Andrew Wood

Associate Professor
 
Ph.D. 1994, Purdue University
 
Stress physiology
 
Office and Lab: Life Science II room 431
Office and Lab Phone: 618-453-5609
email: AW
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Research Interests

The molecular, cellular and biochemical responses of plants to water-deficit stress is the central, and long-term, interest of my research program. My laboratory is pursuing a two-pronged strategy, one basic and one applied, with the ultimate goal of improving drought-tolerance and yield stability within crop plants. Our basic research utilizes the desiccation-tolerant moss Tortula ruralis as a model system for studying post-transcriptional gene control, cellular repair mechanisms, and as a source of novel tolerance-associated genes. Another applied research area is analyzing the biochemical, molecular and physiological mechanisms that control yield stability under drought-stress in soybean (Glycine max).

Selected Publications

  1. Alwerdt JA, Gibson DJ, Ebbs SD, Wood AJ. 2006. Interspecific interactions in Arabidopsis thaliana and the stomatal mutants tmm1-1 and sdd1-2. Biologia Plantarum 50:205-209
  2. Peng C, Oliver MJ, Wood AJ. 2005. Is the rehydrin TrDr3 from Tortula ruralis associated with tolerance to cold, salinity and reduced pH? Physiological evaluation of the TrDr3-orthologue HdeD from Escherichia coli in response to abiotic stress. Plant Biology 7:315-320
  3. Kirch HH, Bartels D, Wei Y, Schnable PS, Wood AJ. 2004. The aldehyde dehydrogenase gene superfamily of Arabidopsis thaliana. Trends in Plant Sciences 9:371-377
  4. Wood AJ, Reski R, Frank W. 2004. Isolation and characterization of ALDH11A5, a novel non-phosphorylating GAPDH cDNA from Physcomitrella patens. The Bryologist 107: 385-387
  5. Kassem My A, Meksem K, Chang CH, Njiti VN, Kilo V, Wood AJ, Lightfoot DA. 2004. Loci underlying resistance to manganese toxicity mapped in a soybean recombinant inbred line population of Essex x Forrest. Plant and Soil 1-2: 197-204
  6. Chen X, Wood AJ. 2004. Purification and characterization of S-adenosyl-L-methionine nicotinic acid-N-methyltransferase from leaves of Glycine max. Biologia Plantarum  48: 531-535.
  7. Kassem My A, Meksem K, Iqbal MJ, Njiti VN, Banz WJ, Winters TA, Wood AJ, Lightfoot DA. 2004. Definition of soybean genomic regions that control phytoestrogen levels. Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology 1: 52-60.
  8. Chen X, Wood AJ 2003. The 26S Proteasome of the resurrection plant Tortula ruralis: cloning and characterization of the TrRPT2 subunit. Biologia Plantarum 3: 363-368.
  9. Cho, Y, VN Njiti, X Chen, DA Lightfoot and AJ Wood. 2003. Trigonelline concentration in field-grown soybean in response to irrigation. Biologia Plantarum 3: 405-410.
  10. Suits SL, RM Corbit and AJ Wood. 2003. American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) the "other" ginseng. Economic Botany 57: 143-144.

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