Prof Karl Kunert
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KARL KUNERT, formerly Professor in Plant Science at the University of Pretoria and Senior Research Fellow at AECI in South Africa, is currently a Marie Curie Fellow in the Africa College at Leeds University, UK. He has over 30 years of research and development experience in both academic and industrial working environments. Besides his strong interest in teaching bio-entrepreneurship, his specific research interest is in applying advanced agricultural biotechnology methods to provide crops tailored to market demands with better defenses against abiotic stresses and also to evaluate plants as ‘bio-factories’ for foreign protein production. Central to his research interest is revealing a greater understanding of the particular function of the protease-protease inhibitor system in these processes.
My Book Chapters
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| Kunert K, Vorster J, Bester C, Cullis C, Rajasekaran K, Jacks T, Finley J. 2002. DNA microchip technology in the plant tissue culture industry. In: Crop Biotechnology, ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 829. American Chemical Society, USA, pp 86-96. |
My Journal Articles
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Cullis C, Chimwamurombe P, Kunert K, Vorster J. (2022) Perspective on the present state and future usefulness of marama bean (Tylosema esculentum). Food and Energy Security :1-11.
10.1002/fes3.422  |
| Kunert KJ, Botha A-M, Oberholster PJ, Yocgo R, Chimwamurombe P, Vorster J, Foyer CH. (2020) Factors facilitating sustainable scientific partnerships between developed and developing countries. Outlook on Agriculture 49(3):204-214.
10.1177/0030727020939592 |
| Kunert K, Vorster BJ . (2020) In search for drought-tolerant soybean: is the slow-wilting phenotype more than just a curiosity?. Journal of Experimental Botany 71(2):457-460.
10.1093/jxb/erz235 |
| Kibido T, Kunert K, Makgopa M, Greve M, Vorster BJ . (2019) Improvement of rhizobium‐soybean symbiosis and nitrogen fixation under drought. Food and Energy Security :e117.
10.1002/fes3.177 |
| Juan Vorster, Chris Cullis, Karl Kunert. (2019) Plant Vacuolar Processing Enzymes. Frontiers in Plant Science :00497.
10.3389/fpls.2019.00479 |
| Cullis C, Lawler DW, Chimwamurombe P, Kunert K, Bbebe N, Vorster J. (2019) Development of marama bean, an orphan legume, as a crop. Food and Energy Security e00164:1-12.
10.1002/fes3.164 |
| Cristopher Cullis, Percy Chimwamurombe, Nigel Barker, Karl Kunert, Juan Vorster. (2018) Orphan Legumes Growing in Dry Environments: Marama Bean as a Case Study. Frontiers in Plant Science 9:11999.
10.3389/fpls.2018.01199 |
| Magdeleen Cilliers, Stefan van Wyk, Phillipus van Heerden, Karl Kunert, Juan Vorster. (2018) Identification and changes of the drought-induced cysteine protease transcriptome in soybean (Glycine max) root nodules. Journal of Experimental and Environmental Botany 148:59-69.
10.1016/j.envexpbot.2017.12.005 |
| Priyen Pillay, Karl Kunert, Eugene Makgopa, Chris Cullis, Juan Vorste. (2016) Agroinfiltration contributes to VP1 recombinant protein degradation. Bioengineered 7(6):459-477.
10.1080/21655979.2016.1208868 |
| Foyer CH, Lam H-M, Nguyen HT, Siddique KHM, Varshney RK, Colmer TD, Cowling W, Bramley H, Mori TA, Hodgson JM, Cooper JW, Miller AJ, Kunert K, Vorster J, Cullis C, Ozga JA, Wahlqvist ML, Liang Y, Shou H, Shi K, Yu J, Fodor N, Kaiser BN, Wong F-L, Valliyodan B, Considine MJ. (2016) Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production. Nature Plants 2:16112.
10.1038/nplants.2016.112 |
| Pillay P, Kunert KJ, van Wyk S, Makgopa ME, Cullis CA, Vorster BJ. (2016) Agroinfiltration contributes to VP1 recombinant protein degradation. Bioengineered 7(6):459-477.
