SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Eleanore
T. Wurtzel
Li, F., Vallabhaneni,
R., Yu, J., Rocheford, T., and Wurtzel, E.T. (2008)
The maize
phytoene synthase gene family: overlapping roles for carotenogenesis in
endosperm, photomorphogenesis, and thermal stress-tolerance.
Plant
Physiology 147:1334-1346
(Published on May 28, 2008;
10.1104/pp.108.122119)
supplementary material online.
Harjes, C.E., Rocheford, T., Bai, L., Brutnell, T., Bermudez-Kandianis,
C., Sowinski, S.G., Stapleton, A.E., Vallabhaneni, R., Williams, M.,
Wurtzel, E.T., Yan, J., Buckler, E.S. (2008) Natural genetic
variation in Lycopene Epsilon Cyclase
tapped for maize biofortification.
Science
319:330-333;
supplementary material online.
Li, F.,
Vallabhaneni, R., and Wurtzel, E.T. (2008) PSY3, a new
member of the phytoene synthase gene family conserved in the Poaceae
and a key regulator of abiotic-stress-induced root carotenogenesis.
Plant Physiology
146 (3): 1333-1345 supplementary material online.
First published online December 27, 2007; 10.1104/pp.107.111120
Li, F., Murillo, C., and Wurtzel, E.T. (2007) Maize
Y9
is
essential for 15-cis-zetacarotene isomerization.
Plant Physiology
144:1181-1189.
First published online April 13, 2007;
10.1104/pp.107.098996
Quinlan, R.F.,
Jaradat, T.T., and Wurtzel, E.T. (2007) Escherichia coli
as a platform for functional expression of plant P450 carotene
hydroxylases. Highlight Edition on Carotenoids,
Archives of Biochemistry and
Biophysics
458:146-157. (Available online 3 December 2006)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2006.11.019
Matthews, P.D. and Wurtzel, E.T. (2007) Biotechnology of food
colorant production in
Food Colorants: Chemical and Functional
Properties.
(Carmen Socaciu, Editor) CRC Press. pdf
Cervantes-Cervantes, M., Gallagher, C.E., Zhu, C. and Wurtzel, E.T.
(2006) Maize cDNAs expressed in endosperm encode functional farnesyl
diphosphate synthase with geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase activity
Plant Physiology 141:220-231.
Wurtzel,
E.T.
and Grotewold, E. (2006) Plant Metabolic Engineering in
The Encyclopedia of
Chemical Processing (Sunggyu (K.B.) Lee, Editor), p. 2191-2200, Marcel
Dekker,
Inc,
New York,
USA pdf
Gallagher,
C.E., Matthews,
P.D., Faqiang Li, and Wurtzel, E.T. (2004) Gene duplication in the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway preceded
evolution of the grasses (Poaceae).
Plant
Physiology 135:1776-1783 rice
PSY1 RT-PCR conditions
Wurtzel, E.T. (2004) Genomics, genetics, and biochemistry of maize carotenoid biosynthesis.
In Recent Advances in Phytochemistry, vol 38: 85-110 (J. Romeo, editor),
Elsevier. chapter
Wong, J.C., Lambert, R.J., Wurtzel,
E.T., and Rocheford, T.R. (2004) QTL and candidate genes phytoene synthase
and zetacarotene desaturase associated with the accumulation of carotenoids
in maize.
Theoretical
and Applied Genetics 108(2):349-359
Matthews,
P.D., Luo, R., and Wurtzel, E.T. (2003) Maize phytoene desaturase
and zetacarotene desaturase catalyze a poly-Z desaturation pathway: implications
for genetic engineering of carotenoid content among cereal crops. Journal
of Experimental Botany 54 (391):2215-2230.
Gallagher, C. E., Cervantes-Cervantes,
M. and Wurtzel, E. T. (2003) Surrogate biochemistry: use of Escherichia
coli to identify plant cDNAs that impact metabolic engineering of carotenoid
accumulation Applied
Microbiology and Biotechnology 60:713-719.
Wurtzel, E. T.
(2001) Rice Genetics: Engineering Vitamin A in
Encyclopedia of
Genetics, Eric Reeve (editor)
p. 668-671. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago, IL.
Wurtzel, E. T.,
Luo, R., and Yatou, O. (2001) A simple approach to identify the first rice
mutants blocked in carotenoid biosynthesis.
J
Experimental Botany 52(354): 161-166.
Matthews, P.
D. and Wurtzel, E. T. (2000) Metabolic engineering of carotenoid accumulation
in
Escherichia coli by modulation of the isoprenoid precursor pool
with expression of deoxyxylulose phosphate synthase. Applied
Microbiology and Biotechnology 53:396-400.
Vigneswaran,
A. and Wurtzel, E. T. (1999) A rice cDNA encoding phytoene desaturase
(Accession No. AF049356). (PGR99-131)
Plant Physiology 121:311.
Luo, R. and Wurtzel,
E. T. (1999) A maize cDNA encoding zeta carotene desaturase (Accession
No. AF047490). (PGR99-118) Plant
Physiology
120:1206.
Li, Z.-h. and Wurtzel, E.T. (1998) The
Ltk gene family encodes novel receptor-like
kinases with temporal expression in developing maize endosperm.
Plant Mol Biology 37:749-761.
Maluf, M.P.,
Saab, I.N., Wurtzel, E.T., Sachs, M.M. (1997) The
viviparous12 maize
mutant is deficient in abscisic acid, carotenoids, and chlorophyll synthesis.
J Experimental Botany 48(311): 1259-1268.
Wurtzel, E.T.,
Valdez, G., and Matthews, P.D. (1997) Variation in expression of carotenoid
genes in transformed
E. coli strains.
Bioresearch Journal 1(4): 1-11.
Wurtzel, E.T.,
Li, Z., Luo, R., Matias, D., Mozoub, D., Matthews, P.D., Upasani, V.,Valdez,
G., Yoganathan, A., Yu, J. (1996) Research towards improvement of the pro-vitamin
A (carotenoid) content of rice endosperm.
International Rice Research Notes 21:2-3.
Li, Z.-h., Matthews, P.D., Burr, B. and Wurtzel, E.T. (1996) Cloning and characterization of
a maize cDNA encoding phytoene desaturase, an enzyme of the carotenoid
biosynthetic pathway. Plant
Mol Biology 30: 269-279.
Wurtzel, E.T.
(1992) Use of a
Ds chromosome-breaking element to examine maize
Vp5
expression.
J.
Heredity 83: 109-113.
Wurtzel,
E.T.,
Burr, F.A., and Burr, B. (1987) DNase I hypersensitivity and expression of
the Shrunken-1
gene of maize.
Plant Mol. Biology 8: 251-264.