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Publications by Teh-hui Kao

2007

Hua, Z., X. Meng, and T-h. Kao. Comparison of Petunia inflata S-locus F-box protein (Pi SLF) and Pi SLF-like proteins reveals its unique function in S-RNase-based self-incompatibility.  Plant Cell 19:3593-3609.

2006

Skirpan, A. L., P. E. Dowd, P. Sijacic, C. J. Jaworski, S. Gilroy, and T-h. Kao.  Isolation and characterization of PiORP1, a Petunia oxysterol-binding-protein related protein involved in receptor-kinase mediated signaling in pollen, and analysis of the ORP gene family in Arabidopsis.  Plant Mol. Biol. 61:553-565.

Dowd, P. E., S. Coursol, A. L. Skirpan, T-h. Kao, and S. Gilroy.  Petunia phospholipase C1 is involved in pollen tube growth.  Plant Cell 18:1438-1453.

Kokubun, H., M. Nakano, T. Tsukamoto, H. Watanabe, G. Hashimoto, E. Marchesi, L. Bullrich, I. L. Basualdo, T-h. Kao, and T. Ando.  Distribution of self-compatible and self-incompatible populations of Petunia axillaris (Solanaceae) outside Uruguay.  J. Plant Res. 119:419-430.

Hua, Z. and T-h. Kao.  Identification and characterization of components of a putative PiSLF-containing E3 ligase complex involved in S-RNase-based self-incompatibility.  Plant Cell 18: 2531-2553.

2005

Tsukamoto, T., T. Ando, H. Watanabe, E. Marchesi, and T-h. Kao. Duplication of the S-locus F-box gene is associated with breakdown of pollen function in an S-haplotype identified in a natural population of self-incompatible Petunia axillaris. Plant Mol. Biol. 57:141-153.

2004

Kao, T-h. and T. Tsukamoto. The molecular and genetic bases of S-RNase-based self-incompatibility. Plant Cell 16:S72-S83.

Sijacic, P., A.L. Skirpan, Y. Wang, P.E. Dowd, A.G. McCubbin, S. Huang, and T-h. Kao. Identification of the pollen determinant of S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility. Nature 429:302-305.

Wang, Y., T. Tsukamoto, K-w. Yi, X. Wang, S. Huang, A.G. McCubbin, and T-h. Kao. Chromosme walking in the Petunia inflata self-incompatibility (S-) locus and gene identification in an 881-kb contig containing S2-RNase. Plant Mol. Biol. 54:727-742.

2003

Tsukamoto, T., T. Ando, H. Kokubun, H. Watanabe, T. Sato, M. Masada, E. Marchesi, and T-h. Kao. Breakdown of self-incompatibility in a natural population of Petunia axillaris caused by a modifier locus that suppresses the expression of an S-RNase gene. Sex Plant Reprod. 15:255-263.

Wang, Y., X. Wang, A.L. Skirpan, and T-h. Kao. S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility. J. Exp. Bot. 54:115-122.

Tsukamoto, T., T. Ando, K. Takahashi, T. Omori, H. Watanabe, H. Kokubun, E. Marchesi, T-h. Kao. Breakdown of self-incompatibility in a natural population of Petunia axillaris caused by loss of pollen function. Plant Physiol. 131:1903-1912.

2002

Tsukamoto, T., T. Ando, G. Hashimoto, E. Suarez, E. Marchesi, A.K. Oyama, and T.-h. Kao. Differentiation in the status of self-incompatibility among Calibrachoa species (Solanaceae). J. Plant Res. 115:185-193.

2001

Wang, X., A.L. Hughes, T. Tsukamoto, T. Ando, and T.-h. Kao. Evidence that intragenic recombination contributes to allelic diversity of the S-RNAase gene at the self-incompatibility (S) locus in Petunia inflata. Plant Physiol. 125:1012-1022.

Fasano, J.M., S.J. Swanson, E.B. Blancaflor, P.E. Down, T.-h. Kao, and S. Gilroy. Changes in root cap pH are required for the gravity response of the Arabidopsis root. Plant Cell. 13:907-921.

