Education

• B.S., California State University, Long Beach, 1961

• M.S., University of California, Los Angeles, 1965

• Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1966

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• 1998-Present     Research leader, USDA/ARS, PBARC, Tropical Plant Physiology, Pathology, and Production unit, Aiea, HI

• 4/2001-5/2002    Acting Center Director, US Pacific Basin Agricultural Research Center, Hilo, HI

• 1997-1999         Acting Laboratory Director, Tropical Fruit, Vegetable & Ornamental Crops Laboratory, Hilo, HI

• 1996-1998         Research Leader, ARS Tropical Fruit, Vegetable & Sugarcane Research Unit, Aiea, HI

• 1986-Present     Head of Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Unit, HSPA, Aiea, HI

• Research Leader (Plant Phys)  ARS Sugarcane Research Unit, Aiea, HI

• 1967-1975         Supervisory Plant Physiologist  ARS Sugarcane Research Lab, Aiea, HI

• 1966-1967         Postdoctoral Research Associate, Plant Physiology, UCLA, CA

• 1963-1966         Teaching and Research Assistant, Plant Physiology, UCLA. CA

• 1964 summer    Biology Instructor, California State University, Long Beach, CA

• 1962 summer    Research Assistant, California State University, Long Beach. CA

Publications

Zhu, Y.J., Komor, E. and Moore, P.H. Sucrose accumulation in the sugarcane stem is regulated by the difference between the activities of soluble acid invertase and sucrose phosphate synthase. Plant Physiol. 115: 609-616. 1997.

Ming, R., Liu, S.-C., Lin, Y.-R., da Silva, J., Wilson, W., Braga, D., van Deynze, A., Wenslaff, T. F., Wu, K. K., Moore, P. H., Burnquist, W., Sorrells, M. E., Irvine, J. E. and Paterson, A. H. Detailed alignment of Sorghum and Saccharum chromosomes: Comparative organization of closely-related diploid and polyploid genomes. Genetics 150:1663-1682. 1998.

Ming, R., Liu, S.-C., Moore, P. H., Irvine, J. E. and Paterson, A. H. QTL analysis in a complex autopolyploid: Genetic control of sugar content in sugarcane. Genome Research. 11: 2075-2084. 2001.

Ming, R., Liu, S.-C., Bowers, J. E., Moore, P. H., Irvine, J. E. and Paterson, A. Construction of a Saccharum consensus genetic map from two interspecific crosses. Crop Sci. 42:570-583. 2002

Ming, R., Wang, Y.-W., Draye, X., Moore, P. H., Irvine, J. E. and Paterson, A. H. Molecular dissection of complex traits in autopolyploid: Mapping QTLs affecting sugar yield and related traits in sugarcane. Theor Appl Genetics. 105: 332-345. 2002.

Ming, R., Del Monte, T. A., Hernandez, E., Moore, P. H., Irvine, J. E. and Paterson, A. H. Comparative analysis of QTLs affecting plant height and flowering among closely-related diploid and polyploid genomes. Genome 45:794-803. 2002.

Ma, H., Schulze, S., Lee, S., Mirkov, E., Irvine, J., Moore, P. and Paterson, A. An EST survey of the sugarcane transcriptome Theor Appl Genet 108: 851-863. 2004.

Moore, P. H. Integration of sucrose accumulation processes across hierarchical scales: towards developing an understanding of the gene-to-crop continuum. Field Crops Research 92:119-135. 2005.

Wang, M-L., Goldstein, C., Su, W., Moore, P.H. and Albert, H.H. Production of biologically active GM-CSF in sugarcane: a secure biofactory. Transgenic Res. 14(2):167-178. 2005.

Ming, R., P. H. Moore, K. K. Wu, A. D’Hont, J. C. Glaszmann, T. L. Tew, T. E. Mirkov, J. da Silva, J. Jifon, M. Rai, R. J. Schnell, S. M. Brumbley, P. Lakshmanan, J. C. Comstock, A. H. Paterson Sugarcane improvement through breeding and biotechnology. In: J. Janick (ed) Plant Breeding Reviews. 27: 15-118. 2006.