Publications (peer-reviewed)
Ward, E.R. and Barnes, W.M. (1988). VirD2 protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens very tightly linked to the 5' end of T-strand DNA. Science 242: 927-930.
Ward, E.R. and Barnes, W.M. (1989). Integration of multiple copies of a foreign sequence into the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Gene 75: 305-314.
Ward, E.R. and Jen, G.C. (1990). Isolation of single-copy-sequence clones from a yeast artificial chromosome library of randomly-sheared Arabidopsis thaliana DNA. Plant Mol. Biol. 14: 561-568.
Métraux, J.-P., Signer, H., Ryals, J., Ward, E., Wyss-Benz, M., Gaudin, J., Raschdorf, K., Schmid, E., Blum, W. and Inverardi, B. (1990). Increase in salicylic acid at the onset of systemic acquired resistance in cucumber. Science 250: 1004-1006.
Payne, G., Ward, E., Gaffney, T., Ahl-Goy, P., Moyer, M., Harper, A., Meins, F., Jr. and Ryals, J. (1990). Evidence for a third structural class of β -1,3-glucanase in tobacco. Plant Mol. Biol. 15: 797-808.
Nagai, A., Ward, E., Beck, J., Tada, S., Chang, J.-Y., Scheidegger, A. and Ryals, J. (1991). Structural and functional conservation of histidinol dehydrogenase between plants and microbes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88: 4133-4137.
Ward, E.R., Payne, G. B., Moyer, M.B., Williams, S.C., Dincher, S.S., Sharkey, K.C., Beck, J.J., Taylor, H.T., Ahl-Goy, P., Meins, F., Jr. and Ryals, J. A. (1991). Differential regulation of β -1,3-glucanase mRNAs in response to pathogen infection. Plant Physiol. 96: 390-397.
Edelbaum, O., Sher, N., Rubenstein, M., Novick, D., Tal, N., Moyer, M., Ward, E., Ryals, J. and Sela, I. (1991). Two antiviral proteins, gp35 and gp22, correspond to β-1,3-glucanase and an isoform of PR-5. Plant Mol. Biol. 17: 171-173.
Friedrich, L., Moyer, M., Ward, E. and Ryals, J. (1991). Pathogenesis-related protein 4 is structurally homologous to the carboxy-terminal domains of hevein, win-1 and win-2. Mol. Gen. Genet. 230: 113-119.
Ward, E.R., Uknes, S.J., Williams, S.C., Dincher, S.D., Wiederhold, D.W., Alexander, D., Ahl-Goy, P., Métraux, J.-P. and Ryals, J.A. (1991). Coordinate gene activity in response to agents that induce systemic acquired resistance. Plant Cell 3: 1085-1094.
Williams, S., Friedrich, L., Dincher, S., Carozzi, N., Kessmann, H., Ward, E. and Ryals, J. (1992). Chemical regulation of Bacillus thuringiensis δ-endotoxin expression in transgenic plants. Bio/technology 10: 540-543.
Lawton, K., Ward, E., Moyer, M. and Ryals, J. (1992). Expression of acidic and basic class III chitinase mRNAs in pathogen-infected tobacco. Plant Mol. Biol.19: 735-743.
Nagai, A., Suzuki, K., Ward, E., Moyer, M., Hashimoto, M., Mano, J., Ohta, D. and Scheidegger, A. (1992). Over-expression of plant histidinol dehydrogenase using a baculovirus vector expression system. Arch. Biochem. Biophys.295: 235-239.
Uknes, S., Mauch-Mani, B., Moyer, M., Potter, S., Williams, S., Dincher, S., Chandler, D., Slusarenko, A., Ward, E. and Ryals, J. (1992). Acquired resistance in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 4: 645-656.
Alexander, D., Stinson, J., Pear, J., Glascock, C., Ward, E., Goodman, R. M. and Ryals, J. (1992). A new multigene family inducible by tobacco mosaic virus or salicylic acid in tobacco. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 5: 513-515.
