Publications

Sisco, P.H., Sederoff, R.R., Tomkins, J.P., Carlson, J.E., Kubisiak, T.L., Staton, M.E., Hebard, F.V., Anagnostakis, S.L., Powell, W.A. and Smith, C.P. 2009. The United States National Science Foundation project on developing tools for the study of the Fagaceae: Castanea, Quercus, and Fagus. Acta Hort. (ISHS) 844:267-274

Barakat, A., D. S. DiLoreto, Y. Zhang, C. Smith, K. Baier, W. A. Powell, N. Wheeler, R. Sederoff, J. E. Carlson. 2009. Comparison of the transcriptomes of American chestnut (Castanea dentata) and Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima) in response to the chestnut blight infection. BMC Plant Biology. 9:51 (pp. 1-11)

Andrew E. Newhouse, Nicholas S. Kaczmar, Charles A. Maynard. American Elm, in Kole, C. and Hall, T. C. (eds.), “Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants: Transgenic Forest Tree Species”, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2008, pp 241-262.

Maynard, C.A., W.A. Powell, L.D. Polin-McGuigan, A.M. Viéitez, A. Ballester, E. Corredoira, S.A. Merkle and G.M. Andrade (2008) Chestnut. In: Kole, C., Hall, T.C. (eds.) “A Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants: Forest Tree Species”, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK, 2008.

Newhouse, A.E., F. Schrodt, H. Liang, C.A. Maynard, W.A. Powell. 2007. Transgenic American Elm Shows Reduced Dutch Elm Disease Symptoms and Normal Mycorrhizal Colonization. Plant Cell Reports 26:977-987

Welch, A.J., C.A. Maynard, A.J. Stipanovic, and W.A. Powell. 2007. The effects of oxalic acid on transgenic Castanea dentata callus tissue expressing oxalate oxidase. Plant Science 172:488-496

Powell, W. A., P. Morley, M. King and C. A. Maynard. 2007. Small stem chestnut blight resistance assay. Journal of The American Chestnut Foundation 21(2): 34-38

Rothrock, R., L. McGuigan, A. Newhouse, W.A. Powell and C.A. Maynard. 2007. Plate Flooding as an Alternative Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation Method for American Chestnut Somatic Embryos. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 88:93-99

Merkle, S.A., G.M. Andrade, C.J. Nairn, W.A. Powell and C.A. Maynard. 2007. Restoration of threatened species: a noble cause for transgenic trees. Tree Genetics and Genomes 3:111-11

Polin L.D., H. Liang, R. Rothrock, M. Nishii, D. Diehl, A. Newhouse, C.J. Nairn, W. A. Powell, and C.A. Maynard. 2006. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of American chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh.) somatic embryos. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture. 84: 69-79

Powell, W.A., C.A. Maynard, B. Boyle, and A. Seguin. (2006). Fungal and bacterial resistance in transgenic trees. Pages 235-252. In: M. Fladung and D. Ewald, Eds., Tree Transgenics, Recent Developments. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany. 357p.

Newhouse, A., F. Schrodt, C. Maynard, and W. Powell. (2006). American elm (Ulmus americana). Pages 99-112 In: K. Wang, Ed., Agrobacterium Protocols: (2nd edition) Methods in Molecular Biology Book Series #344, Humana Press, Inc., Totowa, NJ. 485 pages

Maynard, C.A., L. D. Polin, S. LaPierre, R. E. Rothrock, and W. A. Powell. (2006). American chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh.). pages 239-251. In: K. Wang, Ed., Agrobacterium Protocols: (2nd edition) Methods in Molecular Biology Book Series #344, Humana Press, Inc., Totowa, NJ.

Liang, H., H. Gao, C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. 2005. Expression of a self-processing, putative pathogen resistance-enhancing gene construct in Arabidopsis. Biotech. L. 27:435-442

Powell, W.A., S.A. Merkle, H. Liang, and C.A. Maynard. 2005. Blight Resistance Technologies: Transgenic Approaches. In, proc. of conf. on restoration of American chestnut to forest lands, Steiner, K.C. and J.E. Carlson (eds.)

