Albert P. Kausch

Research

Plant Biology; Molecular Improvement in Grasses and Cereals; Genetic Improvement of Plants for Biofuels; Development of New Garlic Varieties; Medicinal Properties of Garlic; Gene Expression in Rice

Education

  • Ph.D. in the Molecular, Cellular and Development Biology Program and The Department of Botany, Iowa State University, 1983
  • M.S. in the Molecular Cellular and Development Biology Program and The Department of Botany, Iowa State University, 1980
  • B.A. in Biological Sciences, State University of New York, 1978

Selected Publications

Nelson-Vasilchik K., Hague J.P., Tilelli M., Kausch A.P. (in press) Rapid transformation and plant regeneration of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) mediated by altruistic Baby boom and Wuschel2. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology – Plant.

Kausch A.P., Wang K., Kaeppler H., Gordon-Kamm W. (2021) Maize Transformation: history, progress and perspectives. Molecular Breeding, 41, doi.org/10.1007/s11032-021-01225-0

Kausch A.P., Nelson-Vasilchik K., Yonchak A., Hague J. (2021) Maize Tissue Culture, Transformation and Genome Editing. In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology – Plant, 57, pp. 653 – 671, doi.org/10.1007/s11627-021-10196-y

Hague J.H., Nelson, K., Yonchak, A., Kausch A.P. (Dec 2021) qPCR methods for the quantification of transgene insert copy number and zygosity using the comparative Ct method in transgenic Sorghum bicolor L. Moench. In: Accelerated Breeding for Cereal Crops, (Laurie J.D., Bilichak, A., eds), Springer Protocols Handbook, Humana Press.

Kausch A.P., Nelson-Vasilchik K., Hague J., Mookkan M., Quemada H, Dellaporta S.L., Fragoso C., and Zhang, Z.J. (2019) Edit at Will: Genotype Independent Plant Transformation in the Era of Advanced Genomics and Genome Editing. Plant Science, 281 pp. 186 -205, doi.org/10.1016/j.plantsci.2019.01.006

Mookkan, M., Nelson-Vasilchik, K., Hague, J., Zhang, Z.J., and Kausch, A.P. (2018) Morphogenic regulator-mediated transformation of maize inbred B73. Current Protocols in Plant Biology, e20075. doi: 10.1002/cppb.20075

Nelson-Vasilchik, K., Hague, J., Mookkan, M., Zhang, Z.J., and Kausch, A.P. (2018) Transformation of recalcitrant sorghum varieties facilitated by baby boom and wuschel2. Current Protocols in Plant Biology, e200076. doi: 10.1002/cppb.20076

Mookkan, M., Nelson-Vasilchik, K., Hague, J., Zhang, Z.J., and Kausch, A. P. (2017) Selectable marker independent transformation of recalcitrant maize inbred B73 and sorghum P898012 mediated by morphogenic regulators BABY BOOMand WUSCHEL2. Plant Cell Reports.

Hayward, A.P., Moreno, M.A., Howard, T.P., Hague, J., Nelson, K., Heffelfinger, C., Romero, S., Kausch, A.P., Glauser, G., Acosta, I.F., Mottinger, J.P. and Dellaporta, S.L. (2016) Control of sexuality by the sk1-encoded UDP-glycosyltransferase of maize. Science Advances(AAAS) 2, no. 10, e1600991, doi: 10.1126/sciadv.1600991.

Altpeter, F., Springer, N.M., Bartley, L.E., Blechl, A.E., Brutnell, T.P., Citovsky, V., Conrad, L.J., Gelvin, S.B., Jackson, D.P., Kausch, A.P., Lemaux, P.G., Medford, J.I., Orozco-Cárdenas, M.L., Tricoli, D.M., Van Eck, J., Voytas, D.F., Walbot, V., Wang, K., Zhang, Z.J. and Stewart, C.N. (2016) Advancing Crop Transformation in the Era of Genome Editing. Plant Cell28, pp. 1510-1520. doi: 10.1105/tpc.16.00196