Elizabeth E. Hood

Elizabeth E. Hood is a plant geneticist and the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture at Arkansas State University.[1] In 2018 she was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2]

Elizabeth Ellen Hood
Born1954
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Washington University
AwardsAAAS Fellow
Scientific career
InstitutionsPioneer Hi Bred, National Science Foundation, Arkansas State University
ThesisTi plasmid region responsible for the hyper-virulent phenotype of Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain A281 (1985)
Doctoral advisorsMary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley

Education and career

Elizabeth Hood was born in 1952.[3] She attended the University of Oklahoma earning a BA in sociology in 1974. In her masters she switched to botany, studying the biochemistry of a cyanobacteria (Anabaena variabilis).[3] After completing her masters she moved to the University of Washington where she studied the natural plant genetic engineering capabilities of Agrobacterium tumefaciens as first a PhD student and then a postdoc, studying with Mary-Dell Chilton and Robert Fraley.

From 1988-1994 she was an assistant professor of biology at Utah State University. After that six year interval she worked in industry, first at Pioneer Hi-Bred and then at Prodigene. In 2003 she was a program manager at the National Science Foundation.[4] In 2004 she was hired at Arkansas State University.[1] In 2008 she was appointed the Lipscomb Distinguished Professor of Agriculture.[5]

Research

During her time at the University of Washington Elizabeth Hood created the Agrobacterium strain EHA101 which is widely used in plant transformation.[6][7] Her research at Arkansas State University focuses on using plants as factories to produce large quantities of enzymes[8] and studying how plants construct cell walls.[9] She is the Arkansas representative for the Genomes to Fields public-private consortium working to enable to accurate phenotypic prediction in corn/maize across the different environments found in thirty different US states.[10]

References
  1. University, Arkansas State. "Dr. Elizabeth E. Hood". www.astate.edu.
  2. "AAAS Honors Accomplished Scientists as 2018 Elected Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  3. okla-am.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com (in Italian) https://okla-am.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/i1vgi9/OKSTAT_ALMA21175359830002681. Retrieved 2020-06-17. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. "biobased". www.biobasedsolutions.org.
  5. "Honorary Members - Graduate Women In Science". www.gwis.org.
  6. Hood, E.E.; Helmer, G.L.; Fraley, R.T. & Chilton, M.D. (1986). "The hypervirulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens A281 is encoded in a region of pTiBo542 outside of T=DNA". Journal of Bacteriology. 168 (3): 1291–1301. doi:10.1128/jb.168.3.1291-1301.1986. PMC 213636. PMID 3782037.
  7. Sciaky, D.; Montoya, A.L. & Chilton, M.-D. (1991). "A DNA transformation-competent Arabidopsis genomic library in Agrobacterium". Nature Biotechnology. 9 (10): 963–967. doi:10.1038/nbt1091-963. PMID 1368724. S2CID 205272224.
  8. Hood, Elizabeth E.; Devaiah, Shivakumar P.; Fake, Gina; Egelkrout, Erin; Teoh, Keat Thomas; Requesens, Deborah Vicuna; Hayden, Celine; Hood, Kendall R.; Pappu, Kameshwari M.; Carroll, Jennifer; Howard, John A. (2012). "Manipulating corn germplasm to increase recombinant protein accumulation". Plant Biotechnology Journal. 10 (1): 20–30. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7652.2011.00627.x. PMID 21627759.
  9. Hood, Elizabeth E.; Love, Robert; Lane, Jeff; Bray, Jeff; Clough, Richard; Pappu, Kamesh; Drees, Carol; Hood, Kendall R.; Yoon, Sangwoong; Ahmad, Atta; Howard, John A. (2007). "Subcellular targeting is a key condition for high-level accumulation of cellulase protein in transgenic maize seed". Plant Biotechnology Journal. 5 (6): 709–719. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7652.2007.00275.x. PMID 17614952.
  10. McFarland, Bridget A.; AlKhalifah, Naser; Bohn, Martin; Bubert, Jessica; Buckler, Edward S.; Ciampitti, Ignacio; Edwards, Jode; Ertl, David; Gage, Joseph L.; Falcon, Celeste M.; Flint-Garcia, Sherry; Gore, Michael A.; Graham, Christopher; Hirsch, Candice N.; Holland, James B.; Hood, Elizabeth; Hooker, David; Jarquin, Diego; Kaeppler, Shawn M.; Knoll, Joseph; Kruger, Greg; Lauter, Nick; Lee, Elizabeth C.; Lima, Dayane C.; Lorenz, Aaron; Lynch, Jonathan P.; McKay, John; Miller, Nathan D.; Moose, Stephen P.; Murray, Seth C.; Nelson, Rebecca; Poudyal, Christina; Rocheford, Torbert; Rodriguez, Oscar; Romay, Maria Cinta; Schnable, James C.; Schnable, Patrick S.; Scully, Brian; Sekhon, Rajandeep; Silverstein, Kevin; Singh, Maninder; Smith, Margaret; Spalding, Edgar P.; Springer, Nathan; Thelen, Kurt; Thomison, Peter; Tuinstra, Mitchell; Wallace, Jason; Walls, Ramona; Wills, David; Wisser, Randall J.; Xu, Wenwei; Yeh, Cheng-Ting; de Leon, Natalia (2020). "Maize genomes to fields (G2F): 2014â€"2017 field seasons: genotype, phenotype, climatic, soil, and inbred ear image datasets". BMC Research Notes. 13 (1): 71. doi:10.1186/s13104-020-4922-8. PMC 7017475. PMID 32051026.
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