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Plant Pathology and Microbiology / Dr. Steve Whitham

Dr. Steve Whitham

  Dr. Steve Whitham
Associate Professor

419 Bessey Hall
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
Phone: 515-294-4952

 
Educational Background
 

Ph. D University of California, Berkeley 1995

 
Courses Taught
 

Pl P 506: Plant-Pathogen Interactions

Pl P 692: Molecular Biology of Plant-Pathogen Interactions

Micro 554: Virology

 
Research Areas
 

Functional genomic analysis of plant-pathogen interactions
Plant-virus interactions
Soybean-soybean rust interactions

 
Publications
 

Carr, T. and Whitham, S. A. (2007). An emerging model system: Arabidopsis as a viral host plant. In Viral Transport in Plants. Springer book series: Plant Cell Monographs. Edited by E. Waigman and M. Heinlein. Springer-Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany. Vol. 7, pp. 159-183

Shiboleth, Y. M., Haronsky, E., Leibman, D., Arazi, T., Wassenegger, M., Whitham, S. A., Gaba, V., and Gal-On, A. (2007). The conserved FRNK box in plant viral suppressor of gene silencing HC-Pro is required for small RNA binding and mediates symptom development. J. Virol. In press

van de Mortel, M., Recknor, J. C., Graham, M. A., Nettleton, D., Dittman, J. D., Nelson, R. T., Godoy, C. V., Abdelnoor, R. V., Almeida, A. M. R., Baum, T. J., and Whitham, S. A. (2007). Distinct biphasic mRNA changes in response to Asian soybean rust infection. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 20:887-899

Wise, R. P., Moscou, M. J., Bogdanove, A. J., and Whitham, S. A. (2007). Transcript profiling host-pathogen interactions. Annu. Rev. Phytopathol. 45:329-369

Yang, C., Guo, R., Jie, F., Nettleton, D., Peng, J., Carr, T., Yeakley, J. M., Fan, J.-B., and Whitham, S. A. (2007). Spatial temporal analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana gene expression in response to Turnip mosaic virus infection. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 20:358-370

Whitham, S. A., Yang, C., and Goodin, M. M. (2006). Global impact: Elucidating plant responses to viral infection. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 19:1207-1215

Carr, T., Wang, Y., Huang, Z., Yeakley, J. M., Fan, J.-B., Whitham, S. A. (2006). Tobamovirus infection is independent of HSP101 mRNA induction and protein expression. Virus Res. 121:33-41

Huang, Z., Yeakley, J. M., Wickham, E., Holdridge, J. D., Fan, J.-B., and Whitham, S. A. (2005). Salicylic acid dependent expression of host genes in compatible Arabidopsis-virus interactions. Plant Physiol. 137:1147-1159

Whitham, S. A. and Wang, Y. (2004). Roles for host factors in plant viral pathogenicity. Curr. Op. Plant Biol. 7:365-371

Whitham, S. A. (2004). Viral Host Genomics. In Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science. Edited by R. M. Goodman. Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, NY. pp. 1269-1272

Shou, H., Frame, B. R., Whitham, S. A., and Wang, K. (2004). Assessment of transgenic maize events produced by particle bombardment or Agrobacterium-mediated transformation. Mol. Breeding. 13:201-208

Whitham, S. A., Quan, S., Chang, H.-S., Cooper, B., Estes, B., Zhu, T., Wang, X., and Hou, Y.-M. (2003). Diverse RNA viruses elicit the expression of common sets of genes in susceptible Arabidopsis thaliana plants. Plant J. 33:271-283

Lellis, A. D., Kasschau, K. D., Whitham, S. A., and Carrington, J. C. (2002). Loss-of-susceptibility mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana reveal an essential role for eIF(iso)4E during potyvirus infection. Current Biology, 12:1046-1051

Chen, W., Provart, N. J., Glazebrook, J., Katagiri, F., Chang, H. S., Eulgem, T., Mauch, F., Luan, S., Zou, G., Whitham, S. A., Budworth, P. R., Tao, Y., Xie, Z., Chen, X., Lam, S., Kreps, J. A., Harper, J. F., Si-Ammour, A., Mauch-Mani, B., Heinlein, M., Kobayashi, K., Hohn, T., Dangl, J. L., Wang, X., and Zhu, T. (2002). Expression profile matrix of Arabidopsis transcription factor genes suggests their putative functions in response to environmental stresses. Plant Cell, 14:559-574

Paskowski, J. and Whitham, S. (2001). Gene silencing and DNA methylation processes. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 4:123-129

Whitham, S. A., Anderberg, R. J., Chisholm, S. T. and Carrington, J. C. (2000). RTM2 is required for resistance to tobacco etch virus in Arabidopsis and encodes a unique protein with similarity to small heat shock proteins. Plant Cell. 12:569-582

Chisholm, S. T., Mahajan, S. K., Whitham, S. A., Yamamoto, M. L. and Carrington, J. C. (2000). RTM1 is required for resistance to tobacco etch virus in Arabidopsis and encodes a protein with similarity to the lectin jacalin. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 97:489-94

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Department Highlights

Dr. Alison Robertson

Assistant Professor

"Why did you choose a career in plant pathology? It happened by accident. We had a couple of introductory lectures to Plant Pathology in one of my freshman classes and I was fascinated. It doesn’t occur to many people that plants get sick and they need doctors too." Read More