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1031

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Eduardo Blumwald is affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their research spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a primary focus on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology.

The scientist's work is centered around several key topics, including:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Frequent publication venues for Eduardo Blumwald include:

  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Plant Cell Reports
  • Plants

Among recent research papers, the following stand out:

  • Developing climate-resilient crops: improving plant tolerance to stress combination (2021, The Plant Journal)
  • Genetic modification of flavone biosynthesis in rice enhances biofilm formation of soil diazotrophic bacteria and biological nitrogen fixation (2022, Plant Biotechnology Journal)
  • Plant synthetic biology innovations for biofuels and bioproducts (2022, Trends in biotechnology)
  • Rational design and testing of abiotic stress-inducible synthetic promoters from poplar cis-regulatory elements (2021, Plant Biotechnology Journal)
  • Changes in ethylene and sugar metabolism regulate flavonoid composition in climacteric and non-climacteric plums during postharvest storage (2022, Food Chemistry Molecular Sciences)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Hiromi Tajima
  • Amir Ahkami
  • C. Neal Stewart
  • María del Mar Rubio Wilhelmi
  • Nir Sade

Eduardo Blumwald has been recognized with the following awards:

  • Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists (2014)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2010)

Best Publications

  • Salt Tolerance Conferred by Overexpression of a Vacuolar Na+/H+ Antiport in Arabidopsis

    Maris P. Apse;Gilad S. Aharon;Wayne A. Snedden;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Reactive oxygen species, abiotic stress and stress combination.

    Feroza K. Choudhury;Rosa M. Rivero;Eduardo Blumwald;Ron Mittler

  • Abiotic and biotic stress combinations

    Nobuhiro Suzuki;Rosa M. Rivero;Vladimir Shulaev;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Transgenic salt-tolerant tomato plants accumulate salt in foliage but not in fruit

    Hong-Xia Zhang;Eduardo Blumwald;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Hormone balance and abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants

    Zvi Peleg;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Sodium transport in plant cells.

    Eduardo Blumwald;Gilad S Aharon;Maris P Apse

  • Genetic Engineering for Modern Agriculture: Challenges and Perspectives

    Ron Mittler;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Sodium transport and salt tolerance in plants

    Eduardo Blumwald

  • Developing salt-tolerant crop plants: challenges and opportunities.

    Toshio Yamaguchi;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Salt Tolerance and Crop Potential of Halophytes

    Edward P. Glenn;J. Jed Brown;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Delayed leaf senescence induces extreme drought tolerance in a flowering plant

    Rosa M. Rivero;Mikiko Kojima;Amira Gepstein;Hitoshi Sakakibara

  • Engineering salt-tolerant Brassica plants: Characterization of yield and seed oil quality in transgenic plants with increased vacuolar sodium accumulation

    Hong-Xia Zhang;Joanna N. Hodson;John P. Williams;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Na+ transport in plants

    Maris P. Apse;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Characterizing the Saltol Quantitative Trait Locus for Salinity Tolerance in Rice

    Michael J. Thomson;Marjorie de Ocampo;James Egdane;M. Akhlasur Rahman;M. Akhlasur Rahman

  • Engineering salt tolerance in plants

    Maris P Apse;Eduardo Blumwald

  • The Roles of ROS and ABA in Systemic Acquired Acclimation

    Ron Mittler;Eduardo Blumwald

  • Na+/H+ Antiport in Isolated Tonoplast Vesicles from Storage Tissue of Beta vulgaris

    Eduardo Blumwald;Ronald J. Poole

  • The Arabidopsis Na+/H+ Antiporters NHX1 and NHX2 Control Vacuolar pH and K+ Homeostasis to Regulate Growth, Flower Development, and Reproduction

    Elias Bassil;Hiromi Tajima;Yin Chih Liang;Masa aki Ohto

  • Vacuolar cation/H+ exchange, ion homeostasis, and leaf development are altered in a T-DNA insertional mutant of AtNHX1, the Arabidopsis vacuolar Na+/H+ antiporter.

    Maris P. Apse;Jordan B. Sottosanto;Eduardo Blumwald

  • The Roles of ROS and ABA in Systemic Acquired

    Ron Mittler;Eduardo Blumwald

Frequent Co-Authors

Zvi Peleg
Zvi Peleg Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rosa M. Rivero
Rosa M. Rivero Spanish National Research Council
Verna J. Higgins
Verna J. Higgins University of Toronto
Shimon Gepstein
Shimon Gepstein Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Ronald J. Poole
Ronald J. Poole McGill University
Ron Mittler
Ron Mittler University of Missouri
Hernâni Gerós
Hernâni Gerós University of Minho
Juan M. Ruiz
Juan M. Ruiz University of Granada
Luis Romero
Luis Romero University of Granada
Harkamal Walia
Harkamal Walia University of Nebraska–Lincoln

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