Peter McCourt - Publications

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University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada 
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2021 Bunsick M, McCullough R, McCourt P, Lumba S. Plant hormone signaling: Is upside down right side up? Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 63: 102070. PMID 34166978 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbi.2021.102070  0.363
2019 Yoshida S, Kim S, Wafula EK, Tanskanen J, Kim YM, Honaas L, Yang Z, Spallek T, Conn CE, Ichihashi Y, Cheong K, Cui S, Der JP, Gundlach H, Jiao Y, ... ... McCourt P, et al. Genome Sequence of Striga asiatica Provides Insight into the Evolution of Plant Parasitism. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 31522940 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2019.07.086  0.371
2018 Uraguchi D, Kuwata K, Hijikata Y, Yamaguchi R, Imaizumi H, Am S, Rakers C, Mori N, Akiyama K, Irle S, McCourt P, Kinoshita T, Ooi T, Tsuchiya Y. A femtomolar-range suicide germination stimulant for the parasitic plant . Science (New York, N.Y.). 362: 1301-1305. PMID 30545887 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aau5445  0.37
2018 Kinoshita T, McCourt P, Asami T, Torii KU. Editorial: Plant Chemical Biology. Plant & Cell Physiology. PMID 30032233 DOI: 10.1093/Pcp/Pcy142  0.406
2018 Holbrook-Smith D, McCourt P. Chemical Screening for Strigolactone Receptor Antagonists Using Arabidopsis thaliana. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 1795: 117-126. PMID 29846923 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-7874-8_10  0.431
2017 Lumba S, Bunsick M, McCourt P. Chemical genetics and strigolactone perception. F1000research. 6: 975. PMID 28690842 DOI: 10.12688/F1000Research.11379.1  0.426
2017 Lumba S, Holbrook-Smith D, McCourt P. The perception of strigolactones in vascular plants. Nature Chemical Biology. 13: 599-606. PMID 28514432 DOI: 10.1038/Nchembio.2340  0.444
2017 Lumba S, Subha A, McCourt P. Found in Translation: Applying Lessons from Model Systems to Strigolactone Signaling in Parasitic Plants. Trends in Biochemical Sciences. PMID 28495334 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tibs.2017.04.006  0.419
2016 Northey JG, Liang S, Jamshed M, Deb S, Foo E, Reid JB, McCourt P, Samuel MA. Farnesylation mediates brassinosteroid biosynthesis to regulate abscisic acid responses. Nature Plants. 2: 16114. PMID 27455172 DOI: 10.1038/Nplants.2016.114  0.489
2016 Holbrook-Smith D, Toh S, Tsuchiya Y, McCourt P. Small-molecule antagonists of germination of the parasitic plant Striga hermonthica. Nature Chemical Biology. PMID 27428512 DOI: 10.1038/Nchembio.2129  0.412
2016 Zhou X, Zhang ZL, Yusuke J, Qiu K, Park J, Nam EA, Lumba S, Desveaux D, McCourt P, Kamiya Y, Tyler L, Sun TP. ERF11 Promotes Internode Elongation by Activating Gibberellin Biosynthesis and Signaling Pathways in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. PMID 27255484 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.16.00154  0.355
2016 Poretska O, Yang S, Pitorre D, Rozhon W, Zwerger K, Uribe MC, May ST, McCourt P, Poppenberger B, Sieberer T. The small molecule hyperphyllin enhances leaf formation rate and mimics shoot meristem integrity defects associated with AMP1 deficiency. Plant Physiology. PMID 27208298 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.15.01633  0.469
2015 Provart NJ, Alonso J, Assmann SM, Bergmann D, Brady SM, Brkljacic J, Browse J, Chapple C, Colot V, Cutler S, Dangl J, Ehrhardt D, Friesner JD, Frommer WB, Grotewold E, ... ... McCourt P, et al. 50 years of Arabidopsis research: highlights and future directions. The New Phytologist. PMID 26465351 DOI: 10.1111/Nph.13687  0.748
