2023

Lagunas, Beatriz, Richards, Luke, Sergaki, Chrysi, Burgess, Jamie, Pardal , Alonso Javier, Hussain, Rana M. F., Richmond, Bethany L., Baxter, Laura, Roy, Proyash, Pakidi, Anastasia, Stovold, Gina, Vázquez, Saúl, Ott, Sascha, Schäfer, Patrick and Gifford, Miriam L. (2023) Rhizobial nitrogen fixation efficiency shapes endosphere bacterial communities and Medicago truncatula host growth. Microbiome, 11 (1). 146. doi:10.1186/s40168-023-01592-0 ISSN 2049-2618.

Wilkinson, Helen, Coppock, Alice, Richmond, Bethany L., Lagunas, Beatriz and Gifford, Miriam L. (2023) Plant–environment response pathway regulation uncovered by investigating non-typical legume symbiosis and nodulation. Plants, 12 (10). 1964. doi:10.3390/plants12101964 ISSN 2223-7747.

(2023) Dynamic changes of the Prf/Pto tomato resistance complex following effector recognition. Nature Communications, 14 (1). 2568. doi:10.1038/s41467-023-38103-6 ISSN 2041-1723.

2022

Parkinson, Sam J., Tungsirisurp, Sireethorn, Joshi, Chitra, Richmond, Bethany L., Gifford, Miriam L., Sikder, Amrita, Lynch, Iseult, O’Reilly, Rachel K. and Napier, Richard (2022) Polymer nanoparticles pass the plant interface. Nature Communications, 13 (1). 7385. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-35066-y ISSN 2041-1723.

Richmond, Bethany L., Coelho, Chloe L., Wilkinson, Helen, McKenna, Joseph F., Ratchinski, Pélagie, Schwarze, Maximillian, Frost, Matthew, Lagunas, Beatriz and Gifford, Miriam L. (2022) Elucidating connections between the strigolactone biosynthesis pathway, flavonoid production and root system architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana. Physiologia Plantarum, 174 (2). doi:10.1111/ppl.13681 ISSN 0031-9317.

Achom, Mingkee, Roy, Proyash, Lagunas, Beatriz, Picot, Emma, Richards, L., Bonyadi-Pour, Roxanna, Pardal , Alonso Javier, Baxter, Laura, Richmond, Bethany L., Aschauer, N., Fletcher, E., Rowson, M., Blackwell, J., Rich-Griffin, C., Mysore, K. S., Wen, J., Ott, Sascha, Carré, Isabelle A. and Gifford, Miriam L. (2022) Plant circadian clock control of Medicago truncatula nodulation via regulation of Nodule Cysteine-Rich peptides. Journal of Experimental Botany, 73 (5). pp. 2142-2156. doi:10.1093/jxb/erab526 ISSN 0022-0957.

2021

Baxter, Laura, Roy, Proyash, Picot, Emma, Watts, Jess, Jones, Alexandra M., Wilkinson, Helen, Schäfer, Patrick, Gifford, Miriam L. and Lagunas, Beatriz (2021) Comparative genomics across three ensifer species using a new complete genome sequence of the Medicago symbiont Sinorhizobium (Ensifer) meliloti WSM1022. Microorganisms, 9 (12). 2428. doi:10.3390/microorganisms9122428 ISSN 2076-2607.

Martínez‐Andújar, Cristina, Martínez‐Pérez, Ascensión, Albacete, Alfonso, Martínez‐Melgarejo, Purificación A., Dodd, Ian C., Thompson, Andrew J., Mohareb, Fady, Estelles‐Lopez, Lucia, Kevei, Zoltan, Ferrández‐Ayela, Almudena, Pérez‐Pérez, José Manuel, Gifford, Miriam L. and Pérez‐Alfocea, Francisco (2021) Overproduction of ABA in rootstocks alleviates salinity stress in tomato shoots. Plant, Cell & Environment, 44 (9). pp. 2966-2986. doi:10.1111/pce.14121 ISSN 1365-3040.

Rogers, Alistair, Dietz, Karl-Josef, Gifford, Miriam L. and Lunn, John E. (2021) The importance of independent replication of treatments in plant science. Journal of Experimental Botany, 72 (15). pp. 5270-5274. doi:10.1093/jxb/erab268

2020

Walker, Liam, Lagunas, Beatriz and Gifford, Miriam L. (2020) Determinants of host range specificity in Legume-Rhizobia symbiosis. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11 . 585749. doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.585749 ISSN 1664-302X.

