Won-Gyu Choi

Associate Professor

Office: 775- 682-7336
Email: wgchoi@unr.edu
Building: HMS
Room: 217
Mailstop: 330

Summary

Abiotic stress in plants, including flooding, anoxia, and tropisms

Education

BS, Woosuk University, Korea, 2000
MS, Woosuk University, Korea, 2002
Ph.D. University of Tennessee, 2009

Publications

Book Chapter(s)

Calcium, mechanical signaling and tip growth

2011

Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants (editor: Sheng Luan; Copyright Holder: Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York; ISBN 78-3-642-20828-7; ISSN 1867-9048)

Won-Gyu Choi, Sarah J. Swanson and Simon Gilroy

Journals

Overexpressing Vitamin C Defective 2 reduces fertility and alters Ca2+ signals in Arabidopsis pollen

2023

Plant Physiol. 2023 Apr 3;191(4):2276-2287.

Weigand C, Brady D, Davis JA, Speicher T, Bacalso J, Jones D, Miller G, Choi WG, Harper JF.

The vacuolar Ca2+ transporter CATION EXCHANGER 2 regulates cytosolic calcium homeostasis, hypoxic signaling, and response to flooding in Arabidopsis thaliana

2023

New Phytol. 2023 Dec;240(5):1830-1847.

Bakshi A, Choi WG, Kim SH, Gilroy S.

Cas9-mediated gene editing in the black-legged tick, Ixodes scapularis, by embryo injection and ReMOT Control

2022

iScience Volume 25, Issue 3, 18 March 2022, 103781

A Sharma, M Pham, J Reyes, R Chana, WC Yim, CC Heu, D Kim, D Chaverra-Rodriguez, J Rasgon, R Harrell II, A Nuss, M Gulia-Nuss

A Ratiometric Calcium Reporter CGf Reveals Calcium Dynamics Both in the Single Cell and Whole Plant Levels Under Heat Stress

2021

Frontiers in Plant Science , Vol 12

Weigand Chrystle, Kim Su-Hwa, Brown Elizabeth, Medina Emily, Mares Moises, Miller Gad, Harper Jeffrey F., Choi Won-Gyu

Aquaporin family lactic acid channel NIP2;1 promotes plant survival under low oxygen stress in Arabidopsis

2021

Plant Physiology, Volume 187, Issue 4, December 2021, Pages 2262–2278

Zachary G Beamer, Pratyush Routray, Won-Gyu Choi, Margaret K Spangler, Ansul Lokdarshi, Daniel M Roberts

Arabidopsis Ca2+-ATPases 1, 2, and 7 in the endoplasmic reticulum contribute to growth and pollen fitness

2021

Plant Physiology, 2021 Jan 28;kiab021

Maryam Rahmati Ishka, Elizabeth Brown, Alexa Rosenberg, Shawn Romanowsky, James A Davis, Won-Gyu Choi, Jeffrey F Harper

Recapitulation of the Function and Role of ROS Generated in Response to Heat Stress in Plants

2021

Plants 2021, 10, 371

Medina, E.; Kim, S.-H.; Yun, M.; Choi, W.-G.

The Arabidopsis thaliana NIP2;1 Lactic Acid Channel promotes Plant Survival Under Low Oxygen Stress

2020

bioRxiv

Zachary Beamer, Pratyush Routray, Won-Gyu Choi, Margaret K. Spangler, Ansul Lokdarshi, Daniel M. Roberts

Variation in the transcriptome of different ecotypes of Arabidopsis thaliana reveals signatures of oxidative stress in plant responses to spaceflight.

2019

American journal of botany, 106(1), 123-136

Choi, W.-G., Barker, R. J., Kim, S.-H., Swanson, S. J., Gilroy, S.

Quantitative ROS bioreporters: A robust toolkit for studying biological roles of ROS in response to abiotic and biotic stresses.

2018

Physiologia plantarum, 165(2), 356-368.

Lim, S. D., Kim, S.-H., Gilroy, S., Cushman, J. C., Choi, W.-G.

Sense and sensibility: the use of fluorescent protein-based genetically encoded biosensors in plants.

2018

Current opinion in plant biology, 46, 32-38

Hilleary, R., Choi, W.-G., Kim, S.-H., Lim, S. D., Gilroy, S.

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

Quantification of sodium accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana using Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometer (ICP-OES).

2015

Bio-protocol.5, 16, 8/20/2015 e1570

Won-Gyu Choi and Simon Gilroy

Rapid Long-Distance Electrical and Calcium Signaling in Plants,

2015

Annual Rev. Plant Bio. 67, Volume 67

Won-Gyu Choi, Richard Hilleary, Sarah J. Swanson, Su-Hwa Kim, and Simon Gilroy

Plant biologists FRET over stress

2014

Elife, Apr 15; 15;3:e02763

Won-Gyu Choi and Simon Gilroy

Salt stress-induced Ca2+ waves are associated with rapid, long-distance root-to-shoot signaling in plants.

2014

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Apr 29; 111(17), 6497-502

Won-Gyu Choi, Masatsugu Toyota, Su-Hwa Kim, Richard Hilleary and Simon Gilroy

High-resolution imaging of Ca2+, redox status, ROS and pH using GFP biosensors.

2012

Plant J. 70, 118-28

Won-Gyu Choi, Sarah J. Swanson and Simon Gilroy

Arabidopsis NIP2;1: a nodulin 26-like intrinsic protein transporter of lactic acid induced by flooding stress.

2007

J. Biol. Chem. 282, 24209-24218

Won-Gyu Choi and Daniel M. Roberts