Katherine J. Denby

Katherine J. Denby works at University of York, UK on plant resistance to disease
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Early life

Katherine J. Denby was awarded a B.Sc. in microbiology from the University of Bristol. She then undertook research in plant science at University of Oxford and was awarded a doctorate in 1994.

Scientific career

Denby is a professor at University of York in the Centre for Novel Agricultural Products. Her research uses a wide range molecular and large-data approaches to understanding plant-pathogen interactions, in both the field and more controlled conditions like vertical farming.

She became editor-in-chief of The Plant Journal from January 2024.

Publications

Denby is the author or co-author of over 50 scientific publications. These include:

* Aled Jones, Sarah Bridle, Katherine Denby and 38 others (2023
Scoping potential routes to UK civil unrest via the food system: Results of a structured expert elicitation.
''Sustainability'' 15 issue 20
* Emily Breeze, Elizabeth Harrison, Stuart McHattie ... Katherine Denby and 21 others. (2011) High-resolution temporal profiling of transcripts during Arabidopsis leaf senescence reveals a distinct chronology of processes and regulation. ''The Plant Cell'' 23 pp 873–894.
* Daniel J Kliebenstein, Heather C Rowe and Katherine J Denby (2005) Secondary metabolites influence Arabidopsis/Botrytis interactions: variation in host production and pathogen sensitivity. ''The Plant Journal'' 44 pp 25–36.
* Ian A Graham, Katherine J Denby and Christopher J Leaver (1994) Carbon catabolite repression regulates glyoxylate cycle gene expression in cucumber. ''The Plant Cell'' 6 pp 761–772.

References

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Date of birth unknown
Year of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of the University of Oxford
21st-century British women scientists
Academics of the University of York
Alumni of the University of Bristol
Living people
Phytopathologists