Centre Publications

2011

Delannoy E, Fujii S, Colas des Francs C, Brundrett M and Small ID (2010) Rampant Gene Loss in the Underground Orchid Rhizanthella gardneri Highlights Evolutionary Constraints on Plastid Genomes Molecular Biology and Evolution (in press) PUBMED Impact Factor: 7
Lee CP, Eubel H, O'Toole N, Millar AH (2011) Combining proteomics of root and shoot mitochondriaand transcript analysis to define constitutive and variable components in plant mitochondria Phytochemistry (in press) PUBMED Impact Factor: 3.104
Chateigner-Boutin A-L, Colas des Francs-Small C, Delannoy E, Kahlau S, Tanz S, Falcon de Longevialle A, Fujii S, Small I (2011) OTP70 is a pentatricopeptide protein of the E subgroup involved in splicing of the plastid transcript rpoC1 The Plant Journal (in press) PUBMED Impact Factor: 6.5
Fujii S, Bond CS, Small ID (2011) Selection patterns on restorer-like genes reveal a conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial genomes throughout angiosperm evolution Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (in press) PUBMED online Impact Factor: 10

2010

Narsai R, Castleden I and Whelan J (2010) Common and distinct organ and stress responsive transcriptomic patterns in Oryza sativa and Arabidopsis thaliana BMC Plant Biology 10:262 PUBMED online Impact Factor: 3.77
Tan YF, O'Toole N, Taylor NL, Millar AH (Feb 2010) Divalent metal ions in plant mitochondria and their role in interactions with protein and oxidative stress induced damage to respiratory function Plant Physiology 152(2):747-61 PUBMED online Impact Factor: 6

2009

Lister R, Pelizzola M, Dowen RH, Hawkins RD, Hon G, Tonti-Filippini J, Nery JR, Lee L, Ye Zhen, Ngo Que-Minh, Edsall L, Antosiewicz-Bourget J, Stewart R, Ruotti V, Millar AH, Thomson JA, Ren B and Ecker JR (Nov 2009) Human DNA methylomes at base resolution show widespread epigenomic differences Nature 462(7271): 315-322 PUBMED doi:10.1038/nature08514 Impact Factor: 31.4
Ito J, Taylor NL, Castleden I, Weckwerth W, Millar AH and Heazlewood JL (2009) A survey of the Arabidopsis thaliana mitochondrial phosphoproteome Proteomics Proteomics 9(17):4229-4240 PUBMED
Kühn K, Richter U, Meyer EH, Delannoy E, Falcon de Longevialle A, O'Toole N, Börner T, Millar AH, Small ID and Whelan J (2009) Phage-Type RNA Polymerase RPOTmp Performs Gene-Specific Transcription in Mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana Plant Cell (in press) PUBMED Impact Factor: 11
Baer B, Eubel H, Taylor NL, O'Toole N and Millar AH (2009) Insights into female sperm storage from the spermathecal fluid proteome of the honeybee Apis mellifera Genome Biology 10(6):R67 PUBMED Impact Factor: 10
Carrie C, Kühn K, Murcha M, Duncan O, Small I, O'Toole N and Whelan J 2009 Approaches to Defining Dual-Targeted Proteins in Arabidopsis The Plant Journal 57(6):1128-39 PUBMED Impact Factor: 7

2008

Eubel H, Meyer EH, Taylor NL, Bussell JD, O'Toole N, Heazlewood JL, Castleden I, Small ID, Smith SM and Millar AH. (October 17, 2008) Novel proteins, putative membrane transporters and an integrated metabolic network are revealed by quantitative proteomic analysis of Arabidopsis cell culture peroxisomes. Plant Physiology 148:1809-29 PUBMED Impact Factor: 6
Zhu Z, Tovchigrechko A, Baronova T, Gao Y, Douguet D, O'Toole N and Vakser IA. (2008) Large-scale structural modeling of protein complexes at low resolution. J Bioinform Comput Biol. 6(4):789-810. PUBMED Impact Factor: Unknown
O'Toole N, Hattori M, Andres C, Iida K, Lurin C, Schmitz-Linneweber C, Sugita M and Small I (June, 2008) On the expansion of the pentatricopeptide repeat gene family in plants. Molecular Biology and Evolution 25(6):1120-1128 PUBMED Impact Factor: 7
Lee C-P, Eubel H, O'Toole N and Millar AH (April 2, 2008) Heterogeneity of the mitochondrial proteome for photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic Arabidopsis metabolism. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics 7(7):1297-316 PUBMED Impact Factor: 10
O'Toole N and Vakser I (2008). Large-scale characteristics of the energy landscape in protein-protein interactions. Proteins-Structure Function and Bioinformatics 71, 144-52 PUBMED Impact Factor: 4
Gregory BD, O'Malley RC, Lister R, Urich MA, Tonti-Filippini J, Chen H, Millar AH and Ecker JR (June, 2008) A Link between RNA Metabolism and Silencing Affecting Arabidopsis Development. Developmental Cell 14(6):854-866 PUBMED Impact Factor: 15
Lister R, O'Malley RC, Tonti-Filippini J, Gregory BD, Berry CC, Millar AH and Ecker JR (April 17, 2008) Highly Integrated Single-Base Resolution Maps of the Epigenome in Arabidopsis Cell 133(3):523-36 PUBMED Impact Factor: 29

