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Hugo Dooner Hugo Dooner
Professor II
 Plant Biology and Pathology
Inst Of Microbiology
190 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854
Phone: 732-445-4684
Fax: 732-445-5735
Email: dooner@waksman.rutgers.edu
Website: mbclserver.rutgers.edu/~dooner/PGRPpage.html

Expertise Summary
  In our laboratory we perform studies on the organization of the maize genome, homologous meiotic recombination, transposon genetics, and the uses of transposons in functional genomics.

IMPACTS: . 1. Discovery that the organization of the maize genome is highly polymorphic, so that the DNA of different maize lines can vary by >50% because of differences in intergenic retrotransposons and in genes or gene fragments carried by helitron transposons. 2. Discovery that local rates of recombination in maize can vary greatly as a consequence of these large structural polymorphisms. 3. Development of a transgenic Ac-Ds transposon tagging resource in maize.

Selected Publications
Remarkable variation in maize genome structure inferred from haplotype diversity at the bz locus
  Journal: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
 Authors: Wang, X. and H.K. Dooner
Volume: 103    Pages: 17644-17649
Date Published: 2006
Gene movement by Helitron transposons contributes to the haplotype variability of maize
  Journal: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci.
 Authors: Lai, J., Y. Li, J. Messing, and H.K. Dooner
Volume: 102    Pages: 968-873
Date Published: 2005
Mx-rMx, a new family of interacting transposons in the growing hAT superfamily of maize
  Journal: Plant Cell
 Authors: Xu, Z. and H. K. Dooner
Volume: 17    Pages: 375-388
Date Published: 2005

Patents/Intellectual Property
Pea ADPGlucose pyrophosphorylase subunit genes and their uses
  Patent Number: Pea ADPGlucose pyrophosphorylase subunit genes and their uses
 Date Issued: 01/01/1996
Ph genes and their uses
  Patent Number: Ph genes and their uses
 Date Issued: 01/01/1996
FAE1 genes and their uses
  Patent Number: FAE1 genes and their uses
 Date Issued: 01/01/2000

 

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