Carroll, Daire, Holden, Nicola, Gifford, Miriam L. and Dupuy, Lionel X. (2020) Framework for quantification of the dynamics of root colonization by pseudomonas fluorescens isolate SBW25. Frontiers in Microbiology, 11 . doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.585443 ISSN 1664-302X.

Roy, Proyash, Achom, Mingkee, Wilkinson, Helen, Lagunas, Beatriz and Gifford, Miriam L. (2020) Symbiotic outcome modified by the diversification from 7 to over 700 nodule specific cysteine rich peptides. Genes, 11 (4). 348. doi:10.3390/genes11040348 ISSN 2073-4425.

2019

Lagunas, Beatriz, Dodd, Ian C. and Gifford, Miriam L. (2019) A ‘nodemap’ to sustainable maize roots : linking nitrogen and water uptake improvements. Journal of Experimental Botany, 70 (19). pp. 5036-5039. doi:10.1093/jxb/erz315 ISSN 1460-2431.

Lagunas, Beatriz, Achom, Mingkee, Bonyadi-Pour, Roxanna, Pardal , Alonso Javier, Richmond, Bethany L., Sergaki, Chrysi, Vázquez, Saúl, Schäfer, Patrick, Ott, Sascha, Hammond, John and Gifford, Miriam L. (2019) Regulation of resource partitioning coordinates nitrogen and rhizobia responses and autoregulation of nodulation in the legume Medicago truncatula. Molecular Plant, 12 (6). pp. 833-846. doi:10.1016/j.molp.2019.03.014 ISSN 1674-2052.

2018

Sergaki, Chrysi, Lagunas, Beatriz, Lidbury, Ian, Gifford, Miriam L. and Schäfer, Patrick (2018) Challenges and approaches in microbiome research : from fundamental to applied. Frontiers in Plant Science, 9 . 1205. doi:10.3389/fpls.2018.01205 ISSN 1664-462X.

Lagunas, Beatriz, Walker, Liam, Hussain, Rana Muhammad Fraz, Hands-Portman, Ian, Woolley-Allen, Kate and Gifford, Miriam L. (2018) Histological profiling over time to optimize root cell type-specific reporter lines for cell sorting. In: Ristova D., Barbez E., (ed.) Root Development. Methods in Molecular Biology, 1761 . New York, NY: Humana Press, pp. 165-175. ISBN 9781493977475

2017

Walker, Liam, Boddington, Clare, Jenkins, Dafyd J., Wang, Ying, Gronlund, Jesper T., Hulsmans, J., Kumar, Sanjeev, Patel, Dhaval, Moore, Jonathan D., Carter, Anthony, Samavedam, Siva, Bonomo, Giovanni, Hersh, David S., Coruzzi, Gloria‏, Burroughs, Nigel John and Gifford, Miriam L. (2017) Changes in gene expression in space and time orchestrate environmentally mediated shaping of root architecture. The Plant Cell, 29 (10). pp. 2393-2412. doi:10.1105/tpc.16.00961 ISSN 1040-4651.

2016

Ferrández-Ayela, Almudena , Sánchez-García, Ana Belén, Martínez-Andújar, Cristina, Gifford, Miriam L., Thompson, Andrew J., Pérez-Alfocea, Francisco and Pérez-Pérez, José Manuel (2016) Identification of novel stress-responsive biomarkers from gene expression datasets in tomato roots. Functional Plant Biology, 43 (8). pp. 783-796. doi:10.1071/FP15385 ISSN 1445-4408.

Ferrández-Ayela, Almudena , Sánchez-García, Ana Belén, Martinez-Andejar, Cristina, Kevei, Zoltan, Gifford, Miriam L., Thompson, Andrew J., Pérez-Alfocea, Francisco and Pérez-Pérez, José Manuel (2016) Identification of novel stress-responsive biomarkers from gene expression datasets in tomato roots. Functional Plant Biology, 43 (8). pp. 783-796. doi:10.1071/FP15385 ISSN 1445-4408.

