British geneticist
Jonathan Dallas George Jones
FRS
[6]
[1] (born 14 July 1954) is a senior scientist at the
Sainsbury Laboratory
[4] and a professor at the
University of East Anglia using molecular and genetic approaches to study
disease resistance in plants.
[7]
[8]
[9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
[14]
[15]
Education
Jones was educated at the
University of Cambridge where he studied the
Natural Sciences Tripos as a student of
Peterhouse, Cambridge and graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1976 followed by a PhD
[16] in 1980 supervised by
Richard B. Flavell
[5] and
Gabriel Dover .
[17]
Research and career
After his PhD, Jones did
postdoctoral research at
Harvard University in
Frederick M. Ausubel 's lab.
[1]
[18]
[19] Along with collaborator
Jeffery Dangl , he proposed the
zigzag model for the co-evolution of plant resistance genes and pathogen effectors.
[20] He also proposed the
Guard Hypothesis , which provides a testable explanation for how plants overcome the large number of arms used by pathogens to evoke disease while having only a limited set of plant proteins to defend itself.
[21]
Jones has served as head of the Sainsbury Laboratory from 1994 to 1997 and 2003 – 2009. He is also a professor at
University of East Anglia and has served as editor of
The Plant Cell and
Genome Biology . Other positions he has held include:
With
George Coupland ,
Liam Dolan ,
Nicholas Harberd ,
Alison Mary Smith ,
Cathie Martin , Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey he is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology .
[23]
In July 2010, Jones contributed an opinion piece to
BBC News Online , outlining his stance on
genetically modified (GM) food crops . In the piece, Jones argued that if we are to 'feed the planet without destroying it... we need to use every tool in our toolbox, including GM'.
[24]
Awards and honours
Jones was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003
[6]
[1] and has been a member of the
National Academy of Sciences since 2015.
[2]
[3] He was awarded
EMBO Membership in 1998.
[1]
References
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g Anon (1998).
"Jones, Jonathan Dallas George" .
Who's Who (online
Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U22396 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
a
b Viegas, Jennifer (2018).
"Profile of Jonathan D. G. Jones" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 115 (41): 10191–10194.
Bibcode :
2018PNAS..11510191V .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1815072115 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
6187187 .
PMID
30249645 .
^
a
b
"Jonathan Jones" . www.nasonline.org .
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a
b
Jonathan D. G. Jones publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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a
b Bedbrook, J. R.; Jones, J.; O'Dell, M.; Thompson, R. D.; Flavell, R. B. (1980). "A molecular description of telometic heterochromatin in secale species". Cell . 19 (2): 545–560.
doi :
10.1016/0092-8674(80)90529-2 .
PMID
6244112 .
S2CID
31566816 .
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a
b
c Anon (2003).
"Professor Jonathan Jones FRS" . royalsociety.org . London:
Royal Society . One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License .” --
Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the
Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
^
Jonathan D. G. Jones's publications indexed by the
Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
^ Hammond-Kosack, K. E.; Silverman, P.; Raskin, I.; Jones, J. (1996).
"Race-Specific Elicitors of Cladosporium fulvum Induce Changes in Cell Morphology and the Synthesis of Ethylene and Salicylic Acid in Tomato Plants Carrying the Corresponding Cf Disease Resistance Gene" . Plant Physiology . 110 (4): 1381–1394.
doi :
10.1104/pp.110.4.1381 .
PMC
160933 .
PMID
12226268 .
^ May, M. J.; Hammond-Kosack, K. E.; Jones, J. (1996).
"Involvement of Reactive Oxygen Species, Glutathione Metabolism, and Lipid Peroxidation in the Cf-Gene-Dependent Defense Response of Tomato Cotyledons Induced by Race-Specific Elicitors of Cladosporium fulvum" . Plant Physiology . 110 (4): 1367–1379.
doi :
10.1104/pp.110.4.1367 .
