Publications, Patents & Industry Roles

Patents & Industry Roles

Mortimer JC, Herbert RA, Mukhopadhyay A, Eng TT (2021). Use of cholinium lysinate as an herbicide. US Patent No. 11,160,277.
Co-founder & Innovation Consultant, JAM Agritech, a vertical farming startup.

Publications

* = corresponding author · # = equal contribution · bold = Mortimer Lab members

Textbook chapters

O'Neill MA, Darvill AG, Etzler ME, Mohnen D, Perez S, Paul M, Mortimer JC (2022). Ch24, Viridiplantae and Algae. In "Essentials of Glycobiology" 4th Edition. Eds Varki A et al. Cold Spring Harbor Press. Free to download here.

bioRxiv / Submitted / Under Revision

Hu Y, Andeer PF, Zheng Q, Kosina SM, Jardine KJ, Ding Y, Gao Y, Zengler K, Bowen B, Mortimer JC, Vogel JP, Northen TR. Extensive plant use of exometabolites (under revision). bioRxiv.
Priya S, Lin HH, Menon S, Downs N, Andeer PF, Tian Y, Kosina SM, Ding Y, Eudes A, Northen TR, Mukhopadhyay A*, Mortimer JC* (2025). Engineered lignin composition in Brachypodium distachyon modulates the root-associated microbiome (submitted). bioRxiv.
Takata N, Banko P, Lam LPY, Nagano S, Nishigaki N, Takahashi D, Gao Y, Mortimer JC, Tobimatsu Y, Hori C. Overexpression of TRICHOMELESS1 from Populus tremula × Populus tremuloides enhances the enzymatic digestibility of the xylem cell wall in poplar (under revision).
Priya S, Eng T, Trotter VV, Deutschbauer A, Mortimer JC, Mukhopadhyay A. RB-TnSeq analysis reveals alcohol and salt tolerance systems in a plant root colonizer Paraburkholderia graminis OAS925 (submitted). bioRxiv.
Garcia-Daga S, Gong Z, Villacastin AJ, Mortimer JC. Synthetic biology unlocks programmable control of complex plant glycan metabolism (invited review, submitted).
Herrero E*, Wijeweera W*, Gill AR, Bampton C, Sullivan W, Stamford JD, Bromley J, Antoniades AZ, Mortimer JC, Webb AAR, Gilliham M, Millar AH. Leaf movements as a quantitative metric for early stress detection (submitted). bioRxiv.
Herrero E, Gill AR, Wijeweera S, Ginzburg D, Stamford JD, Antoniades A, Bromley JR, Mortimer JC, Gilliham M, Millar H, Webb AAR. Dim Green Light Enables Day-and-Night Monitoring of Leaf Movements (submitted). bioRxiv.

2026

Rintoul R#, Gill A#, McAusland L, Murchie E, Gilliham M*, Mortimer JC* (2026). Developing carbon assimilation methods in duckweed for new insights into photosynthesis and growth mechanisms. Plant Phys. (accepted). doi.
Gong Z, Chen M, Zhang H, Mortimer JC*, Botella JR* (2026). Evaluation of computational tools for predicting CRISPR gRNA on-target efficiency in plants. Plant Cell Reports (accepted). doi.
Ralph J, Lippens G, Tonelli M, Fry CG, Anklin C, Lu F, Timokhin VI, Nuoendagula, Smith RA, Liu S, Ralph SA, Lan W, Tobimatsu Y, Yue F, Li Y, Bunzel M, Sorieul M, Hill S, Mansfield SD, Boerjan W, Van Montagu MCE, Rencoret J, del Río JC, Gao Y, Mortimer JC (2026). NMR of fully and partially 13C-enriched biomass enhances pendent group structural characterization. Analytical Chemistry 98 (in press). doi.

2025

Gill AR, Miller TK, Wijeweera S, Herrero E, Massa GD, Mortimer JC, Webb AAR, Millar AH, Gilliham M (2025). Turbocharging fundamental science translation through controlled environment agriculture. Trends in Plant Science (in press). doi.
Indibi A, Cao P, Brandizzi F, Mortimer JC, Swaminathan K, Tsai CJ, Hamberger B (2025). Through the lens of bioenergy crops: advances, bottlenecks, and promises of plant engineering. Plant J. 123(2):e70294. doi.
Ofoedu CE, Bozkurt H, Mortimer JC (2025). Towards sustainable food security: Exploring the potential of duckweed (Lemnaceae) in diversifying food systems. Trends in Food Science & Technology, 105073. doi.
Brandizzi F, Mortimer JC, Denby K (2025). Plant engineering: advances, bottlenecks, and promise. Plant J. 122(2):e70117. doi.

