Department of Plant Biology
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA  95616 USA
Tel: +1-530-752-0673; Fax: +1-530-752-5410
E-mail: jjharada@ucdavis.edu
http://biosci.ucdavis.edu/FacultyProfiles/Sections/PLB/DisplayFacultyProfile.cfm?ResearcherID=1398
Area of expertise: Biochemistry; cell and developmental biology; genetics; molecular biology; plant biology
Co-editor until: Dec. 31, 2010

• Ohto MA, Floyd SK, Fischer RL, Goldberg RB, Harada JJ (2009) Effects of APETALA2 on embryo, endosperm, and seed coat development determine seed size in Arabidopsis. Sex. Plant Reprod. 22, 277-289.
• Braybrook SA, Harada JJ (2008) LECs go crazy in embryo development. Trends Plant Sci. 13, 624-630.
• Tang X, Hou A, Babu M, Nguyen V, Hurtado L, Lu Q, Reyes JC, Wang A, Keller WA, Harada JJ, Tsang EW, Cui Y (2008) The Arabidopsis BRAHMA chromatin-remodeling ATPase is involved in repression of seed maturation genes in leaves. Plant Physiol. 147, 1143-1157.
• Park S, Harada JJ (2008) Arabidopsis embryogenesis. Methods Mol. Biol. 427, 3-16.
• Stone SL, Braybrook SA, Paula SL, Kwong LW, Meuser J, Pelletier J, Hsieh TF, Fischer RL, Goldberg RB, Harada JJ (2008) Arabidopsis LEAFY COTYLEDON2 induces maturation traits and auxin activity: Implications for somatic embryogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 105, 3151-3156.
• Garc¨ºs HM, Champagne CE, Townsley BT, Park S, Malh¨® R, Pedroso MC, Harada JJ, Sinha NR (2007) Evolution of asexual reproduction in leaves of the genus Kalancho?. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 15578-15583.
• Le BH, Wagmaister JA, Kawashima T, Bui AQ, Harada JJ, Goldberg RB (2007) Using genomics to study legume seed development. Plant Physiol. 144, 562-574.
• Xiao W, Brown RC, Lemmon BE, Harada JJ, Goldberg RB, Fischer RL (2006) Regulation of seed size by hypomethylation of maternal and paternal genomes. Plant Physiol. 142, 1160-1168.
• Xiao W, Custard KD, Brown RC, Lemmon BE, Harada JJ, Goldberg RB, Fischer RL (2006) DNA methylation is critical for Arabidopsis embryogenesis and seed viability. Plant Cell 18, 805-814.
• Braybrook SA, Stone SL, Park S, Bui AQ, Le BH, Fischer RL, Goldberg RB, Harada JJ (2006) Genes directly regulated by LEAFY COTYLEDON2 provide insight into the control of embryo maturation and somatic embryogenesis. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 3468-3473.
• Gehring M, Huh JH, Hsieh TF, Penterman J, Choi Y, Harada JJ, Goldberg RB, Fischer RL (2006) DEMETER DNA glycosylase establishes MEDEA polycomb gene self-imprinting by allele-specific demethylation. Cell 124, 495-506.
• Yamagishi K, Nagata N, Yee KM, Braybrook SA, Pelletier J, Fujioka S, Yoshida S, Fischer RL, Goldberg RB, Harada JJ (2005) TANMEI/EMB2757 encodes a WD repeat protein required for embryo development in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 139, 163-173.
• Gaj MD, Zhang S, Harada JJ, Lemaux PG (2005) Leafy cotyledon genes are essential for induction of somatic embryogenesis of Arabidopsis. Planta 222, 977-988.
• Choi Y, Harada JJ, Goldberg RB, Fischer RL (2004) An invariant aspartic acid in the DNA glycosylase domain of DEMETER is necessary for transcriptional activation of the imprinted MEDEA gene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 101, 7481-7486.
• Lee H, Fischer RL, Goldberg RB, Harada JJ (2003) Arabidopsis LEAFY COTYLEDON1 represents a functionally specialized subunit of the CCAAT binding transcription factor. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 100, 2152-2156.
• Kwong RW, Bui AQ, Lee H, Kwong LW, Fischer RL, Goldberg RB, Harada JJ (2003) LEAFY COTYLEDON1-LIKE defines a class of regulators essential for embryo development. Plant Cell 15, 5-18.
• Choi Y, Gehring M, Johnson L, Hannon M, Harada JJ, Goldberg RB, Jacobsen SE, Fischer RL (2002) DEMETER, a DNA glycosylase domain protein, is required for endosperm gene imprinting and seed viability in arabidopsis. Cell 110, 33-42.