Dr. Ming Gao

110 Gymnasium Place

Plant Biotechnology Institute, NRC

Saskatoon, SK S7N 0W9

Canada

e-Mail: ming.gao@nrc.ca

Tel.: 306-975-6274 (O)

306-956-0211 (H)

Brief description of my work at Penn State: Molecular cloning and

characterization of maize starch branching enzyme gene Sbe2a, and

characterization of maize Sbe1 and Sbe2b genes