A1. Kahn, M., Ow, D., Sauer, B., Rabinowitz, A., Calendar, R.  1980.  Genetic analysis of bacteriophage P4 using P4-plasmid ColE1 hybrids.  Molecular & General Genetics 177: 399-412.
 A2.  Ow, D.W., Ausubel, F.M.  1980.  Recombinant P4 bacteriophages propagate as viable lytic phages or as autonomous plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae.  Molecular & General Genetics 180: 165-175.
 A3.  Sauer, B., Ow, D., Ling, L., Calendar, R.  1981.  Mutants of satellite bacteriophage P4 that are defective in the suppression of transcriptional polarity.  Journal of Molecular Biology 145: 29-46.
 A4.  Ow, D.W., Ausubel, F.M.  1983.  Regulation of nitrogen metabolism genes by the nifA gene product in Klebsiella pneumoniae.  Nature (London) 301: 307-313.
 A5.  Sundaresan, V., Jones, J.D.G., Ow, D.W., Ausubel, F.M.  1983.  Klebsiella pneumoniae nifA product activates the Rhizobium meliloti nitrogenase promoter.  Nature (London) 301: 728-732. 
 A6.  Ow, D.W., Sundaresan, V., Rothstein, D.M., Brown, S.E., Ausubel, F.M.  1983.  Promoters regulated by the glnG (ntrC) and nifA gene products share a heptameric consensus sequence in the 15 region.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA  80: 2524-2528.
 A7. Sundaresan, V., Ow, D.W., Ausubel, F.M.  1983.  Activation of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Rhizobium meliloti nitrogenase promoters by gln (ntr) regulatory proteins.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA  80: 4030-4034. 
 A8. Ow, D.W., Ausubel, F.M.  1983.  Conditionally replicating plasmid vectors that can integrate into the Klebsiella pneumoniae chromosome via bacteriophage P4 sitespecific recombination.  Journal of Bacteriology 155: 704-713.
 A9.  Ow, D.W., Xiong, Y., Gu, Q., Shen, S.C.  1985.  Mutational analysis of the Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogenase promoter:  sequences essential for positive control by nifA and ntrC (glnG) products.  Journal of Bacteriology 161: 868-874.
 A10. Ow, D.W., Wood, K.V., DeLuca, M., de Wet, J.R., Helinski, D.R., Howell, S.H.  1986.  Transient and stable expression of the firefly luciferase gene in plant cells and transgenic plants.  Science 234: 856-859.
 A11. Ow, D.W., Jacobs, J., Howell, S.H.  1987.  Functional regions of the CaMV 35S RNA promoter determined by use of the firefly luciferase gene as a reporter of promoter activity.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 84: 4870-4874.
 A12. Schneider, M., Ow, D.W., Howell, S.H.  1990.  The in vivo pattern of firefly luciferase expression in transgenic plants.  Plant Molecular Biology 14: 935-947.
 A13. Joshi, R.L., Joshi, V., Ow, D.W.  1990.  BSMV genome mediated expression of a foreign gene in dicot and monocot plant cells.  EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Journal  9: 2663-2669.
 A14. Dale, E.C., Ow, D.W.  1990.  Intra- and intermolecular site-specific recombination in plant cells mediated by bacteriophage P1 recombinase.  Gene 91: 79-85.
 A15. Dale, E.C., Ow, D.W.  1991.  Gene transfer with subsequent removal of the selection gene from the host genome.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA  88: 10558-10562. 
 A16. Bayley, C.C., Morgan, M., Dale, E.C., Ow, D.W.  1992.  Exchange of gene activity in transgenic plants catalyzed by the Cre-lox site-specific recombination system.  Plant Molecular Biology 18: 353-362.
 A17. Abrahamson, S.L., Speiser, D.M., Ow, D.W.  1992.  A gel electrophoresis assay for phytochelatins.  Analytical Biochemistry 200: 239-243.
 A18. Bayley, C., Trolinder, N., Ray, C., Morgan, M., Quisenberry, J.E., Ow, D.W.  1992.  Engineering 2,4-D resistance into cotton.  Theoretical & Applied Genetics 83: 645-649.
