Selected Recent Publications

From 2014 – present. For a complete list, please visit my Google Scholar page. * corresponding author.

SE Evans, Y Xu, ME Bergman, SA Ford, YX Liu, TD Sharkey, MA Phillips* (2024 ) Nature Plants 10.1038/s41477-024-01791-z

SA Ford, RW Ness, MH Kwon, DK Ro, MA Phillips* (2024) BMC Plant Biology 10.1186/s12870-024-05633-0

SE Evans, AE Franks, ME Bergman, NS Sethna, MA Currie, MA Phillips* (2024 ) Nature Communications 15(1) 10.1038/s41467-024-45384-y

ME Bergman, SE Evans, X Kuai, AE Franks, C Despres, MA Phillips* (2023) Plants 12 (18), 3284

ME Bergman, AE Franks, MA Phillips* (2022) “Biosynthesis, natural distribution, and biological activities of acyclic monoterpenes and their derivatives” Phytochemistry Reviews, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-022-09849-6

ME Bergman, SE Evans, B Davis, R Hamid, I Bajwa, A Jayathilake, AK Chahal, MA Phillips* (2022) “An Arabidopsis GCMS chemical ionization technique to quantify adaptive responses in central metabolism” Plant Physiology 189(4):2072–2090, https://doi.org/10.1093/plphys/kiac207

SE Evans, P Duggan, ME Bergman, D Cobo-López, B Davis, I Bajwa, Michael A Phillips* (2022) “Design and fabrication of an improved dynamic flow cuvette for 13CO2 labeling in Arabidopsis plants” Plant Methods 18 (1), 1-13 

YV Magedans and MA Phillips* (2022) “Soapbark Triterpenes: Quillaja brasiliensis Cell Culture sapogenin and Free Sterol Analysis by GCMS” In: (AG Fett-Neto ed.) Plant Secondary Metabolism Engineering: Methods and Protocols (Springer) 2469:119-128

ME Bergman, M Bhardwaj, and MA Phillips* (2021) “Cytosolic geraniol and citronellol biosynthesis require a Nudix hydrolase in rose scented geranium (Pelargonium graveolens)” The Plant Journal 107:493-510 

ME Bergman, D Gonzalez-Cabanelas, LP Wright, BJ Walker, MA Phillips* (2021) “Isotope ratio-based quantification of carbon assimilation highlights the role of plastidial isoprenoid precursor availability in photosynthesis” Plant Methods 17:32 (https://doi.org/10.1186/s13007-021-00731-8) 

S Mitra, R Estrada-Tejedor, DC Volke, MA Phillips, J Gershenzon, LP Wright (2021) “Negative regulation of plastidial isoprenoid pathway by herbivore-induced β-cyclocitral in Arabidopsis thaliana” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 118(10): e2008747118 (10.1073/pnas.2008747118)

ME Bergman and MA Phillips* (2020) “Structural diversity and biosynthesis of plant derived p-menthane monoterpenes” Phytochemistry Reviews 20 (2), 433-459 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-020-09726-0

L Pereira, M Santo Domingo, V Ruggieri, J Argyris, MA Phillips, G Zhao, Q Lian, Y Xu, Y He, S Huang, M Pujol, J Garcia-Mas (2020) “Genetic dissection of climacteric fruit ripening in a melon population segregating for ripening behavior” Horticulture Research 7 (1), 1-18

Y da Silva Magedans, MA Phillips, A Fett-Neto (2020) “Production of plant bioactive triterpenoid saponins: from metabolites to genes and back” Phytochemistry Reviews, 20(2):461-482 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-020-09722-4

ME Bergman, Á Chávez, A Ferrer, MA Phillips* (2020) “Distinct metabolic pathways drive monoterpenoid biosynthesis in a natural population of Pelargonium graveolens” Journal of Experimental Botany 71(1):258-271

ME Bergman, B Davis, MA Phillips* (2019) “Medically Useful Plant Terpenoids: Biosynthesis, Occurrence, and Mechanism of Action” Molecules 24: 3961-3983

Onkokesung, N., Reichelt, M., Wright, L. P., Phillips, M. A., Gershenzon, J., Dicke, M. (2019) “The plastidial metabolite 2‐C‐methyl‐D‐erythritol‐2,4‐cyclodiphosphate modulates defence responses against aphids” Plant Cell and Environment 42: 2309-2323

Andrade, P., Manzano, D., Ramirez-Estrada, K., Caudepon, D., Arro, M., Ferrer, A., Phillips, M.A. (2018) “Nerolidol production in agroinfiltrated tobacco: Impact of protein stability and membrane targeting of strawberry (Fragraria ananassa) NEROLIDOL SYNTHASE1” Plant Science 267:112-123

Pereira, L., Pujol, M., Garcia-Mas, J., Phillips, M.A.* (2017) “Non-invasive ethylene quantification in attached fruit headspace at 1 part per billion by gas chromatography – mass spectrometry” Plant Journal 91(1), 172-183 

Perello, C., Llamas, E., Burlat, V., Ortiz-Alcaide, M., Phillips, M.A., Pulido, P., Rodriguez-Concepcion, M., (2016) “Differential subplastidial localization and turnover of enzymes involved in isoprenoid biosynthesis in chloroplasts” PLoS ONE 11: e0150539 

Saladié, M., Cañizares, J., Phillips, M. A., Rodriguez-Concepción, M., Larrigaudiere, C., Gibon, Y., Stitt, M., Lunn, J. E., Garcia-Mas, J. (2015) “Comparative transcriptional profiling analysis of developing melon (Cucumis melo L.) fruit from climacteric and non-climacteric varieties” BMC Genomics 16:440 

González Cabanelas, D., Wright, L. P., Paetz, C., Onkokesung, N., Gershenzon, J., Rodríguez Concepción, M., Phillips, M. A.* (2015) “The diversion of 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol-2,4-cyclodiphosphate from the 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 4-phosphate  pathway to hemiterpene glycosides mediates stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana” Plant Journal 82:122-137 

Docimo T., Davis A.J., Luck K., Fellenberg C., Reichelt, M., Phillips M. A., Gershenzon J. and D’Auria J.C. (2015) “Influence of medium and elicitors on the production of cocaine, amino acids and phytohormones by Erythroxylum coca calli” Plant Cell, Tissue, and Organ Culture 120: 1061-1075

Wright, L. P., Rohwer, J., Ghirardo, A., Hammerbacher, A., Ortíz, M., Raguschke, B., Schnitzler, J. P., Gershenzon, J., Phillips, M. A.* (2014) “Deoxyxylulose 5-phosphate synthase controls flux through the methylerythritol 4-phosphate pathway in Arabidopsis” Plant Physiology 165:1488-1504 

Saladié, M., Wright, L.P., Garcia Mas, J., Rodriguez Concepción, M., Phillips, M. A.* (2014) “The 2-C-methylerythritol 4-phosphate pathway in melon is regulated by specialized isoforms for the first and last steps” Journal of Experimental Botany 65:5077-5092 

Wright, L. P. and Phillips, M. A.* (2014) “Measuring the activity of 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate synthase, the first enzyme in the MEP pathway” Methods in Molecular Biology, Plant Isoprenoids Issue (Springer, USA), 1153:9-20