Following is a list of publications relating to Medicago species including, but not limited, to M. sativa and M. truncatula.

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• Asirvatham, V.S., Watson, B.S., and Sumner, L.W. (2002). Analytical and biological variances associated with proteomic studies of Medicago truncatula by 2-DE. Proteomics, 2002, 2, 960-968
   
• Baggett, B.R., Cooper, J.D., Hogan, E.T., Carper, J., Paiva, N.L., and Smith, J.T. (2002). Profiling isoflavonoids found in legume root extracts using capillary electrophoresis. Electrophoresis 23: 1642-1651.
   
• Ballance, G.M. and Dixon, R.A. (1995). Medicago sativa cDNAs encoding chalcone reductase. Plant Physiology 107: 1027-1028.
   
• Bell, C., Dixon, R.A., Farmer, A.D., Flores, R., Inman, J., Gonzales, R.A., Harrison, M.J., Paiva, N.L., Scott, A.D., Weller, J.W. and May, G.D. (2001). The Medicago genome initiative: a model legume database. Nucleic Acids Research 29: 114- 117.
   
• Blancaflor, E.B. (2002) The cytoskeleton and gravitopism in higher plants. Journal of Plant Growth Regulation 21: 120-136
   
• Blancaflor, E.B., Zhao, L., and Harrison, M.J. (2001). Microtubule organization in root cells of Medicago truncatula during development of an arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis with Glomus versiforme. Protoplasma 217: 154-165.
   
• Blancaflor, E.B., Gilroy S. (2000) Plant cell biology in the new millennium: new tools and new insights. American Journal of Botony 87:1547-1560
   
• Blaylock, L.A., Penmetsa, R.V., Cook, D.R., and Harrison, M.J. (1997) Identification of mycorrhizal mutants of Medicago truncatula, in Radical biology: Advances and perspectives on the function of plant roots, eds. H. Flores, J. Lynch and D. Eissenstat. ASPP, Rockville, Maryland, USA, pp 500-502.
   
• Blount, J.W., Dixon, R.A. and Paiva, N.L. (1993). Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) XVI. Antifungal activity of medicarpin and its biosynthetic precursors; implications for the genetic manipulation of stress metabolites. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 41: 333-349.
   
• Borevitz, J., Xia, Y., Blount, J.W., Dixon, R.A. and Lamb, C. (2001). Activation tagging identifies a conserved MYB regulator of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis. Plant Cell 12: 2383-2393.
   
• Burleigh, Stephen H., and Harrison, M.J. (1999) The down-regulation of Mt4-Like genes by phosphate fertilization occurs systemically and involves phosphate translocation to the shoots. Plant Physiology, 119: 241-248
   
• Burleigh, S.H. and Harrison, M.J. (1998) Mt4, a phosphorus starvation-inducible cDNA from Medicago truncatula, which is down-regulated both by phosphorus fertilization and arbuscular-mycorrhizal colonization, in Phosphorus in Plant Biology: Regulatory Roles in Molecular, Cellular, Organismic, and Ecosystem Processes, eds. J.P. Lynch and J. Diekman, ASPP, Rockville, Maryland, USA, pp 359-360.
   
• Burleigh, S. H and Harrison, M.J. (1998) A cDNA from the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus versiforme with homology to a cruciform DNA binding protein from Ustilago maydis. Mycorrhiza, 7: 301-306
   
• Burleigh, S. H and Harrison, M.J. (1998) Characterization of the Mt4 gene from Medicago truncatula. Gene , 216: 47-53.
   
• Burleigh, S. H and Harrison, M.J. (1998) Expression of phosphate transporters and the phosphate starvation inducible gene, Mt4 in mycorrhizal roots. In: Phosphorus in Plant Biology: Regulatory Roles in Molecular, Cellular, Organismic, and Ecosystem Processes, eds. J.P. Lynch and J. Diekman, ASPP, Rockville, Maryland, USA, pp 261-270.
   
• Burleigh, S. H and Harrison, M.J. (1997) A novel gene whose expression in Medicago truncatula is suppressed in response to colonization by vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and to phosphate nutrition. Plant Molecular Biology, 34: 199-208.
   
