Moira Galway
Associate Professor
Biology
St. Francis Xavier University
Canada
Biography
Moira Galway is an Associate Professor in Department of Biology at St. Francis Xavier university, NS, Canada. Ph.D , Australian National University, 1989; postdoctoral studies at the University of Saskatchewan and the University of Michigan
Research Interest
Genetics and development of flowering plants, root development in Arabidopsis; cellular differentiation; the mechanism of tip growth in plant cells.
Publications
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Wasteneys G O, Galway M E(2003) Remodeling the cytoskeleton for growth and form: an overview with some new views, Annu Rev Plant Biol, 54:691-722
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Galway M E, Ryan C E, Schiefelbein J W, Wasteneys G O(2011)Root hair-specific disruption of cellulose and xyloglucan in AtCSLD3 mutants, and factors affecting the post-rupture resumption of mutant root hair growth, Planta 233 :985-99
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Fujita M, Himmelspach R, Galway M E, Whittington A, Hasenbein N,et al.(2013) The anisotropy1 D604N mutation in the Arabidopsis cellulose synthase1 catalytic domain reduces cell wall crystallinity and the velocity of cellulose synthase complexes,Plant Physiol 162 :74-85
