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2022, 'How Characean algae take up needed and excrete unwanted ions – An overview explaining how insights from electrophysiology are useful to understand the ecology of aquatic macrophytes', Aquatic Botany, 181, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2022.103542
,2022, 'The molecular identity of the characean OH− transporter: a candidate related to the SLC4 family of animal pH regulators', Protoplasma, 259, pp. 615 - 626, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00709-021-01677-3
,2021, 'Protein assemblages and tight curves in the plasma membranes of photosynthetic eukaryotes', Journal of Plant Physiology, 256, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jplph.2020.153330
,2019, 'Chara braunii genome: a new resource for plant electrophysiology', Biophysical Reviews, 11, pp. 235 - 239, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12551-019-00512-7
,2019, 'Modeling the action potential in characeae Nitellopsis obtusa: Effect of saline stress', Frontiers in Plant Science, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2019.00082
,2018, 'The Chara Genome: Secondary Complexity and Implications for Plant Terrestrialization', Cell, 174, pp. 448 - 464.e24, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2018.06.033
,2018, 'Surface pH changes suggest a role for H+/OH− channels in salinity response of Chara australis', Protoplasma, 255, pp. 851 - 862, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00709-017-1191-z
,2018, 'The role of H+/OH− channels in saline pathology of Chara australis: brief history', Botany Letters, 165, pp. 45 - 54, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2017.1356745
,2018, 'Towards an integrated understanding of charophyte biology and paleobiology', BOTANY LETTERS, 165, pp. 7 - 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23818107.2017.1415819
,2017, 'Editorial: Salinity tolerance in plants: Mechanisms and regulation of ion transport', Frontiers in Plant Science, 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.01795
,2017, 'Re-modeling Chara action potential: II. The action potential form under salinity stress', AIMS Biophysics, 4, pp. 298 - 315, http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/biophy.2017.2.298
,2016, 'Multi-scale characean experimental system: From electrophysiology of membrane transporters to cell-to-cell connectivity, cytoplasmic streaming and auxin metabolism', Frontiers in Plant Science, 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2016.01052
,2016, 'Re-modeling Chara action potential: I. from Thiel model of Ca2+transient to action potential form', AIMS Biophysics, http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/biophy.2016.3.431
,2015, 'Salt tolerance at single cell level in giant-celled characeae', Frontiers in Plant Science, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2015.00226
,2015, 'Circadian changes in endogenous concentrations of indole-3-acetic acid, melatonin, serotonin, abscisic acid and jasmonic acid in Characeae (Chara australis Brown)', Plant Signaling and Behavior, 10, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15592324.2015.1082697
,2015, 'Norman Alan Walker 1929–2013', Historical Records of Australian Science, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/HR15004
,2015, 'Salinity-Induced Noise in Membrane Potential of Characeae Chara australis: Effect of Exogenous Melatonin', Journal of Membrane Biology, 248, pp. 93 - 102, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00232-014-9746-9
,2014, 'A study of the native cell wall structures of the marine alga Ventricaria ventricosa (Siphonocladales, Chlorophyceae) using atomic force microscopy', Microscopy, 63, pp. 131 - 140, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jmicro/dft083
,2014, 'Formation of extracellular sulphated polysaccharide mucilage on the salt tolerant Characeae', International Review of Hydrobiology, 99, pp. 300 - 311, http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/iroh.201301666
,2013, 'Exogenous melatonin affects photosynthesis in characeae Chara australis', Plant Signaling and Behavior, 8, pp. e23279-1 - e23279-5, http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/psb.23279
,2012, 'Zinc ions block H+/OH- channels in Chara Australis', Plant, Cell & Environment, 35, pp. 1380 - 1392, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2012.02496.x
,2009, 'Membrane potential fluctuations in Chara australis: the characteristic signature of high external sodium. European', European Biophysics Journal With Biophysics Letters, 39, pp. 167 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00249-009-0485-2
,2009, 'The role of H+/OH- channels in the salt stress response of chara australis', Journal of Membrane Biology, 230, pp. 21 - 34
