Plant Biology Division: Publications (Last 12 months)

See a complete list of publications in the Noble Publication Listing.

Escamilla-Trevino , L. L. , Shen, H., Chen, F., Hernandez, G., Tang, Y., Yin, Y., Xu, Y., & Dixon, R. A. (2010). Characterizing switchgrass genes encoding monolignol biosynthesis pathway enzymes (abstract). In 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals .Clearwater Beach, Florida: Society for Industrial Microbiology.

Zhao, Q., Wang, H., Yin, Y., Xu, Y., Chen, F., & Dixon, R. A. (2010). Syringyl lignin biosynthesis is directly regulated by a secondary cell wall master switch. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), 107 (32), 14496-14501 DOI:10.1073/pnas.1009170107.

De-la-Pena, C., Badri, D. V., Lei, Z., Watson, B., Brandao, M., Silva-Filho, M.C., Sumner, L. W., & Vivanco, J. M. (2010). Root secretion of defense-related proteins is development-dependent and correlated with flowering time. Journal of Biological Chemistry, , DOI:10.1074/jbc.M110.119040.

Kaundal, R., Saina, R., & Zhao, P. X. (2010). Combining machine learning and homology-based approaches to accurately predict subcellular localization in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology, July 20, DOI:10.1104/pp.110.156851.

Ge, L., Chen, J. , & Chen, R. (In Press).Palmate-like pentafoliata1 encodes a novel Cys(2)His(2) zinc finger transcription factor essential for compound leaf morphogenesis in Medicago truncatula. Plant Signaling & Behavior. .

Wang, M., Benedito, V. A., Zhao, P. X., & Udvardi, M. K. (2010). Inferring large-scale gene regulatory networks using a low-order constraint-based algorithm. Molecular Biosystems, 6 (6), 988-998 DOI: 10.1039/b917571g.

Roossinck, M. J. (2010). Lifestyles of plant viruses. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 365 (1548), 1899-1905 DOI:10.1098/rstb.2010.0057.

Cloete, K. J., Przybylowicz, W. J., Mesjasz-Przybylowicz, J., Barnabas, A. D., Valentine, A. J. , & Botha, A. (2010). Micro-particle-induced X-ray emission mapping of elemental distribution in roots of a Mediterranean-type sclerophyll, Agathosma betulina (Berg.) Pillans, colonized by Cryptococcus laurentii. Plant Cell and Environment, 33 (6), 1005-1015 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2010.02122.x.

Li, L., Cheng, N - H., Hirschi, K. D., & Wang, K. (2010). Structure of Arabidopsis chloroplastic monothiol glutaredoxin AtGRXcp. Acta Crystallographica section D Biological Crystallography, 66 (6), 725-732 DOI:10.1107/S0907444910013119.

Ali, A., & Roossinck, M. J. (2010). Genetic bottlenecks during systemic movement of Cucumber mosaic virus vary in different host plants. Virology, 404, 279–283 DOI:10.1016/j.virol.2010.05.017.

Brechenmacher, L., Lei, Z., Libault, M., Findley, S., Sugawara, M., Sadowsky, M. J. , Sumner, L. W., & Stacey, G. (2010). Soybean metabolites regulated in root hairs in response to the symbiotic bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum . Plant Physiology, 153 (4), 1808-1822 DOI:10.1104/pp.110.157800 .

Chen, J. , Yu, J., Ge, L., Wang, H., Berbel, A., Liu, Y., Chen, Y., Li, G., Tadege, M., Wen, J. Q., Cosson, V, Mysore, K. S., Ratet, P., Madueno, F, Bai, G, & Chen, R. (2010). Control of dissected leaf morphology by a Cys(2)His(2) zinc finger transcription factor in the model legume Medicago truncatula. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107 (23), 10754-10759 DOI:10.1073/pnas.1003954107.

Brown, R. N., Barker, R., Warnke, S. E., Cooper, L. D. , Brilman, L. A., Mian, M. A. , Jung, G., & Sim, S - C. (2010). Identification of quantitative trait loci for seed traits and floral morphology in a field-grown Lolium perenne X Lolium multiflorum mapping population. Plant Breeding, 129 (1), 29-34 DOI:10.1111/j.1439-0523.2009.01653.x .

