Martin "Marty" B. Dickman
Christine Richardson Professor of Agriculture
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Director of the Institute for Plant Genomics and Biotechnology
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Phone: (979) 862-4788 Lab: (979) 845-8569 or 845-8586 Fax: (979) 862-4790 Office: 107A Borlaug Center Lab: 172-174 Email: mbdickman@tamu.edu |
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Ph.D. University of Hawaii 1986
Postdoctoral, Washington State University-Institute of Biological Chemistry, 1986-1987
Professor, University of Nebraska, Lincoln 1987-2005
Joined Texas A&M University in December 2005
Signal transduction during pathogenic development-pathways, reactive oxygen signaling and functional genomics of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum
Plant Apotosis-Identification of genes and pathways modulating plant programmed cell death; generation of transgenic plants for biotic and abiotic stress via apoptois regulation
Cessna, S.G., Sears, V.E., Dickman, M.B., and Low, P.S. 2000. Oxalic acid, a pathogenicity factor for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, suppresses the host plant oxidative burst. The Plant Cell 12:2191-2199.
Dickman, M.B., Park, Y.K., Oltersdorf, T., Li, W., Clemente, T., and French, R. 2001. Abrogation of disease development in plants expressing animal anti-apoptotic genes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 98: 6957-6962.
Abramovitch, R.B., Kim, Y-K., Chen, S., Dickman, M. B. and Martin, G.B. 2003. Pseudomonas typeIII effector AvrPtoB induces plant disease susceptibility by inhibition of programmed cell death. EMBO J. 22: 60-69.
Dickman, M.B. Ha, Y.S.,Yang, Z., Adams, B., and Huang, C. 2003. A protein kinase from Colletotrichum trifolii is induced by plant cutin and is required for appressorium formation. Mol. Plant-Microbe Inter. 16:411-421.
Chen, C., and Dickman, M.B. 2004. Dominant active Rac and dominant negative Rac revert the dominant active Ras phenotype in Colletotrichum trifolii by distinct signaling pathways. Mol. Microbiol. 51: 1493-1507.
Chen, C., Harel, A., Gorovits, R., Yarden, O., and Dickman, M.B. 2004. Regulation of sclerotial development in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is linked with pH and cAMP sensing. Mol. Plant Microbe Interact. 17: 404-413.
Chen, S. Zarir., Li, W., Asard, H., and Dickman, M.B. 2004. Tomato phospholipid hydoperoxide glutathione peroxidase inhibits cell death induced by Bax and oxidative stresses in yeast and plants. Plant Physiol. 135: 163-1641.
Chen, S., and Dickman, M.B. 2004. Bcl-2 family members localize to chloroplasts and inhibit programmed cell death induced by chloroplast directed herbicides. J. Exp. Bot. 55: 2617-2623.
Chen, C. and Dickman, M.B. 2005. cAMP blocks MAPK activation and sclerotial development via Rap-1 in a PKA-independent manner in Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Mol. Micrbiol. 55: 299-311.
Chen, C., and Dickman, M.B. 2005. Proline suppresses apoptosis in the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum trifolii. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 102: 3459-3464.
