Dr. Brian A. Larkins
Porterfield Professor of
Plant Sciences

Marley Building, Room 822
Phone: (520) 621-9958
Email: larkins@ag.arizona.edu
 

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Background and Interests
 
Brian Larkins received a Ph.D. in Botany from the University of Nebraska in 1974. He also received a Bachelor's Degree in Education at the University of Nebraska. He currently teaches Introductory Biology at the University of Arizona. His research interest is molecular and cellular aspects of seed development. Dr. Larkins has received several awards and recognition including the Henry and Phyllis Koffler Prize in Research in 2003 and Researcher of the Year Award from the University of Arizona College of Agriculture in 1997. Results of his research have appeared in many scientific publications including The Plant Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (For a list of Select Publications, please see below)

 
Publications
 

Li Zhang, Mark C.K. Yang, Xuelu Wang, Brian A. Larkins, Maria Gallo-Meagher, and Rongling Wu (2004) A model for estimating joint maternal-offspring effects on seed development in autogamous plants. Physiological Genomics 19, 262-269.

Jinsheng Lai, Nrisinga Dey, Cheol-Soo Kim, Arvind K. Bharti, Stephen Rudd, Klaus F.X. Mayer, Brian A. Larkins, Philip Beacraft, and Joachim Messing (2004) Characterization of the maize endosperm transcriptome and its comparison to the rice genome. Genome Research 14, 1932-1937.

Cintia M. Coelho, Ricardo A. Dante, Paolo A. Sabelli, Yuejin Sun, Brian P. Dilkes, William J. Gordon-Kamm and Brian A. Larkins (2005) Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors in maize endosperm and their potential role in endoreduplication. Plant Physiology 138, 2323-2336.

Paolo A. Sabelli Ricardo A. Dante, João T. Leiva-Neto, Rudolf Jung, William J. Gordon-Kamm, and Brian A. Larkins (2005) RBR3, a novel member of the retinoblastoma-related family from maize, is regulated by the RBR1/E2F pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 102, 13005-13012.

Paolo A. Sabelli, João T. Leiva-Neto, Ricardo A. Dante, Hong Nguyen, and Brian A. Larkins (2005) Cell cycle regulation during maize endosperm development. Maydica 50, 485-496.
David R. Holding and Brian A. Larkins (2006) The developmental importance of zein protein bodies in maize endosperm. Maydica 51, 243-254.

Cheol Soo Kim, Brian C. Gibbon, Jeffrey W. Gilikin, Brian A. Larkins, Rebecca S. Boston, and Rudolf Jung (2006) The maize Mucronate mutation is a deletion in the 16-kDa ?-zein gene that induces the unfolded protein response. Plant Journal 48, 440-451.

A. Mark Settles, David R. Holding, Bao Cai Tan, Susan P. Latshaw, Juan Liu, Masaharu Suzuki, Li Li, Brent A O'Brien, Diego S Fajardo, Ewa Wroclawska, Chi-Wah Tseung, Jinsheng Lai, Charles T. Hunter III, Wayne T. Avigne, John Baier, Donald Lonon, Joachim Messing, L. Curtis Hannah, Karen E. Koch, Philip W. Becraft, Brian A. Larkins and Donald R. McCarty (2007) Sequence-indexed mutations in maize using the UniformMu transposon-tagging population. BMC Genomics 8, 116.

Taijoon Chung, Cheol Soo Kim, Hong N. Nguyen, Robert B. Meeley, and Brian A. Larkins (2007) The maize Zmsmu2 gene encodes a putative RNA splicing factor that affects protein synthesis and RNA processing during endosperm development. Plant Physiology 144, 821-835.

Xuelu Wang, Jose A. Valenzuela, Bryan C. Gibbon, Bertrand Gaikiere, Gad Galili and Brian A. Larkins (2007) Characterization of mono-functional aspartate kinase genes in maize and their relationship with free amino acid content in the endosperm. Journal of Experimental Botany 58, 2653 - 2660.

David R. Holding, Marissa Otegui, Bailin Li , B., Robert B. Meeley, Thao Dam, Brenda G. Hunter, Rudolf Jung and Brian A. Larkins (2007) The maize Floury1 gene encodes a novel ER protein involved in zein protein-body formation. Plant Cell 19, 2569-2582.

Cintia M. Coelho, Song Wu, Youchun Li, Brenda G. Hunter, Ricardo A. Dante, Yuehuai Cui, Rongling Wu and Brian A. Larkins (2007) Identification of quantitative trait loci that affect endoreduplication in maize endosperm. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 115, 1137-1145.

David R. Holding, Brenda G. Hunter, Taijoon Chung, Bryan C. Gibbon, Clark F. Ford, Arvind K. Bharti, Joachim Messing, Bruce R. Hamaker, and Brian A. Larkins (2008) Genetic analysis of opaque2 modifier loci in quality protein maize. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 117, 157-170.

Yanchun Li, Cintia M. Coelho, Tian Liu, Song Wu, Jiasheng Wu, Yanru Zeng, Youchun Li, Brenda Hunter, Ricardo A. Dante, Brian A. Larkins, and Rongling Wu (2008) A statistical model for estimating maternal-zygotic interactions and parent-of-origin effects of QTLs for seed development. PLoS ONE 3(9): e3131.doi:10.137/journal.pone.0003131

Paolo A. Sabelli and Brian A. Larkins (2009) The development of endosperm in grasses. Plant Physiology 149, 14-26.

Paolo A. Sabelli, George Hoerster, Lucina A. Lizarraga, Sarah W. Brown, William J. Gordon-Kamm and Brian A. Larkins (2009) Positive regulation of MCM gene expression, DNA replication, and cell transformation by a plant retinoblastoma gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of. Sciences USA 106, 4042-4047.

 



 

       
 
 


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