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Jo HEPWORTH
Last name : HEPWORTH
First name : Jo
Entrance year : 2023
Occupation : University lecturer
Company : Durham University
Address : Department of Biosciences Stockton Road DH1 3LE Durham / United Kingdom
Main fields of interest :
  • Seeds, genetics
  • Crop production
  • Plant physiology
Professional experience : Assistant Professor at Durham University
Education : UK
Selected publications :  Williams K, Hepworth J, Nichols B, Corke F, Woolfenden H, Calderwood A, Paajanen P, Steuernagel B, Østergaard L, Morris RJ, Doonan JH, Wells R. 2023. Integrated Phenomics and Genomics reveals genetic loci associated with inflorescence growth in Brassica napus. Being revised for resubmission to Plant Physiology. BioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.03.31.535149.  Calderwood A, Hepworth J, Woodhouse S, Bilham L, Jones DM, Tudor EH, Ali M, Dean C, Wells R, Irwin JA, Morris R. 2021. Comparative transcriptomics reveals desynchronisation of gene expression during the floral transition between Arabidopsis and Brassica rapa cultivars. Quantitative Plant Biology, 2, E4. doi: 10.1017/qpb.2021.6  Calderwood A, Lloyd A, Hepworth J, Tudor EH, Jones DM, Woodhouse S, Bilham L, Chinoy C, Williams K, Corke F, Doonan JH, Ostergaard L, Irwin JA, Wells R, Morris R. 2021. Total FLC transcript dynamics from divergent paralogue expression explains flowering diversity in Brassica napus. New Phytologist, 229, 3534-3548. doi: 10.1111/nph.17131