Professor Matthew Gilliham

Director,ARC CoE in Plants for Space

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Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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Matthew is Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (P4S), leading a large scale program in space agriculture - specifically the growth and adaptation of plants to space environments and the production of novel bio products in plants to enable long-term space habitation, and to use these innovations to improve on Earth sustainability.Matthew’s areas of research specialisation is crop plant nutrition and stress resilience with a focus on salinity and drought tolerance. Specifically, his group studies transport and signalling mechanisms underpinning these processes with the aim of having them applied through plant breeding to improve crop yield and quality in production systems. Matthew is a current Web of Science Highly Cited Author (1 of only 196 animal and plant scientists globally). He and his research group have won a number of other awards, honours and fellowships for their work, including ARC Future Fellowships, ARC DECRA Fellowships, ASPB Highly Cited Author, SA Tall Poppy Awards, the Australian Society for Plant Scientists Goldacre Award, and the Australian Federal Government Science and Innovation Award for Young People in Agriculture.Matthew’s past roles have included Director of the Waite Research Institute, the University of Adelaide’s flagship for agriculture, food and wine innovation, stimulating and supporting new research initiatives across the spectrum of agricultural research (from policy and economics, to animal, soil and crop sciences). He was also Professor of Crop Molecular Physiology in the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, program leader in the ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, Chief Investigator on the ARC Training Centre for Innovative Wine Production, convenor for the Adapting to abiotic stress and climate change special interest group of the Society for Experimental Biology, UK, member of the South Australian Government's Science and Innovation Council and Honorary Secretary of the Australian Society for Plant Scientists.Matthew gained a BSc in Ecology from Lancaster University and a PhD in Plant Physiology from the University of Cambridge, UK. After a postdoc at Cambridge, he immigrated to Australia to run the Plant Transport and Signalling Laboratory at the Waite Campus, University of Adelaide.

Matthew is Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space. This 7-year, >$100M Centre was established in 2024. 

Matthew's group studies the transport and signalling processes that underpin improvements in crop nutrition and stress tolerance. His research scales from genetics, through cell biology and whole plant physiology. Where applicable, his lab's fundamental research is then applied through plant breeding to modify signalling and transport processes in plants to improve crop yield and quality in production systems. His main areas of study include salinity tolerance, anionic nutrition (particularly chloride) and GABA signalling. Notable advances his group have made include:

  • The first demonstration that wheat salt tolerance and grain yield can be improved in the field through modification of transport genes (Nature Biotechnology).
  • The discovery of a mechanism by which GABA could act as a stress signal in plants (GABA-regulated anion channels) (Nature Communications).
  • Confirmation that GABA is a signal in plants through the discovery that it regulates stomatal guard cell opening, water use efficiency and drought tolerance (Nature Communications).
  • The discovery that cell-specific ion accumulation has physiological roles (Plant Cell, New Phytologist)
  • Frequent demonstrations that cell-specific ion transport processes are critical for stress tolerance and nutrition (e.g. Plant Physiology, Plant Journal...).

He has also authored well-respected reviews in his key areas of study: salt tolerance; chloride transport; single cell transport processes and GABA signalling

 

Interested in applying to Matt's research group?

PhD Scholarships

The University of Adelaide offers both Australian Postgraduate Awards (APA) and divisional scholarships to domestic students based on academic merit, and a range of scholarships for international students.

Further details on domestic or international scholarships can be found here http://www.adelaide.edu.au/scholarships/ or the admission's website

Postdoctoral Positions

Postdoctoral positions arise from time to time, so if you're interested please get in touch and Matt will get back to you ASAP.

Date Position Institution name
2024 - ongoing Director ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space
2019 - 2023 Premier’s Science and Innovation Council for South Australia Government of South Australia
2019 - 2024 Director, Waite Research Institute Waite Research Institute, University of Adelaide
2018 - 2023 Group Convenor Society for Experimental Biology
2018 - ongoing Associate Editor Plant Physiology, ASPB
2017 - ongoing Deputy Head of School (Research) University of Adelaide
2017 - ongoing Professor Univeristy of Adelaide
2017 - 2018 Honorary Secretary Australian Society for Plant Scientists
2015 - 2016 Associate Professor University of Adelaide
2014 - 2017 ARC Future Fellow University of Adelaide
2014 - ongoing ARC Centre of Excellence Chief Investigator University of Adelaide
2013 - 2014 Senior Lecturer University of Adelaide
2006 - 2012 Senior Research Fellow University of Adelaide

Date Type Title Institution Name Country Amount
2019 Recognition Highly Cited Researcher Web of Science, Clarivate United States -
2017 Research Award Executive Dean of Sciences Research Excellence Award University of Adelaide Australia -
2014 Fellowship ARC Future Fellowship University of Adelaide Australia -
2013 Award Science and Innovation Award ABRES (Australian Federal Government) Australia -
2012 Award South Australian Tall Poppy Australian Institute of Policy and Science Australia -
2012 Award Group of Eight China-Australia Fellowship - Australia -

Date Institution name Country Title
University of Cambridge United Kingdom PhD Plant Sciences
Lancaster University United Kingdom BSc Ecology

