Jonathan D. G. Jones Explained

Jonathan Jones
Birth Name:Jonathan Dallas George Jones
Birth Date:1954 7, df=yes
Fields:Plant pathology
Plant disease resistance
Workplaces:Harvard University
Sainsbury Laboratory
University of East Anglia
Alma Mater:University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Thesis Title:Repeated DNA sequences in rye (Secale cereale), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and their relatives
Thesis Url:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.258966
Thesis Year:1980
Doctoral Advisor:Richard B. Flavell[1]
Known For:Work on R genes

Jonathan Dallas George Jones (born 14 July 1954) is a senior scientist at the Sainsbury Laboratory and a professor at the University of East Anglia using molecular and genetic approaches to study disease resistance in plants.[2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]

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[10] in 1980 supervised by Richard B. Flavell[1] and Gabriel Dover.[11]

Research and career

After his PhD, Jones did postdoctoral research at Harvard University in Frederick M. Ausubel's lab.[12] Along with collaborator Jeffery Dangl, he proposed the zigzag model for the co-evolution of plant resistance genes and pathogen effectors.[13] 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.[14]

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.[16]

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'.[17]

Awards and honours

Jones was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2003[18] and has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2015.[19] [20] He was awarded EMBO Membership in 1998.

Notes and References

  1. 10.1016/0092-8674(80)90529-2 . Bedbrook . J. R. . Jones . J. . O'Dell . M. . Thompson . R. D. . Flavell . R. B. . A molecular description of telometic heterochromatin in secale species . Cell . 19 . 2 . 545–560 . 1980 . 6244112. 31566816 .
  2. Hammond-Kosack . K. E. . Silverman . P. . Raskin . I. . Jones . J. . 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 . 1996 . 12226268 . 160933. 10.1104/pp.110.4.1381 .
  3. May . M. J. . Hammond-Kosack . K. E. . Jones . J. . 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 . 1996 . 12226267 . 160932. 10.1104/pp.110.4.1367 .
  4. English . J. J. . Harrison . K. . Jones . J. . 10.1105/tpc.7.8.1235 . Aberrant Transpositions of Maize Double Ds-Like Elements Usually Involve Ds Ends on Sister Chromatids . The Plant Cell Online . 7 . 8 . 1235–1247 . 1995 . 12242405 . 160947 .
  5. Hammond-Kosack . K. E. . Jones . D. A. . Jones . J. . 10.1105/tpc.6.3.361 . Identification of Two Genes Required in Tomato for Full Cf-9-Dependent Resistance to Cladosporium fulvum . The Plant Cell Online . 6 . 3 . 361–374 . 1994 . 12244240 . 160439 .
  6. Dangl . J. L. . Jones . J. D. G. . 10.1038/35081161 . Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection . Nature . 411 . 6839 . 826–833 . 2001 . 11459065. 2001Natur.411..826D . 4345575 .
  7. 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. . Jonathan D. G. Jones. 10.1038/nature01485. Davies . J. M. . Dolan . L. . Liam Dolan. Reactive oxygen species produced by NADPH oxidase regulate plant cell growth . . 422 . 6930 . 442–446 . 2003 . 12660786. 2003Natur.422..442F . 4328808 .
  8. Hammond-Kosack . K. E. . Jones . J. D. G. . 10.1146/annurev.arplant.48.1.575 . Plant Disease Resistance Genes . Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology . 48 . 575–607 . 1997 . 15012275. 28215144 .
  9. Zipfel . C. . Robatzek . S. . Navarro . L. . Oakeley . E. J. . Jones . J. D. G. . Felix . G. . Boller . T. . 10.1038/nature02485 . Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception . Nature . 428 . 6984 . 764–767 . 2004 . 15085136. 2004Natur.428..764Z . 4332562 .
  10. PhD . Jonathan Dallas George. Jones . Repeated DNA sequences in rye (Secale cereale), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and their relatives . University of Cambridge . 1980 . jisc.ac.uk. . 53605533. Jonathan D. G. Jones.
  11. Viegas . Jennifer . 2018-10-09 . Profile of Jonathan D. G. Jones . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . en . 115 . 41 . 10191–10194 . 10.1073/pnas.1815072115 . 0027-8424 . 6187187 . 30249645. 2018PNAS..11510191V . free .
  12. Jonathan Jones
  13. 10.1038/nature05286 . The plant immune system . 2006 . Jones . J. D. G. . Jonathan D. G. Jones. Dangl . J. L. . Jeffery Dangl. . 444 . 323–9. 17108957 . 7117 . 2006Natur.444..323J . free .
  14. 10.1016/S0968-0004(98)01311-5 . Plant disease-resistance proteins and the gene-for-gene concept . J. D. G. . 1998 . Jones . Van Der Biezen . E. . Trends in Biochemical Sciences . 23 . 12 . 454–6. 9868361.
  15. Web site: Scientist leading GM crop test defends links to US biotech giant Monsanto. Jamie . Doward. 2010. The Guardian.
  16. Book: Smith . Alison Mary . Alison Mary Smith . Coupand . George . George Coupland . Dolan . Liam . Liam Dolan . Harberd . Nicholas . Nicholas Harberd . Jones . Jonathan . Jonathan D. G. Jones . Martin . Cathie . Cathie Martin . Sablowski . Robert . Amey . Abigail . 2009 . Plant Biology . . 978-0815340256 . registration .
  17. Web site: Fussy eaters – what's wrong with GM food?. BBC News. London. Jonathan. Jones. 2010. bbc.co.uk.
  18. Web site: Professor Jonathan Jones FRS. royalsociety.org. Anon. 2003. Royal Society. London. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
  19. Viegas. Jennifer. Profile of Jonathan D. G. Jones. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115. 41. 10191–10194. 2018. 0027-8424. 10.1073/pnas.1815072115. 30249645. 6187187. 2018PNAS..11510191V . free.
  20. Web site: Jonathan Jones. www.nasonline.org.

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