Dr. Paul Twigg

Areas of Interest:

Plant Molecular Biology

Rank: Professor Year Hired: 1992
2011 picture Twigg
Office: Greenhouse

                   Phone: (308) 865-8315

   FAX: (308) 865-8045

   email: twiggp@unk.edu

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Advisor to Pre-Veterinarian Students

Degrees:

B. S. 1987 Indiana University (Pennsylvania)

Ph. D. 1993 University of Tennessee

Dissertation:

Twigg, P. G. 1993. Isolation of a nodule-specific cDNA encoding a putative glycine-rich protein from Alnus glutinosa. Ph. D. Dissertation, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. 144 pp.

Publications:

Babaian, C. and Twigg, P. 2011 The power of plants: introducing ethnobotany & biophilia into your biology class. The American Biology Teacher 73(4):217-221.
Saathoff, A. J., Tobias, C. M., Sattler, S. E., Haas, E. J., Twigg, P., and Sarath, G. 2011. Switchgrass contains two cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenases involved in lignin formation. BioEnergy Research 4(2):120-133.
Vogel, J. P., Gu, Y. A., Twigg, P., Lazo, G. R., Laudencia-Chingcuanco, D., Hayden, D. M., Donze, T. J., Vivian, L. A., Stamova, B., and Coleman-Derr, D. 2006. EST sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of the model grass Branchypodium distachyon. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 113(2):186-195.
Togias, C. M., Twigg, P., Hayden, D. M., Vogel, K. P., Mitchell, R. M., Lazo, G. R., Chow, E. K., and Sarath, G. 2005. Analysis of expressed sequence tags and the identification of associated short tandem repeats in switchgrass. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 111(5):956-964,
Simonson, R. L., & Twigg, P. G. 1999. Cloning and sequencing of a glutamine synthetase cDNA (Accession No. AF169795) from Juglans nigra. (PGR99-144). Plant Physiology 121:313
Oh, B. S., Twigg, P. G., Hong, J. S., Mullin, B. C., & An, C. S. 1997. nif V is contiguous to nif HDK in Frankia strain FaC1. Physiologia Plantarum 99(4):707-713.
Pawlowski, K., Twigg, P. G., Dobrista, S. V., Guan, G.-H., & Mullin, B. C. 1997. A nodule-specific gene family from Alnus glutinosa encodes glycine and histidine-rich proteins expressed in the early stages of actinorhizal nodule development. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 10:656-664.
Mullin, B. C., Goetting-Minesky, P., & Twigg, P. 1993. Differential gene expression in the development of actinorhizal root nodules. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture 17:309-314.
Mullin, B. C., Swensen, S. M., Twigg, P., & Goetting-Minesky, P. 1992. Application of molecular analyses to questions relating to the genetics, ecology and evolution of actinorhizal symbioses. Pages 123-128 in Plant Biotechnology and Development (edited by P. M. Gresshoff). CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
An, C. S., Twigg, P., Ligon, J. M., and Mullin, B. C. 1990. nifH, D and K are contiguous in Frankia strain FaCl. Pages 324-xxx in Nitrogen Fixation: Achievements and Objectives (edited by P. M. Gresshoff, L. E. Roth, G. Stacey, & W. Newton.

Professional Affiliations:

Sigma Xi

Courses this year:

Cellular Biology (Lecture)
Cancer Biology (BIOL 830P; online for graduate students)
Physiology of Plants (BIOL 830P; online for graduate students)
Molecular Biotechnology (online for graduate students)
Forensic Biology (BIOL 830P; online for graduate students)

Last Update: 15 August 2012

University of Nebraska Kearney