2024

Edwards R, Ng XY, Tucker MR*, Mortimer JC* (2024). Plant synthetic biology as a tool to help eliminate hidden hunger. Current Opinion Biotech. 88:103168. doi.
Zhang Y, Sharma D, Liang Y, Downs N, Dolman F, Thorne K, Black IM, Pereira JH, Adams P, Scheller HV, O'Neill M, Urbanowicz B*, Mortimer JC* (2024). Putative rhamnogalacturonan-II glycosyltransferase identified through callus gene editing which bypasses embryo lethality. Plant Physiol. 195:2551. doi.
Turumtay EA, Turumtay H, Tian Y, Lin CY, Chai YN, Louie KB, Chen Y, Lipzen A, Harwood T, Satish Kumar K, Bowen BP, Wang Q, Mansfield SD, Blow MJ, Petzold CJ, Northen TR, Mortimer JC, Scheller HV, Eudes A (2024). Expression in poplar of dehydroshikimate dehydratase induces transcriptional and metabolic changes in the phenylpropanoid pathway. J. Experimental Botany, erae251. doi.
Jiao Y, Nigam D, Barry K, Daum C, Yoshinaga Y, Lipzen A, Khan A, Parasa SP, Wei S, Lu Z, Tello-Ruiz MK, Dhiman P, Burow G, Hayes C, Chen J, Brandizzi F, Mortimer JC*, Ware D*, Xin Z* (2024). A large sequenced mutant library — valuable reverse genetic resource that covers 98% of sorghum genes. Plant J. 117:1543-1557. doi.
Lin HH, Torres M, Adams CA, Andeer PF, Owens TK, Zhalnina K, Jabusch LK, Carlson HK, Kuehl JV, Deutschbauer AM, Northen TR, Glass NL, Mortimer JC* (2024). Impact of Inoculation Practices on Microbiota Assembly and Community Stability in a Fabricated Ecosystem. Phytobiomes J. 8:155. doi.
Morgan MF†, Diab J†, Gilliham M*, Mortimer JC* (2024). Green horizons: how plant synthetic biology can enable space exploration and drive on Earth sustainability. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 86:103069. doi.
Priya S, Rossbach S, Eng T, Andeer P, Lin HH, Mortimer JC, Northen T, Mukhopadhyay A (2024). Assessing horizontal gene transfer in the rhizosphere of Brachypodium distachyon using fabricated ecosystems (EcoFABs). Appl Environ Microbiol 90:e01505-24. doi.

2023

Gao Y, Lipton AS, Munson CR, Yingxuan M, Johnson KL, Murray DT, Scheller HV, Mortimer JC* (2023). Elongated galactan side-chains mediate cellulose-pectin interactions in engineered Arabidopsis secondary cell walls. Plant J. 115:528-545. doi.
Choi HS, Bjornson M, Liang J, Wang J, Ke H, Hur M, De Souza A, Satish-Kumar K, Mortimer JC, Dehesh K (2023). COG-imposed Golgi functional integrity determines the onset of dark-induced senescence. Nature Plants 9:1890-1901. doi.
Sha G, Sun P, Kong X, Han X, Sun Q, Fouillen L, Zhao J, Li Y, Yang L, Wang Y, Gong Q, Zhou Y, Zhou W, Jain R, Gao J, Huang R, Chen X, Zheng L, Zhang W, Qin Z, Zhou Q, Zeng Q, Xie K, Xu J, Chiu TY, Guo L, Mortimer JC, Boutté Y, Li Q, Kang Z, Ronald PC, Li G (2023). Genome editing of a rice CDP-DAG synthase confers multipathogen resistance. Nature 618:1017-1023. doi.
Eudes A, Lin CY, De Ben C, Ortega J, Lee MY, Chen YC, Li G, Putnam DH, Mortimer JC, Ronald PC, Scown CD, Scheller HV (2023). Field performance of switchgrass plants engineered for reduced recalcitrance. Front Plant Sci. 14:1181035. doi.
Lankiewicz TS, Choudhary H, Gao Y, Amer B, Lillington SP, Leggieri P, Brown JL, Swift CL, Lipzen A, Na H, Amirebrahimi M, Theodorou MK, Baidoo EEK, Barry K, Grigoriev IV, Timokhin VI, Gladden J, Singh S, Mortimer JC, Ralph J, Simmons BA, Singer SW, O'Malley MA (2023). Lignin deconstruction by anaerobic fungi. Nature Micro 8:596-610. doi.
Bowerman AF, Byrt CS, Roy SJ, Whitney SM, Mortimer JC, Ankeny RA, Gilliham M, Zhang D, Millar AA, Rebetzke GJ, Pogson BJ (2023). Potential abiotic stress targets for modern genetic manipulation. Plant Cell 35:139-161. doi.