 A19. Speiser, D.M., Abrahamson, S.L., Banuelos, G., Ow, D.W.  1992.  Brassica juncea produces a phytochelatin-cadmium-sulfide complex.  Plant Physiology 99: 817-821.
 A20. Ortiz, D.F., Kreppel, L., Speiser, D.M., Scheel, G., McDonald, G., Ow, D.W.  1992.  Heavy metal tolerance in the fission yeast requires an ATP binding cassette-type vacuolar membrane transporter.  EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization) Journal 11: 3491-3499.
 A21. Speiser, D.M., Ortiz, D.F., Kreppel, L., Scheel, G., McDonald, G., Ow, D.W.  1992.  Purine biosynthetic genes are required for cadmium tolerance in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.  Molecular and Cellular Biology 12:5301-5310.
 A22. Juang, R.-H., McCue, K.F., Ow, D.W.  1993.  Two purine biosynthetic enzymes that are required for cadmium tolerance in Schizosaccharomyces pombe utilize cysteine sulfinate in vitro.  Archives of Biochemistry & Biophysics 304: 392-401.
 A23. van Haaren, M.J.J., Ow, D.W.  1993.  Prospects of applying a combination of DNA transposition and site-specific recombination in plants.  Plant Molecular Biology 23: 525-533.
 A24. Ow, D.W.  Phytochelatin-mediated cadmium tolerance in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.  1993.  In Vitro Cellular Developmental Biology 29P: 213-219.
 A25. Qin, M., Bayley, C., Stockton, T., Ow, D.W.  1994.  Cre recombinase mediated sitespecific recombination between plant chromosomes.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 91: 1706-1710. 
 A26. Ow, D.W., Medberry, S.L.  1995.  Genome manipulation through site-specific recombination.  Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 14: 239-261.
 A27. Medberry, S.L., Dale, E., Qin, M., Ow, D.W.  1995.  Intra-chromosomal rearrangements generated by Cre-lox sitespecific recombination.  Nucleic Acids Research 23: 485-490.
 A28. Ortiz, D.F., Ruscitti, T., McCue, K., Ow, D.W.  1995.  Transport of metal-binding peptides by HMT1, a fission yeast ABC-type vacuolar membrane protein.  Journal of Biological Chemistry 270: 4721-4728.
 A29. Albert, H., Dale, E.C., Lee, E., Ow, D.W.  1995.  Site-specific integration of DNA into wild type and mutant lox sites placed in the plant genome.  Plant Journal 7: 649-659.
 A30. Qin, M., Lee, E., Zankel, T., Ow, D.W.  1995.  Site-specific cleavage of chromosomes in vitro through Cre-lox recombination.  Nucleic Acids Research 23: 1923-1927.
 A31. Cunningham, S., Ow, D.W.  1996.  Promises and prospects of phytoremediation.  Plant Physiology 110: 715-719.
 A32. Ow, D.W.  1996.  Recombinase-directed chromosome engineering in plants.  Current Opinion in Biotechnology 7: 181-186.
 A33. Ow, D.W.  1996.  Heavy metal tolerance genes:  prospective tools for bioremediation.  Resources, Conservation and Recycling 18:135-149.
 A34. Perego, P., VandeWeghe, J., Ow, D.W., Howell, S.B.  1997.  The role of determinants of cadmium sensitivity in the tolerance of Schizosaccharomyces pombe to cisplatin.  Molecular Pharmacology 51: 12-18. 
 A35. VandeWeghe, J., Ow, D.W.  1999.  A fission yeast gene for mitochondrial sulfide oxidation.  Journal of Biological Chemistry 274: 13250-13257.
 A36. Srivastava, V., Anderson, O.D., Ow, D.W.  1999.  Single-copy transgenic wheat generated through the resolution of complex integration patterns.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 96: 11117-11121.
 A37. Choi, S., Begum, D., Koshinsky, H., Ow, D.W., Wing, R.A.  2000.  A new approach for the identification and cloning of genes:  the pBACwich system using Cre/lox site-specific recombination.  Nucleic Acids Research 28: e19, i-vii.
