
Associate Professor Jenny Mortimer
Associate Professor
School of Agriculture, Food and Wine
Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
Agriculture is facing huge challenges, including climate change, growing populations, and degrading soils. The replacement of fossil fuels with biobased solutions (biofuels and bioproducts) also requires huge amounts of plant biomass. Development of sustainable and robust crops, tuned to produce desirable produts, will be part of the solution.
We’re interested in how the plant makes and uses complex multi-unit sugar chains (polysaccharides). In particular, we explore the plant cell wall – a structure that surrounds every plant cell, and acts like a skeleton. It provides support to the plant, and protection from the environment and predators. The plants cell wall is also really important to humans. It provides us with dietary fiber, animal feed, fuel, building materials, paper, fabric etc. It is also a carbon-sink, since it is a store of carbon sucked out of the air and fixed during photosynthesis.
Some of the questions we are asking include “how is the plant cell wall made?”, “what else does the plant do with complex sugars?”, “do plants with altered cell walls interact differently with their environment, including with microbes?” and “why are there so many glycosyltransferases?”. We apply knowledge to engineer plants with biomass tailored for downstream processes.
More recently, we’ve become interested in how to understand this sort of biology across scale, and how to connect findings in the lab with findings in the field. By applying the principles of synthetic biology (design-build-test-learn), we aim to understand the roles of complex glycans, and predicitively engineer them to produce sustainble, robust crops. This includes designing plants for closed environment agriculture ("vertical farming") and for growth in Space!
This research has led us down some interesting routes, including work with glycosylinositolphosphorylceramides (GIPCs) – glycosylated sphingolipids which dominate the outer leaflet of the plant plasma membrane. The sugar headgroups point into the apoplast, and we have identified a number of glycosyltransferases responsible for their synthesis, and shown that they are critical for plant surivival. We also have some interesting observations on the importance of the GIPC glycans in plant-microbe interactions (pathogens and beneficial microbes), cellulose synthesis and cell-cell adhesion, but there is lot more to do to establish mechanism.
The species we work on span model systems (Arabidopsis, Brachypodium) to crops (sorghum, switchgrass, poplar), and future crops (duckweed).
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Appointments
Date Position Institution name 2021 - ongoing Associate Professor University of Adelaide 2021 - ongoing Affiliate Staff Scientist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2020 - 2020 Adjunct Associate Professor University of Adelaide 2018 - 2021 Staff Scientist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2016 - 2020 Deputy VP, Feedstocks Division Joint BioEnergy Institute 2014 - ongoing Director of Plant Systems Biology Joint BioEnergy Institute 2014 - 2018 Reserch Scientist Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 1998 - 1999 Lab Technician Zylepsis -
Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2003 - 2008 University of Cambridge United Kingdom PhD 2002 - 2003 University of Exeter United Kingdom Masters (MRes) 1999 - 2002 University of Bristol United Kingdom BSc(Hons) -
Postgraduate Training
Date Title Institution Country 2013 - 2014 RIKEN FPR Research Fellow RIKEN Japan 2007 - 2013 Postdoctoral Researcher University of Cambridge United Kingdom -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2023 Lankiewicz, T. S., Choudhary, H., Gao, Y., Amer, B., Lillington, S. P., Leggieri, P. A., . . . O’Malley, M. A. (2023). Lignin deconstruction by anaerobic fungi. Nature Microbiology, 8(4), 596-610.
2023 Gao, Y., Lipton, A. S., Munson, C. R., Ma, Y., Johnson, K. L., Murray, D. T., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (2023). Elongated galactan side‐chains mediate cellulose‐pectin interactions in engineered Arabidopsis secondary cell walls. The Plant Journal, 17 pages.
2022 Mortimer, J. C., & Gilliham, M. (2022). SpaceHort: redesigning plants to support space exploration and on-earth sustainability. Current Opinion in Biotechnology, 73, 246-252.
Scopus5 WoS42022 Bowerman, A. F., Byrt, C. S., Roy, S. J., Whitney, S. M., Mortimer, J. C., Ankeny, R. A., . . . Pogson, B. J. (2022). Potential abiotic stress targets for modern genetic manipulation.. The Plant cell, 35(1), koac327.
Scopus5 WoS3 Europe PMC22022 Munson, C. R., Gao, Y., Mortimer, J. C., & Murray, D. T. (2022). Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a Tool to Probe the Impact of Mechanical Preprocessing on the Structure and Arrangement of Plant Cell Wall Polymers. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 9 pages.
Scopus2 WoS22022 Yang, L., Zhao, M., Sha, G., Sun, Q., Gong, Q., Yang, Q., . . . Li, G. (2022). The genome of the rice variety LTH provides insight into its universal susceptibility mechanism to worldwide rice blast fungal strains. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 20, 1012-1026.
Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC22022 Gao, Y., & Mortimer, J. C. (2022). Reimagining Lignin for the Biorefinery.. Plant Cell Physiol, 63(6), 734-736.
2022 Ferreira, S. S., Goeminne, G., Simoes, M. S., de Almeida Pina, A. V., de Lima, L. G. A., Pezard, J., . . . Cesarino, I. (2022). Transcriptional and metabolic changes associated with internode development and reduced cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity in sorghum. Journal of Experimental Botany, 73(18), 6307-6333.
Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC22022 Jardine, K. J., Dewhirst, R. A., Som, S., Lei, J., Tucker, E., Young, R. P., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (2022). Cell wall ester modifications and volatile emission signatures of plant response to abiotic stress. Plant Cell and Environment, 45(12), 3429-3444.
Europe PMC12022 Tom, L. M., Aulitto, M., Wu, Y. W., Deng, K., Gao, Y., Xiao, N., . . . Singer, S. W. (2022). Low-abundance populations distinguish microbiome performance in plant cell wall deconstruction. Microbiome, 10(1), 16 pages.
Scopus2 WoS1 Europe PMC22021 Jha, S. G., Borowsky, A. T., Cole, B. J., Fahlgren, N., Farmer, A., Huang, S. S. C., . . . Mortimer, J. (2021). Vision, challenges and opportunities for a plant cell atlas. eLife, 10, 27 pages.
Scopus16 Europe PMC92021 Verhertbruggen, Y., Bouder, A., Vigouroux, J., Alvarado, C., Geairon, A., Guillon, F., . . . Chateigner-Boutin, A. L. (2021). The TaCslA12 gene expressed in the wheat grain endosperm synthesizes wheat-like mannan when expressed in yeast and Arabidopsis. Plant Science, 302, 110693.
Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC12021 Silva, T. N., Thomas, J. B., Dahlberg, J., Rhee, S. Y., & Mortimer, J. C. (2021). Progress and challenges in sorghum biotechnology, a multi-purpose feedstock for the bioeconomy.. Journal of experimental botany, 73(3), 646-664.
Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC32021 Ohtani, M., Kotake, T., Mortimer, J. C., & Demura, T. (2021). The Mechanics and Biology of Plant Cell Walls: Resilience and Sustainability for Our Future Society.. Plant Cell Physiol, 62(12), 1787-1790.
2021 Dewhirst, R. A., Lei, J., Afseth, C. A., Castanha, C., Wistrom, C. M., Mortimer, J. C., & Jardine, K. J. (2021). Are methanol-derived foliar methyl acetate emissions a tracer of acetate-mediated drought survival in plants?. Plants, 10(2), 1-14.
Scopus2 WoS2 Europe PMC12021 Demirer, G. S., Silva, T. N., Jackson, C. T., Thomas, J. B., W. Ehrhardt, D., Rhee, S. Y., . . . Landry, M. P. (2021). Nanotechnology to advance CRISPR–Cas genetic engineering of plants. Nature Nanotechnology, 16(3), 243-250.
Scopus57 WoS43 Europe PMC312021 Jing, B., Ishikawa, T., Soltis, N., Inada, N., Liang, Y., Murawska, G., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (2021). The Arabidopsis thaliana nucleotide sugar transporter GONST2 is a functional homolog of GONST1.. Plant direct, 5(3), 1-13.
Scopus4 WoS4 Europe PMC22021 Moore, W. M., Chan, C., Ishikawa, T., Rennie, E. A., Wipf, H. M. L., Benites, V., . . . Scheller, H. V. (2021). Reprogramming sphingolipid glycosylation is required for endosymbiont persistence in Medicago truncatula. Current Biology, 31(11), 2374-2385.e4.
Scopus9 WoS9 Europe PMC32021 Cassim, A. M., Navon, Y., Gao, Y., Decossas, M., Fouillen, L., Grélard, A., . . . Mongrand, S. (2021). Biophysical analysis of the plant-specific GIPC sphingolipids reveals multiple modes of membrane regulation. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 296, 1-21.
Scopus17 WoS16 Europe PMC102021 Mortimer, J. (2021). Editorial Feature: Meet the PCP Editor—Jenny Mortimer. Plant and Cell Physiology, 62(5), 747-748.
2021 Cole, B., Bergmann, D., Blaby-Haas, C. E., Blaby, I. K., Bouchard, K. E., Brady, S. M., . . . Dickel, D. E. (2021). Plant single-cell solutions for energy and the environment. Communications Biology, 4(1), 12 pages.
Scopus11 WoS10 Europe PMC32021 Dewhirst, R. A., Handakumbura, P., Clendinen, C. S., Arm, E., Tate, K., Wang, W., . . . Jardine, K. J. (2021). High Temperature Acclimation of Leaf Gas Exchange, Photochemistry, and Metabolomic Profiles in Populus trichocarpa. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 5(8), 1813-1828.
