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Ronald T. Riley is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research contributions focus primarily on agricultural and biological sciences with several publications in subfields such as infectious diseases, nutrition and dietetics, plant science, agronomy and crop science, and food science.

Their recent work includes studies related to public health and agricultural contamination. Notable papers by Riley include the 2022 publication titled Mycotoxins were not associated with environmental enteropathy in a cohort of Tanzanian children published in Risk Analysis, and another 2022 article, Dietary and socioeconomic risk factors for fumonisin exposure among women of reproductive age in 18 municipalities in Guatemala from 2013 to 2014 appearing in PLOS Global Public Health.

Riley's research topics encompass a range of areas connected to agriculture, nutrition, and health, such as:

  • Viral gastroenteritis research and epidemiology
  • Child nutrition and water access
  • Mycotoxins in agriculture and food
  • Milk quality and mastitis in dairy cows
  • Seed and plant biochemistry

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers including Chen Chen, Crystal L. Patil, Estomih Mduma, John D. Groopman, and Felicia Wu.

In terms of publication venues, Riley's research appears in journals such as:

  • Risk Analysis
  • PLOS Global Public Health

Riley's multidisciplinary work bridges fields related to biology, agriculture, and public health, contributing to an understanding of the risks and nutritional factors relevant to agricultural communities and broader populations.

Best Publications

  • Inhibition of sphingolipid biosynthesis by fumonisins. Implications for diseases associated with Fusarium moniliforme.

    E Wang;W P Norred;C W Bacon;R T Riley

  • IARC Monographs on the evaluation of carcinogenic risks to humans: Some traditional herbal medicines, some mycotoxins, naphthalene and styrene

    Ahti Anttila;Ramesh V. Bhat;James A. Bond;Susan J. Borghoff

  • Sphingolipids - The enigmatic lipid class: Biochemistry, physiology and pathophysiology

    Merrill Ah;Schmelz Em;Dillehay Dl;Spiegel S

  • Fumonisins Disrupt Sphingolipid Metabolism, Folate Transport, and Neural Tube Development in Embryo Culture and In Vivo: A Potential Risk Factor for Human Neural Tube Defects among Populations Consuming Fumonisin-Contaminated Maize

    Walter F O Marasas;Ronald T. Riley;Katherine A. Hendricks;Victoria L. Stevens

  • Sphingolipid metabolism: roles in signal transduction and disruption by fumonisins.

    A H Merrill;M C Sullards;E Wang;K A Voss

  • Alteration of Tissue and Serum Sphinganine to Sphingosine Ratio: An Early Biomarker of Exposure to Fumonisin-Containing Feeds in Pigs

    Ronald T. Riley;Nyeon Hyoung An;Jency L. Showker;Hwan Soo Yoo

  • Fumonisin- and AAL-Toxin-Induced Disruption of Sphingolipid Metabolism with Accumulation of Free Sphingoid Bases

    H. K. Abbas;T. Tanaka;S. O. Duke;J. K. Porter

  • Sphingolipid perturbations as mechanisms for fumonisin carcinogenesis.

    Ronald T. Riley;Evaristus Enongene;Kenneth A. Voss;William P. Norred

  • Ceramide synthase inhibition by fumonisin B1 causes accumulation of 1-deoxysphinganine: a novel category of bioactive 1-deoxysphingoid bases and 1-deoxydihydroceramides biosynthesized by mammalian cell lines and animals.

    Nicholas C. Zitomer;Trevor Mitchell;Kenneth A. Voss;Genevieve S. Bondy

  • Increases in serum sphingosine and sphinganine and decreases in complex sphingolipids in ponies given feed containing fumonisins, mycotoxins produced by Fusarium moniliforme.

    Elaine Wang;P. Frank Ross;Terrance M. Wilson;Ronald T. Riley

  • Fumonisin inhibition of de novo sphingolipid biosynthesis and cytotoxicity are correlated in LLC-PK1 cells.

    Hwan-Soo Yoo;William P. Norred;Elaine Wang;Alfred H. Merrill

  • Cyclopiazonic acid inhibition of the Ca2+-transport ATPase in rat skeletal muscle sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles.

    Douglas E. Goeger;Ronald T. Riley;Joe W. Dorner;Richard J. Cole

  • Dietary fumonisin B1 induces disruption of sphingolipid metabolism in Sprague-Dawley rats: a new mechanism of nephrotoxicity.

    Ronald T. Riley;Dorothy M. Hinton;William J. Chamberlain;Charles W. Bacon

  • Maternal fumonisin exposure and risk for neural tube defects: Mechanisms in an in vivo mouse model

    Janee Gelineau-Van Waes;Lois Starr;Joyce Maddox;Francisco Aleman

  • An historical overview of field disease outbreaks known or suspected to be caused by consumption of feeds contaminated with Fusarium toxins

    D.P. Morgavi;R.T. Riley

  • An overview of rodent toxicities: liver and kidney effects of fumonisins and Fusarium moniliforme.

    Kenneth A. Voss;Ronald T. Riley;W. P. Norred;Charles W. Bacon

  • Liquid chromatographic determination of sphinganine and sphingosine : use of the free sphinganine-to-sphingosine ratio as a biomarker for consumption of fumonisins

    Ronald T Riley;Elaine Wang;Alfred H Merrill

  • Elevated Sphingoid Bases and Complex Sphingolipid Depletion as Contributing Factors in Fumonisin-Induced Cytotoxicity

    Hwan-Soo Yoo;William P. Norred;Jency Showker;Ronald T. Riley

  • Transformation-mediated complementation of a FUM gene cluster deletion in Fusarium verticillioides restores both fumonisin production and pathogenicity on maize seedlings.

    Anthony E. Glenn;Nicholas C. Zitomer;Anne Marie Zimeri;Lonnie D. Williams

  • Implications of Apoptosis for Toxicity, Carcinogenicity, and Risk Assessment: Fumonisin B1 as an Example

    Yvonne P. Dragan;Wayne R. Bidlack;Samuel Monroe Cohen;Thomas L. Goldsworthy

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth A. Voss
Kenneth A. Voss Agricultural Research Service
Charles W. Bacon
Charles W. Bacon Agricultural Research Service
Alfred H. Merrill
Alfred H. Merrill Georgia Institute of Technology
Elaine Wang
Elaine Wang Georgia Institute of Technology
Anthony E. Glenn
Anthony E. Glenn Agricultural Research Service
Simon G. Gregory
Simon G. Gregory Duke University
Wentzel C. A. Gelderblom
Wentzel C. A. Gelderblom Stellenbosch University
Allison E. Ashley-Koch
Allison E. Ashley-Koch Duke University
David E. Williams
David E. Williams Oregon State University
Richard J. Cole
Richard J. Cole Agricultural Research Service

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