2015

Vernié, Tatiana, Kim, Jiyoung, Frances, Lisa, Ding, Yiliang, Sun, Jongho, Guan, Dian, Niebel, Andreas, Gifford, Miriam L., de Carvalho-Niebel, Fernanda and Oldroyd, Giles E. D. (2015) The NIN transcription factor coordinates diverse nodulation programmes in different tissues of the root. The Plant Cell, 27 (12). pp. 3410-3424. doi:10.​1105/​tpc.​15.​00461 ISSN 1040-4651.

Coker, Timothy L. R., Cevik, Volkan, Beynon, Jim and Gifford, Miriam L. (2015) Spatial dissection of the Arabidopsis thaliana transcriptional response to downy mildew using fluorescence activated cell sorting. Frontiers in plant science, Volume 6 . pp. 1-13. Article number 527. doi:10.3389/fpls.2015.00527 ISSN 1664-462X.

Reitz, M. U., Gifford, Miriam L. and Schäfer, Patrick (2015) Hormone activities and the cell cycle machinery in immunity-triggered growth inhibition. Journal of Experimental Botany, 66 (8). pp. 2187-2197. doi:10.1093/jxb/erv106 ISSN 0022-0957.

Lagunas, B., Schäfer, Patrick and Gifford, Miriam L. (2015) Housing helpful invaders : the evolutionary and molecular architecture underlying plant root-mutualist microbe interactions. Journal of Experimental Botany, 66 (8). pp. 2177-2186. doi:10.1093/jxb/erv038 ISSN 0022-0957.

2014

Wang, Ying, Penfold, Christopher A., Hodgson, D. A., Gifford, Miriam L. and Burroughs, Nigel John (2014) Correcting for link loss in causal network inference caused by regulator interference. Bioinformatics, Volume 30 (Number 19). pp. 2779-2786. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu388 ISSN 1367-4803.

2013

Carter, Anthony D., Bonyadi, Roxanna and Gifford, Miriam L. (2013) The use of fluorescence-activated cell sorting in studying plant development and environmental responses. The International Journal of Developmental Biology, Volume 57 . pp. 545-552. doi:10.1387/ijdb.130195mg ISSN 0214-6282.

Gifford, Miriam L., Banta, Joshua A., Katari, Manpreet S., Hulsmans, Jo, Chen, Lisa, Ristova, Daniela, Tranchina, Daniel, Purugganan, Michael D., Coruzzi, Gloria, Birnbaum, Kenneth D., Rosas, Ulises and Cibrian-Jaramillo, Angelica (2013) Plasticity regulators modulate specific root traits in discrete nitrogen environments. PLoS Genetics, Volume 9 (Number 9). Article number e1003760. doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1003760 ISSN 1553-7390.

Rosas, Ulises, Cibrian-Jaramillo, Angelica, Ristova, Daniela, Banta, Joshua A., Gifford, Miriam L., Fan, A. H., Zhou, R. W., Kim, G. J., Krouk, G., Birnbaum, Kenneth D., Purugganan, Michael D. and Coruzzi, G. M. (2013) Integration of responses within and across Arabidopsis natural accessions uncovers loci controlling root systems architecture. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Volume 110 (Number 37). pp. 15133-15138. doi:10.1073/pnas.1305883110 ISSN 0027-8424.

2012

Grønlund, Jesper T., Eyres, Alison, Kumar, Sanjeev, Buchanan-Wollaston, Vicky and Gifford, Miriam L. (2012) Cell specific analysis of Arabidopsis leaves using fluorescence activated cell sorting. Journal of Visualized Experiments (No.68). e4214. doi:10.3791/4214 ISSN 1940-087X.

2010

Carter, A. and Gifford, Miriam L. (2010) Understanding how nitrogen regulates developmental mechanisms using systems biology. In: Water & nitrogen use efficiency in plants and crops, Marston, Lincs, UK , 15-16 Dec 2010 . Published in: Aspects of Applied Biology, Vol.105 pp. 175-182. ISSN 0265-1491.

Gifford, Miriam L. (2010) The ways of science. In: Richards, K., (ed.) The new optimists : scientists view tomorrow's world & what it means to us. Linus Publishing. ISBN 978-1907843006

2008

Gifford, Miriam L., Dean, A., Gutierrez, R. A., Coruzzi, G. M. and Birnbaum, Kenneth D. (2008) Cell-specific nitrogen responses mediate developmental plasticity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol.105 (No.2). pp. 803-808. doi:10.1073/pnas.0709559105 ISSN 0027-8424.