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Allan M. Showalter

Allan M. Showalter

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
48
Citations
8860
World Ranking
18356
National Ranking
7494

Overview

Allan M. Showalter is affiliated with Ohio University in the United States and has contributed to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their research primarily focuses on Plant Science and Molecular Biology, with additional work in Food Science, Biotechnology, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including:

  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Polysaccharides Composition and Applications
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Enzyme Production and Characterization
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Allan M. Showalter include Michael Held, Dasmeet Kaur, Sílvia Coimbra, Diana Moreira, and Yuan Zhang.

The scientist has published extensively, with a number of papers appearing in notable journals. Their frequent publication venues include BMC Plant Biology, Frontiers in Plant Science, Plants, The Plant Journal, and Plant Science.

Selected recent publications are:

  • Three Decades of Advances in Arabinogalactan-Protein Biosynthesis, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Elucidating the roles of three β-glucuronosyltransferases (GLCATs) acting on arabinogalactan-proteins using a CRISPR-Cas9 multiplexing approach in Arabidopsis, 2020, BMC Plant Biology
  • CRISPR/Cas9 Genome Editing Technology: A Valuable Tool for Understanding Plant Cell Wall Biosynthesis and Function, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • CRISPR-Cas9 multiplex genome editing of the hydroxyproline-O-galactosyltransferase gene family alters arabinogalactan-protein glycosylation and function in Arabidopsis, 2021, BMC Plant Biology
  • Functional characterization of hydroxyproline-O-galactosyltransferases for Arabidopsis arabinogalactan-protein synthesis, 2021, BMC Plant Biology

Best Publications

  • Structure and function of plant cell wall proteins.

    Allan M. Showalter

  • Arabinogalactan-proteins: structure, expression and function.

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  • Effects of Salinity on Growth, Water Relations and Ion Accumulation of the Subtropical Perennial Halophyte, Atriplex griffithii var. stocksii

    M.Ajmal Khan;Irwin A. Ungar;Allan M. Showalter

  • The effect of salinity on the growth, water status, and ion content of a leaf succulent perennial halophyte, Suaeda fruticosa (L.) Forssk

    M. Ajmal Khan;Irwin A. Ungar;Allan M. Showalter

  • A Bioinformatics Approach to the Identification, Classification, and Analysis of Hydroxyproline-Rich Glycoproteins

    Allan M. Showalter;Brian D. Keppler;Jens Lichtenberg;Dazhang Gu

  • Accumulation of hydroxyproline-rich glycoprotein mRNAs in response to fungal elicitor and infection

    Allan M. Showalter;John N. Bell;Carole L. Cramer;John A. Bailey

  • Yariv reagent treatment induces programmed cell death in Arabidopsis cell cultures and implicates arabinogalactan protein involvement

    Minggeng Gao;Allan M. Showalter

  • Effects of sodium chloride treatments on growth and ion accumulation of the halophyte Haloxylon recurvum

    M. Ajmal Khan;Irwin A. Ungar;Allan M. Showalter

  • Salt stress upregulates periplasmic arabinogalactan proteins: using salt stress to analyse AGP function.

    Derek T. A. Lamport;Marcia J. Kieliszewski;Allan M. Showalter

  • Arabinogalactan-proteins and the research challenges for these enigmatic plant cell surface proteoglycans.

    Li Tan;Allan M. Showalter;Jack Egelund;Arianna Hernandez-Sanchez

  • Effects of salinity on growth, ion content, and osmotic relations in Halopyrum mucronatum (L.) Stapf.

    M. Ajmal Khan;Irwin A. Ungar;Allan M. Showalter

  • Extensin and Arabinogalactan-Protein Biosynthesis: Glycosyltransferases, Research Challenges, and Biosensors

    Allan M. Showalter;Debarati Basu

  • Effect of salinity on growth, ion content, and cell wall chemistry in Atriplex prostrata (Chenopodiaceae).

    Li-Wen Wang;Allan M. Showalter;Irwin A. Ungar

  • Functional Identification of Two Nonredundant Arabidopsis α(1,2)Fucosyltransferases Specific to Arabinogalactan Proteins *

    Yingying Wu;Matthew Williams;Sophie Bernard;Azeddine Driouich

  • Molecular interactions of arabinogalactan proteins with cortical microtubules and F-actin in Bright Yellow-2 tobacco cultured cells.

    Harjinder Singh Sardar;Jie Yang;Allan M. Showalter

  • Tomato extensin and extensin-like cDNAs: structure and expression in response to wounding.

    Allan M. Showalter;Jin Zhou;Dominique Rumeau;Susan G. Worst

  • A lysine-rich arabinogalactan protein in Arabidopsis is essential for plant growth and development, including cell division and expansion.

    Jie Yang;Harjinder S. Sardar;Kathleen R. McGovern;Yizhu Zhang

  • Isolation, characterization and immunolocalization of a novel, modular tomato arabinogalactan-protein corresponding to the LeAGP-1 gene

    Minggeng Gao;Marcia J. Kieliszewski;Derek T. A. Lamport;Allan M. Showalter

  • IRX14 and IRX14-LIKE, two glycosyl transferases involved in glucuronoxylan biosynthesis and drought tolerance in Arabidopsis.

    Brian D. Keppler;Allan M. Showalter

  • Potato lectin: a modular protein sharing sequence similarities with the extensin family, the hevein lectin family, and snake venom disintegrins (platelet aggregation inhibitors)

    Marcia J. Kieliszewski;Allan M. Showalter;Joseph F. Leykam

Frequent Co-Authors

Irwin A. Ungar
Irwin A. Ungar Ohio University
M. Ajmal Khan
M. Ajmal Khan University of Karachi
Derek T. A. Lamport
Derek T. A. Lamport University of Sussex
Joseph E. Varner
Joseph E. Varner Washington University in St. Louis
Michael G. Hahn
Michael G. Hahn University of Georgia
Azeddine Driouich
Azeddine Driouich University of Rouen
Cândido Pinto Ricardo
Cândido Pinto Ricardo Universidade Nova de Lisboa
David S. Domozych
David S. Domozych Skidmore College
Christopher J. Lamb
Christopher J. Lamb John Innes Centre
Sheila McCormick
Sheila McCormick University of California, Berkeley

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