ERIC DAVIES
Professor of Botany, N.C. State University
Research Interests:
1. Electrical and chemical signals evoked by environmental stress (gravity and wounding) and their role in modulating gene expression in plants.
2. Identification of novel components of the plant cystoekeleton and their role in physiological and molecular responses to environmental stress.
Teaching
Interests:
Introductory
biology, plant physiology, plant growth and development.
Selected
Publications:
Davies, E., Abe, S., Larkins, B.A., Clore, A.M., Quatrano, R.S., and
Weidner, S. (1998) The role of the cytoskeleton in plant protein synthesis.
In: A Look Beyond Transcription: Mechanisms determining mRNA Stability
and Translation in Plants. J. Bailey-Serres, D.R. Gallie, eds. ASPP pp.
115-124.
Vian, A., Henry-Vian, C., and Davies, E. (1999) Rapid and systemic accumulation of chloroplast mRNA binding protein transcripts after flame stimulus in tomato. Plant. Physiol. 121:517-524.
Shibata, K., Morita,Y., Abe, S., Stankovic, B., and Davies, E. (1999) Apyrase from pea stems: Isolation, purification, characterization and identification of a NTPase from the cytoskeleton fraction of pea stem tissue. Plant Physiol. Biochem. 37:1-8
Stankovic, B., Clore, A., Larkins, B., Abe, S., and Davies, E. (2000) Actin in protein synthesis and protein body formation. In: "Actin: A dynamic framework for multiple plant cell functions." Baluska, Barlow, Staiger, Volkmann, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pp. 129-143.
Stankovic, B., Vian, A.,Henry-Vian,C., Davies, E. (2000) Molecular cloning and characterization of a tomato cDNA encoding a systemically wound-inducible bZIP DNA-binding protein. Planta. (In Press).
Davies, E., Stankovic, B., Azuma, K., Shibata, K., Abe, S. (2000) Novel components of the plant cytoskeleton: A beginning to "cytomics". Plant Science. (In Press).
Education:
Ph.D. - McGill
University (Canada), 1968
B.S. - London University, 1962
Contact
Details:
Telephone: (919) 513-1901
Fax: (919) 515-3436
Email:
eric_davies@ncsu.edu
