Stella Edwards (Nee Hubbart)

Contact

• workRoom C09 Plant Sciences
  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
• work0115 951 6546
• stella.edwards@nottingham.ac.uk
• www.nottingham.ac.uk/wrc

Biography

2020-2012

Assistant Professor at the Nottingham BBSRC Wheat Research Centre. We currently work to introgress small segments of wheat wild relatives into Wheat to increase the genetic diversity of wheat for biotic and abiotic stresses. Our aim is to distribute this germplasm world wide. I lead the phenotyping and trait analysis of the germplasm produced and have expertise in photosynthesis.

Follow me on Twitter @stelwards and @Notts_WRC or on our web site https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/wrc/ for publications.

2012-2009

Research Fellow - Genetic Manipulation of Photoprotection and Photooxidative stress tolerance in rice (BBSRC Grant BB/G003157/1). Papers published from this work;

Stella Hubbart, Ian R A Smillie, Matthey Heatley, Ranjan Swarup, Chuan Ching Foo, Liang Zhao, Erik H Murchie. Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency. Communications Biology 1, 22(2018)

Stella Hubbart, Olubukola o. Ajigboye, Peter Horton, Erik H Murchie. The photoprotective protein PsbS exerts control over CO2 assimilation rate in fluctuating light in rice. The Plant Journal (2012) 71, 402-412

1996-2005

Optimisation of photosynthesis for increasing crop yield

Teaching Summary

I currently lecture on photosynthesis in the following modules.

Introduction to Plant Science (BIOS1003)

Life on Earth (LIFE1030)

An introduction to Genetics and Biochemistry (BIOS1064)

Research and Professional Skills (BIOS2116)

Plants and the Light environment (BIOS3104)

Sex, Flowers, and Biotechnology (BIOS3003, BIOS4023)

Industrial and Commercial Aspects of Plant Biotechnology (BIOS4126)

Selected Publications

• HUBBART, STELLA, SMILLIE, IAN R A, HEATLEY, MATTHEW, SWARUP, RANJAN, FOO, CHUAN CHING, ZHAO, LIANG and MURCHIE, ERIK H, 2018. Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice. Communications biology. 1, 22
• HUBBART, STELLA, AJIGBOYE, OLUBUKOLA O., HORTON, PETER and MURCHIE, ERIK H., 2012. The photoprotective protein PsbS exerts control over CO2 assimilation rate in fluctuating light in rice PLANT JOURNAL. 71(3), 402-412
• HUBBART, S, PENG, S, HORTON, P, CHEN, Y and MURCHIE, EH, 2007. Trends In Leaf Photosynthesis In Historical Rice Varieties Developed In The Philippines Since 1966 Journal Of Experimental Botany. 58(12), 3429-3438
• HUBBART S, BIRD S, LAKE JA and MURCHIE EH, 2013. Does growth under elevated CO2 moderate photoacclimation in rice? Physiologia plantarum. 148(2), 297-306

