Dr. Frans E. Tax
Assistant Professor
Molecular and Cellular Biology

Life Sciences South Building, Room 346
P.O. Box 210106
Tucson, AZ 85721
Phone: 626-1186
Email: fetax@u.arizona.edu
 

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Background and Interests
 
Frans Tax received a Ph.D. in Genetics from the Unviersity of Washington. He also has a bachelor's degree in Zoology from the Unviersity of North Carolina. Here at the University of Arizona he teaches Methods in Recombinant DNA Research, Molecular Biology and Advanced Genetics. His research interests include discovering how plant cells signal each other during development, phytohormone signal transduction and developmental genetics. (For a list of selected publications, please see below)

 
Selected Publications
 
Tax, F.E., J.J. Yeargers and J.H. Thomas (1994). Sequence of C. elegans lag-2 reveals a cell signalling domain shared with Delta and Serrate of Drosophila. Nature 368: 150-154.

Krysan, P. J., J. C. Young, F. Tax and M. R. Sussman (1996). Identification of transferred DNA insertions within Arabidopsis genes involved in signal transduction and ion transport. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 8145-8150.

Tax, F.E., J.H. Thomas, E.L. Ferguson and H.R. Horvitz (1997). The identification and characterization of genes that interact with lin-12 in C. elegans. Genetics 147: 1675-1695.

Noguchi, T., S. Fujioka, S. Choe, S. Takatsuto, S. Yoshida, H. Yuan, K. A. Feldmann, F.E. Tax (1999). Brassinosteroid-insensitive (bri1) dwarf mutants of Arabidopsis accumulate brassinosteroids. Plant Physiology 121: 743-752.

Li, J., K. Lease, F.E. Tax and J.C. Walker. (2001) BRS1, a serine
carboxypeptidase, is a regulator of BRI1 signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA.98: 5916-5921.

Tax, F.E. and D. Vernon. (2001) T-DNA associated duplication/translocations in Arabidopsis: implications for mutant analysis, reverse genetics and genomics resources. Plant Physiology 126: 1527-1538.

Li,J., J. Wen, K. A. Lease, J. T. Doke, F. E. Tax, and J. C. Walker, (2002) BAK1, an Arabidopsis leucine-rich repeat receptor-like protein kinase, interacts with BRI1 and modulates brassinosteroid signaling. Cell 110: 213-222.

Choe, S, R. Schmitz, S. Fujioka, S. Takatsuto, M.O. Lee, S. Yoshida, K.A. Feldmann and F.E. Tax, (2002) Arabidopsis brassinosteroid-insensitive dwarf12 mutants are semidominant and defective in a GSK-3-Beta like kinase. Plant Physiology 130: 1506-1515.

Tax F.E. and A. Durbak (2006) Meristems in the movies: live imaging as a tool for decoding intercellular signaling in shoot apical meristems. Plant Cell 18; 1331-7.

Morillo, S.A. and F.E. Tax. (2006) Functional analysis of receptor-like kinases in monocots and dicots. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 9:460-9.

Nodine, M., Yadegari R and F.E. Tax. (2007) RPK1 and TOAD2 are two receptor-like kinases redundantly required for Arabidopsis embryonic pattern formation.
Developmental Cell 12: 943-956.



 

       
 
 


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