Ishiga, Y., Uppalapati, S. R., Ishiga, T., & Bender, C. L. (2010). Exogenous coronatine, but not coronafacic acid or methyl jasmonate, restores the disease phenotype of a coronatine-defective mutant of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato on tomato seedlings. Journal of General Plant Pathology, 76 (3), 188-195 DOI: 10.1007/s10327-010-0228-3.

Yin, X., & J. Zhang, Z. (2010). Recent patents on plant transgenic technology. Recent Patents on Biotechnology. (pp. 98-111). .

Zhao, J., Pang, Y., & Dixon, R. A. (2010). The mysteries of proanthocyanidin transport and polymerization. Plant Physiology, 153 (2), 437 DOI:10.1104/pp.110.155432.

Wang, K., Uppalapati, S. R., Zhu, X., Dinesh-Kumar, S. P., & Mysore, K. S. (2010). SGT1 positively regulates the process of plant cell death during both compatible and incompatible plant–pathogen interactions. Molecular Plant Pathology, 11 (5), 597-611 DOI:10.1111/j.1364-3703.2010.00631.

Dobritsa, A. A., Lei, Z., Nishikawa, S - I., Urbanczyk-Wochniak, E., Huhman, D. V., Preuss, D., & Sumner, L. W. (2010). LAP5 and LAP6 encode anther-specific proteins with similarity to chalcone synthase essential for pollen exine development in Arabidopsis thaliana . Plant Physiology, May 4, DOI:10.1104/pp.110.157446 .

Uppalapati, S. R., Young, C. A., Marek, S. M., & Mysore, K. S. (2010). Phymatotrichum (cotton) root rot caused by Phymatotrichopsis omnivora: retrospects and prospects. Molecular Plant Pathology, 11 (3), 325-334 DOI:10.1111/j.1364-3703.2010.00616.

Ragauskas, A. J., Pu, Y., Jung, H-J., Foston, M., Sannigrahi, P., Ziebell, A., Davis, M., Chen, F., Dixon, R. A., Davidson, B. H., Studer, M. H., & Wyman, C. E. (2010). A perspective on pretreatment chemistry: What we know and need to know (abstract). In 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals .Clearwater Beach, Florida: Society for Industrial Microbiology.

Dien, B. S. , Miller, D. J., O'Bryan, P. J. , Hector, R. E., Dixon, R. A., Chen, F., McCaslin, M., & Reisen, P. (2010). Biochemical conversion of reduced lignin alfalfa stems into ethanol (abstract). In 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals .Clearwater Beach, Florida: Society for Industrial Microbiology.

Zeng, Y., Saar, B. G. , Chen, F., Liu, Y., Dixon, R. A., Himmel, M. E. , Xie, S., & Ding, S-Y. (2010). Label-free mapping of lignin and cellulose in lignin-down-regulated alfalfa cell walls with coherent Raman microscopy (abstract). In 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals .Clearwater Beach, Fl: Society for Industrial Microbiology.

Dixon, R. A. (2010). Lignin modification for biomass improvement-benefits and consequences (abstract). In 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals .Clearwater Beach, Florida: Society for Industrial Microbiology.

Shen, H., Yin, Y., Chen, F., Xu, Y., & Dixon, R. A. (2010). A systematic prediction of NAC transcription factors for improving biomass yield and quality in relation to lignocellulosic bioenergy production (abstract). In 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemical .Clearwater Beach, Florida: Society for Industrial Microbiology.

Shen, H., Fu, C-X., Xiao, X., Tang, Y., Wang, Z - Y., Chen, F., & Dixon, R. A. (2010). Plant cell-wall recalcitrance and saccharification efficiency of lowland switchgrass variety Alamo (abstract). In 32nd Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals .Clearwater Beach, Florida: Society for Industrial Microbiology.

Muthappa, S.-K., Udayakumar, M., & Mysore, K. S. (2010). Functional characterization of water-deficit stress responsive genes using RNAi. In R. Sunkar (Ed.), Plant Stress Tolerance: Methods and Protocols. (pp. 193-206). Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

Wangdi, T., Uppalapati, S. R., Nagaraj, S., Ryu, C-M., Bender, C. L., & Mysore, K. S. (2010). A role for chloroplast-localized Thylakoid formation 1 (THF1) in bacterial speck disease development. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 5 (4), 425-427 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.148106.

