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RONALD, Pamela Associate Professor
Department of Plant Pathology |
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| Degree | Institution | Year | Specialization | |||
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| B.A. | Reed College, Portland, OR | 1982 | Biology | |||
| M.S. | Stanford University | 1984 | Biology | |||
| M.S. | University of Uppsala, Sweden | 1985 | Plant Physiology | |||
| Ph.D. | University of California, Berkeley | 1990 | Molecular & Physiological Plant Biology | |||
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| Area of Specialization | ||||||
| Molecular basis of disease resistance in plant-microbe interactions. | ||||||
| Research Statement | ||||||
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research focus encompasses the molecular genetics of disease resistance
in rice. Bacterial blight and blast of rice caused by Xanthomonas
oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) and Pyricularia oryzae,
respectively, are the most destructive diseases of rice in Asia. The
long-term goal of my research is to elucidate the signal cascade governing
plant disease resistance and to create novel strategies for disease
control in rice and other cereal crops. Towards this end, we have
isolated several rice genes controlling disease resistance from rice.
We are now exploring the mechanism of action of the proteins encoded
by these genes using genomics, proteomics and transgenic techniques.
Please see the Ronald lab web page at http://indica.ucdavis.edu for more information | ||||||
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