OpenPlant Publications
Recent Publications
Construction of DNA Tools for Hyperexpression in Marchantia Chloroplasts
Eftychios Frangedakis, Fernando Guzman-Chavez, Marius Rebmann, Kasey Markel, Ying Yu, Artemis Perraki, Sze Wai Tse, Yang Liu, Jenna Rever, Susanna Sauret-Gueto, Bernard Goffinet, Harald Schneider, Jim Haseloff.
ACS Synth Biol. 2021 Jul 16;10(7):1651-1666
Subtelomeric assembly of a multi-gene pathway for antimicrobial defense compounds in cereals
Li Y, Leveau A, Zhao Q, Feng Q, Lu H, Miao J, Xue Z, Martin AC, Wegel E, Wang J, Orme A, Rey MD, Karafiátová M, Vrána J, Steuernagel B, Joynson R, Owen C, Reed J, Louveau T, Stephenson MJ, Zhang L, Huang X, Huang T, Fan D, Zhou C, Tian Q, Li W, Lu Y, Chen J, Zhao Y, Lu Y, Zhu C, Liu Z, Polturak G, Casson R, Hill L, Moore G, Melton R, Hall N, Wulff BBH, Doležel J, Langdon T, Han B, Osbourn A.
Nat Commun. 7;12(1):2563
Rapid and Modular DNA Assembly for Transformation of Marchantia Chloroplasts
Eftychios Frangedakis, Kasey Markel, Susana Sauret-Gueto, Jim Haseloff.
Methods Mol Biol. 2021;2317:343-365
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1472-3_21
The bundle sheath of rice is conditioned to play an active role in water transport as well as sulfur assimilation and jasmonic acid synthesis
Lei Hua, Sean R Stevenson, Ivan Reyna-Llorens, Haiyan Xiong, Stanislav Kopriva, Julian M Hibberd.
Plant J 2021 Jul;107(1):268-286
Plant-expressed virus-like particles reveal the intricate maturation process of a eukaryotic virus
Roger Castells-Graells, Jonas R. S. Ribeiro, Tatiana Domitrovic, Emma L. Hesketh, Charlotte A. Scarff, John E. Johnson, Neil A. Ranson, David M. Lawson & George P. Lomonossoff
Communications Biology volume 4, Article number: 619
Plant-made dengue virus-like particles produced by co-expression of structural and non-structural proteins induce a humoral immune response in mice.
Daniel Ponndorf, Yulia Meshcheriakova, Eva C. Thuenemann, Albor Dobon, Alonso Ross Overman, Nicholas Holton, Stuart Dowall, Emma Kennedy, Martin Stocks, George P. Lomonossoff, Hadrien Peyret
Plant Biotechnology Journal, Volume 19, Issue 4.
Natural Blues: Structure Meets Function in Anthocyanins.
Alan Houghton, Ingo Appelhagen and Cathie Martin
Plants (2021) 10(4), 726
Bluetongue Virus Particles as Nanoreactors for Enzyme Delivery and Cancer Therapy.
Eva C. Thuenemann, Duc H. T. Le, George P. Lomonossoff, and Nicole F. Steinmetz
Mol. Pharmaceutics (2021) 18, 3, 1150–1156
Efficient Production of Chimeric Hepatitis B Virus-Like Particles Bearing an Epitope of Hepatitis E Virus Capsid by Transient Expression in Nicotiana benthamiana.
Gergana Zahmanova, Milena Mazalovska, Katerina Takova,Valentina Toneva, Ivan Minkov, Hadrien Peyret, and George Lomonossoff.
Life (2021) 11(1), 64
Adaptive laboratory evolution of the fast-growing cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 11801 for improved solvent tolerance.
Vaibhav Srivastava, Ruth Amanna, Stephen J.L. Rowden, Shinjinee Sengupta, Swati Madhu, Christopher J.Howe, Pramod P. Wangikar
Journal of Bioscience and Bioengineering (2021) Volume 131, Issue 5, Pages 491-500.
An Efficient Agrobacterium‐Mediated Transformation Protocol for Hexaploid and Tetraploid Wheat.
Sadiye Hayta, Mark A. Smedley, Martha Clarke, Macarena Forner and Wendy A. Harwood
Curr Protoc. 1(3):e58.
CRISPR-Cas9 Based Genome Editing in Wheat.
Mark A Smedley, Sadiye Hayta, Martha Clarke, Wendy A Harwood
Curr Protoc (2021) Mar;1(3):e65.
A Mechanistic Model of the Regulation of Division Timing by the Circadian Clock in Cyanobacteria
Paul K. Grant, Gregory Szep, Om Patange, Jacob Halatek, Valerie Coppard, Attila Csikász-Nagy, Jim Haseloff, James C. W. Locke, Neil Dalchau & Andrew Phillips
Biophysical Journal (2020) Volume 118, Issue 12, Pages 2905-2913
Interpretation of morphogen gradients by a synthetic bistable circuit.
Paul K. Grant, Gregory Szep, Om Patange, Jacob Halatek, Valerie Coppard, Attila Csikász-Nagy, Jim Haseloff, James C. W. Locke, Neil Dalchau & Andrew Phillips
Nature Communications (2020) 11: 5545
A bipartite transcription factor module controlling expression in the bundle sheath of Arabidopsis thaliana.
