Research Publications

PUBLICATIONS

(1)    John P Moore, Kim L Westall, Neil Ravenscroft, Jill M Farrant, George G Lindsey and Wolf F Brandt. 2005. The predominant polyphenol in the leaves of the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolius, 3, 4, 5 tri-O-galloylquinic acid, protects membranes against desiccation and free radical induced oxidation. Biochemical Journal. 385, 301-308.  

(2)    John P Moore, Jill M Farrant, George G Lindsey and Wolf F Brandt. 2005. The South African and Namibian populations of the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolius are genetically distinct and display variation in their galloylquinic acid composition. Journal of Chemical Ecology. 31(12), 2823-2834.  

(3)    John P Moore, Eric Nguema-Ona, Laurence Chevalier, George G Lindsey, Wolf F Brandt, Patrice Lerouge, Jill M Farrant and Azeddine Driouich. 2006. Response of the leaf cell wall to desiccation in the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolius. Plant Physiology. 141, 651-662.

(4)    John P Moore, Jill M Farrant, George G Lindsey and Wolf F Brandt. 2007. An overview of the biology of the desiccation tolerant resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia. Annals of Botany. 99, 211-217.  

(5)    John P Moore, Meredith Hearshaw, Neil Ravenscroft, Jill M Farrant, George G Lindsey and Wolf F Brandt. 2007. Desiccation-induced ultrastructural and biochemical changes in the leaves of the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia. Australian Journal of Botany. 55(4), 482-491.  

(6)    John P Moore, Jill M Farrant and Azeddine Driouich. 2008. A role for pectin-associated arabinans in maintaining the flexibility of the plant cell wall during water deficit stress. Plant Signaling and Behavior. 3(2), 102-104.

(7)    John P Moore, Mäite Vicré-Gibouin, Jill M Farrant and Azeddine Driouich. 2008. Adaptations of higher plant cell walls to water loss: drought versus desiccation. Physiologia Plantarum 134(2), 237-245. (Journal Front Cover)

(8) John P Moore, Benoit Divol, Philip R Young, Hélène H Nieuwoudt, Viresh P Ramburan, Maret du Toit, Florian F Bauer and Melané A Vivier. 2008. Wine Biotechnology in South Africa: Towards a systems approach to wine science. Biotechnology Journal. (Invited Special Issue) 3,1355-1367.

(9)    John P Moore, Ngoc Tuan Le, Wolf F Brandt, Azeddine Driouich, and Jill M Farrant. 2009.Towards a systems-based understanding of plant desiccation tolerance. Trends in Plant Science 14(2), 110-117.

(10) John P Moore, Miranda Waldron, George G Lindsey, Jill M Farrant and Wolf F. Brandt. 2011. Surface microbiota on the leaves and reproductive structures of the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia. South African Journal of Botany 77(2), 485-491.

(11)      Arox Kamng’ona, John P. Moore, George G. Lindsey and Wolf F. Brandt. 2011. Inhibition of HIV-1 and MMLV reverse transcriptases by the major polyphenol (3, 4, 5 tri-O-galloylquinic acid) of the resurrection plant Myrothamnus flabellifolia. Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry 26(6), 843-853.

(12) Jill M. Farrant and John P. Moore. 2011. Programming desiccation-tolerance: from plants to seeds to resurrection plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 14(3), pp. 340-345.  

(13) Eric Nguema-Ona, John P. Moore, Alexandra Fagerstrom, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Annatjie Hugo and Melané A Vivier. 2012. Profiling the main cell wall polysaccharides of tobacco leaves using high-throughput and fractionation techniques. Carbohydrate Polymers 88(3), pp. 939-949.

(14) Eric E. Nguema-Ona, John P. Moore, Alexandra Fagerstrom, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Annatjie Hugo and Melané A Vivier. 2013. Overexpression of the grapevine PGIP1 in tobacco leaves results in an altered arabinoxyloglucan composition in the absence of fungal infection. BMC Plant Biology 13(46), 1-15.

