Alex Johnson

Wheat wounding-responsive HD-Zip IV transcription factor GL7 is predominantly expressed in grain and activates genes encoding defensins

Nataliya Kovalchuk, Wei Wu, Natalia Bazanova, Nicolas Reid, Rohan Singh, Neil Shirley, Omid Eini, Alexander AT Johnson, Peter Langridge, Maria Hrmova, Sergiy Lopato

Journal article  |  2019  |  Plant Molecular Biology

KEY MESSAGE: Several classes of transcription factors are involved in the activation of defensins. A new type of the transcription..

Wheat wounding-responsive HD-Zip IV transcription factor GL7 is predominantly expressed in grain and activates genes encoding defensins (vol 101, pg 41, 2019)

Nataliya Kovalchuk, Wei Wu, Natalia Bazanova, Nicolas Reid, Rohan Singh, Neil Shirley, Omid Eini, Alexander AT Johnson, Peter Langridge, Maria Hrmova, Sergiy Lopato

Journal article  |  2019  |  Plant Molecular Biology

Due to an unfortunate turn of events, the panels O to S are missing in Fig. 8 of the original publication. The correct Fig. 8 and ..

Metabolic engineering of bread wheat improves grain iron concentration and bioavailability

Jesse T Beasley, Julien P Bonneau, Jose T Sanchez-Palacios, Laura T Moreno-Moyano, Damien L Callahan, Elad Tako, Raymond P Glahn, Enzo Lombi, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2019  |  Plant Biotechnology Journal

Bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is cultivated on more land than any other crop and produces a fifth of the calories consumed by..

Editorial: Improving the Nutritional Content and Quality of Crops: Promises, Achievements, and Future Challenges

Felipe Klein Ricachenevsky, Marta Wilton Vasconcelos, Huixia Shou, Alexander Arthur Theodore Johnson, Raul Antonio Sperotto

Journal article  |  2019  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

Investigation of Baseline Iron Levels in Australian Chickpea and Evaluation of a Transgenic Biofortification Approach

Grace ZH Tan, Sudipta S Das Bhowmik, Thi ML Hoang, Mohammad R Karbaschi, Hao Long, Alam Cheng, Julien P Bonneau, Jesse T Beasley, Alexander AT Johnson, Brett Williams, Sagadevan G Mundree

Journal article  |  2018  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

CRISPR-Cas systems: ushering in the new genome editing era

Fernando Perez Rojo, Rikard Karl Martin Nyman, Alexander Arthur Theodore Johnson, Maria Pazos Navarro, Megan Helen Ryan, William Erskine, Parwinder Kaur

Journal article  |  2018  |  Bioengineered

Finger on the pulse: Pumping iron into chickpea

GZH Tan, SS Das Bhowmik, TML Hoang, MR Karbaschi, AAT Johnson, B Williams, SG Mundree

Journal article  |  2017  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

Characterisation of the nicotianamine aminotransferase and deoxymugineic acid synthase genes essential to Strategy II iron uptake in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Jesse T Beasley, Julien P Bonneau, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2017  |  PLOS ONE

Single event resolution of plant plasma membrane protein endocytosis by TIRF microscopy

A Johnson, G Vert

Journal article  |  2017  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

Diurnal Changes in Transcript and Metabolite Levels during the Iron Deficiency Response of Rice

Jamie Selby-Pham, Adrian Lutz, Laura T Moreno-Moyano, Berin A Boughton, Ute Roessner, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2017  |  RICE

Increasing ascorbate levels in crops to enhance human nutrition and plant abiotic stress tolerance

Richard C Macknight, William A Laing, Sean M Bulley, Ronan C Broad, Alexander AT Johnson, Roger P Hellens

Journal article  |  2017  |  Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Identification and molecular characterization of the nicotianamine synthase gene family in bread wheat

Julien Bonneau, Ute Baumann, Jesse Beasley, Yuan Li, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2016  |  Plant Biotechnology Journal

