Book Chapters
Okemo, Pauline, Wijesundra, Upendra, Nakandala, Upuli, Ananda, Galaihalage K.S., Vanambathina, Prameela, Hasan, Sharmin, Abdulla, Muhammad, Sharma, Priyanka, Manatunga, Sachini, Pazhany, Adhini, Kharabian Masouleh, Ardy, Nath, Onkar, Mitter, Neena, Furtado, Agnelo and Henry, Robert J. (2022). The use of genome sequencing to improve crops for tropical agriculture. Next-generation sequencing and agriculture. (pp. 59-91) edited by Philipp E. Bayer and David Edwards. Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom: CAB International. doi: 10.1079/9781789247848.0004
Subbaiyan, Gopala Krishnan, Masouleh, Ardashir K., Furtado, Agnelo, Waters, Daniel L. E. and Henry, Robert J. (2019). Re-sequencing resources to improve starch and grain quality in rice. Rice Grain Quality. (pp. 201-240) edited by Nese Sreenivasulu. New York, NY, United States: Humana Press Inc.. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4939-8914-0_12
Journal Articles
Nakandala, Upuli, Furtado, Agnelo, Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Smith, Malcolm W., Mason, Patrick and Henry, Robert J. (2025). Characterizing the structural variations in the genome of the mandarin variety, IrM2 , induced by gamma irradiation. Plant Biotechnology Journal. doi: 10.1111/pbi.70205
Abdullah, Muhammad, Furtado, Agnelo, Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Okemo, Pauline and Henry, Robert (2025). The genomes of the most diverse AA genome rice species provide a resource for rice improvement and studies of rice evolution and domestication. BMC Genomics, 26 (1) 54, 1-15. doi: 10.1186/s12864-025-11246-0
Sharma, Priyanka, Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, Constantin, Lena, Topp, Bruce, Furtado, Agnelo and Henry, Robert J. (2024). Genome sequences to support conservation and breeding of Macadamia. Tropical Plants, 3 e035, 1-11. doi: 10.48130/tp-0024-0029
Manatunga, Sachini Lakmini, Furtado, Agnelo, Topp, Bruce, Alam, Mobashwer, Mason, Patrick J., Kharabian-Masouleh, Ardashir and Henry, Robert J. (2024). Analysis of phylogenetic relationships in Macadamia shows evidence of extensive reticulate evolution. Frontiers in Plant Science, 15 1394244, 1394244. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1394244
Nakandala, Upuli, Furtado, Agnelo, Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Smith, Malcolm W., Mason, Patrick, Williams, Darren C. and Henry, Robert J. (2024). The genomes of Australian wild limes. Plant Molecular Biology, 114 (5) 102, 102. doi: 10.1007/s11103-024-01502-4
Wijesundara, Upendra Kumari, Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, Furtado, Agnelo, Dillon, Natalie L. and Henry, Robert J. (2024). A chromosome‐level genome of mango exclusively from long‐read sequence data. The Plant Genome, 17 (2) e20441, 1-13. doi: 10.1002/tpg2.20441
Nakandala, Upuli, Furtado, Agnelo, Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, Smith, Malcolm W., Williams, Darren C. and Henry, Robert J. (2024). The genome of Citrus australasica reveals disease resistance and other species specific genes. BMC Plant Biology, 24 (1) 260, 260. doi: 10.1186/s12870-024-04988-8
Al-Dossary, Othman, Furtado, Agnelo, Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Alsubaie, Bader, Al-Mssallem, Ibrahim and Henry, Robert J. (2024). Differentially expressed genes in Jojoba (Simmondsia chinensis) when subjected to water-stress. Current Plant Biology, 37 100311, 100311. doi: 10.1016/j.cpb.2023.100311
Wijesundara, Upendra Kumari, Furtado, Agnelo, Dillon, Natalie L., Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian and Henry, Robert J (2024). Phylogenetic relationships in the genus Mangifera based on whole chloroplast genome and nuclear genome sequences. Tropical Plants, 3 (1) e034. doi: 10.48130/tp-0024-0031
Abdullah, Muhammad, Furtado, Agnelo, Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, Okemo, Pauline and Henry, Robert (2024). An improved haplotype resolved genome reveals more rice genes. Tropical Plants, 3 (1) e009. doi: 10.48130/tp-0024-0007
Al-Dossary, Othman, Furtado, Agnelo, KharabianMasouleh, Ardashir, Alsubaie, Bader, Al-Mssallem, Ibrahim and Henry, Robert J. (2023). Long read sequencing to reveal the full complexity of a plant transcriptome by targeting both standard and long workflows. Plant Methods, 19 (1) 112. doi: 10.1186/s13007-023-01091-1
Kharabian-Masouleh, Ardashir, Furtado, Agnelo, Alsubaie, Bader, Al-Dossary, Othman, Wu, Alex, Al-Mssalem, Ibrahim and Henry, Robert (2023). Loss of plastid ndh genes in an autotropic desert plant. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, 21, 5016-5027. doi: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.10.023
