Prof. John Bowman

Federation Fellow

Telephone: +61-3-9902-0242
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: john.bowman@sci.monash.edu.au

• Genetic and molecular analysis of plant development.

Current research projects

• Pattern formation in plant development
• Evolution of land plant morphology

• Sandy Floyd (postdoc)
• Keiko Sakakibara (postdoc)
• Chris Zalewski (PhD student)
• Karen (Chong) Yip (PhD student)
• Eduardo Flores (visiting PhD student)

• Pagnussat, G. C., Alandete-Saez, M., Bowman, J. L., and Sundaresan, V. (2009). Auxin dependent patterning and gamete specification in the Arabidopsis female gametophyte. Science 324, 1684-1689.
• Alvarez, J. P., Goldshmidt, A., Efroni, I., Bowman, J. L., and Eshed, Y. (2009). The NGATHA distal organ development genes are essential for style specification in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 21, 1373-1393.
• Goldshmidt, A., Alvarez, J. P., Bowman, J. L., and Eshed, Y. (2008). Signals derived from YABBY gene activities in organ primordia regulate growth and partitioning of Arabidopsis shoot apical meristems. Plant Cell 20, 1217-1230.
• Prunet, N., Morel, P., Thierry, A.-M., Eshed. Y., Bowman, J. L. Negrutiu, N. and Trehin, C. (2008). REBELOTE, SQUINT, and ULTRAPETALA1 function redundantly in the temporal regulation of floral meristem termination in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 20, 901-919.
• Tretter, E. M., Alvarez, J. P., Eshed, Y., and Bowman, J. L. (2008). Activity range of Arabidopsis small RNAs derived from different biogenesis pathways. Plant Physiol. 147, 58-62.
• Bowman, J. L., Floyd, S. K., and Sakakibara, K. (2007). Green genes - comparative genomics of green branch of life. Cell 129, 229-234.
• Floyd, S. K., and Bowman J. L. (2007). The ancestral patterning toolkit of land plants. Int. J. Plant Sciences 168, 1-35.
• Izhaki, A., and Bowman, J. L. (2007). KANADI and Class III HD-ZIP Gene Families Regulate Embryo Patterning and Modulate Auxin Flow During Embryogenesis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 19, 495-508.
• Floyd, S. K., and Bowman, J. L. (2006). Distinct developmental mechanisms reflect the independent origins of leaves in vascular plants. Current Biology 16, 1911-1917.
• Floyd, S. K., Zalewski, C. S., and Bowman, J. L. (2006). Evolution of Class III Homeodomain-leucine zipper genes in streptophytes. Genetics 173, 373-388.
• Lee, J.-Y., Baum, S. F., Oh, S.-H., Jiang, C. Z., Chen, J. C., and Bowman J. L. (2005). Recruitment of CRABS CLAW to promote nectary development within the eudicot clade. Development 132, 5021-5032.
• Lee, J.-Y., Baum, S. F., Alvarez, J., Patel, A., Chitwood, D. H., and Bowman, J. L. (2005). Activation of CRC in the nectaries and carpels of Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 17, 25-36.
• Farrona, S., Hurtado L., Bowman, J. L., and Reyes, J. C. (2004). AtBRM, an ATPase of the SNF2 family, controls shoot development and flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana. Development 131, 4965-4975.
• Eshed, Y., Izhaki, A., Baum, S. F., Floyd, S. K., and Bowman, J. L. (2004). Asymmetric leaf development and blade expansion in Arabidopsis are mediated by KANADI and YABBY activities. Development 131, 2997-3006.
• Floyd, S. K. and Bowman, J. L. (2004). Ancient microRNA regulation of gene expression in land plants. Nature 428, 485-486.
• Emery, J. F., Floyd, S. K., Alvarez, J., Eshed, Y., Hawker, N. P., Izhaki, A., Baum, S. F., and Bowman, J. L. (2003). Radial patterning of Arabidopsis shoots by Class III HD-ZIP and KANADI genes. Current Biology 13, 1768-1774.
• Pruitt, R. E., Bowman, J. L., Grossniklaus, U. (2003). Plant Genetics: A decade of Integration. Nature Genetics 33, 294-304.
• Lee, J.-Y., Mummenhoff, K., and Bowman, J. L. (2002). Allopolyploidization and evolution of species with reduced floral structures in Lepidium L. (Brassicaceae). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 16835.
• Kumaran, M. K., Bowman, J. L., and Sundaresan, V. (2002). YABBY Genes Mediate Down-regulation of KNOTTED-like Genes During Leaf Development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 14, 2761-2770.
• Foster, T. M., Lough, T. J., Emerson, S. J., Lee, R. H., Bowman, J. L., Forster, R. L. S., and Lucas, W. J. (2002). Reversible establishment of organ polarity as a probe for signaling in plant development. Plant Cell 14, 1497-1508.
• Bowman, J. L. (2002). Foliage In Madrid [Meeting Report]. Genome Biology 3, reports 4013.1-4013.2
• Bowman, J. L., Eshed, Y., and Baum, S. F. (2002). Establishment of abaxial-adaxial polarity in lateral organs. Trends Genet. 18, 134-141.
• Eshed, Y., Baum, S. F., Perea, J. V., and Bowman, J. L. (2001). Establishment of polarity in lateral organs of Arabidopsis. Current Biol. 11, 1251-1260.
• Baum, S. F., Eshed, Y., and Bowman, J. L. (2001). The Arabidopsis Nectary is an ABC Independent Floral Organ. Development 128, 4657-4667.

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