PMC
160932 .
PMID
12226267 .
^ English, J. J.; Harrison, K.; Jones, J. (1995).
"Aberrant Transpositions of Maize Double Ds-Like Elements Usually Involve Ds Ends on Sister Chromatids" . The Plant Cell Online . 7 (8): 1235–1247.
doi :
10.1105/tpc.7.8.1235 .
PMC
160947 .
PMID
12242405 .
^ Hammond-Kosack, K. E.; Jones, D. A.; Jones, J. (1994).
"Identification of Two Genes Required in Tomato for Full Cf-9-Dependent Resistance to Cladosporium fulvum" . The Plant Cell Online . 6 (3): 361–374.
doi :
10.1105/tpc.6.3.361 .
PMC
160439 .
PMID
12244240 .
^ Dangl, J. L.; Jones, J. D. G. (2001). "Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection". Nature . 411 (6839): 826–833.
Bibcode :
2001Natur.411..826D .
doi :
10.1038/35081161 .
PMID
11459065 .
S2CID
4345575 .
^ Foreman, J.; Demidchik, V.; Bothwell, J. H. F.; Mylona, P.; Miedema, H.; Torres, M. A.; Linstead, P.; Costa, S.; Brownlee, C.;
Jones, J. D. G. ; Davies, J. M.;
Dolan, L. (2003). "Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth".
Nature . 422 (6930): 442–446.
Bibcode :
2003Natur.422..442F .
doi :
10.1038/nature01485 .
PMID
12660786 .
S2CID
4328808 .
^ Hammond-Kosack, K. E.; Jones, J. D. G. (1997). "Plant Disease Resistance Genes". Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology . 48 : 575–607.
doi :
10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.575 .
PMID
15012275 .
S2CID
28215144 .
^ Zipfel, C.; Robatzek, S.; Navarro, L.; Oakeley, E. J.; Jones, J. D. G.; Felix, G.; Boller, T. (2004). "Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception". Nature . 428 (6984): 764–767.
Bibcode :
2004Natur.428..764Z .
doi :
10.1038/nature02485 .
PMID
15085136 .
S2CID
4332562 .
^
Jones, Jonathan Dallas George (1980).
Repeated DNA sequences in rye (Secale cereale), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and their relatives . jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge.
OCLC
53605533 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.258966 .
^ Viegas, Jennifer (9 October 2018).
"Profile of Jonathan D. G. Jones" . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 115 (41): 10191–10194.
Bibcode :
2018PNAS..11510191V .
doi :
10.1073/pnas.1815072115 .
ISSN
0027-8424 .
PMC
6187187 .
PMID
30249645 .
^ Jonathan Jones
ORCID
0000-0002-4953-261X
^
Jonathan D. G. Jones publications from
Europe PubMed Central
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Jones, J. D. G. ;
Dangl, J. L. (2006).
"The plant immune system" .
Nature . 444 (7117): 323–9.
Bibcode :
2006Natur.444..323J .
doi :
10.1038/nature05286 .
PMID
17108957 .
^ Van Der Biezen, E.; Jones, J. D. G. (1998). "Plant disease-resistance proteins and the gene-for-gene concept". Trends in Biochemical Sciences . 23 (12): 454–6.
doi :
10.1016/S0968-0004(98)01311-5 .
PMID
9868361 .
^ Doward, Jamie (2010).
"Scientist leading GM crop test defends links to US biotech giant Monsanto" .
The Guardian .
^
Smith, Alison Mary ;
Coupand, George ;
Dolan, Liam ;
Harberd, Nicholas ;
Jones, Jonathan ;
Martin, Cathie ; Sablowski, Robert; Amey, Abigail (2009).
Plant Biology .
Garland Science .
ISBN
978-0815340256 .
^ Jones, Jonathan (2010).
"Fussy eaters – what's wrong with GM food?" . bbc.co.uk . London:
BBC News .
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