2022

Mortimer JC*, Gilliham M* (2022). SpaceHort: Redesigning Plants to Support Space Exploration and On-Earth Sustainability. Current Opin. Biotech 73:246-252. doi.
Yang L, Zhao M, Sha G, Sun Q, Gong Q, Yang Q, Xie K, Yuan M, Mortimer JC, Xie W, Wei T, Kang Z, Li G (2022). The genome of the rice variety LTH provides insight into its universal susceptibility mechanism to worldwide rice blast fungal strains. Comput Struct Biotechnol J. 20:1012-1026. doi.
Silva TN, Thomas JB, Dahlberg J, Rhee SY*, Mortimer JC* (2022). Progress and challenges in sorghum biotechnology, a multipurpose feedstock for the bioeconomy. J Exp Bot. 73:646-664. doi.
Munson CR, Gao Y, Mortimer JC, Murray DT* (2022). Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance as a Tool to Probe the Impact of Mechanical Preprocessing on the Structure and Arrangement of Plant Cell Wall Polymers. Front Plant Sci. 12:766506. doi.
Tom LM, Aulitto M, Wu YW, Deng K, Gao Y, Xiao N, Garcia Rodriguez B, Louime C, Northen TR, Eudes A, Mortimer JC, Adams PD, Scheller HV, Simmons BA, Ceja-Navarro JA, Singer SW (2022). Low-abundance populations distinguish microbiome performance in plant cell wall deconstruction. Microbiome 10:183. doi.
Ferreira SS, Goeminne G, Simões MS, de Almeida Pina AV, Alves de Lima LG, Pezard J, Gutiérrez A, Rencoret R, Mortimer JC, del Río JC, Boerjan W, Cesarino I (2022). Transcriptional and metabolic changes associated with internode development and reduced cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase activity in sorghum. J. Exp. Bot. 73:6307-6333. doi.
Jardine KJ*, Dewhirst RA, Som S, Lei J, Tucker E, Young RP, Portillo-Estrada M, Gao Y, Su L, Fares S, Castanha C, Scheller HV, Mortimer JC (2022). Cell wall ester modifications and volatile emission signatures of plant response to abiotic stress. Plant, Cell & Environment 45:3429-3444. doi.