Uknes, S., Dincher, S., Friedrich, L., Negrotto, D., Williams, S., Thompson-Taylor, H., Potter, S., Ward, E. and Ryals, J. (1993). Regulation of pathogenesis-related protein-1a gene expression in tobacco. Plant Cell 5: 159-169.
Mizutani, M., Ward, E., DiMaio, J., Ohta, D., Ryals, J. and Sato, R. (1993). Molecular cloning and sequencing of a cDNA encoding mung bean cytochrome P450 (P450C4H) possessing cinnamate 4-hydroxylase activity. Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 190: 875-880.
Alexander, D., Goodman, R.M, Gut-Rella, M., Glascock, C., Weymann, K., Friedrich, L., Maddox, D., Goy, P.A., Luntz, T., Ward, E. and Ryals, J. (1993). Increased tolerance to two oomycete pathogens in transgenic tobacco expressing pathogenesis-related protein 1a. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 90: 7327-7331.
Gaffney, T., Friedrich, L., Vernooij, B., Negrotto, D., Nye, G., Uknes, S., Ward, E., Kessmann, H., and Ryals, J. (1993). Requirement of salicylic acid for the induction of systemic acquired resistance. Science 261: 754-756.
Rasmussen, J.B., Smith, J.A., Williams, S., Burkhart, W., Ward, E., Somerville, S.C., Ryals, J. and Hammerschmidt, R. (1995). Cloning and systemic expression of acidic peroxidases associated with systemic acquired resistance to disease in cucumber. Physiol. Mol. Plant Pathol. 46: 389-400.
Potter, S., Uknes, S., Lawton, K., Winter, A. M., Chandler, D., DiMaio, J., Novitzky, R., Ward, E., and Ryals, J. (1993). Regulation of a hevein-like gene in Arabidopsis. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 6: 680-685.
Uknes, S., Winter, A. M., Delaney, T., Potter, S., Ward, E., and Ryals, J. (1993). Biological induction of systemic acquired resistance in Arabidopsis. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 6: 692-698.
Lawton, K. A., Beck, J., Potter, S., Ward, E., and Ryals, J. (1993). Regulation of cucumber class III chitinase gene expression. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 7: 48-57.
Vernooij, B., Friedrich, L., Morse, A., Reist, R., Kolditz-Jawhar, R., Ward, E., Uknes, S., Kessmann, H., and Ryals, J. (1993). Salicylic acid is not the translocated signal responsible for inducing systemic acquired resistance but is required in signal transduction. Plant Cell 6: 959-965.
Tada, S., Volrath, S., Guyer, D., Scheidegger, A., Ryals, J., Ohta, D., and Ward, E. (1994). Isolation and characterization of cDNAs encoding imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydratase from Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. 105: 579-583.
Dietrich, R. A., Delaney, T.P., Uknes, S.J., Ward, E.R., Ryals, J.A., and Dangl, J.L. (1994). Disease lesion mimic mutations in Arabidopsis trigger systemic resistance to pathogens. Cell 77: 565-577.
Gornicki, P., Podlowinski, J., Scappino, L.A., DiMaio, J., Ward, E., and Haselkorn, R. (1994). Wheat acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase: cDNA and protein structure. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91: 6860-6864.
Delaney, T., Uknes, S., Vernooij, B., Friedrich, L., Weymann, K., Negrotto, D., Gaffney, T., Ward, E., and Ryals, J. (1994). A central role of salicylic acid in plant disease resistance. Science 266: 1247-1250.
Irzyk, G., Potter, S., Ward, E., and Fuerst, E.P. (1995). A cDNA clone encoding the 27 kD subunits of glutathione S-transferase IV from Zea mays. Plant Physiol. 107: 311.
Guyer, D., Patton, D., and Ward, E. (1995). Evidence for cross-pathway regulation of metabolic gene expression in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci USA 92: 4997-5000.
