Dr Andy Cairns
Principal Investigator
Contact
Email: ayc@aber.ac.uk
Office: Gogerddan
Phone: 01970 823208
Research
- Understanding the biochemistry and regulation of reserve carbohydrate metabolism, especially Sucrose, Fructan and Starch in forages for improved ruminant nutrition.
- Polysaccharides as a component of grass biomass for bioenergy provision
- Developing mechanisms for increasing energy content in forages using genetic mapping of natural variation and transgenesis.
- General interest in enzymatic polymerisation of polysaccharides.
- Expertise: protein and polysaccharide chemistry, enzymology.
Staff Publications
Turner, L. B., Cairns, A. J., Armstead, I. P., Thomas, H., Humphreys, M. W., Humphreys, M. O. (2008).
Does fructan have a functional role in physiological traits? Investigation by quantative trait locus mapping
New Phytologist, 179 (3), 765-775
DOI - Online only at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/120120924/PDFSTART
Cairns, A. J., Gallagher, J. A., Hatch, R., Humphreys, M. O. (2007).
A future for UK grassland in energy production?
11 18-21
IGER Innovations, Smith, S. P.Spikes, K. J.,
Gallagher, J. A., Cairns, A. J., Turner, L. B. (2007).
Fructan in temperate forage grasses, agronomy, physiology and molecular biology
15-46
Recent advances in fructooligosaccharides research, Shiomi, N.Benkeblia, N.Onodera, S.,