Mr Alan Gay

Mr Alan Gay

Senior Research Scientist

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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.

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Publications

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. https://doi.org/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. https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery373
Galyuon, IKA, Gay, A, Borrell, AK & Howarth, CJ 2019, 'Physiological and biochemical basis for stay-green trait in sorghum', African Crop Science Journal, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 653, 677. https://doi.org/10.4314/acsj.v27i4.8
Morgan, S, Theobald, V, Leemans, D, Gay, A & Scollan, N 2016, 'Detection of faecal and gut contamination on chicken carcasses using a chlorophyll-based marker', 67th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science, Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 29 Aug 2016 - 01 Sep 2016 pp. 539.
Boeckx, T, Webster, R, Winters, A, Webb, J, Gay, A & Kingston-Smith, A 2015, 'Polyphenol oxidase-mediated protection against oxidative stress is not associated with enhanced photosynthetic efficiency', Annals of Botany, vol. 116, no. 4, pp. 529-540. https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcv081
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