Department of Biological and Chemical Sciences

Interests:

Plant cell wall biochemistry
Post-harvest physiology of fruit
Caribbean wild plants and their uses

I teach BIOC3053 Cell Signalling and Introduction to the Plant Kingdom (in BIOL1051 Biodiversity I) and part of BIOL2053 Physiology of Plants & Animals and BIOL3053 Developmental Physiology.  I also am one of the team lecturers for ECOL2453 Caribbean Island Biogeography and have prepared a website for this on Caribbean Island Terrestrial Habitats.

Current research:

Development and ripening of Scotch Bonnet pepper, especially the biochemical changes underlying 
ripening-related softening.

Some Recent Publications:

Books:

Carrington, S. (1998) Wild Plants of the Eastern Caribbean, Macmillan Education Ltd., London & Basingstoke.    

Refereed Papers:

Worrell, D.B., Carrington, C.M.S. & Huber, D.J. (1998) Growth, maturation and ripening of breadfruit, Artocarpus altilis
    (Park.) Fosb. Scientia Horticulturae 76: 17-28 . 

Carrington, C.M.S. & King, R.A.G. (2001) Fruit development and ripening in Barbados Cherry, Malpighia emarginata
    DC.  Scientia Horticulturae 92(1): 1-7

Worrell, D.B., Carrington, C.M.S. & Huber, D.J. (2002) The use of low temperature and coatings to maintain storage
    quality of breadfruit, Artocarpus altilis (Parks.) Fosb. Postharvest Biology & Technology 25 (1): 33-40.

Carrington, C.M.S., Vendrell, M. & Dominguez-Puigjaner, E. (2002) Characterizsation of an endo-(1,4)-ß-mannanase
    (LeMAN4) expressed in ripening tomato fruit. Plant Science 163 (3): 599-606.