Erich Grotewold
Associate Professor
Department of Horticulture and Crop Science

232 Rightmire Hall, Plant Biotechnology Center 1060 Carmack Rd Columbus, OH 43210 Phone: (614) 292-2483 Fax: (614) 292-5379

Email: grotewold.1@osu.edu

at OSU since 1998

Academic Background
University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, BA Chemistry, 1985
INGEBI & University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ph.D. Chemistry, 1988

Research Interests
Regulation of plant gene expression, plant metabolic engineering, evolution of plant diversity

Courses regularly taught
Plant Molecular Biology (PB 622)
Plant Metabolic Engineering (PB 625)

Recent publications
1. Dong, X., Braun, E.L., and Grotewold, E. Functional conservation of plant secondary metabolic enzymes revealed by complementation of Arabidopsis flavonoid mutants with maize genes. In Press.

2. Braun, E.L., Matulnik, T., Dias, A., and Grotewold, E. (2001) Transcription factors and metabolic engineering: Novel applications for ancient tools. Recent. Adv. Phytochem. In Press.

3. Grotewold, E. Subcellular trafficking of phytochemicals. (2001) Recent Res. Dev. Plant Physiol. 2: 31-48.

4. Braun, E.L., and Grotewold, E. (2001) Fungal Zuotin proteins evolved from MIDA1-like factors by lineage-specific loss of MYB domains. Mol. Biol. & Evol. 18: 1401-1412.

5. Grotewold, E., Sainz, M.B., Tagliani, L., Hernandez, J.M., Bowen, B., and Chandler, V.L. (2000) Identification of the residues in the Myb domain of C1 that provide the specificity of the interaction with the bHLH cofactor R. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97: 13579-13584.

6. Rabinowicz, P.D., and Grotewold, E. (2000) A novel reverse-genetic approach (SIMF) identifies Mutator insertions in new Myb genes. Planta 211: 887-893.

7. Braun, E.L., and Grotewold, E. (1999) Newly discovered plant c-myb-like genes rewrite the evolution of the plant myb gene family. Plant Phys 121: 21-24.

8. Rabinowicz, P. D., E. L. Braun., A. D. Wolfe, B. Bowen, and E. Grotewold. (1999) Maize R2R3 Myb genes: Sequence analysis reveals amplification in higher plants. Genetics 153: 427-444.

9. Grotewold, E., Chamberlain, M., St. Claire, G., Swenson, J., Siame, B.A., Butler, L.G., Snook, M. and Bowen, B. (1998) Engineering secondary metabolism in maize cells by ectopic expression of transcription factors. Plant Cell. 10: 721-740.

10. Mol, J., Grotewold, E., and Koes, R. (1998) How genes paint flowers and seeds. Trends Plant Sci. 3: 212-217.

Last modified: 5/13/2008