Chuck Dietrich

Former Graduate Student

EDUCATION:

  • B.S., Northeast Missouri State University (Truman State University), 1994
  • Ph.D., Interdepartmental Plant Physiology, Iowa State University, 2001

EXPERIENCE:

  • Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, 2002-2007
  • Research Scientist, Monsanto, St. Louis, MO., 2007-Present

PUBLICATIONS (10):

* Authors contributed equally to the article
  • Li L*, Y Du*, C He, CR Dietrich, J Li, X Ma, R Wang, Q Liu, S Liu, G Wang, PS Schnable, J Zheng (2019) Maize glossy6 is involved in cuticular wax deposition and drought tolerance. J Exp Bot, 70(12): 3089-3099.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1093/jxb/erz131 | PMID: 30919902 | Impact Factor: 6.9 ]
  • Li L, Y Du, C He, CR Dietrich, J Li, X Ma, R Wang, Q Liu, S Liu, G Wang, PS Schnable, J Zheng (2018) A novel maize gene, glossy6 involved in epicuticular wax deposition and drought tolerance. bioRχiv, 378687
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1101/378687 ]
  • Li L*, D Li*, S Liu, X Ma, CR Dietrich, HC Hu, G Zhang, Z Liu, J Zheng, G Wang, PS Schnable (2013) The maize glossy13 gene, cloned via BSR-Seq and Seq-Walking encodes a putative ABC transporter required for the normal accumulation of epicuticular waxes. PLoS One, 8(12): e82333.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0082333 | PMID: 24324772 | Impact Factor: 3.7 | Cited 66 times ]
  • Liu S, HD Chen, I Makarevitch, R Shirmer, SJ Emrich, CR Dietrich, WB Barbazuk, NM Springer, PS Schnable (2010) High-throughput genetic mapping of mutants via quantitative single nucleotide polymorphism typing. Genetics, 184(1): 19-26.(Selected as an Editors' Choice by MaizeGDB, 04/2010)
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1534/genetics.109.107557 | PMID: 19884313 | Impact Factor: 3.3 | Cited 78 times ]
  • Liu S, CR Dietrich, PS Schnable (2009) DLA-based strategies for cloning insertion mutants: cloning the gl4 locus of maize using Mu transposon tagged alleles. Genetics, 183(4): 1215-1225.(Selected as an Editors' Choice by MaizeGDB, 11/2009)
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1534/genetics.109.108936 | PMID: 19805815 | Impact Factor: 3.3 ]
  • Dietrich CR, MA Perera, MD Yandeau-Nelson, RB Meeley, BJ Nikolau, PS Schnable (2005) Characterization of two gl8 paralogs reveals that the 3-ketoacyl reductase component of fatty acid elongase is essential for maize (Zea mays L.) development. Plant J, 42(6): 844-861.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | doi:10.1111/j.1365-313X.2005.02418.x | PMID: 15941398 | Impact Factor: 7.2 | Cited 73 times ]
  • Xu X, CR Dietrich, R Lessire, BJ Nikolau, PS Schnable (2002) The endoplasmic reticulum-associated maize GL8 protein is a component of the acyl-coenzyme A elongase involved in the production of cuticular waxes. Plant Physiol, 128(3): 924-934.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | doi:10.1104/pp.010621 | PMID: 11891248 | Impact Factor: 7.4 | Cited 91 times ]
  • Dietrich CR, F Cui, ML Packila, J Li, DA Ashlock, BJ Nikolau, PS Schnable (2002) Maize Mu transposons are targeted to the 5' untranslated region of the gl8 gene and sequences flanking Mu target-site duplications exhibit nonrandom nucleotide composition throughout the genome. Genetics, 160(2): 697-716.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | Supplemental Materials | doi:10.1093/genetics/160.2.697 | PMID: 11861572 | Impact Factor: 3.3 | Cited 100 times ]
  • Frame BR, H Zhang, SM Cocciolone, LV Sidorenko, CR Dietrich, SE Pegg, S Zhen, PS Schnable, K Wang (2000) Production of transgenic maize from bombarded type II callus: effect of gold particle size and callus morphology on transformation efficiency. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol-Plant, 36(1): 21-29.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | doi:10.1007/s11627-000-0007-5 | Impact Factor: 2.6 | Cited 207 times ]
  • Xu X, CR Dietrich, M Delledonne, Y Xia, TJ Wen, DS Robertson, BJ Nikolau, PS Schnable (1997) Sequence analysis of the cloned glossy8 gene of maize suggests that it may code for a beta-ketoacyl reductase required for the biosynthesis of cuticular waxes. Plant Physiol, 115(2): 501-510.
    [ Abstract | Full Text PDF | doi:10.1104/pp.115.2.501 | PMID: 9342868 | Impact Factor: 7.4 | Cited 121 times ]