Research Focus
Use biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development
Investigate the roles of plant specialized compounds, including flavonoids and hormones, and other plant growth regulators in plant developmental processes and responses to the environment
Auxin homeostasis
Flavonoid function
Plant growth regulators/invasive species
Metal-center proteins
B.S. Chemistry (Honors) California State University, Bakersfield
B.S. Biology (Honors) California State University, Bakersfield
Ph.D. University of California, Santa Cruz
Course |
Course Title |
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AGST/PLSC 130 |
Did Yeast Create Civilization? (Fall) |
ENST407/PLSC400/BSCI442 |
Plant Physiology (Spring) |
ENST 472/ 489 |
Capstone / Senior Integrative Experience (Fall, Spring) |
PLSC608T |
Supervised Teaching (Fall, Spring) |
ENST789M |
Advances in Research: Plant Membrane Biology (Fall, Spring) |
ENST789O |
Invasive Plants (Fall) |
Puthanveetil, P., Kong, X., Braese, S., Voros, G., Peer, W. A. (2021). Transcriptome analysis of two structurally related flavonoids; Apigenin and Chrysin revealed hypocholesterolemic and ketogenic effects in mouse embryonic fibroblasts. European Journal of Pharmacology, 893.
Li G, Lin R, Egekwu C, Blakeslee J, Lin J, Pettengill E, Murphy AS, Peer WA, Islam N, Babst BA, Gao F, Komarov S, Tai YC, Coleman GD. (2020) Seasonal nitrogen remobilization and the role of auxin transport in poplar trees. J Exp Bot. 71(15):4512-4530. doi: 10.1093/jxb/eraa130. PMID: 32161967; PMCID: PMC7382381.
Guan L, Tayengwa R, Zongming (Max) Cheng ZM, Peer WA*, Murphy AS, Zhao M. (2019). Auxin regulates adventitious root formatioin tomato cuttings. BMC Plant Biol 19, 435 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12870-019-2002-9
Pereira FCM, Tayengwa R, Alves PL, Peer WA*. (2018) Phosphate status affects phosphate transporter expression and glyphosate uptake and transport in grand Eucalyptus (Eucalyptus grandis). Weed Science 67:29–40. doi: 10.1017/wsc.2018.58
Zhang J, Peer WA* (2017). Auxin homeostasis: The DAO of catabolism. Journal of Experimental Botany 12:3145–3154. doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erx221
Zhang J, Lin J, Harris C, Mastrotti Pereira F, Wu F, Blakeslee JJ, Peer WA* (2016) DAO1 catalyzes temporal and tissue-specific oxidative inactivation of auxin in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 13: 11010–11015, www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1604769113.
Cossu A, Ercan D, Wang Q, Peer WA, Nitin N, Tikekar RV (2016) Antimicrobial effect of synergistic interaction between UV-A light and gallic acid against Escherichia coli O157:H7 in fresh-produce wash water and biofilm. Innovative Food Science and Emerging Technologies, DOI: 10.1016/j.ifset.2016.07.020
Yang H, Wei H, Ma G, Antunes MS, Vogt S, Cox J, Zhang X, Liu X, Bu L, Gleber SC, Carpita NC, Makowski L, Himmel ME, Tucker MP, McCann MC, Murphy AS, Peer WA*. (2016). Cell wall targeted in planta iron accumulation enhances biomass conversion and seed iron concentration in Arabidopsis and rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal 14:1998-2009. doi: 10.1111/pbi.12557
Lin C-Y, Jakes JE, Donohoe BS, Ciesielski PN, Yang H, Gleber S-C, Vogt S, Ding S-Y, Peer WA, Murphy AS, McCann MC, Himmel ME, Tucker MP, Wei H. (2016) Directed plant cell wall accumulation of iron: Embedding co-catalyst for efficient biomass conversion. Biotechnology for Biofuels, 9:225 DOI 10.1186/s13068-016-0639-2.
Underline denotes individuals from Dr. Peer's Lab
The Physiology and Genetics Laboratory uses biochemistry, genetics, live cell imaging, phenology, and physiology to address hypothesis-driven research in plant growth and development. In my group, we investigate the roles of plant specialized compounds, including flavonoids and hormones, and other plant growth regulators in plant developmental processes and responses to the environment.
Current research projects:
Maryland Yeast Project
Grain Quality Lab
Symbiosis
Plant growth regulators/ invasiveness
Auxin homeostasis in plant development
Metal-center proteins
Flavonoid functions
Please email Dr. Wendy Ann Peer regarding undergraduate, graduate, post-doctoral, and summer intern positions.