Prof. Bernard R. Glick
University of Waterloo, Canada

Email: glick@uwaterloo.ca

Qualifications

1974 Ph.D., University of Waterloo

1972 M.Sc., University of Waterloo

1969 B.Sc., The City College of New York                    

Publications (selected) 

1. Nascimento, F., Brígido, C., Alho, L., Glick, B. R. and Oliveira, S. 2012. Enhanced chickpea growth promotion ability of a mesorhizobia expressing an exogenous ACC deaminase gene. Plant Soil 353: 221-230.
2. Stearns, J.C., Woody, O.Z., McConkey, B.J. and Glick, B.R. 2012. Effects of bacterial ACC deaminase on Brassica napusgene expression measured with an Arabidopsis thalianamicroarray. Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact., 25: 668-676.
3. Nascimento, F.X., Brígido, C., Glick, B.R., Oliveira, S. and Alho, L. 2012. Mesorhizobium ciceriLMS-1 expressing an exogenous ACC deaminase increases its nodulation abilities and chickpea plant resistance to soil constraints. Lett. Appl. Microbiol. 55: 15-21.
4. Glick, B.R. and Stearns, J.C. 2011. Making phytoremediation work better: Maximizing a plant’s growth potential in the midst of adversity. Internat. J. Phytorem. 13 (S1): 4-16.
5. Gamalero, E., Berta, G., Massa, N., Glick, B.R., and Lingua, G. 2010. Interactions betweenPseudomonas putidaUW4 andGigaspora roseaBEG9 and their consequences on the growth of cucumber under salt stress conditions. J. Appl. Microbiol., 108: 236-245.
6. Hao, Y., Charles, T.C. and Glick, B.R. 2010. ACC deaminase increasesA. tumefaciens-mediated transformation frequency of commercial canola cultivars. FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 307: 185-190.
7. Glick, B.R. 2010. Using soil bacteria to facilitate phytoremediation. Biotechnol. Adv. 28: 367-374.
8. Toklikishvili, N., Dandurishvili, N., Tediashvili, M., Giorgobiani, N., Szegedi, E., Glick, B.R., Vainstein, A. and Chernin, L. 2010. Inhibitory effect of ACC deaminase-producing bacteria on crown gall formation in tomato plants infected by Agrobacterium tumefaciens or A. vitis. Plant Pathol. 59: 1023-1030.
9. Cheng, Z., McConkey, B.J and Glick, B.R. 2010. Proteomic studies of plant-bacterial interactions. Soil Biol. Biochem.42: 1673-1684.
10. Duan, J., Müller, K.M., Charles, T.C., Vesely, S. and Glick, B.R. 2009. 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase genes inRhizobiafrom southern Saskatchewan. Microb. Ecol. 57: 423-436.
11. Cheng, Z., Duan, J., Hao, Y., McConkey, B.J. and Glick, B.R. 2009. Identification of bacterial proteins mediating the interaction between the plant growth-promoting bacterium Pseudomonas putidaUW4 and Brassica napus(canola). Molec. Plant-Microbe Interact. 22: 686-694.
12. Todorovic, B. and Glick, B.R. 2008. The interconversion of ACC deaminase and D-cysteine desulfhydrase by directed mutagenesis. Planta 229: 193-205.
13. Gamalero, E., Berta, G., Massa, N., Glick, B.R., and Lingua, G. 2008. Synergistic interactions between the ACC deaminase-producing bacterium Pseudomonas putidaUW4 and the AM fungus Gigaspora roseapositively affect cucumber plant growth. FEMS Microbiol. 64: 459-467.
14. Glick, B.R., Cheng, Z., Czarny, J. and Duan, J. 2007. Promotion of plant growth by ACC deaminase-containing soil bacteria. Eur. J. Plant Pathol. 119: 329-339.
15. Cheng, Z., Park, E. and Glick, B.R. 2007. 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase fromPseudomonas putidaUW4 facilitates the growth of canola in the presence of salt. Can. J. Microbiol. 53: 912-918.
16. Glick, B.R., Todorovic, B., Czarny, J., Cheng, Z., Duan, J. and McConkey, B. 2007. Promotion of plant growth by bacterial ACC deaminase. Crit. Rev. Plant Sci. 26: 227-242.
17. Hao, Y., Charles, T.C. and Glick, B.R. 2007. ACC deaminase from plant growth promoting bacteria affects crown gall development. Can. J. Microbiol. 53: 1291-1299.

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