Hua, Z. and Kao, T.-h. (2008). Identification of major lysine residues of S3-RNase of Petunia inflata involved in ubiquitin-26S proteasome mediated degradation in vitro. Plant J. In Press.
Hua, Z. and Kao, T.-h. (2006). Identification and characterization of components of a putative Petunia S-locus F-box-containing E3 ligase complex involved in S-RNase-based self-incompatibility. Plant Cell 18, 2531-53. (PDF)
Kokubun, H., Nakano, M., Tsukamoto, T., Watanabe, H., Hashimoto, G., Marchesi, E., Bullrich, L., Basualdo, I.L., Kao, T.-h., Ando, T. (2006). Distribution of self-compatible and self-incompatible populations of Petunia axillaris (Solanaceae) outside Uruguay. J Plant Res. 119, 419-30. Epub 2006 Aug 17. (PDF)
Dowd, P.E., Coursol, S., Skirpan, A.L., Kao, T.-h., Gilroy, S. (2006). Petunia phospholipase c1 is involved in pollen tube growth. Plant Cell 18, 1438-53. Epub 2006 Apr 28. (PDF)
Skirpan, A.L., Dowd, P.E., Sijacic, P., Jaworski, C.J., Gilroy, S., Kao, T.-h. (2006). Identification 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, 553-65. (PDF)
Tsukamoto, T., Ando. T., Watanabe, H., Marchesi, E. and Kao, T.-h. (2005). 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 axillaries. Plant Mol. Biol. 57, 141-153. (PDF)
Kao, T.-h. and Tsukamoto, T. (2004). The molecular and genetic bases of S-RNase-based self-incompatibility. Plant Cell 16: S72-83. (PDF)
Sijacic, P, Wang, X., Skirpan, A. L., Wang, Y., Dowd, P. E., McCubbin, A. G., Huang, S. and Kao, T.-h. (2004). Identification of the pollen determinant of S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility. Nature 429, 302-305. (PDF)
Wang, Y., Tsukamoto, T., Yi, K.-w., Wang, X., Huang, S., McCubbin, A. G. and Kao, T.-h. (2004). Chromosome 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.(PDF)
Tsukamoto, T., Ando, T., Kokubun, H., Watanabe, H., Sato, T., Masada, M., Marchesi, E. and Kao, T.-h. (2003). 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, 255-266. (PDF)
Tsukamoto, T., Ando, T., Takahashi, K., Omori, T., Watanabe, H., Kokubun, H., Marchesi, E., and Kao, T.-h. (2003). Breakdown of self-Incompatibility in a natural population of Petunia axillaris caused by loss of pollen function. Plant Physiol. 131, 1903-1912.(PDF)
Wang, Y., Wang, X., McCubbin, A. G. and Kao T.-h. (2003). Genetic mapping and molecular characterization of the self-incompatibility (S-) locus in Petunia inflata. Plant Mol. Biol. 53, 565-580.(PDF)
Wang, Y., Wang, X., and Skirpan, A. L., and Kao, T.-h. (2003). S-RNase-mediated self-incompatibility. J. Exp. Bot. 54, 115-122.(PDF)
Fasano, J. M., Swanson, S. J., Blancaflor, E. B., Dowd, P. E., Kao, T.-h. and Gilroy, S. (2001). Changes in root cap pH are required for the gravity response of the Arabidopsis root. Plant Cell 13, 907-921. (PDF)
Skirpan, A. L., McCubbin, A. G., Ishimizu, T., Wang, X., Hu, Y., Dowd, P. E., Ma, H. and Kao, T.-h. (2001). 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.(PDF)
Wang, X., Hughes, A. L., Tsukamoto, T., Ando, T. and Kao, T.-h. (2001). Evidence that intragenic recombination contributes to allelic diversity of the S-RNase gene at the self-incompatibility (S) locus in Petunia inflata. Plant Physiol. 125, 1012-1022. (PDF)
Kao, T.-h. and McCubbin, A. G. (2000). A social stigma. Nature 403, 840-841. (PDF)
McCubbin, A. G. and Kao, T.-h. (2000). Molecular recognition and response in pollen and pistil interactions. Annu. Rev. Cell Dev. Biol. 16, 333-364. (PDF)
