PUBLICATIONS

Qi, Y., Zhong, X., Itaya, A., and Ding, B. (2004). Dissecting RNA silencing in protoplasts uncovers novel effects of viral suppressors on the silencing pathway at the cellular level. Nucleic Acids Res. 32(22):e179.

Qi, Y., Pelissier, T., Itaya, A., Hunt, E.,  Wassenegger, M., and Ding, B. (2004).  Direct role of a viroid RNA motif in mediating directional RNA trafficking across a specific cellular boundary. Plant Cell 16:1741-1752.

Ding, B., Itaya, A. and Qi, Y. (2003). Symplasmic traffic of proteins and RNAs: Regulatory points and regulatory factors. Curr Opin. Plant Biol.  6 (6):596-602.[pdf]

Qi, Y. and Ding, B. (2003). Differential subnuclear localization of RNA strands of opposite polarity derived from an autonomously-replicating viroid. Plant Cell 15:2566-2577.

Qi, Y. and Ding, B. (2003). Inhibition of cell growth and shoot development by a specific nucleotide sequence in a noncoding viroid RNA. Plant Cell 15:1360-1374.

Ding, B. and Owens, R. (2003). Movement. In: Viroids  (A. Hadidi, R. Flores, J. W. Randles, J. S. Semancik, eds). CSIRO Publishing, Collingwood, Australia. pp. 49-54.

Qi, Y. and Ding, B. (2002). Replication of Potato spindle tuber viroid in cultured cells of tobacco and Nicotiana benthamiana: The role of specific nucleotides in determining replication levels for host adaptation. Virology 302:445-456.

Itaya, A., Ma, F., Qi, Y., Matsuda, Y., Zhu, Y., Liang, G., and Ding, B. (2002). Plasmodesma-mediated selective protein traffic between “symplasmically-isolated” cells probed by a viral movement protein. Plant Cell 14: 2071-2083.

Zhu, Y., Qi, Y., Xun, Y., Owens, R., and Ding, B. (2002). Movement of Potato spindle tuber viroid reveals regulatory points of phloem-mediated RNA traffic. Plant Physiol. 130:138-146.

Itaya, A., Matsuda, Y., Gonzales, R. A., Nelson, R.S., and Ding, B. (2002). Potato spindle tuber viroid strains of different pathogenicity induces and suppresses expression of common and unique genes in infected tomato. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 15:990-999.

Matsuda, Y., Liang, G., Zhu, Y., Ma, F., Nelson, R.S., and Ding, B. (2002). The Commelina yellow mottle virus promoter drives companion cell-specific gene expression in multiple organs of transgenic tobacco. Protoplasma 220:51-58.

Itaya, A., Folimonov, A., Matsuda, Y., Nelson, R., and Ding, B. (2001).  Potato spindle tuber viroid as inducer of RNA silencing in infected tomato. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 14:1332-1334.

Owens, R.A., Blackburn, M. and Ding, B. (2001). Possible involvement of phloem protein 2 in long distance viroid movement. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 14:905-909.

Zhu, Y., Green, L., Woo, Y.-M., Owens, R., and Ding, B. (2001). Cellular basis of Potato spindle tuber viroid systemic movement. Virology 279:69-77.

Itaya, A., Liang, G., Nelson, R.S., and Ding, B. (2000). Nonspecific intercellular protein trafficking probed by green fluorescent protein. Protoplasma 213:165-175.

Yang, Y., Ding, B., Baulcombe, D.C., and Verchot, J. (2000). Cell-to-cell movement of the 25K protein of potato virus X is regulated by three other viral proteins. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 13:599-605.

Liu, J., Huang, Y., Ding, B., and Tauer, C.G. (1999). cDNA cloning and expression of a sweetgum gene that shows homology with Arabidopsis AGAMOUS. Plant Sci. 142:73-82.

Woo, Y.-M., Itaya, A., Owens, R.A., Tang, L., Hammond, R.W., Chou, H.-C., Lai, M.M.C., and Ding, B. (1999). Characterization of nuclear import of potato spindle tuber viroid RNA in permeabilized protoplasts. Plant J. 17:627-635.

Ding, B., Itaya, A., and Woo, Y.-M. (1999). Plasmodesmata and cell-to-cell communication in plants. Internatl. Rev. Cytol. 190:251-316.

Ding, B. (1999). Tissue preparation and substructure of plasmodesmata. In: Plasmodesmata: Structure, Function, Role in Cell Communication (A. Van Bel and P. Van Kesteren, eds). Springer-Verlag. pp. 38-49.

Itaya, A., Woo, Y.-M., Masuta, C., Bao, Y., Nelson, R., and Ding, B. (1998). Developmental regulation of intercellular protein trafficking through plasmodesmata in tobacco leaf epidermis. Plant Physiol. 118:373-385.

Ding, B. (1998). Intercellular protein trafficking through plasmodesmata. Plant Mol. Biol. 38:279-310.

Itaya, A., Hickman, H., Bao, Y., Nelson, R. and Ding, B. (1997). Cell-to-cell trafficking of cucumber mosaic virus movement protein:green fluorescent protein fusion produced by biolistic gene bombardment in tobacco. Plant J. 12:1223-1230.

