2025

Centre research Publications

Muhammad Arslan Mahmood, Julian R. Greenwood, Anthony A. Millar, Hendry Susila. Forum: Next-generation genome editing: no transgene, no tissue culture. Trends in Plant Science

2025

Centre research Publications

Bowerman AF, Moore M, Yadav A, Zhang J, Mortimer MD, Plšková Z, Tee EE, Au EK, Collinge DP, Estavillo GM, Chan KX, Pogson BJ. Modulation of SAL retrograde signalling promotes yield and water productivity responses in dynamic field environments. New Phytologist.

Buddle, E.A., Lawi, G.F.K. & Leach, J. “They ignore social issues”: understanding the diversity of perspectives on plant gene technologies in Indonesia. Plant Cell Rep 44, 178

Gogoi, N., Susila, H., Leach, J., Müllner, M., Jones, B., & Pogson, B. J. (2025). Developing frameworks for nanotechnology-driven DNA-free plant genome-editing. Trends in Plant Science,  30(3), 249–268.

Ivanov M. The infamous celebrities of Eagle Rest: regulating the coexistence of genetically modified and non-genetically modified crops in Australia ten years after Marsh v Baxter. Griffith Law Review, 1–23.

Ivanov, M., Buddle, E. A., & Ankeny, R. A. (2025). Regulation as key to fulfilling the promises of agricultural genomics: Going beyond bottlenecks in plant gene technology development. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, 122(6), e70277.

Tam R, Möller M, Luo R, Luo Z, Jones A, Periyannan S, Rathjen JP, Schwessinger B. Long-read genomics reveal extensive nuclear-specific evolution and allele-specific expression in a dikaryotic fungus. Genome Res. 2025 Jun 2;35(6):1364-1376.

Wenzl, C., Buddle, E. A., & Ankeny, R. A. (2025). Problematic use of sustainability claims in recent scientific literature on crop gene technologies: toward improving practices and communication. The Plant journal: for cell and molecular biology, 122(1), e70137.

Xie, Y., Roy, SJ., Schilling, RK., Liu H. Multi-modal few-shot learning for anthesis prediction of individual wheat plants. Science Direct

Under Review: Yiting Xie, Stuart J. Roy, Rhiannon K. Schilling, Bettina Berger, Huajian Liu: Hyperspectral-Based Classification of Individual Wheat Plants into Fine-Scale Reproductive Stages for Anthesis Prediction

Non-Centre funded Related Research

Barba-Espín G, Jurado-Mañogil C, Plskova Z, Kerchev PI, Hernández JA, Diaz-Vivancos P. Halophyte-based crop managements induce biochemical, metabolomic and proteomic changes in tomato plants under saline conditions. Physiol Plant. 2025 Jan-Feb;177(1):e70060.

De Smet B, Yang X, Plskova Z, Castell C, Fernández-Fernández A, Dard A, Masood J, Mhamdi A, Huang J, Vertommen D, Chan KX, Pyr Dit Ruys S, Messens J, Kerchev PI, Van Breusegem F. The nuclear sulfenome of Arabidopsis: spotlight on histone acetyltransferase GCN5 regulation through functional thiols. J Exp Bot. 2025 Apr 9;76(6):1569-1584.

2024

Centre research Publications

Raman, H., Bai, Z., McVittie, B., Mukherjee, S., Goold, H. D., Zhang, Y., Khin, N. C., Qiu, Y., Shamaya, N., Liu, S., Delourme, R., Pogson, B. J., Balasubramanian, S., & Raman, R. (2025). Genome-Wide Association Study Elucidates the Genetic Architecture of Manganese Tolerance in Brassica napus. Plant, cell & environment, 10.1111/pce.15433. Advance online publication.

Shen, C., Zhang, Y., Li, G., Shi, J., Wang, D., Zhu, W., Yang, X., Dreni, L., Tucker, M. R., & Zhang, D. (2023). MADS8 is indispensable for female reproductive development at high ambient temperatures in cereal crops. The Plant cell, 36(1), 65–84.

