Plant and Microbial Biology

Engineering Cercospora disease-resistant plants using fungal toxin-resistance genes

Presented at the 12th Annual NC State University Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium, Raleigh, NC.

Transcriptional profiling of sclerotia formation in the soil fungus Rhizoctonia solani

Phytopathology, 103(S2), 144–145.

Effective science instruction for young children

Presented at the MWERA Conference, Evanston, IL.

Functional Characterization of Type-B Response Regulators in the Arabidopsis Cytokinin Response    

Plant Physiology, 162(1), 212–224.

Mechanisms of Metabolic Programming Toward Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Cultured Red Arabidopsis Cells

In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant, 49(4), 484–485.

Efficient Somatic Embryogenesis and Organogenesis of Self-Pollination Artemisia annua Progeny and Artemisinin Formation in Regenerated Plants

American Journal of Plant Sciences, 04(11), 2206–2217.

High-Throughput RNA Sequencing of Pseudomonas-Infected Arabidopsis Reveals Hidden Transcriptome Complexity and Novel Splice Variants

PLoS ONE, 8(10).

Introducing primary scientific literature to first-year undergraduate researchers

Council on Undergraduate Research on the Web, 34(4), 17–22.

Characterization of Flavan-3-ols and Expression of MYB and Late Pathway Genes Involved in Proanthocyanidin Biosynthesis in Foliage of Vitis bellula

Metabolites, 3(1), 185–203.

RNAi silencing of a cytochrome P450 monoxygenase disrupts the ability of a filamentous fungus, Graphium sp., to grow on short-chain gaseous alkanes and ethers.

Biodegradation.

ASI:Dunaliellamarine microalgae to drop-in replacement liquid transportation fuel

Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy, 32(4), 916–925.

A Single Amino Acid Alteration in PGR5 Confers Resistance to Antimycin A in Cyclic Electron Transport around PSI

Plant and Cell Physiology, 54(9), 1525–1534.

Measurement of Inositol (1,4,5) Trisphosphate in Plant Tissues by a Competitive Receptor Binding Assay

In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 33–41).

Phosphatidylinositol 4-Kinase and Phosphatidylinositol 4-Phosphate 5-Kinase Assays

In Methods in Molecular Biology (pp. 163–174).

Constitutive expression of the Corngrass1 microRNA in poplar affects plant architecture and stem lignin content and composition

Biomass and Bioenergy, 54, 312–321.

Forward Genetics by Genome Sequencing Reveals That Rapid Cyanide Release Deters Insect Herbivory of Sorghum bicolor

Genetics, 195(2), 309–318.

Deep sequencing of ribosomal footprints for studying genome-wide mRNA translation in plants

2013 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, ICCABS 2013.

Perennial Biomass Grasses and the Mason–Dixon Line: Comparative Productivity across Latitudes in the Southern Great Plains

BioEnergy Research.

Climate affects symbiotic fungal endophyte diversity and performance

American Journal of Botany.

Molecular mechanisms of ethylene–auxin interactions

Molecular Plant, sst113.