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Our People: John Finer

John Finer
John Finer
Professor
Office: 
214 Williams Hall
Wooster
Phone: 
(330) 263-3880
Email: 

finer.1@osu.edu

Areas Of Interest: 
Genetic Transformation and Transgene
Expression in Crop Plants

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

Research efforts in the laboratory have focused somatic embryogenesis, genetic transformation and promoter analysis in crop plants. Although the main emphasis in my laboratory is currently on soybean, we have additional experience with transformation of wheat, maize, sunflower, tomato, bentgrass, cotton, white pine, Chinese yam, Christmas cactus and Ohio buckeye. Embryogenic tissues are used for both basic studies on plant growth and development and as targets for transformation work. For our promoter work, we use image analysis to quantify expression of the gfp gene, under regulatory control of different promoters. Automated image collections is facilitated using a custom-designed robotics system, coupled with high-throughput image analysis.

WEBSITE

http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/plantranslab/default.htm

RECENT WORKS

The five (5) most recent works for each category are listed below. View all works.

Chapters

Finer JJ. "Visualizing transgene expression.." In Plant Transformation Technologies. Edited by CN Stewart, A Touraev, V Citovsky, T Tzfira. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing Co, January 2011.

Conferences

Zhang,Zhifen; Finer,John,J. "Development of a Transformation and Regeneration System for Sunflower (Helianthus annus)." (June 2011)

De La Torre,Carola,M; Hernandez-Garcia,Carlos,M; Bouchard,Robert,A; Finer,John,J. "Dissection of the Strong Soybean Ubiquitin Promoter (Gmubi) Reveals Essential Regions Responsible for Regulating High Levels of Gene Expression." (June 2011)

Bouchard,R,A; Chiera,J,M; Finer,J,J. "Isolation and characterization of a soybean (Glycine max) polyubiquitin (Gmubi) promoter.." (March 2007)

Journal Articles

Rushton,Deena,L; Tripathi,Prateek; Rabara,Roel,C; Lin,Jun; Ringler,Patricia; Boken,Ashley,K; Langum,Tanner,J; Smidt,Lucas; Boomsma,Darius,D; Emme,Nicholas,J; Chen,Xianfeng; Finer,John,J; Shen,Qingxi,J; Rushton,Paul,J. "WRKY transcription factors: key components in abscisic acid signalling."; PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL.. Vol. 10, no. 1. (January 2012): 2-11.

Pomeranz,Marcelo; Zhang,Li; Finer,John; Jang,Jyan-Chyun. "Can AtTZF1 act as a transcriptional activator or repressor in plants?."; Plant signaling & behavior.. Vol. 6, no. 5. (May 2011): 719-722.

Pomeranz,Marcelo; Finer,John; Jang,Jyan-Chyun. "Putative molecular mechanisms underlying tandem CCCH zinc finger protein mediated plant growth, stress, and gene expression responses.."; Plant signaling & behavior.. Vol. 6, no. 5. (May 2011): 647-651.

Pomeranz M, Zhang L, Finer J, Jang J-C. "Can AtTZF1 act as a transcriptional activator or repressor in plants?."; Plant Signaling & Behavior.. Vol. 5, no. 6. (January 2011): 644-648.

Rushton DL, Tripathi P, Rabara R, Lin J, Ringler P, Boken AK, Langum TJ, Schmidt L, Boomsma DD, Emme N, Chen X, Finer JJ, Shen QJ, Rushton PJ. "WRKY transcription factors: key components in abscisic acid signaling."; Plant Biotechnology Journal.. Vol. 2, no. 10. (January 2011): 2-11.

Presentations

"Identification of regulatory regions for control of transgene expression" Presented at International Association for Plant Biotechnology - Canadian Division, Guelph, CA|CAN (May 2012)

"Use of a Transformation System in Sunflower for Sclerotinia Resistance Studies" Presented at National Sclerotinia Initiative annual meeting, Minneapolis, (January 2012)