Skirpan, A.L., A.G. McCubbin, T. Ishimizu, X. Wang, Y. Hu, P.E. Dowd, H. Ma, and T.-h. Kao. Isolation and characterization of kinase interacting protein 1, a pollen protein that interacts with the kinase domain of PRK1, a receptor-like kinase of petunia. Plant Physiol. 126:1480-1492.

2000

Dowd, P.E., A.G. McCubbin, X. Wang, J.A. Verica, T. Tsukamoto, T. Ando, and T.-h. Kao. Use of Petunia inflata as a Model for the Study of Solanaceous Type Self-incompatibility. Ann. Bot. 85 (Suppl. A):87-93.

McCubbin, A.G., X. Wang, and T.-h. Kao. Identification of Self-incompatibility (S-) Locus Linked Pollen cDNA Markers in Petunia inflata. Genome 43:619-627.

McCubbin, A.G., C. Zuniga, and T.-h. Kao. Construction of a Binary Artificial Chromosome Library of Petunia inflata and the Identification of Large Genomic Fragments Linked to the Self-incompatibility (S-) Locus. Genome 43:820-826.

McCubbin, A.G. and T.-h. Kao. Molecular Recognition and Response in Pollen and Pistil Interactions. Annu. Rev. Cell. Dev. Biol. 16:333-364.

Kao, T.-h. and A.G. McCubbin. A Social Stigma. Nature 403:840-841.

Cosgrove, D.J., S. Gilroy, T.-h. Kao, H. Ma, and J.C. Schultz. Meeting Report: Plant Signaling. Cross Talk Among Geneticists, Physiologists, and Ecologists. Plant Physiol. 124:499-505.

1999

McCubbin, A.G. and T.-h. Kao. The Emerging Complexity of Self-incompatibility (S-) Loci. Sex Plant Reprod. 12:1-5.

Ritchie, S., A.G. McCubbin, G. Ambrose, T.-h. Kao, and S. Gilroy. The Sensitivity of Barley Aleurone Tissue to GA is Heterogeneous and May be Spatially Determined. Plant Physiol. 120:361-370.

Tsukamoto, T., T. Ando, H. Kokubun, H. Watanabe, M. Masada, X. Zhu, E. Marchesi  and T.-h. Kao. Breakdown of Self-incompatibility in a Natural Population of Petunia axillaris (Solanaceae) in Uruguay Containing Both Self-incompatible and Self-compatible Plants. Sex Plant Reprod. 12:6-13.

1998

Marc, J., C.L. Granger, J. Brincat, D.D. Fisher, T.-h. Kao, A.G. McCubbin, and R.J. Cyr. Use of a GFP-MAP4 Reporter Gene for Visualizing Cortical Microtubule Rearrangements in Living Epidermal Cells. Plant Cell. 10:1927-1940.

Verica, J.A. and T.-h. Kao. Self Incompatibility: Self/Nonself Discrimination Between Pollen and Pistil. In: Cellular Interaction of Signalling Pathways in Plant Development. (F. L. Schiavo, R. L. Last, G. Morelli, and N. V. Raikhel, eds.) NATO ASI Series, Subseries H, Cell Biology. 104:263-273, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg.

Verica, J.A., A.G. McCubbin, and T.-h. Kao. Are the Hypervariable Regions of S RNases Sufficient for Allele-specific Recognition of Pollen? Plant Cell. 10:314-316.

1997

Kao, T.-h. and A.G. McCubbin. Molecular and Biochemical Bases of Gametophytic Self-Incompatibility in Solanaceae. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 35:171-176.

Lee, H.-S., Y.-Y. Chung, C. Das, B. Karunanandaa, J.L. van Went, C. Mariani, and T.-h. Kao. Embryo Sac Development is Affected in Petunia inflata Plants Transformed with an Antisense Gene Encoding the Extracellular Domain of Receptor Kinase PRK1. Sex Plant Reprod. 10:341-350.

McCubbin, A.G., Y.-Y. Chung, and T.-h. Kao. A Mutant S3 Rnase of Petunia inflata Lacking Rnase Activity has an Allele-specific Dominant Negative Effect on Self-incompatibility Interactions. Plant Cell. 9:85-95.

