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  1. Cooper DC, Spillane C, and Hodgkin T (Eds.) (2000) Broadening the Genetic Bases of Crop Production, IPGRI, FAO: Rome, CABI: Wallingford. 480pp.
  2. van Hintum ThJL., Brown AHD, Spillane C and Hodgkin T (2000) Core collections of Plant Genetic Resources. IPGRI Technical Bulletin No. 3, IPGRI:Rome, 48pp.
  3. Thro AM and Spillane C (1999) Biotechnology assisted participatory plant breeding: Complement or contradiction? CGIAR Program on Participatory Research and Gender Analysis, Working Document No.4, CIAT: Cali. 150pp. http://www.prgaprogram.org/prga/
  4. FAO (1997a) The State of the World's Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, FAO: Rome, 336pp.
  5. Spillane C, Engels J, Fassil F, Withers L, Gass T, and Cooper D (1999) Strengthening National Programmes for Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. IPGRI:Rome, Issues in Genetic Resources No. 8. 65pp.

    6. Research Papers, Reviews and Book Chapters

  6. Nembaware V, Lupindo B, Schouest K, Spillane C, Scheffler K, Seoighe C. (2008) Genome-wide survey of allele-specific splicing in humans. BMC Genomics (in press)
  7. Selcuklu, D. & Spillane C (2008) Translational Epigenetics: Clinical Approaches to Epigenome Therapeutics for Cancer. Epigenetics (in press)
  8. Morris S & Spillane C (2008) GM Directive deficiencies in the EU. EMBO Reports (in press)
  9. O’Brien M, Spillane C, Meade C, and Mullins E (2008) Impact of Arable Farming on Irish Biodiversity: A Scarcity of Studies Hinders a Rigorous Assessment. Biology & Environment (in press).
  10. Garnier O, Laoueillé-Duprat S, Spillane C. (2008) Genomic imprinting in plants. Epigenetics 3(1)
  11. Martin, G., Schouest, K., Kovvuru, P., and Spillane, C. (2007). Prediction and validation of MicroRNA targets in animal genomes. Journal of Biosciences. 32(6): 1049-1052.
  12. Spillane C, Schmid K, Laouielle-Duprat S, Pien S, Escobar JM, Gheyselinck J, Gagliardini V, Wolfe K, and Grossniklaus U. (2007) The imprinted MEDEA gene is a neo-functional paralog undergoing positive Darwinian selection. Nature 448:349-52.
  13. Fouhy, Y., Scanlon, K., Schouest, K., Spillane C, Crossman, L., Avison M.B., Ryan, R.P., Dow, J.M. (2007). DSF-dependent cell-cell signaling and virulence in the nosocomial pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia. Journal of Bacteriology. 189:4964-8.
  14. Haun WJ, Laouielle-Duprat S, O’Connell MJ, Spillane C, Grossniklaus U, Phillips AR, Kaeppler SM and Springer NM (2007) Genomic imprinting, methylation and molecular evolution of maize Enhancer of zeste (Mez) homologs. Plant Journal 49:325-37.
  15. Garnier O, Laouielle S and Spillane C (2007) Genomic imprinting in plants. In: Wilkins J (ed) Genomic Imprinting, Landes Biosciences: Georgetown, Texas.
  16. Spillane C, Baroux C, Escobar-Restrepo J-M, Page DR, Laouielle S and Grossniklaus U (2005) Transposons and tandem repeats are not involved in the control of genomic imprinting at the MEDEA locus in Arabidopsis. Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol. 69: 1-12.
  17. Spillane C, Curtis MD, and Grossniklaus U (2004) Apomixis technology development – virgin births in farmers’ fields? Nature Biotechnology 22:687-691.
  18. Collinge MA, Spillane C, Köhler C, Gheyselinck J and Grossniklaus U (2004) Genetic interaction of an origin recognition complex subunit and the Polycomb group gene MEDEA during seed development. Plant Cell 16:1035-46.
  19. Köhler C, Hennig L, Spillane C, Pien S, Gruissem W and Grossniklaus U (2003) The Polycomb group protein MEDEA regulates seed development by controlling expression of the MADS-box gene PHERES1. Genes and Development 17:1540-53.
