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Dr. Shuxin Ren

• Ph.D. (Genetics) Texas A&M University 
• Beijing Agricultural University, Beijing, China, Plant Breeding and Genetics,

• Plant telomere biology
• Molecular mechanisms of plant environmental stress tolerance
• Identification of DNA markers and their use in breeding program

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Plant Biologists
• The American Association for the Advancement of Science

Selected Publications

• Ren, S.X., K.K. Mandadi, A.L. Boedeker, K.S. Rathore, and T.D. McKnight, 2007. Regulation of Telomerase in Arabidopsis by BT2, an Apparent Target of TELOMERASE ACTIVATOR 1, The Plant Cell. 19: 23-31.
• Ren, S.X., J.S. Johnston, D.E. Shippen, and T.D. McKnight, 2004. TELOMERASE ACTIVATOR 1 Induces Telomerase Activity and Potentiates Responses to Auxin in Arabidopsis, The Plant Cell. 16: 2910-2922.
• Fitzgerald, M.S., K. Riha, F. Gao, S.X. Ren, T.D. McKnight, and D.E. Shippen, 1999. Disruption of the Telomerase Catalytic Subunit Gene from Arabidopsis Inactivates telomerase and Leads to a Slow Loss of Telomeric DNA, PNAS. 96: 14813-14818.
• Lin, Y.R., X. Draye, X. Qian, S.X. Ren, L.H. Zhu, J. Tomkins, R.A. Wing, Z. Li, and A.H. Paterson, 2000. Locus-specific Contig Assembly in Highly-Duplicated Genomes, Using the BAC-RF Method, Nucleic Acids Res. 28: E23.
• Lin, Y.R., L. Zhu, S.X. Ren, J. Yang, K.F. Schertz, and A.H. Paterson, 1999. A Sorghum Propinguum BAC Library, Suitable for Cloning Genes Associated with Loss-of-Function Mutations during Crop Domestication, Molecular Breeding. 5: 511-520.
• Ren, S.X., R.A. McIntosh, and Z.J. Lu, 1997. Genetic Suppression of the Cereal Rye-derived Gene Pm8 in Wheat, Euphytica. 93: 353-360.
• Ren, S.X., R.A. McIntosh, P.J. Sharp, and T.T. The, 1996. A Storage-Protein Marker Associated with the Suppressor of Pm8 for Powdery Mildew Resistance in Wheat, Theoretical & Applied Genetics. 93: 1054-1060.