selected publications

• article

  • An AMA1/MSP119 Adjuvanted Malaria Transplastomic Plant-Based Vaccine Induces Immune Responses in Test Animals.  Molecular Biotechnology.  62:534-545. 2020-01-01
  • Challenges and Opportunities for the Biotechnology Research Community during the Coronavirus Pandemic.  Trends in Biotechnology.  38:823-824. 2020-01-01
  • A Plant-Derived Multi-HIV Antigen Induces Broad Immune Responses in Orally Immunized Mice.  Molecular Biotechnology.  57:662-674. 2015-01-01
  • The corn smut ('Huitlacoche') as a new platform for oral vaccines.  PLoS ONE.  10:-. 2015-01-01
  • Expression of an HBcAg-based antigen carrying angiotensin II in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii as a candidate hypertension vaccine.  Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture.  116:133-139. 2014-01-01
  • Transcriptome analysis of the exocarp of apple fruit identifies light-induced genes involved in red color pigmentation.  Gene.  534:78-87. 2014-01-01
  • Immunogenic properties of a lettuce-derived C4(V3)6 multiepitopic HIV protein.  Planta.  238:785-792. 2013-01-01
  • Production of an antigenic C4(V3)6 multiepitopic HIV protein in bacterial and plant systems.  Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture.  113:73-79. 2013-01-01
  • A chloroplast-derived C4V3 polypeptide from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is orally immunogenic in mice.  Plant Molecular Biology.  78:337-349. 2012-01-01
  • Expression of the nucleocapsid protein of Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome Virus in soybean seed yields an immunogenic antigenic protein.  Planta.  235:513-522. 2012-01-01
  • Introduction of apple ANR genes into tobacco inhibits expression of both CHI and DFR genes in flowers, leading to loss of anthocyanin.  Journal of Experimental Botany.  63:2437-2447. 2012-01-01
  • Expression profiles of differentially regulated genes during the early stages of apple flower infection with Erwinia amylovora.  Journal of Experimental Botany.  62:4851-4861. 2011-01-01
  • Gene Expression is Highly Regulated in Early Developing Fruit of Apple.  Plant Molecular Biology Reporter.  29:885-897. 2011-01-01
  • Immunogenicity of nuclear-encoded LTB:ST fusion protein from Escherichia coli expressed in tobacco plants.  Plant Cell Reports.  30:1145-1152. 2011-01-01
  • Oral immunization with a lettuce-derived Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin B subunit induces neutralizing antibodies in mice.  Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture.  107:441-449. 2011-01-01
  • Transgenic carrot tap roots expressing an immunogenic F1-V fusion protein from Yersinia pestis are immunogenic in mice.  Journal of Plant Physiology.  168:174-180. 2011-01-01
  • Ectopic expression of apple F3'H genes contributes to anthocyanin accumulation in the arabidopsis tt7 mutant grown under nitrogen stress.  Plant Physiology.  153:806-820. 2010-01-01
  • Expression of an immunogenic F1-V fusion protein in lettuce as a plant-based vaccine against plague.  Planta.  232:409-416. 2010-01-01
  • Identifying differentially expressed genes in leaves of Glycine tomentella in the presence of the fungal pathogen Phakopsora pachyrhizi.  Planta.  232:1181-1189. 2010-01-01
  • Transcriptome analysis of resistant and susceptible genotypes of Glycine tomentella during Phakopsora pachyrhizi infection reveals novel rust resistance genes.  Theoretical and Applied Genetics.  120:1315-1333. 2010-01-01
  • Expression of a multi-epitope DPT fusion protein in transplastomic tobacco plants retains both antigenicity and immunogenicity of all three components of the functional oligomer.  Planta.  229:1293-1302. 2009-01-01
  • Expression of an Escherichia coli antigenic fusion protein comprising the heat labile toxin B subunit and the heat stable toxin, and its assembly as a functional oligomer in transplastomic tobacco plants.  Plant Journal.  57:45-54. 2009-01-01
  • Three orthologs in rice, Arabidopsis, and Populus encoding starch branching enzymes (SBEs) are different from other SBE gene families in plants.  Gene.  401:123-130. 2007-01-01

• chapter

  • Plant-based vaccines against the human immunodeficiency virus.  Genetically Engineered Plants as a Source of Vaccines Against Wide Spread Diseases: An Integrated View. 161-173. 2014-01-01
  • Seed-based expression strategies.  Genetically Engineered Plants as a Source of Vaccines Against Wide Spread Diseases: An Integrated View. 79-93. 2014-01-01
• Engineering production of antihypertensive peptides in plants.  Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture. 159-169. 2013-01-01