  20. Grossniklaus, U. Moore, J.M., Brukhin, V., Gheyselinck, J., Baskar, R., Vielle-Calzada, J-P., Baroux, C., Page, D.R., and Spillane, C. (2002). Engineering of apomixis in crop plants: what can we learn from sexual model systems. In : Vasil IK (Ed) Plant Biotechnology 2002 & Beyond, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, pp. 309-314.
  21. Baroux C, Spillane C and Grossniklaus U (2002) Evolutionary origins of the endosperm in flowering plants. Genome Biology 3:1026.1-1026.5.
  22. Baroux C, Spillane C and Grossniklaus U (2002) Genomic imprinting during seed development. Advances in Genetics ;46:165-214.
  23. Spillane C, Thormann I, Brown AHD, and Hodgkin T (2002) Crop Core Collections: Global Status and Review, Genetic Resource and Crop Evolution (manuscript in prep).
  24. Spillane C, Steimer A and Grossniklaus U (2001) Apomixis in agriculture: the quest for clonal seeds. Sexual Plant Reproduction 14:179-187.
  25. Spillane C, Vielle-Calzada JP and Grossniklaus U (2001) APO2001: A sexy apomixer in Como, Meeting Report, Plant Cell 13:1480-91.
  26. Grossniklaus U, Spillane C, Page DR and Koehler C (2001) Genomic imprinting and seed development: endosperm formation with and without sex. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 4, 21-27.
  27. Spillane C, MacDougall C, Stock C, Koehler C, Vielle-Calzada JP, Nunes SM, Grossniklaus U and Goodrich J (2000) Interaction of the Arabidopsis polycomb group proteins FIE and MEA mediates their common phenotypes. Current Biology 10, 1535-1538.
  28. Spillane C, Vielle-Calzada J-P and Grossniklaus U (2000) Parent-of-origin effects and seed development: Genetics and epigenetics. In: Hui TH, Khachatourians GG, McHughen A, Nip WK, Scorza R (Eds) Handbook of Transgenic Food, New York:Marcel-Dekker Inc.
  29. Spillane C and Gepts P (2000) Evolutionary and genetic perspectives on the dynamics of crop genepools. In: Cooper DC, Spillane C and Hodgkin T (Eds.) (2000) Broadening the Genetic Bases of Crop Production, CABI:Wallingford.
  30. Vielle-Calzada JP, Thomas J, Spillane C, Coluccio A, Hoeppner MA, and Grossniklaus U (1999) Maintenance of genomic imprinting at the Arabidopsis medea locus requires zygotic DDM1 activity. Genes and Development 13:2971-2982.
  31. Brown AHD and Spillane C (1999) Implementing core collections - principles, procedures, progress, problems and promise. In: Johnson RC and Hodgkin T (Eds) Core Collections for Today and Tomorrow, Crop Science Society of America: Madison, Wisconsin, p1-10.
  32. Spillane C, Baulcombe DC and Kavanagh TA (1998) Genetic engineering of the potato cultivar Glenroe for increased resistance to potato virus X. Irish Journal of Food and Agriculture 37: 173-182.
  33. Spillane C, Verchot J, Kavanagh TA and Baulcombe DC (1997) Concurrent suppression of virus replication and rescue of movement-defective virus in transgenic plants expressing the coat protein of potato virus X. Virology 236:76-84.
  34. Gilbert J, Spillane C, Kavanagh TA and Baulcombe DC (1997) Elicitation of Rx-mediated resistance to PVX in potato does not require new RNA synthesis and may involve a latent hypersensitive response. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 11: 833-835.
  35. Spillane C (1995) Strategies for the Genetic Engineering of Resistance to Potato Virus X. Ph.D. thesis, Trinity College: Dublin, pp211.
  36. Kavanagh TA and Spillane C (1995) Strategies for engineering virus resistance in transgenic plants, Euphytica 85:149-158.
  37. Kavanagh TA and Spillane C (1992) Genes with your greens, Technology Ireland 24: 24-26.