Wangdi, T., Uppalapati, S. R., Nagaraj, S., Ryu, C-M., & Mysore, K. S. (2010). A virus-induced gene silencing screen identifies a role for Thylakoid Formation1 in Pseudomonas syrinage pv. tomato induced disease symptom development in tomato and Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 152 (1), 281-292 DOI:10.1104/pp.109.148106.

Muthappa, S.-K., & Mysore, K. S. (2010). Assessing functional role of three water deficit stress-induced genes in nonhost disease resistance using virus-induced gene silencing in Nicotiana benthamiana. Plant Signaling & Behavior, 5 (5), 586-590 DOI:10.1016/j.plaphy.2009.09.005.

Sanchez, D.H., Szymanski, J., Erban, A., Udvardi, M. K., & Kopka, J. (2010). Mining for robust transcriptional and metabolic responses to long-term salt stress: a case study on the model legume Lotus japonicus. Plant Cell and Environment, 33 (4), 468-480 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.2009.02047.x .

Srivastava, A. C., & Duvvuru Muni , R. R. (2010). Phytoremediation of cyanide. In M. Ashraf, M. Ozturk and M. S. A. Ahmad, Eds., Plant Adaptation and Phytoremediation. (pp. 399-426). New York, USA: Springer.

Guo, Z., Fujioka, S., Blancaflor, E. B. , Miao, S., Guo, X., & Li, J. (2010). TCP1 modulates brassinosteroid biosynthesis by regulating the expression of the key biosynthetic gene DWARF4 in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell, 22 (4), 1161–1173 DOI:10.1105/tpc.109.069203.

Naoumkina, M., Modolo, L. V. , Huhman, D. V., Urbanczyk-Wochniak, E., Tang, Y., Sumner, L. W., & Dixon, R. A. (2010). Genomic and coexpression analyses predict multiple genes involved in triterpene saponin biosynthesis in Medicago truncatula. Plant Cell, 22, 850-866 DOI:10.1105/tpc.109.073270 .

Dixon, R. A., Pang, Y., & Peel, G. J. (2010). Epicatechin Glucosyltransferase. United States Patent , US 2010/0064387 A1.

Morgan, R. L., Zhou, H., Lehto, E., Nguyen, N. , Bains, A. , Wang, X., & Ma, W. (2010). Catalytic domain of the diversified Pseudomonas syringae type III effector HopZ1 determines the allelic specificity in plant hosts. Molecular Microbiology, 76 (2), 437-455 DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2958.2010.07107.x .

Valentine, A. J. (2010). Comment on ‘Big science, little science’. Embo Reports, 11 (3), 152 DOI:10.1038/embor.2010.16.

Anonymous, P.B. (2010). Research-Ph.D's. Jeremy Murray, Shanmugam Rajasekar, Yuhui Chen, Xiaoqiang Wang and Senior research associate Jimmy Stein. Legacy, 4 (1), 10-13.

Kim, S-C., Chapman, K. D., & Blancaflor, E. B. (2010). Fatty acid amide lipid mediators in plants. Plant Science, 178, 411-419 DOI:10.1016/j.plantsci.2010.02.017.

Srivastava, A. C., Palanichelvam, K., Ma, J., Steele, J., Blancaflor, E. B. , & Tang, Y. (2010). Collection and analysis of expressed sequence tags derived from laser capture microdissected switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L. Alamo) vascular tissues. BioEnergy Research, February 14DOI:10.1007/s12155-010-9080-8.

Bais, P., Moon, S. M., He, K., Leitao, R., Walk, T., Sucaet, Y., Barken, L., Wohlgemuth, G., Roth, M. R., Wurtele, E. S., Dixon, P., Fiehn, O., Lange, B. M. , Shulaev, V., Sumner, L. W., Welti, R., Nikolau, B. J., Rhee, S. Y. , & Dickerson, J. (2010). PlantMetabolomics.org: A web portal for plant metabolomics experiments. Plant Physiology, 152, 1807-1816 DOI:10.1104/pp.109.151027 .

Wang, Y., Jha, A. K. , Chen, R., Doonan, J., & Yang, M. (2010). Polyploidy-associated genomic instability in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genesis, 48 (4), 254-263 DOI:10.1002/dvg.20610.