Association of Increased Grain Iron and Zinc Concentrations with Agro-morphological Traits of Biofortified Rice

Laura T Moreno-Moyano, Julien P Bonneau, Jose T Sanchez-Palacios, Joseph Tohme, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2016  |  Frontiers in Plant Science

Plant regeneration through indirect organogenesis and genetic transformation of Eucalyptus polybractea RT Baker

Shyama C Fernando, Jason QD Goodger, Samantha Saucedo Gutierrez, Alexander AT Johnson, Ian E Woodrow

Journal article  |  2016  |  Industrial Crops and Products

Unraveling K63 Polyubiquitination Networks by Sensor-Based Proteomics.

Alexander Johnson, Grégory Vert

Journal article  |  2016  |  Plant Physiology

The polybiquitination of proteins can take on different topologies depending on the residue from ubiquitin involved in the chain f..

Identification of a Stelar-Localized Transport Protein That Facilitates Root-to-Shoot Transfer of Chloride in Arabidopsis

Bo Li, Caitlin Byrt, Jiaen Qiu, Ute Baumann, Maria Hrmova, Aurelie Evrard, Alexander AT Johnson, Kenneth D Birnbaum, Gwenda M Mayo, Deepa Jha, Sam W Henderson, Mark Tester, Mathew Gilliham, Stuart J Roy

Journal article  |  2016  |  Plant Physiology

Biofortified indica rice attains iron and zinc nutrition dietary targets in the field

Kurniawan R Trijatmiko, Conrado Duenas, Nikolaos Tsakirpaloglou, Lina Torrizo, Felichi Mae Arines, Cheryl Adeva, Jeanette Balindong, Norman Oliva, Maria V Sapasap, Jaime Borrero, Jessica Rey, Perigio Francisco, Andy Nelson, Hiromi Nakanishi, Enzo Lombi, Elad Tako, Raymond P Glahn, James Stangoulis, Prabhjit Chadha-Mohanty, Alexander AT Johnson, et al.

Journal article  |  2016  |  Scientific Reports

Internalization and vacuolar targeting of the brassinosteroid hormone receptor BRI1 are regulated by ubiquitination.

Sara Martins, Esther MN Dohmann, Anne Cayrel, Alexander Johnson, Wolfgang Fischer, Florence Pojer, Béatrice Satiat-Jeunemaître, Yvon Jaillais, Joanne Chory, Niko Geldner, Grégory Vert

Journal article  |  2015  |  Nature Communications

Brassinosteroids are plant steroid hormones that control many aspects of plant growth and development, and are perceived at the ce..

Laterally resolved speciation of arsenic in roots of wheat and rice using fluorescence-XANES imaging

Peter M Kopittke, Martin D de Jonge, Peng Wang, Brigid A McKenna, Enzo Lombi, David J Paterson, Daryl L Howard, Simon A James, Kathryn M Spiers, Chris G Ryan, Alexander AT Johnson, Neal W Menzies

Journal article  |  2014  |  NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Localization of iron in rice grain using synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy and high resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry

Bianca Kyriacou, Katie L Moore, David Paterson, Martin D de Jonge, Daryl L Howard, James Stangoulis, Mark Tester, Enzo Lombi, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2014  |  JOURNAL OF CEREAL SCIENCE

Transcription factors involved in brassinosteroid repressed gene expression and their regulation by BIN2 kinase.

Dawei Zhang, Huaxin Ye, Hongqing Guo, Abbagail Johnson, Honghui Lin, Yanhai Yin

Journal article  |  2014  |  Plant signaling & behavior

Brassinosteroids (BRs) play important roles in plant growth, development and responses to environmental cues. BRs signal through p..