2021

Demirer G, Silva TN, Jackson C, Thomas J, Ehrhardt E, Rhee S*, Mortimer JC*, Landry M* (2021). Nanotechnology to advance CRISPR-Cas genetic engineering of plants. Nature Nanotech. 16:243-250. doi.
Cole B, Bergmann D, Blaby-Haas CE, Blaby IK, Bouchard KE, Brady SM, Ciobanu D, Coleman-Derr D, Leiboff S, Mortimer JC, Nobori T, Rhee SY, Schmutz J, Simmons BA, Singh AK, Sinha N, Vogel JP, O'Malley RC, Visel A, Dickel DE (2021). Plant single-cell solutions for energy and the environment. Communications Bio. 4:1-12. doi.
Plant Cell Atlas Consortium* …… Ehrhardt DW, Birnbaum KD, Rhee SY (2021). Science Forum: Vision, challenges and opportunities for a Plant Cell Atlas. eLife 10:e66877. doi. [Jenny is part of the PCA consortium.]
Moore WM, Chan C, Ishikawa T, Rennie EA, Wipf HML, Benites V, Kawai-Yamada M, Mortimer JC, Scheller HV (2021). Reprogramming sphingolipid glycosylation is required for endosymbiont persistence in Medicago truncatula. Current Biol. 31:2374-2395. doi.
Jing B, Ishikawa T, Soltis NE, Inada N, Liang Y, Murawska GM, Fang L, Anderberhan F, Pidatala R, Yu X, Baidoo EEK, Kawai-Yamada M, Loque D, Kliebenstein DJ, Dupree P, Mortimer JC* (2021). The Arabidopsis thaliana nucleotide sugar transporter GONST2 is a functional homolog of GONST1. Plant Direct e00309. doi.
Verhertbruggen Y, Bouder A, Vigouroux J, Alvarado C, Geairon A, Guillon F, Wilkinson MD, Stritt F, Pauly M, Lee MY, Mortimer JC, Scheller HV, Mitchell RAC, Voiniciuc C, Saulnier L, Chateigner-Boutin AL (2021). The TaCslA12 gene expressed in the wheat grain endosperm synthesizes wheat-like mannan when expressed in yeast and Arabidopsis. Plant Sciences 302:110693. doi.
Dewhirst RA, Lei J, Afseth CA, Castanha C, Wistrom CM, Mortimer JC, Jardine KJ (2021). Are Methanol-Derived Foliar Methyl Acetate Emissions a Tracer of Acetate-Mediated Drought Survival in Plants? Plants 10:411. doi.
Dewhirst RA, Handakumbura P, Clendinen CS, Arm E, Tate K, Wang W, Washton NM, Young RP, Mortimer JC, McDowell NG, Jardine KJ (2021). High Temperature Acclimation of Leaf Gas Exchange, Photochemistry, and Metabolomic Profiles in Populus trichocarpa. ACS Earth Space Chem. 5:1813-1828. doi.
Cassim AM, Navon Y, Gao Y, Decossas M, Fouillen L, Grélard A, Nagano M, Lambert O, Bahammou D, Van Delft P, Maneta-Peyret L, Simon-Plas F, Heux L, Fragneto G, Mortimer JC, Deleu M, Lins L, Mongrand S (2021). Biophysical analysis of the plant-specific GIPC sphingolipids reveals multiple modes of membrane regulation. JBC 296:100602. doi.

2020

Gao Y, Lipton AS, Wittmer Y, Murray DT, Mortimer JC* (2020). A grass-specific cellulose-xylan interaction dominates in sorghum secondary cell walls. Nature Communications 11:6081. doi. Summary.
Hori C, Takata N, Lam PY, Tobimatsu T, Nagano S, Mortimer JC, Cullen D (2020). Identifying transcription factors that reduce wood recalcitrance and improve enzymatic degradation of xylem cell wall in Populus. Sci Reports 10:1-13. doi.
Mason PJ, Furtado A, Marquardt A, Hodgson-Kratky K, Hoang Nam V, Botha FC, Papa G, Mortimer JC, Simmons B, Henry RJ (2020). Variation in sugarcane biomass composition and enzymatic saccharification of leaves, internodes and roots. Biotechnology for biofuels 13(1):1-19. doi.
Gao Y, Mortimer JC* (2020). Unlocking the architecture of native plant cell walls via solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance. Methods in Cell Biology vol 160:121-142, eds Anderson CT, Haswell E, Dixit R. doi.
Baral NR, Dahlberg J, Putnam D, Mortimer JC, Scown CD (2020). Supply Cost and Life-Cycle Greenhouse Gas Footprint of Dry and Ensiled Biomass Sorghum for Biofuel Production. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng. 8(42):15855-15864. doi.
Hori C, Yu C, Mortimer JC, Sano R, Matsumoto T, Kikuchi J, Demura T, Ohtani M (2020). Impact of abiotic stress on the regulation of cell wall biosynthesis in Populus trichocarpa. Plant Biotechnology 37:273-283. doi.
Dewhirst RA, Mortimer JC, Jardine KJ (2020). Cell wall esters facilitate forest responses to climate. Trends in Plant Science 25:729-732. doi.
Eng T, Herbert RA, Martinez U, Wang B, Chen J, Brown B, Deutschbauer A, Bissell M, Mortimer JC*, Mukhopadhyay A* (2020). Iron Supplementation Eliminates Antagonistic Interactions Between Root Associated Bacteria. Frontiers in Microbiology 11:1742. doi.
Vejlupkova Z, Warman C, Sharma R, Scheller HV, Mortimer JC, Fowler JE (2020). No evidence for transient transformation via pollen magnetofection in several monocot species. Nature Plants 6:1323-1324. doi.
Dewhirst RA*, Afseth CA, Castanha C, Mortimer JC, Jardine KJ (2020). Cell wall O-acetyl and methyl esterification patterns of leaves reflected in atmospheric emission signatures of acetic acid and methanol. PLoS One 15(5):e0227591. doi.
Mortimer JC*, Scheller HV* (2020). Synthesis and function of complex sphingolipid glycosylation. Trends in Plant Science 25:522-524. doi.
Yang M, Baral NR, Simmons BA, Mortimer JC, Shih PM, Scown CD (2020). Accumulation of high-value compound in planta can improve the economics of advanced biofuels. PNAS 117:8639-8648. doi.
Sharma R, Liang Y, Lee MY, Pidatala VR, Mortimer JC*, Scheller HV* (2020). Agrobacterium-mediated transient transformation of sorghum leaves for accelerating functional genomics and genome editing studies. BMC research notes 13:116. doi.

