Purdue University PURDUE AGRICULTURE
HORTICULTURE &
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
 
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Matthew A Jenks

Professor Horticulture & Landscape Arch

Department: Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Phone: 765.494.1332
Fax: 765-494-0391
Office: Hort 314
E-mail: jenksm@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Plant Stress Physiology & Molecular Genetics

 
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- Recent Publications

Jenks, M. A., & P. Bebeli (2009). Breeding for Fruit Quality. Oxford UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.

Jenks, M. A., & A. J. Wood (2009). Genes for Plant Abiotic Stress. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.

Lu, S., T. Song, D. K. Kosma, E. P. Parsons, O. Rowland, & M. A. Jenks (2009). Arabidopsis CER8 encodes LONG-CHAIN ACYL COA SYNTHETASE 1 (LACS1) that has overlapping functions with LACS2 in plant wax and cutin synthesis. Plant Journal, 59, 553-564.

Peters, P. J., M. A. Jenks, P. J. Rich, J. D. Axtell, & G. Ejeta (2009). Mutagenesis, selection and allelic analysis of epicuticular wax mutants in Sorghum. Crop Science, 49, 1250-1258.

Mang, H. G., K. A. Laluk, E. P. Parsons, D. K. Kosma, B. R. Cooper, H. C. Park, S. AbuQamar, C. Boccongelli, G. Chilosi, R. A. Bressan, T. Mengiste, & M. A. Jenks (2009). The Arabidopsis RESURRECTION1 gene regulates a novel antagonistic interaction in plant defense to biotrophs and necrotrophs. Plant Physiology, 151, 290-305.

Isaacson, T., D. K. Kosma, A. J. Matas, G. J. Buda, Y. He, B. Yu, A. Pravitasari, J. D. Batteas, R. E. Stark, M. A. Jenks, & J. K. C. Rose (2009). Cutin deficiency in the tomato fruit cuticle consistently affects resistance to microbial infection and biomechanical properties, but not transpirational water loss. Plant Journal, 60, 363-377.

Lu, S., T. Song, D. Kosma, E. Parsons, O. Rowland, & M. A. Jenks (2009). Arabidopsis CER8 encodes LONG-CHAIN ACYL-COA SYNTHETASE 1 (LACS1) and has overlapping functions with LACS2 in plant cutin and wax biosynthesis. Gordon Research Conference on Plant Lipids: Structure, Metabolism and Function.

Kosma, D. K., E. P. Parsons, T. Isaacson, S. Lu, J. K. C. Rose, & M. A. Jenks (2009). Fruit cuticle composition during development in tomato ripening mutants. Physiologia Plantarum.

Lu, S., G. Zhao, A. Wu, M. A. Jenks, S. Zhang, & J. Liu (2009). Molecular cloning of a cotton bifunctional phosphatase gene and its functional characterization. Biochemistry Mosc.

Kosma, D. K., B. Bourdenx, A. Bernard, E. P. Parsons, S. Lu, J. Joubes, & M. A. Jenks (2009). The impact of water deficiency on leaf cuticle lipids of Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology, (4), 1918-1929.

 

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- Awards & Honors

Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship (2009). Fulbright Foundation-Greece.

Second Discipline Study Fellowship (2006). Purdue University.

 

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