Gregory B. Martin - Boyce Thompson Institute - Cornell University

Gregory B. Martin
Boyce Schulze Downey Scientist, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University
327 Boyce Thompson Institute Tel: 607-254-1208
Ithaca, New York 14853 Fax: 607-255-6695
Email: gbm7@cornell.edu
EDUCATION
Year Degree Institution Area
1989 – 1992 Postdoctoral Fellow Cornell University Plant Genetics
1989 Ph.D. Michigan State University Genetics
1984 M.S. Michigan State University Plant Breeding
1979 B.Sc Michigan State University Crop Science
ACADEMIC RANKS
2005 – Present Boyce Schulze Downey Chair, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
1998 – Present Scientist, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
1998 – Present Professor, Department of Plant Pathology, Cornell University
1996 – 1998 Associate Professor, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University
1992 – 1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1989 – 1992 NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Plant Breeding, Cornell University.
1985 – 1989 Graduate Fellow, Genetics Program, DOE Plant Research Laboratory. Michigan
State University
1984 – 1985 Graduate Assistant, Department of Crop Science. North Carolina State University
1982 – 1983 Visiting Research Scientist, U.S. Agency for International Development.
Collaborative Research Support Program (USAID/CRSP). University of Malawi,
Lilongwe, Malawi
1981 -1984 Graduate Assistant, Department of Crops and Soil Science, Michigan State
University
HONORS AND AWARDS
2006 Grand Marnier Foundation Guest Lecturer, Pasteur Institute
2005 Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology
2005 Boyce Schulze Downey Chair, Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
2004 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2004 ISI Most Highly Cited Author in category of Plant and Animal Science (http://isihighlycited.com)
2003 ISI 3 rd Most Highly Cited Paper in the category of Plant and Animal Science (http://www.incites.com/papers/DrGregMartin.html)
2000 Roger E. Koeppe Endowed Lecture, Oklahoma State University
1998 Invited Lecturer, Royal Society, London
1997 Herbert Newby McCoy Award for Outstanding Research of the Year, Purdue University
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1997 Barry Chelm Memorial Lecturer, Michigan State University
1995 - 2000 David and Lucile Packard Fellowship
1989 - 1992 NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Plant Biology
1985 - 1988 USDA National Needs in Biotechnology Predoctoral Fellowship
1984 School of Agriculture and Life Sciences Research Grant, North Carolina State University
1979 B.S. with High Honor, Michigan State University
1979 Meritorious Scholastic Achievement Faculty Award, Michigan State University
1979 E. E. Down Memorial Award, Outstanding Plant Breeding Student, Michigan State University
TEACHING
PLPA 452.1 / PLPA 662.1 Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions: Plant Responses to Pathogen
Attack. 4-week module (1 credit). Taught in even-numbered years.
PLPA 694. Special Topics in Plant Pathology: Advanced Topics in Microbial Genomics. 1 lecture. Fall
2005.
PLPA 600. Professional Skills in the Plant Sciences. Usually 2 lectures each year.
BIOPL 741. Problems in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology. 1 session each year.
PLPA 601. Concepts of Plant Pathology (Introductory course for graduate students). Semester,
Spring 2004.
BIOPL 653.1 / PLPA 663.1. Concepts and Techniques in Plant Molecular Biology, 4-week module (1
credit). Fall 2000 (21 students), Fall 2001 (27 students), Fall 2002 (38 students).
BIOPL 742. Current Topics in Plant Biology: Host recognition, signal transduction, and defense
responses involved in plant disease resistance. (1 credit). Spring 2001 (23 students).
GRADUATE FIELD MEMBERSHIPS
Plant Pathology
Plant Biology
CURRENT SERVICE ON BTI AND CORNELL UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES
BTI
Chair, Equipment and Fellowship Committee
Director, Center for Gene Expression Profiling (1999-present)
Member, BTI-Cornell Affiliation Agreement Review Committee (since 2003)
Member, Information Technologies Committee
Member, Ad Hoc committee to revise procedures for BTI promotion and appeals
Member, Triad Foundation Proposal Review Committee
Cornell University
Member, Mentoring Committee for Junior Faculty, Department of Plant Pathology
Member, Ad Hoc promotion review committee, Cornell University Veterinary College
Member, Plant Pathology Graduate Student Admissions Committee
Member, Plant Biology Graduate Student Admissions Committee
Member, Graduate Field of Plant Pathology (1998-present)
Member, Graduate Program in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology (1998-present)
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USDA / ARS
Member, Mentoring Committee for Junior Faculty (2004-present)
LABORATORY PERSONNEL
Visiting Scientist
Dr. Ann Taylor (Associate Professor, Wabash College; sabbatical leave January-July, 2006)
Senior Research Associate
Dr. Suma Chakravarthy
Postdoctoral Associates
Dr. Fangming Xiao
Dr. Lirong Zeng
Dr. Chang-Sik Oh
Dr. Kathy Munkvold
Dr. Inhwa Yeam
Dr. Aurelie Angot
Dr. Tim Devarenne (now Assistant Professor, Biochemistry Department, Texas A&M University)
Dr. Patrick Giavalisco (now Research Associate, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology,
Golm)
Dr. Kerry Pedley (now Staff Scientist, USDA Foreign Disease Unit, Frederick, MD)
Dr. Jonathan Cohn (now Research Associate, North Carolina State University)
Dr. Olga del Pozo (now Assistant Professor, Universidad de Seville)
Dr. Sophia Ekengren (now Assistant Professor, Stockholm University)
Dr. Adriana Ferreira (now Postdoctoral Fellow, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)
Dr. Nai-Chun Lin (now Assistant Professor, National Taiwan University)
Graduate Students
Hanh Nguyen (Plant Biology)
Tracy Rosebrock (Ph.D. candidate, Plant Pathology)
Research Specialists
Paul Debbie, Manager of the Center for Gene Expression Profiling
Heather McLane
Technicians
Bridget Randall
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Cornell Undergraduates
Jennifer Brady (Hughes Scholar, Biology honors thesis)
Elise Pasoreck (Hughes Scholar)
Sara Cohen (Hughes Scholar)
PATENTS AND PATENT APPLICATIONS
Issued
1) U.S. Patent. “Gene conferring disease resistance to plants by responding to an avirulence gene in
plant pathogens”. Inventors Steven D. Tanksley and Gregory B. Martin. Issued July 15, 1997
(USPTO No. 5,648,599).
