Professor
Plant gene expression
Plant/insect interaction
Plant development
Selected Publications
Naqvi, S.M., Harper, A., Carter, C., Ren, G., Guirgis, A.,
York, W.S. and Thornburg, R.W. (2005) Nectarin IV, a potent endoglucanase
inhibitor secreted into the nectar of ornamental tobacco plants. Isolation,
cloning, and characterization. Plant Physiol. 139, 1389-1400.
Carter, C.J. and Thornburg, R.W. (2004) Tobacco nectarin V is a flavin-containing
berberine bridge enzyme-like protein with glucose oxidase activity.
Plant Physiol. 134, 460-469.
Carter, C.J. and Thornburg, R.W. (2004) Tobacco nectarin III is a bifunctional
enzyme with monodehydroascorbate reductase and carbonic anhydrase activities.
Plant Mol. Biol. 54, 415-425.
Carter, C. and Thornburg, R.W. (2004) Is the nectar redox cycle a floral
defense against microbial attack? Trends Plant Sci. 9, 320-324.
Kafer, C., Zhou, L., Santoso, D., Guirgis, A., Weers, B., Park, S. and
Thornburg, R.W. (2004) Regulation of pyrimidine metabolism in plants.
Front. Biosci. 9, 1611-1625.
Carter, C. and Thornburg, R.W. (2003) The nectary-specific pattern of
expression of the tobacco Nectarin I promoter is regulated by multiple
promoter elements. Plant Mol. Biol. 51, 451-457.
Carter, C. and Thornburg, R.W. (2000) Tobacco nectarin I. Purification
and characterization as a germin-like, manganese superoxide dismutase
implicated in the defensE of floral reproductive tissues. J. Biol.
Chem. 275, 36726-36733.
Santoso, D. and Thornburg, R.W. (2000) Fluoroorotic acid-selected Nicotiana
plumbaginifolia cell lines with a stable thymine starvation phenotype
have lost the thymine-regulated transcriptional program. Plant Physiol.
123, 1517-1524.
Kafer, C. and Thornburg, R.W. (2000) Cytidine deaminase from Arabidopsis
thaliana show more similarity to prokaryotic enzymes than to eukaryotic
enzymes. J. Plant Biol. 43, 162-170.
Carter, C., Graham, R.A. and Thornburg, R.W. (1999) Nectarin I is a
novel, soluble germin-like protein expressed in the nectar of Nicotiana
sp. Plant Mol. Biol. 41, 207-216.
Carter, C., Graham, R.A. and Thornburg, R.W. (1998) Arabidopsis thaliana
contains a large family of germin-like proteins: characterization of
cDNA and genomic sequences encoding 12 unique family members. Plant
Mol. Biol. 38, 929-943.
Zhou, L. and Thornburg, R.W. (1998) Site-specific mutations of conserved
residues in the phosphate-binding loop of the Arabidopsis UMP/CMP kinase
alter ATP and UMP binding. Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 358, 297-302.
Zhou, L., Lacroute, F. and Thornburg, R.W. (1998) Cloning, expression
in Escherichia coli, and characterization of Arabidopsis thaliana UMP/CMP
kinase. Plant Physiol. 117, 245-254.
Santoso, D. and Thornburg, R.W. (1998) Uridine 5'-Monophosphate Synthase
Is Transcriptionally Regulated by Pyrimidine Levels in Nicotiana plumbaginifolia.
Plant Physiol. 116, 815-821.
