Research Interests
Water availability is the major limitation to plant productivity and water availability is decreasing other demands for water
increase. My laboratory is working on drought and salt tolerance, using genomics approaches, particularly
proteomics. We are focused on the signaling pathway and how it regulates the stress response. Currently we are working on identifying the protein kinases and phosphatases in the pathway and the proteins they interact
with. These functional roles are then confirmed using RNAi "knockouts". The long term goal of the laboratory is to understand the stress
signaling pathway in sufficient detail to improve the drought and salt tolerance of plants.
Recent Papers
An Improved Green Fluorescent Protein Gene as a Vital Marker in Plants. Pang, S.Z., DeBoer, D. L., Wan, Y., Ye, G., Layton, J. G., Neher, M. K., Armstrong, C. L., Fry, J. E., Hinchee, M. A. W., & Fromm, M. E. (1996). Plant Physiology. 112:893-900
Russell, D. A. & Fromm, M. E. (1997). Tissue-specific expression in transgenic maize of four endosperm promoters from maize and rice. Transgenic Research 6:157-168.
Stockinger, Eric, J., Jaglo-Ottosen, Kirsten, Zarka, Daniel, Gilmour, Sarah, Jane, Jiang, Cai-Zhong, Fromm, Michael, Thomashow, Michael, F. (1998) Plant having altered environmental stress tolerance. Patent: WO 99/38977
Improved Tandem Affinity Purification Tag And Methods For Isolation of Protein Heterocomplexes from Plants Jai S. Rohila1, Mei Chen1, Ronald Cerny2 and Michael E. Fromm1, The Plant Journal (In Press 2004)
Howe, A.R., Gasser, C.S., Brown, S.M., Padgette, S.P., Hart, J., Parker, G.B., Fromm, M.E., & Armstrong, C.L. (2002) Glyphosate as a selective agent for the production of fertile transgenic maize (Zea mays L.) plants Molecular Breeding 10: 153-164
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