Biology

John Cairney, Associate Professor

Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Dundee, 1986
email.address@biology.gatech.edu
Phone: 404-894-1079
Fax: 404-894-4778
Office: (IPST) MC 0620

Publications

Cairney J, Zheng L, Cowels A, Hsiao J, Zismann V, Liu J, Ouyang S, Thibaud-Nissen F, Hamilton J, Childs K, Pullman GS, Zhang Y, Oh T, Buell CR. 2006. Expressed Sequence Tags from loblolly pine embryos reveal similarities with angiosperm Embryogenesis. Plant Mol. Biol. 62:485–501 (DOI: 10.1007/s11103-006-9035-9) (View PDF)

Vales T, Fend X, Ge L, Xu N, Cairney J, Pullman GS, Peter GF. 2006. Improved somatic embryo maturation in loblolly pine by monitoring ABA-responsive gene expression. Plant Cell Rep. (DOI; 10.1007/s00299-006-0221-7). (View PDF)

Ragauskas AJ.; Williams CK.; Davison BH.; Britovsek G; Cairney J; Eckert CA.; Frederick W J. Jr.; Hallett JP.; Leak DJ.; Liotta CL.; Mielenz JR.; Murphy R; Templer R; Tschaplinski T. 2006. The Path Forward for Biofuels and Biomaterials. Science 311(5760), 484-489. (View PDF).

Lee SH, Stubbs DD, Cairney J,. Hunt WD. 2005. Rapid detection of bacterial spores using a Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) immunoassay. IEEE Sensors Journal. Special Issue on Sensors for the Prevention of Terrorist Acts. 5: 737-743. (View PDF)

Gonçalves S, Cairney J, Oliveira MM, Miguel C. 2005. Evaluation of control transcripts in real-time RT-PCR expression analysis during maritime pine embryogenesis. Planta 222(3):556-63. (View PDF)

Pullman GS, Montello P, Cairney J, Xu N, Feng X. 2003. Loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) somatic embryogenesis: maturation improvement by metal analyses of zygotic and somatic embryso. Plant Science 164: 955-969. (doi:101.1016/S0168-9452(03)00079-7) (View PDF)

Pullman GS, Johnson S, Peter G, Cairney J, Xu N. 2003. Improving loblolly pine somatic embryo maturation: comparison of somatic and zygotic embryo morphology, germination, and gene expression. Plant Cell Reports 21: 747-758. (DOI 10.1007/s00299-003-0586-9) (http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/00299/contents/03/00586/).

Ciavatta VT, Egertsdotter U, Clapham D, von Arnold S, Cairney J. 2002. A promoter from the loblolly pine PtNIP1:1 gene directs expression in an early-embryogenesis and suspensor-specific fashion. Planta 215: 694-698. (DOI 10.1007/s00425-002-0822-5) (http://link.springer-ny.com/link/service/journals/00425/contents/02/00822/) (view PDF)

Ciavatta VT, Morillon R, Pullman GS, Chrispeels M, Cairney J. 2001. An aquaglyceroporin is abundantly expressed early in the development of the suspensor and the embryo proper of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.). Plant Physiol. 127: 1556-1567. (http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/127/4/1556) (View PDF)

Ciavatta VT, Cairney J. 2000. Isolation of 'Full-Length' cDNA clones Using SMARTTM cDNA and a Biotin-Streptavidin Bead System. Biotechniques. 29:444-450.

Aghoram K, Outlaw Jr. WH, Bates GW, Cairney J, Pineda AO, Bacot CM, Epstein LM, Levenson CW. 2000. Abg1 - a novel ABA-regulated gene isolated from guard cells of Vicia faba L. J. Exp. Bot 51: 1479-1480 (http://jxb.oupjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/51/349/1479).

Cairney J, Xu N, Mackay J, Pullman J. 2000. Transcript profiling; A tool to assess the development of conifer embryos. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Plant. 36(3): 155-162. (http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta?issue=infobike://cabi/ivp/2000/00000036/00000003&index=3&WebLogicSession=PTRIBxWJnGOtI8rS8yQ7|8139890278955392900/-1052814329/6/7051/7051/7052/7052/7051/-1)

Strauss S, Boerjan W, Cairney J, Malcolm Campbell M, Dean J, Ellis D, Jouanin L, Sundberg B. 1999. Forest biotechnology makes its position known. Nature/Biotechnology 17 (12) 1145. (http://www.nature.com/cgi-bin/doifinder.pl?URL=/doifinder/10.1038/70652)