Year Citation
2025 Garcia-Daga, S., Fischer, S., & Gilliham, M. (2025). Lithium in plants. New Phytologist, 248(4), 1639-1654.
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2025 Gill, A. R., Miller, T. K., Wijeweera, S., Herrero, E., Massa, G. D., Mortimer, J. C., . . . Gilliham, M. (2025). Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture. Trends in Plant Science, S1360-1385(25)00254-7.
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2025 Fountain, L. L., Gilliham, M., Amitrano, C., Arouna, N., Barker, R. J., Böhmer, M., . . . Blancaflor, E. B. (2025). Expanding frontiers: harnessing plant biology for space exploration and planetary sustainability.. New Phytol.
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2025 Gaju, O., Bloomfield, K. J., Negrini, A. C. A., Bowerman, A. F., Cullerne, D., Posch, B. C., . . . Atkin, O. K. (2025). Accounting for the impact of genotype and environment on variation in leaf respiration of wheat in Mexico and Australia. Journal of Experimental Botany, 76(4), 1099-1115.
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2025 Hedrich, R., & Gilliham, M. (2025). Light-activated channelrhodopsins: a revolutionary toolkit for the remote control of plant signalling. New Phytologist, 245(3), 982-988.
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2025 Wu, Y., Henderson, S. W., Walker, R. R., Shelden, M. C., & Gilliham, M. (2025). Expression of the grapevine anion transporter ALMT2 in Arabidopsis root decreases shoot Cl¯/NO₃¯ ratio under salt stress. Journal of Experimental Botany, 76(11), 3088-3104.
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2025 Tao, X. -Y., Feng, S. -L., Li, X. -J., Li, Y. -J., Wang, W., Gilliham, M., . . . Xu, S. -C. (2025). TTLOC: A Tn5 transposase-based approach to localize T-DNA integration sites. Plant Physiology, 197(4), kiaf102-1-kiaf102-14.
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2024 Huang, S., Roelfsema, M. R. G., Gilliham, M., Hetherington, A. M., & Hedrich, R. (2024). Guard cells count the number of unitary cytosolic Ca²⁺ signals to regulate stomatal dynamics. Current Biology, 34(23), 5409-5416.
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2024 Garcia-Daga, S., Roy, S. J., & Gilliham, M. (2024). Redefining the role of sodium exclusion within salt tolerance. Trends in Plant Science, 30(2), 137-146.
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2024 Xu, B., Feng, X., Piechatzek, A., Zhang, S., Konrad, K. R., Kromdijk, J., . . . Gilliham, M. (2024). The GABA shunt contributes to ROS homeostasis in guard cells of Arabidopsis. New Phytologist, 241(1), 73-81.
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2024 Collins, C., Bloomfield, S., Hansen, L., & Gilliham, M. (2024). Can silica application enhance vine performance and quality?. OENO ONE, 58(4), 16 pages.
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2024 Morgan, M. F., Diab, J., Gilliham, M., & Mortimer, J. C. (2024). Green horizons: how plant synthetic biology can enable space exploration and drive on Earth sustainability. Curr Opin Biotechnol, 86, 103069-1-103069-7.
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2024 Xu, B., Long, Y., Feng, X., Zhu, X., Sai, N., Chirkova, L., . . . Gilliham, M. (2024). Author Correction: GABA signalling modulates stomatal opening to enhance plant water use efficiency and drought resilience. Nature Communications, 15(1), 1 page.
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2024 Piechatzek, A., Feng, X., Sai, N., Yi, C., Hurgobin, B., Lewsey, M., . . . Gilliham, M. (2024). GABA does not regulate stomatal CO2 signalling in Arabidopsis.. J Exp Bot, 75(21), 6856-6871.
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2023 Sai, N., Bockman, J. P., Chen, H., Watson-Haigh, N., Xu, B., Feng, X., . . . Gilliham, M. (2023). StomaAI: an efficient and user-friendly tool for measurement of stomatal pores and density using deep computer vision. New Phytologist, 238(2), 904-915.
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2023 Watts-Williams, S. J., Wege, S., Ramesh, S. A., Berkowitz, O., Xu, B., Gilliham, M., . . . Tyerman, S. D. (2023). The function of the Medicago truncatula ZIP transporter MtZIP14 is linked to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal colonisation. Plant, Cell and Environment, 46(5), 1691-1704.
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2023 Garcia, A., Gaju, O., Bowerman, A. F., Buck, S. A., Evans, J. R., Furbank, R. T., . . . Atkin, O. K. (2023). Enhancing crop yields through improvements in the efficiency of photosynthesis and respiration. New Phytologist, 237(1), 60-77.
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2022 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), 139-161.
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2022 Gilliham, M., & Hrmova, M. (2022). Alluminating structure key to stress tolerance. Cell Research, 32(1), 5-6.
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2022 McKay, D. W., McFarlane, H. E., Qu, Y., Situmorang, A., Gilliham, M., & Wege, S. (2022). Plant trans-Golgi network/early endosome pH regulation requires cation chloride cotransporter (CCC1). eLife, 11, 1-28.
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2022 Sai, N., Bockman, J. P., Chen, H., Watson-Haigh, N., Xu, B., Feng, X., . . . Gilliham, M. (2022). SAI: Fast and automated quantification of stomatal parameters on microscope images.
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2022 McKay, W. D., McFarlane, E. H., Qu, Y., Situmorang, A., Gilliham, M., & Wege, S. (2022). Author reponse: Plant trans-golgi network/early endosome pH regulation requires Cation Chloride Cotransporter (CCC1). eLife, 11, 1.
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2022 Hessel, V., Liang, S., Tran, N. N., Escribà-Gelonch, M., Zeckovic, O., Knowling, M., . . . Burgess, A. (2022). Eustress in Space: Opportunities for Plant Stressors Beyond the Earth Ecosystem. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 9, 1-22.
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2022 Qu, Y., Guan, R., Yu, L., Berkowitz, O., David, R., Whelan, J., . . . Gilliham, M. (2022). Enhanced reactive oxygen detoxification occurs in salt-stressed soybean roots expressing GmSALT3. Physiologia Plantarum, 174(3), 1-16.
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2022 Wu, Y., Henderson, S. W., Walker, R. R., & Gilliham, M. (2022). Root-Specific Expression of Vitis vinifera VviNPF2.2 Modulates Shoot Anion Concentration in Transgenic Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science, 13, 1-13.
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2022 Gilliham, M., Long, Y., & Tyerman, S. D. (2022). Corrigendum.. The New phytologist, 235(5), 2128.
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2022 Asif, M. A., Garcia, M., Tilbrook, J., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Berger, B., . . . Pearson, A. S. (2022). Corrigendum to: Identification of salt tolerance QTL in a wheat RIL mapping population using destructive and non-destructive phenotyping. Functional Plant Biology, 49(7), 672.
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2022 Qiu, J., Henderson, S. W., Tester, M., Roy, S. J., & Gilliham, M. (2022). SLAH1, a homologue of the slow type anion channel SLAC1, modulates shoot Cl- accumulation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana (vol 67, pg 4495, 2016). JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY, 73(18), 1 page.
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2022 Ramesh, S. A., Long, Y., Dashtbani-Roozbehani, A., Gilliham, M., Brown, M. H., & Tyerman, S. D. (2022). Picrotoxin Delineates Different Transport Configurations for Malate and γ Aminobutyric Acid through TaALMT1. Biology, 11(8), 1-14.
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2022 Richards, S. M., Li, L., Breen, J., Hovhannisyan, N., Estrada, O., Gasparyan, B., . . . Zhang, H. (2022). Recovery of chloroplast genomes from medieval millet grains excavated from the Areni-1 cave in southern Armenia. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 15164-1-15164-15.