Scopus3 WoS32020 Mortimer, J. C., & Scheller, H. V. (2020). Synthesis and Function of Complex Sphingolipid Glycosylation. Trends in Plant Science, 25(6), 522-524.
Scopus12 WoS12 Europe PMC72020 Eng, T., Herbert, R., Martinez, U., Wang, B., Chen, J., Brown, B., . . . Mukhopadhyay, A. (2020). Iron Supplementation Eliminates Antagonistic Interactions Between Root Associated Bacteria.
2020 Hori, C., Takata, N., Lam, P. Y., Tobimatsu, Y., Nagano, S., Cullen, D., & Mortimer, J. (2020). Identifying transcription factors that reduce wood recalcitrance and improve enzymatic degradation of xylem cell wall in Populus.. Sci Rep, 10(1), 22043.
Scopus5 WoS3 Europe PMC22020 Mason, P. J., Furtado, A., Marquardt, A., Hodgson-Kratky, K., Hoang, N. V., Botha, F. C., . . . Henry, R. J. (2020). Variation in sugarcane biomass composition and enzymatic saccharification of leaves, internodes and roots. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 13(1), 19 pages.
Scopus5 WoS3 Europe PMC12020 Baral, N. R., Dahlberg, J., Putnam, D., Mortimer, J. C., & Scown, C. D. (2020). Supply cost and life-cycle greenhouse gas footprint of dry and ensiled biomass sorghum for biofuel production. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 8(42), 15855-15864.
Scopus11 WoS112020 Yang, M., Baral, N. R., Simmons, B. A., Mortimer, J. C., Shih, P. M., & Scown, C. D. (2020). Erratum: Accumulation of high-value bioproducts in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.(2020) 117 (8639–8648) DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2000053117). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 117(43), 27061.
Scopus22020 Vejlupkova, Z., Warman, C., Sharma, R., Scheller, H. V., Mortimer, J. C., & Fowler, J. E. (2020). No evidence for transient transformation via pollen magnetofection in several monocot species.
2020 Gao, Y., Lipton, A. S., Wittmer, Y., Murray, D. T., & Mortimer, J. C. (2020). A grass-specific cellulose–xylan interaction dominates in sorghum secondary cell walls. Nature Communications, 11(1), 10 pages.
Scopus39 WoS34 Europe PMC142020 Dewhirst, R. A., Afseth, C. A., Castanha, C., Mortimer, J. C., & Jardine, K. J. (2020). Cell wall O-acetyl and methyl esterification patterns of leaves reflected in atmospheric emission signatures of acetic acid and methanol. PLOS ONE, 15(5), 1-16.
Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC22020 Yang, M., Baral, N. R., Simmons, B. A., Mortimer, J. C., Shih, P. M., & Scown, C. D. (2020). Accumulation of high-value bioproducts in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(15), 8639-8648.
Scopus46 WoS40 Europe PMC122020 Sharma, R., Liang, Y., Lee, M. Y., Pidatala, V. R., Mortimer, J. C., & Scheller, H. V. (2020). Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation of sorghum leaves for accelerating functional genomics and genome editing studies. BMC Research Notes, 13(1), 1-7.
Scopus15 Europe PMC52020 Vejlupkova, Z., Warman, C., Sharma, R., Scheller, H. V., Mortimer, J. C., & Fowler, J. E. (2020). No evidence for transient transformation via pollen magnetofection in several monocot species. Nature Plants, 6(11), 1323-1324.
Scopus11 WoS12 Europe PMC122020 Hori, C., Yu, X., Mortimer, J. C., Sano, R., Matsumoto, T., Kikuchi, J., . . . Ohtani, M. (2020). Impact of abiotic stress on the regulation of cell wall biosynthesis in populus trichocarpa. Plant Biotechnology, 37(3), 1-11.
Scopus15 WoS12 Europe PMC62020 Eng, T., Herbert, R. A., Martinez, U., Wang, B., Chen, J. C., Brown, J. B., . . . Mukhopadhyay, A. (2020). Iron Supplementation Eliminates Antagonistic Interactions Between Root-Associated Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 1-11.
Scopus6 WoS6 Europe PMC42020 Dewhirst, R. A., Mortimer, J. C., & Jardine, K. J. (2020). Do Cell Wall Esters Facilitate Forest Response to Climate?. Trends in Plant Science, 25(8), 729-732.
Scopus3 WoS3 Europe PMC12019 Yan, D., Yadav, S. R., Paterlini, A., Nicolas, W. J., Petit, J. D., Brocard, L., . . . Helariutta, Y. (2019). Publisher Correction: Sphingolipid biosynthesis modulates plasmodesmal ultrastructure and phloem unloading (Nature Plants, (2019), 5, 6, (604-615), 10.1038/s41477-019-0429-5). Nature Plants, 5(9), 1023.
