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Book Chapters:

  1. Mittler, R. (1998) Cell death in plants. In: When Cells Die, A Comprehensive Evaluation of Apoptosis and Programmed Cell Death, Z. Zakeri, J.Tilly, R.A.Lockshin (eds.), John Wiley & Sons, pp. 147-174.
  2. Cheung, A. and Mittler R. (2003) Programmed cell death in plants. In: When Cells Die II, A Comprehensive Evaluation of Apoptosis and Programmed Cell Death, Z. Zakeri, J.Tilly, R.A. Lockshin (eds.), John Wiley & Sons. pp. 99-122.
  3. Mittler, R. and Zilinskas, B. (2003) Active oxygen species in multiple stress situations and protective systems. In: Ecological Studies Vol. 170. Springer, Berlin. pp 51-70.
  4. Mittler, R. and Shulaev, V. (2003) Programmed cell death in plants: future perspectives, applications and methods. In: Programmed Cell Death in Plants, J. Gray (ed.) Blackwell Publishing. Oxford, UK pp. 251-264.
  5. Rizhsky, L. Shulaev, V. and Mittler, R. (2004) Measuring apoptosis in plant cells. In: Apoptosis Methods and  Protocols, Methods in Molecular Biology. Humana Press. pp. 179-190.
  6. Shulaev, V. and Mittler, R. (2004) Programmed cell death in plant yeast and bacteria. In: Essentials of          Apoptosis. Humana Press. pp. 125-134.
  7. Mittler R. (2004) The Hypersensitive Response. In: Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science (online) Marcel  Dekker, Inc. New York. NY
  8. Mittler R. (2005) Ascorbate Peroxidase. In: Antioxidants and reactive oxygen species in plants. Edited by N. Smirnoff. Blackwell Publishing. Oxford, UK. 87-100.
  9. Miller G, Coutu, J. and Mittler, R. (2008) ROS signaling in plants. In: Intracellular Signaling in Plants. Edited by Z. Yang. Blackwell Publishing. Oxford, UK. 189-201.


Research papers:

  1. Mittler, R. and Tel-Or, E. (1991) Oxidative stress response and shock proteins in the unicellular cyanobaterium Synechococcus R2 (PCC 7942). Arch. Microbiol. 155, 125-131.
  2. Mittler, R. and Tel-Or, E. (1991) Oxidative stress response in the unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus R2 (PCC 7942). Free Radical Res. Comm. 12, 845-850.
  3. Mittler, R., Nir, M. and Tel-Or, E. (1991) Antiperoxidative enzymes in Retama and their seasonal variation. Free Radical Res. Comm. 14, 17-25.
  4. Rozen, A., Mittler, R. and Tel-Or, E. (1992) A unique ascorbate peroxidase activity in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus PCC 7942 (R2). Free Radical Res. Comm. 17, 1-8.
  5. Mittler, R. and Zilinskas, B. (1991) Purification and characterization of pea cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase. Plant Physiol. 97, 962-968.
  6. Mittler, R. and Zilinskas, B. (1991) Molecular cloning and nucleotide sequence analysis of a cDNA encoding pea cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase. FEBS Lett. 289, 257-259.
  7. Mittler, R. and Zilinskas, B. (1992) Molecular cloning and characterization of a gene encoding pea cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase. J. Biol. Chem. 267, 21802-21807.
  8. Mittler, R. and Zilinskas, B. (1993) Detection of ascorbate peroxidase activity in native gels by inhibition of the ascorbate-dependent reduction of nitroblue tetrazolium. Anal. Biochem. 212, 540-546.
  9. Mittler, R. and Zilinskas, B. (1994) Regulation of pea cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase and other antioxidant enzymes during the progression of drought stress and following recovery from drought. Plant J. 5, 397-406.
  10. Mittler, R., Shulaev, V. and Lam E. (1995) Coordinated activation of programmed cell death and defense mechanisms in transgenic tobacco plants expressing a bacterial proton pump. Plant Cell 7, 29-42.
  11. Mittler, R. and Lam, E. (1995) In situ detection of nDNA fragmentation during the differentiation of trachear elements in higher plants. Plant Physiol. 108, 489-493.
