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Natalia Doudareva

Distinguished Professor of Horticulture

Department: Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Phone: 765.494.1325
Fax: 765-494-0391
Office: Hort 112
E-mail: doudarev@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Plant Molecular Biology
Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Courses currently taught:

  • HORT/BTNY 64000, Metabolic Plant Physiology

 

 

- Recent Publications

Maeda, H., Yoo, H., & Doudareva, N. (2011). Prephenate aminotransferase directs plant phenylalanine biosynthesis via arogenate.. Nat. Chem. Biol., 7, 19-21.

Orlova, I., Nagegowda, D. A., Kish, C. M., Gutensohn, M., Maeda, H., Varbanova, M., . . . Doudareva, N. (2010). Small subunit of geranyl diphosphate synthase modifies the chain length specificity of phylogenetically distant geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase in planta.. The Plant Cell., 21, 4002-4017.

Maeda, H., Shasany, A. K., Schnepp, J., Orlova, I., Taguchi, G., Cooper, B. R., . . . Doudareva, N. (2010). RNAi suppression of arogenate dehydratase 1 reveals that phenylalanine is synthesized predominantly via the arogenate pathway in petunia petals.. The Plant Cell., 22, 832-849.

Marshall-Colón, A., Sengupta, N., Rhodes, D., Doudareva, N., & Morgan, J. (2010). A kinetic model describes metabolic response to perturbations and distribution of flux control in the benzenoid network of Petunia hybrida.. The Plant J., 62, 64-76.

Long, M. C., Nagegowda, D. A., Kaminaga, Y., Ho, K. K., Kish, C. M., Schnepp, J., . . . Doudareva, N. (2009). Involvement of snapdragon benzaldehyde dehydrogenase in benzoic acid biosynthesis.. The Plant Journal, 59, 256-265.

Nagegowda, D. A., Gutensohn, M., Wilkerson, C., & Doudareva, N. (2008). Two nearly identical terpene synthases catalyze the formation of nerolidol and linalool in snapdragon flowers.. Plant Journal, 55, 224-239..

Gershenzon, J., & Doudareva, N. (2007). The function of terpene natural products in the natural world.. Nature Chemical Biology, 3(7), 408-414.

Orlova, I., Marshall-Colon, A., Schnepp, J., Wood, B., Varbanova, M., Fridman, E., . . . Doudareva, N. (2006). Reduction of benzenoid synthesis in petunia flowers reveals multiple pathways to benzoic acid and enhancement in auxin transport.. The Plant Cell, 18, 3458-3475.

Pichersky, E., Noel, J. P., & Doudareva, N. (2006). Biosynthesis of plant volatiles: nature's diversity and ingenuity.. Science, 311, 808-811.

Doudareva, N., Andersson, S., Orlova, I., Gatto, N., Reichelt, M., Rhodes, D., . . . Gershenzon, J. (2005). The nonmevalonate pathway supports both monoterpene and sesquiterpene formation in snapdragon flowers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, (102), 933-938 (cover).

 

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- Awards & Honors

Elected Chair for the Gordon Research Conference on Plant Metabolic Engineering 2011 (2011). Gordon Research Conference.

AAAS Fellow (2010). American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Annual Millionaires Club Award, College of Agriculture (2010). Purdue University, Indiana.

Distinguished Professor (2010). Purdue University, Indiana.

The Wickersham Chair of Excellence in Agricultural Research (2006). Purdue University.

University Faculty Scholar in the College of Agriculture (2006). Purdue University.

Agriculture Research Award (2005). Purdue University.

“Regulation of monoterpene emission in snapdragon flowers”. (2003). DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service).

 

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