Scopus12019 Yan, D., Yadav, S. R., Paterlini, A., Nicolas, W. J., Petit, J. D., Brocard, L., . . . Helariutta, Y. (2019). Sphingolipid biosynthesis modulates plasmodesmal ultrastructure and phloem unloading.. Nature plants, 5(6), 604-615.
Scopus50 WoS41 Europe PMC272019 Sharma, R., Liang, Y., Lee, M. Y., Pidatala, V., Mortimer, J. C., & Scheller, H. V. (2019). Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation of sorghum leaves for accelerating functional genomics and genome editing studies.. Research Square.
2019 Langley, S., Eng, T., Wan, K. H., Herbert, R. A., Klein, A. P., Yoshikuni, Y., . . . Mukhopadhyay, A. (2019). Complete Genome Sequence of Agrobacterium sp. Strain 33MFTa1.1, Isolated from Thlaspi arvense Roots. Microbiology Resource Announcements, 8(37), 1-3.
2019 Sharma, R., Liang, Y., Lee, M. Y., Pidatala, V. R., Mortimer, J. C., & Scheller, H. V. (2019). Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation of sorghum leaves for accelerating functional genomics and genome editing studies. biorxiv.
2019 Dewhirst, R. A., Afseth, C. A., Castanha, C., Mortimer, J. C., & Jardine, K. J. (2019). Cell wall O-acetyl and methyl esterification patterns of leaves reflected in atmospheric emission signatures of acetic acid and methanol. biorxiv.
2019 Mortimer, J. C. (2019). Plant synthetic biology could drive a revolution in biofuels and medicine. Experimental Biology and Medicine, 244(4), 323-331.
Scopus33 WoS27 Europe PMC92019 Yan, J., Huang, Y., He, H., Han, T., Di, P., Sechet, J., . . . Zhang, A. (2019). Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase-hydrolase30 negatively affects salt tolerance in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70(19), 5495-5506.
Scopus23 WoS22 Europe PMC112019 Yoshida, S., Kim, S., Wafula, E. K., Tanskanen, J., Kim, Y. M., Honaas, L., . . . Shirasu, K. (2019). Genome Sequence of Striga asiatica Provides Insight into the Evolution of Plant Parasitism. Current Biology, 29(18), 3041-3052.
Scopus76 WoS74 Europe PMC422019 Herbert, R. A., Eng, T., Martinez, U., Wang, B., Langley, S., Wan, K., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (2019). Rhizobacteria Mediate the Phytotoxicity of a Range of Biorefinery-Relevant Compounds. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 38(9), 1911-1922.
Scopus1 WoS1 Europe PMC12019 Liang, Y., Eudes, A., Yogiswara, S., Jing, B., Benites, V. T., Yamanaka, R., . . . Loqué, D. (2019). A screening method to identify efficient sgRNAs in Arabidopsis, used in conjunction with cell-specific lignin reduction. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 12(1), 1-15.
Scopus30 WoS23 Europe PMC172019 Bouchez, P., Teixeira Benites, V., Baidoo, E. E. K., Mortimer, J. C., Sullivan, M. L., Scheller, H. V., & Eudes, A. (2019). Production of clovamide and its analogues in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactococcus lactis. Letters in Applied Microbiology, 69(3), 181-189.
Scopus8 WoS7 Europe PMC42019 Baral, N. R., Sundstrom, E. R., Das, L., Gladden, J., Eudes, A., Mortimer, J. C., . . . Scown, C. D. (2019). Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels and Bioproducts. ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering, 7(10), 9062-9079.
Scopus68 WoS612019 Temple, H., Mortimer, J. C., Tryfona, T., Yu, X., Lopez-Hernandez, F., Sorieul, M., . . . Dupree, P. (2019). Two members of the DUF579 family are responsible for arabinogalactan methylation in Arabidopsis. Plant Direct, 3(2), 1-4.
Scopus16 WoS16 Europe PMC92018 Ebert, B., Birdseye, D., Liwanag, A. J. M., Laursen, T., Rennie, E. A., Guo, X., . . . Scheller, H. V. (2018). The three members of the Arabidopsis Glycosyltransferase Family 92 are functional β-1,4-galactan synthases. Plant and Cell Physiology, 59(12), 2624-2636.
Scopus21 WoS19 Europe PMC152018 Li, G., Jones, K. C., Eudes, A., Pidatala, V. R., Sun, J., Xu, F., . . . Ronald, P. C. (2018). Overexpression of a rice BAHD acyltransferase gene in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) enhances saccharification. BMC Biotechnology, 18(1), 1-10.
