Publications
2009
Strauss, S.H., H. Tan, W. Boerjan, and R. Sedjo. (2009) Strangled at birth? Forest biotech and the Convention on Biological Diversity. Nature Biotechnol. 27:519-527.
Bao, Y., Dharmawardhana, P., Arias, R., Allen, M.B., Ma, C., and S.H. Strauss. (2009) WUS and STM-based reporter genes for studying meristem development in poplar. Plant Cell Rep 28:947–962
Flachowsky, H, Hanke, M.-V., Peil, A., Strauss, S.H., and M. Fladung. (2009) A review on transgenic approaches to accelerate breeding of woody plants. Plant Breeding doi:10.1111/j.1439-0523.2008.01591.x
Slavov, G.T., Leonardi, S., Burczyk, J., Adams, W.T., Strauss, S.H., and S.P. DiFazio. (2009) Extensive pollen flow in two ecologically contrasting populations of Populus trichocarpa. Molecular Ecology 18(2): 357-373
Harvey, J.W and S.H. Strauss. (2009) Towards physiological sculpture of plants. New Phytologist 181: 8-12
Li, J., A.M. Brunner, R. Meilan, and S.H. Strauss. (2009) Stability of transgenes in trees: expression of two reporter genes in poplar over three field seasons. Tree Physiology 29: 299 - 312. doi:10.1093/treephys/tpn028
2008
Li, J., A.M. Brunner, R. Meilan, and S.H. Strauss. (2008) Matrix attachment region elements have small and variable effects on transgene expression and stability in field-grown Populus. Plant Biotechnology Journal 6: 887-896
Li, J., A.M. Brunner, O. Shevchenko, R. Meilan, C. Ma, J.S. Skinner, and S.H. Strauss. (2008) Efficient and stable transgene suppression via RNAi in field-grown poplars. Transgenic Res.17: 679-694. DOI 10.1007/s11248-007-9148-1
Li, J., R. Meilan, C. Ma, M. Barish, and S.H. Strauss. (2008) Stability of herbicide resistance over 8 years of coppice in field-grown, genetically engineered poplars West. J. Appl. For. 23(2): 89-93
Busov, V.B., A.M. Brunner, and S.H. Strauss. (2008) Genes for control of plant stature and form. New Phytologist 177(3): 589-607
2007
Doty, S.L., C.A. James, A.L. Moore, A. Vajzovic, G.L. Singleton, C. Ma, Z. Khan, G. Xin, J.W. Kang, J.Y. Park, R. Meilan, S.H. Strauss, J. Wilkerson, F. Farin, and S.E. Strand. (2007) Enhanced phytoremediation of volatile environmental pollutants with transgenic trees. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104:16816-16821
Filichkin, S.A., S.P. DiFazio, A.M. Brunner, J. M. Davis, Z.K. Yang, U.C. Kalluri, R.S. Arias, E. Etherington, G.A. Tuskan and S.H. Strauss. (2007) Efficiency of gene silencing in Arabidopsis: Direct inverted repeats versus transitive RNAi vectors. Plant Biotech. J. 5:615-626
Etherington, E., H. Gandhi, V. Busov, R. Meilan, C. Ma, K. Kosola, and S.H. Strauss. (2007) Dwarfism genes for modifying the stature of woody plants: A case study in poplar. Landscape Plant News. 18:3-6
Brunner, A., J. Li, S. DiFazio, O. Shevchenko, R. Mohamed, B. Montgomery, A. Elias, K. Van Wormer, S.P. DiFazio, & S.H. Strauss. (2007) Genetic containment of forest plantations. Tree Genetics & Genomes, 3:75-100 DOI 10.1007/s11295-006-0067-8 (Strauss is co-senior author)
Wei, H., R. Meilan, A.M. Brunner, J.S. Skinner, C. Ma, H.T. Gandhi, and S.H. Strauss. (2007) Field trial detects incomplete barstar attenuation of vegetative cytotoxicity in Populus trees containing a poplar LEAFY promoter::barnase sterility transgene. Molec. Breed. 19:69-85
2006
Arias, R., S. Filichkin, and S.H. Strauss. (2006) Divide and conquer: development and cell cycle genes in plant transformation. Trends Biotechnol. 24:267-273.
