BIOL3177/6177 Advances in Molecular Plant Science (Co-convenor)
BIOL3174 Special Projects
BIOL3106/6106 Biosecurity (Convenor)

Projects suitable for Honours and PhD students are also available in each of the other areas of current research described above and enquiries from prospective students are welcome.

Takemoto, D., Rafiqi, M., Hurley, U., Lawrence, G.J., Bernoux, M., Hardham, A.R., Ellis, J.G., Dodds, P.N. and Jones, D.A. 2012. N-terminal motifs in some plant disease resistance proteins function in membrane attachment and contribute to disease resistance. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 25:379-392.

Rafiqi, M., Gan, P.H.P., Ravensdale, M., Lawrence, G.J., Ellis, J.G., Jones, D.A., Hardham, A.R., and Dodds, P.N. 2010. Internalization of flax rust avirulence proteins into flax and tobacco cells can occur in the absence of the pathogen. Plant Cell 22:2017-2032.

Wulff, B.B.H., Chakrabarti, A., and Jones, D.A. 2009. Recognitional specificity and evolution in the tomato-Cladosporium fulvum pathosystem. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 22:1191-1202.

Chakrabarti, A., Panter, S.N., Harrison, K., Jones, J.D.G., and Jones, D.A. 2009. Regions of the Cf-9B disease resistance protein able to cause spontaneous necrosis in Nicotiana benthamiana lie within the region controlling pathogen recognition in tomato. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 22:1214-1226.

Wulff, B.B., Heese, A., Tomlinson-Buhot, L., Jones, D.A., de la Peña, M., and Jones, J.D.G. 2009. The major specificity-determining amino acids of the tomato Cf-9 disease resistance protein are at hypervariable solvent-exposed positions in the central leucine-rich repeats. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 22:1203-1213

Lim, G.T.T., Wang, G.P., Hemming, M.N., McGrath, D.J., and Jones, D.A. 2008. High resolution genetic and physical mapping of the I-3 region of tomato chromosome 7 reveals almost continuous microsynteny with grape chromosome 12 but interspersed microsynteny with duplications on Arabidopsis chromosomes 1, 2 and 3. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 118:57-75.

Barker, C.L., Talbot, S.J., Jones, J.D.G., and Jones D.A. 2006. A tomato mutant that shows stunting, wilting, progressive necrosis and constitutive expression of defence genes contains a recombinant Hcr9 gene encoding an autoactive protein. Plant Journal 46:369-384.

Barker, C.L.,  Baillie, B.K., Hammond-Kosack, K.E., Jones, J.D.G., and Jones, D.A. 2006. Dominant-negative interference with defence signalling by truncation mutations of the tomato Cf-9 disease resistance gene. Plant Journal  46:385-399.

Takemoto, D., and Jones, D.A. 2005. Membrane release and destabilization of Arabidopsis RIN4 following cleavage by Pseudomonas syringae AvrRpt2. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 18: 1258-1268.

Benghezal, M., Wasteneys, G.O., and Jones, D.A. 2000. The C-terminal dilysine motif confers endoplasmic reticulum localization to type I membrane proteins in plants. Plant Cell 12:1179-1201.

Jones, D.A., Thomas, C.M., Hammond-Kosack, K.E., Balint-Kurti, P.J., and Jones, J.D.G. 1994. Isolation of the tomato Cf-9 gene for resistance to Cladosporium fulvum by transposon tagging. Science 266:789-793.

Dr David Jones and Dr Peter Dodds (CSIRO Plant Industry)
ARC Discovery 2012-2014
Isolation and functional characterisation of a pathogen meta effector able to inhibit detection of multiple disease effectors by resistant plants
$340,000

Dr Ann-Maree Catanzariti and Dr Martijn Rep (University of Amsterdam)
ARC Discovery - APD 2010-2012
Pathogen recognition and plant defence activation by a novel Fusarium wilt resistance protein from tomato
$330,000

Prof. Adrienne Hardham, Dr David Jones, Dr Peter Dodds (CSIRO Plant Industry) and Dr Jeff Ellis (CSIRO Plant Industry)
ARC Discovery 2010-2012
Role of fungal secreted proteins as plant disease effectors
$330,000

Dr David Jones and Mr Des McGrath (Queensland Department of Primary Industries and Fisheries)
ARC Linkage - PhD Studentship 2010-2012
Protecting tomato crops from Fusarium wilt through the efficient application of new genetic resources.
$80,000