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
 

Cheol Soo Kim, Young-min Woo, Amy M. Clore, Ronald J. Burnett, Newton P. Careniro and Brian A. Larkins (2002) Zein protein interactions rather than asymmetric distribution of zein mRNAs on endoplasmic reticulum membranes influence protein body formation in maize endosperm. Plant Cell 14, 655-672.

Brian P. Dilkes, Ricardo A. Dante, Cintia Coelho and Brian A. Larkins (2002) Genetic analyses of endoreduplication in Zea mays endosperm: evidence of sporophytic and zygotic maternal control. Genetics 160, 1163-1177.

Rongling Wu, Xiang-Yang Lou, Chang-Xing Ma, Xuelu Wang, Brian A. Larkins and George Cassella (2002) An improved genetic model generates high-resolution mapping of QTL for protein quality in maize endosperm. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA 99, 11281-11286.

Brenda G. Hunter, Mary K. Beatty, George W. Singletary, Bruce R. Hamaker, Brian P. Dilkes, Brian A. Larkins and Rudolf Jung (2002) Maize opaque endosperm mutations create extensive changes in patterns of gene expression. Plant Cell 14, 2591-2612.

William Gordon-Kamm, Brian P. Dilkes, Keith Lowe, George Hoerster, Xifan Sun, Margit Ross, Laura Church, Chris Bunde, Feff Farrell, Patrea Hill, Sheila Maddock, Jane Snyder, Louisa Sykes, Zhongsen Li, Young-min Woo, Dennis Bidney and Brian A. Larkins (2002) Stimulation of the cell cycle and maize transformation by disruption of the plant retinoblastoma pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99, 11975-11980.

Jose A. Lopez-Valenzuela, Bryan C. Gibbon, Peter A. Hughes, Theo W. Dreher, and Brian A. Larkins (2003) eEF1A isoforms change in abundance and actin-binding activity during maize endosperm development. Plant Physiology 133, 1285-1295.

Bryan C. Gibbon, Xuelu Wang and Brian A. Larkins (2003) Altered starch structure is associated with endosperm modification in Quality Protein Maize. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 100, 15329-15334.

Cheol Soo Kim, Brenda G. Hunter, Jeffery Kraft, Rebecca S. Boston, Sarah Yans, Rudolf Jung and Brian A. Larkins (2004) A defective signal peptide in a 19-kD -zein protein causes the unfolded protein response and an opaque endosperm phenotype in the maize De*-B30 mutant. Plant Physiology 134, 380-387.

Jose A. Lopez-Valenzuela, Bryan C. Gibbon, David. R. Holding and Brian A. Larkins (2004) Cytoskeletal proteins are coordinately increased in maize genotypes with high levels of eEF1A. Plant Physiology (in press).

João T. Leiva-Neto, Gideon Grafi, Paolo A. Sabelli, Ricardo A. Dante, Young-min Woo, Sheila Maddock, William J. Gordon-Kamm and Brian A. Larkins (2004) A dominant negative mutant of cyclin-dependent kinase A reduces endoreduplication but not cell size or gene expression in maize endosperm. Plant Cell (in press).

 



 

       
 
 


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