Professor Emeritus

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry, Rice University, 1960

mabry@mail.utexas.edu

Office BIO 312 BIO 409

(512) 471-1900

B.S., M.S. Chemistry, Texas A&M Commerce, 1953; USAF, 1954-1955; Post-Doctorate, Organic Chemistry Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland, 1960-1961; Guggenheim Fellow, University of Freiburg, Germany, 1971-1972; Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 1975-1976; Chairman of the Department of Botany 1980-1986; finished more than 70 graduate students, most with Ph.D.

Selected Publications (out of over 700, including 15 books)

Mabry, T.J., Markham, K.R. and Thomas, M.B. The Systematic Identification of Flavonoids, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg-New York, 1970, 354 pp.

Mabry, T.J. 1970. The Betalains. Chapter 13 in: The Chemistry of Alkaloids, S.W. Pelletier (ed.) Reinhold, 367-384.

Mabry, T.J.; Wyler, H., Sassu, G., Mercier, M., Parikh, I. and Dreiding, A.S. 1962. Die struktur des neobetanidins. Helv. Chim. Acta 45:640-647.

 Kim, K-J. and Mabry, T.J. 1991. Phylogenetic and evolutionary implications of nuclear ribosomal DNA variation in dwarf dandelions (Krigia, Lactuceae, Asteraceae).  Plant Syst. Evol. 177:53-69.

Paré, P.W., Mischke, C.F., Edwards, R., Dixon, R.A., Norman, H.A. and Mabry, T.J. 1992.  Induction of phenylpropanoid pathway enzymes in elicitor-treated cultures of Cephalocereus senilis. Phytochem. 31: 149-153.

Bonness, M.S. and Mabry, T.J. 1992. Tissue culture of endod (Phytolacca dodecandra L'Herit): growth and production of ribosome-inactivating proteins.  Plant Cell Reports 11: 66-70.

Bonness, M.S., Ready, M.P., Irvin, J.D., and Mabry, T.J. 1994. Pokeweed antiviral protein inactivates pokeweed ribosomes; implications for the antiviral mechanism. The Plant J. 5: 173-183.

Oh, C.-H., Kim, J.-H., Kim, K.-R., Brownson, D., and Mabry, T.J. 1994. Simultaneous gas chromotographic analysis of non-protein amino acids as N(O,S)-isobutyloxycarbonyl tert-butyldimethylsilyl derivatives.  J. Chromatog. 669: 125-137.

Oh, C.-H., Brownson, D.M., and Mabry, T.J. 1995. Screening for non-protein amino acids in seeds of the Guam cycad, Cycas circinalis, by an improved GC-MS Method. Planta Med. 61: 66-70.

 Liu, Q., Bonness, M.S., Liu, M., Seradge, E., Dixon, R.A., and Mabry, T.J.  1995.  Enzymes of ß-ring-deoxy-flavonoid biosynthesis in elicited cell cultures of "old man" cactus (Cephalocerus senilis).  Arch. Biochem. Biophys. 321:397-404.

Clement, J.S., and Mabry, T.J. 1996. Pigment evolution in the Caryophyllales: a systematic overview. Botanica Acta. 109: 360-367.

Pan, M., Mabry, T.J., Cao, P., Moini, M. 1997. Identification of nonprotein amino acids from cycad seeds as N-ethoxycarbonyl ethyl ester derivatives by positive chemical-ionization gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. J. Chrom. A., 787: 288-294.

Lee, S.-J., Chung, H.-Y., Maier, C.G.-A., Wood, A.R., Dixon, R.A., and Mabry, T.J. 1998. Estrogenic flavonoids from Artemisia vulgaris L.L.. J. Ag. Food Chem. 46: 3325-3329.

Kandil, F.E., Soliman, A.M., Skodack, S.R., and Mabry, T.J. 1999.  A new anti-cancer tannin and known tannins from Terminalia cattapa.  Asian J. Chem. 11:1001-1004.

El-Sayed, N.H., Ammar, A.M., Alokbi, S.Y., El Kassen L.T.A. and Mabry, T.J., 2000. Bioactive chemical constituents from Ruta graveolens. Rev. Latinoamer. Quim.28: 61-64.

Ahmed, A.A., Kattab, A.M., Bodige, S.G., Mao, Y., Minter, D.E., Reinecke, M.G., Watson, W.H., and Mabry, T.J., 2001.  15α-Acetoxycleomblynol A from Cleome amblyocarpa.  J. Nat. Prod.,  64: 106-107

Brownson, D.M., Mabry, T.J. and Leslie, S.W. 2002. The cycad neurotoxic amino acid, β-N-methylamino-alanine (BMAA), elevates intracellular calcium levels in dissociated rat brain cells. J. Ethnopharm. 82: 159-167.
 
Brownson, D.M., Azios, N.G., Fuqua, B.K., Dharmawardhane, S.F. and Mabry, T.J. 2002. Flavonoid effects relevant to cancer. J. Nutrition 132: 3482S-3489S.