The JGP is pleased to announce that Sharona Gordon, associate professor of physiology and biophysics at the University of Washington, has become an associate editor. Sharona has held a Jules and Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professorship and served with distinction on many national and institutional committees, including the National Institutes of Health/CSR Neurotransmitter Transp...

Dr. Gaetano Santulli is a physician scientist (cardiologist) working at Columbia University Medical Center in New York (NY). He earned his MD and PhD from the University of Naples “Federico II”, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University. He has expertise in both clinical and basic research. His research interests include heart failure [1-3], diabetes mellitus [4, 5], adrenerg...

Title of Dissertation: MECHANISMS UNDERLYING OUTBREAKS OF SPIDER MITES FOLLOWING APPLICATIONS OF IMIDACLOPRID. Adrianna Szczepaniec, Ph.D., 2009 Directed By: Professor Michael J. Raupp, Department of Entomology Imidacloprid is a widely used neonicotinoid insecticide with high efficacy and long residual activity, and it is frequently applied to manage insect pests in urban landscapes. Recent rep...

The present study demonstrates the plant growth promoting (PGP) potential of a bacterial isolate CDP-13 isolated from 'Capparis decidua' plant, and its ability to protect plants from the deleterious effect of biotic and abiotic stressors. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, the isolate was identified as Serratia marcescens. Among the PGP traits, the isolate was found to be positive for AC...

We have investigated the mycorrhizal associations of two nonphotosynthetic orchids from distant tribes within the Orchidaceae. The two orchids were found to associate exclusively with two distinct clades of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetous fungi over wide geographic ranges. Yet both orchids retained the internal mycorrhizal structure typical of photosynthetic orchids that do not associate with e...

In the social sciences, there is a great deal of talk about the importance of " theory " in constructing causal explanations of bodies of data.... In many of these cases the necessity of theory is badly exaggerated. It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment. —Sherlock Holmes in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's (1887) A Study in Scarlet. Users of struct...

Land plants modify the terrestrial environment extensively by nutrient acquisition, water utilization, physical disruption and cohesion of the soil, and the release of complex exudate materials. Decaying plant matter is also a major source of organic material in soils. Large numbers of microorganisms associate with and flourish on, within, and around plants, colonizing virtually all exposed tis...

Zinc is an essential micronutrient for all living organisms. When facing a shortage in zinc supply, plants adapt by enhancing the zinc uptake capacity. The molecular regulators controlling this adaptation are not known. We present the identification of two closely related members of the Arabidopsis thaliana basic-region leucine-zipper (bZIP) transcription factor gene family, bZIP19 and bZIP23, ...