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2022 Gilliham, M., & Xu, B. (2022). γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) may directly or indirectly regulate Arabidopsis ALMT9. Plant physiology, 190(3), 1570-1573.
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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.
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2021 Guan, R., Yu, L., Liu, X., Li, M., Chang, R., Gilliham, M., & Qiu, L. (2021). Selection of the Salt Tolerance Gene GmSALT3 During Six Decades of Soybean Breeding in China. Frontiers in Plant Science, 12, 794241.
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2021 Asif, M. A., Garcia, M., Tilbrook, J., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Berger, B., . . . Pearson, A. S. (2021). Identification of salt tolerance QTL in a wheat RIL mapping population using destructive and non-destructive phenotyping. Functional Plant Biology, 48(2), 131-140.
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2021 Qu, Y., Guan, R., Bose, J., Henderson, S. W., Wege, S., Qiu, L., & Gilliham, M. (2021). Soybean CHX-type ion transport protein GmSALT3 confers leaf Na⁺ exclusion via a root derived mechanism, and Cl⁻ exclusion via a shoot derived process. Plant, Cell and Environment, 44(3), 856-869.
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2021 Zhou, J., Cavagnaro, T. R., De Bei, R., Nelson, T. M., Stephen, J. R., Metcalfe, A., . . . Rodriguez Lopez, C. M. (2021). Wine terroir and the soil bacteria: an amplicon sequencing-based assessment of the Barossa Valley and its sub-regions. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11, 597944-1-597944-15.
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2021 David, R., Menezes, R. -J. D., De Klerk, J., Castleden, I. R., Hooper, C. M., Carneiro, G., & Gilliham, M. (2021). Identifying protein subcellular localisation in scientific literature using bidirectional deep recurrent neural network. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-11.
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2021 Zhou‐Tsang, A., Wu, Y., Henderson, S. W., Walker, A. R., Borneman, A. R., Walker, R. R., & Gilliham, M. (2021). Grapevine salt tolerance. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 27(2), 149-168.
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2021 Xu, B., Long, Y., Feng, X., Zhu, X., Sai, N., Chirkova, L., . . . Gilliham, M. (2021). GABA signalling modulates stomatal opening to enhance plant water use efficiency and drought resilience. Nature Communications, 12(1), 1952-1-1952-13.
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2021 Kawasaki, A., Dennis, P. G., Forstner, C., Raghavendra, A. K. H., Richardson, A. E., Watt, M., . . . Ryan, P. R. (2021). The microbiomes on the roots of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and rice (Oryza sativa L.) exhibit significant differences in structure between root types and along root axes.. Functional plant biology : FPB, 48(9), 871-888.
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2021 Qu, Y., Yu, L., Guan, R., Berkowitz, O., David, R., Whelan, J., . . . Gilliham, M. (2021). GmSALT3 expression improves reactive oxygen species detoxification in salt-stressed soybean roots.
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2021 Fabres, P. J., Anand, L., Sai, N., Pederson, S., Zheng, F., Stewart, A. A., . . . David, R. (2021). Tissue and regional expression patterns of dicistronic tRNA-mRNA transcripts in grapevine (Vitis vinifera) and their evolutionary co-appearance with vasculature in land plants. Horticultural Reviews, 8(1), 137-1-137-15.
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2021 Wege, S., Qiu, J., Byrt, C., Houston, K., Waugh, R., Gilliham, M., & Hrmova, M. (2021). A single residue deletion in the barley HKT1;5 P189 variant restores plasma membrane localisation but not Na⁺ conductance. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes, 1863(10), 183669-1-183669-11.
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2021 Feng, C. -Z., Luo, Y. -X., Wang, P. -D., Gilliham, M., & Long, Y. (2021). MYB77 regulates high-affinity potassium uptake by promoting expression of HAK5. New Phytologist, 232(1), 1-14.
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2021 Kawasaki, A., Dennis, P. G., Forstner, C., Raghavendra, A. K. H., Mathesius, U., Richardson, A. E., . . . Ryan, P. R. (2021). Manipulating exudate composition from root apices shapes the microbiome throughout the root system. Plant Physiology, 187(4), 2279-2295.
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2021 Xu, B., Sai, N., & Gilliham, M. (2021). The emerging role of GABA as a transport regulator and physiological signal. Plant Physiology, 187(4), 2005-2016.
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2021 Tsay, Y. -F., Blatt, M. R., Gilliham, M., Maurel, C., & von Wirén, N. (2021). Integrating membrane transport, signaling and physiology.. Plant physiology, 188(2), 921-923.
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2020 De Bei, R., Wang, X., Papagiannis, L., Fuentes, S., Gilliham, M., Tyerman, S., & Collins, C. (2020). Shoot thinning of Semillon in a hot climate did not improve yield and berry and wine quality. OENO One, 54(3), 469-484.
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2020 Watts-Williams, S., Wege, S., Ramesh, S., Berkowitz, O., Gilliham, M., Whelan, J., & Tyerman, S. (2020). Identification of a unique ZIP transporter involved in zinc uptake via the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal pathway.
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2020 Zhou, J., Cavagnaro, T., De Bei, R., Nelson, T., Stephen, J., Metcalfe, A., . . . Rodríguez López, C. (2020). Wine terroir and the soil microbiome: an amplicon sequencing–based assessment of the Barossa Valley and its sub-regions.
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2020 Xu, B., Hrmova, M., & Gilliham, M. (2020). High affinity Na⁺ transport by wheat HKT1;5 is blocked by K⁺. Plant Direct, 4(10), 1-10.
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2020 Houston, K., Qiu, J., Wege, S., Hrmova, M., Oakey, H., Qu, Y., . . . Waugh, R. (2020). A Grain of Salt.
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2020 Munns, R., Day, D. A., Fricke, W., Watt, M., Arsova, B., Barkla, B. J., . . . Tyerman, S. D. (2020). Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants. New Phytologist, 225(3), 1072-1090.
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2020 Long, Y., Tyerman, S. D., & Gilliham, M. (2020). Cytosolic GABA inhibits anion transport by wheat ALMT1. The New Phytologist, 225(2), 671-678.
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2020 Qu, Y., Guan, R., Bose, J., Henderson, S., Wege, S., Qiu, L., & Gilliham, M. (2020). Soybean CHX protein GmSALT3 confers leaf Na<sup>+</sup>exclusion via a root derived mechanism, and Cl<sup>−</sup>exclusion via a shoot derived process.
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2020 Wu, Y., Henderson, S. W., Wege, S., Zheng, F., Walker, A. R., Walker, R. R., & Gilliham, M. (2020). The grapevine NaE sodium exclusion locus encodes sodium transporters with diverse transport properties and localisation. Journal of Plant Physiology, 246-247, 153113-1-153113-11.
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2020 Fabres, P. J., Anand, L., Sai, N., Pederson, S., Zheng, F., Stewart, A., . . . David, R. (2020). Tissue and regional expression patterns of dicistronic tRNA-mRNA transcripts in grapevine (<i>Vitis vinifera</i>) and their evolutionary co-appearance with vasculature in land plants.
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2020 Amarasinghe, S., Huang, W., Watson-Haigh, N., Gilliham, M., Roy, S., & Baumann, U. (2020). AtCIPK16 Mediates Salt Stress Through Phytohormones and Transcription Factors.
