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Ornamental Crops

 

S. H. MANTELL & B. E. J. WHEELER (1973) Rosellinia and White Root Rot of Narcissus in the Scilly Isles.  Transactions of the British Mycological Society 60, 23 - 25.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1982) Current problems and perspectives in the application of tissue culture techniques to woody perennials like CamelliaInternational Camellia Journal 14, 61 - 64. 

 

R. HARRIS & S. H. MANTELL (1991) Effects of Stage II subculture durations on the multiplication rates and rooting capacities of micropropagated shoots of tree paeony (Paeonia suffruticosa Andr.) Journal of Horticultural Science 66, 95 - 102.

 

S. ALIZADEH & S. H. MANTELL (1991) Early cellular events during somatic embryogenesis in cotyledon explants of Solanum aviculare Forst. Annals of Botany 67, 257 - 63.

 

R. KADDOURA & S. H. MANTELL (1991) Synthesis of intergeneric Nicotiana - Solanum graft chimeras. Annals of Botany 68, 547 - 556.

 

A. C. JAMES & S. H. MANTELL (1992). Morphological and biochemical evidence of reinvigoration and partial rejuvenation following a single passage of in vitro culture by the woody perennial Solanum aviculare Forst. Revista Brasileira de Botanica 15(2), 115 - 122.

 

D. J. PONSONBY & S. H. MANTELL (1993) In vitro establishment of Picea pungens f. glauca and Picea sitchensis seedling rootstocks with an assessment of their suitabilities for micrografting with scions of various Picea spp. Journal of Horticultural Science 68 ,463 - 475.

 

G. TSOKTOURIDIS, S. MANTELL, E. BANTINAKI & M. THANGAVELU (1998) DNA profiling and strategies for in planta localisation of bacteria intimately associated with Billbergia magnifica ssp. acutisepalia. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 52, 41 - 45.

 

G. TSOKTOURIDIS, G. TSIAMIS, N. KOUTINAS & S.MANTELL (2014) Molecular detection of bacteria in plant tissues, using universal 16S ribosomal DNA degenerated primers. Biotechnology and Biotechnological Equipment 28, 583-591.

 

Fruit and nut trees

 

S. H. MANTELL & R. H. PHELPS (1974) Avocado decline in Trinidad. Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad) 51, 417 - 420.

 

A. ABOUSALIM & S. H. MANTELL (1992) Micrografting of pistachio (Pistacia vera L. cv. Mateur). Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 29, 231 - 234.

 

A. ABOUSALIM & S. H. MANTELL (1994) A practical method of alleviating shoot - tip necrosis symptoms in in vitro shoot cultures of Pistacia vera cv. 'Mateur'. Journal of Horticultural Science 69, 357 - 362.

 

M. AITCHITT, S. H. MANTELL, M. THANGAVELU & C. C. AINSWORTH (1995) Cloning date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) DNA and characterisation of low, medium and high copy DNA sequences. Elaeis 7, 57 - 63

 

A. ABOUSALIM & S. H. MANTELL (1995) The ultrastructure of the shoot apex of pistachio (Pistacia vera L.) grown in vitro with reference to shoot tip necrosis. Acta Horticulturae 419, 195 - 199.

 

B. BOGGETTI, J. JASIK & S. H. MANTELL (1999) Improved in vitro multiplication of cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) using shoot node explants of glasshouse - raised mother stock plants. Plant Cell Reports 18, 456 - 461.

 

E. E. MNENEY, M. THANGAVELU & S. H. MANTELL (2001) Use of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) markers to assess genotype diversity within and between populations of cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.). Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology 76, 375 – 383.

 

J. KAHIA, M.KIRIKA, H.LUBAHALI & S.MANTELL (2016) High-frequency Direct Somatic Embryogenesis and Plantlet Regeneration from Leaves Derived from In Vitro-Germinated Seedlings of a Coffea arabica Hybrid Cultivar. HortScience 51, 1148-1152.

 

Plant physiology and genetic transformation

 

P. B. GAHAN, E. PINTO, S. COURT, K. EZE, J. POTTER & S. H. MANTELL (1994) Plant growth regulator-induced xylogenesis in cotyledons of Solanum aviculare Forst. Journal of Experimental Botany 45, 1523 - 1532.

