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Charles A. Maynard
Director, American Chestnut Research & Restoration Center
216 Marshall Hall
1 Forestry Dr.
Syracuse, New York 13210
Phone: (315) 470-6560
Email: cmaynard@syr.edu
Highest Education
Ph.D., Iowa State University (Forest Biology and Wood Science), 1980.
Areas of Study
Forest genetics, Tree improvement, Plant tissue culture and transformation.
Courses Taught
BTC 426/EFB 626: Plant Tissue Culture Methods, an upper division/graduate course that introduces plant tissue culture as a foundation for biotechnology research and as a propagation method. This course emphazises laboratory instrumentation (microbalances, pH meter, autoclave, laminar-flow hood, stereomicroscope and other common pieces of tissue culture laboratory equipment) and basic aseptic techniques for establishing cell cultures, producing transgenic cell lines, and regenerating whole plants. As a semester- long project, students will research, design, and implement a micropropagation system for a plant species if their own choosing.
FOR 334: Silviculture (forest genetics and tree improvement component approximately 1 credit). My component of a team-taught course required of all juniors in the Resource Management curriculum.
FOR 481: Introduction to Arboriculture.
EFB 307: Genetics (Quantitative & population genetics, and evolution components, approximately 1 credit) Team taught with Dr. William Powell.
Most Recent Publications
Cameron, K.D., I. S. Phillips, R. F. Kopp, T. A. Volk, C. A. Maynard, L. P. Abrahamson, and L. B. Smart. (2008). Quantitative Genetics of Traits Indicative of Biomass Production and Heterosis in 34 Full-sib F1 Salix eriocephala Families. Bioenergy Research (Bioenerg. Res. 1:80?90.
Maynard, C.A., Powell, W.A., Polin-McGuigan, L.D., Vi?tez, A.M., Ballester, A., Corredoira, E., Merkle, S.A. and Andrade, G.M. 2008. Chestnut. Chapter 5 In: Kole, C. and Hall, T.C. (eds.) A Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants. Volume 9. Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 169-192.
Newhouse, A.E., N.S. Kaczmar, C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. 2008. American Elm. Chapter 8 In: Kole, C. and Hall, T.C. (eds.) A Compendium of Transgenic Crop Plants. Volume 9. Wiley-Blackwell. Pp. 241-262.
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
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
Maynard, C.A., Polin, L. D., LaPierre, S., Rothrock, R.E. and Powell, W.A. (2006) American chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh.). In: Wang, K. (ed.) Agrobacterium Protocols, 2nd Edition. Humana Press. pp. 239-251.
Newhouse, A., F. Schrodt, C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. (2006). Transforming American elm with a broad-spectrum antimicrobial peptide for resistance to Dutch-elm disease. Pages 99-112 In: K. Wang Ed. Agrobacterium Protocols, 2nd Edition. Humana Press.
Powell, W. A., Maynard, C. A., Boyle, B. and Seguin, A. (2006) Fungal and bacterial resistance in transgenic trees. Pages 236-252 (Chapter 11) In: Fladung, M. and Ewald, D. (Eds.) Transgenic Trees, Springer.
Merkle, S.A., Andrade, G.M., Nairn, C.J., Powell, W.A. and Maynard, C.A. (2007) Restoration of threatened species: A noble cause for transgenic trees. Tree Genetics & Genomes 3: 111-118
Rothrock, R.E., Polin-Mcguigan, L.D., Newhouse, A.E., Powell, W.A. and Maynard, C.A. (2007) Plate flooding as an alternative Agrobacterium-mediated transformation method for American chestnut somatic embryos. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 88: 93-99
Welch, A.J., A.J. Stipanovic, C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. (2007) The effects of oxalic acid on transgenic Castanea dentata callus tissue expressing oxalate oxidase. Plant Science 172:488-496.
Polin L.D., H. Liang, R. Rothrock, M. Nishii, D. Diehl, A. Newhouse, W. A. Powell, and C.A. Maynard. (2006). Transformation of American chestnut (Castanea dentata (Marsh.) Borkh.) somatic embryos. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture. 84:69-78.
Liang, H. H. Gao, C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. 2005. Expression of a self-processing, pathogen resistance-enhancing gene construct in Arabidopsis. Biotechnology Letters 27:435-442.
Pike, C.C., D. J. Robison, C.A. Maynard and L.P. Abrahamson. 2003. Evaluating growth and resistance of eastern and western white pine to white pine weevil and blister rust in the Northeast.. N. J. Applied. For. 20(1) 19-26.
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., C.A. Maynard, and W.A. Powell. 2001. Expression sequence tags from stem tissue of American chestnut. Biotechnology Letters 23:1407-1411.
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.
Kopp, R.F. C.A. Maynard, P. Rocha de Niella, L.B. Smart and L.P. Abrahamson. 2002. Collection and storage of Salix pollen using organic solvents. American Journal of Botany 89(2):248-252.
Kopp, R.F., L. B. Smart, C.A. Maynard, G.A. Tuskan and L. P. Abrahamson. 2002. Predicting within-family variability in juvenile height growth of Salix based upon similarity among parental AFLP fingerprints. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 105:106-112.