2) *U.S. Patent: "Activation of plant defense-related genes mediated by the physical interaction of
serine/threonine protein kinases with transcription factors containing pathogenesis-related (PR) box
binding domains". Inventors: Gregory B. Martin and Jian-Min Zhou. (Issued to Purdue Research
Foundation in August 2003).
Pending
1) U.S. Patent Application: “Plant defense-related genes and methods of use”. Inventors: Oswald R.
Crasta, Kiran Kumar Mysore, Otto Folkerts, Peter Swirsky and Gregory B. Martin. (Jointly submitted
by CuraGen Corporation, New Haven, CT and Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY).
2) U.S. Patent Application: “Pseudomonas Avr and Hop proteins, their encoding nucleic acids, and use
thereof”. Inventors: Alan Collmer, James R. Alfano, Xiaoyan Tang, Robin C. Buell, and Gregory B.
Martin. (Submitted by Cornell Research Foundation, Ithaca, NY).
3) U.S. Patent Application: “Suppression of plant cell death by use of bacterial type III effector
proteins”. Inventors: Gregory B. Martin and Robert B. Abramovitch. (Submitted by Boyce
Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY).
4) U.S. Patent Application: “Plant genes having a role in plant pathogen resistance”. Inventors:
Gregory B. Martin and Olga del Pozo. (Submitted by Boyce Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY).
5) U.S. Patent Application: “Biocontrol of plant diseases by use of bacterial strains with mutations in
type III effector genes”. Inventors: Gregory B. Martin and Nai-Chun Lin. (Submitted by Boyce
Thompson Institute, Ithaca, NY).
INVITED PRESENTATIONS (since 1998)
1) Royal Society, London. Discussion meeting on the Molecular Basis of Signal Transduction in
Plants. February 18, 19, 1998.
2) Cornell University, Department of Plant Pathology, Geneva, NY. April 6, 1999.
3) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND. USDA-ARS and Dept Plant Pathology. April 16, 1999.
4) U.S. / Japan Seminar Series. Member of U. S. delegation. “Delivery of pathogen signals to plants”.
Marina del Rey, CA. June 19-23, 1999.
5) Molecular Biology of Tomato. Conference sponsored by the Plant Protein Club. University of York,
York, UK. July 13-16, 1999.
6) Thirteenth John Innes Symposium, "Attack and defense in plant disease". John Innes Centre,
Norwich, UK. July 20-23, 1999.
7) Ninth International Congress of the International Society of Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions.
Amsterdam, Netherlands. July 25-30, 1999.
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8) Symposium No. 46 of the Alfred Benzon Foundation. "Molecular mechanisms of innate immunity".
Copenhagen, Denmark, August 22-26, 1999.
9) UC-Berkeley, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. October 18, 1999.
10) Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences. "Virulence and defense in host-pathogen
interactions: Common features between plants and animals" Beckman Center, Irvine, CA.
December 9-11, 1999.
11) SUNY at Stony Brook, Dept of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Stony Brook, NY. May 4, 2000.
12) Oklahoma State University, Roger E. Koeppe Endowed Lecture, Stillwater, OK. July 20, 2000.
13) Annual Meeting of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Monterey, CA. September 8, 2000.
14) University of Toronto, Department of Botany, October 27, 2000
15) Symposium on Plant Science in 21st Century, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. Nov 9-10, 2000
16) College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, KOREA November 13,
2000.
17) Korea Research Institute of Biosciences and Biotech (KRIBB), Taejon, KOREA. Nov 14, 2000.
18) Self-defense Signaling Pathways in Plants. Symposium sponsored by National Institute of
Agrobiological Resources (NIAR), Core Research for Evolutionary Science and Technology
(CREST), and Bio-oriented Technology Research Advancement Institution (BRAIN). Tskuba City,
JAPAN. November 16-17, 2000.
19) Common and contrasting mechanisms of pathogen virulence and host resistance in plant and
animal diseases. The Banbury Center, Cold Spring Harbor, April 8-11, 2001.
20) Tenth International Congress of the International Society of Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions.
Madison, WI. July 9-14, 2001.
21) Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists, Providence, RI. July 23-27, 2001.
22) Washington University, Department of Biology, October 29, 2001.
23) University of Nebraska, Plant Science Center, October 31, 2001.
24) Yale University, Department of Biology. December 10, 2001.
25) University of California-Davis, Department of Plant Pathology (student-invited speaker). March 4,
2002.
26) Kansas State University, Department of Plant Pathology. March 6, 2002
27) Annual Meeting of the American Society of Microbiology. Salt Lake City, UT. May 20-24,
2002.Queens University, Department of Biology. September 20, 2002.
28) Joint Symposium on Plant Biology, Seoul National University and Cornell University. Oct 8 – 9,
2002.
