Dr Mengbai Zhang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Agriculture and Food Sustainability
Book Chapter
Zhang, M. B., Chu, X. T., Su, H. N., Hastwell, A. H., Gresshoff, P. M. and Ferguson, B. J. (2018). Advances in understanding soybean physiology and growth. Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans: volume 1 breeding and cultivation techniques. (pp. 3-22) edited by Henry T. Nguyen. Sawston, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing. doi: 10.19103/as.2017.0034.01
Journal Articles
Gresshoff, Peter M., Su, Chao, Su, Huanan, Hastwell, April, Cha, Yanyan, Zhang, Mengbai, Grundy, Estelle B., Chu, Xitong, Ferguson, Brett J. and Li, Xia (2025). Functional genomics dissection of the nodulation autoregulation pathway (AON) in soybean (Glycine max). Journal of Integrative Plant Biology, 67 (3), 762-772. doi: 10.1111/jipb.13898
Su, Huanan, Zhang, Mengbai, Grundy, Estelle B. and Ferguson, Brett J. (2025). New integrative vectors increase agrobacterium rhizogenes transformation and help characterise roles for soybean GmTML gene family members. Plant, Cell and Environment. doi: 10.1111/pce.15380
Su, Huanan, Zhang, Mengbai, Grundy, Estelle B. and Ferguson, Brett J. (2024). New integrative vectors increase Agrobacterium rhizogenes transformation and help characterise roles for soybean GmTML gene family members. bioRxiv. doi: 10.1101/2024.07.25.605222
Zhang, Mengbai, Su, Huanan, Gresshoff, Peter M. and Ferguson, Brett J. (2021). Shoot‐derived
miR2111
controls legume root and nodule development. Plant, Cell and Environment, 44 (5), 1627-1641. doi: 10.1111/pce.13992
Ferguson, B. J., Mens, C., Hastwell, A. H., Zhang, M. B., Su, H., Jones, C. H., Chu, X. T. and Gresshoff, P. M. (2018). Legume nodulation: the host controls the party. Plant, Cell and Environment, 42 (1), 41-51. doi: 10.1111/pce.13348
Corcilius, Leo, Hastwell, April H., Zhang, Mengbai, Williams, James, Mackay, Joel P., Gresshoff, Peter M., Ferguson, Brett J. and Payne, Richard J. (2017). Arabinosylation modulates the growth-regulating activity of the peptide hormone CLE40a from soybean. Cell Chemical Biology, 24 (11), 1347-1355. doi: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2017.08.014
Thesis
Zhang, Mengbai (2020). Functional analysis of genes involved in the regulation of nodulation. PhD Thesis, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2020.105