,2008, 'Mechano-perception in Chara cells: The influence of salinity and calcium on touch-activated receptor potentials, action potentials and ion transport', Plant Cell and Environment, 31, pp. 1575 - 1591
,2008, 'Transport systems of Ventricaria Ventricosa: Asymmetry of the hyper- and hypotonic regulation mechanism', Journal of Membrane Biology, 225, pp. 13 - 25
,2007, 'Mitochondrial sequestration of BCECF after ester loading in the giant alga Chara australis', Protoplasma, 232, pp. 131 - 136
,2007, 'Modelling ion transporters at the time of hypertonic regulation in Lamprothamnium succinctum.', Charophytes, 1, pp. 28 - 47
,2006, 'Electrophysiology of turgor regulation in marine siphonous green alagae', Journal of Membrane Biology, 211, pp. 1 - 14
,2006, 'Polymer nanoscale morphology in chara australis Brown cell walls studied by advanced solid state techniques', Cryptogamie Algologie, 27, pp. 391 - 401
,2006, 'The characteristics of Ca++-activated Cl- channels of the salt-tolerant charophyte Lamprothamnium', Plant Cell and Environment, 29, pp. 764 - 777
,2006, 'The electrophysiology of salt tolerance in charophytes', Cryptogamie Algologie, 27, pp. 403 - 417
,2004, 'When is a cell not a cell? A theory relating coenocytic structure tothe unusual electrophysiology of Ventricaria ventricosa (Valoniaventricosa)', Protoplasma, 223, pp. 79 - 91
,2002, 'Mechanosensory ion channels in charophyte cells: the response to touch and salinity stress', European Biophysics Journal With Biophysics Letters, 31, pp. 341 - 355
,2002, 'The transport systems of Ventricaria Ventricosa: hypnotic and hypertonic Turgor regulation', Journal of Membrane Biology, 190, pp. 43 - 56
,2001, 'Mechanosensory ion channels in Chara: The influence of cell turgor pressure on touch-activated receptor potentials and action potentials', Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 28, pp. 551 - 566, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pp01035
,2001, 'Modeling the current-voltage characteristics of charophyte membranes III. K+ state of Lamprothamnium', Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 28, pp. 541 - 550, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/pp01032
,2001, 'Modeling the current-voltage characteristics of charophyte membranes. II. The effect of salinity on membranes of Lamprothamnium papulosum', Journal of Membrane Biology, 181, pp. 77 - 89, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/PL00020977
,2001, 'Oscillations in proton transport revealed simultaneous measurement of net current and net proton fluxes from isolated root protoplasts.', Australian Journal of Plant Physiology, 28, pp. 591 - 604
,1999, 'Ecophysiology of the hypotonic response in the salt-tolerant charophyte alga Lamprothamnium papulosum', Plant, Cell and Environment, 22, pp. 333 - 346, http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-3040.1999.00414.x
,1999, 'Dual turgor regulation response to hypotonic stree in `Lamprothamnium papulosum`', Plant Cell and Environment
,1999, 'The effect of an extracellular mucilage on the response to osmotic shock in the Charophyte Algae `Lamprothamnium papulosum`', Journal of Membrane Biology, 170, pp. 229 - 242
,1999, 'Transport systems of Ventricaria ventricosa: I/V analysis of both membranes in series as a function of [K+] (o)', Journal of Membrane Biology, 171, pp. 63 - 73
,1997, 'Perfusion of charophyte cells: A critical analysis of the method', Journal of Experimental Botany, 48, pp. 157 - 172, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jxb/48.1.157
,1997, 'The electrophysiology of plasmolysed cells of Chara australis', Journal of Experimental Botany, pp. 1383 - 1392
,1996, 'Modelling the current-voltage characteristics of chara membranes: 1 The effect of ATP removal and zero turgor', Journal of Membrane Biology, 149, pp. 89 - 101
,1996, 'Turgor regulation in Lamprothamnium papulosim: I, I/V analysis and pharmacological dissection of the hyptonic effect', Plant Cell and Environment, 19, pp. 837 - 847
,1993, 'The proton pump, high pH channels, and excitation: voltage clamp studies of intact and perfused cells of Nitellopsis obtusa', Protoplasma, 175, pp. 144 - 152, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01385013
,1992, 'Chara plasmalemma at high ph: Voltage dependence of the conductance at rest and during excitation', The Journal of Membrane Biology, 125, pp. 25 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00235795
,1992, 'Chara plasmalemma at high pH: Voltage dependence of the conductance at rest and during excitation', Journal of Membrane Biology, 125, pp. 25 - 39, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00235795
,1991, 'Reassertion of morphology and physiology in cytoplasm-enriched fragments of Nitella', Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences - Serie III, 313, pp. 265 - 271
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