2015 Toh S, Holbrook-Smith D, Stogios PJ, Onopriyenko O, Lumba S, Tsuchiya Y, Savchenko A, McCourt P. Structure-function analysis identifies highly sensitive strigolactone receptors in Striga. Science (New York, N.Y.). 350: 203-7. PMID 26450211 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aac9476  0.407
2015 Tsuchiya Y, Yoshimura M, Sato Y, Kuwata K, Toh S, Holbrook-Smith D, Zhang H, McCourt P, Itami K, Kinoshita T, Hagihara S. PARASITIC PLANTS. Probing strigolactone receptors in Striga hermonthica with fluorescence. Science (New York, N.Y.). 349: 864-8. PMID 26293962 DOI: 10.1126/Science.Aab3831  0.393
2014 Stokes ME, McCourt P. Towards personalized agriculture: what chemical genomics can bring to plant biotechnology. Frontiers in Plant Science. 5: 344. PMID 25183965 DOI: 10.3389/Fpls.2014.00344  0.41
2014 Toh S, Holbrook-Smith D, Stokes ME, Tsuchiya Y, McCourt P. Detection of parasitic plant suicide germination compounds using a high-throughput Arabidopsis HTL/KAI2 strigolactone perception system. Chemistry & Biology. 21: 988-98. PMID 25126711 DOI: 10.1016/J.Chembiol.2014.07.005  0.439
2014 Lumba S, Toh S, Handfield LF, Swan M, Liu R, Youn JY, Cutler SR, Subramaniam R, Provart N, Moses A, Desveaux D, McCourt P. A mesoscale abscisic acid hormone interactome reveals a dynamic signaling landscape in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell. 29: 360-72. PMID 24823379 DOI: 10.1016/J.Devcel.2014.04.004  0.72
2013 Delmas F, Sankaranarayanan S, Deb S, Widdup E, Bournonville C, Bollier N, Northey JG, McCourt P, Samuel MA. ABI3 controls embryo degreening through Mendel's I locus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: E3888-94. PMID 24043799 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1308114110  0.421
2013 Lin Y, Pajak A, Marsolais F, McCourt P, Riggs CD. Characterization of a cruciferin deficient mutant of Arabidopsis and its utility for overexpression of foreign proteins in plants. Plos One. 8: e64980. PMID 23724110 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0064980  0.454
2013 Stamatiou G, Vidaurre DP, Shim I, Tang X, Moeder W, Bonetta D, McCourt P. Forward genetic screening for the improved production of fermentable sugars from plant biomass. Plos One. 8: e55616. PMID 23383246 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0055616  0.763
2012 Toh S, McCourt P, Tsuchiya Y. HY5 is involved in strigolactone-dependent seed germination in Arabidopsis Plant Signaling &Amp; Behavior. 7: 556-558. PMID 22516816 DOI: 10.4161/Psb.19839  0.47
2012 Lumba S, Tsuchiya Y, Delmas F, Hezky J, Provart NJ, Shi Lu Q, McCourt P, Gazzarrini S. The embryonic leaf identity gene FUSCA3 regulates vegetative phase transitions by negatively modulating ethylene-regulated gene expression in Arabidopsis. Bmc Biology. 10: 8. PMID 22348746 DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-10-8  0.365
2012 Toh S, Kamiya Y, Kawakami N, Nambara E, McCourt P, Tsuchiya Y. Thermoinhibition uncovers a role for strigolactones in Arabidopsis seed germination. Plant & Cell Physiology. 53: 107-17. PMID 22173099 DOI: 10.1093/Pcp/Pcr176  0.485
2012 Tsuchiya Y, McCourt P. Strigolactones as small molecule communicators. Molecular Biosystems. 8: 464-9. PMID 22027812 DOI: 10.1039/C1Mb05195D  0.438
2011 Austin RS, Vidaurre D, Stamatiou G, Breit R, Provart NJ, Bonetta D, Zhang J, Fung P, Gong Y, Wang PW, McCourt P, Guttman DS. Next-generation mapping of Arabidopsis genes. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 67: 715-25. PMID 21518053 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-313X.2011.04619.X  0.705
2010 Tsuchiya Y, Vidaurre D, Toh S, Hanada A, Nambara E, Kamiya Y, Yamaguchi S, McCourt P. A small-molecule screen identifies new functions for the plant hormone strigolactone. Nature Chemical Biology. 6: 741-9. PMID 20818397 DOI: 10.1038/Nchembio.435  0.451
2010 Lumba S, Cutler S, McCourt P. Plant nuclear hormone receptors: a role for small molecules in protein-protein interactions. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology. 26: 445-69. PMID 20590451 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Cellbio-100109-103956  0.699