29) Autumn School 2002, Disease Resistance in Plants, Graduate School of Experimental Plant
Sciences, Wageningen, Netherlands. October 14 – 16, 2002.
30) New York State Agriculture Experiment Station, Geneva, NY March 10, 2003.
31) 11 th International Congress of the Society of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Plenary Speaker,
St. Petersburg, Russia, July 20-25, 2003.
32) Washington State University, School of Molecular Biosciences, September 3-4, 2003
33) 10 th Annual Meeting of the David and Lucile Packard Science and Engineering Fellows, Vancouver,
Canada, September 4-6, 2003
34) International workshop to discuss the sequencing of the tomato genome. “Use of Solanaceous
species for studying host-pathogen interactions”. Washington, DC. November 3, 2003.
35) Canadian Plant Physiology regional meeting. Keynote speaker. Declined.
36) CRC Tropical Plant Protection Symposium, Plenary Speaker, University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia, April 27 - 30, 2003. Declined.
37) 9 th Japan-US Seminar on Plant-Pathogen Interactions, Shizuoka, Japan, November 3-7, 2003.
Declined.
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38) Second International Symposium on Plant-Environment Interactions, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan, November 17 - 19, 2003. Declined.
39) Symposium on Molecular Plant Pathology, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Kobe
University, Kobe, Japan, December 3 - 7, 2003. Declined.
40) International Symposium on Crop Functional Genomics, co-hosted by the Crop Functional
Genomics Center (CFGC) and the Biogreen 21 Research Program (BRP); Cheju, Korea; April 7 - 9,
2004. Declined.
41) Iowa State University. Symposium on Biotic Stress. April 20, 2004. Declined.
42) Foundacion Juan March. Symposium on “Disease resistance and related signaling mechanisms in
plants”. Madrid, SPAIN. October 6-10, 2004.
43) University of Florida, Gainesville. Department of Plant Pathology. Student-invited speaker.
February 1, 2005.
44) Symposium on Biomedical and Comparative Immunology. Biological Diversity: Cellular and
Molecular Interactions. Florida International University, Miami. March 3-5, 2005.
45) Stanford University, Department of Biological Sciences and Carnegie Institute of Plant Biology,
March 18, 2005.
46) Fort Detrick USDA Foreign Disease and Weed Unit / USAMRIID, Frederick, MD. April 12, 2005.
47) 22 nd Annual meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Plant Molecular Biology Society. Keynote address.
Pautuxent Wildlife Refuge, Maryland. August 11-12, 2005.
48) International Solanaceae Genomics Workshop, Plenary speaker and Chair of session on Biotic
Interactions. Ischia, Italy. September 26-29. 2005.
49) Virginia Tech University. Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA. December 8, 2005.
50) 12 th Congress of the International Society of Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, Plenary speaker,
Cancun Mexico, December 14-18, 2005.
51) Danforth Plant Science Center, St. Louis, MO. March 8, 2006.
52) Symposium on Plant Receptor Signaling. Plant Sciences Institute, Iowa State University. June 22-
23, 2006.
53) Annual meeting of the American Phytopathology Society. Invited speaker in a special session on
type III effector proteins. Quebec City, Quebec. August 1, 2006
54) Grand Marnier Foundation Guest Lecturer, Pasteur Institute. Paris, France. August 29, 2006
55) Symposium on Non-specific and Specific Innate and Acquired Plant Resistance. Hungarian
National Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary. August 31 – September 3, 2006.
56) Frontiers in Plant Biology Symposium, Texas A&M, College Station, TX. Declined
57) Missouri Plant Biology Symposium on Protein Phosphorylation, U. of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
Declined.
58) American Phytopathology Society International symposium, Cartagena, Colombia. Declined.
59) Harvard Medical School, Department of Molecular Biology. Postdoc/Student-invited speaker.
October 11, 2006.
60) Comparative Biology of Innate Immune Systems. A Banbury Center meeting. November 28-30,
2006.
61) Tel Aviv University, Israel. February 10-17, 2007.
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Current and pending support
Current Support (as of January 2007)
R01 GM078021 (Martin) 6/01/06 – 5/31/10
NIH-NIGMS $872,488
Role of bacterial virulence proteins in plant cell death
DBI-0605059 (Collmer, Martin) 6/01/06 – 5/31/10
NSF-Plant Genome $1,125,000
Exploiting tomato genomics resources to investigate plant (Martin portion)
basal defense responses to pathogens
NRI-2006-01859 (Martin, Devarenne) 6/01/06 – 7/31/09
USDA Plant-Microbe Associations $400,000
Role of an AvrPto-dependent Pto-interacting protein, Adi3, (Tim has taken 2/3
in the host response to Pseudomonas of these funds to Texas A&M)
MRI-0618969 (Harrison, Martin) 8/01/06 – 7/30/07
NSF-MRI $554,342
Acquisition of a fluorescence stereoscope and
laser scanning confocal microscope for
spectral imaging of plant cells.
IOB-0444600 (Martin) 3/25/05 – 4/30/08
NSF Integrative Organismal Biology $440,000
Role of MAPKKKa-mediated cell death in plant disease
resistance and susceptibility
(ROA ($28,354) and REU ($12,500) supplements were obtained for this project.)
