Isabelle Kagan

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Faculty

Contact Information
University of Kentucky, PSS
Ag. Science Bldg. North
1100 Nicholasville Road (Office:N222)
Lexington, KY 40546-0091
(859) 257-4610
(859) 421-9018
(859) 257-3334
isabelle.kagan@ars.usda.gov

Speciality

Education
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
B.A. 1991 (majors: chemistry and biology)

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Ph.D. 1999 (major: plant pathology)

plant natural products and their roles in defense against pathogens, plant-endophyte mutualism, and animal health

2004-present Research plant physiologist at the USDA-ARS Forage-Animal Production Research Unit (FAPRU) in Lexington, KY.

2002-2004 Postdoctoral molecular biologist at the USDA-ARS Natural Products Utilization Research Unit (NPURU) in Oxford, MS.

2000-2002 Postdoctoral plant physiologist at the USDA-ARS-NPURU.

1999-2000 Postdoctoral enzymologist (Chateaubriand Fellow in 1999) in the Dept. of Isoprenoids, CNRS Institute of Plant Molecular Biology, Strasbourg, France.

Research/Teaching Publications

Books and Book Chapters

Kagan IA, Michel A, Scheffler BE, Prause A, Baerson SR, and Duke SO. 2006. Global gene expression approaches to mode-of-action studies with natural product-based pesticides. In Natural Products for Pest Management. Duke SO, Rimando AM, Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 927: 255-264.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Duke SO, Dayan FE, Kagan IA, and Baerson SR. 2005. New herbicide target sites from natural compounds. In New Discoveries in Agrochemicals. Clark JM, Ohkawa H.; Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 892: pp. 151-160.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Isabelle Kagan, 2005. New herbicide target sites from natural compunds, in New Discoveries in Agrochemicals. ACS Symposium Series 892:151-160.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Rimando, A. M.; Kagan, I. A.; Dayan, F. E.; Czarnota, M. A.; and Weston, L. A. 2005. Chemical basis for weed suppressive activity of sorghum. In Semiochemicals in Pest and Weed Control. Petroski, R. J.; Tellez, M. R.; Behle, R. W., Eds.; ACS Symposium Series 906: 59-70.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Refereed Journal Articles

Tavva VS, Kim Y-H, Kagan IA, Dinkins RD, and Collins GB. 2006. Increased α-tocopherol content in soybean seed overexpressing Perilla frutescens -tocopherol methyltransferase gene. Plant Cell Reports online (DOI: 10.1007/s00299-006-0218-2).
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan Glenn Collins Randy Dinkins

Baerson SR, Sánchez-Moreiras A, Pedrol-Bonjoch N, Schulz M, Kagan IA, Agarwal AK, Reigosa MJ,and Duke SO. 2005. Detoxification and transcriptome response in Arabidopsis seedlings exposed to the allelochemical benzoxazolin-2(3H)-one (BOA). Journal of Biological Chemistry 280: 21867 - 21881.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Kagan IA, Michel A, Prause A, Scheffler BE, Pace P, and Duke SO. 2005. Gene transcription profiles of Saccharomyces cerevisiae after treatment with plant protection fungicides that inhibit ergosterol biosynthesis. Pesticide Biochemistry and Physiology 82:133-153.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Dayan FE, Kagan IA, and Rimando AM. 2003. Elucidation of the biosynthetic pathway of the allelochemical sorgoleone using retrobiosynthetic NMR analysis. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 28607-28611.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Hemmerlin A, Hoeffler J-F, Meyer O, Tritsch D, Kagan IA, Grosdemange-Billiard C, Rohmer M, and Bach TJ. 2003. Crosstalk between the cytosolic mevalonate and the plastidial methylerythritol phosphate pathways in tobacco Bright Yellow-2 cells. Journal of Biological Chemistry 278: 26666-26676.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Kagan IA, Rimando AM, and Dayan FE. 2003. Chromatographic separation and in vitro activity of sorgoleone congeners from the roots of Sorghum bicolor. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 51: 7589-7595.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Kagan IA, and Hammerschmidt R. 2002. Arabidopsis ecotype variability in camalexin production and reaction to infection by Alternaria brassicicola. Journal of Chemical Ecology 28: 2121-2140.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Kagan IA, and Hammerschmidt R. 2001. Pitfalls in screening for camalexin-deficient mutants: effects of kinetics, pathogen choice, and inoculum concentration on apparent camalexin accumulation in wild-type (Columbia) and pad2 Arabidopsis. Physiological and Molecular Plant Pathology 59:119-127.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

Glazebrook J, Zook M, Mert F, Kagan I, Rogers EE, Crute IR, Holub EB, Hammerschmidt R, and Ausubel FM. 1997. Phytoalexin-deficient mutants of Arabidopsis reveal that PAD4 encodes a regulatory factor and that four PAD genes contribute to downy mildew resistance. Genetics 146: 381-392.
Authors in PSS Dept.: Isabelle Kagan

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