2010 McCourt P, Benning C. Arabidopsis: a rich harvest 10 years after completion of the genome sequence. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 61: 905-8. PMID 20409265 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-313X.2010.04176.X  0.498
2010 McCourt P, Desveaux D. Plant chemical genetics. The New Phytologist. 185: 15-26. PMID 19825020 DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-8137.2009.03045.X  0.394
2009 Tsuchiya Y, McCourt P. Strigolactones: a new hormone with a past. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 12: 556-61. PMID 19726222 DOI: 10.1016/J.Pbi.2009.07.018  0.472
2009 Park SY, Fung P, Nishimura N, Jensen DR, Fujii H, Zhao Y, Lumba S, Santiago J, Rodrigues A, Chow TF, Alfred SE, Bonetta D, Finkelstein R, Provart NJ, Desveaux D, ... ... McCourt P, et al. Abscisic acid inhibits type 2C protein phosphatases via the PYR/PYL family of START proteins. Science (New York, N.Y.). 324: 1068-71. PMID 19407142 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1173041  0.755
2009 Yamagishi K, Tatematsu K, Yano R, Preston J, Kitamura S, Takahashi H, McCourt P, Kamiya Y, Nambara E. CHOTTO1, a double AP2 domain protein of Arabidopsis thaliana, regulates germination and seedling growth under excess supply of glucose and nitrate. Plant & Cell Physiology. 50: 330-40. PMID 19109301 DOI: 10.1093/Pcp/Pcn201  0.418
2009 Northey J, McCourt P. Using reverse genetics to develop small knockout collections for specific biological questions. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 495: 1-10. PMID 19085154 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-477-3_1  0.313
2009 Wan J, Griffiths R, Ying J, McCourt P, Huang Y. Development of Drought-Tolerant Canola (Brassica napus L.) through Genetic Modulation of ABA-mediated Stomatal Responses Crop Science. 49: 1539-1554. DOI: 10.2135/Cropsci2008.09.0568  0.437
2008 McCourt P, Creelman R. The ABA receptors -- we report you decide. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 11: 474-8. PMID 18774332 DOI: 10.1016/J.Pbi.2008.06.014  0.395
2008 Goritschnig S, Weihmann T, Zhang Y, Fobert P, McCourt P, Li X. A novel role for protein farnesylation in plant innate immunity. Plant Physiology. 148: 348-57. PMID 18599656 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.108.117663  0.468
2008 Delmas F, Séveno M, Northey JG, Hernould M, Lerouge P, McCourt P, Chevalier C. The synthesis of the rhamnogalacturonan II component 3-deoxy-D-manno-2-octulosonic acid (Kdo) is required for pollen tube growth and elongation. Journal of Experimental Botany. 59: 2639-47. PMID 18503041 DOI: 10.1093/Jxb/Ern118  0.358
2006 Burns AR, Kwok TC, Howard A, Houston E, Johanson K, Chan A, Cutler SR, McCourt P, Roy PJ. High-throughput screening of small molecules for bioactivity and target identification in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature Protocols. 1: 1906-14. PMID 17487175 DOI: 10.1038/Nprot.2006.283  0.62
2006 Chow B, McCourt P. Plant hormone receptors: Perception is everything Genes and Development. 20: 1998-2008. PMID 16882977 DOI: 10.1101/Gad.1432806  0.439
2006 Kwok TC, Ricker N, Fraser R, Chan AW, Burns A, Stanley EF, McCourt P, Cutler SR, Roy PJ. A small-molecule screen in C. elegans yields a new calcium channel antagonist. Nature. 441: 91-5. PMID 16672971 DOI: 10.1038/Nature04657  0.634
2005 Bonetta D, McCourt P. Plant biology: a receptor for gibberellin. Nature. 437: 627-8. PMID 16193028 DOI: 10.1038/437627A  0.751
2005 Lumba S, McCourt P. Preventing leaf identity theft with hormones. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 8: 501-5. PMID 16054431 DOI: 10.1016/J.Pbi.2005.07.015  0.461