NRI-2005-00972 (Martin) 7/1/05 – 6/30/08
USDA Genetic Processes and Mechanisms of Crop Plants $360,000
Molecular characterization of two tomato protein kinases that
promote disease susceptibility
IBN-0109633 (Tanksley, Martin, Giovannoni, Wing) 10/01/01 – 9/30/06
NSF Plant Genome $1,407,740 (Martin portion)
Exploitation of tomato as a model for comparative and (on 1-year no-cost extension)
functional genomics
BSF 2001-124(Sessa, Martin) 9/01/02 – 8/31/06
Binational Science Foundation $67,848 (Martin portion)
Analysis of phosphorylation events mediating speck disease resistance in tomato
IS-3785-05C (Sessa, Martin) 12/1/05 – 11/30/08
USDA-BARD $157,000
Role of GRAS transcription factors in tomato disease
resistance and basal defense
CB-9016-04 (Sessa, Martin) 8/1/04 – 7/30/07
Cornell-BARD ($150,000; no funds actually received)
Identification of signaling components involved in tomato
resistance to bacterial spot disease
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(Loria, Collmer, Martin, 5 others) 7/1/05 – 6/30/09
USDA National Needs Fellowships $276,000
Training PhD scientists to decipher the genomes of
plant pathogenic microbes
Other Support in Past 3 Years (projects completed as of December 2006)
IBN-0090402 (Martin) 4/15/01 – 4/14/06
NSF Integrative Plant Biology $600,000
Role of the Pti4 and Pti5 transcription factors in Pto-mediated
defense gene activation and disease resistance
NRI-0235301-12020 (Martin) 6/1/02 – 5/30/05
USDA Plant Genetic Mechanisms $240,000
Molecular basis of recognition-specificity in plant disease resistance
IBN-0077622 (Collmer, Martin, 7 others) 9/01/00 – 8/31/05
NSF Plant Genome $550,000 (Martin portion)
Functional genomics of the interactions of tomato and
Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000
IS-3237-01 (Sessa, Martin) 9/01/01 – 8/31/04
BARD $97,000 (Martin portion)
A functional genomics approach to dissect resistance
of tomato to bacterial spot disease
NSF-MRI-0140532 (Brutnell, Martin) 5/1/02 – 5/31/04
NSF Equipment $260,621
Growth facilities for genomics-based studies of
plant signal transduction networks
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PUBLICATIONS
2007
Anand, A., Z. Vaghchhipawala, C.-M. Ryu, L. Kang, K. Wang, O. del-Pozo, G. B. Martin and K. S.
Mysore (2007). Identification of genes involved in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation by
using virus-induced gene silencing as a functional genomics tool. Molecular Plant-Microbe
Interactions 20:41-52.
Gabriëls, S. H. E. J., J. H. Vossen, A. M. Abd-El-Haliem, G. C.M. van den Berg, S. K. Ekengren, G. B.
Martin, P. J.G.M. de Wit and M. H.A.J. Joosten (2007). An NB-LRR protein required for HR signaling
mediated by both extra- and intracellular resistance proteins. Plant Journal (in press).
Moeder, W., O. del Pozo, D. A. Navarre, G. B. Martin and D. F. Klessig (2007). Aconitase plays a role
in regulating resistance to oxidative stress and cell death in Arabidopsis and Nicotiana benthamiana.
Plant Molecular Biology (in press).
2006
Abramovitch, R. B., R. Janjusevic, C. E. Stebbins and G. B. Martin (2006). Type III effector AvrPtoB
requires intrinsic E3 ubiquitin ligase to suppress plant cell death and immunity. Proceedings National
Academy of Science USA 103:2851-2856.
Abramovitch, R.B., J. C. Anderson and G. B. Martin (2006). Bacterial elicitation and evasion of plant
innate immunity. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 7:601-611.
Anderson, J. C., P. E. Pascuzzi, F. Xiao, G. Sessa and G. B. Martin (2006). Host-mediated
phosphorylation of type III effector AvrPto promotes Pseudomonas virulence in tomato. Plant Cell
18:502-514.
Devarenne, T. P., S. K. Ekengren, K. F. Pedley and G. B. Martin (2006). Adi3 is a Pdk1-interacting
AGC kinase that negatively regulates plant cell death. EMBO Journal 25:255-265.
Ferreira, A.O., C. R. Myers, J. S. Gordon, G. B. Martin, M. Vencato, A. R. Collmer, M. D. Wehling, J.
R. Alfano, G. Moreno-Hagelsieb, W. F. Lamboy, G. DeClerck, D. J. Schneider and S. W. Cartinhour
(2006). Whole-genome expression profiling defines the HrpL regulon of Pseudomonas syringae pv.
tomato DC3000, allows de novo reconstruction of the Hrp cis element, and identifies novel coregulated
gene. Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions 19:1167-1179. .
Hamel, L.P., M. C. Nicole, M.C, S. Sritubtim, M. J. Morency, M. Ellis, J. Ehlting, N. Beaudoin, B.
Barbazuk, D. F. Klessig, J. Lee, G. B. Martin, J. Mundy, Y. Ohashi, D. Scheel, J. Sheen, T. Xing, S.
Zhang, A. Seguin and B. E. Ellis (2006). Ancient signals: comparative genomics of plant MAPK and
MAPKK gene families. Trends Plant Science 11:192-198.
He, P., L. Shan, N.-C. Lin, G. B. Martin, B. Kemmerling, T. Nurnberger and J. Sheen (2006). Specific
bacterial suppressors of MAMP signaling upstream of MAPKKK in Arabidopsis innate immunity. Cell
125:563-575.
Janjusevic, R., R. B. Abramovitch, G. B. Martin and C. E. Stebbins (2006). A bacterial inhibitor of host
programmed cell death defenses is an E3 ubiquitin ligase. Science 311: 222-226.