2007

Narsai R, Howell KA, Millar AH, O'Toole N, Small I and Whelan J (2007) Genome-Wide Analysis of mRNA Decay Rates and their Determinants in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Cell 19, 3418-3436 PUBMED Impact Factor: 11
Geisler-Lee J, O'Toole N, Ammar R, Provart NJ, Millar AH and Geisler M (2007) A Predicted Interactome for Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 145, 317-29 PUBMED Impact Factor: 6
Murcha MW, Elhafez D, Lister R, Tonti-Filippini J, Baumgartner M, Philippar K, Carrie C, Mokranjac D, Soll J and Whelan J (2007) Characterisation of the preprotein and amino acid transporter family in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 143, 199-212 PUBMED Impact Factor: 6
Heazlewood JL, Verboom RE, Tonti-Filippini J, Small I and Millar AH (2007) SUBA: The Arabidopsis Subcellular Database. Nucleic Acids Research 35, D213-8. PUBMED Impact Factor: 8
Pusnik M., Small I., Read L.K., Fabbro T., and Schneider A. (2007). Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins in T. brucei function in mitochondrial ribosomes. Molecular and Cellular Biology 27, 6876-88 PUBMED Impact Factor: 7
Heazlewood JL, Tonti-Filippini J, Verboom RE and Millar AH (2005) Combining experimental and predicted datasets for determination of the subcellular location of proteins in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology 139, 598-609 PUBMED Impact Factor: 6
News

Centre Researcher Sota Fujii part of Rhizanthella Team

Western Australia's Mysterious Underground Orchid Revealed

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View of the Rhizanthella gardneri capitulum with its shoot emerging from the deeply buried bulb.
Close up of the individual flowers in a dark Rhizanthella gardneri capitulum.
Close up of the individual flowers in a white Rhizanthella gardneri capitulum.
partially closed Rhizanthella gardneri capitulums right after their discovery.
fully open Rhizanthella gardneri capitulum at the base of a Melaleuca uncinata trunk.
purification of genomic DNA from Rhizanthella gardneri
Another view of the Rhizanthella gardneri capitulum with its shoot emerging from the deeply buried bulb
Rhizanthella gardneri plastid genome. Exons are displayed as blue arrows, introns as lines joining exons. tRNAs as black triangles, rRNAs in red. inverted repeats as yellow arrows and fragments or pseudogenes in orange. Ψ: pseudogenes. frag: fragment.

Rhizanthella gardneri is a cute, quirky and critically endangered orchid that lives all its life underground. It even blooms underground, making it virtually unique amongst plants. Last year, using radioactive tracers, scientists at The University of Western Australia showed that the orchid gets all its nutrients by parasitising fungi associated with the roots of broom bush, a woody shrub of the WA outback. Now, with less than 50 individuals left in the wild, Plant Energy Biology scientists have made a timely and remarkable discovery about its genome.

Read our story in Cosmos magazine
Link to the UWA media release

Publication:

Delannoy E, Fujii S, Colas des Francs C, Brundrett M and Small ID (2011) "Rampant Gene Loss in the Underground Orchid Rhizanthella gardneri Highlights Evolutionary Constraints on Plastid Genomes" Molecular Biology and Evolution (in press) online

Centre Researcher Sota Fujii awarded by the JSPS 独立行政法人日本学術振興会

Sota Fujii Awarded:

Plant Energy Biology Research Associate Dr Sota Fujii is off to a terrific start in 2011. Following on from his recent publication (Full Text) in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), he has won both a Japanese research award and a fellowship to continue his valuable work in plant genetics.

Dr Fujii was selected from 300 agricultural scientists for the position of "Super Postdoctoral Fellow" by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). The fellowship is funded by the Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture.

I will do my best to use this precious money from Japanese Taxpayers to contribute to the advancement of life science at global level, like my hero Dr. Barbara McClintock,

pledged Dr Fujii.

Dr Fujii's research on restorer to fertility genes in plants has also earned him a Inoue Research Award for Young Scientists. This prize for early career scientists highlights the great work being done by this promising young researcher.


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