Scopus28 WoS26 Europe PMC162018 Faria-Blanc, N., Mortimer, J. C., & Dupree, P. (2018). A transcriptomic analysis of xylan mutants does not support the existence of a secondary cell wall integrity system in arabidopsis. Frontiers in plant science, 9, 1-12.
Scopus18 WoS19 Europe PMC112018 Laursen, T., Stonebloom, S. H., Pidatala, V. R., Birdseye, D. S., Clausen, M. H., Mortimer, J. C., & Scheller, H. V. (2018). Bifunctional glycosyltransferases catalyze both extension and termination of pectic galactan oligosaccharides. The Plant Journal, 94(2), 340-351.
Scopus19 WoS19 Europe PMC112018 Ishikawa, T., Fang, L., Rennie, E. A., Sechet, J., Yan, J., Jing, B., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (2018). GLUCOSAMINE INOSITOLPHOSPHORYLCERAMIDE TRANSFERASE1 (GINT1) Is a GlcNAc-Containing Glycosylinositol Phosphorylceramide Glycosyltransferase.. Plant physiology, 177(3), 938-952.
Scopus27 WoS24 Europe PMC122018 Sechet, J., Htwe, S., Urbanowicz, B., Agyeman, A., Feng, W., Ishikawa, T., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (2018). Suppression of Arabidopsis GGLT1 affects growth by reducing the L-galactose content and borate cross-linking of rhamnogalacturonan-II.. The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology, 96(5), 1036-1050.
Scopus25 WoS23 Europe PMC132017 Lenarčič, T., Albert, I., Böhm, H., Hodnik, V., Pirc, K., Zavec, A. B., . . . Nürnberger, T. (2017). Eudicot plant-specific sphingolipids determine host selectivity of microbial NLP cytolysins.. Science (New York, N.Y.), 358(6369), 1431-1434.
Scopus112 WoS114 Europe PMC622017 Tartaglio, V., Rennie, E. A., Cahoon, R., Wang, G., Baidoo, E., Mortimer, J. C., . . . Scheller, H. V. (2017). Glycosylation of inositol phosphorylceramide sphingolipids is required for normal growth and reproduction in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal, 89(2), 278-290.
Scopus36 WoS35 Europe PMC192017 Pidatala, V. R., Mahboubi, A., & Mortimer, J. C. (2017). Structural Characterization of Mannan Cell Wall Polysaccharides in Plants Using PACE.. Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2017(128), 1-7.
Scopus3 WoS2 Europe PMC12017 Liang, Y., Richardson, S., Yan, J., Benites, V. T., Cheng-Yue, C., Tran, T., . . . Loqué, D. (2017). Endoribonuclease-Based Two-Component Repressor Systems for Tight Gene Expression Control in Plants. ACS Synthetic Biology, 6(5), 806-816.
Scopus11 WoS9 Europe PMC62016 Zhang, Y., Nikolovski, N., Sorieul, M., Vellosillo, T., McFarlane, H. E., Dupree, R., . . . Dupree, P. (2016). Golgi-localized STELLO proteins regulate the assembly and trafficking of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis.. Nature communications, 7(1), 1-14.
Scopus84 WoS75 Europe PMC482016 Simmons, T. J., Mortimer, J. C., Bernardinelli, O. D., Pöppler, A. -C., Brown, S. P., deAzevedo, E. R., . . . Dupree, P. (2016). Folding of xylan onto cellulose fibrils in plant cell walls revealed by solid-state NMR.. Nature communications, 7(1), 1-9.
Scopus243 WoS233 Europe PMC992016 Rogowski, A., Briggs, J. A., Mortimer, J. C., Tryfona, T., Terrapon, N., Lowe, E. C., . . . Bolam, D. N. (2016). Erratum: Glycan complexity dictates microbial resource allocation in the large intestine (Nature Communications (2015) 6 (7481) DOI:10.1038/ncomms8481). Nature Communications, 7(1), 1 page.
Scopus7 WoS10 Europe PMC72016 Eudes, A., Zhao, N., Sathitsuksanoh, N., Baidoo, E. E. K., Lao, J., Wang, G., . . . Loqué, D. (2016). Expression of S-adenosylmethionine Hydrolase in Tissues Synthesizing Secondary Cell Walls Alters Specific Methylated Cell Wall Fractions and Improves Biomass Digestibility.. Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 4(JUL), 1-10.
Scopus7 WoS6 Europe PMC42016 Fang, L., Ishikawa, T., Rennie, E. A., Murawska, G. M., Lao, J., Yan, J., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (2016). Loss of Inositol Phosphorylceramide Sphingolipid Mannosylation Induces Plant Immune Responses and Reduces Cellulose Content in Arabidopsis.. The Plant cell, 28(12), 2991-3004.
