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Dr Mark Waters

  • ARC Future Fellow, The University Of Western Australia
  • group: Waters

Biography:

BA Biol Sci Oxford 2001 PhD Nottingham 2004 Post doc Langdale, Dept Plant Sci, Oxford 2004-2008 Post doc Smith, PEB 2010-2015

Research:

hormone signalling and plant development

Contact Info:

Year Publication Online
2024
Melville KT, Kamran M, Yao J, Costa M, Holland M, Taylor NL, Fritz G, Flematti GR, Waters MT (2024) Perception of butenolides by Bacillus subtilis via the α/β hydrolase RsbQ. Curr Biol 34(3):623-631.e6.
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2024
Mcquinn RP, Waters MT (2024) Apocarotenoid signals in plant development and beyond. J Exp Bot 75(4):1131-1133.
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2024
Kamran M, Melville KT, Waters MT (2024) Karrikin signalling: impacts on plant development and abiotic stress tolerance. J Exp Bot 75(4):1174-1186.
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2024
Tuckey AJ, Waters MT (2024) Branching out: Nitrogen-dependent modulation of strigolactone signaling. Mol Plant (in press).
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2023
Waters MT, Nelson DC (2023) Karrikin perception and signalling. New Phytol 237(5):1525-1541.
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2022
Haywood J, Breese KJ, Zhang J, Waters MT, Bond CS, Stubbs KA, Mylne JS (2022) A fungal tolerance trait and selective inhibitors proffer HMG-CoA reductase as a herbicide mode-of-action. Nat Commun 13(1):5563.
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2022
Meng Y, Varshney K, Incze N, Badics E, Kamran M, Davies SF, Oppermann LMF, Magne K, Dalmais M, Bendahmane A, Sibout R, Vogel J, Laudencia-Chingcuanco D, Bond CS, Soós V, Gutjahr C, Waters MT (2022) KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 regulates leaf development, root system architecture and arbuscular-mycorrhizal symbiosis in Brachypodium distachyon. Plant J 109(6):1559-1574.
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2022
Sepulveda C, Guzmán MA, Li Q, Villaécija-Aguilar JA, Martinez SE, Kamran M, Khosla A, Liu W, Gendron JM, Gutjahr C, Waters MT, Nelson DC (2022) KARRIKIN UP-REGULATED F-BOX 1 (KUF1) imposes negative feedback regulation of karrikin and KAI2 ligand metabolism in <i>Arabidopsis thaliana</i>. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 119(11):e2112820119.
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2021
Yao J, Scaffidi A, Meng Y, Melville KT, Komatsu A, Khosla A, Nelson DC, Kyozuka J, Flematti GR, Waters MT (2021) Desmethyl butenolides are optimal ligands for karrikin receptor proteins. New Phytol 230(3):1003-1016.
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2020
Carbonnel S, Torabi S, Griesmann M, Bleek E, Tang Y, Buchka S, Basso V, Shindo M, Boyer FD, Wang TL, Udvardi M, Waters MT, Gutjahr C (2020) Lotus japonicus karrikin receptors display divergent ligand-binding specificities and organ-dependent redundancy. PLOS GENET 16(12):e1009249.
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2018
Yao J, Mashiguchi K, Scaffidi A, Akatsu T, Melville KT, Morita R, Morimoto Y, Smith SM, Seto Y, Flematti GR, Yamaguchi S, Waters MT (2018) An allelic series at the KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE 2 locus of Arabidopsis thaliana decouples ligand hydrolysis and receptor degradation from downstream signalling. Plant J 96(1):75-89.
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2018
Wang L, Waters MT, Smith SM (2018) Karrikin-KAI2 signalling provides Arabidopsis seeds with tolerance to abiotic stress and inhibits germination under conditions unfavourable to seedling establishment. New Phytol 219(2):605-618.
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2017
Waters MT, Gutjahr C, Bennett T, Nelson DC (2017) Strigolactone Signaling and Evolution. Annu Rev Plant Biol 68:291-322.
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2017
Waters MT, Flematti GR, Smith SM (2017) Assaying Germination and Seedling Responses of Arabidopsis to Karrikins. Methods Mol Biol 1497:29-36.
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2016
Flematti GR, Scaffidi A, Waters MT, Smith SM (2016) Stereospecificity in strigolactone biosynthesis and perception. Planta 243(6):1361-73.
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2016
Brewer PB, Yoneyama K, Filardo F, Meyers E, Scaffidi A, Frickey T, Akiyama K, Seto Y, Dun EA, Cremer JE, Kerr SC, Waters MT, Flematti GR, Mason MG, Weiller G, Yamaguchi S, Nomura T, Smith SM, Yoneyama K, Beveridge CA (2016) LATERAL BRANCHING OXIDOREDUCTASE acts in the final stages of strigolactone biosynthesis in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 113(22):6301-6.
