Ian Wallace

Associate Professor and Biochemistry's Graduate Program Director

Office: 775-682-7311
Email: iwallace@unr.edu
Building: HMS
Room: 214
Mailstop: 330

Summary

Genetic and biochemical dissection of plant cell wall biosynthesis, deposition, and regulation; plant protein kinase signal transduction; manipulation of plant cell wall digestibility for lignocellulosic biofuel and forage crop applications.

Education

Memphis University School, 2000
B. S. in Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Ph. D. in Biochemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2008

Publications

Book Chapter(s)

Internally-controlled methods to quantify pollen tube growth and penetration defects in Arabidopsis thaliana.

2020

In: Geitmann A. (eds) Pollen and Pollen Tube Biology. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2160. Humana, New York, NY.

Smith, D. K., Wallace, I. S.

Methods for large-scale identification of protein-kinase substrate networks.

2015

In Sanela Martic and Heinz-Berhard Kraatz (Ed.), Kinomics: Approaches and applications.

Ketelaar, K. J., Wallace, I. S.

A blueprint for cellulose biosynthesis, deposition, and regulation in plants.

2014

In Hiroo Fukuda (Ed.), Plant cell wall patterning and cell shape (pp. 65-96). Wiley-Blackwell.

Wallace, I. S.

Journals

Cellulose synthesis complexes are homo-oligomeric and hetero-oligomeric in Physcomitrium patens

2021

Plant Physiology 2022 Jan 12; kiac003

Xingxing Li, Arielle M Chaves, Dianka C T Dees, Nasim Mansoori, Kai Yuan, Tori L Speicher, Joanna H Norris, Ian S Wallace, Luisa M Trindade, Alison W Roberts

Signaling at physical barriers during pollen-pistil interactions.

2021

International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 22, 12230.

Robichaux, K. J., & Wallace, I. S.

Associations between phytohormones and cellulose biosynthesis in plants.

2020

Annals of Botany, 126, 807-824.

Wang, L., Hart, B., Khan, G., Cruz, E., Persson, S., Wallace, I.

Functional analysis tools for post-translational modification: a post-translational modification database for analysis of proteins and metabolic pathways.

2019

Plant Journal, 99, 1003-1013

Cruz, E. R., Nguyen, H., Nguyen, T., Wallace, I. S.

Host plant-dependent effects of microbes and phytochemistry on the insect immune response.

2019

Oecologia, 191, 141-152

Yoon, S., Harrison, J. G., Philbin, C. S., Dodson, C. D., Jones, D. M., Wallace, I., Forister, M. L., Smilanich, A. M.

Interspecies bombolitins exhibit structural diversity upon membrane binding, leading to cell specificity.

2019

Biophysical Journal, 116, 1064-1074

Roberson, M. G., Wallace, I., White, S. M., Wallace, I. S., Tucker, M. J.

A potential role for protein O-fucosylation during pollen-pistil interactions.

2018

Plant Signal & Behavior. 13(5)

Smith DK, Harper JF, Wallace IS

Phosphoregulation of the plant cellulose synthase complex and cellulose synthase-like proteins.

2018

Plants 2018, 7(3), 52

Speicher, T. L., Li, P. Z., Wallace, I. S.

Brassinosteroid Insensitive II negatively regulates cellulose synthesis in Arabidopsis by phosphorylating cellulose synthase 1

2017

PNAS 2017 March, 114 (13) 3533-3538.

Sanchez-Rodriguez, C., Ketelaar, K. J., Schneider, R., Villalobos, J. A., Somerville, C. R., Persson, S., Wallace, I.

Orchestrating Rapid Long-Distance Signaling in Plants with Ca2+ , ROS, and Electrical Signals.

2017

The Plant Journal

Choi, W. G., Miller, G., Wallace, I., Harper, J., Mittler, R., and Gilroy, S

The emerging role of protein phosphorylation as a critical regulatory mechanism controlling cellulose biosynthesis.

2016

Frontiers in Plant Science

Jones, D. M., Murray, C. M., Ketelaar, K. J., Thomas, J. J., Villalobos, J. A., Wallace, I. S.

2-fluoro-L-fucose is a metabolically incorporated inhibitor of plant cell wall polysaccharide fucosylation.

2015

PLOS ONE.

Villalobos, J. A., Yi, B. R., Wallace, I. S.

Acetobixan, an inhibitor of cellulose synthesis identified by microbial bioprospecting.

2014

PLoS ONE, 9(4), e95245 (pgs 1-10).

Wallace, I. S.