November 2009 news
Nov. 5, 2009
Brenda Peculis's lab
Kristen Reynolds Cozad was awarded second place (with a cash prize) in the Basic Research Division for her poster "Novel catalytic activity characterized in Dros8/Nudt6: A potential tumor suppressor protein" at the 2009 MU School of Medicine Research Day. Kristen's poster was a summary of the work she completed this past summer on her on-going research project in the Peculis laboratory. Kristen received her BS in Biochemistry at MU with honors (including four years of undergraduate research in the Peculis lab) and is now a second year MU Medical Student.
Gary Stacey's lab
Recent Publications
Thibivilliers S, Joshi T, Campbell KB, Scheffler B, Boerma R, Xu D, Cooper B, Nguyen HT, Stacey G (2009) EST sequencing of Phaseolus vulgaris genes responsive to Uromyces appendiculatus infection also identifies soybean genes responding to Phakopsora pachyrhizi infection. BMC Plant Biology 9:46.
Govindarajulu, Manjula, Sung-Yong Kim, Marc Libault, R. Howard Berg, Kiwamu Tanaka, Gary Stacey, and Christopher G. Taylor (2009) GS52 ecto-apyrase plays a critical role during nodulation in soybean. Plant Physiology 149: 994-1004
Laurent Brechenmacher, Joohyun Lee, Sherri Sachdev, Zhao Song, Tran Hong Nha Nguyen; Joshi Trupti, Beverly Dague, Nathan Oehrle, Marc Libault, Brian Mooney, Dong Xu, Bret Cooper, and Gary Stacey (2009) Establishment of a protein reference map for soybean root hair cells. Plant Physiol. 149: 670-682
Mathieu, Melanie, Elizabeth K. Winters, Fanming Kong, Jinrong Wan, Shaoxing Wang, Helene Eckert, Christopher Donovan, David Somers, Kan Wang, Gary Stacey and Tom Clemente (2009) Establishment of a soybean (Glycine max Merr. L) transposon-based mutagenesis respository. Planta 229: 279-289.
Rogers EE, X. Wu, G. Stacey, H. Nguyen (2009) Two MATE proteins play a role in iron efficiency in soybean. J. Plant Physiol. 166: 1453-1459.
Zhang Juan, Senthil Subramanian, Gary Stacey, and Oliver Yu (2009) Flavones and flavanols play distinct, critical roles during nodulation of Medicago truncatula by Sinorhizobium meliloti. Plant J. 57: 171-183.
Ravisha R. Weerasinghe, Sarah J. Swanson, Seiko Okada, Michele B. Garrett, Sung-Yong Kim, Gary Stacey, Richard C. Boucher, Simon Gilroy, and Alan M. Jones (2009) The resenitization-to-touch set point in Arabidopsis roots is regulated by the heterotrimeric G protein complex. FEBS Lett. 583(15):2521-2526
Xue-Cheng Zhang, Steven B. Cannon, and Gary Stacey (2009) Evolutionary genomics of LysM genes in land plants. BMC Evol. Boil. 9:183 (3 August 2009)
Navdeep Gill, Seth Findley, Jason G. Walling, Christian Hans, Jianxin Ma, Jeff Doyle, Gary Stacey, and Scott Jackson (2009) Molecular and chromosomal evidence for allopolyploidy in soybean Glycine max (L.) Merr. Plant Physiology 151: 1167-1174.
Dasharath Lohar, Jiri Stiller, Jason H.W. Kam, Gary Stacey, and Peter Gresshoff. 2009. Ethylene insensitivity conferred by a mutated Arabidopsis ethylene receptor gene alters nodulation in transgenic Lotus japonicus Ann. Bot. 104: 277-285.
Peter M. Gresshoff, Dasharath Lohar, Pick-Kuen Chan, Qunyi Jiang, and Gary Stacey (2009) Genetic Analysis of Ethylene Regulation of Legume Nodulation. Plant Signaling and Behaviour 4 (9):
Marc Libault, Trupti Joshi, Kaori Takahashi, Andrea Hurley-Sommer, Kari Puricelli, Sean Blake, Dong Xu, Henry Nguyen, and Gary Stacey (2009) Large scale analysis of soybean regulatory gene expression identifies a Myb gene involved in nodule development. Plant Physiol. 151: 1207-1220.
Sharon Pike, Ami Patel, Gary Stacey, and Walter Gassmann (2009) Arabidopsis AtOPT6 is an oligopeptide transporter with exceptionally broad substrate specificity. Plant Cell Physiol. (in press).
Marc Libault, Trupti Joshi, Vagner A. Benedito, Dong Xu, Michael K. Udvardi, Gary Stacey (2009) Legume transcription factor genes; what makes legumes so special? Plant Physiol. 151: 991-1001.
Trupti Joshi, Zhe Yan, Marc Libault, Hoon Jeong, Sunhee Park, Pamela J. Green, D Janine Sherrier, Andrew Farmer, Greg May, Blake Meyers, Dong Xu, Gary Stacey (2009) Prediction of novel miRNAs and associated target genes in Glycine max BMC Bioinformatics (in press).
Judy Wall's lab
Recent Publication
Our lab has received notification that our article:
"Development of a Markerless Genetic Exchange System for Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough and Its Use in Generating a Strain with Increased Transformation Efficiency" has been accepted for publication in Applied and Environmental Microbiology and will be published in the final issue of 2009 (Vol. 75, No. 24). Authors are: Kimberly L. Keller, Kelly S. Bender, and Judy D. Wall