J Integr Plant Biol board

Associate Professor Brett Ferguson

Integrative Legume Research Group, School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability, the University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072, Australia
E-mail: b.ferguson1@uq.edu.au
https://researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/1608
Area of expertise: legume nodulation, nitrogen fixation, Pongamia pinnata biofuel

Selected Publications:

Ferguson, B. J., Indrasumunar, A., Hayashi, S., Lin, M. H., Lin, Y. H., Reid, D. E., and Gresshoff, P. M. (2010). Molecular analysis of legume nodule development and autoregulation. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 52: 61–76.

Yun, J., Wang, C., Zhang, F., Chen, L., Sun, Z., Cai, Y., Luo, Y., Liao, J., Wang, Y., Cha, Y., Zhang, X., Ren, Y., Wu, J., Hasegawa, P. M., Tian, C., Su, H., Ferguson, B. J., Gresshoff, P. M., Hou, W., Han, T., and Li, X. (2023). A nitrogen fixing symbiosis-specific pathway required for legume flowering. Sci. Adv. 9: eade1150.

Mens, C., Hastwell, A. H., Su, H., Gresshoff, P. M., Mathesius, U., and Ferguson, B. J. (2021). Characterisation of Medicago truncatula CLE34 and CLE35 in nitrate and rhizobia regulation of nodulation. New Phytol. 229: 2525–2534.

Zhang, M., Su, H., Gresshoff, P. M., and Ferguson, B. J. (2021). Shoot-derived miR2111 controls legume root and nodule development. Plant, Cell Environ. 44: 1627–1641.

Chu, X., Su, H., Hayashi, S., Gresshoff, P. M., and Ferguson, B. J. (2022). Spatiotemporal Changes in Gibberellin Content are Required for Soybean Nodulation. New Phytol. 234: 479–493.

Ferguson, B. J., Mens, C., Hastwell, A. H., Zhang, M., Su, H., Jones, C. H., Chu, X., and Gresshoff, P. M. (2019). Legume nodulation: The host controls the party. Plant, Cell Environ. 42: 41–51.

Reid, D. E., Ferguson, B. J., and Gresshoff, P. M. (2011). Inoculation- and nitrate-induced CLE peptides of soybean control NARK-dependent nodule formation. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interact. 24: 606–618.

Ferguson, B. J., and Beveridge, C. A. (2009). Roles for auxin, cytokinin, and strigolactone in regulating shoot branching. Plant Physiol. 149: 1929–1944.

Ferguson, B. J., Ross, J. J., and Reid, J. B. (2005). Nodulation phenotypes of gibberellin and brassinosteroid mutants of pea. Plant Physiol. 138: 2396–2405.

Corcilius, L., Hastwell, A. H., Zhang, M., Williams, J., Mackay, J. P., Gresshoff, P. M., Ferguson, B. J., and Payne, R. J. (2017). Arabinosylation Modulates the Growth-Regulating Activity of the Peptide Hormone CLE40a from Soybean. Cell Chem. Biol. 24: 1347–1355.

Lin, Y. H., Lin, M. H., Gresshoff, P. M., and Ferguson, B. J. (2011). An efficient petiole-feeding bioassay for introducing aqueous solutions into dicotyledonous plants. Nat. Protoc. 6: 36–45.

Selected Registered Patents:

Gresshoff, P. M., Ferguson, B. J., and Reid, D. E. (2012). Soybean nodulation regulatory peptides and methods of use. USA patent 2012000047.

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