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Meshack Afitlhile

Associate Professor
Lipid biochemistry
western illinois university
United States of America

Professor Genetics
Biography

 Postdoctoral training – Umass, Amherst (2001-2003) Ph.D. - University of Kentucky, 2001 M.S. – Rhodes University, South Africa (1993)

Research Intrest

 My laboratory uses T-DNA insertion mutants of Arabidopsis to evaluate the role of major chloroplast receptors in the import of cytoplasm synthesized fatty acid desaturases. We employ conditions that promote de novo lipid synthesis, which help us evaluate the role of each receptor complex in the import of different fatty acid desaturases.

List of Publications
Afitlhile, Meshack, Samantha Workman, Kayla Duffield, Danielle Sprout, and Mark Berhow. 2013. A mutant of the Arabidopsis thaliana TOC159 gene accumulates reduced levels of linolenic acid and monogalactosyldiacylglycerol. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 73: 344-350.
Afitlhile, Meshack, Morgan Fry, Samantha Workman. 2015. The TOC159 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana accumulates altered levels of saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 87: 61-72.
Afitlhile, Meshack, Kayla Duffield-Duncan, Morgan Fry, Samantha Workman, Sue Hum-Musser, David Hildebrand. 2015. The toc132toc120 heterozygote mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana accumulates reduced levels of hexadecatrienoic acid. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry 96: 426-435.
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