Julin N Maloof
Associate Professor
jnmaloof@ucdavis.edu

Plant Biology

Office
2131 Life Sciences Addition
(530) 752-8077

Lab
(530) 752-8086


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Degrees:
1998 PhD University of California, San Francisco Biochemistry
1989 BA Haverford College Biology
Research Interests:

Light is essential for plant growth. Perhaps as a consequence, plants have an intricate set of photoreceptors and responses that they use to optimize their development and physiology to suit their light environment. We study the ways in which plants have evolved differences in their light perception and responses that allow them to thrive in different environments. We are interested in both the genetic and molecular basis of variation in light response as well as the adaptive consequences. A combination of molecular and quantitative genetics is used in Arabidopsis, Tomato, and Brassica
http://malooflab.openwetware.org

Department and Center Affiliations:

 Department of Plant Biology
Professional Societies:
Genetics Society of America
American Society of Plant Biologists
CBS Graduate Group Affiliations:
Genetics  
Plant Biology  
Publications: Last updated 11/23/2009
  • Filiault DL, Wessinger CA, Dinneny JR, Lutes J, Borevitz JO, Weigel D, Chory J, & Maloof JN (2008). Amino acid polymorphisms in Arabidopsis phytochrome B cause differential responses to light. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105: 3157-62.
  • Nozue K, Covington MF, Duek PD, Lorrain S, Fankhauser C, Harmer SL, Maloof JN. (2007) Rhythmic growth explained by coincidence between internal and external cues. Nature 448:358-61
  • Weinig C, Johnston JA, Willis CG, Maloof JN. (2007) Antagonistic multilevel selection on size and architecture in variable density settings. Evolution Int J Org Evolution 61:58-67
  • Nozue K, Maloof JN. (2006) Diurnal regulation of plant growth. Plant Cell Environ 29:396-408
  • Balasubramanian S, Sureshkumar S, Agrawal M, Michael TP, Wessinger C, Maloof JN, Clark R, Warthmann N, Chory J, Weigel D (2006). The PHYTOCHROME C photoreceptor gene mediates natural variation in flowering and growth responses of Arabidopsis thaliana. Nat Genet 38: 711-5.
  • Maloof JN (2005) Small but not forgotten. Heredity 96: 1-2.
  • Lu L, Lee YR, Pan R, Maloof JN, & Liu B (2005) An internal motor kinesin is associated with the Golgi apparatus and plays a role in trichome morphogenesis in Arabidopsis. Mol Biol Cell 16: 811-23.
  • Maloof JN (2004) Plant development: slowing root growth naturally. Curr Biol 14: R395-6.
  • Wolyn DJ, Borevitz JO, Loudet O, Schwartz C, Maloof J, Ecker JR, Berry CC, Chory J (2004). Light-response quantitative trait loci identified with composite interval and eXtreme array mapping in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics 167: 907-17.
  • Maloof, J. N. (2003). Genomic approaches to analyzing natural variation in Arabidopsis thaliana. Curr Opin Genet Dev 13, 576-582.
  • Nemhauser, J.L., Maloof, J.N., and Chory, J. (2003). Building integrated models of plant growth and development. Plant Physiol 132, 436-439.
  • Maloof, J. N. (2003). QTL for plant growth and morphology. Curr Opin Plant Biol 6, 85-90.
  • Nordborg, M, JO Borevitz, J Bergelson, CC Berry, J Chory, J Hagenblad, M Kreitman, JN Maloof, T Noyes, PJ Oefner, EA Stahl, D Weigel. 2002. The extent of linkage disequilibrium in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Genetics. 30:190-193
  • Borevitz, JO, JN Maloof, J Lutes, T. Davi, JL Redfern, GT Trainer, JD Werner, T Asami, CC Berry, D Weigel, J Chory. 2002. Quantitative trait loci controlling light and hormone response in two accessions of Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. 160:683-69
  • Friedrichsen, D. M., Nemhauser, J., Muramitsu, T., Maloof, J. N., Alonso, J., Ecker, J. R., Furuya, M., and Chory, J. (2002). Three redundant brassinosteroid early response genes encode putative bHLH transcription factors required for normal growth. Genetics 162, 1445-1456.
  • Maloof, JN, JO Borevitz, T Dabi, J Lutes, RB Nehring, JL Redfern, GT Trainer, JM Wilson, T Asami, CC Berry, D Weigel, J Chory. 2001. Natural variation in light sensitivity of Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature Genetics. 29:441-446
  • Maloof, J. N., Borevitz, J. O., Weigel, D., and Chory, J. (2000). Natural variation in phytochrome signaling. Semin Cell Dev Biol 11, 523-530.
  • Maloof, J. N., Whangbo, J., Harris, J. M., Jongeward, G. D., and Kenyon, C. (1999). A Wnt signaling pathway controls hox gene expression and neuroblast migration in C. elegans. Development 126, 37-49.
  • Maloof, J. N., and Kenyon, C. (1998). The Hox gene lin-39 is required during C. elegans vulval induction to select the outcome of Ras signaling. Development 125, 181-190.
  • Jimenez-Gomez JM, & Maloof JN (2009). Sequence diversity in three tomato species: SNPs, markers, and molecular evolution. BMC Plant Biol 9: 85.
Courses:
BIS 002C Introduction to Biology Winter
PBI 220 Plant Developmental Biology (Alternate years) Winter