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

• 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.