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Professor Autar K. Mattoo

The USDA Sustainable Agricultural Systems Laboratory
The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (W)
ARS, Building 001, Room 119
Beltsville , MD 20705-2350
USA
Tel: +1 301 504 6622 ; Fax: +1 301 504 6491
E-mail: autar.mattoo@ars.usda.gov
http://www.ars.usda.gov/pandp/people/people.htm?personid=37067
Area of expertise: Plant hormone biosynthesis and action; Photosystem II and protein turnover in chloroplasts; Sustainable alternative agriculture and gene expression; Agricultural biotechnology and phytonutrients
Co-editor until: October 31, 2011
   
Selected Publications:  
   
  • Mattoo AK, Teasdale JR (2010) Ecological and genetic systems underlying sustainable horticulture. Hort. Revs.
  • Mattoo AK, Minocha SC, Minocha R, Handa AK (2010) Polyamines and cellular metabolism in plants: Transgenic approaches reveal different responses to diamine putrescine versus higher polyamines spermidine and spermine. Amino Acids 38, 405-413.
  • Shukla V, Mattoo AK (2009) Potential for engineering horticultural crops with high antioxidant capacity. CAB Reviews 066, 1-12.
  • Krol M, Ivanov AG, Booij-James I, Mattoo AK, Sane PV, Hüner NP (2009) Absence of the major light harvesting antenna proteins alters the redox properties of photosystem II reaction centres in the chlorina F2 mutant of barley. Biochem. Cell Biol. 87, 557-566.
  • Booij-James IS, Edelman M, Mattoo AK (2009) NO donor-mediated inhibition of phosphorylation shows that light-mediated degradation of photosystem-II D1 protein and phosphorylation are not tightly linked. Planta 229, 1347-1352.
  • Edelman M, Mattoo AK (2008) D1-protein dynamics in photosystem II: the lingering enigma. Photosynth. Res. 98, 609-620.
  • Neelam A, Cassol T, Mehta RA, Abdul-Baki AA, Sobolev AP, Goyal RK, Abbott J, Segre AL, Handa AK, Mattoo AK (2008) A field-grown transgenic tomato line expressing higher levels of polyamines reveals legume cover crop mulch-specific perturbations in fruit phenotype at the levels of metabolite profiles, gene expression and agronomic characteristics. J. Exp. Bot. 59, 2337-2346.
  • Abat JK, Mattoo AK, Deswal R (2008) S-nitrosylated proteins of a medicinal CAM plant Kalanchoe pinnata - ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase activity targeted for inhibition. FEBS J. 275, 2862-2872. .
  • Shukla V, Mattoo AK (2008) Sucrose non-fermenting 1-related protein kinase 2 (SnRK2): A family of protein kinases involved in hyperosmotic stress signaling. Physiol. Mol. Biol. Plants 14, 91-99.
  • Mattoo AK, Handa AK (2008) Higher polyamines resuscitate metabolic memory in fruit. Plant Sci. 174, 386-393.
  • Mattoo AK, Chung SH, Goyal RK, Fatima T, Srivastava A, Solomos T, Handa AK (2007) Over-accumulation of higher polyamines in ripening transgenic tomato fruit revives metabolic memory, upregulates anabolism-related genes, and positively impacts nutritional quality. J. AOAC Intl. 90, 1456-1464.
  • Srivastava A, Chung SH, Fatima T, Datsenka T, Handa AK, Mattoo AK (2007) Polyamines as anabolic growth regulators revealed by transcriptome analysis and metabolite profiles of tomato fruits engineered to accumulate spermidine and spermine. Plant Biotechnol . 24, 57-70.
  • Mattoo AK, Sobolev AP, Neelam A, Goyal RK, Handa AK, Segre AL (2006) Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy-based metabolite profiling of transgenic tomato fruit engineered to accumulate spermidine and spermine reveals enhanced anabolic and nitrogen-carbon interactions. Plant Physiol . 142, 1759-1770.
  • Li JF, Qi R, Qu LH, Mattoo AK, Li N (2005) Cleavage of the carboxy-terminus of LEACS2, a tomato 1-aminocyclpropane-1-carboxylic acid synthase isomer, by a 64-kDa tomato metalloprotease produces a truncated but active enzyme. J. Integr. Plant Biol. 47, 1352-1363.
  • Kumar V, Abdul-Baki A, Anderson JD, Mattoo AK (2005) Cover crop residues enhance growth, improve yield and delay leaf senescence in greenhouse-grown tomatoes. HortScience 40, 1307-1311.
  • Ebbert V, Adams III WW, Mattoo AK, Sokolenko A, Demmig-Adams B (2005) Upregulation of a photosystem II core protein phosphatase inhibitor and sustained D1 phosphorylation in zeaxanthin-retaining, photoinhibited needles of overwintering Douglas fir. Plant Cell Environ. 28, 232-240.