(15) John P Moore, Eric Nguema-Ona, Maite Vicré-Gibouin, Iben Sorensen, William GT Willats, Azeddine Driouich and Jill M. Farrant. 2013. Arabinose-rich polymers as an evolutionary strategy to plasticize resurrection plant cell walls against desiccation. Planta 237(3), 739-754.

(16) John P. Moore, Eric Nguema-Ona, Alexandra Fagerstrom, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Annatjie Hugo and Melané A Vivier. 2014. Profiling the main cell wall polysaccharides of grapevine leaves using high-throughput and fractionation techniques. Carbohydrate Polymers 99, 190-198.

(17) Barbara Plancot, Gaëtan Vanier, Florian Maire, Muriel Bardor, Patrice  Lerouge, Jill. M. Farrant, John P. Moore, Azeddine Driouich, Maite Vicré-Gibouin, Carlos Afonso, and Corinne Loutelier-Bourhis. 2014. Structural characterization of arabinoxylans from two African plant species Eragrostis nindensis and Eragrostis tef using various mass spectrometric methods. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 28 (8), 908-916.

(18) John P. Moore, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats and Melané A Vivier. 2014. Pectic-β(1,4)-galactan, extensin and arabinogalactan-protein epitopes differentiate ripening stages in wine and table grape cell walls. Annals of Botany (Invited Special Issue on Plant Cell Walls), 114(6), 1279-1294.

(19) Anscha J.J. Zietsman, John P. Moore, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Johan Trygg and Melané A Vivier. 2015. Following the compositional changes of fresh grape skin cell walls during the fermentation process in the presence and absence of maceration enzymes. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 63(10), 2798-2810.

(20) Yu Gao, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Melané A Vivier and John P. Moore. 2015. Dissecting the polysaccharide-rich grape cell wall matrix during the winemaking process using high-throughput and fractionation methods. Carbohydrate Polymers 133, 567-577.

(21) Anscha J. J. Zietsman, John P. Moore, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Melané A. Vivier. 2015. Profiling the hydrolysis of isolated grape berry skin cell walls by purified enzymes. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 63, 8267−8274

(22) John P. Moore and Jill M. Farrant. 2015. Editorial: Current advances and challenges in understanding plant desiccation tolerance. Frontiers in Plant Science  6,78

(23) John P. Moore, Song-Lei Zhang, Helene Nieuwoudt, Benoit Divol, Johan Trygg and Florian F. Bauer. 2015. A multivariate approach using attenuated total reflectance mid-infrared spectroscopy to measure the surface mannoproteins and β-glucans of yeast cell walls during wine fermentations. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 63 (45), 10054-10063

(24) Maxime Gotté,, Magalie Bénard, Marie-Christine Kiefer-Meyer, Rim Jaber, John P. Moore, Maïté Vicré-Gibouin, Azeddine Driouich. 2016. Endoplasmic reticulum body–related gene expression in different root zones of Arabidopsis isolated by laser-assisted microdissection. The Plant Genome Volume 9. doi: 10.3835/plantgenome2015.08.0076

(25) Yu Gao, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Melané A Vivier and John P. Moore. 2016. Effect of intra-vineyard ripeness variation on the efficiency of commercial enzymes on berry cell wall deconstruction under winemaking conditions Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry DOI: 10.1021/acs.jafc.6b00917

(26) Yu Gao, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Melané A Vivier and John P. Moore. 2016. Dissecting the polysaccharide-rich grape cell wall matrix using recombinant pectinases during winemaking. Carbohydrate Polymers pp. 510-519 DOI 10.1016/

(27) Florent Weiller, John P. Moore, Philip Young, Azeddine Driouich, Melané A Vivier. 2017. The Brassicaceae species Heliophila coronopifolia produces root border-like cells that protect the root tip and secrete defensin peptides. Annals of Botany (Invited Special Issue on Plant Immunity) DOI 10.1093/aob/mcw141

(28) Anscha J. J. Zietsman, John P. Moore, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, Melané A. Vivier. 2017. Combining hydrothermal pretreatment with enzymes de-pectinates and exposes the inner most xyloglucan-rich hemicellulose layers of wine grape pomace. Food Chemistry 232, 340-350.