 A38. Koshinsky, H.A., Lee, E., Ow, D.W.  2000.  Cre-lox site-specific recombination between Arabidopsis and tobacco chromosomes.  Plant Journal 23: 715-722.
 A39. Day, C.D., Lee E., Kobayashi, J., Holappa, L.D., Albert, H., Ow, D.W.  2000.  DNA integration into the same chromosome location can produce transgene alleles that express at a predictable level, or alleles that are differentially silenced.  Genes & Development 14: 2869-2880.
 A40. Ow, D.W.  2001.  The right chemistry for marker gene removal?  Nature Biotechnology 19: 115-116.
 A41 Thomason, L.C., Calendar, R., Ow, D.W.  2001.  Gene insertion and replacement in Schizosacchromyces pombe mediated by the Streptomyces bacteriophage C31 site-specific recombination system.  Molecular Genetics & Genomics 265: 1031-1038.
 A42. Srivastava, V., Ow D.W.  2001.  Single copy primary transformants of maize obtained through the co-introduction of a recombinase-expressing construct.  Plant Molecular Biology 46 :561-566.
 A43. VandeWeghe, J., Ow, D.W.  2001.  Accumulation of metal-binding peptides in fission yeast requires hmt2+.  Molecular Microbiology 42: 29-36.
 A44 Ow, D.W.  2002.  Recombinase-directed plant transformation for the post genomic era.  Plant Molecular Biology 48: 183-200. 
 A45. Srivastava, V., Ow D.W.  2002.  Biolistic mediated site-specific integration in rice.  Molecular Breeding 8: 345-350.
 A46. Belteki, G., Gertsenstein, M., Ow, D.W., Nagy, A.  2003.  Site-specific cassette exchange and germline transmission with mouse ES cells expressing C31 integrase.  Nature Biotechnology 21: 321-324. 
 A47. Srivastava, V., Ow, D.W.  2003.  Rare instances of Cre-mediated deletion product maintained in transgenic wheat.  Plant Molecular Biology, 52: 661-668.
 A48. Judova, J., Sutka, R., Klaudiny, J., Liskova, D., Ow, D.W., Simuth, J.  2004.  Transformation of tobacco plants with cDNA encoding honeybee royal jelly MRJP1.  Biologia Plantarum 48: 185-191. 
 A49. Srivastava, V., Ow, D.W.  2004.  Marker-free site-specific gene integration in plants.  Trends in Biotechnology 22: 627-629.
 A50. Ow, D.W.  2005.  Transgene management via multiple site-specific recombination systems.  In Vitro Cellular and Developmental Biology - Plant 41: 213 – 219.
 A51. Thomson, J.G., Ow, D. W.  2006.  Site-specific recombination systems for the genetic manipulation of eukaryotic genomes.  Genesis 44: 465-476.
 A52. Ow, D.W.  2007.  GM maize from site-specific recombination technology, what next?  Current Opinion in Biotechnology 18: 115-120. 
 A53 Blanvillain, R., Boavida, L.C., McCormick, S., Ow, D.W.  2008.  EXPORTIN1 genes are essential for development and function of the gametophytes in Arabidopsis thaliana.  Genetics 180: 1493-1500.
 A54 Blanvillain, R., Kim, J.H., Wu, S., Lima, A., Ow D.W. 2008.  OXIDATIVE STRESS 3 is a chromatin-associated factor involved in tolerance to heavy metals and oxidative stress.  Plant Journal 57: 654-665.
 A55 Thomson, J.G., Yau, Y.-Y., Blanvillain, R., Chiniquy, D., Thilmony, R., Ow, D.W.  2009.  ParA resolvase catalyzes site-specific excision of DNA from the Arabidopsis genome.  Transgenic Research 18: 237-248.
 A56. Thomson, J.G., Chan, R., Thilmony, R., Yau, Y.-Y., Ow, D.W.  PhiC31 recombinase demonstrates heritable germinal transmission of site-specific excision from the Arabidopsis genome.  BMC Biotechnology (in press).
