Prof John Bowman - Researcher Profile

Biography

John works in the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University as a Professor

John’s research areas of interest are:

•Genetic and molecular analysis of plant development
•Pattern formation in plant development
•Evolution of land plant morphology

Keywords

Plant development, Plant morphology

Qualifications

BIOLOGY

Institution: California Institute of Technology

Year awarded: 1991

BACHELOR OF BIOCHEMISTRY

Institution: University of Illinois

Year awarded: 1986

Publications

Book Chapters

Mummenhoff, K., Linder, P., Friesen, N., Bowman, J.L., Lee, J., Franzke, A., 2006, African species of Lepidium (Brassicaceae) contributed via hybridization to the origin of Australian/New Zealand species, in Taxonomy and Ecology of African plants, their conservation and sustainable use:, eds Shahina A Ghazanfar and Henk J Beentje, Kew Publishing, Kew England, pp. 291-308.

Floyd, S., Bowman, J.L., 2005, microRNAs: Micro-managing the plant genome, in Plant Epigenetics, eds Peter Meyer, Blackwell Publishing, Sheffield UK, pp. 244-278.

Bowman, J.L., 2004, Establishment of polarity in lateral organs of seed plants, in Polarity in Plants, eds Keith Lindsey, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, pp. 288-316.

Bowman, J.L., Baum, S.F., Eshed, Y., Putterill, J., Alvarez, J., 1999, Molecular genetics of gynoecium development in Arabidopsis, in Current Topics in Developmental Biology, Academic Press, San Diego California USA, pp. 155-205.

Journal Articles

Bowman, J.L., Smyth, D.R., Meyerowitz, E.M., 2012, The ABC model of flower development: then and now, Development [E], vol 139, issue 22, The Company of Biologists, United Kingdom, pp. 4095-4098.

Engstrom, E., Andersen, C., Gumulak-Smith, J., Hu, J., Orlova, E., Sozzani, R., Bowman, J., 2011, Arabidopsis homologs of the petunia Hairy Meristem gene are required for maintenance of shoot and root indeterminacy, Plant Physiology [P], vol 155, issue 2, American Society of Plant Biologists, Rockville USA, pp. 735-750.

Bowman, J., 2011, Stomata: Active Portals for flourishing on land, Current Biology [P], vol 21, issue 14, Cell Press, Cambridge USA, pp. 540-541.

Banks, J., Nishiyama, T., Hasebe, M., Bowman, J., Gribskov, M., dePamphilis, C., Albert, V., Aono, N., Aoyama, T., Ambrose, B., Ashton, N., Axtell, M., Barker, E., Barker, M., Bennetzen, J., Bonawitz, N., Chapple, C., Cheng, C., Correa, L., Dacre, M., DeBarry, J., Dreyer, I., Elias, M., Engstrom, E., Estelle, M., Liang, F., Finet, C., Floyd, S., Fremmer, W., Fujita, T., Gramzow, L., Gutensohn, M., Harholt, J., Hattori, M., Heyl, A., Hirai, T., Hiwatashi, Y., Ishikawa, M., Iwata, M., Karol, K., Koehler, B., Kolukisaoglu, U., Kubo, M., Kurata, T., Lalonde, S., Li, K., Ying, L., Litt, A., Lyons, E., Manning, G., Maruyama, T., Michael, T., Mikami, K., Miyazaki, S., Morinaga, S., Murata, T., Mueller-Roeber, B., Nelson, D., Obara, M., Oguri, Y., Olmstead, R., Onodera, N., Petersen, B., Pils, B., Prigge, M., Rensing, S., Riano-Pachon, D., Roberts, A., Sato, Y., Scheller, H., Schulz, B., Schulz, C., Shakirov, E., Shibagaki, N., Shinohara, N., Shippen, D., Sorensen, I., Sotooka, R., Sugimoto, N., Sugita, M., Sumikawa, N., Tanurdzic, M., Theissen, G., Ulvskov, P., Wakazuki, S., Weng, J., Willats, W., Wipf, D., Wolf, P., Yang, L., Zimmer, A., Zhu, Q., Mitros, T., Hellsten, U., Loque, D., Otillar, R., Salamov, A., Schmutz, J., Shapiro, H., Lindquist, E., Lucas, S., Rokhsar, D., Grigoriev, I., 2011, The Selaginella genome identifies genetic changes associated with the evolution of vascular plants, Science [P], vol 332, issue 6032, American Assocation for the Advancement of Science, USA, pp. 960-963.

