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Sydney Institute of Agriculture
The Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Australia
E-mail: brent.kaiser@sydney.edu.au
https://www.sydney.edu.au/science/about/our-people/academic-staff/brent-kaiser.html
Area of expertise: Nutrient transport, legume nitrogen fixation, N transporters and metabolism
Selected Publications:
Chiasson, D. M., Loughlin, P. C., Mazurkiewicz, D., Mohammadidehcheshmeh, M., Fedorova, E. E., Okamoto, M., McLean, E., Glass, A. D., Smith, S. E., Bisseling, T., Tyerman, S. D., Day, D. A., and Kaiser, B. N. (2014). The soybean SAT1 (Symbiotic Ammonium Transporter 1) encodes a bHLH transcription factor involved in nodule growth and NH4+ transport. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 111: 4814–4819.
Kaiser, B. N., Finnegan, P. M., Tyerman, S. D., Whitehead, L. F., Bergersen, F. J., Day, D. A., and Udvardi, M. K. (1998). Characterisation of an ammonium transport protein from the peribacteroid membrane of soybean nodules. Science 281: 1202–1206.
Kaiser, B. N., Rawat, S. R., Siddiqi, M. Y., Masle, J., and Glass, A. D. (2002). Functional analysis of an Arabidopsis T-DNA “knockout” of the high-affinity NH4+ transporter AtAMT1;1. Plant Physiol. 130: 1263–1275.
Kaiser, B. N., Moreau, S., Castelli, J., Thomson, R., Lambert, A., Bogliolo, S., Puppo, A., and Day, D. A. (2003). The soybean NRAMP homologue, GmDMT1, is a symbiotic divalent metal transporter capable of ferrous iron transport. Plant J. 35: 295–304.
Garnett, T., Conn, V., Plett, D., Conn, S., Zanghellini, J., Mackenzie, N., Enju, A., Francis, K., Holtham, L., Roessner, U., Boughton, B., Bacic, A., Shirley, N., Rafalski, A., Dhugga, K., Tester, M., and Kaiser, B. N. (2013). The response of the maize nitrate transport system to nitrogen demand and supply across the lifecycle. New Phytol. 198: 82–94.
Garnett, T., Conn, V., and Kaiser, B. N. (2009). Root based approaches to improving nitrogen use efficiency in plants. Plant Cell Environ. 32: 1272–1283.
Wen, Z., Tyerman, S. D., Dechorgnat, J., Ovchinnikova, E., Dhugga, K. S., and Kaiser, B. N. (2017). Maize NPF proteins are homologs of Arabidopsis CHL1 that are selective for both nitrate and chloride. Plant Cell 29: 2581–2596.
Fitzpatrick, K. L., Tyerman, S. D., and Kaiser, B. N. (2008). Molybdate transport by the plant sulfate transporter SHST1. FEBS Letters 582: 1508–1513.
Kaiser, B. N., Gridley, K. L., Ngaire Brady, J., Phillips, T., and Tyerman, S. D. (2005). The role of molybdenum in agricultural plant production. Ann. Bot. 96: 745–754.
Foyer, C. H., Lam, H. M., Nguyen, H. T., Siddique, K. H., Varshney, R. K., Colmer, T. D., Cowling, W., Bramley, H., Mori, T. A., Hodgson, J. M., Cooper, J. W., Miller, A. J., Kunert, K., Vorster, J., Cullis, C., Ozga, J. A., Wahlqvist, M. L., Liang, Y., Shou, H., Shi, K., Yu, J., Fodor, N., Kaiser, B.N., Wong, F.-L., Valliyodan, B. and Considine, M. J. (2016). Neglecting legumes has compromised human health and sustainable food production. Nat. Plants 2: 16112.
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