 
B.  Book Chapters & Symposium Proceedings
 
 B1.  Ausubel, F.M., Janssen, K.A., Ow, D.W., Riedel, G.E., Ruvkun, G.B., Cannon, F.C., and Cannon, M.C.  1980.  The use of recombinant DNA techniques in the study of nitrogenfixing genes.  In:  Nitrogen Fixation (Steward, W.D.P., Gallon, J.R., eds.)  Academic Press, London, pp. 395-419.
 B2. Ausubel, F.M., Brown, S.E., deBruijn, F.J., Ow, D.W., Riedel, G.E., Ruvkun, G.B., and Sundaresan, V.  1982.  Molecular cloning of nitrogen fixation (nif) genes from Klebsiella pneumoniae and Rhizobium meliloti.  In:  Genetic Engineering (Setlow, J.K., Hollaender, A., eds.)  Plenum Press, New York, pp. 169-198.
 B3. Ausubel, F.M., Ow, D.W., Sundaresan, V.  1983.  Conservation of the regulatory mechanisms regulating the expression of nitrogen fixation genes in Rhizobium meliloti and Klebsiella pneumoniae.  In:  Structure And Function Of Plant Genomes  (Ciferri, O., Dure III, L., eds.)  Plenum Press, New York, pp. 253-262.
 B4. Sundaresan, V., Jones, J., Ow, D.W., Ausubel, F.M.  1983.  Regulation of nif genes in Rhizobium meliloti and Klebsiella pneumoniae.  In:  Gene Expression, UCLA Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology, New Series, Vol. 8 (Hamer, D., Rosenberg, M., eds.)  Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp. 175-185.
 B5. Zimmerman, L., Szeto, W., Ow, D.W., Ausubel, F.M.  1983.  A region which regulates nitrogenase expression in Rhizobium meliloti.  In:  Plant Molecular Biology, UCLA Symposium on Molecular and Cellular Biology, New Series, Vol. 12 (Goldberg, R.B., ed.), Alan R. Liss, Inc., New York, pp. 237-242.
 B6. deBruijn, F.J., Sundaresan, V., Szeto, W.W., Ow, D.W., Ausubel, F.M.  1984.  Regulation of nitrogen fixation (nif) genes of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Rhizobium meliloti:  role of nitrogen regulation (ntr) genes.  In:  Advances In Nitrogen Fixation Research  (Veeger, C., Newton, W.E., eds.), Martinus Nijoff/Dr. W. Junk, Hague, pp. 627-633.
 B7. Ow, D.W., Gu, Q., Xiong, Y., Zhu, J., Shen, S.C.  1985.  Regulation of Klebsiella pneumoniae nitrogen fixation gene promoters by regulatory proteins ntrC, nifA, and nifL.  In:  Nitrogen Fixation Research Progress  (Evans, H.J., Bottomley, P.J., Newton, W.E., eds.), Martinus Nijoff, Dordrecht, pp. 461-467.
 B8. Ow, D.W., Howell, S.H.  1989.  Incorporation of firefly luciferase gene into plant cells.  In:  Biotechnology In Agriculture And Forestry, Vol. 9 “Plant Protoplasts & Genetic Engineering II”  (Bajaj, Y.P.S., ed.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 376-387.
 B9. Howell, S.H., Ow, D.W., Schneider, M.  1989.  Use of the firefly luciferase gene as a reporter of gene expression in plants.  In:  Plant Molecular Biology Manual  (Gelvin, S.B., Schilperoot, R.A., eds.), Kluwer Academic Press, pp. 1-11.
 B10. Kahn, M.L., Ziermann, R., Deho, G., Ow, D.W., Sunshine, M.G., Calendar, R.  1991.  Bacteriophage P2 and P4.  In:  Methods In Enzymology, vol 204, pp. 264-280, “Bacterial Genetic Systems”  (Miller, J.H., ed.), Academic Press.
 B11. Ow, D.W., Ortiz, D.F., Speiser, D.M., McCue, K.F.  1994.  Molecular genetic analysis of cadmium tolerance in Schizosaccharomyces pombe.  In: Metal Ions In Fungi (Winkelmann, G., Winge, D., eds.), Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, pp. 339-359.