 

E. A. MATIBIRI & S. H. MANTELL (1995) Comparative effects of fusion facilitators on electrofusion attributes of Nicotiana tabacum mesophyll protoplasts. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 40, 125 - 131.

 

M. TOR, S. H. MANTELL & C. C. AINSWORTH (1992) Endophytic bacteria expressing β- glucuronidase cause false positives in transformation of Dioscorea species. Plant Cell Reports 11, 452 - 456.

 

M. TOR, C. C. AINSWORTH & S. H. MANTELL (1993) Stable transformation of the food yam Dioscorea alata L. by particle gun bombardment. Plant Cell Reports 12, 468 - 473.

 

E. A. MATIBIRI & S. H. MANTELL (1994) Cybridisation in Nicotiana tabacum L. using double inactivation of parental protoplasts and post-fusion selection based on nuclear-encoded and chloroplast-encoded marker genes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 88, 1017 - 1022.

 

A. C. JAMES & S. H. MANTELL (1994) Characterisation of developmental phases of the woody perennial shrub, Solanum aviculare Forst. New Phytologist 127, 591 - 600.

 

A. MATZK, S. H. MANTELL & J. SCHIEMANN (1995) Localisation of persisting agrobacteria in transgenic tobacco plants. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions 9, 373 - 381

 

J. JASIK, B. BOGGETTI, G. CARICATO & S. H. MANTELL (1997) Characterisation of morphology and root formation in the model woody perennial shrub Solanum aviculare Forst. expressing rolABC genes of Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Plant Science 124, 57 - 68.

 

P. B. GAHAN, R. WYNDAELE, S. H. MANTELL & B. BOGGETTI (2003) Evidence that direct DNA uptake through cut shoots leads to genetic transformation of Solanum aviculare Forst. Cell Biochemistry and Function 21, 11 – 17.

 

Secondary Plant Compounds

 

S. H. MANTELL, D. W. PEARSON, L. P. HAZELL & H. SMITH (1983) The effect of initial phosphate and sucrose levels on nicotine accumulation in batch suspension cultures of  Nicotiana tabacum L.. Plant Cell Reports 2, 73 - 77. 

 

Forest trees

 

P. H. MOURA COSTA, A. M. VIANA & S. H. MANTELL (1993) Direct somatic embryogenesis and plantlet regeneration of Ocotea catharinensis, Mez, an endangered Brazilian hardwood forest tree. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 35, 279 - 291.

 

P. H. MOURA COSTA & S. H. MANTELL (1993) A preliminary evaluation of cell and tissue culture methods suitable for screening anthracnose reactions in tropical yams. Pesquisa Agropecuaria Brasileira 28, 1297- 1300.

 

Cereals

 

F. MEKBIB, S. H. MANTELL AND V. BUCHANAN-WOLLASTON (1997) Callus induction and in vitro regeneration of Tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] from leaf explants. Journal of Plant Physiology 151, 368 - 372.

 

Root and tuber crops

 

N. A. MOHAMED & S. H. MANTELL (1976) Incidence of virus symptoms in yam (Dioscorea spp.) foliage in the Commonwealth Caribbean.  Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad) 53, 255 - 261.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1976) A Yam Virus Project.  Tropical Root and Tuber Crop Newsletter 9, 61 - 62.

 

S. H. MANTELL, S. Q. HAQUE & A. P. WHITEHALL (1978) Clonal multiplication of Dioscorea alata L. and Dioscorea rotundata Poir, yams by tissue culture. Journal of Horticultural Science 53, 95 - 98.

 

S. H. MANTELL & S. Q. HAQUE (1978) Incidence of Internal Brown Spot disease in White Lisbon yams (Dioscorea alata L.) during storage. Experimental Agriculture 14, 167 - 172.

 

S. H. MANTELL & S. Q. HAQUE & A. P. WHITEHALL (1980) Apical Meristem tip culture for eradication of flexous rod viruses in yams (Dioscorea alata L.). Tropical Pest Management 26, 170 - 179.

 

R. NELSON & S. H. MANTELL (1989) Growth performances of micropropagated plantlets of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas (L) Lam.) established in a Nutrient Film Technique System. Crop Research 28, 145 - 156.

 

S. H. MANTELL & S. A. HUGO (1989) Effects of photoperiod, mineral medium strength, inorganic ammonium, sucrose and cytokinin on root, shoot and microtuber development in shoot cultures of Dioscorea alata L. and D. bulbifera L. yams.  Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 16, 23 - 37.