• van Buuren, M.L., Trieu, A.T., Blaylock, L.A. and Harrison, M.J. (2000). Isolation of genes induced during arbuscular mycorrhizal associations using a combination of subtractive hybridisation and differential screening. In Current Advances in Mycorrhizae research,. eds. G Podila and D Douds. APS press, St Paul, Minnesota, pp 91-99.
   
• van Buuren, Marianne L., Maldonado-Mendoza, Ignacio E., Trieu, Anthony T., Blaylock, Laura A., and Harrison, Maria J. (1999) Novel genes induced during an arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) symbiosis formed between Medicago truncatula and Glomus versiforme. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 12: 171-181.
   
• Chang-Jun Liu, David Huhman, Lloyd W. Sumner, Richard A. Dixon (2003) Regiospecific hydroxylation of isoflavones by cytochrome P450 81E enzymes from Medicago truncatula, , Plant Journal, submitted
   
• Chen, F., Duran, A.L., Blount, J.W., Sumner. L.W. and Dixon., R.A. (2003). Profiling phenolic metabolites in transgenic alfalfa modified in lignin biosynthesis. Phytochemistry, in press.
   
• Chen, F., Parvathi, K., Blount, J.W. and Dixon, R.A. (2001). Chemical syntheses of caffeoyl and 5-hydroxyconiferyl aldehydes and alcohols for determination of lignin O-methyltransferase activities in dicot and monocot species. Phytochemistry 58: 1035-1042.
   
• Chiou, T.J., Liu, H. and Harrison, M.J. (2001). The spatial expression patterns of a phosphate transporter (MtPT1) from Medicago truncatula indicate a role in phosphate transport at the root/soil interface. Plant Journal 25: 281-293.
   
• Cooper, J.D., Qiu, F. and Paiva, N.L. (2002) Biotransformation of an exogenously supplied isoflavonoid by transgenic tobacco cells expressing alfalfa isoflavone reductase. Plant Cell Reports 20: 876-884.
   
• Collings D.A., Zsuppan G., Allen N.S., and Blancaflor E.B. (2001). Demonstration of prominent actin filaments in the root columella. Planta 212: 392-403.
   
• Dixon, R.A. (2003). Molecular improvement of forages- from genomics to GMOs. In Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf, eds Z-Y Wang and A. Hopkins, Kluwer Academic Publishers, submitted.
   
• Dixon, R.A. and Reddy, M.S.S. (2003). Biosynthesis of monolignols. Genomic and reverse genetic approaches. Phytochemical Reviews, in press.  
   
• Dixon, R.A. and Strack, D. (2003) Phytochemistry meets genome analysis, and beyond ¡K¡K. (editorial). Phytochemistry 62, 815-816
   
• Dixon, R.A. and Sumner, L.W. (2003) Legume natural products. Understanding and manipulating complex pathways for human and animal health. Plant Physiology 131, 878-885
   
• Dixon, R. A., Achnine, L., Kota, P., Liu, C.-J., Reddy, M.K.S. and Wang, L. (2002). The phenylpropanoid pathway and plant defence- a genomics perspective. Molecular Plant Pathology, 3, 371-390.
   
• Dixon, R.A. and Ferreira, D. (2002). Molecules of interest: Genistein. Phytochemistry 60: 205-211.
   
• Dixon, R.A. (2001). Natural products and disease resistance. Nature 411: 843-847.
   
• Dixon, R.A. (2001). Phytochemistry in the genomics and post-genomics eras. Phytochemistry 57: 145-148.
   
• Dixon, R.A., Chen, F., Guo, D., He, X.-Z., Liu, C.-J., Noel, J.P., Parvathi, K., and Zubieta, C. (2001). Properties and metabolic engineering of alfalfa O-methyltransferases of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis. Recent Advances in Phytochemistry 35: 131-151.
   
• Dixon, R.A., Chen, F., Guo, D. and Parvathi, K. (2001). The biosynthesis of monolignols: a "metabolic grid", or independent pathways to guaiacyl and syringyl units? Phytochemistry 57: 1069-1084.
   
