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DR. ROBERT IRELAND - PROFESSOR AND HEAD

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Academic History

B.Sc Hatfield Polytechnic
Ph.D. Queen Mary College, Univ. London

Research Interests
• Amino acid metabolism
• Plant nitrogen metabolism
• Biochemistry of aquatic and stressed plants

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Representative Publications
 

Lea, P.J. and Ireland, R.J. (1999) "Nitrogen Metabolism in higher plants" in "Plant Amino Acids" edited by B. Singh. Marcel Dekker publ. pp. 1-47

 

Leegood, R.C., Bailey, J.K., Ireland, R.J., Dever L.V. and Lea, P.J. (1999) "Mutants of C4 photosynthesis." in Photosynthesis: Mechanisms and Effects, Vol. 1" edited by Garab, G. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht publ. pp. 3659-3664.

 

Ireland, R.J. and Lea, P.J. (1999) "The enzymes of glutamine, glutamate, asparagine and aspartate metabolism" in "Plant Amino Acids" edited by B. Singh. Marcel Dekker publ. pp. 49-109.

 
Dever, L.V., Pearson, M., Ireland, R.J., Leegod, R.C. and Lea, P.J. (1998) The isolation and characterization of a mutant of the C4 plant Amaranthus edulis deficient in NAD-malic enzyme. Planta 206: 649-656.
 

Lea, P.J., Dever, L.V., Ireland, R.J., Bailey, K.J. and Leegood, R.C. (1998) "The use of mutants of Amaranthus edulis to study carbon and nitrogen metabolism in C4 photosynthesis." in Carbohydrate Metabolism in Plants. Bios. Oxford pp. 163-179.


TEACHING ASSIGNMENT
2011 - 2012

FALL
WINTER
Biology 3711 Biochemical Ecology   Biology 1501 Cell Biology
Biology 4151 Virology   Biology 3781 Tropical Marine Biology (with R. Aiken)
YEAR

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E-mail: rireland@mta.ca
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