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Current Field of Study

• Long-distance signaling in RNAi and development of plants
• The role of RNAi and DNA methylation in regulation of gene expression, and response of genomes to the environment
• Identification, cloning and characterization of key plant genes controlling cell division and cell differentiation
• Nucleocytoplasmic signaling
  

Australian Collaborators

• ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Legume Research
• Dr Peter Waterhouse, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT 2601
• Prof John Bowman, School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800
• Prof Bostjan Kobe, School of Molecular and Microbial Sciences, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072
• Prof John Mattick, Institute of Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072
• Prof Michael D'Occhio, Director of Research, Faculty of Natural Resources, Agriculture and Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072
• Dr Jean Finnegan, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT 2601
• Dr Susanne Schmidt, School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072
• Prof Robert Birch, School of Integrative Biology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072
• CRC Innovative Dairy Technology
  

International Collaborators

• Epigenomics AG, Berlin, Germany (industry partner for ARC Linkage grant entitled DNA methylation based diagnosis of cancer and identification of novel therapeutic targets)

Facilities

• DNA methylation profiling, cell culture, plant growth facilities
• Proteomics and Real-time quantitative PCR
• Agrobacterium-mediated and biolistic-mediated transformation of plants
• Genome-wide scanning for DNA methylation change

Recent Publications

Paungfoo-Lonhienne, C., Lonhienne, T.G.A., Rentsch, D., Robinson, N., Christie, M., Webb, R.I., Gamage, H.K., Carroll, B.J., Schenk, P.M. and Schmidt, S. (last 3 authors contributed equally) (2008) Plants can use protein as a nitrogen source without assistance from other organisms. PNAS 105, 4524-4529.

C. A. Brosnan, N. Mitter, M. Christie, N. A. Smith, P. M. Waterhouse and B. J. Carroll (2007) Nuclear gene silencing directs reception of long-distance mRNA silencing in Arabidopsis. PNAS 104, 14741-14746

Fusaro, A.F., Matthew, L., Smith, N.A., Shaun J Curtin, S.J., Dedic-Hagan, J., Ellacott, G.A., Watson, J.M., Wang, M.B., Brosnan, C., Carroll, B.J. and Waterhouse, P.M. (2006) RNAi-inducing hairpin RNAs in plants act through the viral defence pathway. EMBO Reports 7, 1168-1175.

Lim G.T.T., Wang G.-P., Hemming M.N., Basuki S., McGrath D.J., Carroll B.J. and Jones D.A. (2006) Mapping the I-3 gene for resistance to Fusarium wilt in tomato: application of an I-3 marker in tomato improvement and progress towards the cloning of I-3. Australian Plant Pathology 35, 671-680.

Webster KE, O'Bryan MK, Fletcher S, Crewther PE, Aapola U, Craig J, Harrison DK, Aung H, Phutikanit N, Lyle R, Meachem SJ, Antonarakis SE, de Kretser DM, Hedger MP, Peterson P, Carroll BJ and Scott HS (2005) Meiotic and epigenetic defects in Dnmt3L knockout mouse spermatogenesis. PNAS 102, 4068-4073.

Hemming MN, Basuki S, McGrath DJ, Carroll BJ, Jones DA. (2004) Fine mapping of the tomato I-3 gene for fusarium wilt resistance and elimination of a co-segregating resistance gene analogue as a candidate for I-3. Theor Appl Genet. 109, 409-18.

Searle, I.R., Men, A.E., Laniya, T.S., Buzas, D.M., Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I., Carroll, B.J. (corresponding author) and Gresshoff, P.M. (2003). Long distance signaling in nodulation directed by a CLAVATA1-like receptor kinase. Science 299, 109-112.

Godwin R.M, Rae, A.L. Carroll, B.J. and Smith, F.W. ( 2003) Cloning and characterisation of two genes encoding sulfate transporters from rice ( Oryza sativa L.). Plant and Soil 257: 113-123

Peace, C., Vithanage, V., Turnbull, C. and Carroll, B.J. (2003) A genetic map of macadamia based on radiolabelled DNA amplification fingerprinting. Euphytica (in press).

Men, A.E., Laniya, T.S., Searle, I.R., Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I., Gresshoff, I., Jiang, Q., Carroll, B.J. and Gresshoff, P.M. (2003). Fast neutron mutagenesis of soybean (Glycine soja L.) produces a supernodulating mutant containing a large deletion in linkage group H. Genome Letters (in press).

May, K.J., Whisson, S.C., Zwart, R.S., Searle, I.R., Irwin, J.A.G., Maclean, D.J., Carroll, B.J. and Drenthe, A. (2002) Inheritance and mapping of eleven avirulence genes in Phytophthora sojae. Fungal Genetics and Biology 37, 1-12.

Nadella, K.D., Peake, A. S., Bariana, H. S., Cooper, M., Ian D. Godwin, I. D. and Carroll, B. J. (2002) A rapid PCR protocol for marker assisted selection of heterozygotes in segregating generations involving 1BL/1RS translocation and normal wheat lines. Aust. J. Agric. Res. 53, 931-938.

Waldron, J., Peace, C., Searle, I. R., Furtado, A., Wade, N., Graham, M. and Carroll, B.J. (2002) Randomly Amplified DNA Fingerprinting (RAF): a culmination of DNA marker protocols based on arbitrarily-primed PCR. J. Biomedicine and Biotechnology 2, 141-150.

Cunningham, D.C., Walsh, K.B., Anderson, E., Harrison, D. and Carroll, B.J. (2002) Analysis of genetic diversity in Australian Cassia with Randomly Amplified DNA Fingerprinting (RAF). Australian Systematic Botany 15, 237-244

Schlipalius, D.I., Waldron, J., Carroll, B.J., Collins, P.J. and Ebert P.R. (2001) A DNA fingerprinting procedure for ultra high-throughput genetic analysis of insects. Insect Molecular Biology 10, 579-85.