• Dixon, R.A. (1999). Isoflavonoids: biochemistry, molecular biology and biological functions. In: Comprehensive Natural Products Chemistry, Vol 1, ed. U Sankawa, Elsevier, pp. 773-823.
   
• Dixon, R.A. (1999). Plant natural products: control of biosynthetic diversity. Current Opinion in Biotechnology 10, 192-1297.
   
• Dixon, R.A., Howles, P.A., Lamb, C., He, Z.-X. and Reddy, J.T. (1999). Prospects for the metabolic engineering of bioactive flavonoids and related phenylpropanoid compounds. In Flavonoids in the Living System, eds. J.A. Manthey and B.S. Buslig, Plenum Press, New York, pp 55-66.
   
• Dixon, R.A. and Steele, C.L. (1999) Flavonoids and isoflavonoids- a gold mine for metabolic engineering. Trends in Plant Science 4, 394-400.
   
• Dixon, R.A., Canovas, P., Guo, Z.-J., He, X.-Z., Lamb, C. and McAlister, F. (1998). Molecular controls for isoflavonoid biosynthesis in relation to plant and human health. Recent Advances in Phytochemistry 34, 133-159.
   
• Dixon, R.A. and Arntzen, C.J. (1997). Transgenic plant technology is entering the era of metabolic engineering. Trends in Biotechnology 15: 441-444.
   
• Dixon, R.A. and Paiva, N.L. (1995). Stress-induced phenylpropanoid metabolism. The Plant Cell 7: 1085-1097.
   
• Dixon, R.A., Harrison, M.J. and Lamb, C.J. (1994). Early events in the activation of plant defense responses. Annual Review of Phytopathology 32: 479-501.
   
• Dixon, R.A., Harrison, M.J. and Paiva, N.L. (1994). The isoflavonoid phytoalexin pathway: from enzymes to genes to transcription factors. Physiologia Plantarum 93: 385-392.
   
• Dixon, R.A., Paiva, N.L. and Harrison, M.J. (1994). Biochemical and molecular analysis of defense responses in legumes: an overview. Proceedings of the 1st European Nitrogen Fixation Conference, eds G.B. Kiss and G. Endre, Officina Press, Szeged, pp 195-198.
   
• Duran, Anthony L., Jian Yang, Lianjiang Wang, Lloyd W. Sumner,  Metabolomics Spectral Formatting, Alignment and Conversion Tools (MSFACTs) , Bioninformatics, in press.
   
• Eujayl, I., Sledge, M.K.,Wang, L.,May, G.D., Chekhovskiy, K., Zwonitzer, J.C. and Mian, M.A.R. (2003). Medicago truncatula EST-SSRs reveal cross-species genetic markers for Medicago spp. and related legumes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics (In press).
   
• Fahrendorf, T., Ni, W., Shorrosh, B.S. and Dixon, R.A. (1995). Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) XIX. Transcriptional activation of oxidative pentose phosphate pathway genes at the onset of the isoflavonoid phytoalexin response. Plant Molecular Biology 28: 885-900.
   
• Fahrendorf, T. and Dixon, R.A. (1993). Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) XVIII: Molecular cloning and expression of the elicitor-inducible cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase cytochrome P450. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 305: 509-515.
   
• Ferrer, J.-L., Jez, J.M., Bowman, M.E., Dixon, R.A. and Noel, J.P. (1999). The structure of chalcone synthase: insight on the molecular basis of polyketide synthesis. Nature Structural Biology 6: 775-784.
   
• Guo, D., Chen, F. and Dixon, R.A. (2002) Monolignol biosynthesis in microsomal preparations from lignifying stems of alfalfa (Medicago sativaL.) Phytochemistry 61, 657-668.
   
• Guo, D., Chen, F., Blount, J., Inoue, K. and Dixon, R.A. (2001). Down-regulation of caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase and caffeoyl CoA 3-O-methyltransferase in transgenic alfalfa. Impacts on lignin structure and implications for the biosynthesis of G- and S lignin. The Plant Cell 13: 73-88.
   