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2020 Houston, K., Jiaen, Q., Wege, S., Oakey, H., Hrmova, M., Qu, Y., . . . Waugh, R. (2020). Barley sodium content is regulated by natural variants of the Na+ transporter HvHKT1;5. Communications Biology, 3(1), 258-1-258-9.
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2020 Kamran, M., Ramesh, S. A., Gilliham, M., Tyerman, S. D., & Bose, J. (2020). Role of TaALMT1 malate-GABA transporter in alkaline pH tolerance of wheat. Plant, Cell and Environment, 43(10), 2443-2459.
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2020 Hrmova, M., Gilliham, M., & Tyerman, S. D. (2020). Plant transporters involved in combating boron toxicity: beyond 3D structures. Biochemical Society Transactions, 48(4), 1683-1696.
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2019 De Bei, R., Wang, X., Papagiannis, L., Cocco, M., O'Brien, P., Zito, M., . . . Collins, C. (2019). Postveraison Leaf Removal Does Not Consistently Delay Ripening in Semillon and Shiraz in a Hot Australian Climate. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ENOLOGY AND VITICULTURE, 70(4), 398-410.
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2019 Brown, P., Tan, A. -C., El-Esawi, M. A., Liehr, T., Blanck, O., Gladue, D. P., . . . Zhou, Y. (2019). Large expert-curated database for benchmarking document similarity detection in biomedical literature search. Database: the journal of biological databases and curation, 2019, baz085-1-baz085-66.
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2019 Xu, B., Long, Y., Feng, X., Zhu, X., Sai, N., Chirkova, L., . . . Gilliham, M. (2019). GABA signalling in guard cells acts as a ‘stress memory’ to optimise plant water loss. not yet known.
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2019 Domingos, P., Dias, P. N., Tavares, B., Portes, M. T., Wudick, M. M., Konrad, K. R., . . . Feijó, J. A. (2019). Molecular and electrophysiological characterization of anion transport in Arabidopsis thaliana pollen reveals regulatory roles for pH, Ca²⁺ and GABA. New Phytologist, 223(3), 1353-1371.
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2019 David, R., Byrt, C. S., Tyerman, S. D., Gilliham, M., & Wege, S. (2019). Roles of membrane transporters: connecting the dots from sequence to phenotype. Annals of Botany, 124(2), 201-208.
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2019 Amarasinghe, S. L., Watson-Haigh, N. S., Byrt, C., James, R., Qiu, J., Berkowitz, O., . . . Baumann, U. (2019). Transcriptional variation is associated with differences in shoot sodium accumulation in distinct barley varieties. Environmental and Experimental Botany, 166, 103812-1-103812-15.
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2019 Richards, S. M., Hovhannisyan, N., Gilliham, M., Ingram, J., Skadhauge, B., Heiniger, H., . . . Cooper, A. (2019). Low-cost cross-taxon enrichment of mitochondrial DNA using in-house synthesised RNA probes. PLoS ONE, 14(2), e0209499-1-e0209499-18.
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2019 Zhao, C., Wang, Y., Chan, K. X., Marchant, D. B., Franks, P. J., Randall, D., . . . Chen, Z. H. (2019). Evolution of chloroplast retrograde signaling facilitates green plant adaptation to land. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(11), 5015-5020.
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2019 Tyerman, S., Munns, R., Fricke, W., Arsova, B., Barkla, B., Bose, J., . . . Wen, Z. (2019). Energy costs of salinity tolerance in crop plants. New Phytologist, 221(1), 25-29.
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2018 Kawasaki, A., Okada, S., Zhang, C., Delhaize, E., Mathesius, U., Richardson, A., . . . Ryan, P. (2018). A sterile hydroponic system for characterising root exudates from specific root types and whole-root systems of large crop plants. Plant Methods, 14(1), 114-1-114-13.
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2018 Xu, B., Waters, S., Byrt, C., Plett, D., Tyerman, S., Tester, M., . . . Gilliham, M. (2018). Structural variations in wheat HKT1;5 underpin differences in Na+ transport capacity. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 75(6), 1133-1144.
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2018 Henderson, S., Dunlevy, J., Wu, Y., Blackmore, D., Walker, R., Edwards, E., . . . Walker, A. (2018). Functional differences in transport properties of natural HKT1;1 variants influence shoot Na⁺ exclusion in grapevine rootstocks. New Phytologist, 217(3), 1113-1127.
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2018 Byrt, C., Munns, R., Burton, R., Gilliham, M., & Wege, S. (2018). Root cell wall solutions for crop plants in saline soils. Plant Science, 269, 47-55.
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2018 Henderson, S., Wege, S., & Gilliham, M. (2018). Plant cation-chloride cotransporters (CCC): evolutionary origins and functional insights. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 19(2), 492-1-492-12.
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2018 Walker, R., Blackmore, D., Gong, H., Henderson, S., Gilliham, M., & Walker, A. (2018). Analysis of the salt exclusion phenotype in rooted leaves of grapevine (Vitis spp.). Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 24(3), 317-326.
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2018 Ramesh, S., Kamran, M., Sullivan, W., Chirkova, L., Okamoto, M., Degryse, F., . . . Tyerman, S. (2018). Aluminium-activated malate transporters can facilitate GABA transport. The Plant Cell, 30(5), 1147-1164.
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2018 Asif, M. A., Schilling, R. K., Tilbrook, J., Brien, C., Dowling, K., Rabie, H., . . . Pearson, A. S. (2018). Mapping of novel salt tolerance QTL in an Excalibur x Kukri doubled haploid wheat population. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 131(10), 2179-2196.
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2018 Hrmova, M., & Gilliham, M. (2018). Plants fighting back: to transport or not to transport, this is a structural question. Current Opinion in Plant Biology, 46, 68-76.
DOI Scopus16 WoS16 Europe PMC15
2017 Ramesh, S., Kamran, M., Sullivan, W., Chirkova, L., Okamoto, M., Degryse, F., . . . Tyerman, S. (2017). Split personality of Aluminum Activated Malate Transporter family proteins: facilitation of both GABA and malate transport.
DOI Europe PMC1
2017 Byrt, C., Zhao, M., Kourghi, M., Bose, J., Henderson, S., Qiu, J., . . . Tyerman, S. (2017). Non-selective cation channel activity of aquaporin AtPIP2;1 regulated by Ca²⁺ and pH. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40(6), 802-815.
DOI Scopus177 WoS157 Europe PMC131
2017 Hocking, B., Conn, S., Manohar, M., Xu, B., Athman, A., Stancombe, M., . . . Gilliham, M. (2017). Heterodimerization of Arabidopsis calcium/proton exchangers contributes to regulation of guard cell dynamics and plant defense responses. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68(15), 4171-4183.
DOI Scopus42 WoS38 Europe PMC32
2017 Ramesh, S., Tyerman, S., Gilliham, M., & Xu, B. (2017). γ-Aminobutyric acid (GABA) signalling in plants. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 74(9), 1577-1603.
DOI Scopus285 WoS256 Europe PMC159
2017 Xie, H., Konate, M., Sai, N., Tesfamicael, K., Cavagnaro, T., Gilliham, M., . . . Lopez, C. (2017). Global DNA methylation patterns can play a role in defining terroir in grapevine (Vitis vinifera cv. Shiraz). Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, 1860-1-1860-16.
DOI Scopus54 WoS48 Europe PMC38
2017 Gilliham, M., Able, J., & Roy, S. (2017). Translating knowledge about abiotic stress tolerance to breeding programmes. The Plant Journal, 90(5), 898-917.
DOI Scopus165 WoS114 Europe PMC66
2017 Jaime-Pérez, N., Pineda, B., García-Sogo, B., Atares, A., Athman, A., Byrt, C., . . . Belver, A. (2017). The sodium transporter encoded by the HKT1;2 gene modulates sodium/potassium homeostasis in tomato shoots under salinity. Plant, Cell and Environment, 40(5), 658-671.
