Plant Pathology and Microbiology

Ph. D University of California, Berkeley 1995

Pl P 506: Plant-Pathogen Interactions

Pl P 692: Molecular Biology of Plant-Pathogen Interactions

Micro 554: Virology

Soybean defense gene networks

Plant-virus interactions

Soybean-soybean rust interactions

Senior Editor, Molecular Plant Pathology

Associate Editor, Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions

Liu, J. Z., Horstman, H. D., Braun, E., Graham, M. A., Zhang, C., Navarre, D., Qiu, W. L., Lee, Y., Nettleton, D., Hill, J. H., Whitham, S. A. (2011). Soybean homologs of MPK4 negatively regulate defense responses and positively regulate growth and development. Plant Physiol. 157:1363-1378. doi: 10.1104/pp.111.185686

Schneider, K. T., van de Mortel, M., Bancroft, T. J., Braun, E., Nettleton, D., Nelson, R. T., Frederick, R. D., Baum, T. J., Graham, M. A., Whitham, S. A. (2011). Biphasic gene expression changes elicited by Phakopsora pachyrhizi in soybean correlates with fungal penetration and haustoria formation. Plant Physiol. 157:355-371. doi:10.1104/pp.111.181149

Cheng, N., Liu, J.Z., Liu, X., Wu, Q., Thompson, S. M., Lin, J., Chang, J., Whitham, S. A., Park, S., Cohen, J. D., Hirschi, K. D., (2011). Arabidopsis monothiol glutaredoxin, AtGRXS17, is critical for temperature-dependent postembryonic growth and development via modulating auxin response. J. Biol. Chem. 286:20398-20406. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M110.201707

Ye, C., Dickman, M. B., Whitham, S. A., Payton, M. E., Verchot, J. (2011). The unfolded protein response is triggered by a plant viral movement protein. Plant Physiol. 156:741-755. doi: 10.1104/pp.111.174110

Pandey, A. K., Yang, C., Zhang, C., Graham, M. A., Horstman, H. D., Lee, Y., Zabotina, O. A., Hill, J. H., Pedley, K. F., Whitham, S. A. (2011). Functional analysis of the Asian soybean rust resistance pathway mediated by Rpp2. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 24: 194–206. doi: 10.1094/MPMI-08-10-0187

Cosson, P., Sofer, L., Le, H., Leger, V., Schurdi-Levraud, V., Whitham, S. A., Gopalan, S., Le Gall, O., Candresse, T., Carrington, J. C., Revers, F. (2010). RTM3 which controls long distance movement of potyviruses is a member of a new plant gene family encoding a meprin and TRAF homology (MATH) domain-containing protein. Plant Physiol. 154:222-232. doi: 10.1104/pp.110.155754

Zhang, C., Bradshaw, J. D., Whitham, S. A., Hill, J. H. (2010). The development of an efficient multi-purpose BPMV viral vector set for foreign gene expression and RNA silencing. Plant Physiol. 153:52-65. doi: 10.1104/pp.109.151639

Zhang, C., Hajimorad, M. R., Eggenberger, A. L., Tsang, S., Whitham, S. A., Hill, J. H. (2009). Cytoplasmic inclusion cistron of Soybean mosaic virus serves as a virulence determinant on Rsv3-genotype soybean and a symptom determinant. Virology. 391:240-248.  doi:10.1016/j.virol.2009.06.020

Yang, C., Zhang, C., Dittman, J. D., Whitham, S. A. (2009). Differential requirement of RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S6 by plant RNA viruses with different translation initiation strategies. Virology. 390:163-173. doi: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.05.018

Meyer, J. D. F., Silva, D. C. G., Yang, C., Pedley, K. F., Zhang, C., van de Mortel, M., Hill, J. H., Shoemaker, R. C., Abdelnoor, R. V., Whitham, S. A., Graham, M. A. (2009). Identification and analyses of candidate genes for Rpp4-mediated resistance to Asian soybean rust in soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merr.). Plant Physiol. 150:295-307. doi: 10.1104/pp.108.134551

Zhang, C., Whitham, S. A. Hill, J. H. (2009). Development and use of an efficient DNA-based viral gene silencing vector for soybean. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 22:123-131. doi: 10.1094/MPMI -22-2-0123

Tasma, I. M., Brendel, V., Whitham, S. A., Bhattacharyya, M. K.* (2008). Expression and evolution of the phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 46:627-37.  doi: 10.1016/j.plaphy.2008.04.015

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. 81:13135-13148. doi: 10.1128/JVI.01031-07

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