• Guo, D., Chen, F., Wheeler, J., Winder, J., Selman, S., Peterson, M. and Dixon, R.A. (2001). Improvement of in-rumen digestibility of alfalfa forage by genetic manipulation of lignin O-methyltransferases. Transgenic Research 10: 457-464.
   
• Guo, L., Dixon, R.A. and Paiva, N.L. (1994). Conversion of vestitone to medicarpin in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) is catalyzed by two independent enzymes. Identification, purification, and characterization of vestitone reductase and 7,2'- dihydroxy-4'-methoxyisoflavanone dehydratase. Journal of Biological Chemistry 269: 22372-22378
   
• Guo, L., Dixon, R.A. and Paiva, N.L. (1994). The "pterocarpan synthase" of alfalfa: Association and co-induction of vestitone reductase and 7,2?-dihydroxy-4?-methoxy-isoflavanol (DMI) dehydratase, the two final enzymes in medicarpin biosynthesis. FEBS Letters 356: 221-225.
   
• Hall, R., Beale, M., Fiehn, O., Hardy, N., Sumner, L. and Bino, R. (2001). Plant metabolbolomics as the missing link in functional genomics strategies. Plant Cell, in press.
   
• Harrison, M.J. (2000) Molecular Genetics of Model Legumes. Trends in Plant Science, 10: 414-415.
   
• Harrison, M.J. (1999) Molecular and cellular aspects of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Annual Reviews of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology, 50: 361-389. 
   
• Harrison, M.J. (1998) Development of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Current Opinions in Plant Biology, 4: 360-365.
   
• Harrison, M.J. (1997) The vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis; an underground association. Trends in Plant Science, 2 (2): 54-60.
   
• Harrison, M.J. (1997) The Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Plant-Microbe Interactions Volume 3, Chapter 1, 1-34. Editors, G. Stacey and N. Keen, Chapman and Hall, New York.
   
• Harrison, M.J. (1996) A sugar transporter from Medicago truncatula: altered expression pattern in roots during vesicular-arbuscular (VA) mycorrhizal associations. The Plant Journal, 9(4): 491-505.
   
• Harrison, M.J., Burleigh, S.H., Liu, H. and van Buuren, M.L. (1996) Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizae: Molecular Approaches to Investigate Phosphate Nutrition in the Symbiosis. In Biology of Plant Microbe Interactions, eds. G. Stacey, B Mullin and P. Gresshoff ISMPMI, St Paul, MN, pp 515-520.
   
• Harrison, M.J. and van Buuren, M.L. (1995) A phosphate transporter from the mycorrhizal fungus Glomus versiforme. Nature, 378: 626-629.
   
• Harrison, M.J. (1995) Molecular Approaches To The Study Of Nutrient Transfer In Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae in Mycorrhizas in integrated systems from genes to plant development, eds. C Azcon-Aguilar and J. M. Barea, EU Commision, Brussels, pp 238-241. 
   
• Harrison, M.J. and Dixon, R.A. (1994) Spatial patterns of expression of flavonoid/isoflavonoid pathway genes in interactions between roots of Medicago truncatula and the mycorrhizal fungus G. versiforme. The Plant Journal, 6: 9-20.
   
• Harrison, M.J. and Dixon, R.A. (1993). Isoflavonoid accumulation and expression of defense gene transcripts during the establishment of vesicular arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in roots of Medicago truncatula. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interactions, 6: 643-654.
   
• He, X.-Z. and Dixon, R.A. (2000). Genetic manipulation of isoflavone 7-O-methyltransferase enhances the biosynthesis of 4?-O-methylated isoflavonoid phytoalexins and disease resistance in alfalfa. The Plant Cell 12: 1689-1702 .
   
• He, X.-Z., Reddy, J.T. and Dixon, R.A. (1998). Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) XXII. cDNA cloning and characterization of an elicitor-inducible isoflavone 7- O-methyltransferase. Plant Molecular Biology 36: 43-54.
   
