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Rebecca Dewhirst

Rebecca Dewhirst

Personal Details

Name : Rebecca Dewhirst
Email address : R.A.Dewhirst@sms.ed.ac.uk
Nationality : British
Postion : PhD student

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons), Biology, University of York (2008-2011)
Research and Funding
  • The turnover of vitamin C in harvested salad tissues : Plants are an important source of vitamin C (consisting of ascorbate and dehydroascorbic acid), which is an essential part of the human diet. This research aims to investigate the biochemical degradation pathway of vitamin C in plants.

    Research funding: BBSRC and Vitacress Salads Ltd.

Publications

Conferences

Poster presentations

  • Dewhirst R.A. and Fry S.C.: The in-vitro oxidation of vitamin C by reactive oxygen species. Young Researchers Food Sector Event, 14th November 2012, Edinburgh, UK
  • Dewhirst R.A. and Fry S.C.: Investigating the role of vitamin C degradation products in cell wall cross-linking. 13th Cell Wall Meeting, 7th-12th July 2013, Nantes, France

Oral presentations

Hobbies

  • I enjoy reading, surfing and travelling.



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