Faculty and Staff

Title: Visiting Assistant Professor

Education:
Ph.D. in Horticulture, University of Florida, 1994
M.S. in Plant Breeding and Genetics/Horticulture, Michigan State University, 1986
B.S. in Vegetable and Fruit Production, Michigan State University, 1981

Areas of Specialty: genetics,  plant biotechnology,  plant breeding, bioinformatics and functional genomics

Research Interests: genetics of reproductive and developmental biology of plants, transgenics, inheritance of organelles, and molecular markers 

Recent Publications:

Jessup RW, Renganayaki K, Burson BL, Howard AN, Giliberto B, Engelke MC, Genovesi AD, Reinert JA, Kamps TL, Schulze S, Paterson AH (2011) Genetic Mapping of Fall Armyworm Resistance in Zoysiagrass. Crop Science (in press).

Kamps TL*, Williams NR*, Ortega VM*, Chamusco KC, Harris-Schultz K, Scully BT, Chase CD (2011) DNA polymorphisms at bermudagrass microsatellite loci and their use in genotype fingerprinting. Crop Science (in press for May-June). *Equal contributing authors

Jang CS, Kamps TL, Tang H, Bowers JE, Lemke C, and Paterson AH. (2009) Evolutionary fate of rhizome-specific genes in a non-rhizomatous Sorghum genotype. Heredity 102(3):266-273.

Kim C, Jang CS, Kamps T, Robertson J, Feltus F, and Paterson A. (2008) Transcriptome analysis of leaf tissue from Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylon L.) by a normalized cDNA library. Functional Plant Biology 35:585-594.

Okagaki RJ, Jacobs MS, Stec AO, Kynast RG, Buescher E, Rines HW, Vales MI, Riera-Lizarazu O, Schneerman M, Doyle G, Friedman KL, Staub RW, Weber DF, Kamps TL, Amarillo IFE, Chase CD, Bass HW, and Phillips RL (2008) Maize Centromere Mapping: A Comparison of Physical and Genetic Strategies. J Hered 99: 85-93.

Jang CS*, Kamps TL*, Skinner DN, Schulze SR, Vencill WK, and Paterson AH. (2006) Functional classification, genomic organization, putatively cis-acting regulatory elements, and relationship to quantitative trait loci, of sorghum genes with rhizome-enriched expression. Plant Physiol. 142:1148-1159. *Equal contributing authors

Wen L, Ruesch KL, Ortega VM, Kamps TL, Gabay-Laughnan S, and Chase CD. (2003) A nuclear fertility-of-restorer mutation disrupts accumulation of mitochondrial ATP synthase subunit alpha in developing pollen of S male-sterile maize. Genetics 165(2):771-779.