Scopus48 WoS47 Europe PMC262015 Dupree, R., Simmons, T. J., Mortimer, J. C., Patel, D., Iuga, D., Brown, S. P., & Dupree, P. (2015). Probing the molecular architecture of arabidopsis thaliana secondary cell walls using two- and three-dimensional <sup>13</sup>C solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Biochemistry, 54(14), 2335-2345.
Scopus63 WoS59 Europe PMC242015 Sawake, S., Tajima, N., Mortimer, J. C., Lao, J., Ishikawa, T., Yu, X., . . . Kotakea, T. (2015). KONJAC1 and 2 are key factors for GDP-mannose generation and affect l-ascorbic acid and glucomannan biosynthesis in arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 27(12), 3397-3409.
Scopus36 WoS34 Europe PMC172015 Rogowski, A., Briggs, J. A., Mortimer, J. C., Tryfona, T., Terrapon, N., Lowe, E. C., . . . Bolam, D. N. (2015). Glycan complexity dictates microbial resource allocation in the large intestine. Nature Communications, 6(1), 15 pages.
Scopus270 WoS255 Europe PMC1642015 Mortimer, J. C., Faria-Blanc, N., Yu, X., Tryfona, T., Sorieul, M., Ng, Y. Z., . . . Dupree, P. (2015). An unusual xylan in Arabidopsis primary cell walls is synthesised by GUX3, IRX9L, IRX10L and IRX14. Plant Journal, 83(3), 413-426.
Scopus66 WoS61 Europe PMC482014 Rogowski, A., Baslé, A., Farinas, C. S., Solovyova, A., Mortimer, J. C., Dupree, P., . . . Bolam, D. N. (2014). Evidence that GH115 α-glucuronidase activity, which is required to degrade plant biomass, is dependent on conformational flexibility. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 289(1), 53-64.
Scopus54 WoS47 Europe PMC262014 Richards, S. L., Laohavisit, A., Mortimer, J. C., Shabala, L., Swarbreck, S. M., Shabala, S., & Davies, J. M. (2014). Annexin 1 regulates the H₂O₂-induced calcium signature in Arabidopsis thaliana roots. The Plant Journal, 77(1), 136-145.
Scopus97 WoS90 Europe PMC602014 Rautengarten, C., Ebert, B., Moreno, I., Temple, H., Herter, T., Link, B., . . . Orellana, A. (2014). The Golgi localized bifunctional UDP-rhamnose/UDP-galactose transporter family of Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 111(31), 11563-11568.
Scopus84 WoS87 Europe PMC572013 Bromley, J. R., Busse-Wicher, M., Tryfona, T., Mortimer, J. C., Zhang, Z., Brown, D. M., & Dupree, P. (2013). GUX1 and GUX2 glucuronyltransferases decorate distinct domains of glucuronoxylan with different substitution patterns. Plant Journal, 74(3), 423-434.
Scopus129 WoS123 Europe PMC732013 Wang, Y., Mortimer, J. C., Davis, J., Dupree, P., & Keegstra, K. (2013). Identification of an additional protein involved in mannan biosynthesis. Plant Journal, 73(1), 105-117.
Scopus32 WoS31 Europe PMC262013 Goué, N., Mortimer, J. C., Nakano, Y., Zhang, Z., Josserand, M., Ohtani, M., . . . Demura, T. (2013). Secondary cell wall characterization in a BY-2 inductive system. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture, 115(2), 223-232.
Scopus11 WoS112013 Li, X., Jackson, P., Rubtsov, D. V., Faria-Blanc, N., Mortimer, J. C., Turner, S. R., . . . Dupree, P. (2013). Development and application of a high throughput carbohydrate profiling technique for analyzing plant cell wall polysaccharides and carbohydrate active enzymes. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 6(1), 12 pages.
Scopus34 WoS29 Europe PMC192013 Mortimer, J. C., Yu, X., Albrecht, S., Sicilia, F., Huichalaf, M., Ampuero, D., . . . Dupree, P. (2013). Abnormal glycosphingolipid mannosylation triggers salicylic acid-mediated responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 25(5), 1881-1894.
Scopus75 WoS72 Europe PMC542013 Van Acker, R., Vanholme, R., Storme, V., Mortimer, J. C., Dupree, P., & Boerjan, W. (2013). Lignin biosynthesis perturbations affect secondary cell wall composition and saccharification yield in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 6(1), 17 pages.
Scopus218 WoS202 Europe PMC1062012 Anders, N., Wilkinson, M. D., Lovegrove, A., Freeman, J., Tryfona, T., Pellny, T. K., . . . Mitchell, R. A. C. (2012). Glycosyl transferases in family 61 mediate arabinofuranosyl transfer onto xylan in grasses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 109(3), 989-993.
