Kado, Clarence I.

Professor Emeritus
Office Phone: 530-752-0325
FAX: 530-752-5674
E-Mail: cikado@ucdavis.edu

Biography

B.S. University of California, Berkeley 1959 Soil Chemistry
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 1964 Plant Pathology

Area of Specialization

Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Pantoea citrea and Xanthomonas campestris virulence mechanisms; plasmid biology; plant biotechnology.

Research

Our research program has focused on the following: 1. Elucidating the mechanism of horizontal gene transfer by Agrobacterium tumefaciens; the mechanism of pink disease production by Pantoea citrea; and the mechanism of ingression by Xanthomonas campestris. 2. Determining the structure and function of the T-pilus and the progenitor of the Ros transcriptional regulator. 3. Develop novel tools for molecular biology and genetics. For Plasmid Biology please see: http://conferences.ucdavis.edu/plasmidbiology.

Selected Publications:

Pink disease of pineapple. Kado, C. I. 2003. http://www.APSnet.org/online/feature/pineapple. pp. 1-4. APS Press, St. Paul, MN

Detection of PCR amplicons from bacterial pathogens using microsphere agglutination. Wu, S.-J., A. Chan and C. I. Kado. 2004. Journal of Microbiological Methods 56: 395-400.

Preparation of milk samples for PCR analysis using a rapid filtration technique. Wu, S.-J., and C. I. Kado. 2004. Journal of Applied Microbiology 96:1342-1346.

A biosurfactant produced by Pseudomonas fluorescens promotes soft rot of processed vegetables. Hernandez, A. M., T. V. Suslow, L. Leloup and C. I. Kado. 2004. Plant Pathology 53:596-601.

Plant Disease caused by Bacteria. Kado, C. I. 2004. In: R. M. Goodman (ed.) Encyclopedia of Plant and Crop Science, pp. 947-955, Marcel Dekker, Inc., NY

Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of Streptomyces. Kado, C. I. 2005. In: Agrobacterium transformation systems. K. Wang (ed.) CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL

Characterization of the pilin ortholog of the Helicobacter pylori type IV cag pathogenicity apparatus, a surface-associated protein expressed during infection. Adrzejewska, J., S. K. Lee, P. Olbermann, E. Katzowitsch, B. Linz, M. Achtman, C. I. Kado, S. Suerbaum, and C. Josenhans. 2006. J. Bacteriol. (in press)

Books:

Horizontal Gene Transfer. 2nd edition. Syvanen, M., and C. I. Kado. 2002. Academic Press, London, 445 pp

Plant Bacteriology. Kado, C. I. 2007. APS Press, St. Paul, MN (in press)