Eric J. Stockinger Department of Horticulture and Crop Science The Ohio State University/OARDC 330/263-3876 Personal Background
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Publications Stockinger EJ (2009) Winter hardiness and the CBF genes in the Triticeae. In, “Plant Cold Hardiness From the Laboratory to the Field,” Pennycooke, J.C., Cheng, H., Roberts, S.M., Yang, Q., Rhee, S.Y., and Stockinger, E.J. (2008) The low temperature-responsive, Solanum CBF1 genes maintain high identity in their upstream regions in a genomic environment undergoing gene duplications, deletions, and rearrangements. Plant Mol. Biol. 67, 483-497. Pennycooke, J.C., Cheng, H. and Stockinger, E.J. (2008) Comparative genomic sequence and expression analyses of Medicago truncatula and alfalfa subspecies falcata COLD-ACCLIMATION-SPECIFIC genes. Plant Physiol. 146, 1242-1254. Knox, A.K., Li, C., Vagujfalvi, A., Galiba, G., Stockinger, E.J., and Dubcovsky, J. (2008) Identification of candidate CBF genes for the frost tolerance locus Fr-Am2 in Triticum monococcum. Plant Mol Biol. 67, 257-270. Xiao, H., Jiang, N., Schaffner, E., Stockinger, E.J., and van der Knaap, E. (2008) A retrotransposon-mediated gene duplication underlies morphological variation of tomato fruit. Science 319, 1527-1530. Stockinger, E.J., Skinner, J.S., Gardner, K.G., Francia, E., and Pecchioni, N. (2007) Expression levels of barley Cbf genes at Frost resistance‑H2 are dependent upon alleles at Fr‑H1 and Fr‑H2. Plant J. 51:308-321. Francia, E., Barabaschi, D., Tondelli, A., Laidò, G., Rizza, F., Stanca, A.M. Busconi, M., Fogher, C., Stockinger, E.J., and Pecchioni, N. (2007) Fine mapping of a HvCBF gene cluster at the frost resistance locus Fr-H2 in barley. Theor. Appl. Genet. 115:1083-1091. Tondelli, A., Francia, E., Barabaschi, D., Aprile, A., Skinner, J.S., Stockinger, E.J., Stanca, A.M., and Pecchioni, N. (2006) Mapping regulatory genes as candidates for cold and drought stress tolerance in barley. Theor. Appl. Genet. 112:445-454. Skinner, J.S., Szűcs, P., von Zitzewitz, J., Marquez-Cedillo, L., Filichkin, T., Stockinger, E.J., Chen, T.H.H., and Hayes P.M. (2006) Mapping of barley homologs to genes that regulate low temperature tolerance in Arabidopsis. Theor. Appl. Genet. 112:832-842. Stockinger, E.J., Cheng, H., and Skinner, J.S. (2005) Structural organization of barley CBF genes coincident with a QTL for cold hardiness. In, “Cold Hardiness in Plants,” THH Chen, M Uemura and S Fujikawa, (eds.), CABI Publishing, Skinner, J.S., von Zitzewitz, J., Marquez-Cedillo, L., Filichkin, T., Szûcs, P., Amundsen, K., Stockinger E.J., Thomashow, M.F., Chen, T.H.H., and Hayes, P.M. (2006) Barley Contains a Large CBF Gene Family Associated with Quantitative Cold Tolerance Traits. In, “Cold Hardiness in Plants,” THH Chen, M Uemura and S Fujikawa, (eds.), CABI Publishing Skinner, J.S., von Zitzewitz, J., Szűcs, P., Marquez-Cedillo, L., Filichkin, T., Amundsen, K., Stockinger, E.J., Thomashow, M.F., Chen, T.H.H., and Hayes P.M. (2005) Structural, functional and phylogenetic characterization of a large CBF gene family in barley. Plant Mol. Biol. 59:533-551. Wang, Z., Triezenberg, S.J., Thomashow, M.F., and Stockinger E.J. (2005) Multiple hydrophobic motifs in Arabidopsis CBF1 COOH-terminus provide functional redundancy in trans-activation. Plant Mol. Biol. 58:543-559. Zhang, X., Fowler, S.G., Cheng, H., Lou, Y., Rhee, S.Y., Stockinger, E.J., and Thomashow, M.F. (2004) Freezing Sensitive Tomato has a Functional CBF Cold Response Pathway, but a CBF Regulon that Differs from that of Freezing Tolerant Arabidopsis. Plant J. 39:905-919. Coaker, G.L., Willard, B., Kinter, M., Stockinger, E.J., and Francis, D.M. (2004) Proteomic analysis of resistance mediated by Rcm 2.0 and Rcm 5.1, two loci controlling resistance to bacterial canker of tomato. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 17:1019-1028. Stockinger, E.J., Mao, Y., Regier, M., Triezenberg, S.J. and Thomashow, M.F. (2001) Transcriptional Adaptor and Histone Acetyltransferase Proteins in Arabidopsis and their Interactions with CBF1, a Transcriptional Activator Involved in Cold-Regulated Gene Expression. Nucleic Acids Res. 29:1524-1533. Thomashow, M.F., Gilmour, S.J., Stockinger, E.J., Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R., Zarka, D.G. (2001) Role of the Arabidopsis CBF transcriptional activators in cold acclimation. Physiol. Plant. 