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61
Citations
14270
World Ranking
1148
National Ranking
312

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Archie R. Portis is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their professional record indicates a recognition by the scientific community through their election as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1997.

While specific details concerning their research topics, subfields, and main fields of study are not documented here, the available data show a career that has been formally acknowledged for contribution to science, as indicated by their AAAS fellowship status.

There are no listed recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, or book publications associated with Portis in the current data. Consequently, there is no detailed bibliography or collaboration network to report.

The absence of publicly listed research topics means that the scope and specific areas of Portis's academic focus remain unspecified in this profile.

The fellowship awarded by the AAAS is a notable marker in the scientific community, signifying that Portis's work met criteria of scientific excellence at least as of 1997.

Best Publications

  • Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO2 Fixation

    Aaron M. Appel;John E. Bercaw;Andrew B. Bocarsly;Holger Dobbek

  • Improved temperature response functions for models of Rubisco-limited photosynthesis: In vivo Rubisco enzyme kinetics

    C. J. Bernacchi;E. L. Singsaas;C. Pimentel;A. R. Portis

  • Improved temperature response functions for models of Rubisco‐limited photosynthesis

    C. J. Bernacchi;E. L. Singsaas;C. Pimentel;A. R. Portis

  • Temperature Response of Mesophyll Conductance. Implications for the Determination of Rubisco Enzyme Kinetics and for Limitations to Photosynthesis in Vivo

    Carl J. Bernacchi;Carl J. Bernacchi;Archie R. Portis;Archie R. Portis;Hiromi Nakano;Susanne von Caemmerer

  • Rubisco activase - Rubisco's catalytic chaperone.

    Archie R. Portis

  • Studies on the mechanism of membrane fusion: evidence for an intermembrane calcium(2+) ion-phospholipid complex, synergism with magnesium(2+) ion, and inhibition by spectrin

    A. Portis;C. Newton;W. Pangborn;D. Papahadjopoulos

  • MECHANISM OF LIGHT REGULATION OF RUBISCO : A SPECIFIC ROLE FOR THE LARGER RUBISCO ACTIVASE ISOFORM INVOLVING REDUCTIVE ACTIVATION BY THIOREDOXIN-F

    Ning Zhang;Archie R. Portis

  • Regulation of Ribulose 1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase Activity

    A. R. Portis

  • Light-dependent changes of the Mg2+ concentration in the stroma in relation to the Mg2+ dependency of CO2 fixation in intact chloroplasts.

    Archie R. Portis;Hans W. Heldt

  • A soluble chloroplast protein catalyzes ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase activation in vivo.

    Michael E. Salvucci;Archie R. Portis;William L. Ogren

  • Regulation of Rubisco activase and its interaction with Rubisco

    Archie R. Portis;Archie R. Portis;Cishan Li;Dafu Wang;Michael E. Salvucci

  • Would transformation of C3 crop plants with foreign Rubisco increase productivity? A computational analysis extrapolating from kinetic properties to canopy photosynthesis

    X.-G. Zhu;A. R. Portis;S. P. Long

  • Light modulation of Rubisco in Arabidopsis requires a capacity for redox regulation of the larger Rubisco activase isoform.

    Ning Zhang;Russell P. Kallis;Robert G. Ewy;Archie R. Portis

  • Activation of Ribulosebisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase at Physiological CO2 and Ribulosebisphosphate Concentrations by Rubisco Activase

    Archie R. Portis;Michael E. Salvucci;William L. Ogren

  • Enhanced translation of a chloroplast-expressed RbcS gene restores small subunit levels and photosynthesis in nuclear RbcS antisense plants

    Amit Dhingra;Archie R. Portis;Henry Daniell

  • Temperature dependence of photosynthesis in Arabidopsis plants with modifications in Rubisco activase and membrane fluidity.

    Kangmin Kim;Archie R. Portis;Archie R. Portis

  • A Mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana Which Lacks Activation of RuBP Carboxylase In Vivo.

    C. R. Somerville;Archie R. Portis;William L. Ogren

  • Light and CO2 Response of Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase Activation in Arabidopsis Leaves

    Michael E. Salvucci;Archie R. Portis;William L. Ogren

  • Cool C4 photosynthesis: pyruvate Pi dikinase expression and activity corresponds to the exceptional cold tolerance of carbon assimilation in Miscanthus x giganteus.

    Dafu Wang;Archie R. Portis;Archie R. Portis;Stephen Patrick Moose;Stephen P Long

  • Adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis by purified rubisco activase

    Simon P. Robinson;Archie R. Portis

  • Purification and species distribution of rubisco activase.

    Michael E. Salvucci;Jeffrey M. Werneke;William L. Ogren;Archie R. Portis

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael E. Salvucci
Michael E. Salvucci United States Department of Agriculture
William L. Ogren
William L. Ogren University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Simon P. Robinson
Simon P. Robinson Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Carl J. Bernacchi
Carl J. Bernacchi University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hans W. Heldt
Hans W. Heldt University of Göttingen
Stephen P. Long
Stephen P. Long University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Donald R. Ort
Donald R. Ort University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jack M. Widholm
Jack M. Widholm University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Govindjee
Govindjee University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ulrich Heber
Ulrich Heber University of Würzburg

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