DOI Scopus75 WoS67 Europe PMC51
2017 Li, B., Tester, M., & Gilliham, M. (2017). Chloride on the move. Trends in Plant Science, 22(3), 236-248.
DOI Scopus181 WoS153 Europe PMC86
2017 Li, B., Qiu, J., Jayakannan, M., Xu, B., Li, Y., Mayo, G., . . . Roy, S. (2017). AtNPF2.5 modulates chloride (Cl¯) efflux from roots of Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, 2013-1-2013-16.
DOI Scopus85 WoS65 Europe PMC44
2017 Pornsiriwong, W., Estavillo, G., Chan, K., Tee, E., Ganguly, D., Crisp, P., . . . Pogson, B. (2017). A chloroplast retrograde signal, 3’phosphoadenosine 5’-phosphate, acts as a secondary messenger in abscisic acid signaling in stomatal closure and germination. eLife, 6, e23361-1-e23361-34.
DOI Scopus135 WoS122 Europe PMC94
2017 Wege, S., Gilliham, M., & Henderson, S. (2017). Chloride: not simply a 'cheap osmoticum', but a beneficial plant macronutrient. Journal of Experimental Botany, 68(12), 3057-3069.
DOI Scopus124 WoS107 Europe PMC61
2017 Gilliham, M., Chapman, S., Martin, L., Jose, S., & Bastow, R. (2017). The case for evidence-based policy to support stress-resilient cropping systems. Food and Energy Security, 6(1), 5-11.
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2017 Bose, J., Munns, R., Shabala, S., Gilliham, M., Pogson, B., & Tyerman, S. (2017). Chloroplast function and ion regulation in plants growing on saline soils: lessons from halophytes. Journal of experimental botany, 68(12), 3129-3143.
DOI Scopus237 WoS207 Europe PMC128
2017 Xu, B., Cheval, C., Laohavisit, A., Hocking, B., Chiasson, D., Olsson, T., . . . Gilliham, M. (2017). A calmodulin-like protein regulates plasmodesmal closure during bacterial immune responses. New Phytologist, 215(1), 77-84.
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2017 Xie, H., Konate, M., Sai, N., Gebremicael Tesfamicael, K., Cavagnaro, T., Gilliham, M., . . . Rodriguez Lopez, C. M. (2017). Environmental Conditions And Agronomic Practices Induce Consistent Global Changes In DNA Methylation Patterns In Grapevine (Vitis vinifera cv Shiraz). BioRxiv.
DOI Europe PMC1
2016 Gilliham, M., & Tyerman, S. (2016). Linking metabolism to membrane signaling: the GABA–malate connection. Trends in Plant Science, 21(4), 295-301.
DOI Scopus119 WoS111 Europe PMC78
2016 Amarasinghe, S., Watson-Haigh, N. S., Gilliham, M., Roy, S., & Baumann, U. (2016). The evolutionary origin of CIPK16: a gene involved in enhanced salt tolerance. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 100, 135-147.
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2016 Baby, T., Collins, C., Tyerman, S., & Gilliham, M. (2016). Salinity negatively affects pollen tube growth and fruit set in grapevines and is not mitigated by silicon. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 67(2), 218-228.
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2016 De Bei, R., Fuentes, S., Gilliham, M., Tyerman, S., Edwards, E., Bianchini, N., . . . Collins, C. (2016). Viticanopy: A free computer app to estimate canopy vigor and porosity for grapevine. Sensors (Switzerland), 16(4), 17 pages.
DOI Scopus103 WoS87 Europe PMC29
2016 Hocking, B., Tyerman, S., Burton, R., & Gilliham, M. (2016). Fruit calcium: transport and physiology. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7(APR2016), 569-1-569-17.
DOI Scopus358 WoS312 Europe PMC99
2016 Qiu, J., Henderson, S., Tester, M., Roy, S., & Gilliham, M. (2016). SLAH1, a homologue of the slow type anion channel SLAC1, modulates shoot Cl⁻ accumulation and salt tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. Journal of Experimental Botany, 67(15), 4495-4505.
DOI Scopus92 WoS80 Europe PMC49
2016 Baby, T., Gilliham, M., Tyerman, S., & Collins, C. (2016). Differential fruitset between grapevine cultivars is related to differences in pollen viability and amine concentration in flowers. Australian Journal of Grape and Wine Research, 22(1), 149-158.
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2016 Li, B., Byrt, C., Qiu, J., Baumann, U., Hrmova, M., Evrard, A., . . . Roy, S. (2016). Identification of a stelar-localized transport protein that facilitates root-to-shoot transfer of chloride in arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, 170(2), 1014-1029.
DOI Scopus101 WoS88 Europe PMC67
2016 Nagarajan, Y., Rongala, J., Luang, S., Singh, A., Shadiac, N., Hayes, J., . . . Hrmova, M. (2016). A barley efflux transporter operates in a Na⁺-dependent manner, as revealed by a multidisciplinary platform. The Plant Cell, 28(1), 202-218.
DOI Scopus24 WoS23 Europe PMC17
2016 Liu, Y., Yu, L., Qu, Y., Chen, J., Liu, X., Hong, H., . . . Guan, R. (2016). GmSALT3, which confers improved soybean salt tolerance in the field, increases leaf Cl⁻ exclusion prior to Na⁺ exclusion but does not improve early vigor under salinity. Frontiers in Plant Science, 7(September2016), 1485-1-1485-14.
DOI Scopus75 WoS50 Europe PMC43
2016 Munns, R., James, R., Gilliham, M., Flowers, T., & Colmer, T. (2016). Tissue tolerance: an essential but elusive trait for salt-tolerant crops. Functional Plant Biology, 43(12), 1103-1113.
DOI Scopus185 WoS165 Europe PMC89
2015 Liu, G., Sun, A., Li, D., Athman, A., Gilliham, M., & Liu, L. (2015). Molecular identification and functional analysis of a maize (Zea mays) DUR₃ homolog that transports urea with high affinity. Planta, 241(4), 861-874.
DOI Scopus35 WoS33 Europe PMC27
2015 Munns, R., & Gilliham, M. (2015). Salinity tolerance of crops - what is the cost?. New Phytologist, 208(3), 668-673.
DOI Scopus1024 WoS899 Europe PMC451
2015 Ramesh, S., Tyerman, S., Xu, B., Bose, J., Kaur, S., Conn, V., . . . Gillham, M. (2015). GABA signalling modulates plant growth by directly regulating the activity of plant-specific anion transporters. Nature Communications, 6(1), 7879-1-7879-9.
DOI Scopus371 WoS335 Europe PMC219
2015 Henderson, S., Wege, S., Qiu, J., Blackmore, D., Walker, A., Tyerman, S., . . . Gilliham, M. (2015). Grapevine and Arabidopsis cation-chloride cotransporters localize to the Golgi and trans-Golgi network and indirectly influence long-distance ion transport and plant salt tolerance. Plant Physiology, 169(3), 2215-2229.
DOI Scopus75 WoS65 Europe PMC42
2014 Vandeleur, R., Sullivan, W., Athman, A., Jordans, C., Gilliham, M., Kaiser, B., & Tyerman, S. (2014). Rapid shoot-to-root signalling regulates root hydraulic conductance via aquaporins. Plant, Cell and Environment, 37(2), 520-538.
DOI Scopus150 WoS141 Europe PMC90
2014 Byrt, C., Xu, B., Krishnan, M., Lightfoot, D., Athman, A., Jacobs, A., . . . Gilliham, M. (2014). The Na⁺ transporter, TaHKT1;5-D, limits shoot Na⁺ accumulation in bread wheat. The Plant Journal, 80(3), 516-526.
DOI Scopus196 WoS179 Europe PMC120
2014 Baby, T., Hocking, B., Tyerman, S., Gilliham, M., & Collins, C. (2014). Modified method for producing grapevine plants in controlled environments. American Journal of Enology and Viticulture, 65(2), 261-267.
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2014 Tian, Q., Zhang, X., Ramesh, S., Gilliham, M., Tyerman, S., & Zhang, W. (2014). Ethylene negatively regulates aluminium-induced malate efflux from wheat roots and tobacco cells transformed with TaALMT1. Journal of Experimental Botany, 65(9), 2415-2426.
DOI Scopus53 WoS47 Europe PMC35
2014 Athman, A., Tanz, S., Conn, V., Jordans, C., Mayo, G., Ng, W., . . . Gilliham, M. (2014). Protocol: a fast and simple in situ PCR method for localising gene expression in plant tissue. Plant Methods, 10(1), 29-1-29-19.
DOI Scopus53 WoS48 Europe PMC39
2014 Guan, R., Qu, Y., Guo, Y., Yu, L., Liu, Y., Jiang, J., . . . Qiu, L. (2014). Salinity tolerance in soybean is modulated by natural variation in GmSALT3. Plant Journal, 80(6), 937-950.
DOI Scopus236 WoS207 Europe PMC153
2014 Henderson, S., Baumann, U., Blackmore, D., Walker, A., Walker, R., & Gilliham, M. (2014). Shoot chloride exclusion and salt tolerance in grapevine is associated with differential ion transporter expression in roots. BMC Plant Biology, 14(1), 273-1-273-18.
