The Timko Laboratory

Li J, and Timko MP (2009) Gene-for-gene resistance in Striga-cowpea associations. Science 325: 1094

Westwood JH, Yoder JI Timko MP, and de Pamphilis CW (2010) The evolution of parasitism in plants.

            Trends in Plant Science 15: 227-235. doi 10.1016/j.tplants.2010.01.004

Hernandez-Garcia CM, Bouchard RA, Rushton PJ Jones ML, Chen X, Timko MP, and Finer JJ (2010)

High level transgenic expression of soybean (Glycine max) GmERF and Gmubi gene promoters isolated by a novel promoter analysis pipeline. BMC Plant Biology10: 237 doi:10.1186/1471-2229-10-237

Oikawa PY, Giebel BM, Sternberg L da SLO, Li L, Timko MP, Swart PK, Riemer DD, Mak JE, and Lerdau

MT (2011) Leaf and root pectin methylesterase activity and ¹³C/¹²C stable isotopic ratio measurements of methanol emissions give insight into methanol production in Lycopersicon esculentum. New Phytologist 191: 1031–1040

Andargie M, Pasquet RS, Gowda BS, Muluvi GM, and Timko MP (2011) Construction of a SSR-based

genetic map and identification of QTLs for yield and domestication traits using recombinant inbred lines from a cross between wild X cultivated cowpea (V. unguiculata (L.) Walp.). Molecular Breeding 28: 413-420. doi: 10.1007/s11032-011-9598-2

Wickett NJ, Honaas LA, Wafula EK, Das M, Huang K, Wu B, Timko MP, Yoder JI, Westwood JH and dePamphilis CW (2011) Transcriptomes of the parasitic plant family Orobanchaceae reveal surprising conservation of chlorophyll synthesis. Current Biology 21: 2098-2104. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2011.11.011

Zhang H, Bokowiec MT, Rushton PJ, Han S, and Timko MP (2012) Tobacco transcription factors

            NtMYC2a and NtMYC2b form nuclear complexes with the NtJAZ1 repressor and regulate multiple

 jasmonate-inducible steps in nicotine biosynthesis. Molecular Plant 5: 73-84.

doi:10.1093/mp/ssr056

Timko MP, Huang K, and Lis KE (2012) Host resistance and parasite virulence in Striga-host plant

interactions - A shifting balance of power. Weed Science 60: 307-315. doi: 10.1614/WS-D-11-00039.1 (Posted online June 2011)

Estep MC, Gowda BS, Huang K, Timko MP, and Bennetzen JL (2012) Genomic characterization for

 parasitic weeds of the genus Striga by sample sequence analysis. Plant Genome 5: 30-41.

Mellor KE, Hoffman A and Timko MP (2012) Use of ex vitro composite plants to study the interaction of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) with the root parasitic angiosperm Striga gesnerioides. Plant Methods 2012, 8:22 doi:10.1186/1746-4811-8-22

Huang K, Mellor KE, Paul SN, Lawson MJ, Mackey AJ and Timko MP (2012) Global changes in gene

            expression during compatible and incompatible interactions of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) with

            the parasitic angiosperm Striga gesnerioides. BMC Genomics 13:402, DOI:10.1186/1471-2164-

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