Selected Recent Papers from the Yu Lab
Yu O., McGonigle, B. Metabolic engineering of isoflavone biosynthesis. Submitted to Advances in Agronomy. Pdf file
John O. Bennett, Oliver Yu, Larry G. Heartherly, Hari B. Krishnan. 2004. Accumulation of genistein and daidzein, soybean isoflavones implicated in promoting human health, is significantly elevated by irrigation, submitted to Planta. Pdf file
Senthil Subramanian, Xu Hu, Guihua Lu, Joan T Odell and Oliver Yu (2004) The promoters of two isoflavone synthase genes respond differentially to nodulation and defense signals in transgenic soybean roots, Plant Mol Biol, accepted for publication. Pdf file
Oliver Yu, June Shi, Aideen Hession, Carl Maxwell, Brian McGonigle, Joan Odell. (2003) Metabolic engineering to increase isoflavone biosynthesis in soybean seed. Phytochemistry 63: 753-763. Pdf file
Oliver X. Yu, Woosuk Jung, June Shi, Robert Crose, Gary Fader, Brian McGonigle and Joan Odell (2000) Production of the isoflavones genistein and daidzein in non-legume dicot and monocot tissues. Isoflavone accumulation is related to activity of the phenylpropanoid pathway. Plant Physiology 124: 781-793. Pdf file
Woosuk Jung, Oliver Yu, Sze-Mei Cindy Lau, Daniel P. O’keefe, Joan Odell, Gary Fader and Brian McGonigle (2000) Identification and expression of isoflavone synthase, the key enzyme for biosynthesis of isoflavones in legumes. Nature Biotechnology 18: 208-212. Pdf file
Xiaodan Yu, Sujatha Sukumarian and Laszlo Marton (1998) Differential expression of the Arabidopsis Nia1 and Nia2 genes. Plant Physiology 116: 1091-1096. Pdf file
Mihaly Czako, Joyelle Wilson, Xiaodan Yu and Laszlo Marton (1993) Sustained root culture for generation and vegetative propagation of transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell Reports 12: 603-606.
Zhongshen Li, Liang Chen, Xiaodan Yu and Zhongchen Guo (1993) Effects of salt and casein hydrolysate on somatic embryogenesis of celery. In Plant somatic embryogenesis and artificial seed (Eds. Zhongchen Guo and Yaolin Gui) pp 26-34. Science Press, Beijing, PRC.
Huiming Zhang, Fanji Gu, Xiaodan Yu and Rugai Song (1992) Effects of the characteristic of a click on N1N2 response recorded from the round window in guinea pig. Acta Biophysica Sinica. 8: 306-311.