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Professor Richard Haslam

Biological Chemistry
Rothamsted Centre for Crop Genetic Improvement
Rothamsted Research
AL5 2JQ
UK
Tel: +44 1582 763133 Extn. 2200; Fax: +44 1582 763010
E-mail: richard.haslam@bbsrc.ac.uk
http://www.rothamsted.bbsrc.ac.uk/Research/Centres/PersonDetails.php?PIID=3611
Area of expertise: Lipid metabolism & analysis; carbon assimilation & partitioning; xenobiotic metabolism.
Co-editor until: Oct. 31, 2011
   
Selected Publications:  
   
  • Roudier F, Gissot L, Beaudoin F, Haslam R, Michaelson L, Marion J, Molino D, Lima A, Bach L, Morin H, Tellier F, Palauqui JC, Bellec Y, Renne C, Miquel M, Dacosta M, Vignard J, Rochat C, Markham JE, Moreau P, Napier J, Faure JD (2010) Very long chain fatty acids are involved in auxin transport and development patterning in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell In press.
  • Ruiz-López N, Haslam RP, Venegas-Calerón M, Larson TR, Graham IA, Napier JA, Sayanova O (2009) The synthesis and accumulation of stearodonic acid in transgenic plants: a novel source of "heart healthy" omega-3 fatty acids. Plant Biotechnol. J. 7, 704-716.
  • Beaudoin F, Wu X, Li F, Haslam RP , Markham J E, Zheng H, Napier J A, Kunst L (2009) Functional Characterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana
    beta-ketoacyl-CoA reductase candidates of the fatty acid elongase. Plant Physiol. 150, 1174 - 1191.
  • Reina-Pinto J, Voisin D, Kurdyukov S, Faustich A, Haslam RP, Michaelson LV, Efremova N, Franke B, Schreiber L, Napier JA, Yephremov A (2009) Missexpression of FATTY ACID ELONGATION (FAE1) in the Arabidopsis epidermis induces cell death and suggests a critical role for the phospholipase A2 in this process. Plant Cell 21, 1252 - 1272.
  • Michaelson LV, Zäuner S, Markham JE, Haslam RP , Desikan R, Mugford S, Albrecht S, Warnecke D, Sperling P, Heinz E, Napier JA (2009) Functional characterisation of a higher plant sphingolipid D4-desaturase: defining the role of sphingosine and sphingosine-1-phosphate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 149, 487-498.
  • Linka N, Theodoulou FL, Haslam RP, Napier JA, Neuhaus E, Weber APM (2008) Peroxisomal ATP import is essential for seedling development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 20, 3241 - 3257.
  • Bach L, Michaelson LV, Haslam RP, Bellec Y, Gissot L, Marion J, Da Costa M, Boutin JP, Miquel M, Tellier F, Domergue F, Markham JE, Beaudoin F, Napier JA, Faure JD (2008) The very-long-chain hydroxy fatty acyl-CoA dehydratase PASTICCINO2 is essential and limiting for plant development. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 14727 -14731.
  • Sayanova O, Haslam RP, Venegas-Caleron M, Napier JA (2007) Cloning and characterization of unusual fatty acid desaturases from Anemone leveillei: identification of an acyl-CoA C20 D5-desaturase responsible for the synthesis of sciadonic acid. Plant Physiol. 144, 455-567.
  • Sayanova O, Haslam R P , Guschina I, Lloyd D, Christie WW, Harwood JL, Napier JA (2006) A bi-functional D12, D15 desaturase from Acanthamoeba castellanii directs the synthesis of highly unusual n-1 series fatty acids. J. Biol. Chem. 281, 36533-36541..
  • Sayanova O, Haslam RP, Venegas-Caleron M, Napier JA (2006) Isolation of “front-end?desaturases with distinct n-6 or n-3 substrate preferences from Primula species. Planta 224, 1269-1277.
  • Sayanova O, Haslam RP, Qi B, Lazarus C, Napier JA (2006) Identification of an alternative pathway C 20 D 8-desaturase from a non-photosynthetic organism, Acanthamoeba castellanii: identification of an atypical front-end desaturase. FEBS Lett. 580, 1946-1952.
  • Napier JA, Haslam RP, Venegas-Caleron M, Michaelson LV, Beaudoin F, Sayanova O (2006) Progress towards the production of very long chain polyunsaturated fatty acid in transgenic plants: plant metabolic engineering comes of age. Physiol. Plant. 126, 398-406.
  • Coleman JOD, Haslam RP, Downie AL (2005) Transcriptomics and proteomics: tools for optimising phytoremediation activities. Z. Naturforsch., C, Biosci. 60, 544-548.
  • Galmes J, Flexas J, Keys AJ, Cifre J, Mitchell RAC, Madgwick PJ, Haslam RP, Medrano H, Parry MAJ (2005) Rubisco specificity factor tends to be larger in plant species from drier habitats and with persistent leaves. Plant Cell Environ. 28, 571-580.
  • Downie AL, Miyazaki S, Bohnert HJ, John P, Coleman JOD, Parry MAJ, Haslam RP (2004) Expression profiling of the response of Arabidopsis thaliana to methanol stimulation. Phytochemistry 65, 2305-2316 .
  • Haslam RP, Downie AL, Raveton M, Gallardo K, Job D, Pallett K, John P, Parry MAJ, Coleman JOD (2003) The assessment of enriched apoplast extracts using proteomic approaches. Ann. Appl. Biol. 143, 81-91.
  • Haslam RP, Borland AM, Maxwell K, Griffiths H (2003) Physiological responses of the CAM epiphyte Tillandsia usneoides L . (Bromeliaceae ) to variations in light and water supply. J. Plant Physiol. 160, 627 - 634.
  • Haslam RP, Rust S, Cole D, Pallett K, Coleman JOD (2002) Cloning and characterisation of S-formylglutathione hydrolase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 40, 281-288.
  • Haslam RP, Borland AM, Griffiths H (2002) Short-term plasticity of CAM expression in the epiphytic bromeliad Tillandsia usneoides. Funct. Plant Biol. 29, 749-756.
  • Griffiths H, Helliker B, Roberts A, Haslam RP, Girnus J, Robe W, Borland A, Maxwell K (2002) Regulation of rubisco activity in CAM plants: better late than never. Funct. Plant Biol. 29, 689-696.
  • Dodd AN, Borland AM, Haslam RP, Griffiths H, Maxwell K (2002) Crassulacean acid metabolism: plastic fantastic. J. Exp.l Bot. 53, 569-580.
  • Haslam RP, Raveton M, Cole D, Pallett K, Coleman JOD (2001) Characterisation and properties of apoplastic herbicide metabolising carboxylesterases in wheat. Pestic. Biochem. Physiol. 71, 178 - 190.
  • Maxwell K, Borland AM, Haslam RP, Helliker BR, Roberts A, Griffiths H (1999) Modulation of rubisco activity during the diurnal phases of the crassulacean acid metabolism plant Kalanchoë daigremontiana. Plant Physiol. 121, 849-856.