Edner, C., Li, J., Albrecht, T., Mahlow, S., Hejazi, M., Hussain, H., Kaplan, F., Guy, C., Smith, S. M., Steup, M., and Ritte, G. (2007) Glucan, Water Dikinase Activity Stimulates Breakdown of Starch Granules by Plastidial ß-Amylases. Plant Physiol, 145, 17-28

Pracharoenwattana I, Cornah JE and Smith SM (2007) Peroxisomal malate dehydrogenase functions in fatty acid beta-oxidation but not the glyoxylate cycle. Plant J, 50, 381-390.

Zeeman SC, Smith SM and Smith AM (2007) The diurnal metabolism of leaf starch. Biochem J. 401:13-28.

Footitt S, Cornah JE, Pracharoenwattana I, Bryce JH, Smith SM (2007) The Arabidopsis 3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase-2 (kat2-1) mutant exhibits increased flowering but reduced reproductive success. J. Exp. Bot. in press.

Baker A, Graham IA, Holdsworth M, Smith SM, Theodoulou FL. (2006) Chewing the fat: beta-oxidation in signalling and development. Trends Plant Sci. 11, 124-132

Sundaramoorthy R, Micossi E, Alphey MS, Germain V, Bryce JH, Smith SM, Leonard GA, Hunter WN. (2006) The Crystal Structure of a Plant 3-Ketoacyl-CoA Thiolase Reveals the Potential for Redox Control of Peroxisomal Fatty Acid beta-Oxidation. J. Mol. Biol. 359: 347-57.

Niittyl T, Comparot-Moss S, Lue W-L, Messerli G, Trevisan M, Seymour MDJ, Gatehouse JA, Villadsen D, Smith SM, Chen J, Zeeman SC, and Smith AM (2006) Similar protein phosphatases control starch metabolism in plants and glycogen metabolism in mammals. J. Biol. Chem., 281:11815-8.

Delatte T, Umhang M, Trevisan M, Eicke S, Thorneycroft D, Smith SM, and Zeeman SC (2006) Evidence for distinct mechanisms of starch granule breakdown in plants. J. Biol. Chem., 281:12050-9.

Kunze M, Pracharoenwattana I, Smith, SM and Hartig, A (2006) A central role for the peroxisomal membrane in glyoxylate cycle function. Biochim Biophys Acta, 1673,1441-1452.

Pracharoenwattana I, Cornah JE and Smith SM (2005) Peroxisomal citrate synthase catalyses an essential step in the respiration of fatty acids during germination of Arabidopsis seeds and is required to break dormancy. Plant Cell, 17, 2037-2048.

Smith AM, Zeeman SC and Smith SM (2005). Starch breakdown. Annu. Rev. Plant Biology 56: 73-98.

Yu TS, Zeeman SC, Thorneycroft D, Fulton DC, Lue WL, Hegemann B, Tung SY, Umemoto T, Chapple A, Tsai DL, Dunstan H, Wang SM, Smith AM, Chen JC and Smith SM. (2005) Chloroplast alpha-amylase is not required for breakdown of transitory starch in Arabidopsis leaves. J. Biol. Chem, 280, 9773-9779.

Cornah JC, Germain V, Ward JL, Beale MH and Smith SM (2004) Lipid utilisation, gluconeogenesis and seedling growth in Arabidopsis mutants lacking glyoxylate cycle enzyme malate synthase. J Biol Chem 279, 42916-42923.

Villadsen D and Smith, S.M. (2004) Identification of more than 200 glucose-responsive genes in Arabidopsis seedlings, none of which responds to 3-O-methylglucose or 6-deoxyglucose. Plant Mol. Biol. 55, 467-477.

Smith SM, Fulton DC, Chia T, Thorneycroft T, Chapple A, Dunstan H, Hylton C, Zeeman SC and Smith AM. (2004) Diurnal changes in the transcriptome encoding enzymes of starch metabolism provide evidence for both transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of starch metabolism in Arabidopsis leaves.  Plant Physiol, 136, 2687-2699.

Zeeman, SC, Thorneycroft, D, Schupp N, Chapple, A., Weck, M., Dunstan, H., Smith, AM. and Smith, S.M. (2004) Chloroplastic starch phosphorylase is not required for transitory starch degradation in Arabidopsis leaves but has a role in the tolerance of abiotic stress. Plant Physiol, 135, 849-858.

Chia, T., Thorneycroft, D., Zeeman S.C., Smith, S.M. and Smith, A.M. (2004) A cytosolic glucosyltransferase is required for conversion of starch to sucrose in Arabidopsis leaves at night. Plant J 37, 853-863.

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