Dr David Smyth

Professor

Telephone: +61-3-9905-3861
Fax: +61-3-9905-5613
E-mail: david.smyth@sci.monash.edu.au

• Molecular genetics of flower development in Arabidopsis
• Genetic control of carpel development
• Genetic control of petal development

Honours projects for prospective students

• Smyth, D. R. 2001. Flower development. Current Biology 10:R82-R84.
• Heisler, M. G. B., Atkinson, A., Bylstra, Y. H., Walsh, R. & Smyth, D. R. 2001. SPATULA, a gene that controls development of carpel margin tissues in Arabidopsis, encodes a bHLH protein. Development 128:1089-1098.
• Alvarez, J. & Smyth, D. R. 2002. CRABS CLAW and SPATULA genes regulate growth and pattern formation during gynoecium development in Arabidopsis thaliana. International Journal of Plant Sciences 163:17-41.
• Johnson, C. S., Kolevski, B. & Smyth, D. R. 2002. TRANSPARENT TESTA GLABRA2, a trichome and seed coat development gene of Arabidopsis, encodes a WRKY transcription factor. Plant Cell 14:1359-1375.
• Brewer, P. B., Howles, P. A., Dorian, K., Griffith, M. E., Ishida, T., Kaplan-Levy, R. N., Kilinc, A. & Smyth, D. R. 2004. PETAL LOSS, a trihelix transcription factor gene, regulates perianth architecture in the Arabidopsis flower. Development 131:4035-4045.
• Smyth, D. R. 2005 Morphogenesis of flowers - our evolving view (Historical Perspective Essay). Plant Cell 17, 330-341
• Becker, A., Gleissberg, S. & Smyth, D.R. 2005 Floral and vegetative morphogenesis in California poppy (Eschscholzia californica Cham.). International Journal of Plant Sciences 166, 537-555
• Smyth, D. R. & Berleth, T. 2006 Growth and development: Integrating signals and differentiating tissues - the 'calculus' of plant development. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 9, 1-4
• Groszmann, M., Paicu, T. & Smyth, D.R. 2008 Functional domains of SPATULA, a bHLH transcription factor involved in carpel and fruit development in Arabidopsis. Plant Journal 55, 40-52

Publication list

• Ruth Kaplan-Levy, PhD candidate (MSc Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
• Aydin Kilinc, PhD candidate (BSc (Hons) Monash University)
• Edwin Lampugnani, PhD candidate (BSc (Hons) Monash University)
• Martin O'Brien, ARC Post-doctoral Fellow (PhD Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada)
• Tezz Quon, PhD candidate (BSc (Hons) Monash University)
• Joel Sohlberg, Swedish Research Council Formas Postdoctoral Fellow (PhD Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)

Information on people in the Arabidopsis Development Lab will be added shortly.