Hyperaccumulation of zinc by Noccaea caerulescens results in a cascade of stress responses and changes in the elemental profile

Siavash Foroughi, Alan JM Baker, Ute Roessner, Alexander AT Johnson, Antony Bacic, Damien L Callahan

Journal article  |  2014  |  Metallomics

Transcription factor HAT1 is phosphorylated by BIN2 kinase and mediates brassinosteroid repressed gene expression in Arabidopsis.

Dawei Zhang, Huaxun Ye, Hongqing Guo, Abbagail Johnson, Meishan Zhang, Honghui Lin, Yanhai Yin

Journal article  |  2014  |  The Plant Journal

Plant steroid hormones, brassinosteroids (BRs), play essential roles in modulating cell elongation, vascular differentiation, sene..

Transcription factors involved in brassinosteroid repressed gene expression and their regulation by BIN2 kinase

D Zhang, H Ye, H Guo, A Johnson, H Lin, Y Yin

Journal article  |  2014  |  Plant Signaling & Behavior

Crops for a future climate Foreword

Roslyn Gleadow, Alexander Johnson, Michael Tausz

Journal article  |  2013  |  Functional Plant Biology - an international journal of plant function

Enhancing the chelation capacity of rice to maximise iron and zinc concentrations under elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide

Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2013  |  Functional Plant Biology - an international journal of plant function

Characterization of the wheat gene encoding a grain-specific lipid transfer protein TdPR61, and promoter activity in wheat, barley and rice

Nataliya Kovalchuk, Jessica Smith, Natalia Bazanova, Tatiana Pyvovarenko, Rohan Singh, Neil Shirley, Ainur Ismagul, Alexander Johnson, Andrew S Milligan, Maria Hrmova, Peter Langridge, Sergiy Lopato

Journal article  |  2012  |  Journal of Experimental Botany

Fluorescence-activated cell sorting for analysis of cell type-specific responses to salinity stress in Arabidopsis and rice.

Aurelie Evrard, Bastiaan OR Bargmann, Kenneth D Birnbaum, Mark Tester, Ute Baumann, Alexander AT Johnson

Book Chapter  |  2012  |  Methods in Molecular Biology

Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) provides a rapid means of isolating large numbers of fluorescently tagged cells from a ..

The scutellar vascular bundle-specific promoter of the wheat HD-Zip IV transcription factor shows similar spatial and temporal activity in transgenic wheat, barley and rice

Nataliya Kovalchuk, Wei Wu, Omid Eini, Natalia Bazanova, Margaret Pallotta, Neil Shirley, Rohan Singh, Ainur Ismagul, Serik Eliby, Alexander Johnson, Peter Langridge, Sergiy Lopato

Journal article  |  2012  |  Plant Biotechnology Journal

Investigation of a His-rich arabinogalactan-protein for micronutrient biofortification of cereal grain

Wan M Aizat, James M Preuss, Alexander AT Johnson, Mark A Tester, Carolyn J Schultz

Journal article  |  2011  |  Physiologia Plantarum

Constitutive Overexpression of the OsNAS Gene Family Reveals Single-Gene Strategies for Effective Iron- and Zinc-Biofortification of Rice Endosperm

Alexander AT Johnson, Bianca Kyriacou, Damien L Callahan, Lorraine Carruthers, James Stangoulis, Enzo Lombi, Mark Tester

Journal article  |  2011  |  PLoS One

Root-Specific Transcript Profiling of Contrasting Rice Genotypes in Response to Salinity Stress

Olivier Cotsaftis, Darren Plett, Alexander AT Johnson, Harkamal Walia, Clyde Wilson, Abdelbagi M Ismail, Timothy J Close, Mark Tester, Ute Baumann

Journal article  |  2011  |  Molecular Plant

Cell type-specific expression of sodium transporters improves salinity tolerance of rice.

