Degrees

• B.S., 1977, Arizona State University, Biology.
• M.S., 1980, Iowa State University, Botany.
• Ph.D., 1983, Iowa State University, Botany.

Research Interests

• Responses of Plants to Environmental Stresses
• Plant Mitochondrial Function
• Proteomic Methods

Courses Taught

• Botany (Bios 109)
• Plant Growth and Development (Bios 879)
• Plant Anatomy (Bios 878)

Recent Publications

• Tejinder Kumar Mall, Ismail Dweikat, Shirley J Sato, Zhengxiang Ge, Natalya Nersesian, Han Chen, Tom Elthon, Scott Bean, Brian P Ioerger, Mike Tilley, and Tom Clemente. 2012. Modulation of kernel storage proteins in grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench). Plant Biotechnology Journal 10:533-544.

• Xiaomei Guo , Kyla Ronhovde, Lingling Yuan, Bo Yao, Madhavan P. Soundararajan, Thomas
  Elthon, Chi Zhang and David R. Holding. 2012. Pyrophosphate dependent fructose 6-phosphate 1-phosphotransferase induction and attenuation of Hsp gene expression during endosperm modification in Quality Protein Maize. Plant Physiology 158:917-929.

• Ying-Zhi Xu, Maria P. Arrieta-Montiel, Kamaldeep S. Virdi, Wilson B.M. de Paula, Joshua R. Widhalm, Gilles J. Basset, Jaime I. Davila, Thomas E. Elthon, Christian G. Elowsky, Shirley J. Sato, Thomas E. Clemente and Sally A. Mackenzie. 2011. MutS HOMOLOG1 Is a Nucleoid Protein That Alters Mitochondrial and Plastid Properties and Plant Response to High Light. The Plant Cell 23:3428-3441.

• Tejinder Kumar Mall, Ismail Dweikat, Shirley J. Sato, Natalya Neresian, Kaimei Xu, Zhengxiang Ge, Dong Wang, Thomas Elthon, and Tom Clemente. 2011. Expression of the rice CDPK-7 in sorghum: molecular and phenotypic analyses. Plant Mol Biol 75:467-479.

• Thornton B. J., T. E. Elthon, R. L. Cerny, and B. D. Siegfried. 2010. Proteomic analysis of
  atrazine exposure in Drosophila melanogaster (Diptera: Drosophilidae). Chemosphere 81:235-
  241.

• Zoran Ristic, Ivana Momčilović, Urška Bukovnik, P.V. Vara Prasad, Jianming Fu, Benjamin P. DeRidder, Thomas E. Elthon, and Novica Mladenov. 2009. Rubisco activase and wheat productivity under heat stress conditions. Journal of Experimental Botany 60:4003-4014

• Fu, Z. Q, M. Guo, B. Jeong, F. Tian, T. E. Elthon, R. L. Cerny, D. Staiger, and J. R. Alfano. 2007. A type III effector ADP-ribosylates RNA-binding proteins and quells plant innate immunity. Nature 447:284- 288.

• Blake, J. A., K. W. Lee, J. T. Morris, and T. E. Elthon. 2007. Effects of turnip crinkle viral infection on the structure and function of mitochondria and expression of stress proteins in turnips. Physiologia Plantarum 129:698-706.
   
• Fu, Z. Q, M. Guo, B. Jeong, F. Tian, T. E. Elthon, R. L. Cerny, , D. Staiger, and J. R. Alfano. 2007. A type III effector ADP-ribosylates RNA-binding proteins and quells plant innate immunity. Nature 447:284-288.
   
• Rhoads, D. M., S. J. White, Y. J. Zhou, M. Muralidharan, and T. E. Elthon. 2005. Altered gene expression in plants with constitutive expression of a corn mitochondrial small heat shock protein suggests the involvement of retrograde regulation in the heat stress response. Physiologia Plantarum 123:435-444.
   
• Jiao, S., J. M. Thornsberry, T. E. Elthon, and K. J. Newton. 2005. Biochemical and molecular characterization of PSI deficiency in the NCS6 mitochondrial mutant of maize. Plant Mol Biol 57:303-313.
   
• Rasmusson, A. J., K. L. Soole, and T. E. Elthon. 2004. Alternative NAD(P)H dehydrogenases of plant mitochondria. Annual Review of Plant Physiology and Plant Molecular Biology 55:23-39.
   
• Karpova, O.V., E.V. Kuzmin, T.E. Elthon, and K.J. Newton. 2004. Mitochondrial respiratory deficiencies signal up-regulation of the genes for heat shock proteins. J Biol Chem 279:20672-20677.
   
• Karpova, O.V., E.V. Kuzmin, T. E. Elthon, and K.J. Newton. 2002. Differential expression of alternative oxidase genes in respiratory deficient maize mitochondrial mutants. Plant Cell 14:1-15.
   
• Worthington, P., P. Blum, F. Perez-Pomares, and Thomas E. Elthon. 2002. Large scale cultivation of acidophilic hyperthermophiles for recovery of secreted proteins. App Env Micro 69:252-257.
   
• Lund, A. A., D. M. Rhoads, A. L. Lund, R. L. Cerny, and T. E. Elthon. 2001. In vivo modifications of the maize mitochondrial low molecular weight heat stress protein, HSP22. J. Biol. Chem. 276:29924-29929.
   
• Heckman, N. L., T. E. Elthon, G. L. Horst, and R. E. Gaussoin. 2001. Influence of Trinexapac-ethyl on respiration of isolated wheat mitochondria. Crop Sci. 42:423-427.