The Timko Laboratory

Botanga, C.J., and Timko, M.P. (2005) Genetic structure and analysis of host and non-host interactions of Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke ("Witchweed") from Central Florida, USA. Phytopathology 95: 1166-1173.  PDF

Botanga, C.J., and Timko, M.P. (2006) Phenetic relationships among different races of Striga gesnerioides (Willd.) Vatke from West Africa. Genome 49: 1351-1365. PDF

Timko, M.P., Ehlers, J.D., and Roberts P.A. (2007) Cowpea. In: Pulses, Sugar and Tuber Crops, Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants, Vol. 3, C. Kole (Ed.), Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 49-67. PDF

Chen, X, Laudeman, T.W., Rushton , P.J. Spraggins, T.A. and Timko, M.P. (2007) CGKB: an annotation knowledge base for cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata L.) methylation filtered genomic genespace sequences. BMC Bioinformatics. 8: 129. PDF

Xu, B., Copolla, M., Herr, J.C., and Timko, M.P. (2007) Expression of a recombinant human sperm-agglutinating miniantibody in tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L.). In: Gamete Biology, Emerging Frontiers on Fertility and Contraceptive Development, S.K. Gupta, K. Koyama, and J.F. Murray (Eds.), Nottingham University Press, Nottingham, UK. pp. 465-478.

Timko, M.P., Gowda, BS, Ouedraogo, J. and Ousmane, B. (2007) Molecular markers for analysis of resistance to Striga gesnerioides in cowpea. In. Integrating New Technologies for Striga Control: Towards Ending the Witch-hunt. G. Ejeta and J. Gressell (Eds.) World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd, Singapore . pp. 115-128. PDF

Timko, M.P. and B.B. Singh (2008) Cowpea, a multifunctional legume. In: Moore , P.H. and Ming, R. (eds), Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants, Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, New York , NY . pp. 227-258. PDF

Rushton, P.J., Bokowiec, M.T., Laudeman, T.W., Brannock, J.F., Chen, X., and Timko, M.P. (2008) TOBFAC: the database of tobacco transcription factors. BMC Bioinformatics 9:53 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-53. PDF

Rushton, P.J., Bokowiec, M.T., Han, S., Zhang, H., Brannock, J.F., Chen, X., Laudeman, T.W., and Timko, M.P. (2008) Tobacco transcription factors: novel insights into transcriptional regulation in the Solanaceae . Plant Physiology 147: 280-295. PDF

Timko, M.P., Rushton, P.J., Laudeman, T.W., Bokowiec, M.T., Chipumuro, E., Cheung, F., Town, C.D., and Chen, X. (2008) Sequencing and analysis of the gene-rich space of cowpea. BMC Genomics 2008. BMC Genomics 9:103. PDF

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