Qualifications
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Dr Gang Ma

Telephone	+61 8 8313 6749
Position	ARC Research Fellow
Email	gang.ma@adelaide.edu.au
Fax	+61 8 8313 7109
Building	Waite Building
Floor/Room	1 11
Campus	Waite
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Qualifications

PhD, University of Adelaide

Research Interests

Insect Bt tolerance and Insect immunity
Plant Functional Genomics and Plant Breeding

Publications

Anita Juen, Katja Hogendoorn, Gang Ma, Otto Schmidt, and Michael A. Keller (2012) Analysing the diets of invertebrate predators using terminal restriction fragments, Journal of Pest Science (11 December 2011), pp. 1-12. doi:10.1007/s10340-011-0406-x (in press)
Gang Ma, Mahbubur Rahman, Warick Grant, Otto Schmidt, and Sassan Asgari (2012) Insect tolerance to the crystal toxins Cry1Ac and Cry2Ab is causing oligomerization and sequestration reactions mediated by the binding of monomeric toxin to lipophorin glycolipids, (Sept. 1 2011) Developmental and Comparative Immunology, 10.1016/j.dci.2011.08.017 (in press)
Rachel A. Burton², Gang Ma², Ute Baumann, Andrew J. Harvey, Neil J. Shirley, Jillian Taylor, Filomena Pettolino, Antony Bacic, Mary Beatty, Carl R. Simmons, Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, J. Antoni Rafalski, Scott V. Tingey, and Geoffrey B. Fincher (2010). A Customized Gene Expression Microarray Reveals That the Brittle Stem Phenotype fs2 of Barley Is Attributable to a Retroelement in the HvCesA4 Cellulose Synthase Gene. Plant Physiology 153, 1716-1728.
²These authors contributed equally to the article.
Muhammad Sarjan, Gang Ma, Mahbubur Rahman, and Otto Schmidt (2009) Resistance against Bacillus thuringiensis Endotoxins in a laboratory Population of Helicoverpa armigera is Based on an Elevated Immune status Jurnal ILMU DASAR Vol. 10 No. 1. 77–84
Gang Ma (2007), The molecular biology of tolerance to Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxin in Helicoverpa armigera (cotton bollworm): a novel mechanism and its genetic transmission. Australian Journal of Entomology, 46 (1), 86-87
Mahbubur Rahman, Gang Ma, Harry L.S. Roberts, and Otto Schmidt (2006), Cell-free immune reactions in insects Journal of Insect Physiology, 52, 754-762
Gang Ma, Douglas Hay, Dongmei Li, Sassan Asgari, and Otto Schmidt (2006), Recognition and inactivation of LPS by lipophorin particles. Developmental and Comparative Immunology, 30 (7), 619-626
Gang Ma, Muhammad Sarjan, Christopher Preston, Sassan Asgari and Otto Schmidt (2005) Mechanisms of inducible resistance against Bacillus thuringiensis endotoxins in invertebrates, Insect Science, 12, 231-240
Gang Ma, Harry Roberts, Muhammad Sarjan, Nicki Featherstone, Jelle Lahnstein, Ray Akhurst, and Otto Schmidt (2005), Is the mature endotoxin Cry1Ac from Bacillus thuringiensis inactivated by a coagulation reaction in the gut lumen of resistant H. armigera larvae? Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 35: 729-739
Otto Schmidt, M Rahman, G Ma, U Theopold, Y Sun, M Sarjan, and H Roberts, Mode of action of antibacterial proteins, pore forming toxins and biologically active peptides (2005), Invertebrate Survival Journal, 1: 82-90
G. Ma, P. Rengasamy, and A.J. Rathjen (2003) Phytotoxicity of aluminate to wheat plants in high-pH solution, Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 43, 497-501
Reineke A, Asgari S, Ma G, Beck M, and Schmidt O. (2002). Sequence analysis and expression of a virus-like particle protein, VLP2, from the parasitic wasp Venturia canescens. Insect Mol Biol. 2002 Jun; 11(3): 233-9.

Professional Associations

Australian Society of Plant Scientists

The Australian Entomology Society

Entry last updated: Friday, 20 Jan 2012

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