United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), USA
The ARS is the principal in-house research arm of the USDA.
Staff members:
- Kent F. McCue, Research Geneticist
- William R. Belknap, Supervisory Plant Physiologist and Research Leader of the Crop Improvement and Utilization Research Unit
The partners have extensive expertise in the generation and evaluation of transgenic potatoes. Specific expertise includes the molecular analysis of transformation events and the expression and suppression of proteins for the modification of metabolism, particularly that of steroidal glycoalkaloids.
Selected publications:
- McCue, K.F., Shepherd, L.V.T., Allen, P.V., Maccree, M.M., Rockhold, D.R., Corsini, D.L., Davies, H.V. and Belknap, W.R. (2005) Metabolic compensation of steroidal glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in transgenic potato tubers: using reverse genetics to confirm the in vivo enzyme function of a steroidal alkaloid galactosyltransferase. Plant Sci. 168 (1):267-273.
- McCue, K.F., Allen, P.V., Shepherd, L.V.T., Blake, A., Whitworth, J, Maccree, M.M., Rockhold, D.R., Stewart, D., Davies, H.V. and Belknap, W.R. (2006) The primary in vivo steroidal alkaloid glucosyltransferase from potato (Solanum tuberosum). Phytochemistry 67 (15):1590-1597.
- McCue, K.F., Allen, P.V., Shepherd, L.V.T., Blake, A., Maccree, M.M., Rockhold, D.R., Novy, R.G., Stewart, D., Davies, H.V. and Belknap, W.R. (2007) Potato glycosterol rhamnosyltransferase, the terminal step in triose side-chain biosynthesis. Phytochemistry 68 (3):327-334.
- McCue, K.F., Allen, P.V., Shepherd, L.V.T., Blake, A., Rockhold, D.R., Novy, R.G., Stewart, D., Davies, H.V. and Belknap, W.R. (2007) Manipulation and compensation of steroidal glycoalkaloid biosynthesis in potatoes. Proceedings of Solanaceae VI: Genomics Meets Biodiversity, Sixth International Solanaceae Conference. Acta Hort. 745:343-350.
- McCue K.F. (2009) Potato Glycoalkaloids, Past Present and Future. Fruit, Veg. and Cereal Sci. and Biotech. 3 (Special Issue 1):65-71.
Participants
- Julius Kühn-Institut, Bundesforschungsinstitut für Kulturpflanzen (JKI), Germany
- Agrobioinstitute (ABI), Bulgaria
- Aarhus University (AU), Denmark
- Center for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Belgium
- Centre for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), Spain
- Eidgenössisches Volkswirtschaftsdepartement, EVD-ART, Switzerland
- Freie Universität Berlin (FU), Germany
- genius GmbH – Science and Communication, Germany
- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), Italy
- Interdisziplinares Forschungszentrum für Technik, Arbeit und Kultur (IFZ), Austria
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France
- Perseus bvba (Perseus), Belgium
- RIKILT-Institute of Food Safety (RIKILT), The Netherlands
- Sweet Environmental Consultants (SEC), UK
- Slovak Medical University (SMU), Slovakia
- Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany
- Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South Africa
- United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service (USDA-ARS), USA
- Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit (BVL), Germany