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College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# overview
My current research interests are in the genetic improvement of important dicot (cotton and tomato) and monocot (rice and sorghum) crops. Protocols for efficient delivery of genes, optimal expression of transgenes, and rapid recovery of transgenic cotton, rice, and sorghum plants have been established in my laboratory. These procedures are being used to conduct both basic and applied research pertaining to crop improvement. Projects include regeneration from cell & tissue cultures, use of new reporter and selectable marker genes to understand and improve the transformation process, promoter analysis, enhancement of disease resistance in plants, conferring draught tolerance to crop plants, conferring insect resistance to crop plants, improving nutritional quality of seeds, and production of recombinant antibodies and vaccines in plants.

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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United States Environmental Protection Agency

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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30 Agricultural, Veterinary And Food Sciences

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Imperial College London - (London, Westminster, United Kingdom)

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Citrus limonin and its glucoside inhibit colon adenocarcinoma cell proliferation through apoptosis.

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Temporal and spatial activities of a rice glutelin promoter in transgenic sorghum

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Genetic variation in somatic embryogenesis of rose

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American Society For Horticultural Science

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Report on the SCRA Nuts and Bolts Workshop II: case studies of citrus greening, Ultra-low Gossypol Cotton, and blight tolerant, low-acrylamide potato.

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Levels of phytoene and -carotene in transgenic honeydew melon (Cucumis melo L. inodorus)

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Cotton plant with seed-specific reduction in gossypol

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FLP/ FRT -mediated manipulation of transgenes in the plant genome

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ELECTRICAL CONTROL OF SHOOT REGENERATION IN PLANT-TISSUE CULTURES

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PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL-PARAMETERS FOR ELECTROPORATION-MEDIATED GENE DELIVERY INTO RICE PROTOPLASTS

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Analysis of gossypol and related terpenoids in antisense transgenic cotton plants

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Ionic Currents Around Developing Embryos of Higher Plants in Culture.

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The responses of pollen to applied electrical fields.

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Transgene silencing and reactivation in sorghum

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Shoot regeneration and ploidy variation in tissue culture of honeydew melon (Cucumis melo L. inodorus)

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Evaluation of genetically-improved (glandless) and genetically-modified low-gossypol cottonseed meal as alternative protein sources in the diet of juvenile southern flounder Paralichthys lethostigma reared in a recirculating aquaculture system

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Enhanced resistance against Thielaviopsis basicola in transgenic cotton plants expressing Arabidopsis NPR1 gene.

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Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots

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Evaluation of ultra-low gossypol cottonseed and regular glandless cottonseed meals as dietary protein and lipid sources for Litopenaeus vannamei reared under zero-exchange conditions

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Reduction of enterotoxin induced fluid accumulation in ileal loops of neonatal calves with anti-F5 fimbriae recombinant antibody.

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Expression of apoplastically secreted tobacco osmotin in cotton confers drought tolerance

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THE ELECTRICAL CONTROL OF GROWTH IN PLANT-TISSUE CULTURES - THE POLAR TRANSPORT OF AUXIN

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Expression of snowdrop lectin (GNA) in transgenic rice plants confers resistance to rice brown planthopper.

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Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots

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Rapid recovery- and characterization of transformants following Agrobacterium-mediated T-DNA transfer to sorghum

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Enterotoxigenic K99+ Escherichia coli attachment to host cell receptors inhibited by recombinant pili protein.

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Ionic basis of currents in somatic embryos of Daucus carota.

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Response of AtNPR1-expressing cotton plants to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum isolates.

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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated targeted mutagenesis in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.).

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Genes regulating gland development in the cotton plant.

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Constitutive and induced insect resistance in RNAi-mediated ultra-low gossypol cottonseed cotton.

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Sugarcane DIRIGENT and O-methyltransferase promoters confer stem-regulated gene expression in diverse monocots.

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Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots

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Cotton alpha-globulin promoter: isolation and functional characterization in transgenic cotton, Arabidopsis, and tobacco.

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Resistance against various fungal pathogens and reniform nematode in transgenic cotton plants expressing Arabidopsis NPR1.