2019

Yoshida S, Kim S, Wafula EK, Tanskanen J, Kim YM, Honaas L, Yang Z, Spallek T, Conn CE, Ichihashi Y, Cheong K, Cui S, Der JP, Gundlach H, Jiao Y, Hori C, Ishida JK, Kasahara H, Kiba T, Kim MS, Koo N, Laohavisit A, Lee YH, Lumba A, McCourt P, Mortimer JC, Mutuku JM, Nomura T, Sasaki-Sekimoto Y, Seto Y, Wang Y, Wakatake T, Sakakibara H, Demura T, Yamaguchi S, Yoneyama K, Manabe R, Nelson DC, Schulman AH, Timko MP, dePamphilis CW, Choi D, Shirasu K (2019). Genome Sequence of Striga asiatica Provides Insight into the Evolution of Plant Parasitism. Current Biology 29:3041-3052.e4. doi.
Langley S, Eng T, Wan KH, Herbert RA, Klein AP, Yoshikuni Y, Tringe SG, Brown JB, Celniker SE, Mortimer JC*, Mukhopadhyay A* (2019). Complete Genome Sequence of Agrobacterium sp. Strain 33MFTa1.1, Isolated from Thlaspi arvense Roots. Microbiology Resource Announcements 8(37):e00432-19. doi.
Herbert RA, Eng T, Martinez U, Wang B, Langley S, Wan K, Pidatala VR, Hoffman E, Chen JC, Bissell MJ, Brown JB, Mukhopadhyay A*, Mortimer JC* (2019). Rhizobacteria mediate the phytotoxicity of a range of biorefinery-relevant compounds. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 38:1911-1922. doi.
Baral NR, Sundstrom ER, Das L, Gladden J, Eudes A, Mortimer JC, Singer SW, Mukhopadhyay A, Scown CD (2019). Approaches for More Efficient Biological Conversion of Lignocellulosic Feedstocks to Biofuels and Bioproducts. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 7:9062-9079. doi.
Liang Y, Eudes A, Yogiswara S, Jing B, Benites VT, Yamanaka R, Cheng-Yue C, Baidoo EE, Mortimer JC, Scheller HV, Loque D (2019). A screening method to identify efficient sgRNAs in Arabidopsis, used in conjunction with cell-specific lignin reduction. Biotechnology for Biofuels 12:130. doi.
Yan J, Huang Y, Huan H, Han T, Di P, Sechet J, Fang L, Liang Y, Scheller HV, Mortimer JC, Ni L, Jiang M, Hou X, Zhang A (2019). Xyloglucan Endotransglucosylase-Hydrolase30 negatively affects salt tolerance in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany 70:5495-5506. doi.
Bouchez P, Benites VT, Baidoo EK, Mortimer JC, Sullivan ML, Scheller HV, Eudes A (2019). Production of clovamide and its analogs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Lactococcus lactis. Letters in Applied Microbiology 69:181-189. doi.
Yan D, Yadav SR, Paterlini A, Nicolas W, Petit J, Brocard L, Belevich I, Grison M, Vatén A, Karami L, el-Showk A, Lee JY, Murawska G, Mortimer JC, Knoblauch M, Jokitalo E, Markham JE, Bayer E, Helariutta Y (2019). Sphingolipid biosynthesis modulates plasmodesmal ultrastructure and phloem unloading. Nature Plants 5:604-614. doi.
Temple H, Mortimer JC, Tryfona T, Yu X, Lopez-Hernandez F, Sorieul M, Anders N, Dupree P (2019). Two members of the DUF579 family are responsible for arabinogalactan methylation in Arabidopsis. Plant Direct 3:e00117. doi.
Mortimer JC* (2019). Plant Synthetic Biology Could Drive a Revolution in Biofuels and Medicine. Experimental Biology and Medicine 244:323-331. doi.