Carlsbecker, A., Lee, J., Roberts, C., Dettmer, J., Lehesranta, S., Zhou, J., Lindgren, O., Moreno-Risueno, M., Vaten, A., Thiramadee, S., Campilho, A., Sebastian, J., Bowman, J., Helariutta, Y., Benfey, P., 2010, Cell signalling by microRNA165/6 directs gene dose-dependent root cell fate, Nature [P], vol 465, issue 7296, Nature Publishing Group, London England, pp. 316-321.

Sarojam, R., Sappl, P., Goldshmidt, A., Efroni, I., Floyd, S., Eshed, Y., Bowman, J., 2010, Differentiating arabidopsis shoots from leaves by combined YABBY activities, Plant Cell [P], vol 22, issue 7, The Plant Cell, USA, pp. 2113-2130.

Floyd, S., Bowman, J., 2010, Gene expression patterns in seed plant shoot meristems and leaves: homoplasy or homology?, Journal Of Plant Research [P], vol 123, issue 1, Springer Tokyo, Tokyo Japan, pp. 43-55.

Ilegems, M., Douet, V., Meylan-Bettex, M., Uyttewaal, M., Brand, L., Bowman, J., Stieger, P., 2010, Interplay of auxin, KANADI and Class III HD-ZIP transcription factors in vascular tissue formation, Development [P], vol 137, issue 6, The Company of Biologists Ltd, Cambridge England, pp. 975-984.

Bowman, J., 2010, My favourite flowering image, Journal Of Experimental Botany [P], vol E, Oxford University Press, UK, pp. 1-4.

Pagnussat, G.C., Alandete-Saez, M., Bowman, J.L., Sundaresan, V., 2009, Auxin-dependent patterning and gamete specification in the Arabidopsis female gametophyte, Science [P], vol 324, American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA, pp. 1684-1689.

Alvarez, J., Goldshmidt, A., Efroni, I., Bowman, J.L., Eshed, Y., 2009, The NGATHA distal organ development genes are essential for style specification in Arabidopsis, Plant Cell [P], vol 21, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 1373-1393.

Shalit, A., Rozman, A., Goldshmidt, A., Alvarez, J.P., Bowman, J.L., Eshed, Y., Lifschitz, E., 2009, The flowering hormone florigen functions as a general systemic regulator of growth and termination, Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America [P], vol 106, issue 20, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, pp. 8392-8397.

Tretter, E., Alvarez, J., Eshed, Y., Bowman, J.L., 2008, Activity range of arabidopsis small RNAs derived from different biogenesis pathways, Plant Physiology, vol 147, issue 1, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 58-62.

Meyers, B., Axtell, M., Bartel, B., Bartel, D., Baulcombe, D., Bowman, J.L., Cao, X., Carrington, J., Chen, X., Green, P., Griffiths-Jones, S., Jacobsen, S., Mallory, A., Martienssen, R., Poethig, R., Qi, Y., Vaucheret, H., Voinnet, O., Watanabe, Y., Weigel, D., Zhu, J., 2008, Criteria for annotation of plant microRNAs, The Plant Cell, vol 20, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 3186-3190.

Axtell, M., Bowman, J.L., 2008, Evolution of plant microRNAs and their targets, The Plant Cell, vol 13, issue 7, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 343-349.

Bowman, J.L., Floyd, S., 2008, Patterning and polarity in seed plant shoots, Annual Review of Plant Biology, vol 59, Annual Reviews, USA, pp. 67-88.

Prunet, N., Morel, P., Thierry, A., Eshed, Y., Bowman, J.L., Negrutiu, I., Trehin, C., 2008, Rebelote, Squint, and Ultrapetala1 function redundantly in the temporal regulation of floral meristem termination in Arabidopsis thaliana, The Plant Cell, vol 20, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 901-919.

Goldshmidt, A., Alvarez, J., Bowman, J.L., Eshed, Y., 2008, Signals derived from YABBY gene activities in organ primordia regulate growth and partitioning of Arabidopsis shoot apical meristems, The Plant Cell, vol 20, issue 5, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 1217-1230.

Bowman, J.L., Floyd, S., Sakakibara, K., 2007, Green Genes-Comparative Genomics of the Green Branch of Life, Cell, vol 129, issue 2, Cell Press, Cambridge USA, pp. 229-234.

