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Overview

Christopher D. Town is affiliated with the J. Craig Venter Institute in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, predominantly within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

They have contributed to various subfields such as:

  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Agronomy and Crop Science
  • Genetics
  • Pharmaceutical Science

The core research topics addressed by Town encompass:

  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Chemical Reactions and Isotopes

Christopher D. Town's frequent co-authors include:

  • Craig H. Carlson
  • Agnes P. Chan
  • Lawrence B. Smart
  • Asher Pasha
  • Sabarinath Subramaniam

The scientist has published papers in several venues, notably:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Cell
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Recent academic publications include:

  • Araport Lives: An Updated Framework for Arabidopsis Bioinformatics, 2020, The Plant Cell
  • Nonadditive gene expression is correlated with nonadditive phenotypic expression in interspecific triploid hybrids of willow (Salix spp.), 2021, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Nonadditive gene expression is correlated with nonadditive phenotypic expression in interspecific triploid hybrids of willow (Salix spp.), 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Extensive and differential platinum chemotherapy mutagenesis in children, 2025, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Best Publications

  • Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

    Boulos Chalhoub;Shengyi Liu;Isobel A.P. Parkin

  • Improving the Arabidopsis genome annotation using maximal transcript alignment assemblies

    Brian J. Haas;Arthur L. Delcher;Stephen M. Mount;Jennifer R. Wortman

  • The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

    Nevin D Young;Frédéric Debellé;Frédéric Debellé;Giles E D Oldroyd;Rene Geurts

  • Sequence and analysis of chromosome 1 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana

    Athanasios Theologis;Joseph R. Ecker;Joseph R. Ecker;Curtis J. Palm;Nancy A. Federspiel;Nancy A. Federspiel

  • Araport11: a complete reannotation of the Arabidopsis thaliana reference genome

    Chia-Yi Cheng;Vivek Krishnakumar;Agnes P Chan;Françoise Thibaud-Nissen

  • Sequence and analysis of chromosome 2 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana

    Xiaoying Lin;Samir Kaul;Steve Rounsley;Terrance P. Shea

  • The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR): a comprehensive database and web-based information retrieval, analysis, and visualization system for a model plant

    Eva Huala;Allan W. Dickerman;Margarita Garcia-Hernandez;Danforth Weems

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis is accompanied by local and systemic alterations in gene expression and an increase in disease resistance in the shoots.

    Jinyuan Liu;Ignacio Maldonado-Mendoza;Melina Lopez-Meyer;Foo Cheung

  • The pangenome of an agronomically important crop plant Brassica oleracea

    Agnieszka A. Golicz;Philipp E. Bayer;Guy C. Barker;Patrick P. Edger

  • Toward Sequencing Cotton ( Gossypium ) Genomes

    Z. Jeffrey Chen;Brian E. Scheffler;Elizabeth Dennis;Barbara A. Triplett

  • Transcriptome and methylome profiling reveals relics of genome dominance in the mesopolyploid Brassica oleracea.

    Isobel Ap Parkin;Chushin Koh;Haibao Tang;Stephen J Robinson

  • Small cysteine-rich peptides resembling antimicrobial peptides have been under-predicted in plants.

    Kevin A.T. Silverstein;William A. Moskal;Hank C. Wu;Beverly A. Underwood

  • ePlant: Visualizing and Exploring Multiple Levels of Data for Hypothesis Generation in Plant Biology

    Jamie Waese;Jim Fan;Asher Pasha;Hans Yu

  • Comparative Genomics of Brassica oleracea and Arabidopsis thaliana Reveal Gene Loss, Fragmentation, and Dispersal after Polyploidy

    Christopher D. Town;Foo Cheung;Rama Maiti;Jonathan Crabtree

  • An improved genome release (version Mt4.0) for the model legume Medicago truncatula

    Haibao Tang;Vivek Krishnakumar;Shelby Bidwell;Benjamin Rosen

  • An atlas of over 90,000 conserved noncoding sequences provides insight into crucifer regulatory regions

    Annabelle Haudry;Adrian E Platts;Emilio Vello;Douglas R Hoen

  • A mosaic monoploid reference sequence for the highly complex genome of sugarcane

    Olivier Garsmeur;Olivier Garsmeur;Gaëtan Droc;Gaëtan Droc;Rudie Antonise;Jane Grimwood

  • Transcript Profiling Coupled with Spatial Expression Analyses Reveals Genes Involved in Distinct Developmental Stages of an Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

    Jinyuan Liu;Laura A. Blaylock;Gabriella Endre;Jennifer Cho

  • Phosphorus Stress in Common Bean: Root Transcript and Metabolic Responses

    Georgina Hernández;Mario Ramírez;Oswaldo Valdés-López;Mesfin Tesfaye

  • Sequencing the Genespaces of Medicago truncatula and Lotus japonicus

    Nevin D. Young;Steven B. Cannon;Shusei Sato;Dongjin Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian J. Haas
Brian J. Haas Broad Institute
Haibao Tang
Haibao Tang Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Rajeev K. Varshney
Rajeev K. Varshney Murdoch University
Steven B. Cannon
Steven B. Cannon Agricultural Research Service
Douglas R. Cook
Douglas R. Cook University of California, Davis
Michael K. Udvardi
Michael K. Udvardi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Gregory D. May
Gregory D. May National Center for Genome Resources
Michael J. Havey
Michael J. Havey University of Wisconsin–Madison
Andrew Farmer
Andrew Farmer National Center for Genome Resources
Nevin D. Young
Nevin D. Young University of Minnesota

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