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David E. Somers

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
42
Citations
11822
World Ranking
19445
National Ranking
7931

David E. Somers publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 82 publications — 1st percentile

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David E. Somers D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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Overview

David E. Somers is affiliated with The Ohio State University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on plant molecular biology, with significant contributions in the study of circadian rhythms and related physiological processes in plants.

Their recent publications cover various aspects of plant biology and molecular mechanisms. Notable papers include:

  • "Post-Translational Mechanisms of Plant Circadian Regulation," 2021, published in Genes
  • "The Na + /H + antiporter SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE 1 regulates salt compensation of circadian rhythms by stabilizing GIGANTEA in Arabidopsis," 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "TOC1 clock protein phosphorylation controls complex formation with NF-YB/C to repress hypocotyl growth," 2021, published in The EMBO Journal
  • "Modelling of plant circadian clock for characterizing hypocotyl growth under different light quality conditions," 2022, published in in silico Plants
  • "HOS 15-mediated turnover of PRR 7 enhances freezing tolerance," 2024, published in New Phytologist

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Yeon Jeong Kim
  • Jiapei Yan
  • Woe-Yeon Kim
  • Cuilin Gui
  • Zhiguang Tu

David E. Somers has published mainly in these venues:

  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Scientific Reports
  • Genes
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their research spans these main fields of study:

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

Within these fields, their work addresses subfields such as:

  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Endocrine and Autonomic Systems
  • Physiology
  • Cell Biology

The main research topics explored by David E. Somers include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Light effects on plants
  • Circadian rhythm and melatonin
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Ubiquitin and proteasome pathways
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Best Publications

  • Cloning of the Arabidopsis clock gene TOC1, an autoregulatory response regulator homolog.

    Carl Strayer;Tokitaka Oyama;Thomas F. Schultz;Ramanujam Raman

  • Phytochromes and Cryptochromes in the Entrainment of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock

    David E. Somers;Paul F. Devlin;Steve A. Kay

  • ZEITLUPE Encodes a Novel Clock-Associated PAS Protein from Arabidopsis

    David E Somers;Thomas F Schultz;Maureen Milnamow;Steve A Kay

  • Control of circadian rhythms and photoperiodic flowering by the Arabidopsis GIGANTEA gene.

    Deok Hoon Park;David E. Somers;Yang Suk Kim;Yoon Hi Choy

  • ZEITLUPE is a circadian photoreceptor stabilized by GIGANTEA in blue light

    Woe-Yeon Kim;Woe-Yeon Kim;Sumire Fujiwara;Sung-Suk Suh;Jeongsik Kim

  • Targeted degradation of TOC1 by ZTL modulates circadian function in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Paloma Más;Woe-Yeon Kim;David E. Somers;Steve A. Kay

  • The short-period mutant, toc1-1, alters circadian clock regulation of multiple outputs throughout development in Arabidopsis thaliana

    David E. Somers;Alex A. R. Webb;Mark Pearson;Steve A. Kay

  • Conditional circadian dysfunction of the Arabidopsis early-flowering 3 mutant

    K A Hicks;A J Millar;I A Carré;D E Somers

  • The hy3 Long Hypocotyl Mutant of Arabidopsis Is Deficient in Phytochrome B.

    David E. Somers;Robert A. Sharrock;James M. Tepperman;Peter H. Quail

  • Protein interaction analysis of SCF ubiquitin E3 ligase subunits from Arabidopsis

    Eddy P. Risseeuw;Timothy E. Daskalchuk;Travis W. Banks;Enwu Liu

  • Transcriptional corepressor TOPLESS complexes with pseudoresponse regulator proteins and histone deacetylases to regulate circadian transcription

    Lei Wang;Jeongsik Kim;David E. Somers;David E. Somers

  • The F-Box Protein ZEITLUPE Confers Dosage-Dependent Control on the Circadian Clock, Photomorphogenesis, and Flowering Time

    David E. Somers;Woe-Yeon Kim;Ruishuang Geng

  • The SUMO E3 ligase, AtSIZ1, regulates flowering by controlling a salicylic acid-mediated floral promotion pathway and through affects on FLC chromatin structure.

    Jing Bo Jin;Yin Hua Jin;Jiyoung Lee;Kenji Miura

  • Post-translational Regulation of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock through Selective Proteolysis and Phosphorylation of Pseudo-response Regulator Proteins

    Sumire Fujiwara;Lei Wang;Linqu Han;Sung-Suk Suh

  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences: 356 (1415)

    Deborah Bell-Pedersen;Susan K. Crosthwaite;Patricia L. Lakin-Thomas;Merrow Martha

  • PRR5 regulates phosphorylation, nuclear import and subnuclear localization of TOC1 in the Arabidopsis circadian clock

    Lei Wang;Sumire Fujiwara;David E Somers

  • The physiology and molecular bases of the plant circadian clock.

    David E. Somers

  • Formation of an SCFZTL complex is required for proper regulation of circadian timing

    Linqu Han;Mary Mason;Eddy P. Risseeuw;William L. Crosby

  • Temporal and spatial expression patterns of PHYA and PHYB genes in Arabidopsis

    David E. Somers;Peter H. Quail

  • Photophysiology of the Elongated Internode (ein) Mutant of Brassica rapa: ein Mutant Lacks a Detectable Phytochrome B-Like Polypeptide

    Paul F. Devlin;Stewart B. Rood;David E. Somers;Peter H. Quail

Frequent Co-Authors

Woe-Yeon Kim
Woe-Yeon Kim Gyeongsang National University
Peter H. Quail
Peter H. Quail University of California, Berkeley
Steve A. Kay
Steve A. Kay University of Southern California
Hong Gil Nam
Hong Gil Nam Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology
Andrew J. Millar
Andrew J. Millar University of Edinburgh
Robert A. Sharrock
Robert A. Sharrock Montana State University
James B. Hurley
James B. Hurley University of Washington
Garry C. Whitelam
Garry C. Whitelam University of Leicester
Takato Imaizumi
Takato Imaizumi University of Washington
Katayoon Dehesh
Katayoon Dehesh University of California, Riverside

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