Education

Ph.D. in Biology, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, 1991

Current position

University Distinguished Research Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Publications (since 2013)

1. Louis, J. and Shah, J. (2015). Plant defence against aphids: the PAD4 signalling nexus. J Exp Bot 66(2): 449-454.

2. Nalam, V. J., Alam, S., Keereetaweep, J., Venables, B., Burdan, D., Lee, H., Trick, H. N., Sarowar, S., Makandar, R. and Shah, J. (2015). Facilitation of Fusarium graminearum Infection by 9-Lipoxygenases in Arabidopsis and Wheat. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 28(10): 1142-1152.

3. Makandar, R., Nalam, V. J., Chowdhury, Z., Sarowar, S., Klossner, G., Lee, H., Burdan, D., Trick, H. N., Gobbato, E., Parker, J. E. and Shah, J. (2015). The Combined Action of ENHANCED DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY1, PHYTOALEXIN DEFICIENT4, and SENESCENCE-ASSOCIATED101 Promotes Salicylic Acid-Mediated Defenses to Limit Fusarium graminearum Infection in Arabidopsis thaliana. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 28(8): 943-953.

4. Vu, H. S., Roston, R., Shiva, S., Hur, M., Wurtele, E. S., Wang, X., Shah, J. and Welti, R. (2015). Modifications of membrane lipids in response to wounding of Arabidopsis thaliana leaves. Plant Signal Behav 10(9): e1056422.

5. Dill-Macky, R., Elakkad, A.M., Shah, J., Trick, H.N., Sarowar, S., Alam, S.,Dahleen, L.S., Skadsen, R.W., and Bregitzer, P.P. (2015). Testing transgenic spring wheat and barley lines for reaction to Fusarium head blight: 2015 Field Nursery Report. In: Canty, S., Clark, A., Vukasovich, S. and Sanford, D. V.(eds). Proceedings of the 2015 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum . pp. 45. East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.

6. Shah, J., Sarowar, S., Alam, S., Shulaev, E., Behera, S., Lee, H., Tyagi, N., and Trick, H. N. (2015). Engineering resistance against Fusarium graminearum in wheat. In: Canty, S., Clark, A., Vukasovich, S. and Sanford, D. V.(eds). Proceedings of the 2015 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum . pp. 50. East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.

7. Welti, R., Shiva, S., Vu, H., Roth, M., Tamura, P., Samarakoon, T., Colter, M., Sarowar, S., Li, M., Gadbury, G., Wang, X. and Shah, J. (2015). Using lipidomics to probe lipid metabolism. FASEB J. vol. 29, Supplement 220.3

8. Shah, J., Chaturvedi, R., Chowdhury, Z., Venables, B. and Petros, R. A. (2014). Signaling by small metabolites in systemic acquired resistance. Plant J 79(4): 645-658.

9. Vu, H. S., Shiva, S., Roth, M. R., Tamura, P., Zheng, L., Li, M., Sarowar, S., Honey, S., McEllhiney, D., Hinkes, P., Seib, L., Williams, T. D., Gadbury, G., Wang, X., Shah, J. and Welti, R. (2014). Lipid changes after leaf wounding in Arabidopsis thaliana: expanded lipidomic data form the basis for lipid co-occurrence analysis. Plant J 80(4): 728-743.

10. Petros, R. A. and Shah, J. (2014). Evaluation of the efficiency of Pd/H2 -catalyzed benzylic H/D exchange of dehydroabietinal with D(2) O and synthesis of a tritium-labeled analogue. J Labelled Comp Radiopharm 57(1): 53-56.

11. Shah, J. (2014). Lipases in signalling plant defense responses. In: Wang, X. (ed). Phospholipases in Plant Signaling. Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer Verlag: 20, 207-228.

12. Sarowar, S., Alam, S., Silvaraman, V., Lee, H., Tyagi, N., Trick, H. and Shah, J. (2014). Engineering resistance against Fusarium graminearum. In: Canty, S., Clark, A., Vukasovich, S. and Sanford, D. V.(eds). Proceedings of the 2014 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum. ( pp. 61). East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.

13. Shah, J. and Chaturvedi, R. (2013). Long-distance signalling in systemic acquired resistance. In: Baluška, F. (ed). Signaling and Communication in Plants: Long-Distance Systemic Signaling and Communication in Plants. Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, pp 1-21.

14. Suzuki, N., Miller, G., Salazar, C., Mondal, H. A., Shulaev, E., Cortes, D. F., Shuman, J. L., Luo, X., Shah, J., Schlauch, K., Shulaev, V. and Mittler, R. (2013). Temporal-spatial interaction between reactive oxygen species and abscisic acid regulates rapid systemic acclimation in plants. Plant Cell 25(9): 3553-3569.

15. Singh, V., Roy, S., Giri, M. K., Chaturvedi, R., Chowdhury, Z., Shah, J. and Nandi, A. K. (2013). Arabidopsis thaliana FLOWERING LOCUS D is required for systemic acquired resistance. Mol Plant Microbe Interact 26(9): 1079-1088.

16. Shah, J. and Zeier, J. (2013). Long-distance communication and signal amplification in systemic acquired resistance. Front Plant Sci 4: 30.

17. Louis, J. and Shah, J. (2013). Arabidopsis thaliana-Myzus persicae interaction: shaping the understanding of plant defense against phloem-feeding aphids. Front Plant Sci 4: 213.

18. Nalam, V. J., Shah, J. and Nachappa, P. (2013). Emerging role of roots in plant responses to above ground insect herbivory. Insect Sci 20(3): 286-296.

19. Cao, T., Lahiri, I., Singh, V., Louis, J., Shah, J. and Ayre, B. G. (2013). Metabolic engineering of raffinose-family oligosaccharides in the phloem reveals alterations in carbon partitioning and enhances resistance to green peach aphid. Front Plant Sci 4: 263.

20. Nalam, V. J., Keereetaweep, J. and Shah, J. (2013). The green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, acquires a LIPOXYGENASE5-derived oxylipin from Arabidopsis thaliana, which promotes colonization of the host plant. Plant Signal Behav 8(1): e22735.

21. Zheng, L., Gadbury, G. L., Shah, J. and Welti, R. (2013). Exploration of reactant-product pairs in mutant-wild type lipidomics experiments. Proceedings of the 2012 Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS.

22. Sarowar, S., Alam, S., Lee, H., Burdan, D., Trick, H. and Shah, J. (2013). Engineering microbial elicitors of defense to promote resistance against Fusarium graminearum. In: Canty, S., Clark, A., Vukasovich, S. and Sanford, D. V.(eds). Proceedings of the 2013 National Fusarium Head Blight Forum. pp. 77. East Lansing, MI/Lexington, KY: U.S. Wheat & Barley Scab Initiative.