Alex Johnson

Plant Growth Promotion and Heat Stress Amelioration in Arabidopsis Inoculated with Paraburkholderia phytofirmans PsJN Rhizobacteria Quantified with the GrowScreen-Agar II Phenotyping Platform.

Allene Macabuhay, Borjana Arsova, Michelle Watt, Kerstin A Nagel, Henning Lenz, Alexander Putz, Sascha Adels, Mark Müller-Linow, Jana Kelm, Alexander AT Johnson, Robert Walker, Gabriel Schaaf, Ute Roessner

Journal article  |  2022  |  Plants (Basel)

High temperatures inhibit plant growth. A proposed strategy for improving plant productivity under elevated temperatures is the us..

A Model to Incorporate the bHLH Transcription Factor OsIRO3 within the Rice Iron Homeostasis Regulatory Network

Oscar Carey-Fung, Martin O'Brien, Jesse T Beasley, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2022  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Iron (Fe) homeostasis in plants is governed by a complex network of regulatory elements and transcription factors (TFs), as both F..

Modulators or facilitators? Roles of lipids in plant root-microbe interactions

Allene Macabuhay, Borjana Arsova, Robert Walker, Alexander Johnson, Michelle Watt, Ute Roessner

Journal article  |  2022  |  TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Lipids have diverse functions in regulating the plasma membrane's cellular processes and signaling mediation. Plasma membrane lipi..

Multi-year field evaluation of nicotianamine biofortified bread wheat

Jesse T Beasley, Julien P Bonneau, Laura T Moreno-Moyano, Damien L Callahan, Kate S Howell, Elad Tako, Julian Taylor, Raymond P Glahn, Rudi Appels, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLANT JOURNAL

Conventional breeding efforts for iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) biofortification of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) have been hindere..

Nicotianamine-Chelated Iron Positively Affects Iron Status, Intestinal Morphology and Microbial Populations In Vivo (Gallus Gallus)

Jesse Beasley, Alex Johnson, Elad Tako

Journal article  |  2021  |  Current Developments in Nutrition

Objectives Iron (Fe) fortification involves low dose delivery of bioavailable Fe fortificants to food products during manufacture ..

Annotation and Molecular Characterisation of the TaIRO3 and TaHRZ Iron Homeostasis Genes in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)

Oscar Carey-Fung, Jesse T Beasley, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2021  |  GENES

Effective maintenance of plant iron (Fe) homoeostasis relies on a network of transcription factors (TFs) that respond to environme..

Effect of Rice GDP-L-Galactose Phosphorylase Constitutive Overexpression on Ascorbate Concentration, Stress Tolerance, and Iron Bioavailability in Rice

Ronan C Broad, Julien P Bonneau, Jesse T Beasley, Sally Roden, Pawel Sadowski, Nathaniel Jewell, Chris Brien, Bettina Berger, Elad Tako, Raymond P Glahn, Roger P Hellens, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2020  |  FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Ascorbate (vitamin C) is an essential multifunctional molecule for both plants and mammals. In plants, ascorbate is the most abund..

Manipulation of Ascorbate Biosynthetic, Recycling, and Regulatory Pathways for Improved Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Plants

Ronan C Broad, Julien P Bonneau, Roger P Hellens, Alexander AT Johnson

Journal article  |  2020  |  INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES

Abiotic stresses, such as drought, salinity, and extreme temperatures, are major limiting factors in global crop productivity and ..

Nicotianamine-chelated iron positively affects iron status, intestinal morphology and microbial populations in vivo (Gallus gallus)

Jesse T Beasley, Alexander AT Johnson, Nikolai Kolba, Julien P Bonneau, Raymond P Glahn, Lital Ozeri, Omry Koren, Elad Tako

Journal article  |  2020  |  SCIENTIFIC REPORTS

Wheat flour iron (Fe) fortification is mandatory in 75 countries worldwide yet many Fe fortificants, such as Fe-ethylenediaminetet..

Are the current gRNA ranking prediction algorithms useful for genome editing in plants?

Fatima Naim, Kylie Shand, Satomi Hayashi, Martin O'Brien, James McGree, Alexander AT Johnson, Benjamin Dugdale, Peter M Waterhouse

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Introducing a new trait into a crop through conventional breeding commonly takes decades, but recently developed genome sequence m..