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Abhaya M. Dandekar is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences, with a notable focus on plant science and molecular biology.

The scientist's work covers a diverse range of topics, including:

  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • Nuts composition and effects
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Abhaya M. Dandekar's recent papers illustrate their engagement with both plant genomics and plant pathology. Selected publications include:

  • High-quality chromosome-scale assembly of the walnut (Juglans regia L.) reference genome, 2020, GigaScience
  • Advances in Rootstock Breeding of Nut Trees: Objectives and Strategies, 2021, Plants
  • Antimicrobial activity of Epsilon-Poly-l-lysine against phytopathogenic bacteria, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Functional analysis of walnut polyphenol oxidase gene (JrPPO1) in transgenic tobacco plants and PPO induction in response to walnut bacterial blight, 2020, Plant Pathology
  • The Tale of Cotton Plant: From Wild Type to Domestication, Leading to Its Improvement by Genetic Transformation, 2020, American Journal of Molecular Biology

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Paulo A. Zaini
  • Charles A. Leslie
  • Houston J. Saxe
  • Somen Nandi
  • Karen A. McDonald

Publication venues where Abhaya M. Dandekar has consistently contributed include:

  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Preprints.org
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their work is primarily situated within the broad fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with specific subfields that include:

  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Endocrinology
  • Nutrition and Dietetics
  • Biotechnology

Best Publications

  • Advanced methods of plant disease detection. A review

    Federico Martinelli;Riccardo Scalenghe;Salvatore Davino;Stefano Panno

  • Molecular Biology of Osmoregulation

    D. Le Rudulier;A. R. Strom;A. M. Dandekar;L. T. Smith

  • Structural and Transcriptional Analysis of the Self-Incompatibility Locus of Almond: Identification of a Pollen-Expressed F-Box Gene with Haplotype-Specific Polymorphism

    Koichiro Ushijima;Hidenori Sassa;Abhaya M. Dandekar;Thomas M. Gradziel

  • Multiple Models for Rosaceae Genomics

    Vladimir Shulaev;Schuyler S. Korban;Bryon Sosinski;Albert G. Abbott

  • Agrobacterium tumefaciens as an agent of disease.

    Matthew A Escobar;Abhaya M Dandekar

  • Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation of Walnut Somatic Embryos and Regeneration of Transgenic Plants

    Gale H. McGranahan;Charles A. Leslie;Sandra L. Uratsu;Lori A. Martin

  • Cloning and characterization of cDNAs encoding S-RNases from almond (Prunus dulcis): primary structural features and sequence diversity of the S-RNases in Rosaceae

    K. Ushijima;H. Sassa;R. Tao;H. Yamane

  • Apple aroma : alcohol acyltransferase, a rate limiting step for ester biosynthesis, is regulated by ethylene

    Bruno G. Defilippi;Adel A. Kader;Abhaya M. Dandekar

  • RNAi-mediated oncogene silencing confers resistance to crown gall tumorigenesis

    Matthew A. Escobar;Edwin L. Civerolo;Kristin R. Summerfelt;Abhaya M. Dandekar

  • Novel Roles for the Polyphenol Oxidase Enzyme in Secondary Metabolism and the Regulation of Cell Death in Walnut

    Soha Araji;Theresa A. Grammer;Ross Gertzen;Stephen D. Anderson

  • Evaluation of tolerance to Pierce's disease and Botrytis in transgenic plants of Vitis vinifera L. expressing the pear PGIP gene.

    Cecilia B. Agüero;Sandra L. Uratsu;Carl Greve;Ann L. T. Powell

  • Regulation of proline accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh during development and in response to desiccation

    H.-H. Chiang;A. M. Dandekar

  • The walnut (Juglans regia) genome sequence reveals diversity in genes coding for the biosynthesis of non-structural polyphenols

    Pedro J. Martínez-García;Marc W. Crepeau;Daniela Puiu;Daniel Gonzalez-Ibeas

  • IDENTIFICATION OF SELF-INCOMPATIBILITY GENOTYPES OF ALMOND BY ALLELE-SPECIFIC PCR ANALYSIS

    M. Tamura;K. Ushijima;H. Sassa;H. Hirano

  • Identification of Stylar RNases Associated with Gametophytic Self-Incompatibility in Almond (Prunus dulcis)

    Ryutaro Tao;Hisayo Yamane;Hidenori Sassa;Hitoshi Mori

  • Acetosyringone and osmoprotectants like betaine or proline synergistically enhance Agrobacterium-mediated transformation of apple.

    David J. James;Sandra Uratsu;Jiasheng Cheng;Paola Negri

  • Correction: Corrigendum: The Type II Secreted Lipase/Esterase LesA is a Key Virulence Factor Required for Xylella fastidiosa Pathogenesis in Grapevines

    Rafael Nascimento;Hossein Gouran;Sandeep Chakraborty;Hyrum W. Gillespie

  • The influence of addition of gallic acid, tannic acid, or quebracho tannins to alfalfa hay on in vitro rumen fermentation and microbial protein synthesis

    G. Getachew;W. Pittroff;D.H. Putnam;A. Dandekar

  • Cloning and sequencing of a gene encoding a 2S albumin seed storage protein precursor from English walnut (Juglans regia), a major food allergen

    Suzanne S. Teuber;Abhaya M. Dandekar;W.Richard Peterson;Claudia L. Sellers

  • Silencing leaf sorbitol synthesis alters long-distance partitioning and apple fruit quality

    Gianni Teo;Yasuo Suzuki;Sandie L. Uratsu;Bruce Lampinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles A. Leslie
Charles A. Leslie University of California, Davis
Bryce W. Falk
Bryce W. Falk University of California, Davis
Ryutaro Tao
Ryutaro Tao Kyoto University
Thomas M. Gradziel
Thomas M. Gradziel University of California, Davis
Oliver Fiehn
Oliver Fiehn University of California, Davis
Lailiang Cheng
Lailiang Cheng Cornell University
Carlos H. Crisosto
Carlos H. Crisosto University of California, Davis
Mallikarjuna K. Aradhya
Mallikarjuna K. Aradhya United States Department of Agriculture
Ming-Cheng Luo
Ming-Cheng Luo University of California, Davis
Jan Dvorak
Jan Dvorak University of California, Davis

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