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Research Areas:
Studying plant host-viral interactions to reduce losses of small grain cereal crops due to viral diseases
Identification, characterization and utilization of molecular markers linked to Barley and Cereal Yellow Dwarf Virus
   Resistance Loci
Developing synthetic genes as possible virus resistance genes
Cellular and functional genomics of resistance and susceptibility to Barley and Cereal Yellow Dwarf Viruses and various
    fungal diseases in Wheat, Oat, and Wheatgrass

Professional Experience:
5/04-Present - Research Molecular Biologist, USDA-ARS & Adjunct Associate Professor
11/93-5/04 - Research Molecular Biologist, USDA-ARS & Adjunct Assistant Professor, 
  Agronomy & Botany/Plant Pathology Departments Purdue University
2/92-10/93-Research Geneticist, USDA-ARS, & Adjunct Assistant Professor
7/90-2/92-Post-doctoral Fellow, Dept. Plant Pathology, Cornell University. Advisor: Dr. Milton Zaitlin
6/87-7/90-Post-doctoral Fellow, Institute Biological Chemistry, Washington State Univ.

Awards and Honors:
New York State Regents Scholarship,1976-1980
New York Academy of Sciences, 1989
Sigma Xi, 1991
Gamma Sigma Delta, 1997
Certificate of Merit, USDA-Agricultural Research Service, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2005
Year 2000 Team Award, School of Agriculture, Purdue University, 2000

Education:
Iowa State University, Ph.D., 1987, Genetics
Iowa State University, M.S., 1983, Microbiology
St. Bonaventure University, B.S., 1980, Biology

Papers Published:
Anderson, J.M. and P.A. Hartman.  Direct immunoassay for the detection of salmonellae in foods and feeds.  Appl. Environ. Microbiol.  49:1124-1127.  1985.

Anderson, J.M., J. Hnilo, R. Larson, T.W. Okita, M. Morell, and J. Preiss. The encoded primary sequence of a rice seed ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase subunit and its homology to the bacterial enzyme. J. Biol. Chem. 264:12238-12242.  1989.

Preiss, J., D. Cress, J. Hutney, M. Morell, M. Bloom, T.W. Okita, and J.M. Anderson. Regulation of starch synthesis: Biochemical and genetic studies. pp. 84-92. In: J. R. Whitaker, P.E. Sonnet, (eds.) ACS Symposium Series 389 on Biocatalysis in Agricultural Biotechnology.  American Society, Washington D.C. 1989.  (Book Chapter). 

Anderson, J.M., T. Okita, and J. Preiss. Enhancing carbon flow into starch: Role of ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase. pp.159-180. In: Vada, M.E., W.D. Parks (eds.)  Molecular and Cellular Biology of the Potato. C.A.B. International, Wallingford, UK. 260 pp. 1990. (Book Chapter).

Okita, T.W., P.A. Nakata, J.M. Anderson, J.Sowokinos, M. Morell, and J. Preiss.  The subunit structure of potato tuber ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase. Plant Physiol. 93:785-790.  1990.

Anderson, J.M., R. Larson, D. Laudencia, W.T. Kim, D. Morrow, and T.W. Okita.  Molecular characterization of the gene encoding a rice endosperm-specific ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase subunit and its developmental pattern of transcription.  Gene  97:199-205.  1991.

Nakata, P.A., T.W. Greene, J.M. Anderson, B.J. Smith-White, T. Okita, and J. Preiss.  Comparison of the primary sequences of two potato tuber ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase subunits.  Plant Mol. Biol. 17:1089-1093.  1991.

Anderson, J.M., D.S. Robertson, and D.W. Morris.  Molecular characterization of four shrunken mutants induced in Mutator lines in Zea mays L.  Plant Sci. 77:93-101.  1991.

Anderson, J.M., P. Palukaitis, and M. Zaitlin.  A defective replicase gene induces resistance to cucumber mosaic virus in transgenic tobacco plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (USA) 89:8759-8763.  1992.

Cook, A. and J.M. Anderson. 1992 Variety Trial Report of Western Spring Barley Nursery, Western Dryland Spring Barley Nursery and Preliminary Western Spring Barley Nursery.  64 pp. 1993. (Technical Research Report)

Cook, A. and J.M. Anderson.  1993 Variety Trial Report of Western Spring Barley Nursery, Western Dryland Spring Barley Nursery and Preliminary Western Spring Barley Nursery. 62 pp.  1994. (Technical Research Report)

Zaitlin, M., J.M. Anderson, K.L. Perry, L. Zhang, and P. Palukaitis.  Specificity of replicase-mediated resistance to cucumber mosaic virus. Virology  201:200-205.  1994.

Nakata, P.A., J.M. Anderson, and T.W. Okita.  Structure and expression of the potato ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase small subunit.  J. Biol. Chem. 269: 30798-30807.  1994.

Francki, M.G., O. Crasta, J.M. Anderson, H. Sharma and H.W. Ohm.  Structural organization of an alien Thinopyrum intermedium group 7 chromosome in US soft red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.).  Genome 40:716-722.  1997.

Anderson, J.M., D.L. Bucholtz, A.E. Greene, S. M. Gray, H. Sharma, H.W. Ohm, and K.L. Perry. Characterization of wheatgrass-derived barley yellow dwarf virus resistance in a wheat alien chromosome substitution line. Phytopathology 88:851-855. 1998.

