Jonathan D. G. Jones
British geneticist
Jonathan Dallas George Jones FRS [ 4] [ 3] (born 14 July 1954) is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory [ 1] and a professor at the University of East Anglia using molecular and genetic approaches to study disease resistance in plants.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9] [ 10] [ 11] [ 12] [ 13]
Education
Jones was educated at the University of Cambridge where he studied the Natural Sciences Tripos as a student of Peterhouse, Cambridge and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 followed by a PhD[ 14] in 1980 supervised by Richard B. Flavell [ 2] and Gabriel Dover .[ 15]
Research and career
After his PhD, Jones did postdoctoral research at Harvard University in Frederick M. Ausubel 's lab.[ 3] [ 16] [ 17] Along with collaborator Jeffery Dangl , he proposed the zigzag model for the co-evolution of plant resistance genes and pathogen effectors.[ 18] He also proposed the Guard Hypothesis , which provides a testable explanation for how plants overcome the large number of arms used by pathogens to evoke disease while having only a limited set of plant proteins to defend itself.[ 19]
Jones has served as head of the Sainsbury Laboratory from 1994 to 1997 and 2003 – 2009. He is also a professor at University of East Anglia and has served as editor of The Plant Cell and
Genome Biology . Other positions he has held include:
With George Coupland , Liam Dolan , Nicholas Harberd , Alison Mary Smith , Cathie Martin , Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology .[ 21]
In July 2010, Jones contributed an opinion piece to BBC News Online , outlining his stance on genetically modified (GM) food crops . In the piece, Jones argued that if we are to 'feed the planet without destroying it... we need to use every tool in our toolbox, including GM'.[ 22]
Awards and honours
Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003[ 4] [ 3] and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2015.[ 23] [ 24] He was awarded EMBO Membership in 1998.[ 3]
References
^ a b Jonathan D. G. Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ a b Bedbrook, J. R.; Jones, J.; O'Dell, M.; Thompson, R. D.; Flavell, R. B. (1980). "A molecular description of telometic heterochromatin in secale species". Cell . 19 (2): 545–560. doi :10.1016/0092-8674(80)90529-2 . PMID 6244112 . S2CID 31566816 .
^ a b c d e f Anon (1998). "Jones, Jonathan Dallas George" . Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi :10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U22396 . (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ a b c Anon (2003). "Professor Jonathan Jones FRS" . royalsociety.org . London: Royal Society . One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
^ Jonathan D. G. Jones's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Hammond-Kosack, K. E.; Silverman, P.; Raskin, I.; Jones, J. (1996). "Race-Specific Elicitors of Cladosporium fulvum Induce Changes in Cell Morphology and the Synthesis of Ethylene and Salicylic Acid in Tomato Plants Carrying the Corresponding Cf Disease Resistance Gene" . Plant Physiology . 110 (4): 1381–1394. doi :10.1104/pp.110.4.1381 . PMC 160933 . PMID 12226268 .
^ May, M. J.; Hammond-Kosack, K. E.; Jones, J. (1996). "Involvement of Reactive Oxygen Species, Glutathione Metabolism, and Lipid Peroxidation in the Cf-Gene-Dependent Defense Response of Tomato Cotyledons Induced by Race-Specific Elicitors of Cladosporium fulvum" . Plant Physiology . 110 (4): 1367–1379. doi :10.1104/pp.110.4.1367 . PMC 160932 . PMID 12226267 .
^ English, J. J.; Harrison, K.; Jones, J. (1995). "Aberrant Transpositions of Maize Double Ds-Like Elements Usually Involve Ds Ends on Sister Chromatids" . The Plant Cell Online . 7 (8): 1235–1247. doi :10.1105/tpc.7.8.1235 . PMC 160947 . PMID 12242405 .
^ Hammond-Kosack, K. E.; Jones, D. A.; Jones, J. (1994). "Identification of Two Genes Required in Tomato for Full Cf-9-Dependent Resistance to Cladosporium fulvum" . The Plant Cell Online . 6 (3): 361–374. doi :10.1105/tpc.6.3.361 . PMC 160439 . PMID 12244240 .
^ Dangl, J. L.; Jones, J. D. G. (2001). "Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection". Nature . 411 (6839): 826–833. Bibcode :2001Natur.411..826D . doi :10.1038/35081161 . PMID 11459065 . S2CID 4345575 .
^ Foreman, J.; Demidchik, V.; Bothwell, J. H. F.; Mylona, P.; Miedema, H.; Torres, M. A.; Linstead, P.; Costa, S.; Brownlee, C.; Jones, J. D. G. ; Davies, J. M.; Dolan, L. (2003). "Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth". Nature . 422 (6930): 442–446. Bibcode :2003Natur.422..442F . doi :10.1038/nature01485 . PMID 12660786 . S2CID 4328808 .
^ Hammond-Kosack, K. E.; Jones, J. D. G. (1997). "Plant Disease Resistance Genes". Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology . 48 : 575–607. doi :10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.575 . PMID 15012275 . S2CID 28215144 .
^ Zipfel, C.; Robatzek, S.; Navarro, L.; Oakeley, E. J.; Jones, J. D. G.; Felix, G.; Boller, T. (2004). "Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception". Nature . 428 (6984): 764–767. Bibcode :2004Natur.428..764Z . doi :10.1038/nature02485 . PMID 15085136 . S2CID 4332562 .
^ Jones, Jonathan Dallas George (1980). Repeated DNA sequences in rye (Secale cereale), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and their relatives . jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 53605533 . EThOS uk.bl.ethos.258966 .
^ Viegas, Jennifer (9 October 2018). "Profile of Jonathan D. G. Jones" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 115 (41): 10191–10194. Bibcode :2018PNAS..11510191V . doi :10.1073/pnas.1815072115 . ISSN 0027-8424 . PMC 6187187 . PMID 30249645 .
^ Jonathan Jones ORCID 0000-0002-4953-261X
^ Jonathan D. G. Jones publications from Europe PubMed Central
^ Jones, J. D. G. ; Dangl, J. L. (2006). "The plant immune system" . Nature . 444 (7117): 323–9. Bibcode :2006Natur.444..323J . doi :10.1038/nature05286 . PMID 17108957 .
^ Van Der Biezen, E.; Jones, J. D. G. (1998). "Plant disease-resistance proteins and the gene-for-gene concept". Trends in Biochemical Sciences . 23 (12): 454–6. doi :10.1016/S0968-0004(98)01311-5 . PMID 9868361 .
^ Doward, Jamie (2010). "Scientist leading GM crop test defends links to US biotech giant Monsanto" . The Guardian .
^ Smith, Alison Mary ; Coupand, George ; Dolan, Liam ; Harberd, Nicholas ; Jones, Jonathan ; Martin, Cathie ; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009). Plant Biology . Garland Science . ISBN 978-0815340256 .
^ Jones, Jonathan (2010). "Fussy eaters – what's wrong with GM food?" . bbc.co.uk . London: BBC News .
^ Viegas, Jennifer (2018). "Profile of Jonathan D. G. Jones" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 115 (41): 10191–10194. Bibcode :2018PNAS..11510191V . doi :10.1073/pnas.1815072115 . ISSN 0027-8424 . PMC 6187187 . PMID 30249645 .
^ "Jonathan Jones" . www.nasonline.org .
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