Her research has included work on
blood oranges and
high anthocyanin purple tomatoes. After a period as a
postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge she moved to the
John Innes Centre's department of genetics in 1983. She was the first to identify genes which regulated cell shape in plants. With
Liam Dolan,
Alison Mary Smith,
George Coupland,
Nicholas Harberd,
Jonathan Jones, Robert Sablowski and Abigail Amey she is a co-author of the textbook
Plant Biology. She was the editor-in-chief of
The Plant Cell, as well as the first woman and first non-American to hold this post. and the
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) most promising innovator 2014. Cathie's research into Purple Tomatoes gained her and Eugenio Butelli BBSRC's most promising innovator award in 2014. She has also been recognised by: •
Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) President's Medal, 1990 • Awarded
EMBO Membership in 2011 •
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), 2013 • BBSRC most promising innovator, 2014 • Elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018 • Awarded the
Rank Prize for Nutrition in 2021 ==References==