Current Research

My work involves the application of imaging and cell biology techniques to investigate susceptible and resistant interactions between the pathogen Rhynchosporium secalis and barley.

Research History

• In previous work I studied plasmodesmata, the membrane-lined pores which connect plant cells, using confocal laser scanning microscopy techniques to determine the mechanism by which tobacco mosaic virus- movement protein moves from its site of synthesis to the plasmodesmata.
• Using the Arabidopsis root as a model system I also investigated the phloem mobility of fluorescent xenobiotics and examined the long distance movement of macromolecules with particular reference to their unloading from the phloem.

Recent Publications

• Wright, K.M., Wood, N.T., Roberts, A.G., Chapman, S., Boevink, P., MacKenzie, K.M., and Oparka, K.J. 2007. Targeting of TMV movement protein to plasmodesmata requires the actin/ER network: evidence from FRAP. Traffic 8, 21-31.
• Wright, K.M., and Oparka, K.J. 2006. The ER within Plasmodesmata. In: The Plant Endoplasmic Reticulum. Plant Cell Monographs 4. Ed. Robinson, D.G., pp 279-308, Springer.
• Stadler, R., Wright, K.M., Lauterbach, C., Amon, G., Gahrtz, M., Feuerstein, A., Oparka, K.J., and Sauer, N. 2005. Expression of GFP-fusions in Arabidopsis companion cells reveals non-specific protein trafficking into sieve elements and identifies a novel post-phloem domain in roots. Plant Journal 41, 319-331.
• Wright, K.M., Roberts, A.G., Martens, H.J., Sauer, N., and Oparka, K.J. 2003. Structural and functional vein maturation in developing tobacco leaves in relation to AtSUC2 promoter activity. Plant Physiology 131, 1555-1565.
• Wright, K.M., Duncan, G.H., Pradel, K.S., Carr, F., Wood, S., Oparka, K.J., and Santa Cruz, S. 2000. Analysis of the N gene hypersensitive response induced by a fluorescently tagged tobacco mosaic virus. Plant Physiology 123, 1375-1385.

Posters

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Attachment	Size
The Influence of Light on the Sink-to-Source Transition	4.13 MB
Plasmodesmatal targeting of TMV movement protein utilises the ER/actin network	3.46 MB
Intercellular Targeting Of A Viral Movement Protein To Plasmodesmata	1.86 MB
Virus Movement	204.53 KB
What are you doing to me?	3.7 MB
The effect of commonly used inhibitors on tobacco epidermal cell structure
The effect of commonly used inhibitors on tobacco epidermal cell structure	7.85 MB
The Hypersensitive Response	338.61 KB
Or how some plants can defend themselves against the attack of certain viruses
Role of Seed-Borne Infection in Rhynchosporium Epidemics in Barley	719.31 KB