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Dr Gordon Machray

Senior Management Team
Head of SASA

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gordon.machray@sasa.gsi.gov.uk

Professor Gordon Machray

Research interests/Areas of expertise

Life Sciences
Agriculture

Biography

B.Sc. (Hons.) University of Glasgow
Ph.D. University of Edinburgh
Postdoctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology
Postdoctoral Researcher, IBMC-CNRS Strasbourg
Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Dundee
Lecturer, University of Dundee
Researcher Manager, SCRI
Senior Management Board, SCRI
Visiting Professor, University of Strathclyde
Chief Executive, SASA
Head of SASA/Deputy Director - Agriculture, Food and Rural Communities Directorate, SASA-AFRC

Publications

Zhang C, Machray GC, Santa Cruz S, Wilson TMA. 2005. Soil-Borne Wheat Mosaic Virus (SBWMV) 37 kDa movement protein rescues cell-to-cell and long-distance movement of an immobile tobacco mosaic virus mutant in Nicotiana benthamiana, a non-host of SBWMV. Journal of Phytopathology . 153(1):5-10.
Russell JR, Booth A, Fuller J, Hedley PE, Machray GC, Powell W. 2004. A comparison of sequence-based polymorphism and haplotype content in transcribed and anonymous regions of the barley genome. Genome. 47(2):389-398.
Wardrop J, Fuller J, Powell W, Machray GC. 2004. Exploiting plant somatic radiation hybrids for physical mapping of ESTs. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 108(2):343-348.
Aziz N, Machray GC. 2003. Efficient male germ line transformation for transgenic tobacco production without selection. Plant Molecular Biology. 51(2):203-211.
Wardrop J, Snape J, Powell W, Machray GC. 2002. Constructing plant radiation hybrid panels. Plant Journal. 31(2):223-228.
Waugh R, Dear PH, Powell W, Machray GC. 2002. Physical education – new technologies for mapping plant genomes. Trends in Plant Science. 7(12):521-523.
Hedley PE, Maddison AL, Davidson D, Machray GC. 2001. Differential expression of invertase genes in internal and external phloem tissues of potato (Solanum tuberosum L.). Journal of Experimental Botany. 51(345):817-821.
Viola R, Roberts AG, Haupt S, Gazzani S, Hancock RD, Marmiroli N, Machray GC, Oparka KJ. 2001. Tuberization in potato involves a switch from apoplastic to symplastic phloem unloading. Plant Cell. 13(2):385-398.
Simpson CG, Hedley PE, Watters J, Clark GP, McQuade CM, Machray GC, Brown JWS. 2000. Requirements for mini-exon inclusion in potato invertase mRNAs provides evidence for exon-scanning interactions in plants. RNA. 6(3):422-433.
Provan J, Dewar H, Bryan G, Powell W, Machray GC, Waugh R. 1999. An extreme cytoplasmic bottleneck in the modern European cultivated potato (Solanum tuberosum) is not reflected in decreased levels of nuclear diversity. Proceedings: Biological Sciences. 266(1419):633-639.

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