Erika Varkonyi-Gasic

Best Publications

• Protocol: a highly sensitive RT-PCR method for detection and quantification of microRNAs

  Erika Varkonyi-Gasic;Rongmei Wu;Marion Wood;Eric F Walton

  1318
  Citations

• A systemic small rna signaling system in plants

  William J. Lucas;Byung-Chun Yoo;Tony Lough;Erika Varkonyi-Gasic

  718
  Citations

• FLOWERING LOCUS T Protein May Act as the Long-Distance Florigenic Signal in the Cucurbits

  Ming Kuem Lin;Helene Belanger;Young Jin Lee;Erika Varkonyi-Gasic

  548
  Citations

• Two Y-chromosome-encoded genes determine sex in kiwifruit

  Takashi Akagi;Sarah M. Pilkington;Erika Varkonyi-Gasic;Isabelle M. Henry

  238
  Citations

• Functional diversification of the potato R2R3 MYB anthocyanin activators AN1, MYBA1, and MYB113 and their interaction with basic helix-loop-helix cofactors

  Yuhui Liu;Kui Lin-Wang;Richard V. Espley;Li Wang

  205
  Citations

• A manually annotated Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis (kiwifruit) genome highlights the challenges associated with draft genomes and gene prediction in plants

  Sarah M. Pilkington;Ross Crowhurst;Elena Hilario;Simona Nardozza

  202
  Citations

• Conservation and divergence of four kiwifruit SVP-like MADS-box genes suggest distinct roles in kiwifruit bud dormancy and flowering

  Rong-Mei Wu;Eric F. Walton;Annette C. Richardson;Marion Wood

  198
  Citations

• FT and florigen long-distance flowering control in plants.

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  189
  Citations

• Quantitative Stem-Loop RT-PCR for Detection of MicroRNAs

  Erika Varkonyi-Gasic;Roger P. Hellens

  187
  Citations

• SVP-like MADS Box Genes Control Dormancy and Budbreak in Apple.

  Rongmei Wu;Sumathi Tomes;Sakuntala Karunairetnam;Stuart D. Tustin

  166
  Citations

• Mutagenesis of kiwifruit CENTRORADIALIS-like genes transforms a climbing woody perennial with long juvenility and axillary flowering into a compact plant with rapid terminal flowering.

  Erika Varkonyi‐Gasic;Tianchi Wang;Charlotte Voogd;Subin Jeon

  154
  Citations

• Characterisation of microRNAs from apple ( Malus domestica 'Royal Gala') vascular tissue and phloem sap

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  139
  Citations

• Homologs of FT, CEN and FD respond to developmental and environmental signals affecting growth and flowering in the perennial vine kiwifruit

  Erika Varkonyi-Gasic;Sarah M. A. Moss;Charlotte Voogd;Tianchi Wang

  102
  Citations

• Functional and expression analyses of kiwifruit SOC1-like genes suggest that they may not have a role in the transition to flowering but may affect the duration of dormancy

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  97
  Citations

• Apple FLOWERING LOCUS T proteins interact with transcription factors implicated in cell growth and organ development.

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  94
  Citations

• Kiwifruit bZIP transcription factor<i>AcePosF21</i>elicits ascorbic acid biosynthesis during cold stress

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  93
  Citations

• Kiwifruit SVP2 gene prevents premature budbreak during dormancy

  Rongmei Wu;Tianchi Wang;Ben A W Warren;Andrew C Allan;Andrew C Allan

  76
  Citations

• A MADS-box gene with similarity to FLC is induced by cold and correlated with epigenetic changes to control budbreak in kiwifruit.

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  74
  Citations

• Kiwifruit floral gene APETALA2 is alternatively spliced and accumulates in aberrant indeterminate flowers in the absence of miR172

  Erika Varkonyi-Gasic;Robyn H. Lough;Sarah M. A. Moss;Rongmei Wu

  68
  Citations

• Overexpression of the kiwifruit SVP3 gene affects reproductive development and suppresses anthocyanin biosynthesis in petals, but has no effect on vegetative growth, dormancy, or flowering time

  Rongmei Wu;Tianchi Wang;Tony McGie;Charlotte Voogd

  60
  Citations