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Lin, N.-C. and G. B. Martin (2006). Diverse AvrPtoB homologs from several Pseudomonas syringae
pathovars elicit Pto-dependent resistance and have similar virulence activities. Applied and
Environmental Microbiology 72:702-712.
Mayrose, M., S. K. Ekengren, S. Melech-Bonfil, G. B. Martin and G. Sessa (2006). Evolutionarily
related GRAS genes are involved in tomato defense and mechanical stress responses. Molecular
Plant Pathology 7:593-604.
Sarkar, S.F., J. S. Gordon, G. B. Martin, and D. S. Guttman (2006). Comparative genomics of hostspecific
virulence in Pseudomonas syringae. Genetics 174:1041-1056.
2005
Abramovitch, R. B. and G. B. Martin (2005). AvrPtoB: A bacterial type III effector that both elicits and
suppresses programmed cell death associated with plant immunity. FEMS Microbiology 245:1-8.
Alba, R., P. Payton, Z. Fei, R. McQuinn, P. P. Debbie, G. B. Martin, S. D. Tanksley, and J. J.
Giovannoni (2005). Transcriptome and selected fruit metabolite analysis reveal multiple points of
ethylene regulatory control during tomato fruit development. Plant Cell 17:2954-2965.
Chiasson, D., S. K. Ekengren, G. B. Martin, and W. A. Snedden (2005). Calmodulin-like proteins from
Arabidopsis and tomato are involved in host defense against Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato.
Plant Molecular Biology 58:887-897.
Cohn, J. R. and G. B. Martin (2005). Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato type III effectors AvrPto and
AvrPtoB promote ethylene-dependent cell death in tomato. Plant Journal, 44:139-154.
Lin, N.-C. and G. B. Martin (2005). An avrPto/avrPtoB mutant of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato
DC3000 does not elicit Pto-mediated resistance and is less virulent on tomato. Molecular Plant-
Microbe Interactions 18: 43-51.
Pedley, K. F., and G. B. Martin (2005). Role of mitogen-activated protein kinases in plant immunity.
Current Opinions in Plant Biology 8:541-547.
Restrepo, S., K. L. Myers, O. del Pozo, G. B. Martin, A. L. Hart, C. R. Buell, W. E. Fry, and C. D.
Smart (2005). Gene profiling of a compatible interaction between Phytophthora infestans and
Solanum tuberosum suggests a role for carbonic anhydrase. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions
18:913-922.
2004
Abramovitch, R. B. and G. B. Martin (2004). Strategies used by bacterial pathogens to suppress plant
defenses. Current Opinions in Plant Biology 7:356-364.
Alba, R. Z. Fei, P. Peyton, Y. Liu, S. Moore, P. Debbie, J. Cohn, M. D’Ascenzo, J. Gordon, J. Rose,
G. B. Martin, S. D. Tanksley, M. Bouzayen, M. Jahn, and J. J. Giovannoni (2004) ESTs, cDNA
microarrays, and gene expression profiling: Tools for dissecting plant physiology and development.
Plant Journal 39:697-714.
Burch-Smith, T. M., J. C. Anderson, G. B. Martin, and S. P. Dinesh-Kumar (2004). Applications and
advantages of virus-induced gene silencing (VIGS) for gene function studies in plants. Plant Journal
39:734-746.
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D’Ascenzo, M. D., A. Collmer, and G. B. Martin (2004). PeerGAD: A peer-review-based and
community-centric Web application for viewing and annotating prokaryotic genome sequences.
Nucleic Acids Research, 32:3124-3135.
del Pozo, O., K. F. Pedley, and G. B. Martin (2004). MAPKKKa is a positive regulator of cell death
associated with both plant immunity and disease susceptibility. EMBO Journal 23:3072-3082.
Fei, Z., X. Tang, R. M. Alba, J. A. White, C. M. Ronning, G. B. Martin, S. D. Tanksley, and J. J.
Giovannoni (2004). Comprehensive EST analysis of tomato and comparative genomics of fruit
ripening. Plant Journal 40:47-59.
Gibly, A., A. Bonshtien, V. Balaji, P. Debbie, G. B. Martin, G. Sessa (2004). Identification and
expression profiling of tomato genes differentially regulated during a resistance response to
Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 17:1212-1222.
He, X. J. C. Anderson, O. del Pozo, Y.-Q. Gu, X. Tang, and G. B. Martin (2004). Silencing of
subfamily I of protein phosphatase 2A catalytic subunits results in activation of plant defense
responses and localized cell death. Plant Journal 38:563-577.
Pedley, K. F. and G. B. Martin (2004). Identification of MAPKs and their possible MAPK kinase
activators involved in the Pto-mediated defense response in tomato. J. Biological Chemistry
279:49229-49235.
Wulf, J., P. E. Pascuzzi, A. Fahmy, G. B. Martin, and L. K. Nicholson (2004). The solution structure of
type III effector protein AvrPto reveals conformational and dynamic features important for plant
pathogenesis. Structure 12:1257-1268.
2003
Abramovitch, R.B., Y.-J. Kim, S. Chen, M. B. Dickman, and G. B. Martin (2003). Pseudomonas type III
effector AvrPtoB induces plant disease susceptibility by inhibition of host programmed cell death.
EMBO Journal, 22:60-69.
Buell, C. R., V. Joardar, M. Lindeberg, J. Selengut, I. T. Paulsen, M. L. Gwinn, R. J. Dodson, R T.
Deboy, A. S. Durkin, J F. Kolonay, R. Madupu, S. Daugherty, L. Brinkac, M. J. Beanan, D. H. Haft, W.