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www.nottingham.ac.uk/WRC

• GREWAL, SURBHI, HUBBART-EDWARDS, STELLA, YANG, CAIYUN, DEVI, URMILA, BAKER, LAUREN, HEATH, JACK, ASHLING, STEPHEN, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, HOWELLS, CAROLINE, YARDE, JERMAINE, ISAAC, PETER, KING, IAN P. and KING, JULIE, 2020. Rapid identification of homozygosity and site of wild relative introgressions in wheat through chromosome-specific KASP genotyping assays PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL. 18(3), 743-755
• KING, JULIE, NEWELL, CLAIRE, GREWAL, SURBHI, HUBBART-EDWARDS, STELLA, YANG, CAI-YUN, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN, STRIDE, ALEX and KING, IAN P., 2019. Development of Stable Homozygous Wheat/Amblyopyrum muticum (Aegilops mutica) Introgression Lines and Their Cytogenetic and Molecular Characterization FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 10, 34
• CSEH, ANDRAS, YANG, CAIYUN, HUBBART-EDWARDS, STELLA, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN S, BURRIDGE, AMANDA J, WILKINSON, PAUL A, KING, IAN P, KING, JULIE and GREWAL, SURBHI, 2019. vs genomes of Thinopyrym intermedium in a wheat background. TAG. Theoretical and applied genetics. Theoretische und angewandte Genetik.
• CSEH, ANDRAS, MEGYERI, MARIA, YANG, CAIYUN, HUBBART-EDWARDS, STELLA, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN S., KING, IAN P., KING, JULIE and GREWAL, SURBHI, 2019. Development of a New A(m)-Genome-Specific Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Marker Set for the Molecular Characterization of Wheat-Triticum monococcum Introgression Lines PLANT GENOME. 12(3),
• DEVI, URMILA, GREWAL, SURBHI, YANG, CAI-YUN, HUBBART-EDWARDS, STELLA, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN, BURRIDGE, AMANDA, KING, IAN P. and KING, JULIE, 2019. Development and characterisation of interspecific hybrid lines with genome-wide introgressions from Triticum timopheevii in a hexaploid wheat background BMC PLANT BIOLOGY. 19,
• OTHMENI, MANEL, GREWAL, SURBHI, HUBBART-EDWARDS, STELLA, YANG, CAIYUN, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN, YAHYAOUI, AMOR, GUSTAFSON, PERRY, SINGH, PAWAN K., KING, IAN P. and KING, JULIE, 2019. The Use of Pentaploid Crosses for the Introgression of Amblyopyrum muticum and D-Genome Chromosome Segments Into Durum Wheat FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 10,
• KING, JULIE, NEWELL, CLAIRE, GREWAL, SURBHI, HUBBART-EDWARDS, STELLA, YANG, CAI-YUN, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN, STRIDE, ALEX and KING, IAN P, 2019. Table_1_Development of Stable Homozygous Wheat/Amblyopyrum muticum (Aegilops mutica) Introgression Lines and Their Cytogenetic and Molecular Characterization.XLSX Figshare.
• KING, JULIE, GREWAL, SURBHI, YANG, CAI-YUN, EDWARDS, STELLA HUBBART, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN, HARPER, JOHN A., ALLEN, ALEXANDRA M., EDWARDS, KEITH J., BURRIDGE, AMANDA J. and KING, IAN P., 2018. Introgression of Aegilops speltoides segments in Triticum aestivum and the effect of the gametocidal genes ANNALS OF BOTANY. 121(2), 229-240
• GREWAL, SURBHI, YANG, CAIYUN, EDWARDS, STELLA HUBBART, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN, BURRIDGE, AMANDA J., KING, IAN P. and KING, JULIE, 2018. Characterisation of Thinopyrum bessarabicum chromosomes through genome-wide introgressions into wheat THEORETICAL AND APPLIED GENETICS. 131(2), 389-406
• GREWAL, SURBHI, HUBBART-EDWARDS, STELLA, YANG, CAIYUN, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN, BURRIDGE, AMANDA, WILKINSON, PAUL ANTHONY, KING, IAN P. and KING, JULIE, 2018. Detection of T. urartu Introgressions in Wheat and Development of a Panel of Interspecific Introgression Lines FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE. 9, 1565
• HUBBART, STELLA, SMILLIE, IAN R A, HEATLEY, MATTHEW, SWARUP, RANJAN, FOO, CHUAN CHING, ZHAO, LIANG and MURCHIE, ERIK H, 2018. Enhanced thylakoid photoprotection can increase yield and canopy radiation use efficiency in rice. Communications biology. 1, 22
• KING, JULIE, GREWAL, SURBHI, YANG, CAI-YUN, HUBBART, STELLA, SCHOLEFIELD, DUNCAN, ASHLING, STEPHEN, EDWARDS, KEITH J., ALLEN, ALEXANDRA M., BURRIDGE, AMANDA, BLOOR, CLAIRE, DAVASSI, ALESSANDRO, DA SILVA, GLACY J., CHALMERS, KEN and KING, IAN P., 2017. A step change in the transfer of interspecific variation into wheat from Amblyopyrum muticum PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL. 15(2), 217-226
• NEMETH C, YANG C, KASPRZAK P, HUBBART S, SCHOLEFIELD D, MEHRA S, SKIPPER E, KING I and KING J, 2015. Generation of amphidiploids from hybrids of wheat and related species from the genera Aegilops, Secale, Thinopyrum and Triticum as a source of genetic variation for wheat improvement. Genome. 58, 71-79
• O. GAJU, V. ALLARD, P. MARTRE, J. LEGOUIS, D. MOREAU, M. BOGARD, S. HUBBART and M. J. FOULKES, 2014. Nitrogen partitioning and remobilization in relation to leaf senescence, grain yield and grain nitrogen concentration in wheat cultivars Field Crops Research. 155, 213-223
• HUBBART S, BIRD S, LAKE JA and MURCHIE EH, 2013. Does growth under elevated CO2 moderate photoacclimation in rice? Physiologia plantarum. 148(2), 297-306
• HUBBART, STELLA, AJIGBOYE, OLUBUKOLA O., HORTON, PETER and MURCHIE, ERIK H., 2012. The photoprotective protein PsbS exerts control over CO2 assimilation rate in fluctuating light in rice PLANT JOURNAL. 71(3), 402-412
• GAJU, O., ALLARD, V., MARTRE, P., SNAPE, J.W., HEUMEZ, E., LEGOUIS, J., MOREAU, D., BOGARD, M., GRIFFITHS, S., ORFORD, S., HUBBART, S. and FOULKES, M.J., 2011. Identification of traits to improve the nitrogen-use efficiency of wheat genotypes Field Crops Research. 123(2), 139-152
• HUBBART, S, PENG, S, HORTON, P, CHEN, Y and MURCHIE, EH, 2007. Trends In Leaf Photosynthesis In Historical Rice Varieties Developed In The Philippines Since 1966 Journal Of Experimental Botany. 58(12), 3429-3438
• MURCHIE, E.H., HUBBART, S., PENG, S. and HORTON, P., 2005. Acclimation of photosynthesis to high irradiance in rice: gene expression and interactions with leaf development. Journal of Experimental Botany. 56(411), 449-460
• CHEN Y, MURCHIE EH, HUBBART S, HORTON P and PENG S, 2003. Effects of season-dependent irradiance levels and nitrogen-deficiency on photosynthesis and photoinhibition in field-grown rice (Oryza sativa). Physiologia plantarum. 117(3), 343-351
• MURCHIE, E.H., HUBBART, S., CHEN, Y., PENG, S. and HORTON, P., 2002. Acclimation of rice photosynthesis to irradiance under field conditions Plant Physiology. 130(4), 1999-2010
• MURCHIE, E.H, YANG, J., HUBBART, S., HORTON, P. and PENG, S., 2002. Are there associations between grain-filling rate and photosynthesis in the flag leaves of field-grown rice? Journal of Experimental Botany. 53(378), 2217-2224
• MURCHIE E, CHEN Y, HUBBART S, PENG S and HORTON P, 1999. Interactions between senescence and leaf orientation determine in situ patterns of photosynthesis and photoinhibition in field-grown rice Plant physiology. 119(2), 553-64