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  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Gregory B. Martin is affiliated with the Boyce Thompson Institute in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a strong focus on Plant Science. Additional subfields include Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Endocrinology, and Insect Science.

The scientist's main research topics encompass:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens

Frequent co-authors with whom they have collaborated include Ning Zhang, Zhangjun Fei, Guy Sobol, Guido Sessa, and Susan R. Strickler.

The scientist has published articles in several venues, with a notable number in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), as well as in PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, The Plant Journal, Plant Molecular Biology, and Frontiers in Plant Science.

Recent significant papers include:

  • Genome of Solanum pimpinellifolium provides insights into structural variants during tomato breeding, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Tomato Wall-Associated Kinase SlWak1 Depends on Fls2/Fls3 to Promote Apoplastic Immune Responses to Pseudomonas syringae, 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • WRKY22 and WRKY25 transcription factors are positive regulators of defense responses in Nicotiana benthamiana, 2020, Plant Molecular Biology
  • Generation and Molecular Characterization of CRISPR/Cas9-Induced Mutations in 63 Immunity-Associated Genes in Tomato Reveals Specificity and a Range of Gene Modifications, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Spelling Changes and Fluorescent Tagging With Prime Editing Vectors for Plants, 2021, Frontiers in Genome Editing

Gregory B. Martin was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

  • High density molecular linkage maps of the tomato and potato genomes.

    S D Tanksley;M W Ganal;J P Prince;M C de Vicente

  • Map-based cloning of a protein kinase gene conferring disease resistance in tomato

    Gregory B. Martin;Sergio H. Brommonschenkel;Julapark Chunwongse;Anne Frary

  • Understanding the functions of plant disease resistance proteins.

    Gregory B. Martin;Adam J. Bogdanove;Guido Sessa

  • The complete genome sequence of the Arabidopsis and tomato pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000

    C. Robin Buell;Vinita Joardar;Magdalen Lindeberg;Jeremy Selengut

  • Applications and advantages of virus-induced gene silencing for gene function studies in plants.

    Tessa M. Burch-Smith;Jeffrey C. Anderson;Jeffrey C. Anderson;Gregory B. Martin;Gregory B. Martin;S. P. Dinesh-Kumar

  • iTAK: A Program for Genome-wide Prediction and Classification of Plant Transcription Factors, Transcriptional Regulators, and Protein Kinases.

    Yi Zheng;Chen Jiao;Honghe Sun;Hernan G. Rosli

  • Initiation of plant disease resistance by physical interaction of AvrPto and Pto kinase

    Xiaoyan Tang;Reid D. Frederick;Jianmin Zhou;Dennis A. Halterman

  • Rapid identification of markers linked to a Pseudomonas resistance gene in tomato by using random primers and near-isogenic lines.

    Gregory B. Martin;John G. K. Williams;Steven D. Tanksley

  • Bacterial Effectors Target the Common Signaling Partner BAK1 to Disrupt Multiple MAMP Receptor-Signaling Complexes and Impede Plant Immunity

    Libo Shan;Ping He;Jianming Li;Antje Heese

  • The Pto kinase conferring resistance to tomato bacterial speck disease interacts with proteins that bind a cis-element of pathogenesis-related genes

    Jianmin Zhou;Xiaoyan Tang;Gregory B. Martin

  • Transcriptome and selected metabolite analyses reveal multiple points of ethylene control during tomato fruit development.

    Rob Alba;Paxton Payton;Zhanjun Fei;Ryan McQuinn

  • Chromosome landing: a paradigm for map-based gene cloning in plants with large genomes

    Steven D. Tanksley;Martin W. Ganal;Gregory B. Martin

  • Bacterial elicitation and evasion of plant innate immunity.

    Robert B. Abramovitch;Jeffrey C. Anderson;Gregory B. Martin;Gregory B. Martin

  • A Draft Genome Sequence of Nicotiana benthamiana to Enhance Molecular Plant-Microbe Biology Research

    Aureliano Bombarely;Hernan G. Rosli;Julia Vrebalov;Peter Moffett

  • The tomato gene Pti1 encodes a serine/threonine kinase that is phosphorylated by Pto and is involved in the hypersensitive response

    Jianmin Zhou;Ying-Tsu Loh;Ray A. Bressan;Gregory B. Martin

  • Tomato Transcription Factors Pti4, Pti5, and Pti6 Activate Defense Responses When Expressed in Arabidopsis

    Yong-Qiang Gu;Mary C. Wildermuth;Suma Chakravarthy;Ying-Tsu Loh

  • Specific bacterial suppressors of MAMP signaling upstream of MAPKKK in Arabidopsis innate immunity.

    Ping He;Libo Shan;Nai-Chun Lin;Gregory B. Martin

  • Pseudomonas type III effector AvrPtoB induces plant disease susceptibility by inhibition of host programmed cell death

    Robert B. Abramovitch;Young Jin Kim;Shaorong Chen;Martin B. Dickman

  • The tobacco salicylic acid-binding protein 3 (SABP3) is the chloroplast carbonic anhydrase, which exhibits antioxidant activity and plays a role in the hypersensitive defense response

    David H. Slaymaker;Duroy A. Navarre;Daniel Clark;Olga del Pozo

  • A Bacterial Inhibitor of Host Programmed Cell Death Defenses Is an E3 Ubiquitin Ligase

    Radmila Janjusevic;Radmila Janjusevic;Radmila Janjusevic;Robert B. Abramovitch;Robert B. Abramovitch;Robert B. Abramovitch;Gregory B. Martin;Gregory B. Martin;Gregory B. Martin;C. Erec Stebbins;C. Erec Stebbins;C. Erec Stebbins

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Giovannoni
James J. Giovannoni Boyce Thompson Institute
Zhangjun Fei
Zhangjun Fei Cornell University
Steven D. Tanksley
Steven D. Tanksley Cornell University
Guido Sessa
Guido Sessa Tel Aviv University
Alan Collmer
Alan Collmer Cornell University
Jianmin Zhou
Jianmin Zhou Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chang-Sik Oh
Chang-Sik Oh Seoul National University
Kai Shi
Kai Shi Zhejiang University
Daniel F. Klessig
Daniel F. Klessig Boyce Thompson Institute
Martin W. Ganal
Martin W. Ganal TraitGenetics GmbH

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