Robert Bowden

Publications (4)18.32 Total impact

• Article: Surveillance, characterisation, and preservation of multidrug-resistant bacteria.

  Emil Lesho, David Craft, Benjamin C Kirkup, Paige Waterman, Amy Summers, Maryanne T Vahey, Kent E Kester, Robert Bowden
  The Lancet Infectious Diseases 01/2011; 11(1):8-10. · 17.39 Impact Factor
• Article: Clinical microbiology during the Vietnam War.

  Michael Washington, Matthew Brown, Thomas Palys, Stuart Tyner, Robert Bowden
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  ABSTRACT: During the period of 1965-1968, over two dozen Army microbiologists were deployed to various locations in Southeast Asia in support of the Vietnam War. Their role was to serve both a clinical laboratory mission/function at the mobile Army surgical hospital and mobile laboratory level as well as to perform research roles in all of the facilities. They were essential to the formulation of medical intelligence as well as to the practice of operational medicine in the deployed environment. The results of their laboratory investigations provided commanders and military physicians with critical medical information for patient care, outbreak investigation, and forensic analysis. As with many soldiers in support of the infantry and armor combat forces, most of the work occurs behind the scenes and their contributions are often left out of the historical literature. This article presents a brief overview of microbiology performed by Army microbiologists during the Vietnam War.
  Military medicine 11/2009; 174(11):1209-14. · 0.92 Impact Factor
• Article: Discovery and mapping of single feature polymorphisms in wheat using Affymetrix arrays

  Amy Bernardo, Peter Bradbury, Hongxiang Ma, Shengwa Hu, Robert Bowden, Edward Buckler, Guihua Bai
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  ABSTRACT: Abstract Background Wheat ( Triticum aestivum L.) is a staple food crop worldwide. The wheat genome has not yet been sequenced due to its huge genome size (~17,000 Mb) and high levels of repetitive sequences; the whole genome sequence may not be expected in the near future. Available linkage maps have low marker density due to limitation in available markers; therefore new technologies that detect genome-wide polymorphisms are still needed to discover a large number of new markers for construction of high-resolution maps. A high-resolution map is a critical tool for gene isolation, molecular breeding and genomic research. Single feature polymorphism (SFP) is a new microarray-based type of marker that is detected by hybridization of DNA or cRNA to oligonucleotide probes. This study was conducted to explore the feasibility of using the Affymetrix GeneChip to discover and map SFPs in the large hexaploid wheat genome. Results Six wheat varieties of diverse origins (Ning 7840, Clark, Jagger, Encruzilhada, Chinese Spring, and Opata 85) were analyzed for significant probe by variety interactions and 396 probe sets with SFPs were identified. A subset of 164 unigenes was sequenced and 54% showed polymorphism within probes. Microarray analysis of 71 recombinant inbred lines from the cross Ning 7840/Clark identified 955 SFPs and 877 of them were mapped together with 269 simple sequence repeat markers. The SFPs were randomly distributed within a chromosome but were unevenly distributed among different genomes. The B genome had the most SFPs, and the D genome had the least. Map positions of a selected set of SFPs were validated by mapping single nucleotide polymorphism using SNaPshot and comparing with expressed sequence tags mapping data. Conclusion The Affymetrix array is a cost-effective platform for SFP discovery and SFP mapping in wheat. The new high-density map constructed in this study will be a useful tool for genetic and genomic research in wheat.
  BMC Genomics. 01/2009;
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  Article: Molecular Mapping of Wheat Leaf Rust Resistance Gene Lr42.

  Xiaochun Sun, Guihua Bai, Brett F Carver, Robert Bowden
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  ABSTRACT: Leaf rust, caused by Puccinia triticina Eriks., is an important foliar disease of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) worldwide. Leaf rust resistance gene Lr42 from Aegilops tauschii Coss. has been used as a source of rust resistance in breeding programs. To identify molecular markers closely linked to Lr42, a segregating population of near-isogenic lines contrasting for the presence of Lr42 was developed in the hard winter wheat cultivar Century background and evaluated for rust infection type at both seedling and adult-plant stages. Simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were screened using bulked-segregant analysis. Two markers closely linked to Lr42 were identified on chromosome 1DS. The closest marker, Xwmc432, is about 0.8 cM from Lr42. Physical mapping of both SSR markers using Chinese Spring nullitetrasomic and ditelosomic genetic stocks confirmed that the markers linked to Lr42 were on 1DS. Markers for Lr42 were highly polymorphic between parents and among a diverse set of wheat germplasm collected from several countries, indicating that these markers are useful for marker-assisted selection for Lr42.