Fiona Leigh

National Institute of Agricultural Botany — United Kingdom

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Life Sciences

22h-index2.0kcitations52works3.52yr avg
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Research Topics

Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology(31), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals(16), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics(10), Genetic diversity and population structure(9), Genetics and Plant Breeding(9)

Publications52 total

pyRootHair: Machine learning accelerated software for high-throughput phenotyping of plant root hair traits
GigaScience·2025Open Access
Harnessing primary, secondary and tertiary genepools for durable wheat disease resistance
Theoretical and Applied Genetics·2025Open Access
Wheat responds to lack of root hairs with recruitment of bacteria harboring P mineralization genes and increased arbuscular mycorrhizal colonization
2025Open Access
pyRootHair: Machine Learning Accelerated Software for High-Throughput Phenotyping of Plant Root Hair Traits
2025
A novel root hair mutant, srh1, affects root hair elongation and reactive oxygen species levels in wheat
Frontiers in Plant Science·2024· 5 citedOpen Access
Root hairs: an underexplored target for sustainable cereal crop production
Journal of Experimental Botany·2024· 13 citedOpen Access
A novel root hair mutant, srh1, affects root hair elongation and reactive oxygen species levels in wheat.
2024Open Access
A new winter wheat genetic resource harbors untapped diversity from synthetic hexaploid wheat
Theoretical and Applied Genetics·2024· 10 citedOpen Access
Root Hairs: An under-explored target for sustainable cereal crop production
2023· 2 citedOpen Access
A new winter wheat genetic resource harbours untapped diversity from synthetic hexaploid wheat.
2023· 1 citedOpen Access
A wheat chromosome segment substitution line series supports characterization and use of progenitor genetic variation
The Plant Genome·2023· 11 citedOpen Access
A wheat chromosome segment substitution line series supports characterisation and use of progenitor genetic variation
2022Open Access
Progenitor species hold untapped diversity for potential climate-responsive traits for use in wheat breeding and crop improvement
Heredity·2022· 34 citedOpen Access
Identification of Quantitative Trait Loci Relating to Flowering Time, Flag Leaf and Awn Characteristics in a Novel Triticum dicoccum Mapping Population
Plants·2020· 15 citedOpen Access
CRISPR/Cas9 Gene Editing of Gluten in Wheat to Reduce Gluten Content and Exposure—Reviewing Methods to Screen for Coeliac Safety
Frontiers in Nutrition·2020· 83 citedOpen Access
Optimisation of droplet digital PCR for determining copy number variation of α-gliadin genes in mutant and gene-edited polyploid bread wheat
Journal of Cereal Science·2019· 28 citedOpen Access
Outlook for coeliac disease patients: towards bread wheat with hypoimmunogenic gluten by gene editing of α- and γ-gliadin gene families
BMC Plant Biology·2019· 93 citedOpen Access
Development of the GlutEnSeq capture system for sequencing gluten gene families in hexaploid bread wheat with deletions or mutations induced by γ-irradiation or CRISPR/Cas9
Journal of Cereal Science·2019· 28 citedOpen Access
Additional file 4: of Outlook for coeliac disease patients: towards bread wheat with hypoimmunogenic gluten by gene editing of α- and γ-gliadin gene families
Figshare·2019Open Access
Additional file 3: of Outlook for coeliac disease patients: towards bread wheat with hypoimmunogenic gluten by gene editing of α- and γ-gliadin gene families
Figshare·2019Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

James Cockram(17), W. Powell(12), Huw Jones(10), Martin K. Jones(9), Aurélie Jouanin(8), M.J.M. Smulders(8), P. Donini(7), Jan G. Schaart(7), Lesley A. Boyd(7), Richard G. F. Visser(7), Phil Howell(7), Ian Tsang(7), Stephen Rawsthorne(7), Hugo R. Oliveira(6), Emma J. Wallington(6), Jonathan A. Atkinson(6), Glynis Jones(5), Alison R. Bentley(5), Tally I. C. Wright(5), Richard Horsnell(5)