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Cathie Martin
MBE FRS
Cathie Martin in 2021
Born
Catherine Rosemary Martin

April 1955 (age 69)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known forBlue tomato
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsPlant Biology[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of East Anglia
John Innes Centre
ThesisPlant cell differentiation during seed germination (1981)
Notable studentsBeverley Glover[3]
Websitewww.jic.ac.uk/people/cathie-martin Edit this at Wikidata

Catherine Rosemary Martin (born April 1955)[4] is a Professor of Plant Sciences at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and project leader at the John Innes Centre, Norwich, co-ordinating research into the relationship between diet and health and how crops can be fortified to improve diets and address escalating chronic disease globally.[5][6][7][8][2][9]

Education

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Martin received a first class honours degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge. She then went on to obtain her PhD in Biochemistry in 1981, also from Cambridge.[10]

Research and career

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Her research has included work on blood oranges[11] and high anthocyanin purple tomatoes.[12][13][14]

After a period as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge[15][16] she moved to the John Innes Centre's department of genetics in 1983. She was the first to identify genes which regulated cell shape in plants.[15]

Since 2000, Cathie's research has focused on diet and health, researching how crops can be fortified to combat chronic disease across the world. This research has focused on plants which contain natural chemical compounds, which can be seen as 'natural medicines'. In 2022 Martin's laboratory produced genetically manipulated tomatoes containing high levels of a precursor to vitamin D. These were scheduled for field trials, and intended to improve dietary intake of vitamin D.[17][18]

With Liam Dolan, Alison Mary Smith, George Coupland, Nicholas Harberd, Jonathan Jones, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey she is a co-author of the textbook Plant Biology.[19]

She was the editor-in-chief of The Plant Cell, as well as the first woman and first non-American to hold this post.[15] She holds seven patents and co-founded the University spin-off company Norfolk Plant Sciences with Jonathan Jones, to bring the benefits of plant biotechnology to Europe and the United States.[4][15] Her former doctoral students include Beverley Glover.[3]

Awards and honours

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Martin was appointed a Member of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 Birthday Honours for "services to plant biotechnology"[20][21] and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) most promising innovator 2014.[22] Cathie's research into Purple Tomatoes gained her and Eugenio Butelli BBSRC's most promising innovator award in 2014. She has also been recognised by:

References

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  1. ^ a b Anon (2011). "Cathie R. Martin, John Innes Centre, Norwich, UK, EMBO". people.embo.org. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  2. ^ a b Cathie Martin publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ a b Glover, Beverley Jane (1996). Cellular differentiation in plants (PhD thesis). University of East Anglia. OCLC 53660442. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.497578.
  4. ^ a b Anon (2016). "Catherine Rosemary MARTIN". London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 10 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Cathie Martin: Metabolic biology". Norwich: John Innes Centre. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016.
  6. ^ Christian Dubos; Ralf Stracke; Erich Grotewold; Bernd Weisshaar; Cathie Martin; Loïc Lepiniec (30 July 2010). "MYB transcription factors in Arabidopsis". Trends in Plant Science. 15 (10): 573–581. doi:10.1016/J.TPLANTS.2010.06.005. ISSN 1360-1385. PMID 20674465. Wikidata Q37776860.
  7. ^ Yang Zhang; Eugenio Butelli; Saleh Alseekh; et al. (26 October 2015). "Multi-level engineering facilitates the production of phenylpropanoid compounds in tomato". Nature Communications. 6: 8635. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.8635Z. doi:10.1038/NCOMMS9635. ISSN 2041-1723. PMC 4639801. PMID 26497596. Wikidata Q36265985.
  8. ^ Cathie Martin publications from Europe PubMed Central
  9. ^ Sponge, Creative. "Prof Cathie Martin - John Innes Centre". Jic.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 22 March 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  10. ^ Martin, Catherine Rosemary (1981). Plant cell differentiation during seed germination. cam.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 557040208. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.277433.
  11. ^ "Scientists create new orange superjuice to help beat heart disease". independent.co.uk. The Independent. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  12. ^ Eugenio Butelli; Lucilla Titta; Marco Giorgio; et al. (26 October 2008). "Enrichment of tomato fruit with health-promoting anthocyanins by expression of select transcription factors". Nature Biotechnology. 26 (11): 1301–1308. doi:10.1038/NBT.1506. ISSN 1087-0156. PMID 18953354. Wikidata Q34866413.
  13. ^ H Jin; E Cominelli; P Bailey; et al. (1 November 2000). "Transcriptional repression by AtMYB4 controls production of UV-protecting sunscreens in Arabidopsis". The EMBO Journal. 19 (22): 6150–6161. doi:10.1093/EMBOJ/19.22.6150. ISSN 0261-4189. PMC 305818. PMID 11080161. Wikidata Q33925419.
  14. ^ "Genetically-modified purple tomatoes heading for shops". bbc.co.uk. BBC News. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  15. ^ a b c d "Cathie Martin Profile" (PDF). Brussels: European Parliament. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2015.
  16. ^ Cathie Martin publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  17. ^ Ledford, Heidi (2022). "Gene-edited tomatoes could provide new source of vitamin D". Nature. doi:10.1038/d41586-022-01443-2. PMID 35606436. S2CID 249015294. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  18. ^ Geddes, Linda (23 May 2022). "Scientists create tomatoes genetically edited to bolster vitamin D levels". theguardian.com. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ a b "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 20.
  21. ^ "Life Sciences Index » Nutrition Integrates 2014 Speaker – Cathie Martin". Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
  22. ^ a b Anon (2014). "Innovators 2014 part three – Cathie Martin and Eugenio Butelli's purple tomatoes". bbsrc.ac.uk. BBSRC. Archived from the original on 2 February 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  23. ^ "Society for Experimental Biology President's Medallists" (PDF). sebiology.org. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  24. ^ "Fellows – AAAS MemberCentral". aaas.org. Archived from the original on 19 January 2015. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  25. ^ "Prof Cathie Martin made an MBE – John Innes Centre". jic.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 4 August 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2016.
  26. ^ Kronfeld, Shoshana (28 March 2017). "Announcing the 2017 ASPB Award Winners". Plant Science Today. Retrieved 2 June 2024.
  27. ^ Anon (2018). "Catherine Martin". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  28. ^ "Rank Prize for Nutrition awarded to Professor Cathie Martin". John Innes Centre. 28 September 2021. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
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