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Capsaicinoid/Pungency

Stewart, C, Mazourek M, Stellari GM, O'Connell M, Jahn M. (2007) Genetic control of pungency in C. chinense via the Pun 1 locus. J Exp Botany 58: 979 - 991. doi:10.1093/jxb/erl243. PDF available.

Blum E, Mazourek M, O'Connell M, Curry J, Liu K, Jahn M, Paran I (2003) Molecular mapping of capsaicinoid biosynthesis genes and QTL analysis for capsaicinoid content in Capsicum. Theor Appl Genet 108:79-86. DOI 10.1007/s00122-003-1405-y. PDF available.

Aluru MR, Mazourek M., Landry, LG, Curry J, Jahn M, O'Connell MA (2003) Differential expression of fatty acid synthase genes, Acl, Fat and Kas in Capsicum fruit. J Exp Bot 54:1655-1664. DOI: 10.1093/jxb/erg176. PDF available.

Curry J, Aluru M, Mendoza M, Nevarez J, Melendrez M, O'Connell MA. (1999) Transcripts for capsaicinoid biosynthetic genes are differentially accumulated in pungent and non-pungent Capsicum spp. Plant Sci 148: 47-57. PDF available.

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Drought Stress

Labate JA, .......... (2007) Tomato. In: Kole C (ed) Genome Mapping and Molecular Breeding in Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: In Press

Rodriguez-Uribe L, O'Connell MA (2006) A root specific bZIP transcription factor is drought responsive in tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) and common bean (P. vulgaris). J Exp Bot 57:1391-1398. doi:10.1093/jxb/erj118. PDF available.

O'Connell MA, Medina AL, Sanchez Pena P, Trevino MB (2007) Molecular genetics of drought resistance response in tomato and related species. In MK Razdan and AK Mattoo, (eds) Genetic Improvement of Solanaceous Crops, Vol. 2: Tomato, Science Publishers, Enfield USA pp. 261-283.

Trejo-Calzada R, O'Connell MA (2005) Genetic Diversity of Drought-responsive Genes in Populations of the Desert Forage Dactylis glomerata. Plant Sci 168:1327-1335. doi:10.1016/j.plantsci.2005. PDF available.

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Medicinal Plants

Medina AL, Lucero ME, Holguin FO, Estell RE, Posakony JJ, Simon J, O'Connell MA (2005) Composition and antimicrobial activity of Anemopsis californica leaf oil. J Agr Food Chem 53:8694-8698. doi:10.1021/jf0511244. PDF available.

O'Connell M, Lara A (2005) From Curanderas to Gas Chromatography. J Coll Sci Teach 34:26-30. PDF available.

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Bioinformatics

Ji T, Vasudevan B, Gopavarapu K, Ranjan D, Gopalan CS, O'Connell M (2007) Tools for Cis-element Recognition and Phylogenetic Tree Construction Based on Conserved Patterns. In International Conference on Computers and Their Applications. (In press)

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Other

Sammis TW, Mexal J, O'Connell M, Gutschick V (2003) Instrumentation class develops interdisciplinary skills. NACTA J 47: 56-60.