Joseph Ecker
Professor of Biology, The Salk Institute

e-mail: ecker@salk.edu

    Goodman, H., Ecker, J.R. and Dean, C. (1995) The genome of Arabidopsis thaliana . Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA. 93:10831-10835. 

    Roman, G., Lubarsky, B., Rothenberg, M., Kieber, J.J.and Ecker, J.R. (1995) Genetic analysis of ethylene signal transduction in Arabidopsis: Identification of five novel loci ordered into a stress response pathway. Genetics, 139:1393-1409.

    Ecker, J.R. (1995) The ethylene signal transduction pathway in plants. Science, 268: 609-772.

    Roman, G. and Ecker, J. R. (1995) Genetic analysis of a seedling stress response to ethylene in Arabidopsis. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Ser. B. 350: 75-81.

    Lehman, A., Black, R. and Ecker, J.R. (1996) HOOKLESS1, an ethylene response gene, is required for differential cell elongation in the Arabidopsis hypocotyl. Cell,  85: 183-194.

    Chao, Q., Rothenberg, M., Solano, R., Roman, G., Terzaghi, W. and Ecker, J.R. (1997) Activation of the ethylene gas response pathway by the nuclear protein ETHYLENE-INSENSITIVE3 and related proteins. Cell, 89, 1133-1144.

     Ecker, J.R. (1997) BRI-ghtening the pathway to steroid hormone signaling events in plants. Cell, 90, 825-827.

    Bevan M, Ecker J, Theologis S, Federspiel N, Davis R, McCombie D, Martienssen R, Chen E, Waterston B, Wilson R, Rounsley S, Venter C, Tabata S, Salanoubat M, Quetier F, CherryJM, Meinke D, (1997) Objective:The complete sequence of a plant genome. PlantCell, 9:476-478

    McGrath, R.B, and Ecker, J.R. (1998) Ethylene signaling: from the membrane to the nucleus. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry, 36,103-113.

    Ecker, J.R. (1998) Genes blossom from a weed. Nature 391, 438-439

    Johnson, P. and Ecker, J.R. (1998) The ethylene gas signaling pathway in plants: a molecular perspective Ann. Rev. Genetics 32: 227-254 1998

    Walden R, and Ecker JR (1998) Cell signalling and gene regulation: piecing the puzzle together. Current Opinion Plant Biology 1:375-377

    Solano, R. and Ecker, J.R. (1998) Ethylene gas: Perception, signaling and response. Curr. Opinion Plant Biol. 1:393-398.

    Hua, J., Sakai, H., Nourizadeh,S., Chen, G.Q., Bleecker, A.B., Ecker, J.R. and Meyerowitz, E.M. (1998) EIN4 and ERS2 are members of the putative ethylene receptor gene family in Arabidopsis. Plant Cell, 10: 1321-1332

    Kwok SF, Solano R, Tsuge T, Chamovitz DA, Ecker JR, Matsui M, Deng XW (1998) Arabidopsis homologs of a c-Jun coactivator are present both in monomeric form and in the COP9 complex, and their abundance is differentially affected by the pleiotropic cop/det/fus mutations. Plant Cell 10:1779-1790

    Solano, R., Stepanova, A., Chao, Q. and Ecker, Ecker (1998) Nuclear events in ethylene signaling: a transcriptional cascade mediated by ETHYLENE-INSENSITIVE3 and ETHYLENE-RESPONSE-FACTOR1 Genes & Dev. 1998 12:3703-3714.

    Hirayama, T., Kieber, J.J, Hirayama, N., Kogan, M., Guzman,P. Nourizadeh, S., Dancis, A. and Ecker, J. R. (1999) RESPONSIVE-TO-ANTAGONIST1, a Menkes/Wilson disease-related copper transporter, is required for ethylene signaling in Arabidopsis. Cell 97 383-393

    Alonso, J.M., Hirayama, T., Roman,G., Nourizadeh, S. and Ecker, J.R. (1999) EIN2, a bifunctional transducer of ethylene and stress responses in Arabidopsis. Science 284:2148-2152.

    Mozo, T., Dewar, K, Dunn, P, Ecker, J.R., Fischer, S., Kloska1, S., Lehrach, H., Marra, M., Martienssen,R., Meier-Ewert, S., and Altmann, T. (1999) A complete BAC-based physical map of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Nature Genetics 22: 271-275

    Raz, V and Ecker, J.R. (1999) Regulation of differential growth in the apical hook of Arabidopsis. Development 126: 3661-3668

    Chory J*, Ecker, J. R*. et al. (2000) National Science Foundation-sponsored workshop report:"The 2010 Project" Functional Genomics and the Virtual Plant. A blueprint for understanding how plants are built and how to improve them. Plant Physiology 123, 423-425.
*these authors contributed equally

    Stepanova A.N., and Ecker, J.R., (2000) Ethylene signaling: from mutants to molecules. Curr. Opinion Plant Biol. 3: 353-360

    Curie, C., Alonso, J.M., Le Jean, M., Ecker, J.R., Bria,t J.F. (2000) Involvement of NRAMP1 from Arabidopsis thaliana in iron transport. Biochem. J. 347: 749-755