Izhaki, A., Bowman, J.L., 2007, KANADI and class III HD-Zip gene families regulate embryo patterning and modulate auxin flow during embryogenesis in Arabidopsis, Plant Cell, vol 19, issue 2, American Society of Plant Biologists, Rockville USA, pp. 495-508.

Floyd, S., Bowman, J.L., 2007, The ancestral developmental tool kit of land plants, International Journal of Plant Sciences, vol 168, issue 1, University Chicago Press, Chicago USA, pp. 1-35.

McAbee, J.M., Hill, T.A., Skinner, D.J., Izhaki, A., Hauser, B.A., Meister, R.J., Reddy, G.V., Meyerowitz, E.M., Bowman, J.L., Gasser, C.S., 2006, ABERRANT TESTA SHAPE encodes a KANADI family member, linking polarity determination to separation and growth of Arabidopsis ovule integuments, The Plant Journal, vol 46, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, UK, pp. 522-531.

Floyd, S.K., Bowman, J.L., 2006, Distinct developmental mechanisms reflect the independent origins of leaves in vascular plants, Current Biology, vol 16, Cell Press, Cambridge USA MA, pp. 1911-1917.

Floyd, S., Zalewski, C.S., Bowman, J.L., 2006, Evolution of class III homeodomain-leucine zipper genes in streptophytes, Genetics, vol 173, Genetics, Baltimore USA, pp. 373-388.

Oldenhof, H., Wolkers, W.F., Bowman, J.L., Tablin, F., Crowe, J.H., 2006, Freezing and desiccation tolerance in the moss Physcomitrella patens: an in situ Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic study, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, vol 1760, Elsevier, Netherlands, pp. 1226-1234.

Bowman, J.L., 2006, Molecules and morphology: Comparative developmental genetics of the Brassicaceae, Plant Systematics and Evolution, vol 259, Springer Wien, Wien Austria, pp. 199-215.

Lee, J., Baum, S.F., Alvarez, J., Patel, A., Chitwood, D.H., Bowman, J.L., 2005, Activation of CRABS CLAW in the nectaries and carpels of Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, vol 17, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 25-36.

Meister, R.J., Oldenhof, H., Bowman, J.L., Gasser, C.S., 2005, Multiple protein regions contribute to differential activities of YABBY proteins in reproductive development, Plant Physiology, vol 137, American Society of Biologists, USA, pp. 651-662.

Lee, J., Baum, S.F., Oh, S., Jiang, C., Chen, J., Bowman, J.L., 2005, Recruitment of CRABS CLAW to promote nectary development within the eudicot clade, Development, vol 132, The Company of Biologists, Cambridge England, pp. 5021-5032.

Floyd, S., Bowman, J.L., 2004, Ancient microRNA target sequences in plants, Nature, vol 428, Nature Publishing Group, UK, pp. 485-486.

Eshed, Y., Izhaki, A., Baum, S.F., Floyd, S., Bowman, J.L., 2004, Asymmetric leaf development and blade expansion in Arabidopsis are mediated by KANADI and YABBY activities, Development, vol 131, Company of Biologists, Cambridge England, pp. 2997-3006.

Bowman, J.L., 2004, Class III HD-Zip gene regulation, the golden fleece of ARGONAUTE activity?, BioEssays, vol 26, issue 9, John Wiley & Sons Inc, USA, pp. 938-942.

Eshed, Y., Bowman, J.L., 2004, MicroRNAs guide asymmetric DNA modifications guiding asymmetric organs, Developmental Cell, vol 7, Cell Press, USA, pp. 629-635.

Mummenhoff, K., Linder, P., Friesen, N., Bowman, J.L., Lee, J., Franzke, A., 2004, Molecular evidence for bicontinental hybridogenous genomic constitution in Lepidium sensu stricto (Brassicaceae) species from Australia and New Zealand, American Journal of Botany, vol 91, issue 2, Botanical Society of America Inc, USA, pp. 254-261.

Engstrom, E.M., Izhaki, A., Bowman, J.L., 2004, Promoter bashing, microRNAs, and Knox genes. New insights, regulators, and targets-of-regulation in the establishment of lateral organ polarity on Arabidopsis, Plant Physiology, vol 135, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 685-694.

Hawker, N.P., Bowman, J.L., 2004, Roles for Class III HD-Zip and KANADI genes in Arabidopsis root development, Plant Physiology, vol 135, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 2261-2270.

Farrona, S., Hurtado, L., Bowman, J.L., Reyes, J.C., 2004, The Arabidopsis thaliana SNF2 homolog AtBRM controls shoot development and flowering, Development, vol 131, issue 20, Company of Biologists Ltd, Cambridge England, pp. 4965-4975.