Scopus185 WoS174 Europe PMC1152012 Laohavisit, A., Shang, Z., Rubio, L., Cuin, T. A., Véry, A. -A., Wang, A., . . . Davies, J. M. (2012). Arabidopsis annexin1 mediates the radical-activated plasma membrane Ca²⁺- and K⁺-permeable conductance in root cells. The Plant Cell, 24(4), 1522-1533.
Scopus149 WoS135 Europe PMC1002010 Yamaguchi, M., Goué, N., Igarashi, H., Ohtani, M., Nakano, Y., Mortimer, J. C., . . . Demura, T. (2010). VASCULAR-RELATED NAC-DOMAIN6 and VASCULAR-RELATED NAC-DOMAIN7 effectively induce transdifferentiation into xylem vessel elements under control of an induction system. Plant Physiology, 153(3), 906-914.
Scopus206 WoS195 Europe PMC1372010 Mortimer, J. C., Miles, G. P., Brown, D. M., Zhang, Z., Segura, M. P., Weimar, T., . . . Dupree, P. (2010). Absence of branches from xylan in Arabidopsis gux mutants reveals potential for simplification of lignocellulosic biomass. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 107(40), 17409-17414.
Scopus233 WoS221 Europe PMC1482009 Mortimer, J. C., Coxon, K. M., Laohavisit, A., & Davies, J. M. (2009). Heme-independent soluble and membrane-associated peroxidase activity of a zea mays annexin preparation. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 4(5), 428-430.
Scopus232009 Rubio, L., Laohavisit, A., Mortimer, J. C., Dark, A., & Davies, J. M. (2009). Salt stress signalling involves ATP release and Arabidopsis annexin 1. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY, 153A(2), S193-S194.
WoS22009 Laohavisit, A., Mortimer, J. C., Demidchik, V., Coxon, K. M., Stancombe, M. A., Macpherson, N., . . . Davies, J. M. (2009). Zea mays annexins modulate cytosolic free Ca<sup>2+</sup> and generate a Ca<sup>2+</sup>-permeable conductance. Plant Cell, 21(2), 479-493.
Scopus118 WoS109 Europe PMC352009 Goubet, F., Barton, C. J., Mortimer, J. C., Yu, X., Zhang, Z., Miles, G. P., . . . Dupree, P. (2009). Cell wall glucomannan in Arabidopsis is synthesised by CSLA glycosyltransferases, and influences the progression of embryogenesis. Plant Journal, 60(3), 527-538.
Scopus148 WoS145 Europe PMC1042009 Demidchik, V., Shang, Z., Shin, R., Thompson, E., Rubio, L., Laohavisit, A., . . . Davies, J. M. (2009). Plant extracellular ATP signalling by plasma membrane NADPH oxidase and Ca<sup>2+</sup> channels. Plant Journal, 58(6), 903-913.
Scopus171 WoS159 Europe PMC1002009 Laohavisit, A., Mortimer, J. C., Demidchik, V., Coxon, K. M., Stancombe, M. A., Macpherson, N., . . . Davies, J. M. (2009). Zea mays annexins modulate cytosolic free Ca2+ and generate a Ca2+-permeable conductance.. The Plant cell, 21(2), 479-493.
Europe PMC392008 Mortimer, J. C., Laohavisit, A., Miedema, H., & Davies, J. M. (2008). Voltage, reactive oxygen species and the influx of calcium. Plant Signaling and Behavior, 3(9), 698-699.
Scopus7 Europe PMC52008 Macpherson, N., Takeda, S., Shang, Z., Dark, A., Mortimer, J. C., Brownlee, C., . . . Davies, J. M. (2008). NADPH oxidase involvement in cellular integrity. Planta, 227(6), 1415-1418.
Scopus27 WoS28 Europe PMC212008 Ridlova, G., Mortimer, J. C., Maslen, S. L., Dupree, P., & Stephens, E. (2008). Oligosaccharide relative quantitation using isotope tagging and normal-phase liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 22(17), 2723-2730.
Scopus43 WoS43 Europe PMC272008 Mortimer, J. C., Laohavisit, A., Macpherson, N., Webb, A., Brownlee, C., Battey, N. H., & Davies, J. M. (2008). Annexins: Multifunctional components of growth and adaptation. Journal of Experimental Botany, 59(3), 533-544.
Scopus187 WoS175 Europe PMC117- Hu, Y., Andeer, P. F., Zheng, Q., Kosina, S. M., Jardine, K. J., Ding, Y., . . . Northen, T. R. (n.d.). Extensive plant use of exometabolites.
- Jing, B., Ishikawa, T., Soltis, N., Inada, N., Liang, Y., Murawska, G., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (n.d.). GONST2 transports GDP-Mannose for sphingolipid glycosylation in the Golgi apparatus of Arabidopsis.