Patrick J. Dickinson, Jana Kneřová, Marek Szecówka, Sean R. Stevenson, Steven J. Burgess, Hugh Mulvey, Anne-Maarit Bågman, Allison Gaudinier, Siobhan M. Brady & Julian M. Hibberd
Nature Plants (2020) 6:1468–1479
The Global Garden project: Imagining plant science.
Nicholas M. Lee, Hannah E. Hodgson, Chris Hann, Mike O’Driscoll, Samantha Stebbings, Collette Matthewman, Miriam Kent, Jenni Rant and Anne Osbourn
Plants, People, Planet (2020) 2: 602-613
Comparative analysis of early divergent land plants and construction of DNA tools for hyper-expression in Marchantia chloroplasts.
Eftychios Frangedakis, Fernando Guzman-Chavez, Marius Rebmann, Kasey Markel, Ying Yu, Artemis Perraki, Sze Wai Tse, Yang Liu, Jenna Rever, Susanna Sauret-Gueto, Bernard Goffinet, Harald Schneider and Jim Haseloff.
BioRxiv (2020) 2020.11.27.401802
A GRF-GIF chimeric protein improves the regeneration efficiency of transgenic plants.
Juan M Debernardi, David M Tricoli, Maria F Ercoli, Sadiye Hayta, Pamela Ronald, Javier F Palatnik, Jorge Dubcovsky.
Nature Biotechnology (2020) 38: 1274–1279
Formation and diversification of a paradigm biosynthetic gene cluster in plants.
Zhenhua Liu, Jitender Cheema, Marielle Vigouroux, Lionel Hill, James Reed, Pirita Paajanen, Levi Yant and Anne Osbourn.
Nature Communications (2020) 11: 5354.
Development of Novel Riboswitches for Synthetic Biology in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas.
Payam Mehrshahi, Ginnie Trinh D. T. Nguyen, Aleix Gorchs Rovira, Andrew Sayer, Marcel Llavero-Pasquina, Michelle Lim Huei Sin, Elliot J. Medcalf, Gonzalo I. Mendoza-Ochoa, Mark A. Scaife, and Alison G. Smith
ACS Synth. Biol. (2020) 9, 6, 1406–1417
Beyond natural: synthetic expansions of botanical form and function.
Nicola J. Patron
New Phytologist (2020) 2: 295-310
Systematic tools for reprogramming plant gene expression in a simple model, Marchantia polymorpha.
Sauret-Güeto S, Frangedakis E, Silvestri L, Rebmann M, Tomaselli M, Markel K, Delmans M, West A, Patron NJ, Haseloff J.
ACS Synth. Biol. 2020, 9, 4, 864–882
A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota.
Ancheng C. Huang, Ting Jiang, Yong-Xin Liu, Yue-Chen Bai, James Reed, Baoyuan Qu, Alain Goossens, Hans-Wilhelm Nützmann, Yang Bai, Anne Osbourn.
Science 10 May 2019: Vol. 364, Issue 6440
Cas9-mediated mutagenesis of potato starch branching enzymes generates a range of tuber starch phenotypes.
Tuncel, A., Corbin, K.R., Ahn‐Jarvis, J., Harris, S., Hawkins, E., Smedley, M.A., Harwood, W., Warren, F.J., Patron, N.J. and Smith, A.M.
Plant Biotechnol J (2019) 17: 2259-2271.
The protosteryl and dammarenyl cation dichotomy in polycyclic triterpene biosynthesis revisited: has this ‘rule’ finally been broken?
Michael J. Stephenson, Robert A. Field and Anne Osbourn.
Nat. Prod. Rep., 2019,36, 1044-1052
Two members of the DUF579 family are responsible for arabinogalactan methylation in Arabidopsis.
Henry Temple, Jenny C. Mortimer, Theodora Tryfona, Xiaolan Yu, Federico Lopez‐Hernandez, Mathias Sorieul, Nadine Anders, Paul Dupree
Plant Direct. 2019; 3: 1– 4.
Photographing The Fern Gametophyte Developmental Series – The First Attempt.
Deegan, J.
Pteridologist (2017) 6 (4), 263-265.
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.17067
Macrophotography of Fern Gametophytes Using a Focus Stacking System.
Deegan, J. I., & Deegan, T.
Pteridologist (2018) 6 (5), 357-360.
miRNA-mediated regulation of synthetic gene circuits in the green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Francisco J Navarro 1, David C Baulcombe
ACS Synth Biol, 2019 Feb 15;8(2):358-370.
Uncoupled activation and cyclization in catmint reductive terpenoid biosynthesis.
Lichman, B.R., Kamileen, M.O., Titchiner, G.R., Saalbach, G., Stevenson, C.E.M., Lawson, D.M., O’Connor, S.E.
Nat Chem Biol 15, 71–79 (2019).
Exploring the Impact of Terminators on Transgene Expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii with a Synthetic Biology Approach
Katrin Geisler, Mark A Scaife, Paweł M Mordaka, Andre Holzer, Eleanor V Tomsett, Payam Mehrshahi, Gonzalo I Mendoza Ochoa, Alison G Smith.
Life (Basel) 2021 Sep 14;11(9):964
https://doi.org/10.3390/life11090964