2005 Wang Y, Ying J, Kuzma M, Chalifoux M, Sample A, McArthur C, Uchacz T, Sarvas C, Wan J, Dennis DT, McCourt P, Huang Y. Molecular tailoring of farnesylation for plant drought tolerance and yield protection. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 43: 413-24. PMID 16045476 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-313X.2005.02463.X  0.437
2005 Cutler S, McCourt P. Dude, where's my phenotype? Dealing with redundancy in signaling networks. Plant Physiology. 138: 558-9. PMID 15955914 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.104.900152  0.69
2005 McCourt P, Lumba S, Tsuchiya Y, Gazzarrini S. Crosstalk and abscisic acid: the roles of terpenoid hormones in coordinating development Physiologia Plantarum. 123: 147-152. DOI: 10.1111/J.1399-3054.2005.00457.X  0.476
2004 Gazzarrini S, Tsuchiya Y, Lumba S, Okamoto M, McCourt P. The transcription factor FUSCA3 controls developmental timing in Arabidopsis through the hormones gibberellin and abscisic acid. Developmental Cell. 7: 373-85. PMID 15363412 DOI: 10.1016/J.Devcel.2004.06.017  0.374
2004 Provart NJ, McCourt P. Systems approaches to understanding cell signaling and gene regulation. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 7: 605-9. PMID 15337105 DOI: 10.1016/J.Pbi.2004.07.001  0.437
2004 Tsuchiya Y, Nambara E, Naito S, McCourt P. The FUS3 transcription factor functions through the epidermal regulator TTG1 during embryogenesis in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 37: 73-81. PMID 14675433 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-313X.2003.01939.X  0.396
2004 Chow B, McCourt P. Hormone signalling from a developmental context Journal of Experimental Botany. 55: 247-251. PMID 14673027 DOI: 10.1093/Jxb/Erh032  0.423
2003 Gazzarrini S, McCourt P. Cross-talk in plant hormone signalling: what Arabidopsis mutants are telling us. Annals of Botany. 91: 605-12. PMID 12714359 DOI: 10.1093/Aob/Mcg064  0.481
2003 Brady SM, Sarkar SF, Bonetta D, McCourt P. The ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE 3 (ABI3) gene is modulated by farnesylation and is involved in auxin signaling and lateral root development in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 34: 67-75. PMID 12662310 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-313X.2003.01707.X  0.79
2003 Kushiro T, Nambara E, McCourt P. Hormone evolution: The key to signalling. Nature. 422: 122. PMID 12634761 DOI: 10.1038/422122A  0.438
2003 Brady SM, McCourt P. Hormone Cross-Talk in Seed Dormancy Journal of Plant Growth Regulation. 22: 25-31. DOI: 10.1007/S00344-003-0018-7  0.669
2002 Nambara E, Suzuki M, Abrams S, McCarty DR, Kamiya Y, McCourt P. A screen for genes that function in abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. 161: 1247-55. PMID 12136027  0.432
2001 McCourt P. Plant hormone signaling: getting the message out. Molecular Cell. 8: 1157-8. PMID 11885595 DOI: 10.1016/S1097-2765(01)00420-8  0.5
2001 Gazzarrini S, McCourt P. Genetic interactions between ABA, ethylene and sugar signaling pathways. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 4: 387-91. PMID 11597495 DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(00)00190-4  0.483
2001 Steber CM, McCourt P. A role for brassinosteroids in germination in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 125: 763-9. PMID 11161033 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.125.2.763  0.712
2000 Bonetta D, Bayliss P, Sun S, Sage T, McCourt P. Farnesylation is involved in meristem organization in Arabidopsis. Planta. 211: 182-90. PMID 10945212 DOI: 10.1007/S004250000283  0.749
2000 Ghassemian M, Nambara E, Cutler S, Kawaide H, Kamiya Y, McCourt P. Regulation of abscisic acid signaling by the ethylene response pathway in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 12: 1117-26. PMID 10899978 DOI: 10.1105/Tpc.12.7.1117  0.73
