Academic Background

M.A. (Cambridge); Ph.D. (Glasgow); Dr. habil. (Darmstadt)

Undergraduate Teaching

1st year Honour Moderations: Physiological Ecology; 2nd year Final Honour School: Plant Metabolism; 3rd year Final Honour School: Cellular & Molecular Plant Physiology

Research Interests

Cellular and molecular basis of plant adaptations to environmental stress, in particular water deficits, salinity and toxic metals

Selected Publications

Fones, H., Davis, C.A.R.*, Rico, A., Fang, F., Smith, J.A.C. and Preston, G.M. (2010) Metal hyperaccumulation armors plants against disease. PLoS Pathogens 6(9): e1001093. ( * Former Magdalen undergraduate )

Smart, K.E., Smith, J.A.C., Kilburn, M.R., Martin, B.G.H., Hawes, C. and Grovenor, C.R.M. (2010) High-resolution elemental localization in vacuolate plant cells by nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometry. The Plant Journal 63, 870–879.

Borland, A.M., Griffiths, H., Hartwell, J. and Smith, J.A.C. (2009) Exploiting the potential of plants with crassulacean acid metabolism for bioenergy production on marginal lands. Journal of Experimental Botany 60, 2879–2896.

Rees, J.D., Ingle, R.A. and Smith, J.A.C. (2009) Relative contributions of nine genes in the pathway of histidine biosynthesis to the control of free histidine concentrations in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Biotechnology Journal 7, 499–511.

Ingle, R.A., Fricker, M.D. and Smith, J.A.C. (2008) Evidence for nickel/proton antiport activity at the tonoplast of the hyperaccumulator plant Alyssum lesbiacum. Plant Biology 10, 746–753.

Antony, E., Taybi, T., Courbot, M., Mugford, S.T., Smith, J.A.C. and Borland, A.M. (2008) Cloning, localization and expression analyses of vacuolar sugar transporters in the CAM plant Ananas comosus (pineapple). Journal of Experimental Botany 59, 1895–1908.

Ingle, R.A., Mugford, S.T., Rees, J.D., Campbell, M.M. and Smith, J.A.C. (2005) Constitutively high expression of the histidine biosynthetic pathway contributes to nickel tolerance in hyperaccumulator plants. The Plant Cell 17, 2089–2106.

Behmer, S.T., Lloyd, C.M.*, Raubenheimer, D., Stewart-Clark, J.*, Knight, J.*, Leighton, R.S., Harper, F.A. and Smith, J.A.C. (2005) Metal hyperaccumulation in plants: mechanisms of defence against insect herbivores. Functional Ecology 19, 55–66. ( * Former Magdalen undergraduates )

Holtum, J.A.M.*, Smith, J.A.C. and Neuhaus, H.E. (2005) Intracellular transport and pathways of carbon flow in plants with crassulacean acid metabolism. Functional Plant Biology 32, 429–449. ( * Former Magdalen Visiting Fellow )

Crayn, D.M., Winter, K. and Smith, J.A.C. (2004) Multiple origins of crassulacean acid metabolism and the epiphytic habit in the Neotropical family Bromeliaceae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 101, 3703–3708.

Pollard, A.J.*, Powell, K.D., Harper, F.A. and Smith, J.A.C. (2002) The genetic basis of metal hyperaccumulation in plants. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 21, 539–566. ( * Former Magdalen Visiting Fellow )

Krämer, U.*, Cotter-Howells, J.D., Charnock, J.M., Baker, A.J.M. and Smith, J.A.C. (1996) Free histidine as a metal chelator in plants that accumulate nickel. Nature 379, 635-638. ( * Former Magdalen graduate student )