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13848
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5858

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2007 - Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists

Overview

Heven Sze is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research focuses on areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Specifically, their subfields include Molecular Biology and Plant Science.

The main topics covered in Sze's research involve Plant Reproductive Biology, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, and Seed Germination and Physiology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Sze include Ravishankar Palanivelu, Jeffrey F. Harper, Mark A. Johnson, Božena Klodová, and John M. Ward.

Sze has published primarily in the venue PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, with multiple works appearing there, as well as contributions to Molecular Plant.

Among recent publications are the following papers:

  • Holistic insights from pollen omics: co-opting stress-responsive genes and ER-mediated proteostasis for male fertility (2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)
  • A wave of specific transcript and protein accumulation accompanies pollen dehydration (2024, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)
  • Osmoregulation determines sperm cell geometry and integrity for double fertilization in flowering plants (2022, Molecular Plant)

Sze has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2010 and a Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists since 2007.

Best Publications

  • Phylogenetic Relationships within Cation Transporter Families of Arabidopsis

    Pascal Mäser;Sébastien Thomine;Julian I. Schroeder;John M. Ward

  • Energization of plant cell membranes by H+-pumping ATPases. Regulation and biosynthesis

    Heven Sze;Xuhang Li;Michael G. Palmgren

  • DIVERSITY AND REGULATION OF PLANT Ca2+ PUMPS: Insights from Expression in Yeast

    Heven Sze;Feng Liang;Ildoo Hwang;Amy C. Curran

  • The Arabidopsis det3 mutant reveals a central role for the vacuolar H+–ATPase in plant growth and development

    Karin Schumacher;Dionne Vafeados;Melissa McCarthy;Heven Sze

  • A simple nomenclature for a complex proton pump: VHA genes encode the vacuolar H(+)-ATPase.

    Heven Sze;Karin Schumacher;Mathias L Müller;Senthilkumar Padmanaban

  • A calcium-dependent protein kinase can inhibit a calmodulin-stimulated Ca2+ pump (ACA2) located in the endoplasmic reticulum of Arabidopsis

    Ildoo Hwang;Heven Sze;Jeffrey F. Harper

  • Conserved and diversified gene families of monovalent cation/h(+) antiporters from algae to flowering plants.

    Salil Chanroj;Guoying Wang;Kees Venema;Muren Warren Zhang

  • Vacuolar H(+)-translocating ATPases from plants: structure, function, and isoforms.

    Heven Sze;John M. Ward;Shoupeng Lai;Shoupeng Lai

  • An Endoplasmic Reticulum-Bound Ca2+/Mn2+Pump, ECA1, Supports Plant Growth and Confers Tolerance to Mn2+ Stress

    Zhongyi Wu;Feng Liang;Bimei Hong;Jeff C. Young

  • H+‐translocating ATPases of the plasma membrane and tonoplast of plant cells

    Heven Sze

  • A Novel Calmodulin-regulated Ca2+-ATPase (ACA2) from Arabidopsis with an N-terminal Autoinhibitory Domain

    Jeffrey F. Harper;Bimei Hong;Ildoo Hwang;Hong Qing Guo

  • Expression Patterns of a Novel AtCHX Gene Family Highlight Potential Roles in Osmotic Adjustment and K+ Homeostasis in Pollen Development

    Heven Sze;Senthilkumar Padmanaban;Françoise Cellier;David Honys

  • Integrating Membrane Transport with Male Gametophyte Development and Function through Transcriptomics

    Kevin W. Bock;David Honys;David Honys;John M. Ward;Senthilkumar Padmanaban

  • ECA1 complements yeast mutants defective in Ca2+ pumps and encodes an endoplasmic reticulum-type Ca2+-ATPase in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Feng Liang;Kyle W. Cunningham;Jeffrey F. Harper;Heven Sze

  • A Ca2+/H+ Antiport System Driven by the Proton Electrochemical Gradient of a Tonoplast H+-ATPase from Oat Roots

    Karen S. Schumaker;Heven Sze

  • Pollen Tubes Lacking a Pair of K+ Transporters Fail to Target Ovules in Arabidopsis

    Yongxian Lu;Salil Chanroj;Lalu Zulkifli;Mark A. Johnson

  • Plant endomembrane dynamics: studies of K+/H+ antiporters provide insights on the effects of pH and ion homeostasis

    Heven Sze;Heven Sze;Salil Chanroj

  • Electrogenic h-pumping pyrophosphatase in tonoplast vesicles of oat roots.

    Yanzhi Wang;Roger A. Leigh;Klaus H. Kaestner;Heven Sze

  • Anion-sensitive, h-pumping ATPase in membrane vesicles from oat roots.

    Kathleen A. Churchill;Heven Sze

  • Differential expression of vacuolar H+-ATPase subunit c genes in tissues active in membrane trafficking and their roles in plant growth as revealed by RNAi.

    Senthilkumar Padmanaban;Xiaoying Lin;Imara Perera;Yukio Kawamura

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Ward
John M. Ward University College London
Kendal D. Hirschi
Kendal D. Hirschi Baylor College of Medicine
Jeffrey F. Harper
Jeffrey F. Harper University of Nevada Reno
Karen S. Schumaker
Karen S. Schumaker University of Arizona
Roger A. Leigh
Roger A. Leigh University of Cambridge
Thomas K. Hodges
Thomas K. Hodges Purdue University West Lafayette
Markus Geisler
Markus Geisler University of Fribourg
Karin Schumacher
Karin Schumacher Heidelberg University
Nobuyuki Uozumi
Nobuyuki Uozumi Tohoku University
David Twell
David Twell University of Leicester

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