Purdue University PURDUE AGRICULTURE
BOTANY AND PLANT PATHOLOGY
 
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Ron Coolbaugh

Emeritus Professor

Department: Botany and Plant Pathology
Fax: 765.494.0363
Office: Lilly Hall, Room 1-335
E-mail: coolbaugh@purdue.edu

Area of Expertise: Plant Hormones- Biochemical and molecular studies on the biosynthesis and metabolism of gibberellins and abscisic acid, natural plant hormones.

 

Dr. Coolbaugh is currently on a phased retirement program and has discontinued his active research and direct supervision of graduate students.  He is working part time on teaching Introduction to Plant Science.

 

- Recent Publications

Varadarajan, J., Guilleminot, J., Saint-Jore-Dupas, C., Piegu, B., Chaboute, M., Gomord, V., . . . Delorme, V. (2010). ATR3 encodes a diflavin reductase essential for Arabidopsis embryo development. New Phytologist, 187, 67-82.

Coolbaugh, R., & Nicholson, R. N. (2002). Molecular characterization and in silico expression analysis of a chalcone synthase gene family in Sorghum vicolor. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology, 61, 179-188.

Coolbaugh, R., Watson, C., Froehlich, J., Josefsson, C., Chapple, C., Durst, F., & Benveniste, I. (2001). Localization of CYP26B1 in outer envelope of chloroplasts. Plant and Cell Physiology, 42, 873-878.

 

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- Awards & Honors

Inductee, Purdue Book of Great Teachers (2008). Purdue Book of Great Teachers.

 

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