Charles Peter Woloshuk

Charles Peter Woloshuk

Botany and Plant Pathology
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1155
Phone: (765) 494-3450
Fax: (765) 494-0363
E-mail: woloshuk@btny.purdue.edu
Homepage: http://www.btny.purdue.edu/faculty/Woloshuk/

Education

B.S. in Biology, 1976 , Valdosta State College

M.S. in Botany, 1978, University of Maryland

Ph.D. in Plant Pathology, 1986, Washington State University

Employment

1997-present Associate Professor, Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue Univ.

1993-1997 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Botany & Plant Pathology, Purdue Univ.

1988-1991 Scientist, MOGEN International, Leiden, The Netherlands

Patents

U.S. Patent Number 5,389,609. Antifungal Preparations and for making such preparations. 1995

U.S. Patent Number 5,670,706. Fugal Resistant Plants, Process for Obtaining Fungal Resistant

Plants and Recombinant Polynucleotides for Use Therein. 1997.

Selected Publications

Brown, R. L., T. E. Cleveland, G. A. Payne, C. P. Woloshuk, K. W. Campbell, and D. G. White. 1995. Determination of resistance to aflatoxin production in maize kernels and of fungal colonization using an Aspergillus flavus transformant expressing Esherichia coli ßglucuronidase. Phytopathology 85: 983-989.

Foutz, K. R., Woloshuk, C. P., and Payne, G. A. 1995. Cloning and assignment of linkage group loci to a karyotype map of the filamentous fungus Aspergillus flavus. Mycologia 87:787- 794.

Brown, R. L., Cleveland, T. E., Payne, G. A., Woloshuk, C. P., and White, D. G. 1996. Growth of an Aspergillus flavus transformant expressing Escherichia coli ß-glucuronidase in maize kernels resistant to aflatoxin production. J. Food Protect. 60:84-87.

Prieto, R., Yousibova, G. L., and Woloshuk, C. P. 1996. Identification of aflatoxin biosynthesis genes by genetic complementation in Aspergillus flavus mutant lacking the aflatoxin gene cluster. Appl. Environ. Microbiol.62:3567-3571.

Woloshuk, C. P., Cavaletto, J. R., and Cleveland, T. E. 1997. Inducers of aflatoxin biosynthesis from colonized maize kernels are generated by an amylase activity from

Prieto, R. and Woloshuk, C. P. 1997. ord1, an oxidoreductase gene responsible for the conversion of O-methylsterigmatocystin to aflatoxin in Aspergillus flavus. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 63:1661-1666.

Woloshuk, C. P. and Prieto, R. 1998. Mini Review: Genetic organization and function of the aflatoxin B1 biosynthetic genes. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 160:169-176.

Fakhoury, A. M. and Woloshuk, C. P. 1999. Amy1, the a-amylase gene of Aspergillus flavus: Involvement in aflatoxin biosynthesis in maize kernels. Phytopathology 89: 908-914.