2018

Li G, Jones JC, Eudes A, Pidatala VR, Sun J, Xu F, Zhang C, Wei T, Jain R, Birdseye D, Canlas PE, Baidoo EEK, Duong PQ, Sharma MK, Singh S, Ruan D, Keasling JD, Mortimer JC, Loqué D, Bartley LE, Scheller HV, Ronald PC (2018). Overexpression of a rice BAHD acyltransferase gene in switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.) enhances saccharification. BMC Biotechnology 18(1):54. doi.
Sechet J, Htwe S, Urbanowicz B, Agyeman A, Feng W, Ishikawa T, Colomes M, Satish Kumar K, Kawai-Yamada M, Dinneny JR, O'Neill MA, Mortimer JC* (2018). Suppressing Arabidopsis GGLT1 affects growth by reducing the L-galactose content and borate cross-linking of rhamnogalacturonan II. Plant J. 96:1036-1050. doi.
Ishikawa T#, Fang L#, Rennie E, Sechet J, Yan J, Jing B, Moore W, Cahoon EB, Scheller HV, Kawai-Yamada M, Mortimer JC* (2018). GINT1 is a GIPC GlcNAc glycosyltransferase. Plant Physiology 177:938-952. doi.
Laursen T, Stonebloom S, Pidatala V, Birdseye D, Clausen M, Mortimer JC, Scheller HV (2018). Bi-functional glycosyltransferases catalyze both extension and termination of pectic galactan oligosaccharides. Plant J. 94:340-351. doi.
Faria-Blanc N#, Mortimer JC#, Dupree P (2018). A Transcriptomic analysis of xylan mutants does not support the existence of a secondary cell wall integrity system in Arabidopsis. Frontiers in Plant Science 9:384. doi.

2017

Lenarcic T, Albert I, Bohm H, Hodnik V, Pirc K, Zavec AB, Podobnik M, Pahovnik D, Zagar E, Pruitt R, Greimel P, Yamaji-Hasegawa A, Kobayashi T, Zienkiewicz A, Gomann J, Mortimer JC, Fang L, Mamode-Cassim A, Deleu M, Lins L, Oecking C, Feussner I, Mongrand S, Anderluh G, Nurnberger T (2017). Eudicot plant-specific sphingolipids determine host selectivity of microbial NLP cytolysins. Science 358:1431-1434. doi.
Tartaglio V, Rennie EA, Cahoon R, Wang G, Baidoo E, Mortimer JC, Cahoon EB, Scheller HV (2017). Glycosylation of inositol phosphorylceramide sphingolipids is required for normal growth and reproduction in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 89:278-290. doi.
Pidatala VR#, Mahboubi A#, Mortimer JC* (2017). Structural Characterization of Mannan Cell Wall Polysaccharides in Plants Using PACE. JoVE 128. doi.
Liang Y, Richardson S, Yan J, Benites VT, Cheng-Yue C, Tran T, Mortimer JC, Mukhopadhyay A, Keasling JD, Scheller HV, Loque D (2017). Endoribonuclease-based two-component repressor systems for tight gene expression control in plants. ACS Synth Biol 19:805-816. doi.
Moritz AM, Mortimer JC, Heazlewood JL (2017). Enrichment of the plant cytosolic fraction. In NL Taylor, AH Millar, eds, The Isolation of Plant Organelles and Structures: Methods and Protocols, Vol 1151. Humana Press, New York. doi.
Mortimer JC* (2017). Structural analysis of cell wall polysaccharides using PACE. In M de Lucas, JP Etchells, eds. Xylem: methods and protocols. Springer, Berlin. doi.

2016

Simmons TJ#, Mortimer JC#, Bernardinelli OD, Pöppler AC, Brown SP, Dupree R, Dupree P (2016). Folding of xylan onto cellulose fibrils in plant cell walls revealed by solid-state NMR. Nature Commun. 7:13902. doi.
Fang L, Ishikawa T, Rennie EA, Murawska GM, Lao J, Yan J, Tsai AYL, Baidoo EEK, Xu J, Keasling JD, Demura T, Kawai-Yamada M, Scheller HV, Mortimer JC* (2016). Loss of inositol phosphorylceramide sphingolipid mannosylation induces plant immune responses and reduces cellulose content in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 29:321-340. doi.
Eudes A, Zhao N, Sathitsuksanoh N, Baidoo EEK, Lao J, Wang G, Yogiswara S, Lee TS, Singh S, Mortimer JC, Keasling JD, Simmons BA, Loqué D (2016). Expression of S-adenosylmethionine Hydrolase in Tissues Synthesizing Secondary Cell Walls Alters Specific Methylated Cell Wall Fractions and Improves Biomass Digestibility. Front. Bioenerg. Bioeng. 4:58. doi.
Zhang Y, Nikolovski N, Sorieul M, Vellosillo T, McFarlane HE, Dupree R, Kesten C, Driemeier C, Lathe R, Lampugnani ER, Yu X, Ivakov A, Doblin MS, Mortimer JC, Brown SP, Persson S, Dupree P (2016). Golgi-localized STELLO proteins regulate the assembly and trafficking of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis. Nature Commun. 7:11656. doi.

