Associate Professor Chris Cobbett

Recent Publications 1995 - 2006

Cairns NG, Pasternak M, Wachter A, Cobbett CS, Meyer AJ. (2006) Maturation of Arabidopsis seeds is dependent on glutathione biosynthesis within the embryo. Plant Physiology 141: 446-455.

Hussain D, Haydon MJ, Wang Y, Wong E, Sherson SM, Camakaris J, Harper, JF, Cobbett CS. (2004) P-type ATPase heavy metal transporters with roles in essential zinc homeostasis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 16: 1327-1339.

Cobbett CS (2003) Metallothioneins and phytochelatins; the sulfur-containing, metal-binding ligands of plants. In, Sulphur In Plants. Eds. Y.P. Abrol, A. Ahmad. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Boston/London. pp. 177-188.

Sanita di Toppi L, Gremigni P, Pawlik-Skowroska B, Prasad MNV, Cobbett CS (2003) Response to heavy metals in plants: a molecular approach. In Abiotic Stresses in Plants. Eds. L. Sanita di Toppi, B. Pawlik-Skowroska. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht. pp. 133-156.

Cobbett CS (2003) Genetic and molecular analysis of phytochelatin biosynthesis, regulation and function. In, Sulfur Transport and Assimilation in Plants. Eds. J.-C. Davidian, D. Grill, L.J. de Kok, I. Stulen, M.J. Hawksford, E. Schnug, H. Rennenberg. Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. pp. 69-77.

Fulton L, Cobbett CS (2003) Two L-arabinofuranosidase genes in Arabidopsis thaliana are differentially expressed during vegetative growth, flower development and in abscission zones. J. Experimental Botany 54: 2467-2477.

Heiss S, Wachter A, Bogs J, Cobbett CS, Rausch T (2003) Phytochelatin synthase (PCS) protein is induced in Brassica juncea leaves after prolonged Cd exposure. J. Experimental Botany 54: 1833-1839.

Cobbett CS (2003) Metals and Plants. Model systems and hyper-accumulator species. New Phytologist 159: 289-293 (2003).

Tan-Kristanto A, Hoffmann A, Woods R, Batterham P, Cobbett, C, Sinclair C (2003) Translational asymmetry as a sensitive indicator of cadmium stress in plants: a laboratory test with wild-type and mutant Arabidopsis thaliana. New Phytologist 159: 471-477.

Cobbett CS, Hussain D, Haydon MJ. (2003) Structural and functional relationships between type 1B heavy metal-transporting P-type ATPases in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist 159: 315-321.

Maughan, SC, Cobbett, CS. (2003) Methionine sufoximine, an alternative selection for the bar marker in plants. J. Biotechnology 102: 125-128.

Cobbett, CS, Goldsborough, PB. (2002) Phytochelatins and Metallothioneins: Roles in Heavy metal detoxification and homeostasis. Annu. Rev. Plant Biol. 53: 159-182.

Cobbett, CS, Meagher, RB. (2002) Arabidopsis and the Genetic Potential for the Phytoremediation of Toxic Elemental and Organic Pollutants. The Arabidopsis Book, eds. C.R. Somerville and E.M. Meyerowitz, American Society of Plant Biologists, Rockville, MD, doi/10.1199/tab.0032 http://www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis/ - this publication is only available as an on-line text.

Cobbett, CS.(2001) Heavy metal detoxification in plants: Phytochelatins: biosynthesis and function. IUBMB Life 51: 183-188.

Cobbett, CS.(2000) Heavy metal detoxification in plants: Phytochelatins: biosynthesis and function. Australian Biochemist 31: 16-19.

Cobbett CS, Goldsbrough PB (2000) Mechanisms of metal resistance: metallothioneins and phytochelatins. In, Phytoremediation of toxic metals: using plants to clean-up the environment, Eds. Ensley BD, Raskin I, John Wiley & Sons, New York, USA. 247-269.

Cobbett, CS (2000) Phytochelatins and their roles in heavy metal detoxification. Plant Physiol. 123: 825-832.

Cobbett, CS (2000) Phytochelatins and heavy metal tolerance in plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biol. 3: 211-216.

Vernoux T, Wilson RC, Seeley KA, Reichheld J-P, Muroy S, Maughan S, Cobbett CS, Van Montagu M, Inzé D, May MJ, Sung ZR. (2000) The ROOT MERISTEMLESS1/CADMIUM SENSITIVE2 gene defines a glutathione-dependent pathway involved in initiation and maintenance of cell division during postembryonic root development. Plant Cell 12: 97-109.

Cobbett CS (1999) A family of phytochelatin synthase genes in plant, fungal and animal species. Trends Plant Sci. 4: 335-337.

Ha S-B, Smith AP, Howden R, Dietrich WM, Bugg S, O’Connell MJ, Goldsbrough PB, Cobbett CS. (1999) Phytochelatin synthase genes from Arabidopsis and the yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Plant Cell 11: 1153-1164.

Sherson S, Gy I, Medd J, Schmidt R, Dean C, Kreis M, Lecharny A, Cobbett C (1999) The arabinose kinase, ARA1, gene of Arabidopsis is a novel member of the galactokinase gene family. Plant Molec. Biol. 39: 1003-1012.

Cobbett CS, May MJ, Howden R, Rolls B (1998) The glutathione-deficient, cadmium-sensitive mutant, cad2-1, of Arabidopsis thaliana is deficient in g-glutamylcysteine synthetase. Plant J. 16: 73-78.

Gy I, Aubourg S, Sherson S, Cobbett CS, Cheron A, Kreis M, Lecharny A (1998) Analysis of a 14 kb fragment containing a putative cell wall gene and a candidate for the ara1, arabinose kinase, gene from chromosome IV of Arabidopsis thaliana. Gene 201-210.

Cobbett CS (1998) Biochemical genetic analysis of metabolic pathways in Arabidopsis. Annu Plant Revs 1: 61-106.

Michael MZ, Savin KW, Cobbett CS, Cornish EC (1997) The molecular biology of petal senescence. In Plant Senescence. Ed. Palni LMS, Gyanodaya Prakashan, Nainital, India

Bancroft I, Love K, Bent E, Sherson S, Lister C, Cobbett C, Goodman HM, Dean C (1997) A strategy involving the use of high redundancy YAC subclone libraries facilitates the contiguous representation in cosmid and BAC clones of 1.7 Mb of the genome of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana Weeds World 4(ii) 1-9.

Macknight R, Bancroft I, Page T, Lister C, Schmidt R, Love K, Westphal L, Murphy G, Sherson S, Cobbett C, Dean C (1997). FCA, a gene controlling flowering time in Arabidopsis, encodes a protein containing RNA-binding domains. Cell 89: 737-745.

May MJ, Parker JE, Daniels MJ, Leaver CJ, Cobbett CS (1996) An Arabidopsis mutant depleted in glutathione shows unaltered responses to fungal and bacterial pathogens. Molec Plant Microbe Interactions 9: 349-356.

van Vliet C, Andersen CR, Cobbett CS (1995). Copper-sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol 109: 871-878.

Howden R, Andersen CR, Goldsbrough PB, Cobbett CS (1995) Cadmium-sensitive, glutathione-deficient mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 107: 1067-1073.

Howden R, Goldsbrough PB, Andersen CR, Cobbett CS (1995) Cadmium-sensitive, cad1 mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana are phytochelatin deficient. Plant Physiol. 107: 1059-1066.