• He, X.Z. and Dixon, R.A. (1997). A cDNA of an additional member of the isoflavone O-methyltransferase (IOMT2) gene family in Medicago sativa (Accession No. AF023481). Plant Physiology 115: 1289.
   
• He, X-Z., and Dixon, R.A. (1996). Affinity chromatography, substrate/product specificity and amino acid sequence analysis of an isoflavone O-methyltransferase from alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 336: 121-129.
   
• Hou G., Mohamalawari D.R., Blancalor E.B. (2003) Enhanced gravitropism of roots with a disrupted cap actin cyoskeleton. Plant Physiology, in press
   
• Huhman, D.H., and Sumner, L.W. ,Metabolic Profiling of Saponin Glycosides in Medicago sativa and Medicago truncatula using HPLC Coupled to an Electrospray Ion-trap Mass Spectrometer,  Phytochemistry, 2002, 59, 347-360.
   
• Ichimura, M., Furuno, T., Takahashi, T., Dixon, R.A. and Ayabe, S.-I. (1997). Enzymatic O-methylation of isoliquiritigenin and licodione in alfalfa and licorice cultures. Phytochemistry 44: 991-995.
   
• Inman, J.T., Flores, H.R., May, G.D., Weller, J.W., and Bell, C.J. (2001). A high-throughput distributed DNA sequence analysis and database system. IBM Systems Journal 40: 2 464-486.
   
• Inoue, K. and Dixon, R.A. (2000) Substrate preferences of caffeic acid/ 5-hydroxyferulic acid 3- O-methyltransferases in developing stems of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 375: 175-182.
   
• Inoue, K., Sewalt, V.J.H., Ballance, G.M., Ni, W., Sturzer, C. and Dixon, R.A. (1998). Developmental expression and substrate specificities of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase and caffeoyl CoA 3-O-methyltransferase in relation to lignification. Plant Physiology 117: 761-770.
   
• Itaya, A., Folimonov, A., Matsuda, Y., Nelson, R.S., and Ding, B. (2001) Potato spindle tuber viroid as inducer of RNA silencing in infected tomato. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 14: 11 1332-1334.
   
• Jez, J.M., Ferrer, J.-L., Bowman, M.E., Austin, M.B., Schroder, J., Dixon, R.A. and Noel, J.P. (2002). Structure and mechanism of chalcone synthase-like polyketide synthases. Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology 27: 6 393-398.
   
• Jez, J.M., Bowman, M.E., Dixon, R.A. and Noel, J. (2000). Structure and mechanism of chalcone isomerase: an evolutionarily unique enzyme in plants. Nature Structural Biology 7: 786-791.
   
• Jez, J.M., Ferrer, J.-L., Bowman, M.E., Dixon, R.A. and Noel, J.P. (1999) Dissection of malonyl-coenzyme A decarboxylation from polyketide formation in the reaction mechanism of a plant polyketide synthase. Biochemistry 39: 890-902.
   
• Junghans, H., Dalkin, K. and Dixon, R.A. (1993). Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) XV. Characterization and expression patterns of members of a subset of the chalcone synthase multigene family. Plant Molecular Biology 22: 239-253.
   
• Kersey, R., Inoue, K., Schubert, K.R. and Dixon, R.A. (1999). Immunolocalization of two lignin O-methyltransferases in stems of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). Protoplasma 209: 46-57.
   
• Kota, P., Guo, D., Zubietas, C., Noel, J. and Dixon, R.A. (2003). O-Methylation of benzaldehyde derivatives by ¡§lignin specific¡¨ caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase. Plant Physiology, submitted.
   
• Li, Z.-S., Alfenito, M., Rea, P., Walbot, V. and Dixon, R.A. (1997). Vacuolar uptake of the phytoalexin medicarpin by the glutathione conjugate pump. Phytochemistry 45: 689-693.
   
• Liu, C-J. and Dixon, R.A. (2001). Elicitor-induced association of isoflavone O-methyltransferase with endomembranes prevents formation and 7-O-methylation of daidzein during isoflavonoid phytoalexin biosynthesis. Plant Cell 13: 2643-2658.
   
