Richard Brian Meagher
	Distinguished Research Professor Department of Genetics Life Science Building University of Georgia Athens, GA 30602
	Phone: 706-542-1410 Fax: 706-542-1387 E-mail: meagher@uga.edu
	EDUCATION University of Illinois, Champaign, IL B.S. 1969 Biology Yale University, New Haven, CT M.Phil. 1971 Biology and Bacterial Physiology Yale University, New Haven, CT Ph.D. 1973 Biology and Enzymology
ACADEMIC POSITIONS & AWARDS 1969 Graduated with "Distinction in Honors Biology" from the University of Illinois working on the genomes of plant double stranded RNA viruses. 1969 to 1973 Graduate student with L. Nicholas Ornston at Yale University, Protein chemistsry of enzymes in aromatic catabolism 1973 to 1974 Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Bruce Ames at University of California, Berkeley, Carcinogenesis as mutagens 1974 to 1976 Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, in the laboratories of Herbert Boyer and Howard Goodman, San Francisco, First cloning and characterization of plant DNA expression in bacteria 1976 to 1980 Assistant Professor of Microbiology & Botany, Program in Genetics, University of GA 1980 to 1982 Assistant Professor of Molecular and Population Genetics, University of Georgia 1983 to 1988 Associate Professor of Genetics, University of Georgia 1987 University of Georgia Creative Research Award 1987 to 1994 Co-Founder and Acting Director of the University's "Molecular Genetics Instrumentation Facilty" 1989 to 1995 Co-Founder and Co-Director of the University's "Research Computation Resources" 1988 to 2006 Professor of Genetics, University of Georgia 1995 to 1998 Genetics Department Head, University of Georgia 2001 University of Georgia Research Foundation's Lamar Dodd Award for Scientific Research 2004 University of Georgia Research Foundation's Inventor's Award 2006 to present. Distinguished Research Professor, Genetics Department, University of Georgia
PUBLICATIONS - 156 Peer Reviewed Research Articles and Book Chapters Meagher, R., Kandasamy, M., Smith, A., and McKinney, E. (2010). Nuclear Actin-Related Proteins at the Core of Epigenetic Control. Plant Signaling and Behavior Invited Review - In Press Smith, A.P., Jain, A., Deal, R.B., Nagarajan, V.K., Poling, M.D., Raghothama, K.G., and Meagher, R.B. (2010). Histone H2A.Z regulates the expression of several classes of phosphate starvation response genes but not as a transcriptional activator. Plant Physiol 152, 217-25. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19897606 An, Y.-Q., and Meagher, R. (2010). Strong Expression and Conserved Regulation of ACT2 in Arabidopsis thaliana and Physcomitrella patens. Plant Mol Biol Rep 28, 481-490. http://www.springerlink.com/openurl.asp?genre=article&id=doi:10.1007/s11105-009-0171-7. Jain, A., Poling, M.D., Smith, A.P., Nagarajan, V.K., Lahner, B., Meagher, R.B., and Raghothama, K.G. (2009). Variations in the composition of gelling agents affect morphophysiological and molecular responses to deficiencies of phosphate and other nutrients. Plant Physiol 150, 1033-49. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19386810 Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., Deal, R.B., Smith, A.P., and Meagher, R.B. (2009a). Arabidopsis actin-related protein ARP5 in multicellular development and DNA repair. Dev Biol 335, 22-32. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19679120 Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2009b). A Single Vegetative Actin Isovariant Overexpressed under the Control of Multiple Regulatory Sequences Is Sufficient for Normal Arabidopsis Development. Plant Cell 21, 701-18. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19304937 Meagher, R.B., Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., and Roy, E. (2009). Chapter 5. Nuclear actin-related proteins in epigenetic control. Int Rev Cell Mol Biol 277, 157-215. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19766970 Price, P.W., McKinney, E.C., Wang, Y., Sasser, L.E., Kandasamy, M.K., Matsuuchi, L., Milcarek, C., Deal, R.B., Culver, D.G., and Meagher, R.B. (2009). Engineered cell surface expression of membrane immunoglobulin as a means to identify monoclonal antibody-secreting hybridomas. J Immunol Methods 343, 28-41. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19187782 Tian, M., Chaudhry, F., Ruzicka, D.R., Meagher, R.B., Staiger, C.J., and Day, B. (2009). Arabidopsis actin-depolymerizing factor AtADF4 mediates defense signal transduction triggered by the Pseudomonas syringae effector AvrPphB. Plant Physiol 150, 815-24. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19346440 Burgos-Rivera, B., Ruzicka, D.R., Deal, R.B., McKinney, E.C., King-Reid, L., and Meagher, R.B. (2008). ACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR9 controls development and gene expression in Arabidopsis. Plant Mol Biol 68, 619-32. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18830798 Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2008). ACTIN-RELATED PROTEIN8 encodes an F-box protein localized to the nucleolus in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell Physiol 49, 858-63. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18385164 Karve, A., Rauh, B.L., Xia, X., Kandasamy, M., Meagher, R.B., Sheen, J., and Moore, B.D. (2008). Expression and evolutionary features of the hexokinase gene family in Arabidopsis. Planta 228, 411-25. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=18481082 Meagher, R.B., Kandasamy, M.K., and McKinney, E.C. (2008). Multicellular development and protein-protein interactions. Plant Signal Behav 3, 333-6. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=19841663 Balasubramanian, R., Karve, A., Kandasamy, M., Meagher, R.B., and Moore, B.D. (2007). A role for F-actin in hexokinase-mediated glucose signaling. Plant Physiol 145, 1423-34. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17965176 Deal, R.B., Topp, C.N., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2007). Repression of flowering in Arabidopsis requires activation of FLOWERING LOCUS C expression by the histone variant H2A.Z. Plant Cell 19, 74-83. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17220196 Kandasamy, M.K., Burgos-Rivera, B., McKinney, E.C., Ruzicka, D.R., and Meagher, R.B. (2007). Class-specific interaction of profilin and ADF isovariants with actin in the regulation of plant development. Plant Cell 19, 3111-26. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17933902 Lyyra, S., Meagher, R.B., Kim, T., Heaton, A., Montello, P., Balish, R.S., and Merkle, S.A. (2007). Coupling two mercury resistance genes in Eastern cottonwood enhances the processing of organomercury. Plant Biotechnol J 5, 254-62. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17309680 Meagher, R.B. (2007). Multigene strategies for engineering the phytoremediation of mercury and arsenic.  In:  Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture 2006 and Beyond: Proceeding of the 11th IAPTC&B Congress, Z. Xu, J. Li, Y. Xue, and W. Yang, eds (Beijing, China: Springer), 49-60. Meagher, R.B., Kandasamy, M.K., Deal, R.B., and McKinney, E.C. (2007). Actin-related proteins in chromatin-level control of the cell cycle and developmental transitions. Trends Cell Biol 17, 325-32. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17643304 Ruzicka, D.R., Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., Burgos-Rivera, B., and Meagher, R.B. (2007). The ancient subclasses of ArabidopsisACTIN DEPOLYMERIZING FACTOR genes exhibit novel and differential expression. Plant J 52, 460-72. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17877706 Meagher, R.B., Kim, T., Smith, A.P., and Heaton, A.C.P. (2007). Designing plants for the remediation mercury- and arsenic-polluted soils and water. In: Designing Industrial Crops, T. McKeon, and L. Jiann-Tsyh, eds American Chemical Society Books), pp. 272. Che, D.S., Meagher, R.B., Kim, R., Heaton, A.C.P., Lima, A., Rugh, C.L., and Merkle, S.A. (2006). Expression of methylmercury lyase in Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) confers organic mercury reduction and resistance. In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology- Plant 42, 228-234. http://www.springerlink.com/content/eg6242602608m2m3/?p=b4b8a2d234eb4bcd903ef7e3f5b0cdbd&pi=4 Dhankher, O.P., Rosen, B.P., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2006). Hyperaccumulation of arsenic in the shoots of Arabidopsis silenced for arsenate reductase (ACR2). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103, 5413-5418. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16567632 Li, Y., Dankher, O.P., Carreira, L., Smith, A.P., and Meagher, R.B. (2006a). The shoot-specific expression of gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase directs the long-distance transport of thiol-peptides to roots conferring tolerance to mercury and arsenic. Plant Physiol 141, 288-98. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16581878 Li, Y., Heaton, A.C.P., Carreira, L., and Meagher, R.B. (2006b). Enhanced tolerance to and accumulation of mercury, but not arsenic, in plants overexpressing two enzymes required for thiol peptide synthesis. Physiologia Plantarum 128, 48-57. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=21909710&site=ehost-live Meagher, R.B. (2006c). Plants tackle explosive contamination. Nat Biotechnol 24, 161-3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16465159 Pawloski, L.C., Kandasamy, M.K., and Meagher, R.B. (2006). The late pollen actins are essential for normal male and female development in Arabidopsis. Plant Mol Biol 62, 881-96. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17031513 Deal, R.B., Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2005). The Nuclear Actin-Related Protein ARP6 Is a Pleiotropic Developmental Regulator Required for the Maintenance of FLOWERING LOCUS C Expression and Repression of Flowering in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 17, 2633-2646. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16141450 Heaton, A., Rugh, C., and Meagher, R. (2005). Physiological Responses of Transgenic merA-Tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) to Foliar and Root Mercury Exposure. Water, Air, Soil Pollu. 161, 137-155. <Go to ISI>://000228894400009 Kandasamy, M.K., Deal, R.B., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2005a). Silencing the nuclear actin-related protein AtARP4 in Arabidopsis has multiple effects on plant development, including early flowering and delayed floral senescence. Plant J 41, 845-58. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15743449 Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., Deal, R.B., and Meagher, R.B. (2005b). Arabidopsis ARP7 is an essential actin-related protein required for normal embryogenesis, plant architecture, and floral organ abscission. Plant Physiol 138, 2019-32. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16040647 Kim, T., Balish, R.S., Heaton, A.C., McKinney, E.C., Dhankher, O.P., and Meagher, R.B. (2005). Engineering a root-specific, repressor-operator gene complex. Plant Biotechnol J 3, 571-82. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17147628 Li, Y., Dhankher, O., Carreira, L., Balish, R., and Meagher, R. (2005). Arsenic and mercury tolerance and cadmium sensitivity in plants expression of bacterial gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase. Env Tox & Chem 24, 1376-1386. http://www.setacjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-pdf&doi=10.1897%2F04-340R.1 McCaig, B.C., Meagher, R.B., and Dean, J.F. (2005). Gene structure and molecular analysis of the laccase-like multicopper oxidase (LMCO) gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana. Planta 221, 619-36. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15940465 Meagher, R.B., Deal, R.B., Kandasamy, M.K., and McKinney, E.C. (2005). Nuclear actin-related proteins as epigenetic regulators of development. Plant Physiol 139, 1576-85. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16339804 Meagher, R.B., and Heaton, A.C. (2005). Strategies for the engineered phytoremediation of toxic element pollution: mercury and arsenic. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 32, 502-13. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15995854 Pawloski, L.C., Deal, R.B., McKinney, E.C., Burgos-Rivera, B., and Meagher, R.B. (2005). Inverted repeat PCR for the rapid assembly of constructs to induce RNA interference. Plant & Cell Physiol 46, 1872-1878. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16120684 Zimeri, A.M., Dhankher, O.P., McCaig, B., and Meagher, R.B. (2005). The plant MT1 metallothioneins are stabilized by binding cadmium and are required for cadmium tolerance and accumulation. Plant Mol Biol 58, 839-55. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16240177 Kandasamy, M.K., Deal, R.B., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2004). Plant actin-related proteins. Trends Plant Sci 9, 196-202. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15063870 Li, Y., Dhankher, O.P., Carreira, L., Lee, D., Chen, A., Schroeder, J.I., Balish, R.S., and Meagher, R.B. (2004). Overexpression of phytochelatin synthase in Arabidopsis leads to enhanced arsenic tolerance and cadmium hypersensitivity. Plant Cell Physiol 45, 1787-97. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=15653797 Meagher, R.B., Kandasamy, M.K., Deal, R.B., and McKinney, E.C. (2004). Nuclear actin-related proteins modulate multiple diverse developmental pathways in Arabidopsis. Mol. Biol. Cell 15, 328a-329a. <Go to ISI>://000224648802542 Bizily, S.P., Kim, T., Kandasamy, M.K., and Meagher, R.B. (2003). Subcellular targeting of methylmercury lyase enhances its specific activity for organic mercury detoxification in plants. Plant Physiol 131, 463-71. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=12586871 Che, D., Meagher, R.B., Heaton, A.C., Lima, A., Rugh, C.L., and Merkle, S.A. (2003). Expression of mercuric ion reductase in Eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides) confers mercuric ion reduction and resistance. Plant Biotechnol J 1, 311-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=17163907 Dhankher, O.P., Rosen, B.P., Fuhrman, M., and Meagher, R.B. (2003). Increased cadmium tolerance and accumulation by plants expressing bacterial arsenate reductase. New Phytologist 159, 431-441. <Go to ISI>://000184032200015 Gilliland, L.U., Pawloski, L.C., Kandasamy, M.K., and Meagher, R.B. (2003). Arabidopsis actin gene ACT7 plays an essential role in germination and root growth. Plant J 33, 319-28. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=12535345 Heaton, A.C.P., Rugh, C.L., Kim, T., Wang, N.J., and Meagher, R.B. (2003). Toward detoxifying mercury-polluted aquatic sediments using rice genetically-engineered for mercury resistance. Env Tox & Chem 22, 2940-2947. http://www.setacjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-pdf&doi=10.1897%2F02-442 Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2003). Cell cycle-dependent association of Arabidopsis actin-related proteins AtARP4 and AtARP7 with the nucleus. Plant J 33, 939-48. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=12609034 Liu, R., Ferrenberg, A.M., Gilliland, L.U., and Meagher, R.B. (2003). Detection of deleterious genotypes in multigenerational studies.  III.  Estimation of selection components in highly selfing populations. Genetical Research 82, 41-53. <Go to ISI>://000185691200004 Vitale, A., Wu, R.J., Cheng, Z., and Meagher, R.B. (2003). Multiple conserved 5' elements are required for high-level pollen expression of the Arabidopsis reproductive actin ACT1. Plant Mol Biol 52, 1135-51. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=14682614 Cobbett, C., and Meagher, R. (2002). Phytoremediation and the Arabidopsis proteome. In: Arabidopsis, www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis/toc.cfm, E. Meyerowitz, and C. Somerville, eds (Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press), pp. 1-22. www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis/toc.cfm Dhankher, O.P., Li, Y., Rosen, B.P., Shi, J., Salt, D., Senecoff, J.F., Sashti, N.A., and Meagher, R.B. (2002). Engineering tolerance and hyperaccumulation of arsenic in plants by combining arsenate reductase and gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase expression. Nat Biotechnol 20, 1140-5. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=12368812 Gilliland, L.U., Kandasamy, M.K., Pawloski, L.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2002). Both vegetative and reproductive actin isovariants complement the stunted root hair phenotype of the Arabidopsisact2-1 mutation. Plant Physiol 130, 2199-209. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=12481103 Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2002a). Plant profilin isovariants are distinctly regulated in vegetative and reproductive tissues. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 52, 22-32. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11977080 Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2002b). Functional nonequivalency of actin isovariants in Arabidopsis. Mol Biol Cell 13, 251-61. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11809837 McKinney, E.C., Kandasamy, M.K., and Meagher, R.B. (2002). Arabidopsis contains ancient classes of differentially expressed actin-related protein genes. Plant Physiol 128, 997-1007. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11891255 Meagher, R., and Fechheimer, M. (2002). The Arabidopsis Cytoskeletal Genome. In: Arabidopsis, www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis/toc.cfm, E. Meyerowitz, and C. Somerville, eds (Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press), pp. 1-26. www.aspb.org/publications/arabidopsis/toc.cfm Meagher, R.B. (2002). Post-genomics networking of biotechnology for interpreting gene function - Editorial overview. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 5, 135-140. <Go to ISI>://000174097000009 Kandasamy, M.K., Gilliland, L.U., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (2001). One plant actin isovariant, ACT7, is induced by auxin and required for normal callus formation. Plant Cell 13, 1541-54. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11449050 Lawrence, C.J., Morris, N.R., Meagher, R.B., and Dawe, R.K. (2001). Dyneins have run their course in plant lineage. Traffic 2, 362-3. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11350632 Li, Y., Kandasamy, M.K., and Meagher, R.B. (2001). Rapid isolation of monoclonal antibodies. Monitoring enzymes in the phytochelatin synthesis pathway. Plant Physiol 127, 711-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11706154 McKinney, E.C., Kandasamy, M.K., and Meagher, R.B. (2001). Small changes in the regulation of one Arabidopsis profilin isovariant, PRF1, alter seedling development. Plant Cell 13, 1179-91. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11340190 Meagher, R.B. (2001). Pink water, green plants, and pink elephants. Nat Biotechnol 19, 1120-1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=11731777 Bizily, S.P., Rugh, C.L., and Meagher, R.B. (2000). Phytodetoxification of hazardous organomercurials by genetically engineered plants. Nat Biotechnol 18, 213-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10657131 Kandasamy, M.K., and Meagher, R.B. (2000). Cytoskeleton-organelle interaction:  Higher plant chloroplasts are contained in actin baskets and attached to actin filaments and bundles. In: Microscopy and Microanalysis, Supplement 2 Proceedings, 6, eds pp. 296-297. Meagher, R.B. (2000). Phytoremediation of toxic elemental and organic pollutants. Curr Opin Plant Biol 3, 153-62. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10712958 Meagher, R.B., McKinney, E.C., and Kandasamy, M.K. (2000a). The significance of diversity in the plant actin gene family: Studies in Arabidopsis. In: Actin: A dynamic framework for multiple plant cell functions, C.J. Staiger, F. Baluska, D. Volkmann, and P. Barlow, eds (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Klewer Academic Publishers), pp. 3-27. Meagher, R.B., Rugh, C.L., Kandasamy, M.K., Gragson, G., and Wang, N.J. (2000b). Engineered phytoremediation of mercury pollution in soil and water using bacterial genes. In: Phytoremediation of Contaminated Soil and Water, N. Terry, and G. Banuelos, eds (Boca Raton: Lewis Publishers), pp. 203-221. Palanivelu, R., Belostotsky, D.A., and Meagher, R.B. (2000a). Conserved expression of Arabidopsis thaliana poly (A) binding protein 2 (PAB2) in distinct vegetative and reproductive tissues. Plant J 22, 199-210. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10849338 Palanivelu, R., Belostotsky, D.A., and Meagher, R.B. (2000b). Arabidopsis thaliana poly (A) binding protein 2 (PAB2) functions in yeast translational and mRNA decay processes. Plant J 22, 187-98. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10849337 Rugh, C.L., Bizily, S.P., and Meagher, R.B. (2000). Phytoremediation of environmental mercury pollution. In: Phytoremediation of toxic metals: Using plants to clean-up the environment, B. Ensley, and I. Raskin, eds (New York: Wiley and Sons), pp. 151-169. Bizily, S.P., Rugh, C.L., Summers, A.O., and Meagher, R.B. (1999). Phytoremediation of methylmercury pollution: merB expression in Arabidopsis thaliana confers resistance to organomercurials. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 96, 6808-13. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10359794 Kandasamy, M.K., McKinney, E.C., and Meagher, R.B. (1999). The late pollen-specific actins in angiosperms. Plant J 18, 681-91. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10417720 Kandasamy, M.K., and Meagher, R.B. (1999). Actin-organelle interaction: association with chloroplast in arabidopsis leaf mesophyll cells. Cell Motil Cytoskeleton 44, 110-8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=10506746 Meagher, R.B., McKinney, E.C., and Kandasamy, M.K. (1999a). Isovariant dynamics expand and buffer the responses of complex systems: the diverse plant actin gene family. 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J Virol 37, 673-682. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=16789206 Nagao, R.T., Shah, D.M., Eckenrode, V.K., and Meagher, R.B. (1981). Multigene family of actin-related sequences isolated from a soybean genomic library. DNA 1, 1-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=6762287 Carreira, L.H., Carlton, B.C., Bobbio, S.M., Nagao, R.T., and Meagher, R.B. (1980). Construction and application of a modified "gene machine": a circular concentrating preparative gel electrophoresis device employing discontinuous elution. Anal Biochem 106, 455-68. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=6778253 Makula, R.A., and Meagher, R.B. (1980). A new restriction endonuclease from the anaerobic bacterium, Desulfovibrio desulfuricans, Norway. Nucleic Acids Res 8, 3125-31. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=6255409 Meagher, R.B., and McKnight, T.D. (1980). A model for a molecular cloning system in higher plants:  Isolation of plant viral promotors.  