Ding, B., Kwon, M.-O., Hammond, R. and Owens, R. (1997). Cell-to-cell movement of potato spindle tuber viroid. Plant J. 12:931-936.

Ding  B. (1997). Cell-to-cell transport of macromolecules through plasmodesmata: a novel signaling pathway in plants. Trends Cell Biol. 7:5-9.

Ding, B., Kwon, M.-O., and Warnberg, L. (1996). Evidence that actin filaments are involved in controlling the permeability of plasmodesmata in tobacco mesophyll. Plant J. 10:157-164.

Nguyen, L., Lucas, W. J., Ding, B. and Zaitlin, M. (1996). Viral trafficking is inhibited in replicase-mediated resistant transgenic tobacco plants. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. (U.S.A.) 93:12643-12647.

Ding, B. and Lucas, W.J. (1996). Secondary plasmodesmata: Biogenesis, special functions, and evolution. In: Membranes: Specialised Functions in Plant Cells. Smallwood, M., Knox, P., and Bowles, D. eds., BIOS Publishers Inc., Oxford, pp.489-506.

Lucas, W.J., Bouche-Pillon, S., Jackson, D.P., Nguyen, L., Baker, L., Ding, B. and Hake, S. (1995). Selective trafficking of KNOTTED1 homeodomain protein and its mRNA through plasmodesmata. Science 270:1980-1983.

Ding, B., Li, Q-b., Nguyen, L., Palukaitis, P., and Lucas, W.J. (1995). Cucumber mosaic virus 3a protein potentiates cell-to-cell trafficking of CMV-vRNA in tobacco plants. Virology 207:345-353.

Franceschi, V.R., Ding, B., and Lucas, W.J. (1994). Mechanism of plasmodesmata formation in characean algae in relation to evolution of intercellular communication in higher plants. Planta 192:347-358.

Sanger, M., Passmore, B., Falk, B.W., Bruening, G., Ding, B., and Lucas, W.J. (1994). Symptom severity of beet western yellows virus strain ST9 is conferred by the ST9-associated RNA and is not associated with virus release from the phloem. Virology 200:48-55.

Ding, B., Haudenshield, J.S., Willmitzer, L., and Lucas, W.J. (1993). Correlation between arrested secondary plasmodesmal development and onset of accelerated leaf senescence in yeast invertase transgenic tobacco plants. Plant J. 4:179-189.

Fujiwara, T., Giesmann-Cookmeyer, D., Ding, B., Lommel, S.A., and Lucas, W.J. (1993). Cell-to-cell trafficking of macromolecules through plasmodesmata potentiated by the red clover necrotic mosaic virus movement protein. Plant Cell 5:1783-1794.

Lapidot, M., Gafny, R., Ding, B., Wolf, S., Lucas, W.J., and Beachy, R.N. (1993). A dysfunctional movement protein of tobacco mosaic virus that partially modifies the plasmodesmata and limits virus spread in transgenic plants. Plant J.  4:959-970.

Lucas, W.J., Ding, B., and Van der Schoot, C. (1993). Tansley Review # 58: Plasmodesmata and the supracellular nature of plants. New Phytol. 125:435-476.

Ding, B., Haudenshield, J.S., Hull, R.J., Wolf, S., Beachy, R.N., and Lucas, W.J. (1992). Secondary plasmodesmata are specific sites of localization of the tobacco mosaic virus movement protein in transgenic tobacco plants. Plant Cell 4:915-928.

Ding, B., Turgeon, R., and Parthasarathy, M.V. (1992). Substructure of freeze substituted plasmodesmata. Protoplasma 169:28-41.

Ding, B., Turgeon, R., and Parthasarathy, M.V. (1992). Effect of high pressure freezing on plant microfilament bundles. J.  Microsc. 165:367-376.

Ding, B., Turgeon, R., and Parthasarathy, M.V. (1991). Microfilament organization and distribution in freeze substituted tobacco plant tissues. Protoplasma 165:96-105.

Ding, B., Turgeon, R., and Parthasarathy, M.V. (1991). Microfilaments in the preprophase band of freeze substituted tobacco root cells. Protoplasma 165:209-211.                

Ding, B., Turgeon, R., and Parthasarathy, M.V. (1991). Routine cryofixation of plant tissue by propane jet freezing for freeze substitution. J. Electron Microsc. Techn. 19: 107-117.

Ding, B., Turgeon, R., and Parthasarathy, M.V. (1991). Plasmodesmatal substructure in cryofixed developing tobacco leaf tissue. In: Recent Advances in Phloem Transport and Assimilate Compartmentation. J.L. Bonnemain, S. Delrot, J. Dainty, and W.J. Lucas, eds., Quest Editions, Nantes, pp. 317-323.

 Ding, B., Turgeon, R., Niklas, K., and Parthasarathy, M.V. (1988). A morphometric analysis of the phloem-unloading pathway in developing tobacco leaves. Planta 176:307-318.


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