Xie, Y., Plett, D., Evans, M., Garrard, T., Butt, M., Clarke, K., Liu, H. Hyperspectral imaging detects biological stress of wheat for early diagnosis of crown rot disease. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Zhang, Y., Shen, C., Shi, J., Shi, J., & Zhang, D. Boosting Triticeae crop grain yield by manipulating molecular modules to regulate inflorescence architecture: insights and knowledge from other cereal crops. Journal of Experimental Botany, 75(1), 17–35.

Non-Centre funded Related Research

Andong Shi, Timothy R. Cavagnaro, Krista M. Sumby, Glenn McDonald, Matthew D. Denton, Stuart J. Roy, Rhiannon K. Schilling. Chapter Three – Impact of agronomic management on the soil microbiome: A southern Australian dryland broadacre perspective. Advances in Agronomy.

Buddle, E. A., Ankeny, R. A., Paxton, R., Harms, R. J., & Bray, H. J. (2024). Emergent Design and Unanticipated Ideas in Asynchronous Online Focus Groups: Finding an Unexpected Silver Lining in Apparent Methodological Compromise. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 23

Buddle, E. A., Stevens, K., Bray, H. J., & Ankeny, R. A. (2024). The Chicken for the Egg: Australian Motivations for Raising Backyard Chickens. Anthrozoos

Chen, J.-T. (Ed.). (2024). Plant Speed Breeding and High-throughput Technologies (1st ed.). CRC Press. (Book Chapter #5)

Greenwood JR, Lacorte-Apostol V, Kroj T, Padilla J, Telebanco-Yanoria MJ, Glaus AN, Roulin A, Padilla A, Zhou B, Keller B, Krattinger SG. Genome-wide association analysis uncovers rice blast resistance alleles of Ptr and Pia. Commun Biol. 2024 May 20;7(1):607.

Khaksefidi, R. E., Chen, W., Shen, C., Langridge, P., Tucker, M. R., & Zhang, D. (2024). The Role of Ancestral MicroRNAs in Grass Inflorescence Development. Journal of plant physiology, 304, 154417.

Luo, Z., Feng, J., Bird, A., Moeller, et al. Eight Novel Diagnostic Markers Differentiate Lineages of the Highly Invasive Myrtle Rust Pathogen Austropuccinia psidii. Plant disease, 109(4), 770–778.

Mahmood, M. A., Ahmed, N., Hussain, A., Naqvi, R. Z., Amin, I., & Mansoor, S. (2024). Dominance of Cotton leaf curl Multan virus-Rajasthan strain associated with third epidemic of cotton leaf curl disease in Pakistan. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 13532.

Muhammad Jawad Akbar Awan, Muhammad Ismail Buzdar, Asma Zia, Aiman Raza, Rubab Zahra Naqvi, Imran Amin, Shahid Mansoor. The CRISPR/Cas System for Plant Speed Breeding. Plant Speed Breeding and High-throughput Technologies, 1st edition, p27

Naqvi, R. Z., Siddiqui, H. A., Mahmood, M. A., Najeebullah, S., Ehsan, A., Azhar, M., … & Asif, M. (2022). Smart breeding approaches in post-genomics era for developing climate- resilient food crops. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 972164

Phillipov, M., Buddle, E., McLean, S., & Ankeny, R. (2024). What’s in my mince? Reader responses to news coverage about novel plant-based protein foods. Food, Culture, and Society, 1-19.

Shen, C., Yang, X., Wang, D., Li, G., & Tucker, M. R. (2024). Functional retrogression of LOFSEPs in specifying floral organs in barley. aBIOTECH, 6(1), 1–11.

Susila, H., Gawarecka, K., Youn, G., Jurić, S., Jeong, H., & Ahn, J. H. (2024).  . THYLAKOID FORMATION 1 interacts with FLOWERING LOCUS T and modulates temperature-responsive flowering in Arabidopsis. The Plant journal: for cell and molecular biology, 120(1), 60–75.