2015

Sawake S, Tajima N, Mortimer JC, Lao J, Ishikawa T, Yu X, Yamanashi Y, Yoshimi Y, Kawai-Yamada M, Dupree P, Tsumuraya Y, Kotake T (2015). KONJAC1 and 2 are Key Factors for Generation of GDP-Mannose and Affect L-Ascorbic Acid and Glucomannan Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 27:3397-3409. doi.
Mortimer JC, Faria-Blanc N, Yu X, Anders N, Tryfona T, Sorieul M, Ng YZ, Zhang Z, Stott K, Dupree P (2015). An unusual xylan in Arabidopsis primary cell walls is synthesised by GUX3, IRX9L, IRX10L and IRX14. Plant J. 83:413-426. doi.
Rogowski A, Briggs JA, Mortimer JC, Tryfona T, Terrapon N, Lowe EC, Baslé A, Day AM, Zheng H, Rogers TE, Yadav MP, Henrissat B, Martens EC, Dupree P, Gilbert HJ, Bolam DN (2015). Glycan complexity dictates microbial resource allocation in the large intestine. Nature Commun. 6:7481. doi.
Dupree R, Simmons TJ, Mortimer JC, Patel D, Iuga D, Brown SP, Dupree P (2015). Probing the Molecular Architecture of Plant Secondary Cell Walls Using Two- and Three-Dimensional 13C Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Reveals Distinct Xylan Conformations. Biochemistry 54:2335-2345. [ACS Editors' Choice article] doi.

2014

Rautengarten C, Ebert B, Moreno I, Temple H, Herter T, Link B, Doñas D, Moreno A, Saéz-Aguayo S, Blanco F, Mortimer JC, Schultink A, Reiter WD, Dupree P, Scheller HV, Orellana A (2014). The Golgi localized bi-functional UDP-Rhamnose/UDP-Galactose transporter family of Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 111:11563-11568. doi.
Rogowski A, Baslé A, Farinas CS, Solovyova A, Mortimer JC, Dupree P, Gilbert HJ, Bolam DN (2014). Evidence that GH115 α-glucuronidase activity, which is required to degrade plant biomass, is dependent on conformational flexibility. JBC 289:53-64. doi.
Richards SL, Laohavisit A, Mortimer JC, Shabala L, Swarbreck SM, Shabala S, Davies JM (2014). Annexin 1 regulates the H2O2-induced calcium signature in Arabidopsis thaliana roots. Plant J. 77:136-145. doi.

2013

Goue N, Mortimer JC, Zhang Z, Josserand M, Dupree P, Kakegawa K, Demura T (2013). Secondary cell wall characterization in a BY-2 inductive system. Plant Cell Tiss. Org. 115:223-232. doi.
Li X, Jackson P, Rubtsov DV, Faria-Blanc N, Mortimer JC, Turner SR, Krogh KB, Johansen KS, Dupree P (2013). Development and application of a high throughput carbohydrate profiling technique for analysing plant cell wall polysaccharides and polysaccharide hydrolases. Biotech. Biofuels 6:94. doi.
Mortimer JC, Yu X, Albrecht S, Sicilia F, Huichalaf M, Ampuero D, Murphy AM, Matsunaga T, Michaelson LV, Kurz S, Stephens E, Baldwin TC, Ishii T, Napier JA, Weber APM, Handford MG, Dupree P (2013). Abnormal glycosphingolipid mannosylation triggers salicylic-acid mediated responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 25:1881-1894. doi.
Van Acker R, Vanholme R, Storme V, Mortimer JC, Dupree P, Boerjan W (2013). Perturbation of lignin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana affects secondary cell wall composition and saccharification yield. Biotech. Biofuels 6:46. doi.
Bromley JR, Busse-Wicher M, Tryfona T, Mortimer JC, Zhang Z, Brown DM, Dupree P (2013). GUX1 and GUX2 glucuronyltransferases decorate distinct domains of glucuronoxylan with different substitution patterns. Plant J. 74:423-434. doi.
Wang Y, Mortimer JC, Davis J, Dupree P, Keegstra K (2013). Identification of an additional protein involved in mannan biosynthesis. Plant J. 73:105-117. doi.

