Andrew James

Andrew James received his B.S. degree in horticulture from Wye College, University of London, London, UK in 1987. He obtained the Ph.D. degree in horticultural science from Wye College, University of London in 1993. He did his post-doctorate degree at the Department of Horticulture Scienec, University of Minnesota, Minn, USA from 1994 to 1995. Since 1996, James was working as a Plant Research Scientist at the Scientific Research Centre of Yucatan, Merida, Mexico. His research areas include banana, BAC/ BIBAC libraries of banana, the black Sigatoka pathogen, somatic embryogeneis and transformation of banana, indigenous Jatropha species for biodiesal production in Yucatan, mass propagation in vitro of commercial orchids for the Yucatan Peninsula, and application of iRNA technology for resistance gene identification in banana.

Biography Updated on 31 July 2008

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Isolation and characterization of the mating type locus of Mycosphaerella fijiensis, the causal agent of black leaf streak disease of banana
    Molecular Plant Pathology, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 111–120, 2007
  2. Structural and phylogenetic analysis of Pto-type disease resistance gene candidates in banana
    Molecular Genetics and Genomics, vol. 278, no. 4, pp. 443–453, 2007
  3. Detection of DNA methylation changes in micropropagated banana plants using methylation-sensitive amplification polymorphism (MSAP)
    Plant Science, vol. 161, no. 2, pp. 359–367, 2001