Böhlenius, H., Huang, T., Charbonnel-Campaa, L., Brunner, A.M., Jansson, S., Strauss, S.H., and Nilsson, O. (2006) The conserved CO/FT regulatory module controls timing of flowering and seasonal growth cessation in trees. Science, 312:1040-1043
Busov, V., R. Meilan, D.W. Pearce, S.B. Rood, C. Ma, T.J. Tschaplinski, and S.H. Strauss. (2006) Transgenic modification of gai or rgl1 causes dwarfing and alters gibberellins, root growth, and metabolite profiles in Populus. Planta 24:288-299.
Filichkin, S.A., Wu, Q., Busov, V.B., Meilan, R., Lanz-Garcia, C., Groover, A., Goldfarb, B., Ma, C., Dharmawardhana, P. and Strauss S.H. (2006) Enhancer trapping in woody plants: Isolation of the ET304 gene encoding a putative AT-hook motif transcription factor and characterization of the expression patterns conferred by its promoter in transgenic Populus and Arabidopsis. Plant Science 17:206-216
Filichkin, S.A., Meilan, R., Busov, V.B., Ma, C., Brunner, A.M. and Strauss,
S.H.(2006) Alcohol-inducible
gene expression in transgenic
Meilan, R. and Ma, C. (2006) Poplar (Populus spp.). Pages 143-151 in: Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 344: Agrobacterium Protocols, 2nd edition. K. Wang, ed. Humana Press.
2005
Busov V.B., Brunner A.M., Meilan R., Filichkin S., Ganio L., Gandhi S., Strauss S.H. (2005) Genetic transformation: a powerful tool for dissection of adaptive traits in trees. New Phytol. 167: 9-18.
Bradford, K.J., Van Deynze, A., Gutterson, N., Parrot, W., and Strauss, S.H. (2005) Regulating transgenic crops sensibly: lessons from plant breeding, biotechnology, and genomics. Nature Biotechnology, 23 (4) 439-444
Bradford, K.J., Gutterson, N., Parrot, W., Van Deynze, A., and Strauss, S.H. (2005) Regulatory regimes for transgenic crops. Nature Biotechnology, 23 787-789
Busov, V.B., Fladung, M., Groover, A, and Strauss, S.H. (2005) Insertional mutagenesis in Populus: Relevance and feasibility. Tree Genet. & Genomes, 1: 135-142
Hao, W., Meilan, R., Brunner, A.M., Skinner, J.S., Ma, C., and Strauss, S.H. (2005) Transgenic sterility in Populus: Expression properties of the poplar PTLF, Agrobacterium NOS, and two minimal 35S promoters in vegetative tissues. Tree Physiology, 26 401-410
Valenzuela, S., and Strauss, S.H. (2005) Lost in the woods. Nature Biotechnology, 23 532-533
2004
Andersson, A., Keskitalo, J., Sjodin, A., Bhalerao, R., Sterky, F., Wissel, K., Tandre, K., Aspeborg, H., Moyle, R., Ohmiya, Y., Bhalerao, R., Brunner, A.M., Gustafsson, P., Karlsson, J., Lundeberg, J., Nilsson, O., Sandberg, G., Strauss, S.H., Sundberg, B., Uhlen, M., Jansson, S., and Nilsson, P. (2004) A transcriptional timetable of autumn scenescence. Genome Biology, 4 5 R24.1-R24.13
Brunner, A.M., Busov, V.B., and Strauss, S.H. (2004) Poplar genome sequence: functional genomics in an ecologically dominant plant species. Trends in Plant Sci, 9:49-56
Brunner, A.M., Yakovlev, I.A., and Strauss, S.H. (2004) Validating internal controls for quantitative plant gene expression studies. BMC Plant Biology, 4
Brunner, A.M., and Nilsson, O. (2004) Revisiting tree maturation and floral initiation in the poplar functional genomics era. New Phytol, 164 43-51
DiFazio, S.P., Slavov, G.T., Burczyk, J., Leonardi, S., and Strauss, S.H. (2004) Gene flow from tree plantations and implications for transgenic risk assessment. In C. Walter and M. Carson (eds.) Plantation Forest Biotechnology for the 21st Century. Research Signpost, Kerala, India. 405-422
Groover, A, Fontana, J.R., Dupper, G., Ma, C., Martienssen, R, Strauss, S.H., and Meilan, R. (2004) Gene and enhancer trap tagging of vascular-expressed genes in poplar. Plant Physiol., 134 1742-1751
Ma, C., Strauss, S.H., and Meilan, R. (2004) Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of the genome-sequenced poplar clone, Nisqually-1 (Populus trichocarpa). PMBR, 22 1-9
Meilan, R., M. Sabatti, C. Ma., E. Kuzminsky. (2004) An early-flowering genotype of Populus. J. Plant Biol., 47, 52-56.