Darren Plett, Alexander Johnson, Andrew Jacobs, Mark Tester

Journal article  |  2010  |  GM Crops and Food: Biotechnology in Agriculture and the Food Chain

Improved Salinity Tolerance of Rice Through Cell Type-Specific Expression of AtHKT1;1

Darren Plett, Gehan Safwat, Matthew Gilliham, Inge Skrumsager Moller, Stuart Roy, Neil Shirley, Andrew Jacobs, Alexander Johnson, Mark Tester

Journal article  |  2010  |  PLoS One

Image analysis as an adjunct to manual HER-2 immunohistochemical review: a diagnostic tool to standardize interpretation.

Lynne Dobson, Catherine Conway, Alan Hanley, Alex Johnson, Sean Costello, Anthony O'Grady, Yvonne Connolly, Hilary Magee, Daniel O'Shea, Michael Jeffers, Elaine Kay

Journal article  |  2010  |  Histopathology

AIMS: Accurate determination of HER-2 status is critical to identify patients for whom trastuzumab treatment will be of benefit. A..

Defensin promoters as potential tools for engineering disease resistance in cereal grains

Nataliya Kovalchuk, Ming Li, Finni Wittek, Nicolas Reid, Rohan Singh, Neil Shirley, Ainur Ismagul, Serik Eliby, Alex Johnson, Andrew S Milligan, Maria Hrmova, Peter Langridge, Sergiy Lopato

Journal article  |  2010  |  Plant Biotechnology Journal

Oryza Tag Line, a phenotypic mutant database for the Genoplante rice insertion line library

Pierre Larmande, Celine Gay, Mathias Lorieux, Christophe Perin, Matthieu Bouniol, Gaetan Droc, Christophe Sallaud, Pascual Perez, Isabelle Barnola, Corinne Biderre-Petit, Jerome Martin, Jean Benoit Morel, Alexander AT Johnson, Fabienne Bourgis, Alain Ghesquiere, Manuel Ruiz, Brigitte Courtois, Emmanuel Guiderdoni

Journal article  |  2008  |  Nucleic Acids Research

Novel insights into the genomics of rice root adaptive development

CP Perin, JR Rebouillat, AB Brasileiro, AD Dievart, PG Gantet, JCB Breitler, AATJ Johnson, BC Brigitte, NA Ahmadi, MD de Raissac

Book Chapter  |  2007

Activation tagging systems in rice

AAT Johnson, SM Yu, M Tester

Book Chapter  |  2007

In the wake of the double helix: from the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution, Roberto Tuberosa, Ronald L. Phillips and Mike Gale (eds), Proceedings of an International Congress, University of Bologna, Italy, 27–31 May 2003, Avenue Media (www.avenuemedia.it), Bologna, Italy, 2005, XLII 722. pp. €25(pbk), ISBN 88 86 817 48 7. Order forms are available at www.doublehelix.too.it/ under 'Proceedings'.

J Prohens, F Nuez

Book Chapter  |  2006  |  Plant Genetic Resources: Characterization and Utilization

Spatial control of transgene expression in rice (Oryza sativa L.) using the GAL4 enhancer trapping system

AAT Johnson, JM Hibberd, C Gay, PA Essah, J Haseloff, M Tester, E Guiderdoni

Journal article  |  2005  |  Plant Journal

Transmission of a Bacillus thuringiensis cry3Aa transgene from diploid to tetraploid potato using 4x-2x hybridization: effect of ploidy increase on transgene expression and implications for TPS hybrid production

AAT Johnson, BA Nault, RE Veilleux

Journal article  |  2003  |  Plant Breeding

Integration of transgenes into sexual polyploidization schemes for potato (Solanum tuberosum L.)

AAT Johnson, RE Veilleux

Journal article  |  2003  |  Euphytica

Selection of monoploids for protoplast fusion and generation of intermonoploid somatic hybrids of potato

AAT Johnson, SM Piovano, V Ravichandran, RE Veilleux

Journal article  |  2001  |  American Journal of Potato Research

Plant Breeding Reviews

Book Chapter  |  2000