Tada, S., Hatano, M., Nakayama, Y., Volrath, S., Guyer, D., Ward, E., and Ohta, D. (1995). Insect cell expression of recombinant imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydratase of Arabidopsis and wheat and inhibition by triazole herbicides. Plant Physiol. 109: 153-159.
Görlach, J., Volrath, S., Knauf-Beiter, G., Hengy, G., Oostendorp, M., Beckhove, U., Kogel, K.-H., Staub, T., Ward, E., Kessmann, H. and Ryals, J. (1996). Benzothiadiazole, a novel class of inducers of systemic acquired resistance, activates gene expression and disease resistance in wheat. Plant Cell 8:62-643.
Patton, D.A., Volrath, S., and Ward, E. (1996). Complementation of an Arabidopsis thaliana biotin auxotroph with an Escherichia coli biotin biosynthetic gene. Mol. Gen. Genet. 251:261-266.
Patton, D., Pacella, M., and Ward, E.R. (1996). Biotin synthase from Arabidopsis thaliana: cDNA isolation and characterization of gene expression. Plant Physiol. 112:371-378.
Fonne-Pfister, R., Chemla, P., Ward, E., Girardet, M., Kreuz, K., Honzatko, R.B., Fromm, H.J., Schär, H-P., Grutter, M.G., and Cowan-Jacob, S.W. (1996). The mode of action and the structure of a herbicide in complex with its target: binding of activated hydantocidin to the feedback regulation site of adenylosuccinate synthetase. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93: 431-9436.
Mauch, F., Kmecl, A., Schaffrath, U., Volrath, S., Görlach, J., Ward, E., Ryals, J., and Dudler, R. (1997). Mechanosensitive expression of a lipoxygenase in wheat. Plant Physiol. 114:1561-1566.
Patton, D.A., Schetter, A.L., Franzmann, L.H., Nelson, K., Ward, E.R., and Meinke, D.W. (1998). An embryo-defective mutant of Arabidopsis disrupted in the final step of biotin synthesis. Plant Physiol. 116: 935-946.
Guyer, D., Tuttle, A., Rouse, S., Volrath, S., Johnson, M., Potter, S., Görlach, J., Goff, S., Crossland, L., and Ward, E. (1998). Activation of latent transgenes in Arabidopsis using a hybrid transcription factor. Genetics 149: 633-639.
Mizutani, M., Ward, E., and Ohta, D. (1998). Cytochrome P450 superfamily in Arabidopsis thaliana: isolation of cDNAs, differential expression, and RFLP mapping of multiple cytochromes P450. Plant Mol Biol. 37: 39-52.
Lebel, E., Heifetz, P., Thorne, L., Uknes, S., Ryals J., and Ward, E. (1998). Functional analysis of regulatory sequences controlling PR-1 gene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 16: 223-234.
Siminszky, B., Corbin, F.T., Ward, E.R., Fleischmann, T.J., and Dewey, R. (1999). Expression of a soybean cytochrome P-450 in yeast and tobacco enhances the metabolism of phenylurea herbicides. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96: 1750-1755.
Molina, A., Volrath, S., Guyer, D., Maleck, K., Ryals, J., and Ward, E. (1999). Inhibition of protoporphyrinogen oxidase expression in Arabidopsis causes a lesion-mimic phenotype that induces systemic acquired resistance. Plant J. 17: 667-678.
Prade, L., Cowan-Jacob, S.W., Chemla, P., Potter, S., Ward, E., and Fonne-Pfister, R. (2000). Structures of adenylosuccinate synthetase from Triticum aestivum and Arabidopsis thaliana. J. Mol. Biol. 296: 569-577.
Hanin, M., Volrath, S., Briker, M., Ward, E., and Paszkowski, J. (2001). Gene targeting in Arabidopsis. Plant J. 28: 671-677.
Li, X., Volrath, S.L., Nicholl, D.B.G., Chilcott, C.E., Johnson, M.J., Ward, E.R., and Law, M.D. (2003). Development of protoporphyrinogen oxidase as an efficient selection marker for Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of maize. Plant Physiol. 133: 736-747.