Slavov, G.T., DiFazio, S.P. and Strauss, S.H. (2004) Gene flow in forest trees: gene migration patterns and landscape modelling of transgene dispersal in hybrid poplar.. In H.C.M. den Nijs, D. Bartsch, and J. Sweet (Eds.), Introgression from genetically modified plants into wild relatives, , Pp 89-106. CABI Publishing, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Sterky, F., Bhalerao, R., Unneberg , P., Segerman , B., Nilsson, P., Brunner, A.M., Charbonnel-Campaa , L., Lindvall , J.J., Tandre, K., Strauss, S.H., Sundberg, B., Gustafsson, P., Uhlen, M., Bhalerao, R., Nilsson, O., Sandberg, G., Karlsson, J., Lundeberg, J., and Jansson, S. (2004) A populus EST resource for plant functional genomics. American Society of Plant Biologists Newsletter, 38 101 13951-13956
Strauss, S.H. (2004). Forest biotechnology - thriving despite controversy.. New Phytol, 163 9-11
Strauss, S.H. (2004) GE Trees: The buzz is not from chainsaws.. TimberWest, May/June, 2004 50
Strauss, S.H., and DiFazio, S.P. (2004) Hybrids abounding: Dangerous liasons? When cultivated plants mate with their wild relatives. A book review.. Nature Biotechnology, 22 29-30
Strauss, S.H., and Martin, F.M. (2004) Poplar genomics comes of age. New Phytol, 164 1-4
Strauss, S.H., Brunner, A.M., Busov, V.B., Ma, C., and Meilan, R. (2004) Ten lessons from 15 years of transgenic Populus research. Forestry, 77(5) 455-465
Strauss, S.H., and Brunner, A.M. (2004) Tree biotechnology in the 21st century: Transforming trees in the light of comparative genomics. In S.H. Strauss and H.D. Bradshaw (Eds.), The BioEngineered Forest: Challenges to Science and Society, , Pp 76-97. Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C., USA.
2003
Brunner, A.M., Goldfarb, B., Busov, V.B., and Strauss, S.H. (2003) Controlling maturation and flowering for forest tree domestication. In Stewart, C.N. (Eds.), Transgenic Plants: Current Innovations and Future Trends, Pp 9-44. Horizon Scientific Press, Wymondham, England.