Gao, L-L., Kamphuis, L. G., Kakar, K., Edwards, O. R. , Udvardi, M. K., & Singh, K. B. (2010). Identification of potential early regulators of aphid resistance in Medicago truncatula via transcription factor expression profiling. New Phytologist, 186, 980-994 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03229.x .

Craven, K. D. (2010). Enhancement of biomass and productivity on grasses. United States Patent , US 2010/0024076 A1.

Uppalapati, S. R., Mysore, K. S., Li, W., Sumner, L. W., & Dixon, R. A. (2010). Disease resistant plants. United States Patent , US 2010/0017913 A1.

Lefebvre, B., Timmers, T., Mbengue, M., Moreau, S., Hervé, C., Tóth, K., Bittencourt-Silvestre, J., Klaus, D., Deslandes, L., Godiard, L., Murray, J., Udvardi, M. K., Raffaele, S., Mongrand, S., Cullimore, J., Gamas, P., Niebel, A., & Ott, T. (2010). A remorin protein interacts with symbiotic receptors and regulates bacterial infection. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), 107 (5), 2343-2348 DOI:10.1073/pnas.0913320107.

Meier, I., Zhou, X. , Brkljacic, J., Rose, A., Zhao, Q., & Morgan, X. (2010). Targeting proteins to the plant nuclear envelope (abstract). In Biochemical Society Annual Symposium No. 77 2009 (pp. 733–740). Oxford Brookes University, UK: Portland Press.

Roossinck, M. J., Saha, P., Wiley, G. B., Quan, J., White, J. D., Lai, H., Chavarria, F., Shen, G., & Roe, B. A. (2010). Ecogenomics:using massively parallel pyrosequencing to understand virus ecology. Molecular Ecology, 19 (Suppl. 1), 81-88 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2009.04470.x.

Chapman, K. D., & Blancaflor, E. B. (2010). Fatty acid amide hydrolase and the metabolism of N-acylethanolamine lipid mediators in plants. In T. Munnik (Ed.), Lipid Signaling in Plants/Plant Cell Monographs. (pp. 293-306). Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Rincon-Zachary, M., Teaster, N. D., Sparks, J. A., Valster, A. H., Motes, C. M., & Blancaflor, E. B. (2010). Fluorescence resonance energy transfer-sensitized emission of yellow cameleon 3.60 reveals root zone-specific calcium signatures in Arabidopsis in response to aluminum and other trivalent cations. Plant Physiology, , DOI:10.1104/pp.109.147256.

Senthil-Kumar, M., Hema, R., Suryachandra, T. R. , Rame Gowda, H. V., Gopalakrishna, R. , Rama, N., Udayakumar, M., & Mysore, K. S. (2010). Functional characterization of three water deficit stress-induced genes in tobacco and Arabidopsis: An approach based gene down regulation. Plant Physiology Biochemistry, 48, 35-44 DOI:10.1016/j.plaphy.2009.09.005.

Jiang, Q., Zhang, J - Y., Guo, X., Bedair, M., Sumner, L. W., Bouton, J. H., & Wang, Z - Y. (2010). Improvement of drought tolerance in white clover (Trifolium repens) by transgenis expression of a transaction factor gene WXP1. Functional Plant Biology, 37, 157-165 DOI:10.1071/FP09177.

Jambunathan, N., Penaganti, A., Tang, Y., & Mahalingam, R. (2010). Modulation of redox homeostasis under suboptimal conditions by Arabidopsis nudix hydrolase 7. Plant Biology, 10, doi:10.1186/1471-2229-10-173.

Broz, A. K., Broeckling, C. D., De-la-Pena, C., Lewis, M. R., Greene, E., Callaway, R. M., Sumner, L. W., & Vivanco, J. M. (2010). Plant neighbor indentity influences plant biochemistry and physiology related to defence. Plant Biology, 10, 115 DOI:1471-2229/10/115.

Wei, T., Huang, T-S., McNeil, J., Laliberte, J-F., Hong, J., Nelson, R. S., & Wang, A. (2010). Sequential recruitment of the endoplasmic reticulum and chloroplasts for plant potyvirus replication. Journal of Virology, 84 (2), 799-809 DOI:10.1128/JVI.01824-09.