 

A. M. VIANA & S. H. MANTELL (1989) Callus induction and plant regeneration from excised zygotic embryos of the seed-propagated yams Dioscorea composita Hemsl. and D. cayenensis Lam.  Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 16, 113- 122.

 

C. T. TWYFORD, A. M. VIANA, A. C. JAMES & S. H. MANTELL (1990) Characterization of species and vegetative clones of Dioscorea food yams using isoelectric focussing of peroxidase and acid phosphatase isoenzymes. Tropical Agriculture 67, 337 - 341.

 

P. H. MOURA COSTA, K. I. KANDASAMY & S. H. MANTELL (1993) Evaluation of in vitro screening methods for assessing anthracnose disease reactions in tropical yams (Dioscorea spp.).Tropical Agriculture 70, 147 - 152.

 

R. S. CONLAN, L. GRIFFITHS, J. A. NAPIER, P. R. SHEWRY, S. H. MANTELL & C. C. AINSWORTH (1995) Isolation and characterisation of cDNA clones representing the genes encoding the major tuber storage protein (dioscorin) of yam (Dioscorea cayenensis Lam.). Plant Molecular Biology 28, 369 - 380.

 

P. MARTINEZ-RIVERA & S. H. MANTELL (1996) Seleccion in vitro de resistencia al tizon temprano (Alternaria solani Sorauer) en la papa criolla (Solanum phureja Juz. et Buk.). Fitopatologia Colombiana 18, 90 - 100.

 

C. T. TWYFORD & S. H. MANTELL (1996) Production of somatic embryos and plantlets from root cells of the Greater Yam. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 44, 17 - 23.

 

A. M. VIANA & S. H. MANTELL (1998) Comparative uptake and metabolism of 2-[14C]-2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid in callus cultures of monocot (Dioscorea spp.) and dicot (Nicotiana tabacum L.) plants. Revista Brasileira de Botanica 21, 89 - 99.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1998) Microbes intimately associated with tissue and cell cultures of tropical Dioscorea yams. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 52, 47 - 52.

 

S. ALIZADEH, S. H. MANTELL & A. M. VIANA (1998) In vitro shoot culture and microtuber induction in the steroid yam Dioscorea composita Hemsl. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 53, 107 - 112.

 

M. TOR, C. T. TWYFORD, I. FUNES, J. BOCCON-GIBOD, C. C. AINSWORTH & S. H. MANTELL (1998) Isolation and culture of protoplasts from immature leaves and embryogenic cell suspensions of Dioscorea yams: tools for transient expression studies. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 53, 113 - 125.

 

S.Y.C. NG & S.H. MANTELL (1998) Influence of carbon source on in vitro tuberization and growth of White Yam (Dioscorea rotundata Poir.). Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad) 75, 243 – 247.

 

Books edited or written

 

S.H. MANTELL & H. SMITH (1983) (eds.) Plant Biotechnology.  SEB Seminar Series Vol. 18. 365 pp. Cambridge University Press. (translated into Russian).

 

S. H. MANTELL, J. A. MATTHEWS & R. A. McKEE (1985) Principles of Plant Biotechnology: an introduction to genetic engineering in plants.  270 pp. Blackwell Scientific Publications (1st Edn.).

 

G. P. CHAPMAN, S. H. MANTELL & R. W. DANIELS (1985) (eds.) Experimental manipulation of ovule tissues.  Monographs and Surveys in the Biosciences, 272 pp. Longmans, New York.

 

S. H. MANTELL, G. P. CHAPMAN & P. F. S. STREET (1986) (eds.) The Chondriome - mitochondrial and chloroplast genomes of plants' Longmans, New York.

 

P. KAPOOR & S. H. MANTELL (1987) (eds.). Biological Diversity and genetic resources: Techniques and methods - mass propagation using tissue culture and vegetative methods. 139pp Commonwealth Science Council Tech. Ser. No. 205, London.

 

M. JACKSON, S. H. MANTELL & J. BLAKE (1988) (eds.) Advances in the Chemical Manipulation of Plant Tissue Cultures British Plant Growth Regulator Group Monograph No. 16. 111 pp.

