Dr. Judith K. Brown
Professor

Forbes Building, Room 431A
P.O. Box 210036
Tucson, AZ 85721-0036
Phone: (520) 621-1402
Email: jbrown@ag.arizona.edu
 

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Background and Interests
 
Judith K. Brown received a Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from the University of Arizona in 1984. She also received a Master's Degree in 1981 from Washington State University in Plant Pathology, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Horticultural Sciences in 1979 from Texas A&M University. Here at the University of Arizona she teaches Plants and our World to undergraduate students and PLS660 (team taught) Core Concepts in Plant Biology to graduate students. She also contributes one lecture to PLP/MIC 329 Microbial Diversity and is a coordinator for the Plant-Insect Interactions course 496/596A.

Her research program focuses on: the diversity, evolution, and ecology of whitefly-transmitted geminiviruses (genus: Begomovirus; family: Geminiviridae); the cellular and molecular basis for virus-vector specificity and the transmission pathway;; and the natural history, taxonomy, genetics, and evolution of the B. tabaci species complex.

 
Publications
 

Morin S, Biggs RW, Sisterson MS, Shriver L, Ellers-Kirk C, Higginson D, Holley D, Gahan LJ, Heckel DG, Carriere Y, Dennehy TJ, Brown JK, Tabashnik BE. Apr 2003. Three cadherin alleles associated with resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis in pink bollworm. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 100:5004-9

Morin S, Williamson MS, Goodson SJ, Brown JK, Tabashnik BE, Dennehy TJ. Dec 2002. Mutations in the Bemisia tabaci para sodium channel gene associated with resistance to a pyrethroid plus organophosphate mixture. Insect Biochem Mol Biol, 32:1781-91

Idris AM, Brown JK. Jun 2002. Molecular analysis of Cotton leaf curl virus-Sudan reveals an evolutionary history of recombination. Virus Genes, 24:249-56

Zchori-Fein E, Gottlieb Y, Kelly SE, Brown JK, Wilson JM, Karr TL, Hunter MS. Oct 2001. A newly discovered bacterium associated with parthenogenesis and a change in host selection behavior in parasitoid wasps. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 98:12555-60

Brown JK, Idris AM, Torres-Jerez I, Banks GK, Wyatt SD. Aug 2001. The core region of the coat protein gene is highly useful for establishing the provisional identification and classification of begomoviruses. Arch Virol, 146:1581-98

Brown JK. Nov 2000. Molecular markers for the identification and global tracking of whitefly vector-Begomovirus complexes. Virus Res, 71:233-60

Brown JK, Perring TM, Cooper AD, Bedford ID, Markham PG. Feb 2000. Genetic analysis of Bemisia (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) populations by isoelectric focusing electrophoresis. Biochem Genet, 38:13-25

Thomas JC, Adams DG, Nessler CL, Brown JK, Bohnert HJ. Oct 1995. Tryptophan Decarboxylase, Tryptamine, and Reproduction of the Whitefly. Plant Physiol, 109:717-720



 

       
 
 


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