Wilson, S., Dagvadorj, B., Tam, R., et al. Multiplexed effector screening for recognition by endogenous resistance genes using positive defense reporters in wheat protoplasts. The New phytologist, 241(6), 2621–2636.

Zeeshan Nasim, Nouroz Karim, Hendry Susila, Ji Hoon Ahn. Arabidopsis B-BOX DOMAIN PROTEIN14/15/16 form a feedback loop with ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL 5 and PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTORs to regulate hypocotyl elongation. Current Plant Biology, Volume 40

Zhang, Y., Shen, C., Li, G., Shi, J., Yuan, Y., Ye, L., … & Zhang, D. (2024). MADS1-regulated lemma and awn development benefits barley yield. Nature communications, 15(1), 301

Non-peered reviewed communications

GRDC Groundcover article – The next generation is different.

Mahmood, M. A., & Greenwood, J. R. (2024). ZmGLK36 transcription factor bestows viral resistance in rice and wheat. Trends in Plant Science, 29(6), 613

Mahmood, M. A., & Greenwood, J. R. A prime example of precisely delivered DNA. Trends in genetics: TIG, S0168-9525.

Mahmood, M. A., Naqvi, R.Z., and Susila H. Bacteriophages Use RNA Decoys to Overcome CRISPR Defenses. DNA and Cell Biology, Reports, Vol. 5, No. 1

2023

Bowerman, A. F., Byrt, C. S., Roy, S. J., et al. Potential abiotic stress targets for modern genetic manipulation. The Plant cell, 35(1), 139–161.

Byrt Caitlin S. , Zhang Rose Y. , Magrath Isobel , Chan Kai Xun , De Rosa Annamaria , McGaughey Samantha. Exploring aquaporin functions during changes in leaf water potential. Frontiers in Plant Science

Ermakova, M., Woodford, R., Taylor, Z., et al. Faster induction of photosynthesis increases biomass and grain yield in glasshouse-grown transgenic Sorghum bicolor overexpressing Rieske FeS. Plant biotechnology journal, 21(6), 1206–1216

Greenwood, J. R., Zhang, X., & Rathjen, J. P. Precision genome editing of crops for improved disease resistance – ScienceDirect. Current biology : CB, 33(11), R650–R657. 

Mahmood, M.A., Greenwood, J.R. ZmGLK36 transcription factor bestows viral resistance in rice and wheat. Trends in Plant Science

Mahmood, M.A., Greenwood, J.R. A prime example of precisely delivered DNA – ScienceDirect. Trends in Genetics

Pathoumthong, P., Zhang, Z., Roy, S.J. & El Habti, A. Rapid non-destructive method to phenotype stomatal traits. Plant Methods 19, 36

Zhang, R. Y., Massey, B., Mathesius, U., & Clarke, V. C. (2023). Photosynthetic Gains in Super-Nodulating Mutants of Medicago truncatula under Elevated Atmospheric CO₂ Conditions. Plants, 12(3), 441.

Zhang, R. Y., Wild, K. H., Pottier, P., Carrasco, M. I., Nakagawa, S., & Noble, D. W. A. Developmental environments do not affect thermal physiological traits in reptiles: an experimental test and meta-analysis. Biology letters, 19(5), 20230019.

From our researchers prior to our Centre commencement:

Consumer Responses to the Use of NBTs in the Production of Food: A Systematic Literature Review
Dr Will J Grant(a), Dr Heather Bray(b), Rebekah Harms(c), Prof Rachel A. Ankeny(c), Prof Joan Leach(a)
a Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science, The Australian National University
b School of Biological Sciences, The University of Western Australia
c School of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, The University of Adelaide
ANU NBT Literature Review REVISION (foodstandards.gov.au)

Webinars

Andrew Bowerman and Barry Pogson: Abiotic stress targets for modern genetic manipulation Plantae | Plant Cell Webinar: Crop Breeding for Climate Resilience | Plantae

Robert Furbank: Climate-proofing crops – 100 Climate Conversations