Recent news from the Plant Sciences group

Congratulations

Congratulations to Stephen Kresovich on his USDA-NIFA award "Genomic and Breeding Foundations for Bioenergy Sorghum Hybrids".

Congratulations to Tammi Richardson on being named a 2011 Rising Star by the USC Office of Research and Graduate Education. www.sc.edu/rising_stars/

Highlighted publications

Krizek, B.A. and Eaddy, M. (2012) "AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE6 regulates cellular differentiation in flowers" Plant Mol. Biol. 78, 199-209. [PDF]

Davey, E., Wigand, C., Johnson, R., Sundberg, K., Morris, J., Roman, C.T. (2011) "Use of computed tomography imaging for quantifying coarse roots, rhizomes, peat, and particle densities in marsh soils" Ecol. Appl. 21, 2156-2171.

Kump, K.L., Bradbury, P.J., Wisser, R.J., Buckler, E.S., Belcher, A.R., Oropeza-Rosas, M.A., Zwonitzer, J.C., Kresovich, S., McMullen, M.D., Ware, D., Balint-Kurti, P.J., Holland, J.B. (2011) "Genome-wide association study of quantitative resistance to southern leaf blight in the maize nested association mapping population" Nature Genet. 43, 163-169. [PDF]

Caniato, F.F., Giumaraes, C.T., Hamblin, M., Billot, C., Rami, J.-F., Hufnagel, B., Kochian, L.V., Liu, J., Garcia, A.A.F., Hash, C.T., Ramu, P., Mitchell, S., Kresovich, S., Oliviera, C., de Avellar, G., Borem, A., Glaszmann, J.-C., Schaffert, R.E., and Magalhase, J.V. (2011) "The relationship between population structure and aluminum tolerance in cultivated sorghum" PLoS ONE 6, e20830. [PDF]

Krizek, B.A. (2011) "Auxin-regulatioon of Arabidopsis flower development involves members of the AINTEGUMENTA-LIKE/PLETHORA (AIL/PLT) family" J. Exp. Bot. 62, 3311-3319. [PDF]

Krizek, B.A. (2011) "Aintegumenta and Aintegumenta-Like6 regulate auxin-mediated flower development in Arabidopsis" BMC Res. Notes 4, 176. [PDF]

Dombrowski, J.E., Hind, S.R., Martin, R.C. and Stratmann, J.W. (2011) Wounding systemically activates a mitogen-activated protein kinase in forage and turf grasses. Plant Sci. 180, 686-693. [PDF]

Hind, S.R., Pulliam, S.E., Veronese, P., Shantharaj, D., Nazir, A., Jacobs, N.S. and Stratmann, J.W. (2011) "The COP9 signalosome controls jasmonic acid synthesis and plant responses to herbivory and pathogens" Plant J. 65, 480-491. [PDF]

Harner, N.K., Richardson, T.L., Thompson, K.A., Best, R.J., Best, A.S., and Trevors, J.T. (2011) "Microbial processes in the Athabasca Oil Sands and their potential applications in microbial enhanced oil recovery" J. Ind. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 38, 1761. [PDF]