Here's what's been or will be published from:

Grover, V., Pierce, M.L., Hoyt, P., Zhang, F., and Melcher, U. (2009). Oligonucleotide-based microarray for detection of plant viruses employing sequence-independent amplification of targets. J. Virol. Methods, Epub before print dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jviromet.2009.08.023.

Wu, B., Melcher, U., Guo, X., Wang, X., Fan, L. and Zhou, G. (2008). Assessment of codivergence of mastreviruses with their plant hosts. BMC Evolutionary Biology 8:335 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-335.

Muthukumar, V., Melcher, U., Pierce, M.L., Wiley, G.B., Roe, B.A., Palmer, M.W., Thapa, V., Ali, A. & Ding, T. (2008). Non-cultivated plants of the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve of northeastern Oklahoma frequently contain virus-like sequences in particulate fractions. Virus Res. 149:169-173.

Fletcher, J., Luster, D.G., Melcher, U., & Sherwood, J.L. (2008) Microbial forensics and plant pathogens: attribution of agricultural crime. In Wiley Handbook of Science and Technology for Homeland Security, J. Voeller, Ed., Wiley & Sons, NY, in press.

Melcher, U., Muthukumar, V., Wiley, G.B., Min, B.E., Palmer, M. W., Verchot-Lubicz, J., Nelson R.S., Roe, B.A., Ali, A., Thapa, V., & Pierce, M.L. (2008) Evidence for novel viruses by analysis of nucleic acids in virus-like particle fractions from Ambrosia psilostachya. J. Virol. Methods 152: 49-55.

Mello, A.F.S., Yokomi, R.K., Melcher, U., Chen, J.C., Wayadande, A.C. & Fletcher, J. (2008). Genetic diversity of Spiroplasma citri strains from different regions, hosts, and isolation dates. Phytopathology, 98: 960-968.

Comer, J., Fletcher, J., Davis, R.E., & Melcher, U. (2007) Evolution of the Spiroplasma P58 multigene family. Biochem. Genet., 45 (1):25-32.

Wren, J. D., Roossinck, M. J., Nelson, R. S., Scheets, K., Palmer, M. W. & Melcher, U. (2006). Plant virus biodiversity and ecology. PLoS Biology 4(3): e80.

Joshi, B. D., Berg, M., Rogers, J. Fletcher, J., & Melcher, U. (2005). Sequence comparison of plasmids pBJS-O of Spiroplasma citri and pSKU146 of S. kunkelii: implications for plasmid evolution. BMC Genomics 6:175.

Fletcher, J., C. Bender, B. Budowle, W. T. Cobb, S. E. Gold, C. A. Ishimaru, D. Luster, U. Melcher, R. Murch; H. Scherm, R. C. Seem, J. L. Sherwood, B. W. Sobral, & S.A. Tolin (2006, ;.June) Plant Pathogen Forensics: Capabilities, Needs and Recommendations. MMBR 70(2):450-71

Wren, J. D., W. H. Hildebrand, S. Chandrasekaran, U. Melcher (2005) Markov Model Recognition and Classification of DNA/Protein Sequence Patterns Within Large Text Databases. Bioinformatics 21:4046-4053.

Zhang, Q., U. Melcher, L. Zhou, F. Z. Najar, B.A. Roe, & J. Fletcher. (2005) Genomic comparison of plant pathogenic and non-pathogenic Serratia marcescens strains using suppressive subtractive hybridization. Appl. Environ. Micro. 71:7716-7723.

Te, J., U. Melcher, A. Howard, & J. Verchot-Lubicz. (2005). Soilborne wheat mosaic virus (SBWMV) 19K protein belongs to a class of cysteine rich proteins that suppress RNA silencing. Virology J. 2:18.

Fletcher, J., Melcher, U., & Wayadande, A. (2005) The phytopathogenic spiroplasmas. In "The Prokaryotes" (ed. M. Dworkin), in press.

Onodera, K., & Melcher, U. (2004) Selection for 3’ end triplets for polymerase chain reaction primers. Mol. Cell. Probes 18(6), 369-372.

Pair, S.D., Bruton, B. D., Mitchell, F., Fletcher J., Wayadande, A. & Melcher, U. (2004) Overwintering squash bugs harbor and transmit the causal agent of cucurbit yellow vine disease. J. Econ. Entomol. 97(1): 74-78.

An, H., Melcher, U., Doss, P., Payton, M., Guenzi, A. C. & Verchot-Lubicz, J. (2003). Evidence the Soilborne wheat mosaic virus 37K protein is a viral movement protein. J. Gen. Virol. 84, 3153-3163.