10.1080/21655979.2016.1208868 |
| Kunert K, Vorster BJ, Fenta BA, Kibido T, Dionisio G, Foyer CH. (2016) Drought stress responses in soybean roots and nodules. Frontiers in Plant Science 7(1015)
10.3389/fpls.2016.01015 |
| Van Wyk SG, Kunert KJ, Cullis CA, Pillay P, Makgopa ME, Schluter U , Vorster BJ. (2016) The future of cystatin engineering. Plant Science 246:119-127.
10.1016/j.plantsci.2016.02.016 |
| van Wyk SG, Du Plessis M, Cullis CA, Kunert KJ, Vorster BJ. (2014) Cysteine protease and cystatin expression and activity during soybean nodule development and senescence. BMC Plant Biology 14(294)
10.1186/s12870-014-0294-3 |
| Pillay P, Schlüter U, van Wyk S, Kunert KJ, Vorster BJ. (2014) Proteolysis of recombinant proteins in bioengineered plant cells. Bioengineered 5(1):15-20.
10.4161/bioe.25158 |
| Vorster BJ, Schlüter U, du Plessis M, van Wyk S, Makgopa ME, Ncube I, Quain MD, Kunert K, Foyer CH. (2013) The Cysteine Protease – Cysteine Protease Inhibitor System Explored in Soybean Nodule Development. Agronomy 3(3):550-570.
10.3390/agronomy3030550 |
| Vorster B, Schlüter U, du Plessis M, van Wyk S, Makgopa M, Ncube I, Quain M, Kunert K, Foyer C. (2013) The cysteine protease–cysteine protease inhibitor system explored in soybean nodule development. Agronomy 3(3):550-570.
10.3390/agronomy3030550 |
| Vorster BJ, Schlüter U, du Plessis M, van Wyk S, Makgopa M, Ncube I, Quain M, Kunert KJ, Foyer C. (2013) The Cysteine Protease–Cysteine Protease Inhibitor System Explored in Soybean Nodule Development. Agronomy 3(3):550-570.
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| Kunert KJ, Okole B, Vorster BJ, Brewin NJ, Cullis CA. (2012) A general model for training the next generation of biotechnology entrepreneurs based on recent experience of USA-UK-South Africa collaborations. Journal of Commercial Biotechnology 18:62-66.
10.5912/jcb.525 |
| Pillay P, Kibido T, Du Plessis M, Van der Vyver C, Beyene G, Vorster BJ, Kunert KJ, Schlueter U. (2012) Use of Transgenic Oryzacystatin-I-Expressing Plants Enhances Recombinant Protein Production. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology 168(6):1608-1620.
10.1007/s12010-012-9882-6 |
| Afiukwa CA, Kunert KJ, Vorster J, Cullis CA, Ubi BE. (2011) Microsatellite association with seed protein content and flowering time in Nigerian cowpea cultivars. African Journal of Biotechnology 10:18057-18064.
10.5897/AJB10.2537 |
| Van der Vyver C, Vorster BJ, Kunert KJ, Cullis CA. (2011) Analysis of radiation-induced genome alterations in Vigna unguiculata. Research and Reports in Biology 2:89-99.
10.2147/RRB.S22790 |
| Kiggundu A, Muchwezi J, Van der Vyver C, Viljoen A, Vorster BJ, Schluter U, Kunert KJ, Michaud D. (2010) Deleterious effects of plant cystatins against the Banana weevil Cosmopolites sordidus. Archives of Insect Biochemistry and Physiology 73(2):87-105.
10.1002/arch.20342 |
| Cullis CA, Vorster BJ, van der Vyver C, Kunert KJ. (2009) Transfer of genetic material between the chloroplast and nucleus: how is it related to stress in plants?. Annals of Botany 103(4):625-633.
10.1093/aob/mcn173 |
| Vorster BJ, Kunert KJ, Cullis CA. (2002) Use of representational difference analysis for the characterization of sequence differences between date palm varieties. Plant Cell Reports 21(3):271-275.
10.1007/s00299-002-0501-9 |