 

S. H. MANTELL, J. A. MATTHEWS & R. A. McKEE (1987) Principles of Plant Biotechnology - an introduction to genetic engineering in plants.  Blackwell Scientific Publications, 268 pp. (Revised edition translated into Japanese, Korean and Portuguese).

 

S. H. MANTELL with E. WHEELER and K. PIPE-WOLFERSTAN (1988) Traditional Food Plants.  FAO Publication.  Food and Nutrition Paper No. 42 , 539 pp.

 

S. H. MANTELL, J. A. MATTHEWS & R. A. MCKEE (1994). Principios de Biotechnologia em Plantas - uma introducao a Engenharia Genetica em Plantas. Sociedade Brasileira de Genetica, Sao Paolo, Brasil.

 

S. H. MANTELL, S. BRUNS, C. TRAGARDH & A.M. VIANA (1998). (eds) Recent Advances in Biotechnology for Tree Conservation and Management. International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden. 334pp.

 

Chapters in Books and Other Publications

 

N. A. MOHAMED & S. H. MANTELL (1975) Report on a survey of virus diseases affecting yam (Dioscorea spp.) foliage in the Commonwealth Caribbean. CARDI Technical Report 3, 46 pp.

 

S. H. MANTELL, S. Q. HAQUE & A. P. WHITEHALL (1979) A rapid propagation system for yam.  Yam Virus Project Bulletin No. 1, 19 pp. (Extension Bulletin).

 

S. H. MANTELL & S. Q. HAQUE (1979) Disease-free yams: their production, maintenance and performance.  Yam Virus Project Bulletin No. 2, 29 pp. (Extension Bulletin).

 

S. H. MANTELL & H. SMITH (1983) Cultural factors that influence secondary metabolite accumulations in plant cell and tissue cultures.  In Plant Biotechnology SEB Seminar Series Vol. 18 eds. S.H. Mantell & H. Smith pp 75 - 107.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1986) Somaclonal variation.  In: Secondary Plant Metabolism in Cell Cultures.  Eds. P. Morris, A.H. Scragg, A. Stafford & M.W. Fowler.  pp. 208 - 218 Cambridge University Press.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1987) Problems of stability in mass propagation.  In: Micropropagation in Horticulture - practice and commercial problems.  P.G. Alderson and W.M. Dullforce (eds) pp 145 - 159.  Institute of Horticulture Publication, London.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1988) Development of microtuber production systems for yams to enable direct field planting of micropropagated clone selections. Summary of final report for EEC Contract TSD-264, pp 189 - 191. Summaries of the Final Reports 1983 - 1986, EEC/CTA Publication of First Programme in Science and Technology Programme DG XII.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1989) Recent Advances in Plant Biotechnology. In: Agricultural Biotechnology and the Third World: Prospects and Policy Issues.  J. FARRINGTON and M. GREELEY (eds.) ODI, London.  pp. 27 - 40.

 

C. T. TWYFORD & S. H. MANTELL (1990) Cultural conditions and early stages of somatic embryogenesis in protoplasts and tissue explants of Dioscorea alata L. cv Oriental. pp 624 - 632.  Proceedings of 8th International Society for Tropical Root Crops, Bangkok, Thailand, November 1988. 

 

S. H. MANTELL (1990) Report of Research carried out on First Year of EEC Research Contract TS2 0117 UK (EDB) March, 1990. 20pp.

 

S. H. MANTELL, S. Q. HAQUE & F. L. CHANDLER (1991) Cultivo de tejidos y material de propagacion libre de enfermedades en el name.  In: Cultivo de Tejidos en la Agricultura. eds. W.M. Roca and L.A. Mroginski CIAT Publication No. 151, pp 481-94.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1991) Report of Research carried out on Second Year of EEC Research Contract TS2 0117 UK (EDB) February, 1992. 48pp.

 

S. H. MANTELL & C. T. TWYFORD (1992) Development of anthracnose tolerant disease resistant Dioscorea yams using somatic fusion techniques. Final Report of EEC Research Contract No. TS2 0117 UK (EDB). 90pp.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1993) Integrated use of micropropagation and conventional propagation techniques for production of certified seed tubers of tropical yams (Dioscorea spp.). In "Adapted propagation techniques for commercial crops of the tropics". p.66 - 93. International Foundation for Science, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

A. C. JAMES & S. H. MANTELL (1994) Evidence for epigenetic inheritance of ontogenetic phase and tissue origin characteristics in the performance of plants derived through adventitious shoots. In "Physiology, growth and development of plants in culture" Lumsden PJ, Nicholas JR, Davies WJ eds. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 339 - 345.