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Book Chapters
Year Citation 2020 Gao, Y., & Mortimer, J. C. (2020). Unlocking the architecture of native plant cell walls via solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. In C. T. Anderson, E. S. Haswell, & R. Dixit (Eds.), Methods in Cell Biology (Vol. 160, pp. 121-143). Cambridge, United States: Elsevier.
Scopus10 WoS8 Europe PMC62017 Mortimer, J. C. (2017). Structural Analysis of Cell Wall Polysaccharides Using PACE.. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1544, pp. 223-231). Springer New York.
Scopus3 Europe PMC22017 Lao, J., Smith-Moritz, A. M., Mortimer, J. C., & Heazlewood, J. L. (2017). Enrichment of the Plant Cytosolic Fraction.. In Isolation of Plant Organelles and Structures (Vol. 1511, pp. 213-232). Springer New York.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2019 Moore, W., Chan, C., Ishikawa, T., Rennie, E., Mortimer, J., & Scheller, H. V. (2019). Reprogramming of GIPC glycosylation by GINT1 is critical for the persistence of perimicrobial membranes in Medicago truncatula. In MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS Vol. 32 (pp. 200). Glasgow, SCOTLAND: AMER PHYTOPATHOLOGICAL SOC. 2019 Mortimer, J. (2019). Engineered plant cell walls for improved biomass: exploring the effects on cell wall nanoarchitecture using solid state NMR. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Vol. 257 (pp. 1 page). Orlando, FL: AMER CHEMICAL SOC. 2018 Scheller, H. V., Moore, W. M., Fang, L., Chan, C., Ishikawa, T., Ebert, B., . . . Mortimer, J. C. (2018). Sphingolipid glycosylation and its role in membrane organization and plant-microbe interactions. In GLYCOBIOLOGY Vol. 28 (pp. 1020). New Orleans, LA: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. 2017 Zhang, Y., Nikolovksi, N., Sorieul, M., Vellosillo, T., McFarlane, H., Dupree, R., . . . Dupree, P. (2017). Golgi-localized STELLO proteins regulate the assembly and trafficking of cellulose synthase complexes. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Vol. 253 (pp. 1 page). San Francisco, CA: AMER CHEMICAL SOC. 2017 Fang, L., Jing, B., Ishikawa, T., Rennie, E., Scheller, H., & Mortimer, J. (2017). Sphingolipid glycosylation in plants: Some implications for cellulose biosynthesis. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Vol. 253 (pp. 1 page). San Francisco, CA: AMER CHEMICAL SOC. 2017 Simmons, T., Mortimer, J., Bernardinelli, O., Poppler, A. -C., Brown, S., Azevedo, E., . . . Dupree, P. (2017). Folding of xylan onto cellulose fibrils in plant cell walls revealed by solid-state NMR. In ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Vol. 253 (pp. 1 page). San Francisco, CA: AMER CHEMICAL SOC. 2015 Mortimer, J. C., Ishikawa, T., Fang, L., Jing, B., Rennie, E., Inada, N., . . . Dupree, P. (2015). Glycosylated sphingolipid biosynthesis and function in Arabidopsis. In GLYCOBIOLOGY Vol. 25 (pp. 1266-1267). San Francisco, CA: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC. 2014 Ebert, B., Rautengarten, C., Schultink, A., Pauly, M., Herter, T., Mortimer, J., . . . Scheller, H. (2014). Identification of novel nucleotide sugar transporters in plants and animals. In GLYCOBIOLOGY Vol. 24 (pp. 1183). Honolulu, HI: OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC.
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Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)
Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name 2023 Co-Supervisor Transcription profiling of glycosyltransferases following grapevine smoke exposure Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Part Time Miss Wenwen Jiang 2022 Principal Supervisor Enhancing the nutritional quality of duckweed, a novel crop for Space and Closed Environmental Agriculture Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ryan Andre Edwards 2022 Co-Supervisor Cell Wall Remodeling and Metabolism under Metallic Nanoparticle Stress Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Muhammad Nadeem 2022 Co-Supervisor Biomanufacturing in plants. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Matthew Fox Morgan 2022 Principal Supervisor Developing Duckweed as a Novel Protein Crop for Closed Environment Agriculture and Off Planet Applications Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Jonathan Harriman Diab 2022 Principal Supervisor Processing duckweed into an ingredient for use in novel foods and beverages Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Chigozie Emmanuel Ofoedu 2022 Co-Supervisor A novel repurposing approach for herbicide discovery to combat resistant weeds Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Ryan James Francis McClean 2022 Co-Supervisor Using LEDs to optimise duckweed physiology and nutrition for Astrofarming applications Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Robert Calgacus Rintoul
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