Assistant Professor Molecular Plant Virology Email: qu.28@osu.edu Research areas: - Plant antiviral defenses, including RNA silencing and resistance gene-mediated defense - Interactions between different plant gene products (e.g. DCLs, AGOs, and RDRs) - Engineering virus resistance in crop plants by enhancing antiviral RNA silencing

Teaching

(PLNTPTH 600.02)  Plant Virology (U  G  3 cr)
Taught during the second five weeks of the quarter (October 30-Dec. 4, 2009)

(note that PLNTPTH 600.01, Phytobacteriology, is taught during the first five weeks of the quarter as a separate class).
Course description: Introduction to the diversity, biology and life cycle of plant viruses.

Autumn 2009
Mon 1:00-2:48; Wed and Fri 1:00-3:48 pm, Kottman Hall 447 (October 30-Dec. 4, 2009). Offered by videolink to Wooster.

Publications

Feng Qu, Xiaohong Ye, and T. Jack Morris (2008). Arabidopsis DRB4, AGO1, and AGO7 participate in a DCL4-initiated antiviral RNA silencing pathway that is negatively regulated by DCL1.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sept. 23, 2008 (Vol 105, no. 38: 14732-14737).

Powers, Jason G.; Sit, Tim L.; Qu, Feng; Morris, T. Jack; Kim, Kook-Hyung; Lommel, Steven A. 2008. A versatile assay for the identification of Rna silencing suppressors based on complementation of viral movement.  Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. Vol. 21, no. 7: 879-890.

Feng Qu and T. Jack Morris (2007). Plant Virus Silencing Suppressors and RNA Silencing in Plants. In: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE SCIENCES. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester http://www.els.net/ [10.1002/9780470015902.a0020710].

Drake C. Stenger, Brock A. Young, Feng Qu, T. Jack Morris, and Roy French (2007). Wheat streak mosaic virus lacking HC-Pro is competent to produce disease synergism in mixed infections with Maize chlorotic mottle virus. Phytopathology 97, 1213-1221.

Feng Qu, and T. Jack Morris (2007). Carmoviruses. A chapter in the book "Encyclopedia of Virology" 3rd edition. Academic Press.

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People

Qu, Feng
feng.28@osu.edu

Office: 024 Selby Hall, Wooster; tel. (330) 263-3835

Cao, Mingxia
Postdoctoral researcher
cao.109@osu.edu

Lin, Junyan
PhD student
lin.818@osu.edu

Haight, Emily
OARDC Research Internship Program
Summer 2009 intern, Wooster High School

Contact Information

Feng Qu

OARDC-Plant Pathology, The Ohio State University
024 Selby Hall
1680 Madison Avenue
Wooster, OH 44691

Phone: (330) 263-3835
FAX: (330) 263-3841
Email address: qu.28@osu.edu