William David Park
Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
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Address: Phone: 979-845-8868 Fax: 979-862-4471 Email: wdpark@tamu.edu |
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BS (Chemistry), University of South Carolina, 1973
Ph.D. (Biochemistry), University of Florida, 1977, Advisor: Gary Stein
Postdoctoral Fellow (Genetics and Cell Biology), University of Minnesota, 1978
Research Assistant, Biochemistry, University of Florida, 1973-1977
Postdoctoral Fellow, Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Minnesota, 1978-1979
Assistant Professor, Horticulture, Purdue University, 1980-1983
Associate Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 1984-90.
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 1991-present
Leader, Rice Laboratory, Texas A&M Crop Biotechnology Center, 1994-present
Manipulation of plant storage tissue and the use of biotechnology in crop improvement.
Bligh HF J, PS Roach, CA Jones, PD Larkin, H Fu, WD Park (1998) Use of alternate splice sites in granule bound starch synthase mRNA from low amylose rice varieties. Plant Molecular Biology 38: 407-415.
Van Deynze AE, ME Sorrells, WD Park, NM Ayres, HY Fu, SL Cartinhour, E Paul and SR McCouch (1998) Anchor probes for comparative mapping of grass genera. Theor. Appl. Genet. 97: 356-369.
Larkin PL and WD Park (1999) Transcript accumulation and utilization of alternate and non-consensus splice sites in rice granule bound starch synthase is temperature-sensitive and controlled by a single nucleotide polymorphism. Plant Molecular Biology 40: 719-727.
Temnykh S, WD Park, N Ayres, S Cartinhour, N Hauck, L Lipovich, YG Cho, T Ishii, SR McCouch (2000) Mapping and genome organization of microsatellite sequences in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Theor. Appl. Genet. 100: 697-712.
Cho YG, T Ishii, S Temnkh, X Chen, L Lipovich, S McCouch, WD Park, N Ayres, S Cartinhour (2000) Diversity of microsatellites derived from genomic libraries and GenBank sequences in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Theor. Appl. Genet 100: 713-722.
Vaughan, LK, V Ottis, AM Prazak, CA Conaway-Bormans, CH Sneller, JM Chandler and WD Park (2001) Is all red rice found in commercial rice really Oryza sativa. Weed Science: 49: 468-476.
Fu HY, WD Park, J Song, J Jiang, J Du (2001) Potato and tomato forever young genes contain class I patatin promoter-like sequences. Botanical Bulletin of Academia Sinica 42(4) 231-241.
Bormans, CA, RB Rhodes, DD Kephart, AM McClung, WD Park (2002) Analysis of a single nucleotide polymorphism that controls the cooking quality of rice using a non-gel based assay. Euphytica 128: 261-267.
Larkin, PD, MA McClung, NM Ayres, WD Park (2003) The effect of the Wx locus (Granule Bound Starch Synthase) on pasting curve characteristics in specialty rice. Euphytica 131: 243-253.
Bormans C, A McClung, A Marchetti, C Johnson, W Park (2003) Molecular markers linked to the blast resistance gene Pi-z in rice for use in marker-assisted selection. Theor. Appl. Genet. 107: 1014-1020.
Larkin PD, WD Park (2003) Association of waxy gene single nucleotide polymorphisms with starch characteristics in rice (Oryza sativa L.) Molec. Breeding 12: 335-339.
McClung AM, RG Fjellstrom, CJ Bergman, CA Bormans, WD Park, MA Marchetti (2003) Registration of Saber Rice. Crop Science. 44:248-249.
McClung AM, CJ Bergman, RG Fjellstrom, CA Bormans, WD Park, MA Marchetti (2003) Registration of Bolivar Rice. Crop Science 44: 353-354.
Fjellstrom, R, CA Conaway-Bormans, AM McClung, W Park (in press) Development of DNA Markers Suitable for Marker Assisted Selection of Three Pi- Genes Conferring Resistance to Multiple Pyricularia grisea pathotypes. Crop Science.
PATENTS
McClung, AM, MA Marchetti, WD Park (1998) Release of Cadet and Jacinto, two long grain rice varieties having special processing quality. Submitted for Plant Variety Protection
•Jacinto PVP 0000109
o Jacinto has been registered for commercial production in both the US
and Spain
o > 40 million pounds of Jacinto have been produced under commercial
license
Cadet PVP 9900110
o Cadet has been registered for commercial production in Italy
McClung, Bormans CA and WD Park (2002) Release of Hidalgo and Cala, two
higher yielding long grain rice varieties having special processing quality.
Submitted for Plant Variety Protection
o Hidalgo and Presidio have both been submitted for registration in Spain
o Production of these varieties under a commercial license began in 2003
TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFER
Cadet and Jacinto were the first rice varieties released for commercial production in the US or Europe that were developed using marker-assisted selection. They were also the first to be specifically tailored to work with a novel type of processing technology to develop a new value-added product.
A new rice product with enhanced nutritional value and other consumer benefits
based on Cadet and Jacinto is currently being marketed throughout Europe.
Microsatellite markers for alleles of granule bound starch synthase associated
with different cooking and processing quality that were developed in my lab
are being routinely used at the Texas A&M/USDA-ARS Rice Breeding Program
to screen breeding lines from all of the Southern US public rice breeding programs.
Microsatellite markers for the blast resistance genes Pi-b, Pi-k Pi-ta2 and
Pi-z that were developed in my lab are being routinely used in the Texas A&M/USDA-ARS
rice-breeding program. These markers were also transferred to the other public
rice breeding programs in a workshop presented jointly by my lab and the USDA-ARS
Rice Research Unit, June 13-14, 2001. They are also currently being used in
a collaborative project with the California public rice breeding program to
deal with a recent outbreak of blast in that state.
Recognition and Awards:
In 2001, The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer recognized
our work on DNA marker development and transfer as “noteworthy”.
In 2002, The Weed Science Society of America voted our paper (Vaughan
et al., 2001) as “paper of the year”. This paper showed that
much of the weed red rice that is widely distributed across US commercial
rice fields is closely related to Oryza rufipogon - a noxious weed previously
though to be restricted to one small area in Florida.
My student, Connie Bormans, won second prize in the 2002 Texas A&M
Genetics Research Competition for her work on marker-assisted selection
for disease resistance genes in rice.