Sengupta, S., Onodera, K., Lai, A. & Melcher, U. (2003) Molecular detection and identification of influenza viruses by oligonucleotide microarray hybridization. J. Clin. Micro. 41(10), 4542-4550.

Rascoe, J.E., Berg, M., Melcher, U., Mitchell, F.L., Bruton, B.D. , Pair, S.D. & Fletcher, J. (2003) Identification, phylogenetic analysis and biological characterization of strains of Serratia marcescens causing cucurbit yellow vine disease. Phytopathology 93(10), 1233-1239.

Zhang, Q., Weyant, R., Melcher, U., Bruton, B. D., Pair, S. D., Mitchell, F., & J. Fletcher (2003) Genotyping of Serratia marcescens strains associated with cucurbit yellow vine disease. Phytopathology 93(10), 1240-1246.

Bruton, B. D., Mitchell, F., Fletcher, J., Pair, S.D., Wayadande, A., Melcher, U., Brady, J., Bextine, B. & Popham, T. H. (2003) Serratia marcescens, a phloem-colonizing, squash bug-transmitted bacterium: causal agent of cucurbit yellow vine disease. Plant Disease, 87(8) 937-944.

Melcher, U. (2003) Turnip vein-clearing virus, from pathogen to host expression profile. Molec. Plant Pathol. 4 (3), 133-140.

Melcher, U. (2002)  Viruses and Viroids.  In  Magill's Encyclopedia of Science:  Plant Life, Salem Press, Pasadena CA, pp. 1045-1047

Harrell , L., Melcher, U., & Atkins, J. F. (2002). Predominance of six different hexanucleotide recoding signals 3' of read-through stop codons. Nucleic Acids Res. 30(9): 2011-2017.

Hii , G.  Pennington, R.,  Hartson, S.,  Taylor, C.D.,  Lartey, R.,  Williams, A.,   Lewis, D.,&  Melcher, U. (2002)  Isolate-specific synergy in disease symptoms between cauliflower mosaic and turnip vein-clearing viruses.  Arch. Virol., 147: 1371-1384.

Onodera , K. & Melcher, U. (2002) VirOligo: a database of virus-specific oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Res. 30(1): 203-204.

Onodera , K., d'Offay, J., & Melcher, U. (2002). Nylon-membrane immobilized PCR for detection of bovine viruses. BioTechniques, 32(1), 74-80.

Berg , M., Melcher, U., & Fletcher, J. (2001). Molecular characterization of the gene encoding P89 (SARP1), an adhesion related protein of Spiroplasma citri. Gene 275(1), 57-64.

de los Reyes, B. G., Taliaferro, C. M., Anderson, M. P., Anderson, J. A., Melcher, U., & McMaugh, S. (2001) Induced expression of class II chitinase during cold acclimation and dehydration of bermudagrass (Cynodon sp.). Theor. Appl. Genet., 103(2/3), 297-306.

Melcher, U. (2000). Historical importance of TMV (Book review). Trends in Plant Science, 5(6), 268.

Melcher, U. (2000). The 30K superfamily of viral movement proteins. J. Gen. Virol., 81, 257-266. Supplemental material available.

Sha , Y., Melcher, U., Davis, R. E., & Fletcher, J. (2000). Common elements of Spiroplasma plectroviruses revealed by nucleotide sequence of SVTS2. Virus Genes, 20 (1), 47-56.

Bost, S. C., Mitchell, F., Melcher, U., Pair, S. D., Fletcher, J., Wayadande, A., & Bruton, B. D. (1999) . Yellow vine of watermelon and pumpkin in Tennessee. Plant Disease, 83 (6), 587.

Cabauatan, P. Q., Melcher, U., Ishikawa, K., Omura, T., Hibino, H., Koganezawa, H., & Azzam, O. (1999). Sequence changes in six variants of rice tungro bacilliform virus and their phylogenetic relationships. J. Gen. Virol. 80 (8) 2229-2237.

Melcher, U., Sha, Y., Ye, F., & Fletcher, J. (1999). Mechanisms of Spiroplasma genome variation associated with SpV1-like viral DNA’s inferred from sequence comparisons. Micro. Comp. Genomics, 4 (1), 29-46.

Melcher, U., & Fletcher, J. (1999). Sources of genetic variation in Spiroplasma citri. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 105(6) 519-533.

Zhang, Y., Lartey, R. T., Hartson, S. D., Voss, T. C., & Melcher, U. (1999) . Limitations to tobacco mosaic virus infection of turnip. Arch. Virol. 144 (5), 957-971.

