Jonathan Jones

FRS
Born
Jonathan Dallas George Jones

(1954-07-14) 14 July 1954[1]
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forWork on R genes[2]
Spouse
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(m. 1991)​
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AwardsEMBO Member (1998)[1]
Member of the National Academy of Sciences[3][4]
Scientific career
FieldsPlant pathology
Plant disease resistance[5]
InstitutionsHarvard University
Sainsbury Laboratory
University of East Anglia
ThesisRepeated DNA sequences in rye (Secale cereale), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and their relatives (1980)
Doctoral advisorRichard B. Flavell[6]
Gabriel Dover
Websitewww.tsl.ac.uk/research/jonathan-jones

Jonathan Dallas George Jones FRS[2][1] (born 14 July 1954) is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory[5] and a professor at the University of East Anglia using molecular and genetic approaches to study disease resistance in plants.[7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]

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[16] in 1980 supervised by Richard B. Flavell[6] and Gabriel Dover.[17]

Research and career

After his PhD, Jones did postdoctoral research at Harvard University in Frederick M. Ausubel's lab.[1][18][19] Along with collaborator Jeffery Dangl, he proposed the zigzag model for the co-evolution of plant resistance genes and pathogen effectors.[20] 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.[21]

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.[23]

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'.[24]

Awards and honours

Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003[2][1] and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2015.[3][4] He was awarded EMBO Membership in 1998.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 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.)
  2. 1 2 3 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)
  3. 1 2 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.
  4. 1 2 "Jonathan Jones". www.nasonline.org.
  5. 1 2 Jonathan D. G. Jones publications indexed by Google Scholar
  6. 1 2 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.
  7. ↑ Jonathan D. G. Jones's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ 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.
  12. ↑ 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.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ 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.
  15. ↑ 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.
  16. ↑ 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.
  17. ↑ 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.
  18. ↑ Jonathan Jones ORCID 0000-0002-4953-261X
  19. ↑ Jonathan D. G. Jones publications from Europe PubMed Central
  20. ↑ 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.
  21. ↑ 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.
  22. ↑ Doward, Jamie (2010). "Scientist leading GM crop test defends links to US biotech giant Monsanto". The Guardian.
  23. ↑ 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.
  24. ↑ Jones, Jonathan (2010). "Fussy eaters – what's wrong with GM food?". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC News.

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