DOI Scopus94 WoS90 Europe PMC55
2014 Loveys, B., Kaiser, B., McDonald, G., Kravchuk, O., Gilliham, M., Tyerman, S., & Able, A. (2014). The development of student research skills in second year plant biology. International Journal of Innovation in Science and Mathematics Education, 22(3), 15-25.
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2013 Waters, S., Gilliham, M., & Hrmova, M. (2013). Plant High-Affinity Potassium (HKT) transporters involved in salinity tolerance: structural insights to probe differences in ion selectivity. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 14(4), 7660-7680.
DOI Scopus109 WoS96 Europe PMC63
2013 Conn, S., Hocking, B., Dayod, M., Xu, B., Athman, A., Henderson, S., . . . Gilliham, M. (2013). Protocol: optimising hydroponic growth systems for nutritional and physiological analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana and other plants. Plant Methods, 9(1), 4.
DOI Scopus170 WoS162 Europe PMC124
2012 Munns, R., James, R., Xu, B., Athman, A., Conn, S., Jordans, C., . . . Gilliham, M. (2012). Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na+ transporter gene. Nature Biotechnology, 30(4), 360-364.
DOI Scopus712 WoS620 Europe PMC432
2012 Conn, S., Berninger, P., Broadley, M., & Gilliham, M. (2012). Exploiting natural variation to uncover candidate genes that control element accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist, 193(4), 859-866.
DOI Scopus22 WoS21 Europe PMC19
2011 Gilliham, M., Athman, A., Tyerman, S., & Conn, S. (2011). Cell-specific compartmentation of mineral nutrients is an essential mechanism for optimal plant productivity-another role for TPC1?. Plant Signalling & Behavior, 6(11), 1656-1661.
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2011 Gilliham, M. (2011). Preface. Journal of Experimental Botany, 62(7), 2231-2232.
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2011 Michard, E., Lima, P., Borges, F., Silva, A., Portes, M., Carvalho, J., . . . Feijo, J. (2011). Glutamate receptor-like genes form Ca²⁺ channels in pollen tubes and are regulated by pistil D-serine. Science, 332(6028), 434-437.
DOI Scopus378 WoS343 Europe PMC305
2011 Gilliham, M., Dayod, M., Hocking, B., Xu, B., Conn, S., Kaiser, B., . . . Tyerman, S. (2011). Calcium delivery and storage in plant leaves: exploring the link with water flow. Journal of Experimental Botany, 62(7), 2233-2250.
DOI Scopus255 WoS231 Europe PMC101
2011 Conn, S., Conn, V., Tyerman, S., Kaiser, B., Leigh, R., & Gilliham, M. (2011). Magnesium transporters, MGT2/MRS2-1 and MGT3/MRS2-5, are important for magnesium partitioning within Arabidopsis thaliana mesophyll vacuoles. New Phytologist, 190(3), 583-594.
DOI Scopus98 WoS88 Europe PMC64
2011 Conn, S., Gilliham, M., Athman, A., Schreiber, A., Baumann, U., Moller, I., . . . Leigh, R. (2011). Cell-specific vacuolar calcium storage mediated by CAX1 regulates apoplastic calcium concentration, gas exchange, and plant productivity in arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 23(1), 240-257.
DOI Scopus231 WoS207 Europe PMC148
2010 Plett, D., Safwat El Hussieny, G., Gilliham, M., Moller, I., Roy, S., Shirley, N., . . . Tester, M. (2010). Improved salinity tolerance of rice through cell type-specific expression of AtHKT1;1. PLoS One, 5(9), 1-8.
DOI Scopus145 WoS122 Europe PMC88
2010 Dayod, M., Tyerman, S., Leigh, R., & Gilliham, M. (2010). Calcium storage in plants and the implications for calcium biofortification. Protoplasma, 247(3), 215-231.
DOI Scopus137 WoS121 Europe PMC66
2010 Conn, S., & Gilliham, M. (2010). Comparative physiology of elemental distributions in plants. Annals of Botany, 105(7), 1081-1102.
DOI Scopus295 WoS266 Europe PMC170
2010 Preuss, C., Huang, C., Gilliham, M., & Tyerman, S. (2010). Channel-like characteristics of the low affinity barley phosphate transporter Pht1;6 when expressed in Xenopus Oocytes1,[W],[OA]. Plant Physiology, 152(3), 1431-1441.
DOI Scopus76 WoS71 Europe PMC55
2009 Vandeleur, R., Mayo, G., Shelden, M., Gilliham, M., Kaiser, B., & Tyerman, S. (2009). The Role of Plasma Membrane Intrinsic Protein Aquaporins in Water Transport through Roots: Diurnal and Drought Stress Responses Reveal Different Strategies between Isohydric and Anisohydric Cultivars of Grapevine. Plant Physiology, 149(1), 445-460.
DOI Scopus443 WoS414 Europe PMC241
2009 Moller, I., Gilliham, M., Jha, D., Mayo, G., Roy, S., Coates, J., . . . Tester, M. (2009). Shoot Na+ exclusion and increased salinity tolerance engineered by cell type-specific alteration of Na+ transport in arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 21(7), 2163-2178.
DOI Scopus484 WoS441 Europe PMC332
2008 Roy, S., Gilliham, M., Berger, B., Essah, P., Cheffings, C., Miller, A., . . . Tester, M. (2008). Investigating glutamate receptor-like gene co-expression in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell and Environment, 31(6), 861-871.
DOI Scopus105 WoS93 Europe PMC78
2008 Tracy, F., Gilliham, M., Dodd, A., Webb, A., & Tester, M. (2008). NaCl-induced changes in cytosolic free Ca2+ in Arabidopsis thaliana are heterogeneous and modified by external ionic composition. Plant Cell and Environment, 31(8), 1063-1073.
DOI Scopus138 WoS120 Europe PMC98
2006 Gilliham, M., Sullivan, W., Tester, M., & Tyerman, S. (2006). Simultaneous flux and current measurement from single plant protoplasts reveals a strong link between K⁺ fluxes and current, but no link between Ca²⁺ fluxes and current. Plant Journal, 46(1), 134-144.
DOI Scopus21 WoS15 Europe PMC13
2005 Gilliham, M., & Tester, M. (2005). The Regulation of Anion Loading to the Maize Root Xylem. Plant Physiology, 137(3), 819-828.
DOI Scopus83 WoS72 Europe PMC54
2000 Kiegle, E., Gilliham, M., Haseloff, J., & Tester, M. (2000). Hyperpolarisation-activated calcium currents found only in cells from the elongation zone of Arabidopsis thaliana roots. Plant Journal, 21(2), 225-229.
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Year Citation
2015 Henderson, S., & Gilliham, M. (2015). The "Gatekeeper" Concept: Cell-Type Specific Molecular Mechanisms of Plant Adaptation to Abiotic Stress. In R. Laitinen (Ed.), Molecular Mechanisms in Plant Adaptation (pp. 83-116). New Jersey: Wiley.
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2012 Roy, S., Conn, S., Mayo, G., Athman, A., & Gilliham, M. (2012). Transcriptomics on small samples. In S. Shabala, & T. Cuin (Eds.), Plant Salt Tolerance: Methods and Protocols (Vol. 913, 1 ed., pp. 335-350). New York: Springer.
DOI Scopus4 Europe PMC1
2009 Tyerman, S., Vandeleur, R., Shelden, M., Tilbrook, J., Mayo, G., Gilliham, M., & Kaiser, B. (2009). Water transport and aquaporins in grapevines. In K. Roubelakis-Angelakis (Ed.), Grapevine Molecular Physiology & Biotechnology (pp. 73-103). Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer.
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2007 Gilliham, M. (2007). Membrane structure and the study of solute transport across plant membranes. In A. Yeo, & T. Flowers (Eds.), Plant Solute Transport (pp. 47-74). Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers Inc.
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2006 Gilliham, M., Campbell, M., Dubos, C., Becker, D., & Davenport, R. (2006). The Arabidopsis thaliana glutamate-like receptors (AtGLR). In Communication in plants : neuronal aspects of plant life (pp. 187-204). Berlin: Springer.
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- Gilliham, M., Campbell, M., Dubos, C., Becker, D., & Davenport, R. (n.d.). The Arabidopsis thaliana Glutamate-like Receptor Family (AtGLR). In Communication in Plants (pp. 187-204). Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
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Year Citation
2016 Byrt, C. S., Zhao, M., Kourghi, M., Bose, J., Henderson, S. W., Qui, J., . . . Tyerman, S. (2016). Charging up water transport with plant aquaporins permeable to ions. Poster session presented at the meeting of Combio2016. Brisbane, Australia.

