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Trevor Wang
Department of Metabolic Biology
Trevor Wang

Key Publications

VRIET C., WELHAM T., BRACHMANN A., PIKE J.,  PERRY J.,  PARNISKE M., SATO S., TABATA S.,  SMITH A.M., WANG T.L.  A suite of Lotus japonicus starch mutants reveals both conserved and novel features of starch metabolism. Plant Physiology 154, 643-655, 2010.

GROTH M., TAKEDA N., PERRY J., UCHIDA H., DRÄXL S., SATO S., TABATA S., KAWAGUCHI M., WANG T.L., PARNISKE M. NENA, a Lotus japonicus Homolog of Sec13 is required for rhizodermal infection by arbuscular mycorrhiza fungi and rhizobia but dispensable for cortical endosymbiotic development. Plant Cell 22, 2509-2526, 2010.

SCOTT I.M., VERMEER C.P., LIAKATA M., COROL D.I., WARD J.L., LIN W., JOHNSON H.E., WHITEHEAD L., KULAR B., BAKER J.M., WALSH S., LARSON, T.R. GRAHAM  I.A., WANG T.L., DRAPER J., BEALE M.H. Metabolite Fingerprinting and its Enhancement by Machine Learning. Plant Physiology 153, 1506-1520, 2010.

TAKOS A., LAI, D., MIKKELSEN L., HACHEM M.A., SHELTON D., BAK S., MOTAWIA M.S., OLSEN C.E., MØLLER B.L., WANG T.L., MARTIN C., ROOK F. Genetic screening identifies cyanogenesis deficient mutants of Lotus japonicus and reveals enzymatic specificity in hydroxynitrile glucoside metabolism. Plant Cell 22, 1605-1619, 2010.

TADEGE M., WANG T.L., WEN J., RATET P., MYSORE K.S. Mutagenesis and Beyond! Tools for understanding legume biology. Plant Physiology 151, 978–984, 2009.

PERRY J, WELHAM T, BRACHMANN A, BINDER A, CHARPENTIER M, GROTH M, HAAGE K,  MARKMANN K, WANG TL, PARNISKE M. TILLING in Lotus japonicus identified large allelic series for symbiosis genes and revealed a bias in functionally defective EMS alleles towards glycine replacements. Plant Physiology (2009), doi:10.1104/pp.109.142190.

WELHAM T.,  PIKE P., HORST I., FLEMETAKIS E., KATINAKIS P., KANEKO T., SATO, S. TABATA S., PERRY J., PARNISKE P., WANG TL. A cytosolic invertase is required for normal growth and cell development in the model legume, Lotus japonicus. Journal of Experimental Botany 60, 3353-3365, 2009.

HORST I, WELHAM T, KELLY S, KANEKO T, SATO S, TABATA S, PARNISKE M, WANG TL. TILLING mutants of Lotus japonicus reveal that nitrogen assimilation and fixation can occur in the absence of nodule-enhanced sucrose synthase. Plant Physiology 144, 806-820, 2007.

IMAIZUMI-ANRAKU H, TAKEDA N, CHARPENTIER M, PERRY J, MIWA H, UMEHARA Y, KOUCHI H, MURAKAMI Y, MULDER L, VICKERS K, PIKE J, DOWNIE JA, WANG T, SATO S, ASAMIZU E, TABATA S, YOSHIKAWA M, MUROOKA Y, WU G-J, KAWAGUCHI M, KAWASAKI S, PARNISKE M, HAYASHI M. The plastid as a checkpoint for symbiotic fungal and bacterial entry into plant roots. Nature 433, 527 – 531, 2005.
JENKINS H, HARDY N, BECKMANN M, DRAPER J, SMITH AR, TAYLOR J, FIEHN O, GOODACRE R, BINO R, HALL R, KOPKA J, LANE GA, LANGE BM, LIU JR, MENDES P, NIKOLAU BJ, OLIVER SJ, PATON NW, ROESSNER-TUNALI U, SAITO K, SMEDSGAARD J, SUMNER LW, WANG T, WALSH S, WURTELE ES, KELL DB. A proposed framework for the description of plant metabolomics experiments and their results. Nature Biotechnology, 22, 1601-1606, 2004.
WANG, T.L., DOMONEY, C., HEDLEY, C.L., CASEY, R., GRUSAK, M.A. Can we improve the nutritional quality of legume seeds? Plant Physiology 131, 886-891, 2003.
HARRISON, C.J., MOULD, R.M., LEECH, M.J., TURNER, L., SCHRECK, S.L., BAIRD, K., JACK, P., RAWSTHORNE, S., HEDLEY, C.L., WANG, T.L. The rug3 locus of pea (Pisum sativum L.) encodes plastidial phosphoglucomutase. Plant Physiology 122, 1187-1192, 2000.