 B12. Koshinsky, H.A., Liao, H.K., Ow, D.W.  1995.  Progress in screening microorganisms for gossypol-degrading ability.  In:  Biochemistry Of Cotton (Proceedings of the Biochemistry of Cotton Workshop, Galveston, Texas, Sept 28-30, 1994), Cotton Inc., pp. 19-22.
 B13. Ow, D.W., Albert, H., Dale, E., Lee, E., Stockton, T.  1995.  Cre-lox site-specific integration of DNA into the plant genome.  In:  Modification Of Gene Expression And Non-Mendelian Inheritance  (Oono, K., Takaiwa, F., eds.), National Institute of Agrobiological Resources, Sato Press, Mito, pp. 225-234.
 B14. Morgan, M.K., Ow, D.W.  1995.  Polyethylene glycol-mediated transformation of tobacco leaf mesophyll protoplasts: an experiment in the study of Cre-lox recombination.  In:  Methods In Plant Molecular Biology, A Laboratory Manual  (Maliga, P., Klessig, D., Cashmore, A., Gruissem W., Varner, J., eds.), Cold Spring Harbor Press, pp. 1-17.
 B15. Ow, D.W.  1997.  Marker-free transgenic plants.  In:  Proceedings of the 2nd Central and Eastern European Conference For Regional And International Cooperation On Safety In Biotechnology.  Federal Environmental Agency, Vienna, Austria, pp. 25-28.
 B16. Ow, D.W.  1997.  Techniques for creating marker free transgenic plants.  In:  Nordic Seminar on Antibiotic Resistance Marker Genes and Transgenic Plants.  Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board, Oslo, Norway, pp. 59-68.
 B17 Koshinsky, H, Ow, D.W.  1997.  Recombinase systems in plants.  In: Proceedings Of The 1997 Tappi (Technical Association Of The Pulp And Paper Industry) Biological Sciences Symposium (Oct. 19-23, 1997, San Francisco), pp. 295-297.
 B18. Ow, D.W., Quisenberry, J.E.  1998.  Transgenic cotton resistant to 2,4-D.  In: Biotechnology In Agriculture And Forestry, vol. 42, “Cotton”  (Bajaj, Y.P.S., ed.), Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 291-297.
 B19. Albert, H., Ow, D.W.  1998.  Site-specific recombination directed plant transformation.  In:  Somaclonal Variation and Induced Mutation In Crop Improvement (Jain, S.M., Ahloowalia, B.S., Brar, D.S., eds.), Kluwer Academic Press, The Netherlands, pp. 503-518.
 B20. Ow, D.W.  1998.  Prospects of engineering heavy metal detoxification genes in plants.  In:  Engineering Crops For Industrial Uses (Shewry, P., ed.), Portland Press, pp. 111-124.
 B21. Ow, D.W., Kim, J.H., Fox, T., Sin, M.  2000.  Cloning heavy metal tolerance genes.  Environmental Management Science Program Workshop, Atlanta, GA, April 25-27, 2000, pp. 1-9
 B22 Ow, D.  2000.  Marker Genes.  In: Proceedings of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Consultation on Foods Derived from Biotechnology (May 29-June 2, 2000, Geneva, Switzerland), pp. 1-6.
 B23 Ow, D.W.  2000.  Transgenic Plants, Then and Now: A Personal Perspective.  In: Proceedings of the 2000 Cotton Research Meeting and Summaries of Cotton Research in Progress (Oosterhuis, D.M., ed.), Univ of Arkansa Press, pp. 15-21. 
 B24. Albert, H., Ow, D.W.  2000.  Cre-lox directed integration of transgenes into tobacco.  In:  Plant Molecular Biology Manual  (Gelvin, S.B., Schilperoot, R.A., eds.), Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht, pp. N3 1-13.
 B25. Ow, D.W.  2002.  Recombinase-directed transgene placement.  In:  Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on the Biosafety of Genetically Modified Organisms, Beijing, China, pp. 13-20.
