Elizabeth A. Grabau

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Professor and Department Head

413 Price Hall (0331)
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061

Phone: (540) 231-6361
Fax: (540) 231-7477
E-Mail: egrabau at vt.edu

Education| Research Interests| Teaching Interests| Experience| Selected Publications

Education

  • Ph.D. in Biology, University of California, San Diego, 1981
  • B.S. in Biology, Purdue University, 1974

Research Interests

  • Legume tissue culture and transformation
  • Modification of soybean to lower phytic acid levels
  • Enhancing disease resistance in peanut

Teaching Interests

  • Biotechnology in a Global Society (ALS/BIOL 2404)
  • Biotechnology in Agriculture and Society (APSC/PPWS 5044)

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Experience

  • Associate Professor, PPWS, Virginia Tech, 1996-2007
  • Assistant Professor, PPWS, Virginia Tech, 1990-1996
  • Research Associate, Dept. of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of Minnesota, 1987-1990
  • Research Associate, Howard Hughes Medical Insititute, University of Utah, 1981-1986

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Selected Publications

  1. Gao Y., C. Shang, M. Saghai Maroof, R. Biyashev, E. Grabau, P. Kwanyuen, J. Burton, G. Buss. 2007. A modified colorimetric method for phytic acid analysis in soybean. Crop Sci. 47:1797-1803.
  2. Chiera J., E. Grabau. 2007. Localization of myo-inositol phosphate synthase (GmMIPS- 1) during the early stages of soybean seed development. J. Exp. Botany 58: 2261-2268
  3. Chamberlain P., X. Qian, A. Stiles, J. Cho, D. Jones, S. Lesley, E. Grabau, S. Shears, G. Spraggon. 2007. Integration of inisotol phosphate signaling pathwasy via human ITPK1. J. Biol. Chem. 282:28117-28125.
  4. Lei, X., Blake, J.P., Forsberg, C.W., Fox, D.G., Grabau, E.A., Mroz, Z., Sutton, A.L., Walker, W.R., and Webb., K. 2006. Biotechnological approaches to manure nutrient management, Animal agriculture's future through biotechnology, part 4, Council for Agricultural Science and Technology Issue Paper 33:20 pgs.
  5. Livingstone, D.M. Hampton, J.L. Phipps, P.M. and Grabau, E.A. 2005. Enhancing resistance to Sclerotinia minor in peanut by expressing a barley oxalate oxidase gene. Plant Physiology 137: 1354-1362.
  6. Chiera, J.M., Finer, J.J. and Grabau, E.A. 2004. Ectopic expression of a soybean phytase in developing seeds of Glycine max to improve phosphorus availability. Plant Molecular Biology 56: 895-904.
  7. Rachdawong, S., Cramer, C.L., Grabau, E.A., Stromberg, V.K., Lacy, G.H., and Stromberg, E.L. 2002. Gaeumannomyces graminis vars. avenae, graminis, and tritici identified using PCR of avenacinase-like genes. Plant Disease 86:652-660.
  8. Grabau, E.A. 2002. Phytase expression in transgenic plants. In: Food Phytates, N.R. Reddy and S.K. Sathe, eds., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL., pp. 85-105.
  9. Hegeman, C.E. and Grabau, E.A. 2001. A novel phytase with sequence similarity to purple acid phosphatases is expressed in cotyledons of germinating soybean seedlings. Plant Physiol. 126: 1598-1608.
  10. Hegeman, C.E., Good, L.L. and Grabau, E.A. 2001. Expression of D-myo-inositol-3-phosphate synthase in soybean. Implications for phytic acid biosynthesis. Plant Physiol. 125: 1941-1948.
  11. Denbow, D.M., Grabau, E.A., Lacy, G.H., Umbeck, P. and Russell, D.R. 1998. Soybeans transformed with a fungal phytase gene improve phosphorus availability for broilers, Poultry Sci. 77:878-881.
  12. Li, J., Hegeman, C.E., Hanlon, R.W., Lacy, G.H., Denbow, D.M., and Grabau, E.A. 1997. Secretion of active recombinant phytase from soybean cell suspension cultures. Plant Physiol. 114: 1103-1111.

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