  12. Mittler, R. and Lam, E. (1995) Identification, characterization, and purification of a tobacco endonuclease activity induced upon hypersensitive response cell death. Plant Cell 7, 1951-1962.
  13. Mittler, R. and Lam, E. (1996) Sacrifice in the face of foes: pathogen-induced programmed cell death in higher plants. Trends Microbiol. 4, 10-15.
  14. Mittler, R., Shulaev, V., Seskar, M. and Lam, E. (1996) Inhibition of programmed cell death in tobacco plants during pathogen-induced hypersensitive response at low oxygen pressure. Plant Cell 8, 1991-2001.
  15. Mittler, R., Simon, L. and Lam, E. (1997) Pathogen-induced programmed cell death in tobacco. J. Cell Science 110, 1333-1344.
  16. Mittler, R. and Lam, E. (1997) Characterization of nuclease activities and DNA fragmentation induced upon hypersensitive response cell death and mechanical stress. Plant Mol. Biol. 34, 209-221.
  17. Mittler, R., Del Pozo, O., Meisel, L. and Lam, E. (1997) Pathogen-induced programmed cell death in plants: a possible defense mechanism. Developmental Genetics 21, 279-289.
  18. Mittler, R., Feng, X. and Cohen, M. (1998) Post-transcriptional suppression of cytosolic ascorbate eroxidase expression during pathogen-induced programmed cell death in tobacco. Plant Cell 10, 461-474.
  19. Mittler, R., Shulaev, V., Lam, E. and Cohen, M. (1999) Signals controlling the expression of cytosolic scorbate peroxidase during pathogen-induced programmed cell death in tobacco. Plant Mol. Biol. 39, 1025-1035.
  20. Mittler, R., Hallak-Herr, E., Orvar, B.L., Van Camp, W., Willekens, H., Inze, D. and Ellis, B.E. (1999) Transgenic tobacco plants with reduced capability to detoxify reactive oxygen intermediates are hyper-responsive to pathogen infection. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 96, 14165-14170.
  21. Mittler, R. and Rizhsky, L. (2000) Transgene-induced lesion mimics. Plant Mol. Biol. 44, 335-344. (cover photo). 
  22. Mittler, R., Merquiol, E., Hallak-Herr, E., Kaplan, A., and Cohen, M. (2001) Living under a "dormant" canopy: a molecular acclimation mechanism of the desert plant Retama raetam. Plant J. 25, 407-416. (cover photo)
  23. Rizhsky, L. and Mittler, R. (2001) Inducible expression of bacterio-opsin in transgenic tobacco and tomato plants. Plant Mol. Biol. 46, 313-323.
  24. Mittler, R. (2002) Oxidative stress, antioxidants, and stress tolerance. Ternds Plant Sci. 7, 405-410.
  25. Pekker, I., Tel-Or, E. and Mittler, R. (2002) Reactive oxygen intermediates and glutathione regulate the expression of cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase during iron-mediated oxidative stress in bean. Plant Mol. Biol. 49, 429-438.
  26. Pontier D., Mittler R. and Lam E. (2002) Mechanism of cell death and disease resistance induction by transgenic expression of bacterio-opsin Plant J. 30, 499-509.
  27. Pnueli, L., Hallak-Herr, E., Rozenberg, M., Cohen, M., Goloubinoff, P., Kaplan, A. and Mittler, R. (2002) Molecular and biochemical mechanisms associated with dormancy and drought tolerance in the desert legume Retama raetam. Plant J. 31, 319-330.
  28. Rizhsky, L. Hallak-Herr, E., Van Breusegem, F., Rachmilevitch, S., Rodermel, S., Inzé, D. and Mittler, R. (2002) Double antisense plants with suppressed expression of ascorbate peroxidase and catalase are less sensitive to oxidative stress than single antisense plants with suppressed expression of ascorbate peroxidase or catalase. Plant J. 32, 329-342.
  29. Merquiol, E., Hallak-Herr, E., Kaplan, A., Cohen, M. and Mittler, R. (2002) Seasonal and diurnal variations in gene expression in the desert legume Retama raetam Plant Cell & Environment. 25, 1627-1638.