    38. Perspectives, Policy & Outreach-related Reviews and Book Chapters

  38. O’Mahony C & Spillane C (2004) Open-access publishers: Knowledge brokers in the electronic age. Irish Medical Times (in press).
  39. Spillane C and Doyle A (2004) Poverty alleviation, plant biotechnology & the CGIAR International Agricultural Research Centres. In: Christou P and Klee H (Eds) Handbook of Plant Biotechnology, Wiley Europe, (in press). ISBN: 0-471-85199-X.
  40. Spillane C (2002), Agricultural Biotechnology and Developing Countries: Proprietary Knowledge and Diffusion of Benefits, in T. Swanson (ed.), Biotechnology, Agriculture and the Developing World, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.
  41. Thro AM and Spillane C (2002) Biotechnology-assisted Participatory Plant Breeding: Opportunity or Oxymoron?, In: Sperling L and Ashby JA (Eds) Participatory Plant Breeding and rural development. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, (in press).
  42. Spillane C and Pinto Y (2001) Biosafety in agricultural biotechnology: Balancing social and environmental impacts. In: Swanson T (ed). The Economics of Managing Biotechnologies, Kluwer:Netherlands, Journal of Biological Physics, pp3-49.
  43. Persley GJ, Spillane C, Eggen A, Lehn-Jenszen H, Chiono C, Wagner H and Hammond K (2000) Modern biotechnology and the management of animal genetic resources: policy issues. FAO Animal Biotechnology Working Group, FAO: Rome.
  44. Spillane C and Thro AM (2000) Farmer participatory research and pro-poor agricultural biotechnology. Centre for Development Research: Copenhagen, Den Ny Verden Vol 1 (In Danish), 45pp. http://www.cdr.dk
  45. Spillane C (2000) Can agricultural biotechnology contribute to poverty alleviation? CABI AgBiotechNet, Vol 2 March ABN 042 http://www.agbiotechnet.com
  46. Spillane C (1999) Recent developments in biotechnology as they relate to plant genetic resources for food and agriculture. FAO Commission on Genetic Resources:Rome, Background Study Paper No. 9., pp64. http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO/AGRICULT/cgrfa/docs.htm#bsp
  47. Cooper HD, Spillane C, Anishetty M, Griffee P (1998) Promoting the identification, conservation and use of wild food plant for food and agriculture: the FAO Global Plan of Action, Cahiers Options Mediterraneenes, vol 38. ISSN 1022-1379.
  48. Cooper HD, Spillane C, Kermali I and Anishetty M (1996) Harnessing plant genetic resources for sustainable agriculture. Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 114.
  49. Esquinas JT, Spillane C and Stannard C (1997) Biodiversity and biotechnology for food and agriculture. International action for the conservation and utilization of plant genetic resources for food and agriculture, Chapter in book on UN Earth Charter.
  50. Brown AHB and Spillane C (1998) Implementing core collections - principles, procedure, progress, problems and promise, In: CSSA/IPGRI (1998) Core collections ‘98, Proceedings of Crop Science Society of America Core Collections Workshop, October 1998.
  51. Cooper HD, Spillane C and Anishetty NM (1997) The Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Paper presented at BRG/Solagral/IER International Forum on “Sustainable management of plant genetic resources in the African Savannah, Bamako, Mali, 26-28 February, 1997.

    52. Non-authored Government Commissioned Publications

  52. FAO (2000) Biotechnology, Biosafety and Biodiversity for Sustainable Agriculture. FAO Position paper for UN Commission on Sustainable Development review of Ch14 of Agenda 21, May 2000, UN, New York.
  53. FAO (1996a) Draft Global Plan of Action for the Conservation and Sustainable Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture, Document ITCPGR/96/5-Rev1 presented to, (and unanimously adopted by 150 governments), the 4th International Technical Conference on Plant Genetic Resources, Leipzig, Germany, June 17-23, 1996, p62.
  54. FAO (1995a) Recent International Developments of Relevance to the Draft Code of Conduct for Plant Biotechnology, Document CPGR-6/95/15 of the Sixth Session of the FAO Commission on Plant Genetic Resources, June 19-39, 1995, p13.
  55. Dept of Agriculture (1995) Country Report on the Status of Plant Genetic Resources in the Republic of Ireland, National Report submitted to the FAO by the Irish Department of Agriculture, Dublin, Ireland, p28 (invited contribution).