De Moliner, F., Knox, K., Reinders, A., Ward, J., McLaughlin, P., Oparka, K., Vendrell, M. (2018) Probing binding specificity of the sucrose transporter AtSUC2 with fluorescent coumarin glucosides. J Exp Bot (in press) doi: 10.1093/jxb/ery075.
Guo, H., Wang, N., McDonald, T.R., Reinders, A., Ward, J.M. (2018) MpAMT1;2 from Marchantia polymorpha is a high-affinity, plasma membrane ammonium transporter. Plant and Cell Physiology (in press) doi.org/10.1093/pcp/pcy038
Bowman JL, Kohchi T, Yamato KT, Jenkins J, Shu S, Ishizaki K, Yamaoka S, Nishihama R, Nakamura Y, Berger F, Adam C, Aki SS, Althoff F, Araki T, Arteaga-Vazquez MA, Balasubrmanian S, Barry K, Bauer D, Boehm CR, Briginshaw L, Caballero-Perez J, Catarino B, Chen F, Chiyoda S, Chovatia M, Davies KM, Delmans M, Demura T, Dierschke T, Dolan L, Dorantes-Acosta AE, Eklund DM, Florent SN, Flores-Sandoval E, Fujiyama A, Fukuzawa H, Galik B, Grimanelli D, Grimwood J, Grossniklaus U, Hamada T, Haseloff J, Hetherington AJ, Higo A, Hirakawa Y, Hundley HN, Ikeda Y, Inoue K, Inoue SI, Ishida S, Jia Q, Kakita M, Kanazawa T, Kawai Y, Kawashima T, Kennedy M, Kinose K, Kinoshita T, Kohara Y, Koide E, Komatsu K, Kopischke S, Kubo M, Kyozuka J, Lagercrantz U, Lin SS, Lindquist E, Lipzen AM, Lu CW, De Luna E, Martienssen RA, Minamino N, Mizutani M, Mizutani M, Mochizuki N, Monte I, Mosher R, Nagasaki H, Nakagami H, Naramoto S, Nishitani K, Ohtani M, Okamoto T, Okumura M, Phillips J, Pollak B, Reinders A, Rövekamp M, Sano R, Sawa S, Schmid MW, Shirakawa M, Solano R, Spunde A, Suetsugu N, Sugano S, Sugiyama A, Sun R, Suzuki Y, Takenaka M, Takezawa D, Tomogane H, Tsuzuki M, Ueda T, Umeda M, Ward JM, Watanabe Y, Yazaki K, Yokoyama R, Yoshitake Y, Yotsui I, Zachgo S, Schmutz J (2017) Insights into land plant evolution garnered from the Marchantia polymorpha genome. Cell 171(2):287-304; doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2017.09.030.
Milne, R.J., Reinders, A., Ward, J.M., Offler, C.E., Patrick, J.W., Grof, C.P.L. (2017) Contribution of sucrose transporters to phloem unloading within Sorghum bicolor stem internodes. Plant Signal Behav 12(5):e1319030; doi: 10.1080/15592324.2017.1319030
Leydon, A.R., Weinreb, C., Venable, E., Reinders, A., Ward, J.M., Johnson, M.A. (2017) The molecular dialog between flowering plant reproductive partners defined by SNP-informed RNA-Sequencing. Plant Cell 29(5):984-1006; doi: 10.1105/tpc.16.00816
Milne, R.J., Perroux, J.M., Rae, A.L., Reinders, A., Ward, J.M., Offler, C.E., Patrick, J.W., Grof, C.P. (2016) Sucrose transporter localization and function in phloem unloading in developing stems. Plant Physiol 173(2):1330-1341; doi: 10.1104/pp.16.01594
McDonald, T.R., Ward, J.M. Evolution of Electrogenic Ammonium Transporters (AMTs). Front Plant Sci 31;7:352; doi: 10.3389/fpls.2016.00352
Taylor, M., Reinders, A., Ward, J.M. (2015) Transport function of rice amino acid permeases (AAPs). Plant and Cell Physiology 56: 1355-63
Knoblauch, M., Vendrell, M., de Leau, E., Paterlini, A., Knox, K., Ross-Elliot, T., Reinders, A., Brockman, S.A., Ward, J.M. Oparka, K. (2015) Multispectral phloem-mobile probes: properties and applications. Plant Physiol 167: 1211-20
Reinders, A., Ward, J.M. (2015) Investigating polymorphisms in membrane-associated transporter protein SLC45A2, using sucrose transporters as a model. Mol Med Rep 12: 1393-8
Sun Y, Ward JM (2012) Arg188 in rice sucrose transporter OsSUT1 is crucial for substrate transport. BMC Biochem. 13:26
Reinders A, Sun Y, Karvonen KL, Ward JM (2012) Identification of amino acids important for substrate specificity in sucrose transporters using gene shuffling. J. Biol. Chem. 287: 30296-304
Gora PJ, Reinders A, Ward JM (2012) A novel fluorescent assay for sucrose transporters. Plant Methods 8:13
Sun Y, Lin Z, Reinders A, Ward JM (2012) Functionally important amino acids in rice sucrose transporter OsSUT1. Biochemistry 51: 3284-3291
