Publications

  • Patharkar OR, Walker JC (2019) Connections between abscission, dehiscence, pathogen defense, drought tolerance, and senescence. Plant Science 284: 25-29.  Accepted Manuscript PDF (free)
  • Patharkar OR (2019) Quantification of cauline leaf abscission in response to plant pathogens. Plant Innate Imunity. Methods Mol Biol. vol. 1991Free Preprint.
  • Patharkar OR, Gassmann W, Walker JC (2017) Leaf shedding as an anti-bacterial defense in Arabidopsis cauline leaves. PLoS Genet. 13(12): e1007132.
  • Patharkar OR, Walker JC (2017) Advances in abscission signaling. J Exp Bot. doi: 10.1093/jxb/erx256
  • Patharkar OR, Walker JC (2016) Core mechanisms regulating developmentally timed and environmentally triggered abscission. Plant Physiol. 172, 511
  • Patharkar OR, Macken TA, Walker JC (2016) Serine 231 and 257 of Agamous-like 15 are phosphorylated in floral receptacles. Plant Signal Behav. 11 (7), e1199314
  • Patharkar OR, Walker JC (2015) Floral organ abscission is regulated by a positive feedback loop. PNAS. 112(9):2906-11.
  • Nemali KS, Bonin C, Dohleman FG, Stephens M, Reeves WR, Nelson DE, Castiglioni P, Whitsel JE, Sammons B, Silady RA, Anstrom D, Sharp RE, Patharkar OR, Clay D, Coffin M, Nemeth MA, Leibman ME, Luethy M, Lawson M. (2014) Physiological responses related to increased grain yield under drought in the first biotechnology-derived drought-tolerant maize. Plant Cell Environ. doi: 10.1111/pce.12446
  • Niederhuth CE, Patharkar OR, Walker JC (2013) Transcriptional profiling of the Arabidopsis abscission mutant hae hsl2 by RNA-Seq. BMC Genomics. 14:37.
  • Chehab EW, Patharkar OR, Cushman JC (2007) Isolation and characterization of a novel v-SNARE family protein that interacts with a calcium-dependent protein kinase from the common ice plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Planta. 225(4):783-99.
  • Patharkar OR, Cushman JC (2006) A novel coiled-coil protein co-localizes and interacts with a calcium-dependent protein kinase in the common ice plant during low-humidity stress. Planta. 225(1):57-73.
  • Chehab EW, Patharkar OR, Hegeman AD, Taybi T, Cushman JC (2004) Autophosphorylation and subcellular localization dynamics of a salt- and water deficit-induced calcium-dependent protein kinase from ice plant. Plant Physiol.  135(3):1430-46.
  • Patharkar OR, Cushman JC (2000) A stress-induced calcium-dependent protein kinase from Mesembryanthemum crystallinum phosphorylates a two-component pseudo-response regulator. Plant J. 24:679-691.