Melcher, U. (1999). Genetic Code: Overview. In R. McClenaghan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Genetics Pasadena CA: Salem Press, pp. 232-236.

Melcher, U. (1999). Molecular Genetics: Overview. In R. McClenaghan (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Genetics Pasadena CA: Salem Press, pp. 406-412.

Melcher, U., Mitchell, F., Pair, S. D., Fletcher, J. & Bruton, B. (1999). New primer sets distinguish the cucurbit yellow vine bacterium from an insect endosymbiont. Phytopathology 89: S95.

Fletcher, J., Wayadande, A., Melcher, U., & Ye, F. (1998). The phytopathogenic mollicute-insect vector interface: a closer look. Phytopathology, 88(12), 1351-1358.

Avila, F. J., Bruton, B. D., Fletcher, J., Sherwood, J. L., Pair, S. D., & Melcher, U. (1998). Polymerase chain reaction detection and phylogenetic characterization of an agent associated with yellow vine disease of cucurbits. Phytopathology, 88 (5), 428-436.

Ye, F., Melcher, U., Wayadande, A. C., & Fletcher, J. (1997) . Molecular characterization of a gene encoding a membrane protein of Spiroplasma citri. Gene, 189 (1), 95-100.

Lartey, R. T., Voss, T. C., & Melcher, U. (1997). Completion of a cDNA sequence of a tobamovirus pathogenic to crucifers. Gene, 188 (2), 295--a correction.

Melcher, U. (1996). Inferring viral evolution by phylogenetic analysis. In "Recent Research Developments in Plant Pathology" (S. G. Pandalai , Ed.), Vol. 1, Research Signpost, Trivandrum, India, pp. 101-111.

Lartey, R. T., Voss, T. C., and Melcher, U. (1996) . Tobamovirus evolution : gene overlaps, recombination, and taxonomic implications. Mol. Biol. Evol. 13, 1327-1338.

Melcher, U. (1996). Overturned 'truths'. The Scientist 10 (19), 12.

Melcher, U. (1996). Recombination in the evolution of tobamoviruses. Phytopathology 86 (Suppl.), S18.

Ye, F., Melcher, U., and Fletcher, J. (1996). Spiroplasma citri BR3 encodes a protein with homology to mycoplasma adhesins. Phytopathology 86 (Suppl.), S96.

Ye, F., Melcher, U., Rascoe, J. E., and Fletcher, J. (1996) . Extensive chromsome aberrations in Spiroplasma citri strain BR3. Biochem. Genet. 34, 269-286.

Lartey, R. T., Voss, T. C., and Melcher, U. (1995). Completion of a cDNA sequence of a tobamovirus pathogenic to crucifers. Gene 166, 331-332.

Melcher, U. (1995). "More" is not "different". Science 268, 352.

Melcher, U. (1995). Puppy representation of DNA nucleotide sequences. In "The Pattern Book: Fractals, Art, and Nature" (C. A. Pickover , Ed.), pp. 30-31. World Scientific, River Edge NJ.

Sha, Y. H., Melcher, U., Davis, R. E., and Fletcher, J. (1995). Resistance of Spiroplasma citri lines to the virus SVTS2 is associated with integration of viral DNA sequences into host chromosomal and extrachromosomal DNA. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61, 3950-3959.

Williams, A., Chenault, K. D., and Melcher, U. (1995). Graphic representations of amino acid sequences. In "Visualizing Biological Information" (C. A. Pickover , Ed.), pp. 6-14. World Scientific, River Edge NJ.

Ye, F., Melcher, U., and Fletcher, J. (1995). Loss of genes due to chromosomal rearrangements in an insect non-transmissible line of Spiroplasma citri BR3. Phytopathology 85:1187

Zhang, Y. L., and Melcher, U. (1995). Tobacco mosaic virus encoding green fluorescent protein. Phytopathology 85, 1184.

Chenault, K. D., and Melcher, U. (1994). Patterns of nucleotide sequence variation among cauliflower mosaic virus isolates. Biochimie 76, 3-8.

Chenault, K. D., and Melcher, U. (1994). Phylogenetic relationships reveal recombination among isolates of cauliflower mosaic virus. J. Mol. Evol. 39, 496-505.

Lartey, R. T., Lane, L. C., and Melcher, U. (1994). Electron microscopic and molecular characterization of turnip vein-clearing virus. Arch. Virol. 138, 287-298.

