Shuxin Ren

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Virginia State University
School of Agriculture
Agricultural Research Station

Mailing Address

Agriculture Research Station
PO Box 9061
VSU
Petersburg, Virginia 23806
United States

Contact Information

Phone: (804) 524-3094
Fax: (804) 524-5186
sren@vsu.edu

Qualifications

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, Genetics, 2003.

Expertise and Research Interests

1. Plant telomere biology
2. Plant a/biotic stress tolerance
3. Marker assisted selection and molecular breeding

Other Expertise

Molecular basis of plant stress tolerance

Future Research

Identify new genes involved in plant a/biotic stress defense system and use them in breeding program.

Keywords

COS Keywords:

Agriculture.

Languages

(Reading, Writing, Speaking)

Chinese, Mandarin: (Fluent, Fluent, Fluent)

Memberships

American Society of Plant Biologists

Previous Positions

2004-2007, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University, College of Science, Biology

Patents

Arabidopsis TAC1, TAC1-Containing plants and a method of increasing drought tolerance in plants, Patent Number: Docket No. 017575.0863, 2004, Institution, United States of America.
Method for wheat breeding using nucleo-cytoplasmic interaction, Patent Number: ZL 98 1 19847.3, 2002, Institution, China.

Publications

  • Ren SX, Boedeker A, Rathore K, McKnight TD (2007) Regulation of telomerase in Arabidopsis by AtBT2, an apparent target of the TAC1 transcription factor, The Plant Cell, 19, 23
  • Ren SX, Spencer J., Shippen DE, McKnight TD (2004) TELOMERASE ACTIVATOR1 induces telomerase activity and poteniates responses to auxin in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell, 16, 2910
  • Draye X, Lin YR, Qian XY, Bowers JE, Burow GB, Morrell PL, Peterson DG, Presting GG, Ren SX, Wing RA, Paterson AH (2001) Toward integration of comparative genetic, physical, diversity, and cytomolecular maps for grasses and grains, using the sorghum genome as a foundation., Plant Physiol, 125, 1325
  • Lin YR, Draye X, Qian X, Ren SX, Zhu LH, Tomkins J, Wing RA, Li Z, Paterson AH (2000) ) Locus-specific contig assembly in highly-duplicated genomes, using the BAC-RF method, Nucleic Acids Res, 28, E23
  • Fitzgerald MS, Riha K, Gao F, Ren SX, McKnight TD, Shippen DE (1999) Disruption of the telomerase catalytic subunit gene from Arabidopsis inactivates telomerase and leads to a slow loss of telomeric DNA, Proc. Natl. Acad. of Sci., 96, 14813
  • Lin YR, Zhu L, Ren SX, Yang J, Schertz KF, Paterson AH (1999) A Sorghum propinquum BAC library, suitable for cloning genes associated with loss-of- function mutations during crop domestication, Molecular Breeding, 5, 511
  • Ren SX, McIntosh RA, Lu ZJ (1997) Genetic suppression of the cereal rye- derived gene Pm8 in wheat, Euphytica, 93, 353
  • Ren SX, McIntosh RA, Sharp PJ, The TT (1996) A storage-protein marker associated with the suppressor of Pm8 for powdery mildew resistance in wheat, Theoretical & Applied Genetics, 93, 1054

Profile Details

Last Updated: 3/2/2009

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