Dilip Shah

Dr. Dilip Shah is a Research Associate Member at the Danforth Center. His lab is involved in studying plant-fungal pathogen interactions and developing strategies for the development of fungal disease resistant mycotoxin-free transgenic crops. He has over 25 years of experience in plant molecular biology and agricultural biotechnology, has made substantial contributions to the development of herbicide and disease resistant crops during his tenure at Monsanto Company, and is listed as a co-inventor on a number of patents.

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Publications

Ramamoorthy, V., Cahoon, E.B., Thokala, M., Kaur, J., Li, J., and Shah, D.M. (2009). Sphingolipid C-9 methyltransferases are important for growth and virulence but not for sensitivity to antifungal plant defensins in Fusarium graminearum. Eukaryot Cell 8, 217-229.
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Allen, A., Snyder, A.K., Preuss, M., Nielsen, E.E., Shah, D.M., and Smith, T.J. (2008). Plant defensins and virally encoded fungal toxin KP4 inhibit plant root growth. Planta 227, 331-339.
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Ramamoorthy, V., Zhao, X., Snyder, A.K., Xu, J.R., and Shah, D.M. (2007). Two mitogen-activated protein kinase signalling cascades mediate basal resistance to antifungal plant defensins in Fusarium graminearum. Cell Microbiol 9, 1491-1506.
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Ramamoorthy, V., Cahoon, E.B., Li, J., Thokala, M., Minto, R.E., and Shah, D.M. (2007). Glucosylceramide synthase is essential for alfalfa defensin-mediated growth inhibition but not for pathogenicity of Fusarium graminearum. Mol Microbiol 66, 771-786.
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Hanks, J.N., Snyder, A.K., Graham, M.A., Shah, R.K., Blaylock, L.A., Harrison, M.J., and Shah, D.M. (2005). Defensin gene family in Medicago truncatula: structure, expression and induction by signal molecules. Plant Mol Biol 58, 385-399.
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Spelbrink, R.G., Dilmac, N., Allen, A., Smith, T.J., Shah, D.M., and Hockerman, G.H. (2004). Differential antifungal and calcium channel-blocking activity among structurally related plant defensins. Plant Physiol 135, 2055-2067.
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