Recent Publications

Nguyen TD, Sai N, Johnson AAT, Lombi E, Smith E, Doolette CL, Cavagnaro TR, Watts‐Williams SJ (2025) Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi increase aleurone layer zinc concentration but reduce overall zinc bioavailability in rice grain. Plants People Planet doi: 10.1002/ppp3.10633

Carey-Fung O, Beasley JT, Broad RC, Hellens RP, Johnson AAT (2024) Discovery of a conserved translationally repressive upstream open reading frame within the iron-deficiency response regulator IDEF2. BMC Plant Biology 24: 891

Buckley CR, Boyte JM, Albiston RL, Hyles J, Beasley JT, Johnson AAT, Trevaskis B, Fournier-Level A, Haydon MJ (2024) A circadian transcriptional sub-network and EARLY FLOWERING 3 control timing of senescence and grain nutrition in bread wheat. bioRxiv: 580927

Ricachenevsky FK, Vasconcelos W, Shou H, Johnson AAT, Sperotto RA (2023) Improving the nutritional content and quality of crops: promises, achievements, and future challenges, volume II. Frontiers in Plant Science 14: 1253581

Harrington SA, Connorton JM, Nyangoma NIM, McNelly R, Morgan YML, Aslam MF, Sharp PA, Johnson AAT, Uauy C, Balk J (2023) A two-gene strategy increases iron and zinc concentrations in wheat flour, improving mineral bioaccessibility. Plant Physiology 191: 528-541

Ibba MI, Gupta OP, Govindan V, Johnson AAT, Brinch-Pedersen H, Nikolic M, Taleon V (2022) Wheat biofortification to alleviate global malnutrition. Frontiers in Nutrition 9: 1001443

Carey-Fung O, O’Brien M, Beasley JT, Johnson AAT (2022) A model to incorporate the bHLH transcription factor OsIRO3 within the rice iron homeostasis regulatory network. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 23: 1635

Macabuhay A, Arsova B, Walker R, Johnson AAT, Watt M, Roessner U (2022) Modulators or facilitators? Roles of lipids in plant root–microbe interactions. Trends in Plant Science 27: 180-190

Beasley JT, Bonneau JP, Moreno-Moyano LT, Callahan DL, Howell KS, Tako E, Taylor J, Glahn RP, Appels R, Johnson AAT (2022) Multi-year field evaluation of nicotianamine biofortified bread wheat. The Plant Journal 109: 1168-1182

Carey-Fung O, Beasley JT, Johnson AAT (2021) Annotation and Molecular Characterisation of the TaIRO3 and TaHRZ Iron Homeostasis Genes in Bread Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Genes 12: 653

Broad RC, Bonneau JP, Beasley JT, Roden S, Sadowski P, Jewell N, Brien C, Berger B, Tako E, Glahn RP, Hellens RP, Johnson AAT (2020) Effect of rice GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase constitutive overexpression on ascorbate concentration, stress tolerance, and iron bioavailability in rice. Frontiers in Plant Science 11: 595439

Broad RC, Bonneau JP, Hellens RP, Johnson AAT (2020) Manipulation of ascorbate biosynthetic, recycling, and regulatory pathways for improved abiotic stress tolerance in plants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 21: 1790

Beasley JT, Johnson AAT, Kolba N, Bonneau JP, Glahn RP, Ozeri L, Koren O, Tako E (2020) Nicotianamine-chelated iron positively affects iron status, intestinal morphology and microbial populations in vivo (Gallus gallus). Scientific Reports 10: 2297

Naim F, Shand S, Hayashi S, O’Brien M, McGree J, Johnson AAT, Dugdale B, Waterhouse PM (2020) Are the current gRNA ranking prediction algorithms useful for genome editing in plants?. PLoS ONE 15: e0227994

Broad RC, Bonneau JP, Beasley JT, Roden S, Philips JG, Baumann U, Hellens RP, Johnson AAT (2019) Genome-wide identification and characterization of the GDP-L-galactose phosphorylase gene family in bread wheat. BMC Plant Biology 19: 515

Beasley JT, Hart JJ, Tako E, Glahn RP, Johnson AAT (2019) Investigation of nicotianamine and 2′ deoxymugineic acid as enhancers of iron bioavailability in Caco-2 cells. Nutrients 11: 1502

Beasley JT, Bonneau JP, Sanchez-Palacios JT, Moreno-Moyano LT, Callahan DL, Tako E, Glahn RP, Lombi E, Johnson AAT (2019) Metabolic engineering of bread wheat improves grain iron concentration and bioavailability. Plant Biotechnology Journal 17: 1514-1526

Ricachenevsky FK, Vasconcelos W, Shou H, Johnson AAT, Sperotto RA (2019) Improving the nutritional content and quality of crops: promises, achievements, and future challenges. Frontiers in Plant Science 10: 738

Kovalchuk N, Wu W, Bazanova N, Reid N, Singh R, Shirley N, Eini O, Johnson AAT, Langridge P, Hrmova M (2019) Wheat wounding-responsive HD-Zip IV transcription factor GL7 is predominantly expressed in grain and activates genes encoding defensins. Plant Molecular Biology 101: 41-61

Bonneau JP, O’Brien M, Plett DC, Johnson AAT (2019) Genetic pathways important for iron nutrition and biofortification of bread wheat. Annual Plant Reviews online doi: 10.1002/9781119312994.apr0628

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