Year Citation
2015 Waters, S., Gilliham, M., & Hrmova, M. (2015). Micro-biomachines helping plants survive salt (No. Of Pieces: 1-2) [Exhibition]. University of Adelaide: E-Science Magazine of the University of Adelaide.

Year Citation
- Adelaide, T. U. O., David, R., Tyerman, S., Gilliham, M., Hooper, C., & Castleden, I. (n.d.). Knowledgebase of Crop Transport information, Physiology and Signalling (CropTiPS) version 1.0.
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- Gilliham, M. (n.d.). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Gilliham, Pearson) - Wheat.
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- Gilliham, M. (n.d.). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Gilliham, Qu) - Soybean.
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- Gilliham, M. (n.d.). APPF TPA phenotyping dataset: UA (Pearson) - Wheat (ExK).
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- Mortimer, J., & Gilliham, M. (n.d.). Autonomous Agriculture to Support Space Exploration.
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Year Citation
2017 Sai, N., Rodriguez Lopez, C. M., Bogias, K., Pederson, S., Burgess, A., Breen, J., . . . David, R. (2017). Bioinformatic pipeline to detect di-cistronic RNA transcripts from RNA-sequencing data [Computer Software].
- David, R., Hooper, C. M., Castleden, I. R., Gilliham, M., & Tyerman, S. (n.d.). CropTiPS database (Crop Transport information, Physiology and Signalling) - www.croptips.org [Computer Software].