Escamilla-Trevino , L. L. , Shen, H., Uppalapati, S. R., Ray, T., Tang, Y., Hernandez, T., Yin, Y., Xia, Y., & Dixon, R. A. (2010). Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum) possesses a divergent family of cinnamoyl CoA reductases with distinct biochemical properties. New Phytologist, 185 (1), 143-155 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.03018.x .

Dai, X., Wang, G., Yang, D - S., Tang, Y., Broun, P., Marks, M. D., Sumner, L. W., Dixon, R. A., & Zhao, P. X. (2010). TrichOME: A comparative omics database for plant trichomes. Plant Physiology, 152, 44-54 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.145813.

Li, H., Benedito, V. A., Udvardi, M. K., & Zhao, P. X. (2009). TransportTP: A two-phase classification approach for membrane transporter prediction and characterization. BMC Bioinformatics, 10 (418), DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-10-418.

Benedito, V. A., Li, H., Dai, X., He, J., Kaundal, R., Torres-Jerez, I., Harrison, M. J., Tang, Y., Zhao, P. X., & Udvardi, M. K. (2009). Genomic inventory and transcriptional analysis of Medicago truncatula transporters. Plant Physiology, 152, 1716-1730 DOI: 10.1104/pp.109.148684.

Kaundal, R., & Raghava, G. P. (2009). RSLpred: An integrative system for predicting subcellular localization of rice proteins combining compositional and evolutionary information. Proteomics, 9 (9), 2324–2342 DOI:10.1002/pmic.200700597.

Dixon, R. A., Paiva, N. L., Xie, D., & Sharma, S. B. (2009). Genetic manipulation of condensed tannins. World Intellectual Property Organization, WO 2006/010096 A2.

Kwak, Y., Bae, D-W., Mysore, K. S., & Kim, H. (2009). Different oxidative burst patterns occur during host and nonhost resistance responses triggered by Xanthomonas campestris in pepper. Journal of Plant Biotechnology, 36, 244-254.

Hou, G., & Blancaflor, E. B. (2009). Fern root development. In Beeckman, T. (Ed.), Root Development: Annual Plant Reviews. (pp. 192-208). Malden, Massachusetts, USA: Blackwell Publishing.

Bamunusinghe, D., Hemenway, C. L. , Nelson, R. S., Sanderfoot, A. A., Ye, C-M., Silva, M. A. , Payton, M., & Verchot-Lubicz, J. (2009). Analysis of Potato virus X replicase and TGBp3 subcellular locations. Virology, 393 (2), 272-285 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.08.002.

Dyachok, J. , Yoo, C. M., Palanichelvam, K., & Blancaflor, E. B. (2009). Sample preparation for fluorescence imaging of the cytoskeleton in fixed and living plant roots. In Gavin, R. H. (Ed.), Cytoskeleton Methods and Protocols : Methods in Molecular Biology series. (pp. 157-169). Totowa, New Jersey: Humana Press.

Harries, P. A. , Park, J - W., Sasaki, N., Ballard, K. D., Maule, A. J., & Nelson, R. S. (2009). Differing requirements for actin and myosin by plant viruses for sustained intercellular movement. PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), 106 (41), 17594-17599 DOI:10.1073/pnas.0909239106.

Farag, M. A., Deavours, B., de Fatima, A., Naoumkina, M., Dixon, R. A., & Sumner, L. W. (2009). Integrated metabolite and transcript profiling identify a biosynthetic mechanism for Hispidol in Medicago truncatula cell cultures. Plant Physiology, 151 (3), 1096-1113 DOI:10.1104/pp.109.141481.

Ott, T., Sullivan, J., James, E. K., Flemetakis, M., Gunthur, C., Gibon, Y., Ronson, C., & Udvardi, M. K. (2009). Absence of symbiotic leghemoglobins alters bacteroid and plant cell differentiation during development of Lotus japonicus root nodules. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 22 (7), 800-808 DOI:10.1094/MPMI-22-7-0800.

Guether, M., Balestrini, R., Hannah, M., He, J., Udvardi, M. K., & Bonfante, P. (2009). Genome-wide reprogramming of regulatory networks, transport, cell wall and membrane biogenesis during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in Lotus japonicus. New Phytologist, 182, 200-212 DOI:10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02725.x.