C. Nelson, T. Davidsen, J. Liu, Q. Yuan, H. Khouri N. Fedorova, B. Tran, D. Russell, K. Berry, T.
Utterback, S. E. Vanaken, T. V. Feldblyum, M. D'Ascenzo, W.-L. Deng, A. R. Ramos, J. R. Alfano, S.
Cartinhour, A. K. Chatterjee, T. P. Delaney, S. G. Lazarowitz, G. B. Martin, D. J. Schneider, X. Tang,
C. L. Bender, O. White, C. M. Fraser, and A. R. Collmer (2003). The complete sequence of the
Arabidopsis and tomato pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato DC3000. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA, 100:10181-10186.
Chakravarthy, S., R. P. Tuori, M. D. D’Ascenzo, P. R. Fobert, C. Després, and G. B. Martin (2003).
The tomato transcription factor Pti4 regulates defense-related gene expression via GCC box- and
non-GCC box cis elements. Plant Cell, 15:3033-3050
Cohn, J. and G. B. Martin (2003). Pathogen recognition and signal transduction in Plant Innate
Immunity. In: Innate Immunity, Humana Press, Series on Infectious Diseases, pp. 3-26.
Ekengren, S. K., M. Schiff, S. P. Dinesh-Kumar, and G. B. Martin (2003). Two MAPK cascades,
NPR1, and TGA transcription factors play a role in Pto-mediated disease resistance in tomato. Plant
Journal, 36:905-917
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Martin, G. B., A. J. Bogdanove, and G. Sessa (2003). Understanding the functions of plant disease
resistance proteins. Annual Review of Plant Biology, 54:23-61.
Mysore, K. S., M. D’Ascenzo, X. He, and G. B. Martin (2003). Overexpression of the disease
resistance gene Pto in tomato induces gene expression changes similar to immune responses in
human and fruit fly. Plant Physiology, 132:1901-1912.
Pedley, K. F., and G. B. Martin (2003). Molecular basis of Pto-mediated resistance to bacterial speck
disease in tomato. Annual Review of Phytopathology, 41:215-43.
Smart. C.D., K. L. Meyers, S. Restrepo, G. B. Martin, and W. E. Fry (2003). Partial resistance of
tomato to Phytophthora infestans is not dependent upon ethylene, jasmonic acid or salicylic acid
signaling pathways. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 16:141-148.
2002
Fouts, D., R. B. Abramovitch J. R. Alfano, A. M. Baldo, C. R. Buell, S. Cartinhour, A. K. Chatterjee, M.
D'Ascenzo, M. L. Gwinn, S. G. Lazarowitz, N.-C. Lin, G. B. Martin, A. H. Rehm, D. J. Schneider, K.
van Dijk, X. Tang, and A. Collmer. (2002). Genome-wide identification of Pseudomonas syringae pv.
tomato DC3000 promoters controlled by the HrpL alternative sigma factor. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA 99:2275-2280.
Gu , Y.-G., M. C. Wildermuth, S. Chakravarthy, Y.-T. Loh, C. Yang, X. He, Y. Han, and G. B. Martin
(2002). Tomato transcription factors Pti4, Pti5, and Pti6 activate defense responses when expressed
in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 14:817-831.
Jackson , R.W., J. W. Mansfield, H. Ammouneh, L. C. Dutton, B. Wharton, A. Ortiz-Barredo, D. L.
Arnold, G. Tsiamis, A. Sesma, D. Butcher, J. Boch, Y.-J. Kim, G. B. Martin, S. T. J. Murillo , and A.
Vivian. (2002). Pathogenicity islands in plant pathogenic pseudomonads: location and function of
virPphA homologues from pathovars of Pseudomonas syringae and P. savastanoi. Molecular Plant
Pathology, 3:205-216.
Kim, Y.-J., N.-C. Lin, and G. B. Martin (2002). Two highly distinct Pseudomonas effector proteins
interact with the Pto kinase and activate plant immunity. Cell, 109:589-598.
Mysore, K., O. Crasta, R. Tuori, O. Folkerts, P. Swirsky, and G. B. Martin (2002). Comprehensive
transcript profiling of Pto-mediated disease resistance in tomato leaves reveals both Prf-dependent
and -independent gene expression during Pseudomonas infection. Plant Journal, 32:299-315.
Slaymaker, D. H., D. A. Navarre, D. Clark, O. del Pozo, G. B. Martin, and D. F. Klessig (2002). The
tobacco salicylic acid-binding protein (SABP)3 is the chloroplast carbonic anhydrase, which exhibits
antioxidant activity and plays a role in the hypersensitive defenses response. Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences USA, 99:11640-11645.
Van der Hoeven, R., C. Ronning, J. Giovannoni G. B. Martin, and S. Tanksley. (2002). Deductions
about the number, organization and evolution of genes in the tomato genome based on analysis of a
large EST collection and selective genomic sequencing. Plant Cell, 14:1441-1456.
Wulf, J., P. E. Pascuzzzi, G. B. Martin, L. K. Nicholson (2002). 1H, 15N and 13C chemical shift
assignments of the structured core of the Pseudomonas effector protein AvrPto. J. Biomolecular
NMR, 23:247-248.
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2001
Cohn, J., G. Sessa, and G. B. Martin (2001). Innate immunity in plants. Current Opinions in
Immunology, 13:55-62.
Martin, G. B., R. Frederick, R. Thilmony, G. Sessa (2001). Pathogen recognition mediated by the
product of the Pto disease resistance gene. In: Delivery and Perception of Pathogen Signals in
Plants. American Phytopathological Society Press, St. Paul, MN
Mysore, K. S., R. P. Tuori, and G. B. Martin. (2001). Arabidopsis genome sequence as a tool for
functional genomics in tomato. GenomeBiology, 2:1003.1-1003.4
Riely, B. and G. B. Martin. (2001). Ancient origin of pathogen recognition specificity conferred by the
tomato disease resistance gene Pto. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA
98:2059-2064.