Pruitt, R.E., Bowman, J.L., Grossniklaus, U., 2003, Plant genetics: a decade of integration, Nature Genetics, vol 33, issue March 2003, Nature Publishing Group, USA, pp. 294-304.

Emery, J.F., Floyd, S.K., Alvarez, J., Eshed, Y., Hawker, N.P., Izhaki, A., Baum, S.F., Bowman, J.L., 2003, Radial patterning of Arabidopsis shoots by class III HD-ZIP and KANADI genes, Current Biology, vol 13, Cell Press, Cambridge USA, pp. 1768-1774.

Foster, T.M., Lough, T.J., Emerson, S.J., Lee, R.H., Bowman, J.L., Forster, R.L.S., Lucas, W.J., 2002, A surveillance system regulates selective entry of RNA into the shoot apex, The Plant Cell, vol 14, American Society of Plant Biologists, Rockville USA, pp. 1497-1508.

Lee, J., Mummenhoff, K., Bowman, J.L., 2002, Allopolyploidization and evolution of species with reduced floral structures in Lepidium L. (Brassicaceae), PNAS, vol 99, issue 26, National Academy of Sciences, USA, pp. 16835-16840.

Bowman, J.L., Eshed, Y., Baum, S.F., 2002, Establishment of polarity in angiosperm lateral organs, Trends in Genetics, vol 18, issue 3, Elsevier Science Ltd, UK, pp. 134-141.

Bowman, J.L., 2002, Foliage in Madrid, Genome Biology, vol 3, issue 5, BioMed Central Ltd, UK, pp. 4013.1-4013.2.

Kumaran, M.K., Bowman, J.L., Sundaresan, V., 2002, YABBY polarity genes mediate the repression of KNOX homeobox genes in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, vol 14, American Society of Plant Biologists, USA, pp. 2761-2770.

Mummenhoff, K., Bruggemann, H., Bowman, J.L., 2001, Chloroplaast DNA phylogeny and biogeography of Lepidium (Brassicaceae), American Journal of Botany, vol 88, issue 11, Botanical Society of America Inc, St Louis USA, pp. 2051-2063.

Eshed, Y., Baum, S.F., Perea, J.V., Bowman, J.L., 2001, Establishment of polarity in lateral organs of plants, Current Biology, vol 11, Cell Press, Cambridge USA, pp. 1251-1260.

McConnell, J.R., Emery, J.F., Eshed, Y., Bao, N., Bowman, J.L., Barton, M.K., 2001, Role of phabulosa and phavoluta in determining radial patterning in shoots, Nature, vol 411, Nature Publishing Group, UK, pp. 709-713.

Baum, S.F., Eshed, Y., Bowman, J.L., 2001, The Arabidopsis nectary is an ABC-independent floral structure, Development, vol 128, Company of Biologists Ltd, Cambridge England, pp. 4657-4667.

Goto, K., Kyozuka, J., Bowman, J.L., 2001, Turning floral organs into leaves, leaves into floral organs, Current Opinion in Genetics & Development, vol 11, Elsevier Science Ltd, UK, pp. 449-456.

Bowman, J.L., Smyth, D.R., 1999, Crabs claw, a gene that regulates carpel and nectary development in Arabidopsis, encodes a novel protein with zinc finger and helix-loop-helix domains, Development, vol 126, Company of Biologists, Cambridge USA, pp. 2387-2396.

Bowman, J.L., Smyth, D.R., 1998, Patterns of petal stamer reduction in Australian species of Lepidium L.(Brassicaceae), International Journal of Plant Sciences, vol 159 no 1, University of Chicago Press, Chicago USA, pp. 65-74.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Developmental gene regulation by POLYCOMB, TRITHORAX and GYMNOS Proteins in basal land plant Marchantia polymorpha..

Supervisors:

Bowman, J (Main), Smyth, D (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Genetic and Molecular analysis of a natural modifier of IIL1 - Mother in Law of IIL1 ( MIL ).

Supervisors:

Balasubramanian, S (Main), Bowman, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Genetic modification of cowpea (Vigna unguicaulata) enabling RNAi induced resistance to the cowpea weevil (Callosobruchus maculatus).

Supervisors:

Smyth, D (Main), Bowman, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The role of yabby genes in arabidopis leaf development.

Supervisors:

Bowman, J (Main).