(29) Gonzalo Garrido-Bañuelos, Astrid Buica, Julia Schückel, Anscha J.J. Zietsman, William G.T. Willats, John P. Moore, Wessel J. Du Toit. 2018. Investigating the relationship between grape cell wall polysaccharide composition and the extractability of phenolic compounds into Shiraz wines. Part I: vintage and ripeness effects, Food Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.10.134.

(30) Gonzalo Garrido-Bañuelos, Astrid Buica, Julia Schückel, Anscha J.J. Zietsman, William G.T. Willats, John P. Moore, Wessel J. Du Toit. 2018. Investigating the relationship between cell wall polysaccharide composition and the extractability of grape phenolic compounds into Shiraz wines. Part II: extractability during fermentation into wines made from grapes of different ripeness levels, Food Chemistry https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodchem.2018.10.136.

(31) Coralie Chuberre, Barbara Plancot, Azeddine Driouich, John P. Moore, Muriel Bardor, Bruno Gugi, Maïté Vicré. Plant immunity is compartmentalized and specialized in roots. 2018. Frontiers in Plant Science. Manuscript ID: 408311.

(32) Yu Gao, Anscha J. J. Zietsman, Melané A Vivier and John P. Moore. Deconstructing wine grape cell walls with enzymes during winemaking: new insights from glycan microarray technology. 2019. Molecules 24 (1), 165.

(33) Joanne Bentley, John P. Moore, Jill. M. Farrant. Metabolomics as a complement to phylogenetics for assessing intraspecific boundaries in the desiccation-tolerant medicinal shrub Myrothamnus flabellifolia (Myrothamnaceae). 2019. Phytochemistry 159, 127-136.

(34) Joanne Bentley, John P. Moore, Jill M. Farrant. Metabolomic profiling of the desiccation-tolerant medicinal shrub Myrothamnus flabellifolia indicates phenolic variability across its natural habitat: implications for tea and cosmetics production. 2019. Molecules, 24(7), 1240.

(35) Azeddine Driouich, Carine Smith, Marc Ropitaux, Marie Chambard, Isabelle Boulogne, Sophie Bernard, Marie‐Laure Follet‐Gueye, Maïté Vicré, John P. Moore. Root extracellular traps versus neutrophil extracellular traps in host defence, a case of functional convergence? 2019. Biological Reviews. doi: 10.1111/brv.12522

(36) Yu Gao, Jonatan U. Fangel, William G.T. Willats, John P. Moore. Tracking polysaccharides during white winemaking using glycan microarrays reveals glycoprotein-rich sediments. 2019. Food Research International 123, 662-673.

(37) Chih-Ta Lin, Tao Xu, Shi-Lai Xing, Li Zhao, Run-Ze Sun, Yang Liu, John P. Moore, Xin Deng. Weighted Correlation Network Analysis (WGCNA) reveals the hub role of protein ubiquitination in the acquisition of desiccation tolerance in Boea hygrometrica. 2019. Plant and Cell Physiology https://academic.oup.com/pcp/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/pcp/pcz160/5549724

BOOK CHAPTERS

(1)    John P Moore and Benoit Divol. 2010. Tracking the careers of grape and wine polymers using biotechnology and systems biology. In Biotechnology in Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals (Eds. D, Bagchi; F, Lau and D, Ghosh) Taylor and Francis Publishers, USA pp. 389-406.

(2)    John P Moore and Jill M Farrant. 2012. A systems-based molecular biology analysis of resurrection plants for crop and forage improvement. In "Improving Crop Resistance to Abiotic Stress: Omics Approaches " (Eds. N, Tuteja; S, Gill; A, Tiburcio; R, Tuteja) Wiley, Germany pp. 399-41