Jonathan D. G. Jones
| Jonathan Jones | |
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| Born | Jonathan Dallas George Jones 14 July 1954 |
| Institutions |
Harvard University Sainsbury Laboratory University of East Anglia |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Repeated DNA sequences in rye (Secale cereale), wheat (Triticum aestivum) and their relatives (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor |
Richard B. Flavell G Dover |
| Known for | Work on R genes |
| Notable awards |
FRS (2003) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2015) |
| Spouse | Caroline Dean |
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Jonathan Dallas George Jones FRS (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.
Jones was educated at the University of Cambridge, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Natural Sciences from Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1976 and a PhD in 1980, under the direction of G Dover and Richard B. Flavell. After graduating he conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard in Frederick M. Ausubel's lab.
Jones, along with collaborator Jeffery Dangl, proposed the “zig-zag model” for the co-evolution of plant resistance genes and pathogen effectors. 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.
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.
In July 2010, Professor 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'.
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