Melcher, U. (1994). Past, present and future of cauliflower mosaic virus. In "The Past, Present and Future of Plant Biology" (T.-H. D. Ho and H. Pakrasi , Ed.), pp. 61-64. Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Ye, F., Rascoe, J. E., Melcher, U., and Fletcher, J. (1994). Genetic rearrangements in Sprioplasma citri BR3 lines differing in insect trasmissibility. Phytopathology 84, 1128.

Chenault, K. D., and Melcher, U. (1993). Phylogeny of cauliflower mosaic virus isolates reveals recombination events. Phytopathology 83, 465.

Chenault, K. D., and Melcher, U. (1993). The complete nucleotide sequence of cauliflower mosaic virus isolate BBC . Gene 123, 255-257.

Chenault, K. D., and Melcher, U. (1993). Cauliflower mosaic virus isolate CMV-1 . Plant Physiol. 101, 1395-1396.

Dabo, S. M., Mitchell, E. D., Jr., and Melcher, U. (1993). A method for the isolation of nuclear DNA from cotton (Gossypium) leaves. Anal. Biochem. 210, 34-38.

Daubert, C., and Melcher, U. (1993). Turnip hyperstunting induced by cauliflower mosaic virus chimeras. Phytopathology 83, 465.

Lartey, R. T., Hartson, S. D., Pennington, R. E., Sherwood, J. L., and Melcher, U. (1993). Occurrence of a vein-clearing tobamovirus in turnip. Plant Disease 77, 21-24.

Lartey, R. T., Lane, L. C., and Melcher, U. (1993). Electron microsocopic an molecular characterization of turnip vein-clearing virus. Phytopathology 83, 466.

Melcher, U. (1993). HIV-1 proteinase as structural model of intercellular transport proteins of plant viruses. J. Theor. Biol. 162, 61-74.

Pennington, R., and Melcher, U. (1993). In planta deletion of DNA inserts from the large intergenic region of cauliflower mosaic virus DNA. Virol. 192, 188-196.

Sha, Y. H., Fletcher, J., and Melcher, U. (1993). DNA fingerprinting analysis of viral DNA integration into the genomes of Spiroplasma citri lines differing in insect transmissibility. Phytopathology 83, 1400.

Thompson, S., and Melcher, U. (1993). The coat protein of cauliflower mosaic virus binds to single-stranded DNA. J. Gen. Virol. 74, 1141-1148.

Zhang, Y.-L., and Melcher, U. (1993). PCR amplification of Arabidopsis DNA using CaMV-specific primers. Phytopathology 83, 469.

Chenault, K. D., Steffens, D. L., and Melcher, U. (1992). Nucleotide sequence of cauliflower mosaic virus isolate NY8153 . Plant Physiol. 100, 542-545.

Lartey, R. T., Hartson, S., and Melcher, U. (1992). Defective movement of tobacco mosaic virus prevents systemic infection of turnip. Phytopathology 82, 1177.

Melcher, U., Brannan, C. M., Gardner, C. O., Jr., and Essenberg, R. C. (1992). Diverse mechanisms of plant resistance to cauliflower mosaic virus revealed by leaf skeleton hybridization. Arch. Virology 123, 379-387.

Melcher, U., Lartey, R. T., and Pennington, R. E. (1992). Isolate-specific synergy in symptom production between a caulimo- and a tobamovirus. Phytopathology 82, 1173-1174.

Rezende, J. A. M., Urban, L., Sherwood, J. L., and Melcher, U. (1992). Host effect on cross protection between two strains of tobacco mosaic virus. J. Phytopathol. 136, 147-153.

Vaden, V. R., and Melcher, U. (1990). Recombination sites in cauliflower mosaic virus DNAs : implications for mechanisms of recombination. Virol. 177, 717-726.

Urban, L. A., Sherwood, J. L., Rezende, J. A. M. and Melcher, U. (1990) Examination of Mechanisms of Cross-Protection with Non-Transgenic Plants. In: Recognition and Response in Plant-Virus Interactions, R. S. S. Fraser, ed., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 415-426.

Melcher, U. (1990). Similarities between putative transport proteins of plant viruses. J. Gen. Virol. 71, 1009-1018.

Zhang, X. S. and Melcher, U. (1989) Competition between Isolates and Variants of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus in Infected Turnip Plants. J. Gen. Virol. 70, 3427-3437.

Sun, T. J., Essenberg, M. and Melcher, U. (1989) Photoactivated DNA Nicking, Enzyme Inactivation, and Bacterial Inhibition by Sesquiterpenoid Phytoalexins from Cotton. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions 2 (3), 139-147.

