Publications
Feiz L et al 2009. Puroindolines co-localize to the starch granule surface and increase seed bound polar lipid content.
J Cereal Science in press as of 3/19/09
Taga I et al 2009. Iodine deficiency in children 7-19 years old in Eastern Province of Cameroon.
Tropical Medicine & International Health 14:311-315
Gulbitti-Onarici S et al 2009. Expression of Cry1Ac in transgenic tobacco plants under the control of a wound-inducible promoter (AoPR1) isolated from Asparagus officinalis to control Heliothis virescens and Manduca sexta.
Molecular Biotechnology in press
Pham VT et al 2008. Glass-immobilized glycated trypsin: A novel modified trypsin that is remarkably thermostable.
J Molecular Catalysis B:Enzymatic 58:48-53
Taga I et al 2008. Youth of west-Cameroon are at high risk of developing IDD due to low dietary iodine and high dietary thiocyanate.
African Health Sciences 8(3):180-185
Loit E et al 2008. Functional whole-colony screening method to identify antimicrobial peptides.
J Microbiological Methods doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2008.07.023
Tackaberry ES et al. 2008. Sustained expression of human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B (UL55) in the seeds of homozygous rice plants.
Molecular Biotechnology 40:1-12 DOI 10.1007/s12033-007-9029-0
Homrich MS et al 2008. Resistance to Anticarsia gemmatalis Hübner (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) in transgenic soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill Fabales, Fabaceae) cultivar IAS5 expressing a modified Cry1Ac endotoxin.
Genetics and Molecular Biology 31(2): 522-531
Blais DR, Altosaar I 2007. Humanizing infant milk formula to decrease postnatal HIV transmission.
Trends in Biotechnology 25: 376-384
Zaidi MA et al 2007. Characterization of left-border flanking sequences of T-DNA integration in transgenic rice (Oryza sativa L.) expressing cry1Ab.
Cereal Research Communications 35: 1375-1383
Sardana RK et al 2007. Biologically active human GM-CSF produced in the seeds of transgenic rice plants.
Transgenic Research 16: 713–721 (DOI 10.1007/s11248-006-9062-y)
Mohammadi M et al 2007. Immunodetection and immunolocalization of tryptophanins in oat seeds.
Plant Science 172: 579-587
Valderrama AM et al 2007. Resistance to Tecia solanivora (Lepidoptera : Gelechiidae) in three transgenic Andean varieties of potato expressing Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac protein.
Journal of Economic Entomology100: 172-179
Schroder M et al 2007. A 90-day safety study of genetically modified rice expressing Cry1Ab protein (Bacillus thuringiensis toxin) in Wistar rats.
Food Chemical Toxicology 45: 339-349
Zaidi MA et al 2006. Optimizing the tissue culture media for efficient transformation of different indica rice genotypes.
Agronomy Research 4:563-575
Blais DR, Altosaar I 2006. Human CD14 expressed in seeds of transgenic tobacco displays similar proteolytic resistance and bioactivity with its mammalian-produced counterpart.
Transgenic Research 15:151–164
Blais DR et al 2005. Killing the messenger in the nick of time: persistence of breast milk sCD14 in the neonatal gastrointestinal tract.
Pediatric Research 59: 371-376
Blais DR et al 2005. LBP and CD14 secreted in tears by the lacrimal glands modulate the LPS response of corneal epithelial cells.
Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science 46:4235–4244
High SM et al 2004. Achieving successful deployment of Bt rice.
Trends in Plant Science 9: 286-292
Panahi M et al 2004. Recombinant protein expression plasmids optimized for industrial E. coli fermentation and plant systems produced biologically active human insulin-like growth factor-1 in transgenic rice and tobacco plants.
Transgenic Research 13: 245-259
MacFarlane AJ et al 2003. A type 1 diabetes-related protein from wheat (Triticum aestivum): cDNA clone of a wheat storage globulin, Glb1, linked to islet damage.
J Biol Chem 278: 54-63
Sardana RK et al 2002. Biological activity of human granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor is maintained in a fusion with seed glutelin peptide.
Transgenic Research 11: 521-531
Wang ZH et al 2002. Toxicological evaluation of transgenic rice flour with a synthetic cry1Ab gene from Bacillus thuringiensis.
J. Sci. Food Agric. 82: 738-744
Wright E et al 2001. Sorting of glycoprotein B from human cytomegalovirus to protein storage vesicles in seeds of transgenic tobacco.
Transgenic Research 10: 177-181.
Shu QY et al 2000. Transgenic rice plants with a synthetic cry1Ab gene from Bacillus thuringiensis were highly resistant to eight lepidopteran rice pest species.
Molecular Breeding 6: 433-439
Leroy T et al 2000. Genetically modified coffee plants expressing the Bacillus thuringiensis cry1Ac gene for resistance to leaf miner.
Plant Cell Reports 19: 382-385
Tackaberry ES et al 1999. Development of biopharmaceuticals in plant expression systems: Cloning, expression and immunological reactivity of human cytomegalovirus glycoprotein B (UL55) in seeds of transgenic tobacco.
Vaccine 17: 3020-3029.
Cheng X et al 1998. Agrobacterium-transformed rice plants expressing synthetic CryIA(b) and CryIA(c) genes are highly toxic to yellow stem borer and striped stem borer.
PNAS 95: 2767-2772
