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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Agronomy and Horticulture

The Science and Application of Plants to Sustain and Enhance Human Life

Thomas E. Elthon

Associate Professor
Plant Physiologist/Center for Biotechnology Protein Core
 Facility Manager

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DEGREES:

  • B.S., 1977, Arizona State University, Biology.
  • M.S., 1980, Iowa State University, Botany.
  • Ph.D., 1983, Iowa State University, Botany.
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RESEARCH INTERESTS:

  • Responses of Plants to Environmental Stresses
  • Plant Mitochondrial Function
  • Proteomic Methods

COURSES TAUGHT:

  • Botany (Bios 109)
  • Plant Growth and Development (Bios 879)
  • Plant Anatomy (Bios 878)

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

  • Blake, J. A., K. W. Lee, J. T. Morris, and T. E. Elthon. 2007. Effects of turnip crinkle viral infection on the structure and function of mitochondria and expression of stress proteins in turnips. Physiologia Plantarum 129:698-706.

  • Fu, Z. Q, M. Guo, B. Jeong, F. Tian, T. E. Elthon, R. L. Cerny, , D. Staiger, and J. R. Alfano. 2007. A type III effector ADP-ribosylates RNA-binding proteins and quells plant innate immunity. Nature 447:284-288.

  • Rhoads, D. M., S. J. White, Y. J. Zhou, M. Muralidharan, and T. E. Elthon. 2005. Altered gene expression in plants with constitutive expression of a corn mitochondrial small heat shock protein suggests the involvement of retrograde regulation in the heat stress response. Physiologia Plantarum 123:435-444.

  • Jiao, S., J. M. Thornsberry, T. E. Elthon, and K. J. Newton. 2005. Biochemical and molecular characterization of PSI deficiency in the NCS6 mitochondrial mutant of maize. Plant Mol Biol 57:303-313.

  • Rasmusson, A. J., K. L. Soole, and T. E. Elthon. 2004. Alternative NAD(P)H dehydrogenases of plant mitochondria. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 55:23-39.

  • Karpova, O.V., E.V. Kuzmin, T.E. Elthon, and K.J. Newton. 2004. Mitochondrial respiratory deficiencies signal up-regulation of the genes for heat shock proteins. J Biol Chem 279:20672-20677.

  • Karpova, O.V., E.V. Kuzmin, T. E. Elthon, and K.J. Newton. 2002. Differential expression of alternative oxidase genes in respiratory deficient maize mitochondrial mutants. Plant Cell 14:1-15.

  • Worthington, P., P. Blum, F. Perez-Pomares, and Thomas E. Elthon. 2002. Large scale cultivation of acidophilic hyperthermophiles for recovery of secreted proteins. App Env Micro 69:252-257.

  • Lund, A. A., D. M. Rhoads, A. L. Lund, R. L. Cerny, and T. E. Elthon. 2001. In vivo modifications of the maize mitochondrial low molecular weight heat stress protein, HSP22. J. Biol. Chem. 276:29924-29929.

  • Heckman, N. L., T. E. Elthon, G. L. Horst, and R. E. Gaussoin. 2001. Influence of Trinexapac-ethyl on respiration of isolated wheat mitochondria. Crop Sci. 42:423-427.