Sharon L. Doty
Assistant Professor

Contact

Phone: 206-616-6255
Fax: 206-543-3254
Email: sldoty@u.washington.edu

Website: http://faculty.washington.edu/sldoty

Research interest

Bioresources. Includes phytoremediation of environmental pollutants;
bioenergy; beneficial plant-microbe interactions

Recent Publications

Methylobacterium oliveri sp. nov.: A novel aerobic, pink-pigmented, facultatively methylotrophic, methane-utilizing bacterium isolated from poplar trees (Populus deltoides x nigra DN34).  Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 54(4):1191-1196.  (2004)

Identification of an endophytic Rhizobium in stems of Populus.  Symbiosis 39:27-35.  (2005)

Doty SL, Shang QT, Wilson AM, Moore AL, Newman LA, Strand SE, Gordon MP. 2003. Metabolism of the soil and groundwater contaminants, ethylene dibromide and trichloroethylene, by the tropical leguminous tree, Leucaena leucocephala. Water Research 37: 441-449.

Doty SL, James CA, Moore AL, Vajzovic A, Singleton GL, Ma C, Khan Z, Xin G, Kang JW, Park JY, Meilan R, Strauss SH, Wilkerson J, Farin F, Strand SE. 2007. Enhanced phytoremediation of volatile environmental pollutants with transgenic trees. Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci U.S.A 104: 16816-16821.

Expression of functional mammalian P450 2E1 in hairy root cultures.  Biotechnology and Bioengineering, 77(4):463-466. (2002)

Trichloroethylene oxidative metabolism in plants: the trichloroethanol pathway. Phytochemistry 58:1055-1065. (2001)

Enhanced metabolism of halogenated hydrocarbons in transgenic plants containing mammalian cytochrome P450 2E1.  Proc. Natl. Acad. Sciences  97(12):6287-6291. (2000)

Phytoremediation of organic contaminants: A review of phytoremediation research at the University of Washington.  Journal of Soil Contamination 7(4):531-542. (1998)

 

 
 
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