 1-15. 

FUNGAL DISEASES (MILDEWS AND BOTRYTIS)

Photos above courtesy of PG Goussard