Faculty Profile

Florence Negre-Zakharov
Assistant Professor
Department of Plant Sciences
Wickson 1057
Office 530-752-4374
Lab 530-752-8069
fnegre@ucdavis.edu
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Degrees:
2005 - PhD - Purdue University - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
2000 - MS - Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique de Toulouse, France - Biotechnology, Plant Breeding and Plant Defense

Department and Center Affiliations:
Department of Plant Sciences

Professional Societies:
American Society of Plant Biologists

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Plant Biology
Non-DBS Grad Group(s) - Horticulture and Agronomy

Publications:
Horiuchi J, Badri DV, Kimball BA, Negre F, Dudareva N, Paschke MW, Vivanco JM (2007). The floral volatile, methyl benzoate, from snapdragon (Antirrhinum majus) triggers phytotoxic effects in Arabidopsis thaliana. Planta 226: 1-10.

Dudareva N, Negre F, Nagegowda DA, Orlova I (2006). Plant volatiles: recent advances and future perspectives. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 25: 417-440.

Guterman I, Masci T, Chen X, Negre F, Pichersky E, Dudareva N, Weiss D, Vainstein A (2005). Generation of phenylpropanoid pathway-derived volatiles in transgenic plants: rose alcohol acetyltransferase produces phenylethyl acetate and benzyl acetate in petunia flowers. Plant Mol. Biol. 60(4): 555-563.

Effmert U, Saschenbrecker S, Ross J, Negre F, Fraser CM, Noel JP, Dudareva N, Piechulla B (2005). Floral benzenoid carboxyl methyltransferases: from in vitro to in planta function. Phytochemistry 66: 1211-1230.

Dudareva N, Negre F (2005). Practical applications of research into the regulation of plant volatile emission. Current Opinion in Plant Biology 8: 113-118.

Boatright J, Negre F, Chen X, Kish CM, Wood B, Peel G, Orlova I, Gang D, Rhodes D, Dudareva N (2004). Understanding in vivo benzenoid metabolism in petunia petal tissue. Plant Physiology 135: 1993-2011.

Negre F, Kish CM, Boatright J, Underwood B, Shibuya K, Wagner C, Clark DG, Dudareva N (2003). Regulation of methylbenzoate emission after pollination in snapdragon and petunia flowers. Plant Cell 15: 2992-3006.

Negre F, Kolosova N, Knoll J, Kish CM, Dudareva N (2002). Novel S-adenosyl-L-methionine:salicylic acid carboxyl methyltransferase, an enzyme responsible for biosynthesis of methylsalicylate and methylbenzoate, is not involved in floral scent production in snapdragon flowers. Archives Biochemistry Biophysics 406: 261-270.

Research Interests:
Biosynthesis and Regulation of Aroma Volatiles in Fruits. Determination of genes involved in the production and regulation of fruit aroma through an integrated approach (metabolic profiling, functional genomics, enzymology, biotechnology).