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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Lederle Graduate Research Tower
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
Tel: +1-413-545-4027; Fax: +1-413-545-3291
E-mail: acheung@biochem.umass.edu
Area of expertise: Pollen-pistil interaction; pollen tube cell biology; signal transduction; Rac/Rop GTPases
Selected Publications:
Cheung, A., Qu, L., Russinova, E., Zhao, Y., and Zipfel, C. (2020). Update on receptors and signaling. Plant Physiol. 182: 1527–1530.
Duan, Q., Liu, M., Kita, D., Jordan, S., Yeh, F., Yvon, R., Carpenter, H., Federico, A., Garcia-Valencia, L., Eyles, S., Wang, C., Wu, H., and Cheung, A. (2020). FERONIA controls pectin-and nitric oxide-mediated male-female interaction. Nature 579: 561–566.
Cheung, A. (2019). Plant Biology: To Live, or not to live, that is the question. Curr. Biol. 29: R1186–R1189.
Ge, Z., Cheung, A., and Qu, L. (2019). Pollen tube integrity regulation in flowering plants: insights from molecular assemblies on the pollen tube surface. New Phytol. 222: 687–693.
Feng, W., Kita, D., Peaucelle, A., Cartwright, H., Doan, V., Duan, Q., Liu, M., Maman, J., Steinhorst, L., Schmitz-Thom, I., Yvon, R., Kudla, J., Wu, H., Cheung, A., and Dinneny, J. (2018). The FERONIA Receptor Kinase Maintains Cell-Wall Integrity during Salt Stress through Ca2+ Signaling. Curr. Biol. 28:666–675.
Amasino, R., Cheung, A., Dresselhaus, T., and Kuhlemeier, C. (2017). Focus on flowering and reproduction. Plant Physiol. 173: 1–4.
Ge, Z., Bergonci, T., Zhao, Y., Zou, Y., Du, S., Liu, M., Luo, X., Ruan, H., Garcia-Valencia, L., Zhong, S., Hou, S., Huang, Q., Lai, L., Moura, D., Gu, H., Dong, J., Wu, H., Dresselhaus, T., Xiao, J., Cheung, A., and Qu, L. (2017). Arabidopsis pollen tube integrity and sperm release are regulated by RALF-mediated signaling. Science 358: 1596–1599.
Cheung, A., and Wu, H. (2016). PLANT BIOLOGY LURE is bait for multiple receptors. Nature 531: 178–180.
Cheung, A., and Wu, H. (2015). Stomatal patterning: SERKs put the mouths in their right place. Curr. Biol. 25: R838–R840.
Cheung, A., Li, C., Zou, Y., and Wu, H. (2014). Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchoring: control through modification. Plant Physiol. 166: 748-750.
Duan, Q., Kita, D., Johnson, E., Aggarwal, M., Gates, L., Wu, H, and Cheung, A. (2014) Reactive oxygen species mediate pollen tube rupture to release sperm for fertilization in Arabidopsis. Nat. Commun. 5: 3129
Nibau, C., Tao, L., Levasseur, K., Wu, H., and Cheung, A. (2013) The Arabidopsis small GTPase AtRac7/ROP9 is a modulator of auxin and ABA signaling. J. Exp. Bot. 64: 3425–3437
Wu, H., and Cheung, A. (2011) THESEUS and relatives: cell wall-sensing receptor-like kinases. Curr. Opin. Plant Biol. 14: 632–641
Cheung, A., Niroomand, S., Zou, Y., and Wu, H. (2010) A transmembrane formin nucleates subapical actin assembly and controls tip-focused growth in pollen tubes. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 107: 16390–16395
Chen, M., Liu, H., Kong, X., Zhang, N., Yang, Y., Li, R., Yue, J., Chen, D., Tian, R., Li, C., Cheung, A., and Tao, L. (2011) The RopGEF7 is required to control Plethora (PLT)-dependent maintenance of root stem cell niche in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 23: 2880–2894
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