2000
Bogdanove, A. J., and G. B. Martin (2000). AvrPto-dependent Pto-interacting proteins and AvrPtointeracting
proteins in tomato. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 97:8836-8840.
Gu, Y.-Q., C. Yang, V. K. Thara, J. Zhou, G. B. Martin (2000). The Pti4 gene is regulated by ethylene
and salicylic acid and its protein is phosphorylated by the Pto kinase. Plant Cell, 12:771-785.
Ron, M., R. Kantety, G. B. Martin, N. Avidan, Y. Eshed, D. Zamir, A. Avni (2000). High-resolution
linkage analysis and physical characterization of the EIX responding locus in tomato. Theoretical and
Applied Genetics, 100:184-189
Sessa, G. and G. B. Martin (2000). Protein kinases in the plant defense response. In: Plant Protein
Kinases, Academic Press, London, UK. Advances in Botanical Research, 32:379-404.
Sessa, G. and G. B. Martin (2000). Signal recognition and transduction mediated by the tomato Pto
kinase a paradigm of innate immunity in plants. Microbes and Infection, 2:1591-1597.
Sessa, G., M. D. D'Ascenzo, G. B. Martin (2000). The major site of the Pti1 kinase phosphorylated by
the Pto kinase is located in the activation domain and is required for Pto-Pti1 interaction. European
Journal of Biochemistry, 267:171-178
Sessa, G., M. D’Ascenzo, and G. B. Martin (2000). Thr38 and Ser198 are Pto-autophosphorylation
sites required for the AvrPto-Pto mediated hypersensitive response. EMBO Journal 19:2257-2269.
Shan, L., V. K. Thara., G. B. Martin, J.-M. Zhou, and X. Tang (2000). AvrPto is localized to the plasma
membrane and requires two distinct sequences for differential recognition in tomato and tobacco.
Plant Cell, 12:2323-2337.
1999
Jia Y. and G. B. Martin (1999). Rapid transcript accumulation of pathogenesis-related genes during
an incompatible interaction in bacterial speck disease resistant tomato plants. Plant Molecular
Biology, 40:455-465.
Martin, G. B. (1999). Functional analysis of resistance genes and their downstream effectors.
Current Opinions in Plant Biology, 2:273-279.
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Tang, X. M. Xie, Y. J. Kim, J. Zhou, D. F. Klessig, G. B. Martin (1999). Overexpression of Pto
activates defense responses and confers race-nonspecific resistance. Plant Cell, 11:15-29.
Thara, V. K., X. Tang, Y.-Q Gu, G. B. Martin, J. Zhou (1999). The tomato EREBP-like genes Pti4 and
Pti5 are induced by pathogens via distinct pathways. Plant Journal, 20:475-483.
1998
Frederick, R., R. L. Thilmony, G. Sessa and G. B. Martin (1998). Recognition specificity for the
bacterial avirulence protein AvrPto is determined by Thr-204 in the activation loop of the tomato Pto
kinase. Molecular Cell, 2:241-245.
Gu, Y. and G. B. Martin (1998). Molecular mechanisms involved in bacterial speck disease resistance
of tomato. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 353:1455-1461.
Loh, Y.-T., J. Zhou, and G. B. Martin (1998). The myristylation motif of Pto is not required for disease
resistance. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 11:572-576.
Martin G. B. (1998). Gene discovery for crop improvement. Current Opinions in Biotechnology 9:220-
226 33.
Ping, X., M. L. Narasimhan, T. Samson, M. A. Coca, G.-H. Huh, J. Zhou, G. B. Martin, P. M.
Hasegawa, R. A. Bressan (1998). A nitrilase-like protein interacts with the GCC box DNA-binding
proteins involved in ethylene and defense responses. Plant Physiology 118:867-874.
Sessa G., M. D’Ascenzo, Y.-T. Loh, G. B. Martin (1998). Biochemical properties of two protein
kinases involved in disease resistance signaling in tomato. Journal of Biological Chemistry
273:15860-15865.
Zhou, J., X. Tang, R. Frederick, G. B. Martin (1998). Pathogen recognition and signal transduction by
the Pto kinase. Journal of Plant Research 111:353-356.
1997
Jia, Y., Loh, Y.-T., Zhou, J. and G. B. Martin (1997). Alleles of Pto and Fen occur in bacterial specksusceptible
and fenthion-insensitive tomato lines and encode functional protein kinases. Plant Cell,
9:61-73.
Zhou, J., X. Tang, and G. B. Martin (1997). The Pto kinase conferring resistance to tomato bacterial
speck disease interacts with proteins that bind a cis-element of pathogenesis-related genes. EMBO
Journal, 16:3207-3218.
1996
Chandra, S., G. B. Martin, and P. S. Low (1996). The Pto kinase mediates a signaling pathway
leading to the oxidative burst in tomato. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA,
93:13393-13397.
Tang, X., R. Frederick, D. Halterman, J. Zhou, and G. B. Martin (1996). Initiation of plant disease
resistance by physical interaction of AvrPto with Pto kinase. Science, 274:2060-2063.
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1995
Giovannoni, J. J., E. N. Noensie, D. M. Ruezinsky, X. Lu, S. L. Tracy, M. W. Ganal, G. B. Martin, K.
