Dean W. Gabriel - CV

 

Professor (80% Research, 20% Teaching)

Education:

Michigan State University: B.A., 1974; M.S., 1976; Ph.D., 1981.

Employment:

Research Associate in Botany, Oregon State University; 1981 ­ 1982.
Asst. Professor, Plant Pathology, Oklahoma State University, 1982 - 1984.
Asst. Professor, Plant Pathology, University of Florida, 1984 ­ 1989.
Assoc. Professor, Plant Pathology, University of Florida, 1989 - 1995.
Professor, Plant Pathology, University of Florida, 1995 - present.

Teaching:

PLP 6502, Genetics of Host Parasite Interaction; PLP 6921

Colloquium in Plant Pathology

PCB 5065, Advanced Genetics.

Recent Publications:

Gabriel, D.W., Kingsley, M.T., Yang, Y., Chen, J. and Roberts, P. 1993. Host­specific virulence genes of Xanthomonas. Pages 141-158. In: Molecular mechanisms of bacterial virulence. C.I. Kado and J. Crosa, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers,

Swarup, S., Yang, Y. and D.W. Gabriel. 1992. A Xanthomonas citri pathogenicity gene, pthA, pleiotropically encodes gratuitous avirulence on non-hosts. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 5:204-213.

De Feyter, R., Yang, Y. and D.W. Gabriel. 1993. Gene-for-genes interactions between cotton R genes and Xanthomonas campestris pv. malvacearum avr genes. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 6:225­237.

Kingsley, M.T., Gabriel, D.W., Marlow, G.C. and P.D. Roberts. 1993. The opsX locus of Xanthomonas campestris affects host range and biosynthesis of lipopolysaccharide and extracellular polysaccharide. J. Bacteriol. 175:5839-5850

Tian, Y., T. Li, K. Mang, Y. Han, L. Li, X. Wang, M. Lu, L. Dai, J. Yan, and D. W. Gabriel. 1993. Insect tolerance of transgenic Populus nigra plants transformed with Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene. Chinese J. Biotechnol. 9:219-227.

Loschke, D.C., L. D. Tomaska, H. Chen, D. W. Gabriel, and B. G. Rolfe. 1994. The plant toxin victorin binds to a discrete number of proteins in all organisms tested. Aust. J. Plant Physiol. 21: 243-53.

Yang, Y., R. De Feyter, and D. W. Gabriel. 1994. Host­specific symptoms and increased release of Xanthomonas citri and X. campestris pv. malvacearum from leaves are determined by the 102 bp tandem repeats of pthA and avrb6, respectively. Molec. Plant­Microbe Interact. 7:345­355.

Manulis, S., L. Valinsky, A. Lichter and D.W. Gabriel. 1994. Sensitive and Specific Detection of Xanthomonas campestris pv. pelargonii using DNA Primers and Probe Identified by RAPD Analysis. Appl.Environ.Microbiol. 60:4094-4099.

Alvarez, A.M., A.A. Benedict, C.Y. Mizumoto, J.E. Hunter and D.W. Gabriel. 1994. Serological, pathological and genetic diversity among strains of Xanthomonas campestris infecting crucifers. Phytopathology 84:1449-1457.

Chen, J., P.D. Roberts and D.W. Gabriel. 1994. A virulence locus from Xanthomonas campestris 528T affects pathovar status and confers ability to elicit blight symptoms on crucifers. Phytopathology 84:1458-1465.

Chakrabarty, P.K., Mahadevan, A., Raj, S., Meshram, M.K. and Gabriel, D.W. 1995. Plasmid­bornedeterminants of pigmentation, exopolysaccharide production and virulence in Xanthomonas campestris pv. malvacearum. Can. J. Microbiol. 41:740-745.

Yang, Y. and Gabriel, D.W. 1995. Xanthomonas avirulence/pathogenicity gene family encodes functional plant nuclear targeting signals. Molec. Plant­Microbe Interact. 8:627-631.

Yang, Y. and Gabriel, D.W. 1995. Intragenic recombination of a single plant pathogen gene provides a mechanism for the evolution of new host specificities. J. Bacteriol. 177:4963­4968.

Yang, Y., Yuan, Q. and Gabriel, D.W. 1996. Watersoaking functions of XcmH1005 are redundantly encoded by members of the Xanthomonas avr/pth gene family. Molec. Plant­Microbe Interact. 9:105-113.

Rott, P.C., Costet, L., Davis, M.J., Frutos, R. and Gabriel, D.W. 1996. At least two separate gene lusters are involved in albicidin production by Xanthomonas albilineans.. J. Bacteriol. 178:4590­4596.

Schubert, T.S., Miller, J.W. and Gabriel, D.W. 1996. Another outbreak of Asian citrus canker in Florida. Plant Disease 80:1208

Wang, G., Castiglione, S., Chen, Y., Li, L., Han, Y., Tian, Y., Gabriel, D.W., Mang, K. and Sala, F. 1996. Poplar (Populus nigra L.) plants transformed with a Bacillus thuringiensis toxin gene: insecticidal activity and genomic analysis. Transgenic Research 5:289-301.

Gabriel, D.W. 1997. The Xanthomonas avr/pth gene family. in Plant-Microbe Interactions. G. Stacey and N.T. Keen, eds. Chapman and Hall, (in press)

Gabriel, D.W. 1997. Targeting of protein signals from Xanthomonas to the plant nucleus. Trends Plant Sci. 2:204-206.