McCubbin, A. G., Wang, X. and Kao, T.-h. (2000a). Identification of self-incompatibility (S-) locus linked pollen cDNA markers in Petunia inflata. Genome 43, 619-627.(PDF)
McCubbin, A. G., Zuniga, C. and Kao, T.-h. (2000b). 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.(PDF)
McCubbin, A. G. and Kao, T.-h. (1999). The emerging complexity of self-incompatibility (S-) loci. Sex. Plant. Reprod. 12, 1-5.(PDF)
Lee, H.-S., Chung, Y.-Y., Das, C., Karunanandaa, B., van Went, J.-L. Mariani, C. and Kao, T.-h. (1997). 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.(PDF)
McCubbin, A. G., Chung, Y.-Y. and Kao, T.-h. (1997). 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. (PDF)
Kao, T.-h. and McCubbin, A. G. (1996). How flowering plants discriminate between self and non-self pollen to prevent inbreeding. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 12059-12065.(PDF)
Lee, H.-S., Karunanandaa, B., McCubbin, A., Gilroy, S., and Kao, T.-h. (1996). PRK1, a receptor-like kinase of Petunia inflata, is essential for post-meiotic development of pollen. Plant J. 9, 613-624.(PDF)
Richman, A. D., Kao, T.-h., Schaeffer, S. W., and Uyenoyama, M. K. (1995). S-allele sequence diversity in natural populations of Solanum carolinense, Horsenettle. Heredity 75, 405-415. (PDF)
Huang, S., Lee, H.-S., Karunanandaa, B. and Kao, T.-h. (1994). Ribonuclease activity of Petunia inflata S proteins is essential for rejection of self-pollen. Plant Cell 6, 1021-1028.(PDF)
Karunanandaa, B., Huang, S. and Kao, T.-h. (1994). Carbohydrate moiety of the Petunia inflata S3 protein is not required for self-incompatibility interactions between pollen and pistil. Plant Cell 6, 1933-1940.(PDF)
Lee, H.-S., Huang, S. and Kao, T.-h. (1994). S proteins control rejection of incompatible pollen in Petunia inflata. Nature 367, 560-563. (PDF)
Mu, J.-H., Lee, H.-S. and Kao, T.-h. (1994). Characterization of a pollen-expressed receptor-like kinase gene of Petunia inflata and the activity of its encoded kinase. Plant Cell 6, 709-721. (PDF)
Coleman, C. E. and Kao, T.-h. (1992). The flanking regions of two Petunia inflata S-alleles are heterogeneous and contain repetitive sequences. Plant Mol. Biol. 18, 725-737. (PDF)
Lee, H.-S., Singh, A. and Kao, T.-h. (1992). RNase X2, a pistil-specific ribonuclease from Petunia inflata shares sequence similarity with solanaceous S-proteins. Plant Mol. Biol. 20, 1131-1141. (PDF)
Clark, A. G. and Kao, T.-h. (1991). Excess nonsynonymous substitution at shared polymorphic sites among self-incompatibility alleles of Solanaceae. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88, 9823-9827.(PDF)
Ioerger, T. R., Gohlke, J. R., Xu, B. and Kao, T.-h. (1991). Primary structural features of the self-incompatibility protein in Solanaceae. Sex. Plant Reprod. 4, 81-87.(PDF)
Singh, A., Ai, Y. and Kao, T.-h. (1991). Characterization of ribonuclease activity of three S-allele-associated proteins of Petunia inflata. Plant Physiol. 96, 61-68. (PDF)
Ai, Y., Singh, A., Coleman, C. E., Ioerger, T. R., Kheyr-Pour, A. and Kao T.-h. (1990). Self-incompatibility in Petunia inflata: isolation and characterization of cDNAs encoding three S-allele-associated proteins. Sex. Plant Reprod. 3, 130-138.(PDF)
Ioerger, T. R., Clark, A. G. and Kao, T.-h. (1990). Polymorphism at the self-incompatibility locus in Solanaceae predates speciation. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 87, 9732-9735. (PDF)
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