Staff Profile:Dr Matthew Ordidge
- Name:
- Dr Matthew Ordidge
- Job Title:
- Research Fellow, Harborne Building
- Responsibilities:
- Areas of Interest:
Currently I have taken on the role of Scientific Curator for the National Fruit Collection at Brogdale. As part of a project funded by Defra, the University have taken over the responsibility for maintaining and curating the collection along with our project partners the Farm Advisory Services Team (FAST). The National Fruit Collection contains over 3,500 named cultivars of apple, pear, plum, cherry, bush fruit, vine and cob nut. In line with Defra’s commitments to the protection of plant genetic resources we aim to maintain the collection as a genetic resource and to increase its value for use in future breeding programmes.
Previous studies include an interdisciplinary project looking into the 'Implications of a nutrition-driven food policy for land use and the rural environment', funded as part of the RELU programme by RCUK (ESRC, BBSRC, NERC). This was in collaboration with colleagues in the Centre for Horticulture and Landscape, the Schools of Food Biosciences and Agriculture, Policy and Development and the Soft Fruit Technology Group. We investigated the effects of novel UV-filtering plastics on the nutritional content of protected soft fruit and lettuce. My other interests are in the molecular control and physiology of floral development.
- Research groups / Centres:
- Crops research group
- Publications:
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YNumber of items: 9.
2011
- Ordidge, M., Garcia-Macias, P., Battey, N.H., Gordon, M.H., John, P., Lovegrove, J.A., Vysini, E., Wagstaffe, A. and Hadley, P. (2011) Development of colour and firmness in strawberry crops is UV light sensitive, but colour is not a good predictor of several quality parameters. Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. ISSN 0022-5142 doi: 10.1002/jsfa.4744 (In Press)
- van Nocker, S., Berry, G., Najdowski, J., Luffman, M., Forsline, P., Alsmairat, N., Beaudry, R., Nair, M. G. and Ordidge, M. (2011) Genetic diversity of red-fleshed apples (Malus). Euphytica. ISSN 0014-2336 doi: 10.1007/s10681-011-0579-7 (In Press)
- Tsormpatsidis, E., Ordidge, M., Henbest, R. G. C., Wagstaffe, A., Battey, N. H. and Hadley, P. (2011) Harvesting fruit of equivalent chronological age and fruit position shows individual effects of UV radiation on aspects of the strawberry ripening process. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 74. pp. 178-185. ISSN 0098-8472 doi: 10.1016/j.envexpbot.2011.05.01
2010
- Ordidge, M., García-Macías, P., Battey, N. H., Gordon, M. H., Hadley, P., John, P., Lovegrove, J. A., Vysini, E. and Wagstaffe, A. (2010) Phenolic contents of lettuce, strawberry, raspberry, and blueberry crops cultivated under plastic films varying in ultraviolet transparency. Food Chemistry, 119 (3). pp. 1224-1227. ISSN 0308-8146 doi: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.08.039
2007
- Garcia Macias, P., Ordidge, M., Vysini, E., Waroonphan, S., Battey, N.H., Gordon, M.H., Hadley, P., John, P., Lovegrove, J.A. and Wagstaffe, A. (2007) Changes in the flavonoid and phenolic acid contents and antioxidant activity of red leaf lettuce (Lollo Rosso) due to cultivation under plastic films varying in ultraviolet transparency. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 55 (25). pp. 10168-10172. ISSN 0021-8561 doi: 10.1021/jf071570m
- Garcia-Macias, P., Ordidge, M., Vysini, E., Waroonphan, S., Battey, N. H., Gordon, M. H., Hadley, P., John, P., Lovegrove, J. A. and Wagstaffe, A. (2007) Changes in the flavonoid and phenolic acid contents and antioxidant activity of red leaf lettuce (Lollo Rosso) due to cultivation under plastic films varying in ultraviolet transparency. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 55 (25). pp. 10168-10172. ISSN 0021-8561 doi: 10.1021/jf071570m
- Chiurugwi, T., Pouteau, S., Nicholls, D., Tooke, F., Ordidge, M. and Battey, N. (2007) Floral meristem indeterminacy depends on flower position and is facilitated by acarpellate gynoecium development in Impatiens balsamina. New Phytologist, 173 (1). pp. 79-90. ISSN 0028-646X doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2006.01899.x
2005
- Ordidge, M., Chiurugwi, T., Tooke, F. and Battey, N. H. (2005) Leafy, terminal flower1 and agamous are functionally conserved but do not regulate terminal flowering and floral determinacy in Impatiens balsamina. Plant Journal, 44 (6). pp. 985-1000. ISSN 0960-7412 doi: 10.1111/j.1365-3113X.2005.02607.x
- Tooke, F., Ordidge, M., Chiurugwi, T. and Battey, N. (2005) Mechanisms and function of flower and inflorescence reversion. Journal of Experimental Botany, 56 (420). pp. 2587-2599. ISSN 0022-0957 doi: 10.1093/jxb/eri254