Busov, V.B., Meilan, R., and Strauss, S.H. (2003) A short route to gene discovery in trees: Control of stature through gibberellin catabolism. Information Systems for Biotechnology News Report, Virginia Technological University September 4-7
Busov, V.B., Meilan, R., Pearce, D.W., Ma, C., Rood, S.B., and Strauss, S.H. (2003) Activation tagging of a dominant gibberellin catabolism gene (GA 2-oxidase) from poplar that regulates tree stature. Plant Physiol., 132 1283-1291
Campbell, M.M., Brunner, A.M., Jones, H.M., and Strauss, S.H. (2003) Forestry's Fertile Crescent: The application of biotechnology to forest trees. Plant Biotech. J., 1 141-154
Chassy, B., Carter, C., McGloughlin, M., McHughen, A., Parrot, W., Preston, C., Roush, R., Shelton, A., and Strauss, S.H. (2003) UK field trial evaluations answer the wrong questions. Nature Biotechnology, 21 1429-1430
Ronald, P., and Strauss, S.H. (2003) Moving the debate on genetically engineered crops forward. American Society of Plant Biologists Newsletter, May/June 30(3)
Skinner, J.S., Meilan, R., Ma, C., and Strauss, S.H. (2003) The Populus PTD promoter imparts floral-predominant expression and enables high levels of organ ablation in Populus, Nicotiana and Arabidopsis. Mol. Breed., 12 119-132
Slavov, G.T., Howe, G.T., Yakovlev, I., Edwards, K.J., Krutovskii, K.V., Tuskan, G.A., Carlson, J.E., Strauss, S.H., and Adams, W.T. (2003) Highly variable SSR markers in Douglas Fir: Mendelian inheritance and map locations.. Theor Appl Genet, 108 873-880
Strauss, S.H. (2003) Genomics, genetic engineering, and domestication of crops. Science, 300 61-62
Strauss, S.H. (2003) Regulation of biotechnology as though gene function mattered. BioScience, 53 453-454
Strauss, S.H. (2003) Response: Democratization is more than higher prices. Science, 301 167
Strauss, S.H. (2003) Risks of genetically engineered crops. Science 301:1846-1847.
2002
Adams, M.J., Piovesan, G., Strauss, S.H., and Brown, S. (2002) The case for genetic engineering of native and landscape trees against introduced pests and diseases. Conservation Biology, 16(4) 874–879
Meilan,R., Han, K.-H., Ma, C., DiFazio, S.P., Eaton, J.A., Hoien, E.A.,Stanton, B.J., Crockett, R.P., Taylor, M.L., James, R.R., Skinner,J.S., Jouanin, L., Pilate, G., and Strauss, S.H. (2002) The CP4 transgene provides high levels of tolerance to Roundup® herbicide in field-grown hybrid poplars. Can. J. For. Res., 32:967-976
Meilan, R. (2002) Open communication on genetic engineering. J. For., 100(5) 48
Meilan, R., Auerbach, D.J., Ma, C., DiFazio, S.P., and Strauss, S.H. (2002) Stability of herbicide resistance and GUS expression in transgenic hybrid poplars (Populus sp.) during several years of field trials and vegetative propagation. HortScience,37(2) 277-280
Slavov, G.T., DiFazio, S.P., and Strauss, S.H. (2002) Gene flow in forest trees: From empirical estimates to transgenic risk assessment. Paper presented at Scientific Methods Workshop: Ecological and Agronomic Consequences of Gene Flow from Transgenic Crops to Wild Relatives, March 2002, , Columbus, Ohio, USA.
2001
Bradshaw, H.D., Jr., and Strauss, S.H. (2001) Plotting a course for GM forestry. Nature Biotechnology, 19 1104
Bradshaw, H.D., Jr., and Strauss, S.H. (2001) Breeding strategies for the 21st century: domestication of poplar. In D.I. Dickmann, J.GT. Isebrands, J.E. Eckenwalder, and J. Richardson (Eds.), Poplar Culture in North America, Part B, Chapter 14, Pp 383-394. NRC Research Press, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada.
Meilan, R., Brunner, A.M., Skinner, J.S., and Strauss, S.H. (2001) Modification of flowering in transgenic trees. In N. Morohoshi and A. Komamine (Eds.), Molecular Breeding of Woody Plants, , Pp 247-256. Elsevier Science B.V, , .