Year Citation
- McKay, D., Wege, S., & Gilliham, M. (n.d.). MonensinImageFiles.
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Year Citation
- McKay, D., Wege, S., & Gilliham, M. (n.d.). Monensin experiment.
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- McKay, D., Gilliham, M., & Wege, S. (n.d.). Root hair branching examples.
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- McKay, D., Wege, S., & Gilliham, M. (n.d.). Tissue specific expression CCC1 promoter.
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- McKay, D., Wege, S., & Gilliham, M. (n.d.). GFP-CCC1.
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- McKay, D., Wege, S., & Gilliham, M. (n.d.). Cell File Organisation.
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Year Citation
2024 long, Y., Heng, Y., Lin, P., Luo, Y., & Gilliham, M. (2024). OsALMT7 transports malate as a homodimer.
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Current and Recent Grants

ARC Disovery Grant (2026-2029) Optogenetic manipulation of plant gas exchange

GRDC Proof of Concept grant (2025) Changing the paradigm for barley salinity tolerance

Plant Synthetic Biology Australia (2025-)

ARC Centre of Excellence in Plants for Space (2024-2031)

ARC Future Fellow (2014-2017) Chloride Transport in Plant

ARC Discovery (2017-2019) GABA signalling in plants

ARC Linkage (2015-2018) Ancient diversity in aridity and salinity tolerance of cereals

ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology (2013-2021)

GRDC Large Grant (2013-2017) Improving salinity tolerance of cereals

Wine Australia (2014-2017) Molecular markers for salt tolerance in grapevine

International Wheat Yield Partnership (2016-2019) Improving wheat energy use efficiency

Australian National Data Service (2016-2017) CropTIPS - Transport Information, Physiology and Signalling; 

Australian National Data Service (2017-2018) AGRICONNECT - linking Australian Agricultural Databases

GRDC Infrastructure Grant - Enhancing the growth infrastructure at the Waite Campus (2017-2018)

ARC Industrial Transformation Training Centre in Innovative Wine Production (2018-2023)

AgRDC (NCRIS) Enhancing high value datasets in Agriculture (2018-2019)

GRDC Infrastructure Grant - CT Scanner for high throughput shoot and root phenotyping (2018-2019)

 

 

Matthew has taught into the Bachelor of Applied Biology, Viticulture and Oenology and Agricultural Science degrees, and the Masters in Biotechnology (Plant Biotechnology) program. 

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2025 Principal Supervisor Establishing light-activated channelrhodopsins as a discovery tool for guard cell signaling Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Yunti Ge
2025 Co-Supervisor Investigating plant cell wall biosynthesis and carbon partitioning in response to the lunar environment Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Bryony Roisin Hodge
2025 Principal Supervisor Advancing nutrient delivery and plant health monitoring capabilities for space crop production systems Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Jess Marie Bunchek
2024 Co-Supervisor Improving stress resilience of barley via altered GABA metabolism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Yiwen Chen
2023 Principal Supervisor GABA Signalling in Plants and its Role in Drought Tolerance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Alex Karami
2022 Principal Supervisor Biomanufacturing in plants. Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Matthew Fox Morgan
2022 Co-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 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
2022 Principal Supervisor Enrichment of space-grown plants with medicinal compounds Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Nigel Vermonden

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2023 - 2025 Co-Supervisor EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGI
ON CEREAL GRAIN NUTRITION
Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Thi Diem Nguyen
2022 - 2023 Co-Supervisor Strategies to Circumvent Herbicide Resistance Through the Inhibition of Lysine Biosynthesis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Emily Rose Ronayne Mackie
2021 - 2025 Principal Supervisor Lithium transport in plants Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with Doctorate Full Time Mr Sebastian Garcia Daga
2020 - 2024 Principal Supervisor The Genomic Basis of Salt Tolerance in Grapevines Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Andres Zhou Tsang
2018 - 2021 Co-Supervisor The Role and Function of Cation Chloride Cotransporters in Plants Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Daniel Walter McKay
2018 - 2022 Principal Supervisor Exploring the Role of GABA in Stomatal CO2 Responses and Carbon Metabolism Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Adriane Piechatzek
2018 - 2023 Principal Supervisor The Role of GABA in Plant Salinity and Hypoxia Responses Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Ying Meng
2018 - 2023 Principal Supervisor Manipulating Grapevine Bud Fruitfulness Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Xiaoyi Wang
2017 - 2022 Principal Supervisor GABA regulation of gas exchange in barley (Hordeum vulgare) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Na Sai
2016 - 2021 Principal Supervisor GABA regulation of stomatal function in Arabidopsis thaliana Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Xueying Feng
2015 - 2019 Principal Supervisor Functional Study of Grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) Membrane Ion Transporters Related to Salt Tolerance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Miss Yue Wu
2014 - 2017 Principal Supervisor Functional Characterisation of GmSALT3, a Candidate Gene for Conferring Salt Tolerance in Soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Yue Qu
2014 - 2018 Co-Supervisor Defining Transcriptional Networks Associated with Plant Salinity Tolerance Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Shanika Lakmini Amarasinghe
2013 - 2018 Co-Supervisor The Role of Aquaporins in Plant Responses to Drought Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Johannes Daniel Scharwies
2013 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Investigating factors that affect grapevine fruit set during abiotic stress Master of Philosophy Master Full Time Mrs Satwinder Kaur
2011 - 2015 Principal Supervisor Investigation of chloride transport mechanisms in Arabidopsis thaliana root Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Jiaen Qiu
2010 - 2013 Principal Supervisor Characterisation of a novel calcium sensor in Arabidopsis thaliana Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Bo Xu
2010 - 2013 Co-Supervisor POT Proteins are Important for Chloride Transport in Arabidopsis Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Bo Li
2010 - 2015 Co-Supervisor Grapevine Reproductive Performance: The Role of Amines, and the Effect of Salt and Silicon Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Ms Tintu Baby
2010 - 2014 Principal Supervisor Investigating genes encoding membrane proteins in grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) and Vitis spp. rootstocks to determine their role in chloride exclusion Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Dr Sam Henderson
2010 - 2015 Principal Supervisor The Role of Calcium in the Cell Wall of Grape Berries Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Brad Hocking

Date Role Board name Institution name Country
2020 - ongoing Director Australian Grain Technologies Board Australian Grain Technologies Australia
2020 - ongoing Member Australian Plant Phenomics Facility Advisory Board Australian Plant Phenomics Facility Australia

Date Role Committee Institution Country
2019 - ongoing Member South Australian Premiers Science and Innovation Council South Australian Government Australia
2018 - ongoing Chair Adapting to abiotic stress and climate change special interest group Society for Experimental Biology United Kingdom
2017 - ongoing Secretary Australian Society for Plant Scientists - -

Date Role Membership Country
2015 - ongoing Member American Society for Enology and Viticulture United States
2012 - ongoing Member Australian Society for Viticulture and Oenology (ASVO) Australia
2006 - ongoing Member American Society for Plant Biology (ASPB) United States
2006 - ongoing Member Australian Society for Plant Scientists (ASPS) Australia
1998 - ongoing Member Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) United Kingdom

Date Title Engagement Type Institution Country
2020 - ongoing Faculty Opinions (formerly F1000prime) Faculty Member Scientific Community Engagement Faculty Opinions -

Date Role Editorial Board Name Institution Country
2020 - ongoing Editor Plant Communications Cell Press China
2018 - ongoing Editor Plant Physiology American Society for Plant Biology United States