Mr Alan Gay
Senior Research Scientist
Contact Details
- Email: abg@aber.ac.uk
- Office: 111 P T Thomas, IBERS Gogerddan
- Phone: +44 (0) 1970 823106
- Research Portal Profile
Teaching
Research
Plant and crop physiologist with wide interests including photosynthesis, stomatal responses, senescence, cold hardening, crop modelling and growth measurements. Currently working on the use of hyperspectral reflectance of leaves and crops as a diagnostic tool particularly when collected from manned and unmanned aerial platforms as an aid to environmental, vegetation, crop and forestry monitoring and management. Has developed expertise in biological image analyses and interpretation for various uses.
Research Groups
- Aberystwyth Centre for Space and Earth Monitoring
- Plant Phenomics & Controlled Environment Agriculture
Publications
Fu, Y, Thomas, A, Gasior, D, Harper, J, Gay, A, Jones, C, Hegarty, M, Asp, T, Fradera-Sola, A, Armstead, I & Fernandez-Fuentes, N 2021, 'A comparison of shared patterns of differential gene expression and gene ontologies in response to water-stress in roots and leaves of four diverse genotypes of Lolium and Festuca spp. temperate pasture grasses', PLoS One, vol. 16, no. 4, e0249636. 10.1371/journal.pone.0249636
Wu, D, Wu, D, Feng, H, Duan, L, Dai, G, Liu, X, Wang, K, Yang, P, Chen, G, Gay, AP, Doonan, JH, Niu, Z, Xiong, L & Yang, W 2021, 'A deep learning-integrated micro-CT image analysis pipeline for quantifying rice lodging resistance-related traits', Plant Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, 100165. 10.1016/j.xplc.2021.100165
Maesano, M, Khoury, S, Nakhle, F, Firrincieli, A, Gay, A, Tauro, F & Harfouche, A 2020, 'UAV-based LiDAR for high-throughput determination of plant height and above‐ground biomass of the bioenergy grass arundo donax', Remote Sensing, vol. 12, no. 20, 3464, pp. 1-20. 10.3390/rs12203464
Galyuon, IK, Gay, A, Hash, CT, Bidinger, FR & Howarth, C 2019, 'A comparative assessment of the performance of a stay-green sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench) introgression line developed by marker-assisted selection and its parental lines', African Journal of Biotechnology, vol. 18, no. 26, 7118D0361330, pp. 548-563. 10.5897/AJB2019.16826
Wu, D, Guo, Z, Ye, J, Feng, H, Liu, J, Chen, G, Zheng, J, Yan, D, Yang, X, Xiong, X, Liu, Q, Niu, Z, Gay, A, Doonan, J, Xiong, L & Yang, W 2019, 'Combining high-throughput micro-CT-RGB phenotyping and genome-wide association study to dissect the genetic architecture of tiller growth in rice', Journal of Experimental Botany, vol. 70, no. 2, pp. 545-561. 10.1093/jxb/ery373
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