STRESS PHYSIOLOGY

Jeff Anderson Professor, Stress Physiology Address: Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Department, 360 AG Hall, Stillwater, OK 74078- 6027 phone: (405) 744-5422 email: jeff.anderson@okstate.edu

Teaching Activities: Jeff Anderson serves as Graduate Program Coordinator, undergraduate advisor, and teaches the graduate course, "Temperature Stress Physiology” (HORT 5133).

Research Activities: Dr. Anderson has been involved in a number of multidisciplinary research projects dealing with plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Current focus areas include freeze tolerance evaluation of turfgrasses and heat stress in bell peppers.  A multi-departmental team has been developing and evaluating bermudagrasses adapted to the transition zone between warm- and cool-season grasses.  Heat stress studies are aimed at improving plant thermotolerance through discovery of the events taking place during injury and acclimation responses.
 

Selected Publications:

Anderson, J.A., C.M. Taliaferro, and Y.Q. Wu. 2007. Freeze tolerance of seed- and vegetatively-poropagated bermudagrasses compared with standard cultivars. Appl. Turfgrass Scie. (accepted for publication).

Anderson, J.A. 2007. Additive effects of alcohols and polyols on thermostability of pepper leaf extracts. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 132:67-72.

Anderson, J.A.  Heat stability of pepper leaf extracts.  2006.  J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 131:17-23.

Wu, Y.Q., C.M. Taliaferro, G.H. Bai, D.L. Martin, J.A. Anderson, M.P. Anderson, and R.M. Educards. 2006. Genetic analyses of Chinese Cynodon accessions by flow cytometry and AFLP markers. Crop Sci. 46:917-926.

Wu, Y.Q., C.M. Taliaferro, D.L. Martin, C.L. Goad, and J.A. Anderson.  2006. Genetic variability and relationships for seed yield and its components in Chinese Cynodon accessions. Field Crops Re. 98:245-252.

Kenworth, K.D., C.M. Taliaferro, B.C. Carver, J.A. Anderson, D.L. Martin, and G.E. Bell.  2006.  Genetic variation in Cynodon transvaalensis Burtt-Davy for turf performance traits. Crop Sci. 46:2376-2381.

Koemel, J.D., Jr., A.C. guenzi, J.A. Anderson, and E.L. Smith.  2004. Cold hardiness of wheat near-isogenic lines differing in vernalization alleles.  Theor. Appl. Genet. 109:839-846.

Anderson, J.A. and S.R. Padhye. 2004. Protein aggregation, radical scavenging capacity, and stability of hydrogen peroxide defense systems in heat-stressed vinca and sweet pea leaves. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 129: 54-59.

Anderson, J.A., C.M. Taliaferro, and D.L. Martin.  2003.  Longer exposure durations increase freeze damage to turf bermudagrasses.  Crop Sci. 43:973-977.

Anderson, J.A., and C.M. Taliaferro.  2002.  Freeze tolerance of seed-producing turf bermudagrasses.  Crop Sci.  42:190-192.

Redman, P.B., J.M. dole, N.O. Maness, and J.A. Anderson.  2002.  Postharvest handling of nine specialty cut flower species. Sci. Hort. 92:293-303.

Anderson, J.A., C.M. Taliaferro, and D.L. Martin. 2002. Freeze tolerance of bermudagrasses: vegetatively propagated cultivars intended for fairway and putting green use, and seed-propagated cultivars.  Crop Sci. 42:975-977.

Anderson, J.A.  2002. Catalase activity, hydrogen peroxide content and thermotolerance of pepper leaves.  Sci.  Hort.  95:277-284.

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