Arabidopsis thaliana, cell suspension culture; COI1, jasmonate, cell cycle, cell wall 25 proteins; primary metabolism; stress–signalling

Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, O’Brien, José A., Pérez-Salamó, Imma, Krasauskas, Jovaras, Finch, Paul, Briones, Andrea, Daudi, Arsalan, Souda, Puneet, Tsui, Tjir-Li, Whitelegge, Julian P., Bolwell, G. Paul and Devoto, Alessandra (2018) COI1-dependent jasmonate signalling affects growth, metabolites production and cell wall protein composition in Arabidopsis. Annals of Botany, 122 (7). pp. 1117-1129. ISSN 0305-7364 (Print), 1095-8290 (Online) (doi:10.1093/aob/mcy109)

Badnavirus; Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE); Sequence diversity; Yam; Dioscorea spp.; Endogenous pararetrovirus (EPRV); Episomal badnavirus; Integration; Detection

Turaki, Aliyu A., Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Kumar, P. Lava and Seal, Susan E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2017) PCR-DGGE analysis: Unravelling complex mixtures of badnavirus sequences present in yam germplasm. Viruses, 9 (7). p. 181. ISSN 1999-4915 (Print), 1999-4915 (Online) (doi:10.3390/v9070181)

In vitro culture; RNA-Seq; Dioscorea spp.; Badnavirus; Yam mosaic virus

Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Rathnayake, Ajith I., Visendi, Paul, Sewe, Steven O., Sicat, Juan Paolo A., Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Kumar, P. Lava and Seal, Susan E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2018) Tissue culture and next-generation sequencing: A combined approach for detecting yam (Dioscorea spp.) viruses. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 105. pp. 54-66. ISSN 0885-5765 (Print), 1096-1178 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.pmpp.2018.06.003)

Jasmonate, plant growth, leaf growth regulation, methyl jasmonate (MeJA)

Noir, Sandra, Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Takahashi, Naoki, Ishida, Takashi, Tsui, Tjir-Li, Balbi, Virginia, Shanahan, Hugh, Sugimoto, Keiko and Devoto, Alessandra (2013) Jasmonate controls leaf growth by repressing cell proliferation and the onset of endoreduplication while maintaining a potential stand-by mode. Plant Physiology, 161 (4). pp. 1930-1951. ISSN 0032-0889 (Print), 1532-2548 (Online) (doi:10.1104/pp.113.214908)

RNA-Seq; virus detection; Betaflexiviridae; next-generation sequencing; HTS

Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Rathnayake, Ajith I., Sewe, Steven O., Visendi, Paul, Oyekanmi, Joshua O., Quain, Marian D., Akomeah, Belinda, Kumar, P. Lava and Seal, Susan E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2019) Molecular characterization of a new virus species identified in yam (Dioscorea spp.) by high-throughput sequencing. Plants, 8 (6):167. ISSN 2223-7747 (Print), 2223-7747 (Online) (doi:10.3390/plants8060167)

Storekeeper, GEBP-like (GPL) proteins, Sturdiness, Flowering time, Rosette, Biomass

Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Uhrig, Joachim F., Jach, Guido and Müller, Kai J. (2011) Increased vegetative development and sturdiness of storekeeper-transgenic tobacco. Open Life Sciences, 6 (3). pp. 342-351. ISSN 2391-5412 (doi:10.2478/s11535-011-0009-9)

Yam, Dioscorea spp., Episomal badnavirus, Endogenous pararetrovirus, DNA extraction, Diagnostics, Rolling circle amplification, Badna-PCR

Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Turaki, Aliyu, Rathnayake, Ajith, Silva, Goncalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Lava Kumar, P. and Seal, Susan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2018) Rolling circle amplification to screen yam germplasm for badnavirus infections and to amplify and characterise novel badnavirus genomes. Bio-protocol, 8 (1). ISSN 2331-8325 (Online) (doi:10.21769/BioProtoc.2672)

Yam; Dioscorea spp.; Dioscorea rotundata; Episomal badnavirus; Endogenous Dioscorea bacilliform virus; Complete genome; Recombination; Phylogeny; West Africa

Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Rathnayake, Ajith I., Visendi, Paul, Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947 and Seal, Susan E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2017) Complete genome sequence of a new member of the genus Badnavirus, Dioscorea bacilliform RT virus 3, reveals the first evidence of recombination in yam badnaviruses. Archives of Virology. ISSN 0304-8608 (Print), 1432-8798 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s00705-017-3605-9)

Yam; Recombinase polymerase amplification; Potyvirus; Isothermal amplification; Rapid diagnostics

Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Oyekanmi, Joshua, Nkere, Chukwuemeka K., Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Kumar, Lava P. and Seal, Susan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2018) Rapid detection of potyviruses from crude plant extracts. Analytical Biochemistry, 546. pp. 17-22. ISSN 0003-2697 (Print), 1096-0309 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.ab.2018.01.019)

Yam; Dioscorea spp.; Virus; Ghana; Nigeria

Nkere, Chukwuemeka K., Otto, Emannuel, Atiri, Gabriel I., Onyeka, Joseph, Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Seal, Susan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 and Kumar, Lava P. (2020) Assessment of Yam mild mosaic virus coat protein gene sequence diversity reveals the prevalence of cosmopolitan and African group of isolates in Ghana and Nigeria. Current Plant Biology, 23:100156. ISSN 2214-6628 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.cpb.2020.100156)

badnavirus; multiplex PCR; denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE); endogenous badnaviral elements; yam; Dioscorea spp.; West Africa

Silva, Goncalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Turaki, Aliyu A., Nkere, Chukwuemeka K., Kumar, P. Lava and Seal, Susan E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2022) Homing in on endogenous badnaviral elements: development of multiplex PCR-DGGE for detection and rapid identification of badnavirus sequences in yam germplasm. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13:846989. ISSN 1664-462X (Online) (doi:10.3389/fpls.2022.846989)

closed‑tube reverse transcription loop‑mediated isothermal amplification (CT-RT-LAMP); YMV; Potyvirus; yam; Dioscorea; diagnostic assay

Nkere, Chukwuemeka K., Oyekanmi, Joshua O., Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Atiri, Gabriel I., Onyeka, Joseph, Maroya, Norbert G., Seal, Susan E. and Kumar, P. Lava (2018) Chromogenic detection of yam mosaic virus by closed-tube reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (CT-RT-LAMP). Archives of Virology, 163 (4). pp. 1057-1061. ISSN 0304-8608 (Print), 1432-8798 (Online) (doi:10.1007/s00705-018-3706-0)

yam, dioscorea spp., YMV, recombinase polymerase amplification, diagnosis

Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Nkere, Chukwuemeka, Kumar, P. Lava and Seal, Susan E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2015) Rapid and specific detection of Yam mosaic virus by reverse-transcription recombinase polymerase amplification. Journal of Virological Methods, 222. pp. 138-144. ISSN 0166-0934 (doi:10.1016/j.jviromet.2015.06.011)

yam; Dioscorea spp.; badnavirus; endogenous pararetrovirus; episomal badnavirus; diagnostics; rolling circle amplification; Sub-Saharan Africa

Bömer, Moritz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1003-9622, Turaki, Aliyu A., Silva, Gonçalo ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5544-2947, Kumar, P. Lava and Seal, Susan E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3952-1562 (2016) A sequence-independent strategy for amplification and characterisation of episomal badnavirus sequences reveals three previously uncharacterised yam badnaviruses. Viruses, 8:188. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1999-4915 (Print), 1999-4915 (Online) (doi:10.3390/v8070188)