Connors, B.J., M. Miller, C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. 2002. Cloning and characterization of promoters from American chestnut capable of directing reporter gene expression in transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Plant Science 163:771-781

 

Connors, B.J., N.P. Laun, C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. 2002. Molecular characterization of a gene encoding a cystatin expressed in the stems of American chestnut (Castanea dentata). Planta 215:510-514

 

 

Liang, H. C.M. Catranis, C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. 2002. Enhanced resistance to the poplar pathogen, Septoria musiva, in hybrid poplar transformed with genes encoding antimicrobial peptides. Biotechnol. Lett. 24(5):383-389

 

 

Connors, B.J., C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. 2001. Expression sequence tags from stem tissue of American chestnut. Biotechnol. Lett. 23:1407-1411

 

Liang, H., C.A. Maynard, R.D. Allen, W.A. Powell. 2001. Increased Septoria musiva resistance in transgenic hybrid poplar leaves expressing a wheat oxalate oxidase gene. Plant Mol. Biol. 45:619-629

 

Powell, W.A., C.M. Catranis, and C.A. Maynard. 2000. Design of self-processing antimicrobial peptides plant protection. Letters in Applied Microbiology 31:163-168

 

Xing, Z.Z., W.A. Powell, and C.A. Maynard. 1999. Development and germination of somatic embryos in American chestnut. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture 57:47-55

 

Maynard, C., Z. Xing, S. Bickel, and W. Powell. 1999. Using Genetic Engineering to Help Save the American Chestnut: A Progress Report. Journal of the American Chestnut Foundation, 12 (2):41-56.

 

Powell, W.A. and C.A. Maynard. 1997. Designing small antimicrobial peptides and their encoding genes. pp.165-172. In Micropropagation, Genetic Engineering, and Molecular Biology of Populus , N.B. Klopfenstein, Y.W. Chun, M.-S. Kim, M.R. Ahuja, eds. M.C. Dillon, R.C. Carman, L.G. Eskew, tech. eds. Tech. Rep. RM-GTR-297. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 310p.

Xing, Z., M.F. Satchwell, W.A. Powell, and C.A. Maynard. 1997. Micropropagation of American chestnut: Increasing rooting rate and preventing shoot-tip necrosis. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology-Plant 33:43-48

 

Kistler, H.C., U. Benny, and W.A. Powell. 1997. Linear mitochondrial plasmids of Fusarium oxysporum contain genes with sequence similarity to a reverse transcriptase from Neurospora spp. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 63:3311-3313

Powell, W.A., C.M. Catranis, and C.A. Maynard. 1995. Synthetic Antimicrobial Peptide Design. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 8:792-794

 

Powell, W.A. 1995. Vegetative incompatibility and mycelial death of Cryphonectria parasitica monitored with pH indicators. Mycologia 87:738-741

Powell, W.A. and Z.H. Yan. 1995. Recombination between Fusarium oxysporum telomeres and pUC ampicillin resistance gene in a transforming vector. Fungal Genetics Newsletter 42:62-64

 

Rizwana, R. and W.A. Powell. 1995. Ultraviolet light-induced heterokaryon formation and parasexuality in Cryphonectria parasitica. Experimental Mycology 19:48-60

Rizwana, R. and W.A. Powell. 1992. Ultraviolet light-induced instability of vegetative compatibility groups of Cryphonectria parasitica. Phytopathology 82:1206-1211

 

Milgroom, M.G., S.E. Lipari, and W.A. Powell. 1992. DNA fingerprinting and analysis of population structure in the chestnut blight fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. Genetics 131:297-306

Powell, W.A. and H.C. Kistler. 1990. In vivo rearrangement of foreign DNA by Fusarium oxysporum produces linear self-replicating plasmids. J. Bact. 172:3163-3171

 

Gobbi, E., Y. Wang, R.M. Martin, W.A. Powell, and N.K. Van Alfen. 1990. Mitochondrial DNA of Cryphonectria parasitica: lack of migration between vegetatively compatible strains. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 3:66-71

Powell, W.A. and N.K. Van Alfen. 1987. Differential accumulation of poly(A)+ RNA between virulent and dsRNA-induced hypovirulent strains of Cryphonectria (Endothia) parasitica. Mol. Cell. Biol. 7:3688-3693

 

Powell, W.A. and N.K. Van Alfen. 1987. Two non-homologous viruses of Cryphonectria (Endothia)parasitica reduced the accumulation of specific virulence associated polypeptides. J. Bact. 169:5324-5326

Hansen, D.R., N.K. Van Alfen, K. Gillis, and W.A. Powell. 1985. Naked dsRNA associated withhypovirulence of Endothia parasitica is packaged in fungal vesicles. J. Gen. Virol. 66:2605-2614

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U.S. Patent

Title: Antimicrobial Peptides

Covers genes encoding antimicrobial peptides designed for enhancing pathogen resistance in plants.

Date of Patent: 1/5/99

Abstract: The present invention is directed to antimicrobial polypeptides and to nucleic acid molecules encoding the antimicrobial polypeptides. The polypeptide consists of 15 to 20 amino acids and has an amphipathic alpha helix structure, wherein 3 or more of the amino acids form a positively charged domain extending axially along the alpha helix. Expression vectors, host cells, and transgenic plants, as well as methods of producing plants having improved resistance to fungal and bacterial infestation, are also proved.

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