1999 McCourt P. GENETIC ANALYSIS OF HORMONE SIGNALING. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology. 50: 219-243. PMID 15012209 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.arplant.50.1.219  0.396
1999 Nambara E, McCourt P. Protein farnesylation in plants: a greasy tale. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 2: 388-92. PMID 10508754 DOI: 10.1016/S1369-5266(99)00010-2  0.497
1998 Pei ZM, Ghassemian M, Kwak CM, McCourt P, Schroeder JI. Role of farnesyltransferase in ABA regulation of guard cell anion channels and plant water loss. Science (New York, N.Y.). 282: 287-90. PMID 9765153 DOI: 10.1126/Science.282.5387.287  0.419
1998 Bonetta D, McCourt P. Genetic analysis of ABA signal transduction pathways Trends in Plant Science. 3: 231-235. DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(98)01241-2  0.761
1996 Cutler S, Ghassemian M, Bonetta D, Cooney S, McCourt P. A protein farnesyl transferase involved in abscisic acid signal transduction in Arabidopsis. Science (New York, N.Y.). 273: 1239-41. PMID 8703061 DOI: 10.1126/Science.273.5279.1239  0.792
1994 Keith K, Kraml M, Dengler NG, McCourt P. fusca3: A Heterochronic Mutation Affecting Late Embryo Development in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 6: 589-600. PMID 12244252 DOI: 10.1105/Tpc.6.5.589  0.403
1994 Nambara E, Keith K, McCourt P, Naito S. Isolation of an internal deletion mutant of the Arabidopsis thaliana ABI3 gene. Plant & Cell Physiology. 35: 509-13. PMID 8055176 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Pcp.A078623  0.412
1992 Chevalier C, Yamaguchi J, McCourt P. Nucleotide Sequence of a cDNA for Catalase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiology. 99: 1726-8. PMID 16669103 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.99.4.1726  0.445
1992 Nambara E, Naito S, McCourt P. A mutant of Arabidopsis which is defective in seed development and storage protein accumulation is a new abi3 allele The Plant Journal. 2: 435-441. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-313X.1992.00435.X  0.438
1991 Nambara E, Akazawa T, McCourt P. Effects of the gibberellin biosynthetic inhibitor uniconazol on mutants of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 97: 736-8. PMID 16668460 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.97.2.736  0.351
1990 Hugly S, McCourt P, Browse J, Patterson GW, Somerville C. A chilling sensitive mutant of Arabidopsis with altered steryl-ester metabolism. Plant Physiology. 93: 1053-62. PMID 16667557 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.93.3.1053  0.769
1987 McCourt P, Kunst L, Browse J, Somerville CR. The effects of reduced amounts of lipid unsaturation on chloroplast ultrastructure and photosynthesis in a mutant of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. 84: 353-60. PMID 16665443 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.84.2.353  0.713
1986 Browse J, McCourt P, Somerville C. A mutant of Arabidopsis deficient in c(18:3) and c(16:3) leaf lipids. Plant Physiology. 81: 859-64. PMID 16664915 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.81.3.859  0.572
1986 Browse J, McCourt PJ, Somerville CR. Fatty acid composition of leaf lipids determined after combined digestion and fatty acid methyl ester formation from fresh tissue. Analytical Biochemistry. 152: 141-5. PMID 3954036 DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(86)90132-6  0.441
1985 Browse J, McCourt P, Somerville CR. A mutant of Arabidopsis lacking a chloroplast-specific lipid. Science (New York, N.Y.). 227: 763-5. PMID 17796728 DOI: 10.1126/Science.227.4688.763  0.552
1985 McCourt P, Browse J, Watson J, Arntzen CJ, Somerville CR. Analysis of Photosynthetic Antenna Function in a Mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Lacking trans-Hexadecenoic Acid. Plant Physiology. 78: 853-8. PMID 16664340 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.78.4.853  0.567
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