 

S. H. MANTELL & K. I. KANDASAMY (1995) The UAPS Manual. Volume 1: Plant Tissue Culture Procedures. Second Edition. Wye College Press. 127pp. (Reprinted also in 1996 as Third Edition)

 

S. H. MANTELL & K. I. KANDASAMY (1995) The UAPS Manual. Volume 2: Plant Tissue Culture Practices. Second Edition. Wye College Press. 80pp. (Reprinted also in 1996 as Third Edition)

 

A. C. JAMES, R. A. HARRIS & S. H. MANTELL (1996) Paeonia species (Tree Paeonies).  p 244 - 268. In: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry 35. Trees Volume IV. (ed YPS Bajaj) Springer - Verlag, Berlin.

 

S. Y. C. NG & S. H. MANTELL (1996) Technologies for Germplasm Conservation and Distribution of Pathogen-free Dioscorea yams to National Root Crop Research Programmes. ODA Project R4886 (H) Final Report. IITA/SARI/Wye College.

 

S. H. MANTELL (1997) Microbes intimately associated with tissue and cell cultures of tropical Dioscorea yams. p. 131 - 138. In: Pathogen and Microbial Contamination Management in Micropropagation. (ed. AC Cassells). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

G. TSOKTOURIDIS, S. H. MANTELL E. BANTINAKI & M. THANGAVELU (1997) DNA profiling and strategies for in planta localization of bacteria intimately associated with Billbergia magnifica ssp. acutisepalia. p. 115 - 122. In: Pathogen and Microbial Contamination Management in Micropropagation. (ed. AC Cassells). Kluwer Academic Publishers.

 

S. H. MANTELL, B. BOGETTI, A. M. S. BESSA, E. E. P. S. LEMOS, A. ABOUSALIM & E.E.MNENEY (1997) Micropropagation and micrografting methods suitable for safe international transfers of cashew. pp 95 - 107. In: International Cashew & Coconut Conference. C. Topper et al. (eds) BioHybrids International Ltd., Reading, UK.

 

E. E. MNENEY, S. H. MANTELL, G. TSOKTOURIDIS, S. AMIN, A. M. BESSA and M. THANGAVELU (1998) RAPD-profiling of Tanzanian cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.). pp 108 - 115. In: International Cashew & Coconut Conference. C. Topper et al. (eds) BioHybrids International Ltd, Reading, UK.

 

S. H. MANTELL & J. BOCCON-GIBOD (1998) Progress towards the realisation of biotechnological tools for genetic improvement of Dioscorea spp. pp 163 - 180. In: “L’Igname: Plante Seculaire et Culture d’Avenir - acquis et perspective de la recherche”, J. Berthaud et al. (eds). CIRAD Publications, Montpellier, France.

 

S. R. GHORAISHI & S. H. MANTELL (1998) Improved shoot growth and control of shoot-tip necrosis in Pistacia mutica and P. vera micropropagation systems. pp 163 – 172. In: Tree Biotechnology: Towards the Millenium. (eds) M.R.Davey, P.G. Alderson, K.C. Lowe, J.B. Power. Nottingham University Press, UK.

 

A. M. VIANA, C. MAZZA & S. H. MANTELL Biotechnology: potential applications for conservation and sustainable exploitation of plants from Brasilian Rainforests. pp. 277 – 299. In: Plant Conservation Biotechnology. E. Benson (ed.). Taylor & Francis Ltd, London

 

S. Y. C. NG & S. H. MANTELL (1999) In vitro multiplication and distribution of germplasm of root and tuber crops in Africa. pp. 179 – 210. In: Plant Conservation Biotechnology. E. Benson (ed.). Taylor & Francis Ltd, London.

 

A. M. VIANA & S. H. MANTELL (1998) Somatic embryogenesis of Ocotea catharinensis: An Endangered Tree of the Mata Atlantica (S. Brasil). pp3 – 30. In: Somatic Embryogenesis in Woody Plants.Vol. 5 (eds) S. Mohan Jain, Pramod K. Gupta and Ron J. Newton. Kluwer Publishers, The Netherlands.

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