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Elizabeth E. Hood

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Elizabeth Ellen Hood
Born1952
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Washington University
AwardsAAAS Fellow
Scientific career
InstitutionsPioneer Hi Bred, National Science Foundation, Arkansas State University
ThesisTi plasmid region responsible for the hyper-virulent phenotype of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A281 (1985)
Doctoral advisorsMary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley

Elizabeth E. Hood is a plant geneticist and the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University.[1] In 2018, she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2]

Education and career

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Elizabeth Hood was born in 1952.[3] She attended the University of Oklahoma earning a BA in sociology in 1974. In her masters she switched to botany, studying the biochemistry of a cyanobacteria (Anabaena variabilis).[3] After completing her masters, she moved to Washington University in St. Louis, where she studied the natural plant genetic engineering capabilities of Agrobacterium tumefaciens as a PhD student, and studied with Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley.

From 1988 to 1994, she was an assistant professor of biology at Utah State University. After that, she worked at Pioneer Hi-Bred, and later at ProdiGene. In 2003, she became a program manager at the National Science Foundation.[4] In 2004, she was hired at Arkansas State University.[1] In 2008, she was appointed the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture.[5]

Research

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During her time at Washington University in St. Louis, Elizabeth Hood created the Agrobacterium strain EHA101, which is widely used in plant transformation.[6][7] Her research at Arkansas State University focuses on using plants as factories to produce large quantities of enzymes[8] and studying how plants construct cell walls.[9] She is the Arkansas representative for the Genomes to Fields public-private consortium working to enable to accurate phenotypic prediction in corn/maize across the different environments found in thirty different US states.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b University, Arkansas State. "Dr. Elizabeth E. Hood". www.astate.edu. Archived from the original on 2020-06-17. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  2. ^ "AAAS Honors Accomplished Scientists as 2018 Elected Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  3. ^ a b okla-am.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com (in Italian) https://okla-am.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/i1vgi9/OKSTAT_ALMA21175359830002681. Retrieved 2020-06-17. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "biobased". www.biobasedsolutions.org. Archived from the original on 2020-01-29. Retrieved 2020-06-16.
  5. ^ "Honorary Members - Graduate Women In Science". www.gwis.org.
  6. ^ Hood, E.E.; Helmer, G.L.; Fraley, R.T. & Chilton, M.D. (1986). "The hypervirulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens A281 is encoded in a region of pTiBo542 outside of T=DNA". Journal of Bacteriology. 168 (3): 1291–1301. doi:10.1128/jb.168.3.1291-1301.1986. PMC 213636. PMID 3782037.
  7. ^ Sciaky, D.; Montoya, A.L. & Chilton, M.-D. (1991). "A DNA transformation-competent Arabidopsis genomic library in Agrobacterium". Nature Biotechnology. 9 (10): 963–967. doi:10.1038/nbt1091-963. PMID 1368724. S2CID 205272224.
  8. ^ Hood, Elizabeth E.; Devaiah, Shivakumar P.; Fake, Gina; Egelkrout, Erin; Teoh, Keat Thomas; Requesens, Deborah Vicuna; Hayden, Celine; Hood, Kendall R.; Pappu, Kameshwari M.; Carroll, Jennifer; Howard, John A. (2012). "Manipulating corn germplasm to increase recombinant protein accumulation". Plant Biotechnology Journal. 10 (1): 20–30. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00627.x. PMID 21627759.
  9. ^ Hood, Elizabeth E.; Love, Robert; Lane, Jeff; Bray, Jeff; Clough, Richard; Pappu, Kamesh; Drees, Carol; Hood, Kendall R.; Yoon, Sangwoong; Ahmad, Atta; Howard, John A. (2007). "Subcellular targeting is a key condition for high-level accumulation of cellulase protein in transgenic maize seed". Plant Biotechnology Journal. 5 (6): 709–719. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7652.2007.00275.x. PMID 17614952.
  10. ^ McFarland, Bridget A.; AlKhalifah, Naser; Bohn, Martin; Bubert, Jessica; Buckler, Edward S.; Ciampitti, Ignacio; Edwards, Jode; Ertl, David; Gage, Joseph L.; Falcon, Celeste M.; Flint-Garcia, Sherry; Gore, Michael A.; Graham, Christopher; Hirsch, Candice N.; Holland, James B.; Hood, Elizabeth; Hooker, David; Jarquin, Diego; Kaeppler, Shawn M.; Knoll, Joseph; Kruger, Greg; Lauter, Nick; Lee, Elizabeth C.; Lima, Dayane C.; Lorenz, Aaron; Lynch, Jonathan P.; McKay, John; Miller, Nathan D.; Moose, Stephen P.; Murray, Seth C.; Nelson, Rebecca; Poudyal, Christina; Rocheford, Torbert; Rodriguez, Oscar; Romay, Maria Cinta; Schnable, James C.; Schnable, Patrick S.; Scully, Brian; Sekhon, Rajandeep; Silverstein, Kevin; Singh, Maninder; Smith, Margaret; Spalding, Edgar P.; Springer, Nathan; Thelen, Kurt; Thomison, Peter; Tuinstra, Mitchell; Wallace, Jason; Walls, Ramona; Wills, David; Wisser, Randall J.; Xu, Wenwei; Yeh, Cheng-Ting; de Leon, Natalia (2020). "Maize genomes to fields (G2F): 2014â€"2017 field seasons: genotype, phenotype, climatic, soil, and inbred ear image datasets". BMC Research Notes. 13 (1): 71. doi:10.1186/s13104-020-4922-8. PMC 7017475. PMID 32051026.
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