  30. Rizhsky, L., Hongjian, L. and Mittler, R. (2002) The combined effect of drought stress and heat shock on gene expression in tobacco. Plant Physiol. 130, 1143-1151.
  31. Lieman-Hurwitz, J., Rachmilevitch S., Mittler, R., Marcus, Y. and Kaplan, A., (2003) Enhanced photosynthesis and growth of transgenic plants that express ictB, a gene involved in HCO3- accumulation in cyanobacteria. Plant Biotech. J. 1, 43-50.
  32. Pnueli, L., Liang, H. and Mittler, R. (2003). Growth suppression, abnormal guard cell response, and augmented induction of heat shock proteins in cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase (Apx1) - deficient Arabidopsis plants. Plant J. 34, 187-203.
  33. Rizhsky L, Liang H, Mittler R. (2003) The water-water cycle is essential for chloroplast protection in the absence of stress. J. Biol. Chem. 278, 38921-38925.
  34. Thornburg, R., Carter, C., Powell, A., Horner, H.H., Rizhsky, L., Mittler, R. (2003) A major function of the nectary gland is plant defense against microbial attack. Plant Syst. Evol. 238, 211-218.
  35. Mittler. R., Vanderauwera, S., Gollery, M., Van Breusegem, F. (2004) The reactive oxygen gene network of plants. Trends Plant Sci. 9, 490-498.
  36. Rizhsky L., Liang H., Shuman J., Shulaev V., Davletova S. and Mittler R. (2004) When defense pathways collide: The response of Arabidopsis to a combination of drought and heat stress. Plant Physiol. 134, 1683-1696.
  37. Rizhsky L., Davletova S., Liang H. and Mittler R. (2004) The zinc-finger protein Zat12 is required for cytosoli ascorbate peroxidase 1 expression during oxidative stress in Arabidopsis. J. Biol. Chem. 279, 11736-11743.
  38. Davletova S, Rizhsky L, Liang H, Shengqiang Z, Oliver DJ, Coutu J, Shulaev V, Schlauch K, Mittler R (2005) Cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase 1 is a central component of the reactive oxygen gene network of Arabidopsis. Plant Cell 17, 268-281. 
  39. Davletova S, Schlauch K, Coutu J, Mittler R (2005) The zinc-finger protein Zat12 plays a central role in reactive oxygen and abiotic stress signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 139, 847-856. 
  40. Suzuki N, Rizhsky L, Liang H, Shuman J, Shulaev V, Mittler R (2005) Enhanced tolerance to environmental  stresses in transgenic plants expressing the transcriptional co-activator MBF1. Plant Physiol. 139, 1313-1322. 
  41. Suzuki N, Mittler R (2006) Reactive oxygen species and temperature stresses: A delicate balance between signaling and destruction. Physiol. Plant. 126, 45-51.
  42. Mittler. R (2006) Abiotic Stress, the Field Environment and Stress Combination. Trends Plant Sci. 11, 15-19.
  43. Miller G, Mittler R (2006) Could plant HSFs function as hydrogen peroxide sensors? Ann. Bot. 98, 279-288.
  44. Bailey-Serres, J., Mittler, R. (2006) The Roles of Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant Cells. Plant Physiology Special Issue on Reactive Oxygen Species. Plant Physiol. 141, 311.
  45. Gadjev, I., Vanderauwera, S., Gechev, T.S., Laloi, C., Minkov, I.N., Shulaev, V., Apel, K., Inze, D., Mittler, R., Van Breusegem, F. (2006) Transcriptomic footprints disclose specificity of reactive oxygen species signaling in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 141, 436-445.
  46. Gollery M, Harper J, Cushman J, Mittler T, Girke T, Zhu J-K, Bailey-Serres J, Mittler R (2006) What Makes Species Unique? The Contribution of Proteins with Obscure Features. Genome Biol. 7(7):R57 [Epub ahead of print].
  47. Mittler R, Song L, Coutu J, Coutu A, Ciftci S, Kim YS, Lee H, Stevenson B, Zhu, J-K (2006) Gain- and loss-of-function mutations in Zat10 enhance the tolerance of plants to abiotic stress. FEBS Lett. 580, 6537-6542.
