Department of Plant Biology, 166 Plant Biology Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1312,Phone (517) 355-4683, Fax(517)353-1926
Frances Trail; Associate Professor of Plant Biology
Trail, F., Xu, J.-R., San Miguel, P., Halgren, R. G. and Kistler, H. C. 2003. Analysis of Expressed Sequence Tags from Gibberella zeae (anamorph Fusarium graminearum). Fungal Genetics and Biology 38:187-197.
Trail, F. and Xu, H. 2002. Purification and characterization of mannitol dehydrogenase and isolation of the corresponding cDNA from the head blight fungus, Gibberella zeae (Fusarium graminearum). Phytochemistry 61:791-796.
Trail, F., Xu, H., Loranger, R. and Gadoury, D. 2002. Physiological and environmental aspects of ascospore discharge in Gibberella zeae. Mycologia 94:181-189.
Hitchman, T.S., Schmidt, E.W., Rarick, M.A., Trail, F, Linz, J.E. and Townsend, C.A. 2001. Cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of the genes encoding hexanoate synthase, a specialized type I fatty acid synthase from aflatoxin B1 biosynthesis in Aspergillus parasiticus. Bioorganic Chemistry 29:293-307.
Chiou, C-H, Miller, M., Wilson, D., Trail, F. and Linz, J.E. 2001. Chromosomal location affects expression of genes involved in aflatoxin biosynthesis in Aspergillus parasiticus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 68(1) 306-315.
Andries, C., Jarosz, A., and Trail, F. 2000. Effects of rainfall and temperature on production of perithecia by Gibberella zeae in field debris in Michigan. In, Proceedings of the 2000 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, Dec 10-12, Erlanger, KY. Wheat Scab and Barley Initiative, pp.118-123.
Annis, S., L. Velasquez, H. Xu, R. Hammerschmidt, J. Linz, and F. Trail. 2000. A novel procedure for identification of compounds inhibitory to transcription of genes involved in mycotoxin biosynthesis. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 48 (10) 4656-4660.
Trail, F. 2000. Fusarium graminearum, the head scab fungus: An update on genetics and genomics. IS-MPMI Reporter, August, pp. 1-3.
Xu, H., Annis, S., Linz, J. and Trail, F. 2000. Infection and colonization of peanut pods by Aspergillus parasiticus and the expression of the aflatoxin biosynthetic gene, nor-1, in infection hyphae. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 56:185-196.
Trail, F. and R. Common. 2000. Perithecial development by Gibberella zeae: A light microscopy study. Mycologia 92:130-138.
Trail, F., Gadoury, D., and Loranger, R. 1998. Environmental parameters of ascospore discharge in Gibberella zeae. The 1998 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum, Proceedings, pp. 11-14.
Trail, F., Mahanti, N., Rarick, M., Mehigh, R., Liang, S.-S., and Linz, J. E. 1995. Physical and transcriptional map of an aflatoxin gene cluster and the functional disruption of a polyketide synthase in the cluster. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 61:2665-2673.
Trail, F., Mahanti, N., and Linz, J. E. 1995. Molecular biology of aflatoxin biosynthesis. Microbiology 141:755-765.
Koller, W., Yao, C., Trail, F., and Parker, D.M. 1995. Role of cutinases in the invasion of plants. Canadian Journal of Botany 73 (Suppl. 1): S1109-S1118.
Trail, F., Chang, P. K., Cary, J., and Linz, J. E. 1994. Structural and functional analysis of the nor-1 gene involved in the aflatoxin biosynthesis in Aspergillus parasiticus. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 60 (11): 4078-4085.
Trail, F. and Koller, W. 1993. Diversity of cutinases from plant pathogenic fungi: Purification and characterization of cutinases from Alternaria brassicicola.. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 42: 205-220.
Trail, F. and Koller, W. 1990. Diversity of cutinases from plant pathogenic fungi: Evidence for a relationship between enzyme properties and tissue specificity. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 36 (6): 495-508.
Koller, W., Trail, F., and Parker, D. M. 1990. Ebelactones inhibit cutinases produced by fungal plant pathogens. Journal of Antibiotics 43 (6): 734-735.
Trail, F., and Mills, D. 1990. Growth of haploid Tilletia strains in planta and genetic analysis of a cross of Tilletia caries x T. controversa. Phytopathology 80 (4): 367-370.
Trail, F., Richards, C., and Wu, F.-S. 1989. Genetic Manipulation of Brassica. In Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, Vol. 9, pp. 197-216. Y. P. S. Bajaj, ed. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