 B26. Ow, D.W.  2003.  site-specific gene stacking method.  In:  Plant Biotechnology 2002 and Beyond (Vasil, I.K., ed.), Kluwer Academic Press, Dordrecht, pp. 215-218.
 B27 Ow, D.W.  2003.  Genetically Modified Plants - Current Technology & Future Prospects.  Commissioned review for the Pan American Health Organization /World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and Inter American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) Joint Meeting on Safety of Food Produced by Biotechnology, Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 20-21, 2003.
 B28. Ow, D.W.  2004.  Gene stacking through site-specific integration.  In: Genetically Modified Crops, Their Development, Uses, and Risks (Liang, G.H. & Skinner, D.Z., eds.), Haworth Press, Inc., Binghamton, New York, pages 71-100.
 B29. Ow, D.W.  2007.  Site-specific recombination for plant genetic engineering: strategy for agro-mediated gene stacking.  In Acta Horticulturae volume 738 (Litz, R.E., Scorza, R., eds.), Drukkkerij Jansen BV, The Netherlands, pages 117-127.
 B30. Stewart, C.N., Ow, D.W.  2008.  The Future of Plant Biotechnology.  In: Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques and Applications (C. Neal Stewart, Jr., ed.) Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 357-369.
 B31. Ow, D.W.  2008.  Chance events shape a career.  In: Plant Biotechnology and Genetics: Principles, Techniques and Applications (C. Neal Stewart, Jr., ed.) Wiley and Sons, New York, pp. 238-239.
 B32 Srivastava, V., Ow, D.W.  Site-specific recombination for precise and clean transgene integration in plant genome.  In: Plant Transformation Technologies (Eds: A. Touraev, V. Citovsky, T. Tzfira), Wiley-Blackwell Publishers (Book Chapter, in press).
 B33 Yau, Y.-Y., Wang, Y., Thomson, J.G., Ow, D.W.  Method for Bxb1-mediated site-specific integration in planta.  In:  Plant Chromosome Engineering: Methods and Protocols (Ed. J.A. Birchler), Humana Press (Book Chapter, in press).
 
C.  Published or Issued Patents
 
 C1. McElroy M.D., Helinski, D.R., Wood, K.V., DeWet, J.R., Ow, D.W., Howell, S.H.  “Recombinant expression Of Coleoptera luciferase”, U.S. Patent 5,583,024, issued Dec. 10, 1996.
 C2. McElroy M.D., Helinski, D.R., Wood, K.V., DeWet, J.R., Ow, D.W., Howell, S.H.  “DNA sequences encoding coleoptera luciferase activity”, U.S. Patent 5,674,713, issued Oct. 7, 1997.
 C3. McElroy M.D., Helinski, D.R., Wood, K.V., DeWet, J.R., Ow, D.W., Howell, S.H.  “Recombinantly produced Coleoptera luciferase and fusion proteins thereof”, U.S. Patent 5,700,673, issued Dec. 23, 1997.
 C4 Ow, D.W., Dale, E.C.  “Selection-gene-free transgenic plants”, International (WIPO PCT) publication WO 1993/001283, Jan. 21, 1993.  (Abandoned).
 C5. Ow, D.W., Srivastava, V.  “Resolution of complex integration patterns to obtain single copy transgenes”, U.S. Patent 6,114,600, issued Sept. 5, 2000.
 C6. Ow, D.W., Calendar, R., Thomason, L.  “DNA recombination in eucaryotic cells by the bacteriophage phiC31 recombination system”, International (WIPO PCT) publication WO 2001/007572, Feb. 1, 2001; U.S. Patent 6,746,870, issued June 8, 2004.
 C7. Ow, D.W.  “Methods for the replacement, translocation and stacking of DNA in eukaryotic genomes”, U.S. Patent 6,936,747, issued August 30, 2005.
 C8.  Ow, D.W., Thomson, J.  New site-specific recombinases for use in eukaryotic cells.  U.S. Patent application 20060046294, published March 2, 2006 (pending).
 
D.  Thesis
 
 D1.  Ow, D.W.  1983.  Control of nitrogen fixation genes by the Klebsiella pneumoniae nifA product.  Ph.D. Thesis, Harvard University.