Mohamed, R., Meilan, R., Ostry, M.E., Michler, C.H., and Strauss, S.H. (2001) Bacterio-opsin gene overexpression fails to elevate fungal disease resistance in transgenic poplar (Populus). Can. J. For. Res., 31 268-275
Strauss, S.H., Coventry, P., Campbell, M.M., Pryor, S.N., and Burley, J. (2001) Certification of genetically modified forest plantations. International Forestry Review, 3(2) 85-102
Strauss, S.H., DiFazio, S.P., and Meilan, R. (2001) Genetically modified poplars in context. For. Chron., 77(2) 271-279
Strauss, S.H., Campbell, M.M., Pryor, S.N., Coventry, P., and Burley, J. (2001) Plantation certification and genetic engineering: FSCs ban on research is counterproductive. J. For., 99(12) 4-7
2000
Brunner, A.M., Rottmann, W.H., Sheppard, L.A., Krutovskii, K.V., DiFazio, S.P., Leonardi, S., and Strauss, S.H. (2000) Structure and expression of duplicate AGAMOUS orthologs in poplar. Plant Mol. Biol., 44 (5) 619-634
Han, K.-H., Meilan, R., Ma, C., and Strauss, S.H. (2000) An Agrobacterium transformation protocol effective in a variety of cottonwood hybrids (genus Populus). Plant Cell Rep., 19 315-320
Meilan, R., Han, K.-H., Ma, C., James, R.R., Eaton, J.A., Stanton, B.J., Hoien, E.A., Crockett, R.P., and Strauss, S.H. (2000) Development of glyphosate-tolerant hybrid cottonwoods. Tappi J., 83(1) 164-166
Meilan, R., Ma, C., Cheng, S., Eaton, J.A., Miller, L.K., Crockett, R.P., DiFazio, S.P., and Strauss, S.H. (2000) High levels of Roundup® and leaf-beetle resistance in genetically engineered hybrid cottonwoods. In K.A. Blatner, J.D. Johnson, and D.M. Baumgartner (Eds.), Hybrid Poplars in the Pacific Northwest: Culture, Commerce and Capability, , Pp 29-38. Washington State University Cooperative Extension Bulletin MISC0272, Pullman, WA, USA.
Rottmann, W.H., Meilan, R., Sheppard, L.A., Brunner, A.M., Skinner, J.S., Ma, C., Cheng, S., Jouanin, L., Pilate, G., and Strauss, S.H. (2000) Diverse effects of overexpression of LEAFY and PTLF, a poplar (Populus) homolog of LEAFY/FLORICAULA, in transgenic poplar and Arabidopsis. Plant J., 22 235-246
Sheppard, L.A., Brunner, A.M., Krutovskii, K.V., Rottmann, W.H., Skinner, J.S., Vollmer, S.S, and Strauss, S.H. (2000) ADEFICIENS homolog from the dioecious tree Populus trichocarpa is expressed in both female and male floral meristems of its two-whorled, unisexual flowers. Plant Physiol., 124 627-639
Skinner, J.S., Meilan, R., Brunner, A.M., and Strauss, S.H. (2000) Options for genetic engineering of floral sterility in forest trees. In S.M. Jain & S.C. Minocha (Eds.), Molecular Biology of Woody Plants, , Pp 135-153. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Strauss, S.H., Raffa, K.F., and List, P.C. (2000) Ethics and genetically engineered plantations. J. For., 98 48-
Thompson, P.B., and Strauss, S.H. (2000) Research ethics for molecular silviculture. In S.M. Jain & S.C. Minocha (Eds.), Molecular Biology of Woody Plants, , Pp 585-611. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
1999
Krutovskii, K.V., Erofeeva, S.Y., Aagaard, J.E., and Strauss, S.H. (1999) Simulation of effects of dominance on estimates of population genetic diversity and differentiation. J. Hered., 90 499-502
Strauss, S.H., Boerjan, W., Cairney, J., Campbell, M.M., Dean, J., Ellis, D., Jouanin, L., and Sandberg, B. (1999) Forest biotechnology makes its position known. Nature Biotechnology, 17 1145
Wu, J., Krutovskii, K.V., and Strauss, S.H. (1999) Nuclear DNA diversity, population differentiation, and phylogenetic relationships in the California Closed-Cone Pines based on RAPD and allozyme markers. Genome, 42 893-908
