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Curtis G. Wilkerson publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Curtis G. Wilkerson sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 79 publications — 1st percentile

1% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Curtis G. Wilkerson D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Curtis G. Wilkerson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 48 D-Index — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Curtis G. Wilkerson is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a concentration in subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering, and Food Science.

The research conducted covers a range of main topics such as Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls, Plant Reproductive Biology, Biofuel Production and Bioconversion, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies, and Polysaccharides Composition and Applications.

The following papers represent some of their recent contributions to scientific literature:

  • The AGCVIII kinase Dw2 modulates cell proliferation, endomembrane trafficking, and MLG/xylan cell wall localization in elongating stem internodes of Sorghum bicolor, 2020, The Plant Journal
  • Mutations in the predicted DNA polymerase subunit POLD3 result in more rapid flowering of Brachypodium distachyon, 2020, New Phytologist
  • Disruption of Brachypodium lichenase alters metabolism of mixed-linkage glucan and starch, 2021, The Plant Journal
  • Disruption ofBrachypodiumLichenase Alters Metabolism of Mixed-linkage Glucan and Starch, 2021, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Human heart-macrophage assembloids mimic immune-cardiac interactions and enable arrhythmia disease modeling, 2025, Cell stem cell

Frequent collaborators include Mingzhu Fan, Starla Zemelis-Durfee, Federica Brandizzí, Jacob Krüger Jensen, and Sang-Jin Kim.

Wilkerson's work has appeared in several journals repeatedly, with multiple publications in The Plant Journal and contributions to New Phytologist, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Cell stem cell.

Their scientific focus is distinctly centered on plant biological processes as well as molecular interactions at the cellular level, integrating aspects of genetics, metabolism, and immune function. This multidimensional approach involves studying both fundamental plant sciences and applications relevant to biofuel production and disease modeling in biomedical engineering contexts.

Best Publications

  • Gene transfer from bacteria and archaea facilitated evolution of an extremophilic eukaryote

    Gerald Schönknecht;Gerald Schönknecht;Wei Hua Chen;Wei Hua Chen;Chad M. Ternes;Guillaume G. Barbier

  • A Dynein Light Chain Is Essential for the Retrograde Particle Movement of Intraflagellar Transport (IFT)

    Gregory J. Pazour;Curtis G. Wilkerson;George B. Witman

  • Expression of cellulose synthase-like (Csl) genes in insect cells reveals that CslA family members encode mannan synthases.

    Aaron H. Liepman;Curtis G. Wilkerson;Kenneth Keegstra

  • Jasmonate-inducible plant enzymes degrade essential amino acids in the herbivore midgut

    Hui Chen;Curtis G. Wilkerson;Jason A. Kuchar;Brett S. Phinney

  • Monoterpenes in the glandular trichomes of tomato are synthesized from a neryl diphosphate precursor rather than geranyl diphosphate

    Anthony L. Schilmiller;Ines Schauvinhold;Matthew Larson;Richard Xu

  • Monolignol ferulate transferase introduces chemically labile linkages into the lignin backbone.

    C.G. Wilkerson;C.G. Wilkerson;S.D. Mansfield;Fachuang Lu;Fachuang Lu;S. Withers;S. Withers

  • Sampling the Arabidopsis Transcriptome with Massively Parallel Pyrosequencing

    Andreas P.M. Weber;Katrin L. Weber;Kevin Carr;Curtis Wilkerson

  • A gene from the cellulose synthase-like C family encodes a β-1,4 glucan synthase

    Jean Christophe Cocuron;Olivier Lerouxel;Georgia Drakakaki;Ana P. Alonso

  • Comparative deep transcriptional profiling of four developing oilseeds

    Manuel A. Troncoso-Ponce;Aruna Kilaru;Xia Cao;Xia Cao;Timothy P. Durrett;Timothy P. Durrett

  • In-Depth Proteome Analysis of Arabidopsis Leaf Peroxisomes Combined with in Vivo Subcellular Targeting Verification Indicates Novel Metabolic and Regulatory Functions of Peroxisomes

    Sigrun Reumann;Sheng Quan;Kyaw Aung;Pingfang Yang

  • Two nearly identical terpene synthases catalyze the formation of nerolidol and linalool in snapdragon flowers

    Dinesh A. Nagegowda;Michael Gutensohn;Curtis G. Wilkerson;Natalia Dudareva

  • Identification of Grass-specific Enzyme That Acylates Monolignols with p-Coumarate

    Saunia Withers;Saunia Withers;Fachuang Lu;Fachuang Lu;Hoon Kim;Hoon Kim;Yimin Zhu;Yimin Zhu

  • The 78,000 M(r) intermediate chain of Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein isa WD-repeat protein required for arm assembly

    Curtis G. Wilkerson;Stephen M. King;Anthony Koutoulis;Gregory J. Pazour

  • A global assembly of cotton ESTs.

    Joshua A. Udall;Jordan M. Swanson;Karl Haller;Ryan A. Rapp

  • Stability of Plant Defense Proteins in the Gut of Insect Herbivores

    Hui Chen;Eliana Gonzales-Vigil;Curtis G. Wilkerson;Gregg A. Howe

  • Comparative Genomics of Two Closely Related Unicellular Thermo-Acidophilic Red Algae, Galdieria sulphuraria and Cyanidioschyzon merolae, Reveals the Molecular Basis of the Metabolic Flexibility of Galdieria sulphuraria and Significant Differences in Carbohydrate Metabolism of Both Algae

    Guillaume Barbier;Christine Oesterhelt;Matthew D. Larson;Robert G. Halgren

  • The DUF579 domain containing proteins IRX15 and IRX15-L affect xylan synthesis in Arabidopsis.

    Jacob K. Jensen;Hoon Kim;Hoon Kim;Jean Christophe Cocuron;Jean Christophe Cocuron;Robert Orler;Robert Orler

  • p‐Coumaroyl‐CoA:monolignol transferase (PMT) acts specifically in the lignin biosynthetic pathway in Brachypodium distachyon

    Deborah L. Petrik;Deborah L. Petrik;Steven D. Karlen;Cynthia L. Cass;Cynthia L. Cass;Dharshana Padmakshan

  • The Mr 78,000 intermediate chain of Chlamydomonas outer arm dynein interacts with alpha-tubulin in situ

    Stephen M. King;Curtis G. Wilkerson;George B. Witman

  • Studies of a Biochemical Factory: Tomato Trichome Deep Expressed Sequence Tag Sequencing and Proteomics

    Anthony L. Schilmiller;Dennis P. Miner;Matthew Larson;Eric McDowell

Frequent Co-Authors

John Ralph
John Ralph Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center
Federica Brandizzi
Federica Brandizzi Michigan State University
Kenneth Keegstra
Kenneth Keegstra Michigan State University
Andreas P. M. Weber
Andreas P. M. Weber Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Fachuang Lu
Fachuang Lu South China University of Technology
John B. Ohlrogge
John B. Ohlrogge Michigan State University
Shawn D. Mansfield
Shawn D. Mansfield University of British Columbia
Hoon Kim
Hoon Kim University of Wisconsin–Madison
Markus Pauly
Markus Pauly Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Candace H. Haigler
Candace H. Haigler North Carolina State University

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