• Liu, C.-J., He, X.-Z. and Dixon, R.A. (2001). Elicitor-induced association of isoflavone O-methyltransferase with endomembranes prevents formation and 7-O-methylation of daidzein during isoflavonoid phytoalexin biosynthesis. Plant Cell 13: 2643-2658.
   
• Liu, H., Trieu, A.T., Blaylock, L.A. and Harrison, M.J. (1998). Cloning and characterization of two phosphate transporters from Medicago truncatula roots: regulation in response to phosphate and to colonization by arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi. Mol. Plant-Microbe Interactions, 11: 14-22.
   
• Maher, E.A., Lamb, C.J. and Dixon, R.A. (1993). Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) XVII. Identification of multiple hydrolases and molecular characterization of an acidic glucanase. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 43: 329-342.
   
• Maldonado-Mendoza, I.E., Dewbre, G.R. and Harrison, M.J. (2001). Expression of a
• Glomus intraradices phosphate transporter gene (GiPT) in the extra-radical mycelium of an arbuscular mycorrhiza: regulation in response to phosphate. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions 14: 1140-1148.
   
• Maldonado-Mendoza, I.E., Dewbre, G.R., van Buuren, M.L. and Harrison, M.J. (2001). Methods to estimate the proportion of plant and fungal RNA in an arbuscular mycorrhiza. Mycorrhiza 12: 67-74.
   
• Maldonado-Mendoza, I.E., Katagi, H. and Harrison, M.J. (2000) Genes induced in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis formed between Medicago truncatula and Glomus versiforme. In Biology of Plant-Microbe interactions Vol 2, eds. Pierre J.G.M. DE Wit, Ton Bisseling, Willem J. Stiekema. The International Soc. for Plant-Microbe Interactions, St Paul, Minnesota, USA, pp 202-207.
   
• Mao, C., Cushman, J.C., May, G.D. and Weller, J. (2003). ESTAP ? An Automated system for the analysis of EST data. Bioinformatics (in press).
   
• Marita, J.M., Ralph, J.R., Hatfield, R.D., Guo, D., Chen, F., and Dixon,R.A. (2003). Strucutral and compositional modifications in lignin of transgenic alfalfa down-regulated in caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase and caffeoyl CoA 3-O-methyltransferase. Phytochemistry 62, 53-65.
   
• Masoud, S.A., Zhu, Q., Lamb, C.J. and Dixon, R.A. (1996). Constitutive expression of an inducible b-1,3-glucanase in alfalfa reduces disease severity caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytophthora megasperma f. sp. medicaginis., but does not reduce disease severity of chitin-containing fungi. Transgenic Research 5: 313-323.
   
• Maxwell, C.A., Harrison, M.J. and Dixon, R.A. (1993). Molecular characterization and expression of alfalfa isoliquiritigenin 2'-O-methyltransferase, an enzyme specifically involved in the biosynthesis of an inducer of Rhizobium meliloti nodulation genes. Plant Journal 4: 971-981.
   
• May, G.D. (2002). An integrated approach to legume functional genomics. In Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, Vol 36 - Phytochemistry in the Genomics and Post-Genomics Era, Vol 36, J.T. Romeo and R.A. Dixon, eds . Pergamon, Oxford, UK, pgs 179-195.
   
• McKhann, H.I., Paiva, N.L., Dixon, R.A. and Hirsch, A.M. (1998). Expression of genes for enzymes of the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway in the early stages of the Rhizobium-legume symbiosis. In. Flavonoids in the Living System, ed. Manthey and Buslig, Plenum Press, New York, pp. 45-54.
   
• McKhann, H.I., Paiva, N.L., Dixon, R.A. and Hirsch, A.M. (1997). Chalcone synthase transcripts are detected in alfalfa root hairs following inoculation with wild-type Rhizobium meliloti. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 10: 50-58.
   
• Mussa, H.J., Sumner, L.W. and Harrison, M.J. (2001). Towards the identification of membrane proteins from arbuscular mycorrhizas formed between Medicago truncatula and Glomus versiforme. In The Biology of Plant-Microbe Interactions. Vol 3, in press.
   