1998
Aagaard, J.E., Krutovskii, K.V., and Strauss, S.H. (1998) RAPD markers of mitochondrial origin exhibit lower population diversity and higher differentiation than RAPD markers of nuclear origin in Douglas-fir. Mol. Ecol., 7 801-812
Aagaard, J.E., Krutovskii, K.V., and Strauss, S.H. (1998) RAPDs and allozymes exhibit similar levels of diversity and differentiation among populations and races of Douglas-fir. Heredity, 81 69-78
Brunner, A.M., Mohamed, R., Meilan, R., Sheppard, L.A., Rottmann, W.H., and Strauss, S.H. (1998) Genetic engineering of sexual sterility in shade trees. J. Arboric., 24(5) 263-273
James, R.R., Croft, B.A., and Strauss, S.H. (1998) Susceptibility of the cottonwood leaf beetle (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) to different strains and transgenic toxins of Bacillus thuringiensis. Environ. Entomol., 28 108-115
James, R.R., DiFazio, S.P., Brunner, A.M., and Strauss, S.H. (1998) Environmental effects of genetically engineered woody biomass crops. Biomass & Bioenergy, 14 403-414
Krutovskii, K.V., Vollmer, S.S, Sorensen, F.C., Adams, W.T., Knapp, S.J., and Strauss, S.H. (1998) RAPD genome maps of Douglas-fir. J. Hered., 89 197-205
Southerton, S.S, Strauss, S.H., Olive, M.R., Harcourt, R.L., Decroocq, V., Zhu, X., Llewellyn, D.J., Peacock, W.J., and Dennis, E.S. (1998) Eucalyptus has a functional equivalent of the Arabidopsis floral meristem identity gene LEAFY. Plant Mol. Biol., 37 897-910
Wu, J., Krutovskii, K.V., and Strauss, S.H. (1998) Abundant mitochondrial genome diversity, population differentiation, and convergent phenotypic evolution in pines. Genetics, 150 1605-1614
1997
Han, K.-H., Gordon, M.P., and Strauss, S.H. (1997) High frequency transformation of cottonwoods (genus Populus) by Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Can. J. For. Res., 27 464-470
Han, K.-H., Ma, C., and Strauss, S.H. (1997) Matrix attachment regions (MARs) enhance transformation frequency and transgene expression in poplar. Transgen Res., 6 415-420
Krutovskii, K.V., Vollmer, S.S, Sorensen, F.C., Adams, W.T., and Strauss, S.H. (1997) Effects of megagametophyte removal on DNA yield and early seedling growth in coastal Douglas-fir. Can. J. For. Res., 27 964-968
Meilan, R. (1997) Floral induction in woody angiosperms. New Forests, 14 179-202
Mullins, K.V., Llewellyn, D.J., Hartney, V.J., Strauss, S.H., and Dennis, E.S. (1997).Regeneration and transformation of Eucalyptus camaldulensis . Plant Cell Rep., 16 787-791
Strauss, S.H., Knowe, S.A., and Jenkins, J. (1997) Benefits and risk of transgenic, Roundup Ready® cottonwoods. . J. For., 95(5) 12-19
1995
Strauss, S.H., Rottmann, W.H., Brunner, A.M., and Sheppard, L.A. (1995) Genetic engineering of reproductive sterility in forest trees. Mol. Breed., 1 5-26
1994
Boes, T.K. and Strauss, S.H. (1994) Floral Phenology and Morphology of Black Cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Salicaceae). American Journal of Botany, 81:562-567
Howe, G.T., Goldfarb, B., and Strauss, S.H. (1994) Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of hybrid poplar suspension cultures and regeneration of transformed plants. Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture 36:59-71
1993
Strauss, S.H., Hong, Y.-P., and Hipkins, V.D. (1993) High levels of population differentiation for mitochondrial DNA haplotypes in Pinus radiata, muricata, and attenuata. Theoretical and Applied Genetics, 86:605-611
1992
Strauss, S.H., Lande, R., and G. Namkoong. (1992) Limitations of molecular-marker-aided selection in forest tree breeding. Can. J. For. Res., 22:1050-1061