112:171-175. Gilmour, S.J., Zarka, D.G., Stockinger, E.J., Salazar, M.P., Houghton, J.M., and Thomashow, M.F. (1998) Low temperature regulation of the Arabidopsis CBF family of AP2 transcriptional activators as an early step in cold-induced COR gene expression. Plant J. 16:433-442. Stockinger, E.J., Gilmour, S.J. and Thomashow, M.F. (1997) Arabidopsis thaliana CBF1 encodes an AP2 domain-containing transcriptional activator that binds to the C-repeat/DRE, a cis-acting DNA regulatory element that stimulates transcription in response to low temperature and water deficit. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 94:1035-1040. Thomashow, M.F., Stockinger, E.J., and Gilmour, S.J. (1997) Regulation of plant gene expression in response to low temperature. In, “Plant Cold Hardiness. Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Physiology,” PH Li and THH Chen (eds.), Plenum, Thomashow, M.F., Stockinger, E.J., Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R., Gilmour, S.J. and Zarka, D.G. (1997) Function and regulation of Arabidopsis thaliana COR (cold-regulated) genes. ACTA Physiol. Planta. 19:497-504. Garvin, D.F., Federici, C.V., Stockinger, E.J., and Waines, J.G. (1997) Genetic marker transmission in early generation common x tepary bean hybrids. J. Hered. 88:537-540. Thomashow, M.F., Artus, N.N., Bloksberg, L.N., Gilmour, S.J., Stockinger, E.J., Wilhelm, K., Uemura, M., Webb, M.S., and Steponkus, P.L. (1996) Cold acclimation in Arabidopsis thaliana: function and regulation of COR genes. In, “Physical Stresses in Plants. Genes and their Products for Tolerance,” S. Grillo and A. Leone (eds.) Springer, Stockinger, E.J., Stockinger, E.J., and Walling, L.L. (1994) Pto3 and Pto4: novel genes from Lycopersicon hirsutum var. glabratum conferring resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 89:879-884. Stockinger, E.J., and Walling, L.L. (1994) A chlorophyll a/b-binding protein gene from soybean (Glycine max. Demmin, D.S., Stockinger, E.J., Chang, Y.C., and Walling, L.L. (1989) Phylogenetic relationships between chlorophyll a/b-binding protein (CAB) multigene family: An intra - and interspecies study. J. Mol. Evol. 29:266-279.
Patents Awarded Thomashow, M.F., Gilmour, S.J., Jiang, C-Z., Fromm, M., Zarka, D.G., Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R., Stockinger, E.J., Zhang, J., and Haake, V. (2004) Plant having altered environmental stress tolerance. Patent no. 6,706,866 Thomashow, M.F., Stockinger, E.J., Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R., Gilmour, S.J., Zarka, D.G., and Jiang, C-Z. (2002) Plant having altered environmental stress tolerance. Patent no. 6,417,428 Thomashow, M.F., and Stockinger, E.J. (1999) DNA and encoded protein which regulates cold and dehydration regulated genes. Patent no. 5,965,705 Thomashow, M.F., Stockinger, E.J., Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R., and Zarka, D.G. (1999) Plant material containing non-naturally introduced binding protein for regulating cold and dehydration regulatory genes. Patent no. 5,929,305 Thomashow, M.F., and Stockinger, E.J. (1999) DNA and encoded protein which regulates cold and dehydration regulated genes. Patent no. 5,892,009 Thomashow, M.F., Stockinger, E.J., Jaglo-Ottosen, K.R., Zarka, D.G., and Gilmour, S.J. (1999) Method for regulating cold and dehydration regulatory genes in a plant. Patent no. 5,891,859
Synergistic Activities Established summer internship program bringing students from underrepresented groups to the Stockinger lab (seven students 2002 to 2008); training of nine additional undergraduate students in research Developed online handbook of molecular biology protocols (http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/stockingerlab/) Created bacteriophage l genomic libraries in 16 plant genotypes and species (available upon request) Journal peer review service (42 articles 2000-2009) Grant review service (Ad hoc reviewer 12 proposals 2000-2008, and National Panel Member 2006)
Professional Societies American Society for Microbiology American Society of Plant Biologists International Society for Plant Molecular Biology The American Society for Horticulture Science The Genetics Society of |