2012

Laohavisit A, Shang Z, Rubio L, Cuin TA, Véry AA, Mortimer JC, Macpherson N, Yang Y, Coxon KM, Battey NH, Brownlee C, Park OK, Schroeder JI, Sentenac H, Shabala S, Webb AAR, Davies JM (2012). Arabidopsis thaliana Annexin 1 forms the radical-activated plasma membrane Ca2+-permeable channel in root cell growth. Plant Cell 24:1522-1533. doi.
Anders N, Wilkinson MD, Lovegrove A, Freeman J, Tryfona T, Pellny TK, Weimar T, Mortimer JC, Stott K, Baker JM, Defoin-Platel M, Shewry PR, Dupree P, Mitchell RAC (2012). Glycosyl transferases in family 61 mediate arabinofuranosyl transfer onto xylan in grasses. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 109:989-993. doi.

2010

Mortimer JC, Miles GP, Brown DM, Zhang Z, Segura MP, Weimar T, Yu X, Seffen KA, Stephens E, Turner SR, Dupree P (2010). Absence of branches from xylan in Arabidopsis gux mutants reveals potential for simplification of lignocellulosic biomass. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:17409-17414. [Highlighted in Nature Chemical Biology 6:790 (2010)] doi.
Yamaguchi M, Goue N, Igarashi H, Ohtani M, Nakano Y, Mortimer JC, Nishikubo N, Kubo M, Katayama Y, Kakegawa K, Dupree P, Demura T (2010). Vascular-related NAC-DOMAIN6 and VASCULAR-RELATED NAC-DOMAIN7 effectively induce transdifferentiation into xylem vessel elements under control of an induction system. Plant Physiol. 153:906-914. doi.

2005–2009

Goubet F, Barton CJ, Mortimer JC, Yu X, Zhang Z, Miles GP, Seffen K, Richens J, Liepman AH, Dupree P (2009). Cell wall glucomannan in Arabidopsis is synthesised by CSLA glycosyltransferases, and influences the progression of embryogenesis. Plant J. 60:527-538. [Featured article] doi.
Laohavisit A, Mortimer JC, Demidchik V, Coxon KM, Stancombe MA, Macpherson N, Brownlee C, Hofmann A, Webb AAR, Miedema H, Battey NH, Davies JM (2009). Zea mays annexins modulate cytosolic free Ca2+, plasma membrane Ca2+ transport and have peroxidase activity. Plant Cell 21:479-493. doi.
Demidchik V, Shabala SN, Shabala S, Davies JM, Lin S, Shin R, Thompson E, Rubio L, Laohavisit A, Mortimer JC, Chivasa S, Slabas AR, Glover BJ, Schachtman DP (2009). Plant extracellular ATP signalling by plasma membrane NADPH oxidase and Ca2+ channels. Plant J. 58:903-918. [Featured article] doi.
Mortimer JC, Coxon KM, Laohavisit A, Davies JM (2009). Heme-independent soluble and membrane-associated peroxidase activity of a Zea mays annexin preparation. Plant Signal Behav. 4:428-430. doi.
Ridlova G, Mortimer JC, Maslen SL, Dupree P, Stephens E (2008). Isotope tagging and normal-phase liquid chromatography mass spectrometry for the relative quantitation of polysaccharides. Rapid Commun. Mass Spectrom. 22:2723-2730. doi.
Mortimer JC, Laohavisit A, Miedema H, Davies JM (2008). Voltage, reactive oxygen species and calcium. Plant Signal Behav. 3:1393.
Mortimer JC, Laohavisit A, Macpherson N, Webb AAR, Brownlee C, Battey NH, Davies JM (2008). Annexins: multi-functional components of growth and adaptation. J. Exp. Bot. 59:533-544. doi.
Macpherson N, Takeda S, Shang Z, Dark A, Mortimer JC, Brownlee C, Dolan L, Davies JM (2008). NADPH oxidase involvement in cellular integrity. Planta 227:1415-1418. doi.
Mortimer JC, Batley J, Love CG, Logan E, Edwards D (2005). Simple sequence repeat (SSR) and GC distribution in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. J. Plant Biotech. 7:17-25.