Melcher, U. (1989) Symptoms of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Infection in Arabidopsis thaliana and Turnip. Botanical Gaz. 150, 139-147.

Melcher, U. (1988). A readable and space-efficient DNA sequence representation: application to caulimoviral DNAs. Comput. Appl. Biosci. 4, 93-96.

Sun, T. J., Melcher, U. and Essenberg, M. (1988) Inactivation of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus by a Photoactivatable Cotton Phytoalexin. Physiological Molec. Plant Pathol. 33, 115-126.

Hussain, M. M., Melcher, U., Whittle, T., Williams, A., Brannan, C. M. and Mitchell, E. D., Jr. (1987) Replication of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus DNA in Leaves and Suspension Culture Protoplasts of Cotton. Plant Physiol. 83, 633-639.

Melcher, U., Steffens, D. L., Lyttle, D. J., Lebeurier, G., Lin, H., Choe, I. S., and Essenberg, R. C. (1986). Infectious and non-infectious mutants of cauliflower mosaic virus DNA. J. Gen. Virol. 67, 1491-1498.

Melcher, U., Choe, I. S., Lebeurier, G., Richards, K. and Essenberg, R. C. (1986) Selective Allele Loss and Interference Between Cauliflower Mosaic Virus DNAs. Molec. Gen. Genetics 203, 230-236.

Hussain, M. M., Melcher, U. and Essenberg, R. C. (1985) Infection of Evacuolated Turnip Protoplasts with Liposome-Packaged Cauliflower Mosaic Virus. Plant Cell Reports 4, 58-62.

Choe, I. S., Melcher, U., Richards, K., Lebeurier, G. and Essenberg, R. C. (1985) Recombination Between Mutant Cauliflower Mosaic Virus DNAs. Plant Molec. Biol. 5, 281-289.

Baharaeen, S., Melcher, U., and Vishniac, H. S. (1983). Complementary DNA-25S ribosomal RNA hybridization: an improved method for phylogenetic studies. Can. J. Microbiol. 29, 546-551.

Armour, S. L., Melcher, U., Pirone, T. P., Lyttle, D. J. and Essenberg, R. C. (1983) Helper Component of Aphid Transmission Encoded by Region II of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus DNA. Virology 129, 25-30.

Melcher, U., Gardner, C. O., Jr. and Essenberg, R, C. (1982) Leaf Skeleton Hybridization. Focus 4 (2), 5-6.

Melcher, U., Gardner, C. O., Jr. and Essenberg, R. C. (1981) Leaf Skeleton Hybridization. Plant Molec. Biol. Newsletter 2, 67-69.

Melcher, U., Gardner, C. O., Jr. and Essenberg, R. C. (1981) Clones of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Identified by Molecular Hybridization in Turnip Leaves. Plant Molec. Biol. 1, 63-73.

Melcher, U. and Fraij, B. (1980) A Methionine-Rich Protein Fraction Prepared by Cryoprecipitation from Extracts of Corn Meal. J. Agr. Food Chem. 28, 1334-1336.

Melcher, U. (1980) Heterogeneity of Zea mays Protein Body Messenger RNA. Plant Sci. Lett. 18, 133-141.

Gardner, C. O., Jr., Melcher, U., Shockey, M. W. and Essenberg, R. C. (1980) Restriction Enzyme Cleavage Maps of the DNA of Two Cauliflower Mosaic Virus Isolates. Virology 103, 250-254.

Melcher, U., Hein, R. A., Gardner, C. O., Jr., Shockey, M. W. and Essenberg, R. C. (1980) An Indirect Radioimmunoassay of Cauliflower Mosaic Virus. Phytopathology 70, 954-957.

Shockey, M. W., Gardner, C. O., Jr., Melcher, U. and Essenberg, R. C. (1980) Polypeptides Associated with Inclusion Bodies from Leaves of Turnip Infected with Cauliflower Mosaic Virus. Virology 105, 575-581.

Dobson, N., and Melcher, U. (1979). Density comparisons of heavy chains of membrane and secreted immunoglobulins of mouse. Biochem J 83, 395-403.

Melcher, U. (1979) In vitro Synthesis of a Precursor to the Methionine-Rich Polypeptide of the Zein Fraction of Corn. Plant Physiol. 63, 354-358.

Melcher, U. (1978) Detection of a Membrane-Like IgM Inside of Murine Spleen Cells. Immunochemistry 15, 483-489.

Melcher, U. (1978) Possible Palindromes in Immunoglobulin Heavy Chain Genes: Their Role in Membrane Attachment. Immunogenetics 7, 1-12.

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