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Overexpression of a tobacco osmotin gene in carrot (Daucus carota L.) enhances drought tolerance

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Use of bar as a selectable marker gene and for the production of herbicide-resistant rice plants from protoplasts.

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Disease resistance: molecular mechanisms and biotechnological applications. Preface.

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Regulation of telomerase in Arabidopsis by BT2, an apparent target of TELOMERASE ACTIVATOR1.

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Stem-regulated, plant defense promoter and uses thereof in tissue-specific expression in monocots

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Gossypol in cottonseed increases the fitness cost of resistance to Bt cotton in pink bollworm

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Expression of Arabidopsis NPR1 in Transgenic Cotton Confers Resistance to Non-defoliating Isolates of Verticillium dahliae but not the Defoliating Isolates

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Gossypol and related compounds are produced and accumulate in the aboveground parts of the cotton plant, independent of roots as the source.

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Defense-related gene expression and enzyme activities in transgenic cotton plants expressing an endochitinase gene from Trichoderma virens in response to interaction with Rhizoctonia solani.

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Expression of anti-K99 scFv in transgenic rice tissues and its functional characterization.

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A cytoplasmic gradient of Ca2+ is correlated with the growth of lily pollen tubes.

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Enhanced transgene expression in sugarcane by co-expression of virus-encoded RNA silencing suppressors.

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Engineering cottonseed for use in human nutrition by tissue-specific reduction of toxic gossypol.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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A novel, conditional, lesion mimic phenotype in cotton cotyledons due to the expression of an endochitinase gene from Trichoderma virens.

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Ultra-Low Gossypol Cottonseed: Selective Gene Silencing Opens Up a Vast Resource of Plant-Based Protein to Improve Human Nutrition

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CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Mutagenesis of the Granule-Bound Starch Synthase Gene in the Potato Variety Yukon Gold to Obtain Amylose-Free Starch in Tubers.

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Methods and compositions for modulating gossypol content in cotton plants

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ptxD gene in combination with phosphite serves as a highly effective selection system to generate transgenic cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.).

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Developmental and tissue-specific expression of CaMV 35S promoter in cotton as revealed by GFP.

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Ultra-low gossypol cottonseed: generational stability of the seed-specific, RNAi-mediated phenotype and resumption of terpenoid profile following seed germination.

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RNA Interference in Agriculture: Methods, Applications, and Governance

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Council for Agricultural Science and Technology

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factors influencing Agrobacterium-mediated transformation and regeneration

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ELECTRICAL CONTROL OF GROWTH IN PLANT-TISSUE CULTURES

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Selective fertilization with phosphite allows unhindered growth of cotton plants expressing the ptxD gene while suppressing weeds.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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RNAi-mediated Ultra-low gossypol cottonseed trait: performance of transgenic lines under field conditions.

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Overexpression of a glutamine synthetase gene affects growth and development in sorghum.

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Cotton plant with seed-specific reduction in gossypol

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Green fluorescent protein gene as a tool to examine the efficacy of Agrobacterium-delivered CRISPR/Cas9 reagents to generate targeted mutations in the potato genome

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A Two-Dimensional Vibrating Probe Study of Currents around Lateral Roots of Raphanus sativus Developing in Culture.

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A comprehensive study of the use of a homologous promoter in antisense cotton lines exhibiting a high seed oleic acid phenotype.

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Improvements in the nutritional quality of the cottonseed

# researcherOn[].label
Utilization of Biotechnology to improve crop plants and to modify plants for novel applications

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National Institute of Food and Agriculture - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

# streetAddress
Texas A&M Agrilife Research; Institute For Plant Genomics & Biotechnology-Ipgb; 2123 TAMUS

# organizations[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# schools[]
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

# inTheNews[].label
USDA announces new plant biotechnology regulations

# etdChairOf[].label
Jauregui, Rosa Noemi (2015-05). Introgression of the Ultra-Low Gossypol Cottonseed Trait in Elite Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) Cultivars. Doctoral Dissertation.

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Urriola Simons, Jazmina Itzel (2013-08). Biotechnological Approaches for Genetic Improvement of Sorghum. Doctoral Dissertation.