PUBLICATIONS:

Mlotshwa, S., Schauer, S. E., Smith, T. H., Mallory, A. C., Herr, Jr, J. M., Roth, B., Merchant, D. S., Ray, A., Bowman, L. H., and Vance, V. B. (2005). Ectopic expression of DICER-LIKE1 suppresses developmental defects in P1/HC-Pro transgenic Arabidopsis independent of small RNA-directed RNA degradation pathways. The Plant Cell 17, 2873-8.

Mallory, A. C., Ely, L., Smith, T. H., Marathe, R., Anandalakshmi, R., Fagard, M., Vaucheret, H., Pruss, G., Bowman, L., and Vance, V.B. (2001). HC-Pro suppression of transgene silencing eliminates the small RNAs but not transgene methylation or the mobile signal. The Plant Cell 13, 571-583.

Marathe, R., Anandalakshmi, R., Smith, T. H., Pruss, G., Vance, V. B. (2000). RNA viruses as inducers, suppressors and targets of post-transcriptional gene silencing. Plant Mol. Biol. 43, 295-306.

Marathe, R.*, Smith, T. H.*, Anandalakshmi, R., Bowman, L., Fagard, M., Mourrain, P., Vaucheret, H., and Vance, V. B. (2000). Plant viral suppressors of post-transcriptional gene silencing do not suppress transcriptional gene silencing. The Plant Journal 22, 51-59.

*Authors contributed equally to the work.

Anandalakshmi, R., Pruss, G., Ge, X., Marathe, R., Mallory, A. C., Smith, T. H., and Vance, V. B. (1998). A viral suppressor of gene silencing in plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 95, 13079-13084.

PRESENTATIONS AT SCHOLARLY MEETINGS:

Plant viral suppressors of post-transcriptional gene silencing do not suppress transcriptional gene silencing.

Presented at: 2000 Meeting of the Southern division of the American Phytopathological Society

1999 Meeting of the American Society of Plant Physiologists

The Helper Component-Proteinase from Turnip Mosaic Virus suppresses post-transcriptional gene silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana.

Presented at: 2001 Plant Sciences Symposium, Iowa State University

PRESENTATIONS BY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH STUDENTS:

Investigating possible suppression of RNA interference by Spring beauty latent virus in Arabidopsis thaliana. By Ashley Kamimae-Lanning.

Presented at: 2005 Murdock Undergraduate Research Conference

2006 Oregon Academy of Science meeting

2006 OHSU Undergraduate Reseach Conference

Generation of transgenic line of Arabidopsis thaliana to express the 3a protein from Spring beauty latent virus. By Ekatirina Basargin and Ashley Kamimae-Lanning.

Presented at: 2007 Oregon Academy of Science meeting

2007 OHSU Undergraduate Research Confrence