Plants interact symbiotically with soil microbes to acquire N and P from the environment. Our research is aimed at understanding the molecular mechanisms the plant host uses to accommodate N-fixing soil bacteria called rhizobia and P-acquiring arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi.

1998-2003 PhD University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

1993-1997 MSc University of Western Ontario, London, Canada

1989-1993 BSc Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

   

2017-present CEPAMS, Institute of Plant Physiology & Ecology, CAS, Principle Invistigator, Shanghai, China

2010-2017 John Innes Centre, Group Leader, Norwich, UK

2006-2009 Postdoc,The Noble Institute, Oklahoma, USA

2003-2006 Postdoc, SCPFRC, London, Canada

1.       Murray JD, Karas BJ, Sato S, Tabata S, Amyot L, and Szczyglowski K (2007). A cytokinin perception mutant colonized by rhizobium in the absence of nodule organogenesis. Science 315:101-104.

 

2.       Murray JD, Muni RRD, Torres-Jerez I, Tang Y, Allen S, Andriankaja M, Li G, Laxmi A, Cheng X, Wen J, Vaughan D, Schultze M, Sun J, Charpentier M, Oldroyd G, Tadege M, Ratet P, Mysore KS, Chen R, Udvardi MK (2011) Vapyrin, a gene essential for intracellular progression of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis, is also essential for infection by rhizobia in the nodule symbiosis of Medicago truncatula. Plant Journal 65:244–252.

 

3.       Breakspear A, Liu C, Roy S, Stacey N, Rogers C, Trick M, Morieri G, Mysore KS, Wen J, Oldroyd GED, Downie JA, and Murray JD (2014) The root hair ‘Infectome’ of Medicago truncatula uncovers changes in cell cycle genes and reveals a requirement for auxin signalling in rhizobial infection. Plant Cell 26:4680-701.

 

4.       Roy S, Robson F, Lilley J, Cheng X, Wen J, Walker S, Sun J, Cousins D, Bone C, Bennett MJ., Downie JA, Swarup R, Oldroyd G, Murray JD. (2017) MtLAX2, an orthologue of the Arabidopsis auxin influx transporter AUX1, is required for nodule organogenesis. 174: 326–338.