  48. Gollery M, Harper J, Cushman J, Mittler T, Mittler R (2007) POFs: what we don’t know can hurt us. Trends Plant Sci. 12, 492-496.
  49. Ciftci-Yilmaz S, Morsy MR, Song L, Coutu A, Krizek BA, Lewis MW, Warren D, Cushman J, Connolly EL, Mittler R (2007) The ear-motif of the C2H2 zinc-finger protein ZAT7 plays a key role in the defense response of Arabidopsis to salinity stress. J Biol Chem. 282, 9260-9268.
  50. Koussevitzky S, Nott A, Mockler T.C, Hong F, Sachetto-Martins G, Surpin M, Lim J, Mittler R, and Chory J (2007) Multiple signals from damaged chloroplasts converge on a common pathway to regulate nuclear gene expression. Science 316, 715-719.
  51. Miller G, Suzuki N, Rizhsky L, Hegie A, Koussevitzky S, Mittler R (2007) Double mutants deficient in cytosolic and thylakoid ascorbate peroxidase reveal a complex mode of interaction between reactive oxygen species, plant development and response to abiotic stresses. Plant Physiol. 144, 1777-1785.
  52. Rivero RM, Kojima M, Gepstein A, Sakakibara H, Mittler R, Gepstein S, Blumwald E (2007) Delayed leaf senescence induces extreme drought tolerance in a flowering plant. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104, 19631-19636.
  53. Ciftci-Yilmaz S, Mittler R (2008) The zinc finger network of plants. Cell Mol Life Sci. 65, 1150-1160.
  54. Suzuki N, Bajad S, Shuman J, Shulaev V, Mittler R (2008) The transcriptional co-activator MBF1c is a key regulator of thermotolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana. J Biol Chem 283, 9269-9275.
  55. Shulaev V, Cortes D, Miller G, Mittler R (2008) Metabolomics for plant stress response. Physiol Plant. 132, 199-208.
  56. Morsy M, Gouthu S, Orchard S, Thorneycroft D, Harper JF, Mittler R, Cushman JC. (2008) Charting plant interactomes: possibilities and challenges. Trends Plant Sci. 13, 183-191.
  57. Miller G, Shulaev V, Mittler R (2008) Reactive oxygen signaling and abiotic stress. Physiol Plant. 133, 481-489.
  58. Horan K, Jang C, Bailey-Serres J, Mittler R, Shelton C, Harper JF, Zhu JK, Cushman JC, Gollery M, Girke T (2008) Annotating genes of known and unknown function by large-scale coexpression analysis. Plant Physiol. 147, 41-57.
  59. Van Breusegem F, Bailey-Serres J, Mittler R (2008) Unraveling the tapestry of networks involving reactive oxygen species in plants. Plant Physiol. 147, 978-984.
  60. Luhua S, Ciftci-Yilmaz S, Harper J, Cushman J, Mittler R (2008) Enhanced tolerance to oxidative stress in transgenic Arabidopsis plants expressing proteins of unknown function. Plant Physiol. 148, 280-292.
  61. Koussevitzky S, Suzuki N, Huntington S, Armijo L, Sha W, Cortes D, Shulaev V, Mittler R (2008) Ascorbate peroxidase 1 plays a key role in the response of Arabidopsis thaliana to stress combination. J Biol Chem. 283, 34197-34203.
  62. Chaudhary B, Hovav R, Flagel L, Mittler R, Wendel JF (2009) Parallel expression evolution of oxidative stress-related genes in fiber from wild and domesticated diploid and polyploid cotton (Gossypium). BMC Evolutionary Biology, 10:378.
  63. Tunc-Ozdemir M, Miller G, Kim J, Sodek A, Koussevitzky S, Misra AM, Luhua S, Mittler R, Shintani D (2009) Thiamin confers enhanced tolerance to oxidative stress in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiol. 151, 421-32.
