Faculty
Section of Plant Biology
 
John L. Bowman
Associate Professor of Plant Biology
Plant Biology (College of Biological Sciences)

Office
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jlbowman@ucdavis.edu
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Degrees:
1991 - PhD - California Institute of Technology - Biology
1986 - BS - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - Biochemistry

Grad Group Affiliations and Specialties:
Genetics

Publications:
Pruitt, R. E., Bowman, J. L., Grossniklaus, U. (2003). Plant Genetics: A decade of Integration. Nature Genetics 33, 294-304.

Lee, J.-Y., Mummenhoff, K., and Bowman, J. L. (2002). Allopolyploidization and evolution of species with reduced floral structures in Lepidium L. (Brassicaceae). Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 16835.

Kumaran, M. K., Bowman, J. L., and Sundaresan, V. (2002). YABBY Genes Mediate Down-regulation of KNOTTED-like Genes During Leaf Development in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Cell 14, 2761-2770.

Foster, T. M., Lough, T. J., Emerson, S. J., Lee, R. H., Bowman, J. L., Forster, R. L. S., and Lucas, W. J. (2002). Reversible establishment of organ polarity as a probe for signaling in plant development. Plant Cell 14, 1497-1508.

Bowman, J. L. (2002). Foliage In Madrid [Meeting Report]. Genome Biology 3, reports 4013.1-4013.2

Bowman, J. L., Eshed, Y., and Baum, S. F. (2002). Establishment of abaxial-adaxial polarity in lateral organs. Trends Genet. 18, 134-141.

Eshed, Y., Baum, S. F., Perea, J. V., and Bowman, J. L. (2001). Establishment of polarity in lateral organs of Arabidopsis. Current Biol. 11, 1251-1260.

Baum, S. F., Eshed, Y., and Bowman, J. L. (2001). The Arabidopsis Nectary is an ABC Independent Floral Organ. Development 128, 4657-4667.

Research Interests:
Genetic and molecular analysis of plant development.

Teaching Interests:


Genetics

Courses Taught:
BIS 101 Genes and Gene Expression
PBI 220 Plant Development