Pillen, K. Alpert, and S. D. Tanksley (1995). Molecular genetic analysis of the ripening-inhibiotr and
non-ripening loci of tomato: a first step in genetic map-based cloning of fruit ripening genes.
Molecular and General Genetics, 248:195-206.
Loh, Y.-T. and G. B. Martin (1995). The disease resistance gene Pto and the fenthion sensitivity
gene Fen are closely related, functional protein kinases. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences USA, 92:4181-4184.
Loh, Y.-T. and G. B. Martin (1995). The Pto bacterial resistance gene and the Fen insecticide
sensitivity gene encode functional protein kinases with serine/threonine specificity. Plant Physiology,
108:1735-1739.
Tanksley, S. D., M. W. Ganal, and G. B. Martin (1995). Chromosome landing: A new paradigm for
map-based cloning in species with large genomes. Trends in Genetics, 11:63-68
Thilmony, R. T., Z. Chen, R. A. Bressan, and G. B. Martin (1995). Expression of the tomato Pto gene
in tobacco enhances resistance to P. syringae pv. tabaci expressing avrPto. Plant Cell, 7:1529-1536.
Zhou, J., Y.-T. Loh, and G. B. Martin (1995). The Pto kinase conferring resistance to bacterial speck
disease in tomato physically interacts with and phosphorylates a second kinase, Pti1. Cell, 83:925-
935.
1994
Arumuganathan, K., G. B. Martin, H. Telenius, S. D. Tanksley, and E. D. Earle (1994). Chromosome
2-specific DNA clones from flow-sorted chromosomes of tomato. Molecular and General Genetics,
242:551-558.
Martin, G. B. (1994). Analysis of the molecular basis of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato resistance
in tomato. Euphytica, 79:187-193.
Martin, G. B., A. Frary, T. Wu, S. Brommonschenkel, J. Chunwongse, E. D. Earle, S. D. Tanksley
(1994). A member of the Pto gene family confers sensitivity to fenthion resulting in rapid cell death.
Plant Cell, 6:1543-1552.
Zhang H.-B., G. B. Martin, S. D. Tanksley, and R. A. Wing (1994). Map-based cloning in crop plants:
Tomato as a model system. II. Isolation and characterization of a set of overlapping yeast artificial
chromosomes encompassing the jointless locus. Molecular and General Genetics, 244:613-621.
1993
Chunwongse, J., G. B. Martin, and S. D. Tanksley (1993). Pre-germination genotypic screening using
PCR amplification of half-seeds. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 86:694-698.
Martin, G. B., M. C. de Vicente, and S. D. Tanksley (1993). High resolution linkage analysis and
physical characterization of the Pto bacterial resistance locus in tomato. Molecular Plant-Microbe
Interactions, 6:26-34.
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Martin, G. B., S. H. Brommonschenkel , J. Chunwongse, A. Frary, M. W. Ganal, R. Spivey, T. Wu , E.
D. Earle, and S. D. Tanksley (1993). Map-based cloning of a protein kinase gene conferring disease
resistance in tomato. Science 262:1432-1436.
1992
Martin, G. B., M. W. Ganal, and S. D. Tanksley (1992). Construction of a yeast artificial chromosome
library of tomato and identification of cloned segments linked to two disease resistance loci.
Molecular and General Genetics, 233:25-32.
Tanksley, S. D., M. W.. Ganal, J. P.. Prince, M. C.. de Vicente, M. Bonierbale, P. Broun, T. M.. Fulton,
J. J. Giovanonni, S. Grandillo, G. B. Martin, R. Messeguer, J. C. Miller, L. Miller, A. H. Paterson, O.
Pineda, M. Roeder, R. A.. Wing, W. Wu, and N. D. Young (1992). High density molecular linkage
maps of the tomato and potato genomes: Biological inferences and practical applications. Genetics,
132:1141-1160.
1991
Martin, G. B. and B. K. Chelm (1991). Bradyrhizobium japonicum ntrBC/glnA and nifA/glnA mutants:
Further evidence that separate regulatory pathways govern glnII expression in free-living and
symbiotic cells. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 4:254-261.
Martin, G. B., J. G. Williams, and S. D. Tanksley (1991). Rapid identification of markers near a
Pseudomonas resistance gene in tomato using random primers and near-isogenic lines. Proceedings
of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 88:2336-2340.
1990
Ganal, M. W., G. B. Martin, R. Messeguer and S. D. Tanksley (1990). Applications of RFLPs,
physical mapping and large DNA technologies to the cloning of important genes from crop plants.
AgBiotech News and Information, 2:835-840.
1989
Martin, G. B., M. F. Thomashow, and B. K. Chelm (1989). Bradyrhizobium japonicum glnB, a putative
nitrogen-regulatory gene, is regulated by NtrC at tandem promoters. Journal of Bacteriology,
171:5638-5645.
1988
Martin, G. B., K. Chapman, and B. K. Chelm (1988). Role of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum ntrC gene
product in differential regulation of the glutamine synthetase II gene (glnII). Journal of Bacteriology,
170:5452-5459.
1987
Carlson, T. A., G. B. Martin, and B. K. Chelm (1987). Differential transcription of the two glutamine
synthetase genes of Bradyrhizobium japonicum. Journal of Bacteriology, 169:5861-5866.
Martin, G. B. and M. W. Adams (1987). Landraces of Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabacae) in northern
Malawi. I. Regional variation. Economic Botany, 41:190-203.
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Martin, G. B. and M. W. Adams (1987). Landraces of Phaseolus vulgaris (Fabacae) in northern
Malawi. II. Generation and maintenance of variability. Economic Botany, 41:204-215.
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