  64. Chang F-I, Curran A, Woolsey R, Quilici D, Cushman J, Mittler R, Harmon A, Harper J, (2009) Proteomic profiling of tandem affinity purified 14-3-3 protein complexes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proteomics 9, 2967-85
  65. Miller G, Schlauch K, Tam R, Cortes D, Torres MA,, Shulaev V, Dangl JL, Mittler R (2009) The plant NADPH oxidase RbohD mediates rapid, systemic signaling in response to diverse stimuli. Science Signaling. 18;2(84):ra45.
  66. Mittler R, Blumwald E (2010) Genetic engineering for modern agriculture: Challenges and perspectives. Ann. Rev. Plant Biol. 61:443-62.
  67. Miller G, Honig A, Stein H, Suzuki N, Mittler R, Zilberstein A (2009) Unraveling delta1-pyrroline-5-carboxylate (P5C)/proline cycle in plants by uncoupled expression of proline oxidation enzymes. J Biol Chem. 284, 26482-92.
  68. Miller G, Suzuki N, Ciftci-Yilmaz S, Mittler R. (2009) Reactive oxygen species homeostasis and signalling during drought and salinity stresses. Plant Cell Environ. 33(4):453-67.
  69. Vanderauwera S, Suzuki N, Miller G, van de Cotte B, Morsa S, Ravanat JL, Hegie A, Triantaphylidès C, Shulaev V, Van Montagu MC, Van Breusegem F, Mittler R. (2011) Extranuclear protection of chromosomal DNA from oxidative stress. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 108(4):1711-6.
  70. Shulaev V, Sargent DJ, Crowhurst RN, Mockler TC, Folkerts O, Delcher AL, Jaiswal P, Mockaitis K, Liston A, Mane SP, Burns P, Davis TM, Slovin JP, Bassil N, Hellens RP, Evans C, Harkins T, Kodira C, Desany B, Crasta OR, Jensen RV, Allan AC, Michael TP, Setubal JC, Celton JM, Rees DJ, Williams KP, Holt SH, Rojas JJ, Chatterjee M, Liu B, Silva H, Meisel L, Adato A, Filichkin SA, Troggio M, Viola R, Ashman TL, Wang H, Dharmawardhana P, Elser J, Raja R, Priest HD, Bryant DW Jr, Fox SE, Givan SA, Wilhelm LJ, Naithani S, Christoffels A, Salama DY, Carter J, Girona EL, Zdepski A, Wang W, Kerstetter RA, Schwab W, Korban SS, Davik J, Monfort A, Denoyes-Rothan B, Arus P, Mittler R, Flinn B, Aharoni A, Bennetzen JL, Salzberg SL, Dickerman AW, Velasco R, Borodovsky M, Veilleux RE, Folta KM. (2011) The genome of woodland strawberry (Fragaria vesca). Nat Genet. 43(2):109-16.
  71. Mittler R, Vanderauwera S, Suzuki N, Miller G, Tognetti VB, Vandepoele K, Gollery G, Shulaev V, Van Breusegem F (2011) ROS signaling: The new wave? Trends in Plant Sciences (Invited Review).
  72. Suzuki, N, Koussevitzky S, Mittler R, Miller G (2011) Chloroplast and mitochondrial ROS signaling in the response of plants to abiotic stress. Plant Cell Environment (Invited Review).
  73. Suzuki N, Sejima H, Tam R, Schlauch K, Mittler R (2011) Identification of the MBF1 heat-response regulon of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant J. (2011) 66, 844–851.


Commentary:

  1. Mittler, R. and Berkowitz, G. (2001) Hydrogen peroxide, a messenger with too many roles?  Pei Z.M., Murata Y., Benning G. et al, Nature 2000; 406: 731-734. Redox Report 6, 69-72.


Patents:

  1. U.S. Patent No. 5,629,470 entitled "Transgenic Plants and Plant Cells with Enhanced Pathogen Resistance and Related Methods"; International Application Number PCT/US96/00741 (Jan. 1996); Inventors: Lam, E. and Mittler, R.
  2. U.S. Patent No. entitled "Enhancing Inorganic Carbon Fixation by Photosynthetic Organisms". Inventors: Kaplan, A., Lieman-Hurwitz, J., Mittler, R., Ronen-Tarazi, M., Bonfil, D. and Schatz, D. (Pending).