Education
Ph.D. in Natural Sciences, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 2002
Current position
Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Biological, Environmental & Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, UK
Publications
Plant Cell wall and bioenergy crops
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da Costa, R. M., Lee, S. J., Allison, G. G., Hazen, S. P., Winters, A. and Bosch, M. (2014). Genotype, development and tissue-derived variation of cell-wall properties in the lignocellulosic energy crop Miscanthus. Ann Bot 114(6): 1265-1277.
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Bhatia, R. and Bosch, M. (2014). Transcriptional regulators of Arabidopsis secondary cell wall formation: tools to re-program and improve cell wall traits. Front Plant Sci 5: 192.
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Slavov, G. T., Nipper, R., Robson, P., Farrar, K., Allison, G. G., Bosch, M., Clifton-Brown, J. C., Donnison, I. S. and Jensen, E. (2014). Genome-wide association studies and prediction of 17 traits related to phenology, biomass and cell wall composition in the energy grass Miscanthus sinensis. New Phytol 201(4): 1227-1239.
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Bosch, M. and Hazen, S. P. (2013). Lignocellulosic feedstocks: research progress and challenges in optimizing biomass quality and yield. Front Plant Sci 4: 474.
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Ings, J., Mur, L. A., Robson, P. R. and Bosch, M. (2013). Physiological and growth responses to water deficit in the bioenergy crop Miscanthus x giganteus. Front Plant Sci 4: 468.
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Xue, J., Bosch, M. and Knox, J. P. (2013). Heterogeneity and glycan masking of cell wall microstructures in the stems of Miscanthus x giganteus, and its parents M. sinensis and M. sacchariflorus. PLoS One 8(11): e82114.
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Slavov, G., Allison, G. and Bosch, M. (2013). Advances in the genetic dissection of plant cell walls: tools and resources available in Miscanthus. Front Plant Sci 4: 217.
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Bosch, M., Mayer, C. D., Cookson, A. and Donnison, I. S. (2011). Identification of genes involved in cell wall biogenesis in grasses by differential gene expression profiling of elongating and non-elongating maize internodes. J Exp Bot 62(10): 3545-3561.
Plant reproduction
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Wilkins, K. A., Bosch, M., Haque, T., Teng, N., Poulter, N. S. and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2015). Self-incompatibility-induced programmed cell death in field poppy pollen involves dramatic acidification of the incompatible pollen tube cytosol. Plant Physiol 167(3): 766-779.
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Klaas, M., Yang, B., Bosch, M., Thorogood, D., Manzanares, C., Armstead, I. P., Franklin, F. C. and Barth, S. (2011). Progress towards elucidating the mechanisms of self-incompatibility in the grasses: further insights from studies in Lolium. Ann Bot 108(4): 677-685.
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Nieuwland, J., de Graaf, B. H., Cheung, A. Y. and Bosch, M. (2011). Plant reproduction: does size matter? New Phytol 190(4): 812-815.
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Wilkins, K. A.*, Bancroft, J.*, Bosch, M.*, Ings, J., Smirnoff, N. and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2011). Reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide mediate actin reorganization and programmed cell death in the self-incompatibility response of papaver. Plant Physiol 156(1): 404-416. (*Joint first authors)
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Poulter, N. S.*, Bosch, M*. and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2011). Proteins implicated in mediating self-incompatibility-induced alterations to the actin cytoskeleton of Papaver pollen. Ann Bot 108(4): 659-675. (*Joint first authors)
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Bosch, M., Poulter, N. S., Perry, R. M., Wilkins, K. A. and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2010). Characterization of a legumain/vacuolar processing enzyme and YVADase activity in Papaver pollen. Plant Mol Biol 74(4-5): 381-393.
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Poulter, N. S., Wheeler, M. J., Bosch, M. and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2010). Self-incompatibility in Papaver: identification of the pollen S-determinant PrpS. Biochem Soc Trans 38(2): 588-592.
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McKenna, S. T., Kunkel, J. G., Bosch, M., Rounds, C. M., Vidali, L., Winship, L. J. and Hepler, P. K. (2009). Exocytosis precedes and predicts the increase in growth in oscillating pollen tubes. Plant Cell 21(10): 3026-3040.
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Bosch, M., Poulter, N. S., Vatovec, S. and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2008). Initiation of programmed cell death in self-incompatibility: role for cytoskeleton modifications and several caspase-like activities. Mol Plant 1(6): 879-887.
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Bosch, M. and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2008). Self-incompatibility in Papaver: signalling to trigger PCD in incompatible pollen. J Exp Bot 59(3): 481-490.
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Bosch, M. and Franklin-Tong, V. E. (2007). Temporal and spatial activation of caspase-like enzymes induced by self-incompatibility in Papaver pollen. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104(46): 18327-18332.
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Bosch, M. and Hepler, P. K. (2006). Silencing of the tobacco pollen pectin methylesterase NtPPME1 results in retarded in vivo pollen tube growth. Planta 223(4): 736-745.
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Bosch, M. and Hepler, P. K. (2005). Pectin methylesterases and pectin dynamics in pollen tubes. Plant Cell 17(12): 3219-3226.
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Bosch, M., Cheung, A. Y. and Hepler, P. K. (2005). Pectin methylesterase, a regulator of pollen tube growth. Plant Physiol 138(3): 1334-1346.
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Hepler, P. K., Bosch, M., Cardenas, L., Lovy-Wheeler, A., McKenna, S. T., Wilsen, K. L. and Kunkel, J. G. (2005). Oscillatory pollen tube growth: Imaging the underlying structures and physiological processes. MicroscMicroanal 11: 148-149.
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Sanchez, A. M., Bosch, M., Bots, M., Nieuwland, J., Feron, R. and Mariani, C. (2004). Pistil factors controlling pollination. Plant Cell 16 Suppl: S98-106.
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Bosch, M., Derksen, J. and Mariani, C. (2003). A functional study of stylarhydroxyproline-rich glyco-proteins during pollen tube growth. Sex Plant Reprod 16(2): 87-98.
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Bosch, M., Knudsen, J. S., Derksen, J. and Mariani, C. (2001). Class III pistil-specific extensin-like proteins from tobacco have characteristics of arabinogalactan proteins. Plant Physiol 125(4): 2180-2188.