• Ni, W., Fahrendorf, T., Ballance, G.M., Lamb, C.J. and Dixon, R.A. (1996). Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.). XX. Transcriptional activation of phenylpropanoid pathway genes in elicitor-induced cell suspension cultures. Plant Molecular Biology 30: 427-438.
   
• Ni, W., Sewalt, V.J.H., Korth, K.L., Blount, J.W., Ballance, G.M. and Dixon, R.A. (1996). Stress responses in alfalfa. XXI. Activation of caffeic acid 3-O-methyltransferase and caffeoyl coenzyme A 3-O-methyltransferase genes does not contribute to changes in metabolite accumulation in elicitor-treated cell suspension cultures. Plant Physiology 112: 717-726
   
• Noel, J.P., Dixon, R.A., Pichersky, E., Zubieta, C. and Ferrer, J.-L. (2003). Structural, functional, and evolutionary basis for methylation of plant small molecules. Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, 37, in press.
   
• Oommen, A., Dixon, R.A. and Paiva, N.L. (1994). The elicitor-inducible alfalfa isoflavone reductase promoter confers different patterns of developmental expression in homologous and heterlogous transgenic plants. The Plant Cell 6: 1789-1803.
   
• Orr, J.D., Edwards, R. and Dixon, R.A. (1993). Stress responses in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) XIV. Changes in the levels of phenylpropanoid pathway intermediates in relation to regulation of L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase in elicitor- treated cell-suspension cultures. Plant Physiology 101: 847-856.
   
• Orr, J.D., Sumner, L.W., Edwards, R. and Dixon, R.A. (1993). Determination of cinnamic acid and 4-coumaric acid in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) cell suspension cultures by gas chromatography. Phytochemical Analysis 4: 124-130.
   
• Paiva, N.L. (2002). Engineering resveratrol glucoside accumulation into alfalfa: crop protection and nutraceutical applications. In Crop Biotechnology, American Chemical Society Symposium Series 829 K. Rajasekaran, T.J. Jacks, and J.W. Finley, eds., American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, published by Oxford University Press. 13 pages, in press.
   
• Paiva, N.L., and Hipskind, J.D. (2001). Resveratrol glucoside engineering: plant and human health benefits. In Recent Advances in Phytochemistry: Regulation of Phytochemicals by Molecular Techniques, Volume 35, J. Romeo and J. Saunders, eds., Phytochemical Society of North America, Elsevier, pp.233-255.
   
• Paiva, N.L., Oommen, A., Harrison, M.J. and Dixon, R.A. (1994). Regulation of isoflavonoid metabolism in alfalfa. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 38: 213-220.
   
• Parvathi, K., Chen, F., Guo, D., Blount, J.W. and Dixon, R.A. (2001). Substrate preferences of O-methyltransferases in alfalfa suggest new pathways for 3-O-methylation of monolignols. Plant Journal 25: 93-102.
   
• Salles, I.I., Blount, J.W., Dixon, R.A. and Schubert, K. (2002). Phytoalexin induction and fÒ-1,3-glucanase activities in Colletotrichum trifolii infected leaves of alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 61, 89-101.
   
• Shorrosh, B.S., Dixon, R.A. and Ohlrogge, J.B. (1994). Molecular cloning, characterization and elicitation of acetyl-CoA carboxylase from alfalfa. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 91: 4323-4327.
   
• Steele, C.L., Gijzen, M., Qutob, D., Dixon, R.A. (1999). Molecular characterization of the enzyme catalyzing the aryl migration reaction of isoflavonoid biosynthesis in soybean. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics 367: 146-150.
   
• Sumner, L.W., Mendes, P. and Dixon, R.A. (2003) Plant metabolomics: large-scale phytochemistry in the functional genomics era. Phytochemistry 62, 817-836.
   
• Sumner, L.W., Mendes, P. and Dixon, R.A. (2002) Plant metabolomics: large-scale phytochemistry in the functional genomics era. Phytochemistry, in press
   
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