Steven Huber

Assistant Professor
Plant Biology
The Institute for Genomic Biology
United States of America

Professor Plant Sciences
Biography

Steven Huber Adjunct Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences USDA/ARS Plant Physiologist Education Ph.D., 1977, University of Wisconsin-Madison B.Sc., 1974, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Research Intrest

The major focus in the Huber laboratory is on identification of biological mechanisms that regulate important plant processes and impact growth and development. For example, sucrose synthesis and utilization; nitrate assimilation; and protein oil formation in developing soybean seeds. Studies include several levels but most work is focused on post-translational mechanisms. One such mechanism that plays an important role in the regulation of enzyme activity, but is still poorly understood in plant systems, is reversible protein phosphorylation. Each of the processes we are studying involves at least one enzyme that is phosphorylated.

List of Publications
Alterations in growth, photosynthesis, and respiration in a starchless mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) deficient in chloroplast phosphoglucomutase activity T Caspar, SC Huber, C Somerville Plant Physiology 79 (1), 11-17
Regulation of sucrose metabolism in higher plants: localization and regulation of activity of key enzymes H Winter, SC Huber Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences 19 (1), 31-67
Role and regulation of sucrose-phosphate synthase in higher plants SC Huber, JL Huber Annual review of plant biology 47 (1), 431-444