Maloof Lab

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Research How do organisms adapt to different environments? We are interested in understanding the genetic and molecular changes that take place as organisms adapt to different environments. Which genes change, what types of genetic changes occur, and how do these changes affect the organism at the biochemical, physiological, and ecological levels? Since plants are rooted in their environment, they are particularly adept at coping with their environment. Furthermore different species, and populations within species, have adapted to different environments. Therefore plants are well suited for studying adaptation mechanisms. Because light is fundamental to plant growth, we have focused on how plants sense and respond to environmental light cues. We are focused on light perception by the phytochrome photoreceptors. Phytochromes sense red and far-red light and provide information about the density of neighboring foliage (among other things). We work on domesticated and wild tomato, Brassica rapa, Arabidopsis thaliana and related species using a combination of genomics, molecular and quantitative genetics, and molecular evolution techniques. read more...

Lab Members Susan Bush Leonela Carriedo Mike Covington Upendra Kumar Devisetty Daniel Fulop Bob Harris Julin Maloof Kazunari Nozue Palmer Amanda Schrager Visiting Scholars Guogui Ning Cristina Nieto Garcia Former Members Daniele Filiault Jose M Jimenez-Gomez Patricia Mueller-Moule Maxwell Mumbach Matthew Schultz Danelle Seymour An Tat See all former members...

Selected Publications Kerwin, R. E., Jimenez-Gomez, J. M., Fulop, D., Harmer, S. L., Maloof, J. N. & Kliebenstein, D. J. Network Quantitative Trait Loci Mapping of Circadian Clock Outputs Identifies Metabolic Pathway-to-Clock Linkages in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 23, 471-485 (2011). [1] Nozue, K., Harmer, S. L. & Maloof, J. N. Genomic analysis of circadian clock-, light-, and growth-correlated genes reveals PIF5 as a modulator of auxin signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol (2011). [2] Jiménez-Gómez, J. M., Wallace, A. D. & Maloof, J. N. Network analysis identifies ELF3 as a QTL for the shade avoidance response in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genet 6, (2010). [3] Jimenez-Gomez, J. M. & Maloof, J. N. Sequence diversity in three tomato species: SNPs, markers, and molecular evolution. BMC Plant Biol 9, 85 (2009). [4] Filiault, D. L., Wessinger, C. A., Dinneny, J. R., Lutes, J., Borevitz, J. O., Weigel, D., Chory, J. & Maloof, J. N. Amino acid polymorphisms in Arabidopsis phytochrome B cause differential responses to light. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105, 3157-3162 (2008). [5] see complete list...	Announcements Group meeting, journal clubs, and seminars
	Funding NSF Plant Genome Research Program GEPR: Elucidating gene networks regulating development in tomato Molecular evolutionary genetics of crop and weed responses to crowding (2002-2008) Human Frontier Science Program (2004-2008)
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