Gruber, V., Blanchet, S., Diet, A., Zahaf, O., Boulem, A., Kakar, K., Alunni, B., Udvardi, M. K., Frugier, F., & Crespi, M. (2009). Identification of transcription factors involved in root apex responses to salt stress in Medicago truncatula. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 281 (1), 55-66 DOI:10.1007/s00438-008-0392-8.

Tsui, C. K. , Marshall, W., Yokoyama, M. L. , Honda, D., Lippmeier, J. C. , Craven, K. D., Peterson, P. D., & Berbee, M. L. (2009). Labyrinthulomycetes phylogeny and its implications for the evolutionary loss of chloroplasts and gain of ectoplasmic gliding. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 50 (1), 129-140 DOI:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.09.027.

Kim, S-C., Kang, L., Nagaraj, S., Blancaflor, E. B. , Mysore, K. S., & Chapman, K. D. (2009). Mutations in Arabidopsis fatty acid amide hydrolase reveal that catalytic activity influences growth but not sensitivity to abscisic acid or pathogens. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284 (49), 34065-34074 DOI:10.1074/jbc.M109.059022.

Rogers, C., Wen, J. Q., Chen, R., & Oldroyd, G. (2009). Deletion based reverse genetics in Medicago truncatula. Plant Physiology, 151 (3), 1077-1086 DOI:10.1104/pp.109.142919.

Hernandez, G., Valdes-Lopez, O., Ramirez, M., Goffard, N., Weiller, G., Aparicio-Fabre, R., Fuentes, S. I. , Erban, A., Kopka, J., Udvardi, M. K., & Vance, C.P. (2009). Global changes in the transcript and metabolic profiles during symbiotic nitrogen fixation in phosphorus-stressed common bean plants. Plant Physiology, 151 (3), 1221-1238 DOI:10.1104/pp.109.143842.

Uppalapati, S. R., Marek, S. M., Lee, H-K. , Nakashima, J., Tang, Y., Sledge, M. K., Dixon, R. A., & Mysore, K. S. (2009). Global gene expression profiling during Medicago truncatula-Phymatotrichopsis omnivora interaction reveals a role for jasmonic acid, ethylene, and the flavonoid pathway in disease development. MPMI - Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 22 (1), 7-17 DOI:10.1094/MPMI -22-1-0007.

Myers, T., Chengedza, S., Lightfoot, S., Pan, Y., Dedmond, D., Cole, L., Tang, Y., & Benbrook, D. M. (2009). Flexible heteroarotinoid (Flex-Het) SHetA2 inhibits angiogenesis in Vitro and in Vivo. Investigational New Drugs, 27 (4), 304-318 DOI:10.1007/s10637-008-9175-7.

Tadege, M., Wang, T. L. , Wen, J. Q., Ratet, P., & Mysore, K. S. (2009). Mutagenesis and beyond! Tools for understanding legume biology. Plant Physiology, 151 (3), 978-984 DOI:10.1104/pp.109.144097.

Jiang, Q., Zhang, J., Guo, X., Monteros, M. J., & Wang, Z - Y. (2009). Physiological characterization of transgenic alfalfa (Medicago sativa) plants for improved drought tolerance. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 170 (8), 969-978 DOI:10.1086/600138.

Libault, M., Joshi, T., Benedito, V. A., Xu, D. , Udvardi, M. K., & Stacey, G. (2009). Legume transcription factor genes: what makes legumes so special? Plant Physiology, 151, 991-1001 DOI:10.1104/pp.109.144105.

Puckette, M., Peal, L., Steele, J., Tang, Y., & Mahalingam, R. (2009). Ozone responsive genes in Medicago truncatula: Analysis by suppression subtraction hybridization. Journal of Plant Physiology, 166, 1284-1295, DOI:10.1016/j.jplph.2009.01.009.

Reichert, A., He, X-Z., & Dixon, R. A. (2009). Phenylalanine ammonia-lyase (PAL) from tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum): characterization of the four tobacco PAL genes and active heterotetrameric enzymes. Biochemical Journal, 424, 233–242 DOI:10.1042/BJ20090620 .

Ishiga, Y., Uppalapati, S. R., Ishiga, T., Elavarthi, S., Martin, B., & Bender, C. L. (2009). The phytotoxin coronatine induces light-dependent reactive oxygen species in tomato seedlings. New Phytologist, 181 (1), 147-160 DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2008.02639.x.