Alsubaie, Bader, Kharabian-Masouleh, Ardashir, Furtado, Agnelo, Al-Dossary, Othman, Al-Mssallem, Ibrahim and Henry, Robert J. (2023). Highly sex specific gene expression in Jojoba. BMC Plant Biology, 23 (1) 440, 440. doi: 10.1186/s12870-023-04444-z
Nakandala, Upuli, Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, Smith, Malcolm W., Furtado, Agnelo, Mason, Patrick, Constantin, Lena and Henry, Robert J. (2023). Haplotype resolved chromosome level genome assembly of Citrus australis reveals disease resistance and other citrus specific genes. Horticulture Research, 10 (05) uhad058, 1-14. doi: 10.1093/hr/uhad058
Anirban, Apurba, Hayward, Alice, Hong, Hung T., Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, Henry, Robert J. and O'Hare, Tim J. (2023). Breaking the tight genetic linkage between the a1 and sh2 genes led to the development of anthocyanin-rich purple-pericarp super-sweetcorn. Scientific Reports, 13 (1) 1050, 1-13. doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-28083-4
Anirban, Apurba, Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, Henry, Robert J. and O’Hare, Tim J. (2023). Sequence variations associated with novel purple-pericarp super-sweetcorn compared to its purple-pericarp maize and white super-sweetcorn parents. Molecular Genetics and Genomics, 298 (6), 1395-1405. doi: 10.1007/s00438-023-02060-y
Nath, Onkar, Fletcher, Stephen J., Hayward, Alice, Shaw, Lindsay M., Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Furtado, Agnelo, Henry, Robert J. and Mitter, Neena (2022). A haplotype resolved chromosomal level avocado genome allows analysis of novel avocado genes. Horticulture Research, 9 uhac157, 1-10. doi: 10.1093/hr/uhac157
Sharma, Priyanka, Murigneux, Valentine, Haimovitz, Jasmine, Nock, Catherine J., Tian, Wei, Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Topp, Bruce, Alam, Mobashwer, Furtado, Agnelo and Henry, Robert J. (2021). The genome of the endangered Macadamia jansenii displays little diversity but represents an important genetic resource for plant breeding. Plant Direct, 5 (12) e364, e364. doi: 10.1002/pld3.364
Sharma, Priyanka, Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Topp, Bruce, Furtado, Agnelo and Henry, Robert J. (2021). Denovo
chromosome level assembly of a plant genome from long read sequence data. The Plant Journal, 109 (3), 727-736. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15583
Al‐Dossary, Othman, Alsubaie, Bader, Kharabian‐Masouleh, Ardashir, Al‐Mssallem, Ibrahim, Furtado, Agnelo and Henry, Robert J (2021). The jojoba genome reveals wide divergence of the sex chromosomes in a dioecious plant. The Plant Journal, 108 (5), 1283-1294. doi: 10.1111/tpj.15509
Sharma, Priyanka, Al-Dossary, Othman, Alsubaie, Bader, Al-Mssallem, Ibrahim, Nath, Onkar, Mitter, Neena, Rodrigues Alves Margarido, Gabriel, Topp, Bruce, Murigneux, Valentine, Kharabian Masouleh, Ardashir, Furtado, Agnelo and Henry, Robert J. (2021). Improvements in the sequencing and assembly of plant genomes. Gigabyte, 2021, 1-10. doi: 10.46471/gigabyte.24
Khan, Naeem, Ali, Shahid, Shahid, Muhammad Adnan and Kharabian-Masouleh, Ardashir (2017). Advances in detection of stress tolerance in plants through metabolomics approaches. Plant OMICS, 10 (3), 153-163. doi: 10.21475/poj.10.03.17.pne600
Masuduzzaman, A. S.M., Haque, Md. Maksudul, Shamsuddin, A. K.M., Salam, M. A., Kabir, Md. Shahjahan, Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian, Haque, Md. Enamul and Ali, Ansar (2017). Variation in expression of Sub1 gene confers differential response to submergence tolerance in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Australian Journal of Crop Science, 11 (6), 757-767. doi: 10.21475/ajcs.17.11.06.p446
Gholizadeh, Soheila, Darvishzadeh, Reza, Mandoulakani, Babak Abdollahi, Bernousi, Iraj, Alavi, Seyed Reza and Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian (2012). Molecular characterization and similarity relationships among flue-cured tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.) genotypes using simple sequence repeat markers. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 40 (2), 247-253. doi: 10.15835/nbha4027169
Raad, Mojtaba Khorrami, Zanjani, Sahar Bohluli, Shoor, Mahmoud, Hamidoghli, Yousef, Sayyad, Ali Ramezani, Kharabian-Masouleh, Ardashir and Kaviani, Behzad (2012). Callus induction and organogenesis capacity from lamina and petiole explants of Anthurium andreanum Linden (Casino and Antadra). Australian Journal of Crop Science, 6 (5), 928-937.
