Publications

Research publications and reports supported by PCGIN funding

Warsame AO, Balk J, Domoney C (2025). Identification of significant genome-wide associations and QTL underlying variation in seed protein composition in pea (Pisum sativum L.). Plant Genome 18:e70051.

Rayner T, Mundy JEA, Bilham LJ, Moreau C, Lawson DM, Domoney C, Wang TL (2025). A suite of pea (Pisum sativum L.) near-isolines: Genetic resources and molecular tools to breed for seed carbohydrate and protein quality in legumes. Int J Mol Sci. 26:2612.

Rayner T, Saalbach G, Vickers M, Paajanen P, Martins C, Wouters RHM, Chinoy C, Mulholland F, Bal M, Isaac P, Novak P, Macas J, Ellis N, Steuernagel B, Domoney C (2025). Rebalancing the seed proteome following deletion of vicilin-related genes in pea (Pisum sativum L.). Journal of Experimental Botany

Webb A, Reynolds TR, Wright TI, Caiazzo R, Lloyd D, Thomas JE, Wood TA (2024) Identification of faba bean genetic loci associated quantitative resistance to the fungus Botrytis fabae, causal agent of chocolate spot. Frontiers in Plant Science 15: 1383396. 

Olías R, Rayner T, Clemente A and Domoney C (2023) Combination of three null mutations affecting seed protein accumulation in pea (Pisum sativum L.) impacts positively on digestibility. Food Research International 169, 112825.

Gutierrez N, Pegard M, Solis I, Sokolović DJ, Lloyd D, Howarth CJ, Torres AM (2024) Genome-wide association study for yield related traits in faba bean (Vicia faba L.). Frontiers in Plant Science 15: 1328690

Ellis N, Hofer J, Sizer-Coverdale E., Lloyd D, Aubert G, Kreplak J, Burstin J, Cheema J, Bal M, Chen Y, Deng S, Wouters RHM, Steuernagel B, Chayut N and Domoney C (2023) Recombinant inbred lines derived from wide crosses in Pisum. Scientific Reports 13, 20408

Bhowmik P, Yan W, Hodgins C, Polley B, Warkentin T, Nickerson M, Ro D-K, Marsolais F, Domoney C, Shariati-Ievari S and Aliani M (2023) CRISPR/Cas9-mediated lipoxygenase gene-editing in yellow pea leads to major changes in fatty acid and flavour profiles. Frontiers in Plant Science 14:1246905

Domoney C (2023) The land crop pea. In: Our Future Proteins – A Diversity of Perspectives, eds S Pyett, W Jenkins et al. VU University Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 46-53, pp. 46-53.

Warsame AO, Michael N, O’Sullivan DM, Tosi P (2022) Seed development and protein accumulation patterns in faba bean (Vicia faba L.). Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 70: 9295-9304

Moreau C, Warren FJ, Rayner T, Perez-Moral N, Lawson DM, Wang TL, Domoney C (2022) An allelic series of starch-branching enzyme mutants in pea (Pisum sativum L.) reveals complex relationships with seed starch phenotypes. Carbohydrate Polymers 288: 119386.  

Sawada C, Moreau C, Robinson GHJ, Steuernagel B, Wingen LU, Cheema J, Sizer-Coverdale E, Lloyd D, Domoney C, Ellis N (2022) An integrated linkage map of three recombinant inbred populations of pea (Pisum sativum L.) Genes 13: 196.

Björnsdotter E, Nadzieja M, Chang W, Escobar-Herrera L, Mancinotti D, Angra D, Xia X, Tacke R, Khazaei H, Crocoll C, Vandenberg A, Link W, Stoddard FL, O’Sullivan DM, Stougaard J, Schulman AH, Andersen SU, Geu-Flores F (2021) VC1 catalyses a key step in the biosynthesis of vicine in faba bean. Nature Plants 7: 923–931 

Adhikari KN, Khazaei H, Ghaouti L, Maalouf F, Vandenberg A, Link W, O’Sullivan, DM (2021) Conventional and molecular breeding tools for accelerating genetic gain in faba bean (Vicia faba L.). Frontiers in Plant Science 12:744259

Domoney C. (2021) Reaching for the pulse of the planet and its population. The Biochemist 43: 26-30

Warsame AO, Michael N, O’Sullivan DM, Tosi P (2020). Identification and quantification of major faba bean seed proteins. J Agric Food Chem. 68:8535-8544.