1996

McCubbin, A.G. and T.-h. Kao. Self incompatibility and Pollen Rejection in Angiosperms. In: In Vitro Haploid Reproduction in Higher Plants. (S.M. Jain, S.K. Sopory, and R.E.Veilleux, eds.), Vol. 2, pp. 225-253, Kluwer Academic Publisher, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

McCubbin, A.G. and T.-h. Kao. Molecular Mechanisms of Self-incompatibility. Curr. Opin. Biotechnol. 7:150-154.

Lee, H.-S., B. Karunanandaa, A. McCubbin, S. Gilroy, and T.-h. Kao. PRK1, a Receptor-like Kinase of Petunia inflata, is Essential for Post-Meiotic Development of Pollen. Plant J. 9:613-624.

Kao, T.-h. and A.G. McCubbin. How Flowering Plants Discriminate Between Self and Non-self Pollen to Prevent Inbreeding. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93:12059-12065.

1995

Read, S.M., E. Newbigin, A.E. Clarke, B.A. McClure, and T.-h. Kao. Disputed Ancestry: Comments on a Model for the Origin of Incompatibility in Flowering Plants. Plant Cell. 7:66l-664.

Richman, A.D., T.-h. Kao, S.W. Schaeffer, and M.K. Uyenoyama. S-allele Sequence Diversity in Natural Populations of Solanum carolinense, Horsenettle. Heredity 75:405-4l5.

1994

Clark, A.G. and T.-h. Kao. Self incompatibility: Theoretical Concepts and Evolution. In: Genetic Control of Self Incompatibility and Reproductive Development in Flowering Plants. (E.G. Williams, R.B. Knox, and A.E. Clarke, eds.), pp. 220-242. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Netherlands.

Huang, S., H.-S. Lee, B. Karunanandaa, and T.-h. Kao. Ribonuclease Activity of Petunia inflata S Proteins is Essential for Rejection of Self-pollen. Plant Cell. 6:1021-1028.

Kao, T.-h. and S. Huang. Gametophytic Self-incompatibility: A Mechanism for Self/nonself Discrimination During Sexual Reproduction. Plant Physiol. 105:461-466.

Kao, T.-h., S. Huang, H.-S. Lee, and B. Karunanandaa. The Role of Petunia inflata S-proteins in Self-incompatibility. In: Pollen-Pistil Interactions and Pollen Tube Growth. (A. G. Stephenson and T.-h. Kao, eds.), pp. 2l2-2l9. American Society of Plant Physiologists, Rockville, MD.

Karunanadaa, B., S. Huang, and T.-h. Kao. Carbohydrate Moiety of the Petunia inflata S3 Protein is not Required for Self-Incompatibility Interactions Between Pollen and Pistil. Plant Cell. 6:1933-1940.

Karunanandaa, B., A. Singh, and T.-h. Kao. Characterization of a Predominantly Pistil-expressed Gene Encoding a g-thionin-like Protein of Petunia inflata. Plant Mol. Biol. 26:459-464.

Lee, H.-S., S. Huang, and T.-h. Kao. S Proteins Control Rejection of Incompatible Pollen in Petunia inflata. Nature 367:560-563.

Lee, H.-S., B. Karunanandaa, J.-H. Mu, and T.-h. Kao. Characterization and Functional Study of a Pollen-specific Receptor Kinase of Petunia inflata. In: Pollen-Pistil Interactions and Pollen Tube Growth. (A. G. Stephenson, and T.-h. Kao, eds.), pp. 3l0-3l2. American Society of Plant Physiologists, Rockville, MD.

Mu, J.-H., H.-S. Lee, and T.-h. Kao. Characterization of a Pollen-expressed Receptor-like Kinase Gene of Petunia inflata and the Activity of its Encoded Kinase. Plant Cell. 6:709-721.

Mu, J.-H., J.P. Stains, and T.-h. Kao. Characterization of a Pollen-expressed Gene Encoding a Putative Pectin Esterase of Petunia inflata. Plant Mol. Biol. 25:539-544. Stephenson, A.G. and T.-h. Kao, eds. Volume 12 of Current Topics in Plant Physiology: Pollen-Pistil Interactions and Pollen Tube Growth. American Society of Plant Physiology, Rockville, MD.