Henry, Robert J., Edwards, Mark, Waters, Daniel L. E., Krishnan, S. Gopala, Bundock, Peter, Sexton, Timothy R., Masouleh, Ardashir K., Nock, Catherine J. and Pattemore, Julie (2012). Application of large-scale sequencing to marker discovery in plants. Journal of Biosciences, 37 (5), 829-841. doi: 10.1007/s12038-012-9253-z
Davar, Robab, Darvishzadeh, Reza, Majd, Ahmad, Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian and Ghosta, Yobert (2012). The infection processes of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum in basal stem tissue of a susceptible genotype of Helianthus annuus L.. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 40 (1), 143-149. doi: 10.15835/nbha4017317
Kharabian-Masouleh, Ardashir, Waters, Daniel L. E., Reinke, Russell F., Ward, Rachelle and Henry, Robert J. (2012). SNP in starch biosynthesis genes associated with nutritional and functional properties of rice. Scientific Reports, 2 (1) 557, 557.1-557.9. doi: 10.1038/srep00557
Kharabian-Masouleh, Ardashir, Waters, Daniel L. E., Reinke, Russell F. and Henry, Robert J. (2011). Discovery of polymorphisms in starch-related genes in rice germplasm by amplification of pooled DNA and deeply parallel sequencing. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 9 (9), 1074-1085. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00629.x
Kaviani, Behzad, Hesar, Afshin Ahmadi and Kharabian-Masouleh, Ardashir (2011). In vitro propagation of Matthiola incana (Brassicaceae)-an ornamental plant. Plant Omics, 4 (7), 435-440.
Kharabian, Ardashir (2010). An efficient computational method for screening functional SNPs in plants. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 265 (1), 55-62. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2010.04.017
Masouleh, Ardashir K., Waters, Daniel L. E., Reinke, Russel F. and Henry, Robert J. (2009). A high-throughput assay for rapid and simultaneous analysis of perfect markers for important quality and agronomic traits in rice using multiplexed MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Plant Biotechnology Journal, 7 (4), 355-363. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7652.2009.00411.x
Kaviani, Behzad and Kharabian, Ardashir (2008). Improvement of the nutritional value of soybean [Glycine max (L) Merr.] seed with alteration in protein subunits of glycinin (11S globulin) and β-conglycinin (7S globulin). Turkish Journal of Biology, 32 (2), 91-97.
Kharabian, Ardashir and Darabi, Amirhossein (2005). Characterization of some chromosomal aberrations in regenerated rice plants (Oryza sativa). Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture, 83 (2), 161-168. doi: 10.1007/s11240-005-4886-3
Saeidi Mehrvarz, Shahryar and Kharabian, Ardeshir (2005). Chromosome counts of some Veronica L. (Scrophulariaceae) species from Iran. Turkish Journal of Botany, 29 (4), 263-267. doi: 10.22092/ijb.2017.111084.1166
Masouleh, Ardashir Kharabian (2005). Toward a molecular evaluation of grain quality using glutenin subunits in Triticum carthlicum. African Journal of Biotechnology, 4 (4), 346-349.
Conference Paper
Al-Dossary, Othman, Kharabian, Ardashir, Al-Mssallem, Ibrahim, Furtado, Agnelo and Henry, Robert (2020). Transcriptomics analysis for the detection of novel drought tolerance genes in Jojoba (Simmondsia Chinensis). The Third International Tropical Agriculture Conference TropAg 2019 , Brisbane, QLD Australia, 11-13 November 2019. Basel, Switzerland: MDPI. doi: 10.3390/proceedings2019036135