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2016
Sun YK, Flematti GR, Smith SM, Waters MT (2016) Reporter Gene-Facilitated Detection of Compounds in <i>Arabidopsis</i> Leaf Extracts that Activate the Karrikin Signaling Pathway. Front Plant Sci 7:1799.
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2015
Waters MT, Scaffidi A, Moulin SL, Sun YK, Flematti GR, Smith SM (2015) A Selaginella moellendorffii Ortholog of KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 Functions in Arabidopsis Development but Cannot Mediate Responses to Karrikins or Strigolactones. Plant Cell 27(7):1925-44.
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2015
Waters MT, Scaffidi A, Flematti G, Smith SM (2015) Substrate-Induced Degradation of the α/β-Fold Hydrolase KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 Requires a Functional Catalytic Triad but Is Independent of MAX2. Mol Plant 8(5):814-7.
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2014
Waters MT, Scaffidi A, Sun YK, Flematti GR, Smith SM (2014) The karrikin response system of Arabidopsis. Plant J 79(4):623-31.
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2014
Scaffidi A, Waters MT, Sun YK, Skelton BW, Dixon KW, Ghisalberti EL, Flematti GR, Smith SM (2014) Strigolactone Hormones and Their Stereoisomers Signal through Two Related Receptor Proteins to Induce Different Physiological Responses in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol 165(3):1221-1232.
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2013
Bythell-Douglas R, Waters MT, Scaffidi A, Flematti GR, Smith SM, Bond CS (2013) The structure of the karrikin-insensitive protein (KAI2) in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS One 8(1):e54758.
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2013
Waters MT, Smith SM (2013) KAI2- and MAX2-mediated responses to karrikins and strigolactones are largely independent of HY5 in Arabidopsis seedlings. Mol Plant 6(1):63-75.
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2013
Flematti GR, Waters MT, Scaffidi A, Merritt DJ, Ghisalberti EL, Dixon KW, Smith SM (2013) Karrikin and cyanohydrin smoke signals provide clues to new endogenous plant signaling compounds. Mol Plant 6(1):29-37.
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2013
Scaffidi A, Waters MT, Ghisalberti EL, Dixon KW, Flematti GR, Smith SM (2013) Carlactone-independent seedling morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. Plant J 76(1):1-9.
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2013
Waters MT, Scaffidi A, Flematti GR, Smith SM (2013) The origins and mechanisms of karrikin signalling. Curr Opin Plant Biol 16(5):667-73.
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2012
Waters MT, Scaffidi A, Flematti GR, Smith SM (2012) Karrikins force a rethink of strigolactone mode of action. Plant Signal Behav 7(8):969-72.
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2012
Scaffidi A, Waters MT, Bond CS, Dixon KW, Smith SM, Ghisalberti EL, Flematti GR (2012) Exploring the molecular mechanism of karrikins and strigolactones. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 22(11):3743-6.
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2012
Scaffidi A, Waters MT, Skelton BW, Bond CS, Sobolev AN, Bythell-Douglas R, Mckinley AJ, Dixon KW, Ghisalberti EL, Smith SM, Flematti GR (2012) Solar irradiation of the seed germination stimulant karrikinolide produces two novel head-to-head cage dimers. Org Biomol Chem 10(20):4069-73.
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2012
Smith SM, Waters MT (2012) Strigolactones: destruction-dependent perception? Curr Biol 22(21):R924-7.
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2012
Waters MT, Brewer PB, Bussell JD, Smith SM, Beveridge CA (2012) The Arabidopsis ortholog of rice DWARF27 acts upstream of MAX1 in the control of plant development by strigolactones. Plant Physiol 159(3):1073-85.
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2012
Waters MT, Nelson DC, Scaffidi A, Flematti GR, Sun YK, Dixon KW, Smith SM (2012) Specialisation within the DWARF14 protein family confers distinct responses to karrikins and strigolactones in Arabidopsis. Development 139(7):1285-95.
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2011
Waters MT, Smith SM, Nelson DC (2011) Smoke signals and seed dormancy: where next for MAX2? Plant Signal Behav 6(9):1418-22.
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2011
Nelson DC, Scaffidi A, Dun EA, Waters MT, Flematti GR, Dixon KW, Beveridge CA, Ghisalberti EL, Smith SM (2011) F-box protein MAX2 has dual roles in karrikin and strigolactone signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108(21):8897-902.
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