Biological Sciences

H. Herbert Edwards, Professor

Fungal infection in plants, soybean rust disease

Contact Information:H. Herbert Edwards
309/298-1373
Waggoner Hall 263
HH-Edwards@wiu.edu

Personal Homepage: www.wiu.edu/users/mfhhe/

Degree:
Ph.D. from Wisconsin-Madison, 1965

Courses Taught:

Research Interests:
Cell biology of obligate parasitism in plants; electron microscopy; infection process of powdery mildews and soybean rusts.

Recent Publications:
Biology of soybean rust.  Host and host-rust interactions.   Mo Bonde, USDA-ARS and Herb Edwards , Western Illinois University.  2006 National Soybean Rust Symposium (November 29-December 1, 2006, St. Louis, MO.)  www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/infocenter/topic/soybeanrust/2006/program/

Koh, Serry, Aurelie Andre, Herb Edwards, David Ehrhardt, and Shauna Somerville. 2005.  Arabidopsis thaliana subcellular responses to compatible Erysiphe cichoracearum infections. Plant Journal 44(3):516-29.

Ramonell, Katrina, Marta Berrocal-Lobo, Serry Koh, Jinrong Wan, Herb Edwards, Gary Stacey, and Shauna Somerville. 2005. Loss-of-function mutations in chitin responsive genes show increased susceptibility to the powdery mildew pathogen Erysiphe cichoracearum. Plant Physiology 138:1027-1036.
 
Assaad, Farhah F., Jin-Long Qiu, Heather Youngs, David Ehrhardt, Laurent Zimmerli, Monika Kalde, Gehard Wanner, Scott C. Peck, Herb Edwards, Katrina Ramonell, Chris R. Somerville, and Hans Thordal-Christensen. 2004. The PEN1 syntaxin defines a novel cellular compartment upon fungal attack and is required for the timely assembly of papillae.  Mol. Biol. Cell 15:5118-5129.

Nishimura, M.T., Stein, M., Hou, B.-H., Vogel, J.P., Edwards, H. H., and S.C. Somerville. 2003. Loss of callose synthase results in salicylic acid-dependent disease resistance.  Science 301:969-972.

Edwards, H. H. 2002. Development of primary germ tubes by conidia of Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei on leaf epidermal cells of Hordeum vulgare. Canadian Journal of Botany 80:1121-1125.