In:  Workshop on Genome Organization and Expression in Higher Plants, C. Leaver, eds (Edinburgh, Scotland: Plenum Pub. Corp.), 63-75. Friedrich, H., Hemleben, V., and Meagher, R.B. (1979). Purification and restriction endonuclease mapping of soybean 18 S and 25 S Ribosomal RNA genes. Planta 146, 467-473. <Go to ISI>://A1979HR48300015 Meagher, R.B. (1977a). The development of a molecular cloning system in higher plants. Basic Life Sci 9, 129-58. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=336022 Meagher, R.B. (1977b). Purification and partial amino acid sequence of the cyanogen bromide fragments of muconolactone isomerase from Pseudomonas putida. Biochim Biophys Acta 494, 33-47. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=901811 Meagher, R.B., Shepherd, R.J., and Boyer, H.W. (1977a). The structure of cauliflower mosaic virus. I. A restriction endonuclease map of cauliflower mosaic virus DNA. Virology 80, 362-75. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=329557 Meagher, R.B., Tait, R.C., Betlach, M., and Boyer, H.W. (1977b). Protein expression in E. coli minicells by recombinant plasmids. Cell 10, 521-36. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=403011 Meagher, R.B. (1975). Rapid manual sequencing of multiple peptide samples in a nitrogen chamber. Anal Biochem 67, 404-12. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=1163765 Patel, R.N., Meagher, R.B., and Ornston, L.N. (1974). Relationships among enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. IV. Muconolactone isomerase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and Pseudomonas putida. J Biol Chem 249, 7410-9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=4215816 Meagher, R.B., and Ornston, L.N. (1973). Relationships among enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. I. Properties of cis,cis-muconate-lactonizing enzyme and muconolactone isomerase from Pseudomonas putida. Biochemistry 12, 3523-30. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=4199894 Parke, D., Meagher, R.B., and Ornston, L.N. (1973). Relationships among enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. III. Properties of crystalline gamma-carboxymuconolactone decarboxylase from Pseudomonas putida. Biochemistry 12, 3537-42. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=4199896 Patel, R.N., Meagher, R.B., and Ornston, L.N. (1973). Relationships among enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway. II. Properties of crystalline beta-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate-lactonizing enzyme from Pseudomonas putida. Biochemistry 12, 3531-7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=4199895 Meagher, R.B., McCorkle, G.M., Ornston, M.K., and Ornston, L.N. (1972). Inducible uptake system for -carboxy-cis, cis-muconate in a permeability mutant of Pseudomonas putida. J Bacteriol 111, 465-73. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=5053469   PATENTS Meagher, R.B. (2010). Conditional sterility in plants U.S. PATENT No. 7,667,096.  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7667096.PN.&OS=PN/7667096&RS=PN/7667096 Meagher, R.B. (2009a). Repressor-mediated tissue-specific gene expression in plants, U.S. PATENT No. 7,491,811. http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7491811.PN.&OS=PN/7491811&RS=PN/7491811 Meagher, R.B. (2009b). Genetically altered hybridomas, myelomas and B cells that facilitate the rapid production of monoclonal antibodies, U.S. PATENT No. 7,629,171  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7629171.PN.&OS=PN/7629171&RS=PN/7629171 Meagher, R.B. (2006a). Method of Rapid Production of Hybridomas Expressing Monoclonal Antibodies on the Cell Surface, U.S. PATENT NO. 7,148,040  http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=07148040&homeurl=http%3A%2F%2Fpatft.uspto.gov%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526u%3D%25252Fnetahtml%25252FPTO%25252Fsearch-adv.htm%2526r%3D1%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526d%3DPTXT%2526p%3D1%2526p%3D1%2 Meagher, R.B. (2006b). Metal resistance sequences and transgenic plants, U.S. PATENT No. 7,148,040  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5965796.PN.&OS=PN/5965796&RS=PN/5965796 Meagher, R.B. (1999). Metal resistance sequences and transgenic plants U.S. PATENT No. 5,965,796.  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5965796.PN.&OS=PN/5965796&RS=PN/5965796 .  Meagher, R.B. (1997). Metal resistance sequences and transgenic plants, U.S. PATENT No. 5,668,294.  http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5668294.PN.&OS=PN/5668294&RS=PN/5668294