Eom JS, Choi SB, Ward JM, Jeon JS (2012) The mechanism of phloem loading in rice (Oryza sativa). Mol. Cells 33: 431-438
Reinders A, Sivitz AB, Ward JM (2012) Evolution of plant sucrose uptake transporters (SUTs). Front. Plant Sci. 3: 00022
Tegeder M, Ward JM (2012) Molecular evolution of AAP and LHT amino acid transporters in the plant kingdom. Front. Plant Sci. 3: 00021
Eom JS, Cho JI, Reinders A, Lee SW, Yoo Y, Tuan PQ, Choi SB, Bang G, Park YI, Cho MH, Bhoo SH, An G, Hahn TR, Ward JM, Jeon JS (2011) Impaired function of the tonoplast-localized sucrose transporter in rice, OsSUT2, limits the transport of vacuolar reserve sucrose and affects plant growth. Plant Physiol. 157: 109-119
Tian H, Baxter IR, Lahner B, Reinders A, Salt DE, Ward JM (2010) Arabidopsis NPCC6/NaKR1 is a phloem mobile metal binding protein necessary for phloem function and root meristem maintenance. Plant Cell 12: 3963-3979
Hammes UZ, Meier S, Dietrich D, Ward JM, Rentsch D (2010) Functional properties of the Arabidopsis peptide transporters AtPTR1 and AtPTR5. J. Biol. Chem. 285: 39710-39717
Sun Y, Reinders A, LaFleur KR, Mori T, Ward JM (2010) Transport activity of rice sucrose transporters OsSUT1 and OsSUT5. Plant Cell. Physiol. 51:114-22
Ward JM, Mäser P, Schroeder JI (2009) Plant ion channels: gene families, physiology, and functional genomics analysis. Annu. Rev. Physiol. 71: 59-82
Weise A, Lalonde S, Kühn C, Frommer WB, Ward JM (2008) Introns control expression of sucrose transporter LeSUT1 in trichomes, companion cells and in guard cells. Plant Mol. Biol. 68: 251-262
Reinders A, Sivitz AB, Starker CG, Gantt JS, Ward JM (2008) Functional analysis of LjSUT4, a vacuolar sucrose transporter from Lotus japonicus. Plant Mol. Biol. 68: 289-299
Sivitz AB, Reinders A, Ward JM (2008) Arabidopsis sucrose transporter AtSUC1 is important for pollen germination and sucrose-induced anthocyanin accumulation. Plant Physiol. 147: 92-100
Zhao J, Cheng NH, Motes CM, Blancaflor EB, Moore M, Gonzales N, Padmanaban S, Sze H, Ward JM, Hirschi KD (2008) AtCHX13 is a plasma membrane K+ transporter. Plant Physiol. 148: 796-807
Morris J, Tian H, Park S, Sreevidya CS, Ward JM, Hirschi KD (2008) AtCCX3 is an Arabidopsis endomembrane H+ -dependent K+ transporter. Plant Physiol. 148: 1474-86
Padmanaban S, Chanroj S, Kwak J, Li X, Ward JM, Sze H (2007) Participation of an endomembrane cation/H+ exchanger AtCHX20 in osmoregulation of guard cells. Plant Physiol.144: 82-93
Sivitz AB, Reinders A, Johnson M, Krentz AD, Grof CPL, Perroux JM, Ward JM (2007) Arabidopsis sucrose transporter AtSUC9: high affinity transport activity, intragenic control of expression and early-flowering phenotype. Plant Physiol. 143: 188-198
Reinders A, Sivitz AB, Hsi A, Grof CPL, Perroux JM, Ward JM (2006) Sugarcane ShSUT1: analysis of sucrose transport activity and inhibition by sucralose. Plant Cell Env. 29: 1871-1880
Bock KW, Honys D, Ward JM, Padmanaban S, Nawrocki E, Hirschi KD, Twell D, Sze H (2006) Integrating membrane transport with male gametophyte development and function through transcriptomics. Plant Physiol. 240: 1151-1168
Reinders A, Panshyshyn JA, Ward JM (2005) Analysis of transport activity of Arabidopsis sugar alcohol permease homolog AtPLT5. J. Biol. Chem. 280: 1594-1602
Shigaki T, Kole M, Ward JM, Sze H, Hirschi KD (2005). Cre-loxP recombination vectors for the expression of Riken Arabidopsis full-length cDNAs in plants. Biotechniques 39: 301-302
Sivitz AB, Reinders A, Ward JM (2005) Analysis of the transport activity of barley sucrose transporter HvSUT1. Plant Cell Physiol. 46: 1666-1673
Shigaki T, Vyzasatya RR, Sivitz AB, Ward JM, Sze H, Hirschi KD (2005) The Cre-loxP recombination-based reporter system for plant transcriptional expression studies. Plant Mol. Biol. 58: 65-73