Lyons-Johnson, D, and JM Anderson.  Faster ID of wheat resistant to BYD Virus. Agricultural Research, 46:24-25. 1998.

Sharma, H., M Francki, O Crasta, G Gyulai, D Bucholtz, H. Ohm, J. Anderson, K Perry, and F. Patterson.  Cytological and molecular characterization of wheat lines with Thinopyrum intermedium chromosome additions, substitutions and translocations resistant to barley yellow dwarf virus. Cytologia. 64:93-100. 1999.

Anderson, JM, D Bucholtz, H Sharma, and HW Ohm. Introgression and Characterization of Wheatgrass-Derived Resistance to Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus. Proceedings of the 1999 Joint Meeting of the Eastern Wheat and Southern Small Grain Workers. Pp.19-22. 1999.

Crasta, O, MG Francki, DL Bucholtz, H Sharma, J Zhang, R-C Wang, HW Ohm, and JM Anderson.  2000.  Molecular characterization of wheat-wheatgrass translocation lines and localization of BYDV resistance locus on the alien chromosome in wheat.  Genome. 43:698-706. 2000.

Francki, M.G., HW Ohm, JM Anderson. Novel germplasm providing BYDV resistance in wheat, Aust. J. Agric. Res. 52:1375-1382. 2001.

Balaji, B., D.L. Bucholtz, H.W. Ohm, J.M. Anderson. Real-time RT-PCR quantification of yellow dwarf virus accumulation and defense gene expression. Proceedings of International Symposium, Barley Yellow Dwarf Disease: Recent Advances and Future Strategies. p. 32-33.  2002.

Francki, M.G., WA Berzonsky HW Ohm, JM Anderson.  Physical Location of a HSP70 Gene Homologue on the Centromere of Chromosome 1B of Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), Theor. Appl. Gen.  104:184-191.  2002.

Ohm, H.W., J.M. Anderson, H. Sharma, L. Ayala-Navarrete, and D.B. Bucholtz.  Spring oat and soft winter wheat lines with BYDV resistance.  Proceedings of International Symposium, Barley Yellow Dwarf Disease: Recent Advances and Future Strategies. p. 58-59.  2002. 

Anderson, J.M. C.E. Williams, S.B. Goodwin, S.R. Scofield, and H.W. Ohm. 2003. Quantitative analysis of wheat defense-gene expression in response to insect, fungal, and viral pests. Proceedings of the Tenth International Wheat Genetics Symposium, Paestum, Italy, volume 1.  pp. 323-326.  2003. 

Adhikari, T.B., J.M. Anderson, and S.B. Goodwin. Identification and molecular mapping of a gene in wheat conferring resistance to Mycosphaerella graminicola. Phytopathology  93:1158-1164.  2003.  

Balaji, B., D.L. Bucholtz, and J.M. Anderson.  Barley yellow dwarf virus and cereal yellow dwarf virus quantification by real-time PCR in resistant and susceptible plants. Phytopathology.  93:1386-1392. 2003. 

Dorsch J.A., A. Cook, K.A. Young, J.M. Anderson, A.T. Bauman, C.J. Volkmann, P.N. Murthy Pushpalatha, and V. Raboy.  Seed phosphorus and inositol phosphate phenotype of barley low phytic acid genotypes. Phytochemistry 62:691-706. 2003. 

Ray, S., J.M. Anderson, F.I. Urmeev, and S.B. Goodwin. Rapid induction of a protein disulfide isomerase and defense-related genes in wheat in response to the hemibiotrophic fungal Mycosphaerella graminicola. Plant Mol. Biol. 53:701-714. 2003. 

Scofield, S.R., J.M. Anderson, C.F. Crane, S.B. Goodwin, H.W. Ohm, C.E. Williams, T.A. Lohret, and O.R. Crasta.  Analysis of the wheat defense transcriptome.  Proceedings of the Tenth International Wheat Genetics Symposium, Paestum, Italy, volume 1.  pp. 407-410.  2003. 

Carvalho C.H.S, U.B. Zehr, N. Gunaratna, J.M. Anderson, H.H. Kononowicz, T.K. Hodges, and J.D. Axtell. Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of sorghum: factors that affect transformation efficiency. Genet. and Mol. Biol. 27:259-269.  2004. 

Wiangjun, H., and J.M. Anderson. The basis for Thinopyrum-derived resistance to Cereal yellow dwarf virus.  Phytopathology  94:1102-1106.  2004

Kong, L., J.M. Anderson, and H.W. Ohm. Induction of wheat defense and stress-related genes in response to Fusarium graminearum.  Genome (In Press).  2005. 

Balaji, B., and J.M. Anderson.  Choosing appropriate endogenous control genes as internal references for quantitative real-time PCR analysis in cereals crops.  Experimental Botany (In Press).  2005. 

Ohm, H.W., J.M. Anderson, H.C. Sharma, L. Ayala, N. Thompson, and J.J. Uphaus.  Registration of Yellow Dwarf Viruses Resistant Wheat Germplasm Line P961341. Crop Science (In Press).  2005.

Date joined staff:  1993

Last updated:   February 2005