Wedler, F., R. Bernlohr, R. Hardison, T.-h. Kao, and M. Tien. Solutions Manual for Principles of Biochemistry (2nd edition). (Textbook by Lehninger, Nelson, and Cox), Worth Publishers, Inc., New York, NY.

1993

Kao, T.-h. Self-incompatibility: A Self/Nonself Recognition Mechanism of Sexual Reproduction. In: Plant Signals in Interactions With Others. (J. Schultz and I. Raskin, eds.), pp. 197-207. American Society of Plant Physiologists.

Singh, A., T.-h. Kao, and J.J. Lin. Transformation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens With T-DNA Vectors Using High-Voltage Electroporation. Focus 15:84-86.

1992

Coleman, C.E. and T.-h. Kao. The Flanking Regions of Two Petunia inflata S-Alleles are Heterogeneous and Contain Repetitive Sequences. Plant Mol. Biol. 18:725-737.

Singh, A., K.B. Evensen, and T.-h. Kao. Ethylene Synthesis and Floral Senescence Following Compatible and Incompatible Pollinations in Petunia inflata. Plant Physiol. 99:38-45.

Ai, Y., D.-S. Tsai, and T.-h. Kao. Cloning and Sequencing of cDNAs Encoding Two S-proteins of a Self-compatible Cultivar of Petunia hybrida. Plant Mol. Biol. 19:523-528.

Mu. J., and T.-h. Kao. Expression of cDNAs Encoding Two Petunia inflata S-ribonucleases Using Baculovirus Expression System. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 187:299-304.

Lee, H.-S., A. Singh, and T.-h. Kao. RNase X2, a Pistil-specific Ribonuclease from Petunia inflata, Shares Sequence Similarity with Solanaceous S-proteins. Plant Mol. Biol. 20:1131-1141.

Tsai, D.-S., H.-S., Lee, L.C. Post, K.M. Kreiling, and T.-h. Kao. Sequence of an S-protein of Lycopersicon peruvianum and Comparison with Other Solanaceous S-proteins. Sex. Plant Reprod. 5:256-263.

Singh, A. and T.-h. Kao. Gametophytic Self-incompatibility: Biochemical, Molecular Genetic, and Evolutionary Aspects. In: Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants, International Review of Cytology 140. (S.D. Russell and C. Dumas, eds.), pp. 447-483. Academic Press, New York.

Kao, T.-h. Molecular Genetics of Gametophytic Self-incompatibility in Solanaceae. In: Angiosperm Pollen and Ovules. (E. Ottaviano, D.L. Mulcahy, M. Sari Gorla, and G. Bergamini Mulcahy, eds.), pp. 66-74. Springer-Verlag, New York.

Stephenson, A.G., J.A. Winsor, T.E. Richardson, A. Singh, and T.-h. Kao. Effects of Style Age on the Performance of Self and Cross Pollen in Campanula Rapunculoides. In: Angiosperm Pollen and Ovules. (E. Ottaviano, D.L. Mulcahy, M. Sari Gorla, and G.Bergamini-Mulcahy, eds.), pp. 117-122. Springer-Verlag, New York.

1991

Ai, Y., E. Kron, and T.-h. Kao. S-Alleles are Retained and Expressed in a Self-Compatible Cultivar of Petunia Hybrida. Mol. & Gen. Genet. 230:353-358.

Clark, A.G. and T.-h. Kao. Excess Nonsynonymous Substitution at Shared Polymorphic Sites Among Self Incompatibility Alleles of Solanaceae. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 88:9823-9827.

Ioerger, T.R., J.R. Gohlke, B. Xu, and T.-h. Kao. Primary Structural Features of the Self-Incompatibility Protein in Solanaceae. Sex. Plant Reprod. 4:81-87.

Singh, A., Y. Ai, and T.-h. Kao. Characterization of Ribonuclease Activity of Three S-Allele-Associated Proteins of Petunia inflata. Plant Physiol. 96:61-68.

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