Publications (solicited reviews, book chapters)

Métraux, J.-P., Ahl Goy, P., Staub, Th., Speich, J., Steinemann, A., Ryals, J. and Ward, E. (1990).  Induced systemic resistance in cucumber in response to 2,6-dichloro-isonicotinic acid and pathogens.  In Advances in the Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 1.  Hennecke, H., ed. (Kluwer: Dordrecht) pp. 432-439.

Ryals, J., Ward, E. and Métraux, J.-P. (1992).  Systemic acquired resistance: an inducible defense mechanism in plants.  In Society for Experimental Biology Seminar Series 49: Inducible Plant Proteins: Their Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Wray, J. L., ed. (Cambridge Univ. Press), pp. 205-229.

Lawton, K, Uknes, S, Ward, E. and Ryals, J.(1992).  Plant-pathogen interactions. Curr. Opinion Biotechnol. 3: 171-175.

Métraux, J.-P., Ryals, J. and Ward, E. (1993). Plant immunization against pathogens. In 1993 McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology (McGraw-Hill:New York), pp. 322-325.

Alexander, D., Glascock, C., Pear, J., Stinson, J., Ahl-Goy, P., Gut-Rella, M., Ward, E., Goodman, R. M., and Ryals, J. (1993). Systemic acquired resistance in tobacco: use of transgenic expression to study the functions of pathogenesis-related proteins. In Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions, Vol. 2. Nester, E. W. and Verma, D. P. S., eds. (Kluwer:Dordrecht) pp. 527-533.

Lamb, C.J., Ryals, J.A., Ward, E. R., and Dixon, R. A. (1992). Emerging strategies for enhancing crop resistance to microbial pathogens. Bio/technology 10: 1436-1444.

Uknes, S., Lawton, K.  Ward, E.  Gaffney, T., Friedrich, L., Alexander, D., Goodman, R., Métraux, J.-P., Kessmann, H., Ahl-Goy, P., Gut-Rella, M., and Ryals, J. (1992). The molecular biology of systemic acquired resistance. In Plant Responses to the Environment. Current Topics of Plant Molecular Biology Vol. II, Gresshoff, P. M., ed. (CRC Press, Boca Raton), pp. 1-10.

Nagai, A., Ward, E., Suzuki, K., Tada, S., Mano, J., Beck, J., Moyer, M., Chang, J-Y., Ryals, J., and Scheidegger, A. (1992) Histidinol dehydrogenase in higher plants. In Frontiers and new horizons in amino acid research. Takai, K., ed. (Elsevier, Amsterdam) pp. 349-353.

Lamb, C.J., Ryals, J.A., Ward, E.R., Dixon, R.A. (1993) Emerging strategies for enhancing crop resistance to microbial pathogens.  In Biotechnology in agriculture. (Proceedings of the First Asia-Pacific Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology, Beijing, China, 20-24 August 1992.) Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture Vol. 15. You, C. B., Chen, Z. L., Ding. Y., eds. (Kluwer, Dordrecht) pp. 45-60.

Lawton, K., Uknes, S., Friedrich, L., Gaffney, T., Alexander, D., Goodman, R., Métraux, J.-P., Kessmann, H., Ahl-Goy, P., Gut-Rella, M., Ward, E., and Ryals, J. (1993). The molecular biology of systemic acquired resistance. In Mechanisms of Defence Responses in Plants. Fritig, B. and Legrand, M., eds. (Kluwer:Dordrecht) pp. 410-420.

Ward, E. R., Ryals, J. A. and Miflin, B. J. (1993). Chemical regulation of transgene expression in plants. Plant Mol. Biol. 22: 361-366.

Kessmann, H., Staub, T., Hofmann, C., Ahl Goy, P., Ward, E., Uknes, S., and Ryals, J. (1993). Induced disease resistance by isonicotinic acid derivatives. In 10th Symposium of Research Committee for the Bioactivity of Pesticides, Japan., pp. 29-37.

Ward, E., Uknes, S., and Ryals, J. (1994). Molecular biology and genetic engineering to improve plant disease resistance. In Molecular Perspectives in Crop Protection. Walters, D. and Marshall, G., eds. (Chapman and Hall:London) pp. 121-145.

Lawton, K., Vernooij, B., Friedrich, L., Alexander, D., Métraux, J.-P., Kessmann, H., Gut-Rella, M., Uknes, S., Ward, E., and Ryals, J. (1993) Signal transduction in systemic acquired resistance. In Plant Signals in Interactions with Other Organisms. Raskin, I., and Schultz, J., eds. (American Society of Plant Physiologists) pp. 126-133.

Ryals, J., Uknes, S., and Ward, E. (1994). Systemic acquired resistance. Plant Physiol. 104: 1109-1112.

Alexander, D., Lawton, K., Uknes, S, Ward, E., and Ryals, J. (1994). Defense-related gene induction in plants. In  Genetic Engineering, Vol. 16. Setlow, J., ed., pp. 195-212.

Vernooij, B., Uknes, S., Ward, E., and Ryals, J. (1994). Salicylic acid as a signal molecule in plant-pathogen interactions. Curr. Opin. Cell Biol. 6: 275-279.

Kessmann, H., Staub, T., Hofmann, C., Maetzke, T., Herzog, J., Ward, E., Uknes, S., and Ryals, J. (1994). Induction of systemic acquired disease resistance in plants by chemicals. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 32: 439-459.

Delaney, T., Friedrich, L., Kessmann, H., Uknes, S., Vernooij, B., Ward, E., Weymann, K., Ryals, J. (1994) The molecular biology of systemic acquired resistance. In Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions Vol. 3. Daniels, M., ed. pp. 339-347.

Potter, S., Moreland, D.E., Kreuz, K., and Ward, E. (1995) Induction of cytochrome P450 genes by ethanol in maize. Drug Metab. Drug. Interact. 12:

Uknes, S., Vernooij, B., Williams, S., Chandler, D., Lawton, K., Delaney, T., Friedrich, L., Weymann, K., Negrotto, D., Gaffney, T., Gut-Rella, M., Kessmann, H., Alexander, D., Ward, E., Ryals, J. (1995) Systemic acquired resistance. HortScience 30: 962-963.

Uknes,S., Vernooij, B., Morris, S., Chandler, D., Steiner, H.-Y., Specker, N., Hunt, M., Neuenschwander, U., Lawton, K., Starrett, M., Friedrich, L., Weymann, K., Negrotto, D., Görlach, J., Lanahan, M., Salmeron, J., Ward, E., Kessmann, H., and Ryals, J. (1996) Reduction of risk for growers: methods for the development of disease-resistant crops. New Phytol. 133: 3-10.

Ohta, D., Mori, I., and Ward, E. (1997) Inhibitors of imidazoleglycerolphosphate dehydratase as herbicides. Weed Sci. 45:610-620.

Ward, E. and Ohta, D. (1998) Histidine biosynthesis. In Plant Amino Acids: Biochemistry and Biotechnology. Singh, B.K., ed. (Marcel Dekker:New York). pp 293-304.