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  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Christoph Benning is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research primarily belongs to the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Plant Science, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, and Cell Biology.

Their main research topics include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis, Algal biology and biofuel production, Plant Molecular Biology Research, ATP Synthase and ATPases Research, Microtubule and mitosis dynamics, as well as Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research.

Benning has published multiple papers in various scientific venues. Notable recent papers include:

  • Human health benefits of very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids from microalgae (2020, Biochimie)
  • The Role of Chloroplast Membrane Lipid Metabolism in Plant Environmental Responses (2021, Cells)
  • TEOSINTE BRANCHED1/CYCLOIDEA/PROLIFERATING CELL FACTOR4 Interacts with WRINKLED1 to Mediate Seed Oil Biosynthesis (2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)
  • Chlamydomonas CHT7 Is Required for an Effective Quiescent State by Regulating Nutrient-Responsive Cell Cycle Gene Expression (2020, The Plant Cell)
  • Proteins associated with the Arabidopsis thaliana plastid rhomboid-like protein RBL10 (2021, The Plant Journal)

Frequent publication venues for Benning's work include PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education, Biochimie, Cells, and Nature Communications.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Christoph Benning are John E. Froehlich, Ron Cook, Barbara B. Sears, Tomomi Takeuchi, and Yang-Tsung Lin.

In 2014, Benning was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • AGO1 defines a novel locus of Arabidopsis controlling leaf development

    Karen Bohmert;Isabelle Camus;Catherine Bellini;David Bouchez

  • Plant triacylglycerols as feedstocks for the production of biofuels

    Timothy P. Durrett;Christoph Benning;John Ohlrogge

  • WRINKLED1 encodes an AP2/EREB domain protein involved in the control of storage compound biosynthesis in Arabidopsis

    Alex Cernac;Christoph Benning

  • Contrapuntal Networks of Gene Expression during Arabidopsis Seed Filling

    Sari A. Ruuska;Thomas Girke;Christoph Benning;John B. Ohlrogge

  • wrinkled1: A Novel, Low-Seed-Oil Mutant of Arabidopsis with a Deficiency in the Seed-Specific Regulation of Carbohydrate Metabolism

    Nicole Focks;Christoph Benning

  • Changes in Transcript Abundance in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii following Nitrogen Deprivation Predict Diversion of Metabolism

    Rachel Miller;Guangxi Wu;Rahul R. Deshpande;Astrid Vieler

  • Galactolipids rule in seed plants

    Peter Dörmann;Christoph Benning

  • Freezing tolerance in plants requires lipid remodeling at the outer chloroplast membrane.

    Eric R. Moellering;Bagyalakshmi Muthan;Christoph Benning

  • RNA interference silencing of a major lipid droplet protein affects lipid droplet size in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.

    Eric R. Moellering;Christoph Benning

  • Three Acyltransferases and Nitrogen-responsive Regulator Are Implicated in Nitrogen Starvation-induced Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Chlamydomonas

    Nanette R. Boyle;Mark Dudley Page;Bensheng Liu;Ian K. Blaby

  • Microarray Analysis of Developing Arabidopsis Seeds

    Thomas Girke;Jim Todd;Sari Ruuska;Joe White

  • DGD1-independent biosynthesis of extraplastidic galactolipids after phosphate deprivation in Arabidopsis.

    Heiko Härtel;Peter Dörmann;Christoph Benning

  • Phosphate availability affects the thylakoid lipid composition and the expression of SQD1, a gene required for sulfolipid biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Bernd Essigmann;Sinan Güler;Ram Avtar Narang;Dirk Linke

  • Genome, Functional Gene Annotation, and Nuclear Transformation of the Heterokont Oleaginous Alga Nannochloropsis oceanica CCMP1779

    Astrid Vieler;Guangxi Wu;Chia Hong Tsai;Blair Bullard

  • Arabidopsis disrupted in SQD2 encoding sulfolipid synthase is impaired in phosphate-limited growth.

    Bin Yu;Changcheng Xu;Christoph Benning

  • Isolation and characterization of an Arabidopsis mutant deficient in the thylakoid lipid digalactosyl diacylglycerol.

    Peter Dormann;Susanne Hoffmann-Benning;Ilse Balbo;Christoph Benning

  • Lipid metabolism in microalgae distinguishes itself.

    Bensheng Liu;Christoph Benning

  • A Galactoglycerolipid Lipase Is Required for Triacylglycerol Accumulation and Survival Following Nitrogen Deprivation in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

    Xiaobo Li;Eric R. Moellering;Bensheng Liu;Cassandra Johnny

  • Galactolipid deficiency and abnormal chloroplast development in the Arabidopsis MGD synthase 1 mutant

    Paul Jarvis;Peter Dörmann;Charles A. Peto;Jason Lutes

  • Mechanisms of Lipid Transport Involved in Organelle Biogenesis in Plant Cells

    Christoph Benning

Frequent Co-Authors

John B. Ohlrogge
John B. Ohlrogge Michigan State University
Peter Dörmann
Peter Dörmann University of Bonn
John E. Froehlich
John E. Froehlich Michigan State University
Gregory Bonito
Gregory Bonito Michigan State University
Sabeeha S. Merchant
Sabeeha S. Merchant University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Girke
Thomas Girke University of California, Riverside
Shin-Han Shiu
Shin-Han Shiu Michigan State University
Matteo Pellegrini
Matteo Pellegrini University of California, Los Angeles
R. Michael Garavito
R. Michael Garavito Michigan State University
Arthur R. Grossman
Arthur R. Grossman Carnegie Institution for Science

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