Research Interests

Research Projects

Project: IRCSET EMBARK ZOE POPPER ANNA PIELACH ( RCS929) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-09 / 30-SEP-12

Project: INFLUENCE OF WATER TEMPERATURE AND CALCIUM CONCENTRATION ON CHAROPHYTE GROWTH, ZOE POPPER ( RNR277) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 01-AUG-11 / 30-JUN-12

Project: CHARACTERISATION OF ALGAL CELL WALL COMPONENTS, Z POPPER ( RSF1124) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 01-OCT-11 / 30-SEP-15

Project: CELL WALL POLYSACCHARIDES IN CHAROPHYTES Z POPPER ( RM6022) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 01-FEB-07 / 31-AUG-09

Project: MF08P45 PLANT CELL WALL POLYSACCHARIDES Z POPPER ( RM8245) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 12-JAN-09 / 31-JUL-10

Project: IRCSET PD/2011/2326 EVOLUTION AND DYNAMICS OF COLLENCHYMATOUS CELL WALLS ZOE POPPER ( RCS960) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 01-NOV-11 / 31-OCT-13

 

Book Chapters

Popper ZA (2011) 'Extraction and detection of arabinogalactan proteins (Chapter 17)' In: Popper ZA (eds). The Plant Cell Wall: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology Volume 715. New Jersey, USA: Humana Press. [Details]

Edited Books

Popper ZA (Ed.). (2011) The Plant Cell Wall: Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology Volume 715. New Jersey, USA: Humana Press. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

Popper ZA, Sadler IH, Fry SC (2001) '3-O-Methyl-D-galactose residues in lycophyte primary cell walls'. Phytochemistry, 57 :711-719. [Details]

Popper ZA, Fry SC. (2003) 'Primary cell wall composition of bryophytes and Charophytes'. Annals of Botany, 91 :1-12. [Details]

Popper ZA, Sadler IH, Fry SC. (2003) 'D-Glucuronosyl-(1 3)-L-galactose, an unusual disaccharide from polysaccharides of the hornwort Anthoceros caucasicus'. Phytochemistry, 64 :325-335. [Details]

Popper ZA, Fry SC. (2004) 'Primary Cell Wall Composition of Pteridophytes and Spermatophytes'. New Phytologist, 164 :165-174. [Details]

Popper ZA, Sadler IH, Fry SC. (2004) '3-O-Methylrhamnose in lower land plant primary cell walls'. Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, 32 :279-289. [Details]

Popper ZA, Fry SC (2005) 'Widespread occurrence of a covalent linkage between xyloglucan and acidic polysaccharides in suspension-cultured angiosperm cells'. Annals of botany, 96 (1):91-99. [DOI] [Details]

Popper ZA. (2006) 'The Cell Walls of Pteridophytes and other green plants (invited review)'. The Fern Gazette, 17 :315-332. [Details]

Popper ZA, Fry SC. (2008) 'Xyloglucan-pectin linkages are formed intra-protoplasmically, contribute to wall-assembly, and remain stable in the cell wall'. Planta, 227 :781-794. [Details]

Popper ZA (2008) 'Evolution and diversity of green plant cell walls'. Current opinion in plant biology, 11 (3):286-292. [DOI] [Details]

Popper ZA and Tuohy MG (2010) 'Beyond the green: understanding the evolutionary puzzle of plant and algal cell walls'. Plant Physiol, 153 :373-383. [DOI] [Details]

Ronse AC, Popper ZA, Preston JC, Watson MF. (2010) 'Taxonomic revision of European Apium L. s.l.: Helosciadium W.D.J. Koch restored'. Plant Syst Evol, 287 :1-17. [Details]

Pattathil S, Avci U, Baldwin D, Swennes AG, McGill JA, Popper Z, Bootten T, Albert A, Davis RH, Chenareddy C, Dong R, O'Shea B, Rossi R, Leoff C, Freshour G, Narra R, O'Neill MA, York WS, Hahn MG. (2010) 'A comprehensive toolkit of plant cell wall glycan-directed monoclonal antibodies'. Plant Physiol, 153 :514-525. [Details]

Popper ZA, Michel G, Hervé C, Domozych DS, Willats WG, Tuohy MG, Kloareg B, Stengel DB (2011) 'Evolution and diversity of plant cell walls: from algae to flowering plants'. Annu Rev Plant Biol, 62 :567-590. [DOI] [Details]

Stengel, D.B., Connan, S., Popper, Z. (2011) 'Algal chemodiversity and bioactivity: Sources of natural variability and implications for commercial application'. Biotechnology Advances. Special Issue: Marine Biotechnology in Europe, doi:10.1016/j.biotechadv.2011.05.016 . [Details]

 

Conference Publications

Popper ZA, Sadler IH, Fry SC (2003) Evolution and composition of Bryophyte primary cell walls British Bryologocal Society Meeting published in Field Bryologist 82 , pp.33-34 [Details]

Tuomivaara ST, Popper ZA, Bootten TJ, O'Neill M, Freshour G, York WS, Hahn MG (2006) Epitope characterisation of tamarind xyloglucan reactive monoclonal antbodies Meeting of the Society for Glycobiology, Published in Glycobiology 16 [Details]

McCann A, Benanti G, Knox JP, Popper ZA (2007) The occurrence of arabinogalactan proteins in charophytes (stoneworts): Abstract 125 International Cell Wall Meeting, Copenhagen published in Physiologia Plantarum 130 [Details]

                                       

   

Current Postgraduate Students

Anna Pielach, Doctorate - Ph.D.(Science)   -   Supervisor

Modules Taught

1st year: Semester 1       : BO101/BO111: 1st year Biology

2nd year: Semester 1       : BT208: Aquatic Plant Science

3rd year: Semester 2       : BT318: Applications of Plamt Science in Biotechnology and Ecology

3rd year: Semester 2       : BT312: Applied Aquatic Plant Science

4th year: Semester 1       : BT416: Plant Evolution and Cell Biology