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Jim M. Dunwell is affiliated with the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within agricultural and biological sciences, focusing extensively on plant science and molecular biology.

The scientist's work frequently appears in several key publication venues, including:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Plants
  • BMC Plant Biology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Jim M. Dunwell's research contributions are distributed across main fields such as agricultural and biological sciences and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The subfields of study prominently feature plant science, molecular biology, horticulture, cell biology, and geochemistry and petrology.

The principal topics addressed in their research include:

  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies
  • Cocoa and Sweet Potato Agronomy
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Horticultural and Viticultural Research
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis

Selected recent publications by Jim M. Dunwell include:

  • "Cadmium isotope fractionation reveals genetic variation in Cd uptake and translocation by Theobroma cacao and role of natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 5 and heavy metal ATPase-family transporters," 2020, Horticulture Research
  • "Fruit Development in Sweet Cherry," 2022, Plants
  • "Three-dimensional genetic networks among seed oil-related traits, metabolites and genes reveal the genetic foundations of oil synthesis in soybean," 2020, The Plant Journal
  • "Bioremediation potential of Cd by transgenic yeast expressing a metallothionein gene from Populus trichocarpa," 2020, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety
  • "Identification and distribution of novel badnaviral sequences integrated in the genome of cacao (Theobroma cacao)," 2021, Scientific Reports

The coauthors frequently collaborating with Jim M. Dunwell are:

  • Ihsan Ullah
  • Rebekah E. T. Moore
  • Mark Rehkämper
  • Charlotte F. Nellist
  • Kithmee K. de Silva

Best Publications

  • Land plants and DNA barcodes: short-term and long-term goals.

    Mark W Chase;Nicolas Salamin;Mike Wilkinson;James M Dunwell

  • Reaping the Benefits: Science and the sustainable intensification of global agriculture

    Bill Davies;David Baulcombe;Ian Crute;Jim Dunwell

  • Cupins: the most functionally diverse protein superfamily?

    Jim M Dunwell;Alan Purvis;Sawsan Khuri

  • Haploids in flowering plants: origins and exploitation.

    Jim M. Dunwell

  • Improving power and accuracy of genome-wide association studies via a multi-locus mixed linear model methodology

    Shi-Bo Wang;Jian-Ying Feng;Wen-Long Ren;Bo Huang

  • Germin, a protein marker of early plant development, is an oxalate oxidase.

    B. G. Lane;Jim M. Dunwell;J. A. Ray;M. R. Schmitt

  • Evolution of functional diversity in the cupin superfamily.

    Jim M Dunwell;Alastair Culham;Carol E Carter;Carlos R Sosa-Aguirre

  • Transformation of plant cells

    Ronald A. Coffee;James M. Dunwell

  • Germin is a manganese containing homohexamer with oxalate oxidase and superoxide dismutase activities.

    Eui-Jeon Woo;Jim M. Dunwell;Peter W. Goodenough;Allison C. Marvier

  • Microbial Relatives of the Seed Storage Proteins of Higher Plants: Conservation of Structure and Diversification of Function during Evolution of the Cupin Superfamily

    Jim M. Dunwell;Sawsan Khuri;Paul J. Gane

  • Methodological implementation of mixed linear models in multi-locus genome-wide association studies.

    Yang Jun Wen;Hanwen Zhang;Yuan Li Ni;Bo Huang

  • Cupins: A New Superfamily of Functionally Diverse Proteins that Include Germins and Plant Storage Proteins

    Jim M. Dunwell

  • Production of Fertile Transgenic Maize Plants by Silicon Carbide Whisker-Mediated Transformation

    Bronwyn R. Frame;Paul R. Drayton;Susan V. Bagnall;Carol J. Lewnau

  • Rational Conversion of Substrate and Product Specificity in a Salvia Monoterpene Synthase: Structural Insights into the Evolution of Terpene Synthase Function

    Sotirios C. Kampranis;Daphne Ioannidis;Daphne Ioannidis;Alan Purvis;Walid Mahrez

  • Transgenic approaches to crop improvement

    Jim M. Dunwell

  • Germin and Germin-like Proteins: Evolution, Structure, and Function

    Jim M. Dunwell;J. George Gibbings;Tariq Mahmood;S. M. Saqlan Naqvi

  • Editorial: The Applications of New Multi-Locus GWAS Methodologies in the Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits.

    Yuan-Ming Zhang;Zhenyu Jia;Jim M. Dunwell

  • Phylogeny, function, and evolution of the cupins, a structurally conserved, functionally diverse superfamily of proteins

    Sawsan Khuri;Freek T. Bakker;Jim M. Dunwell

  • The role of nuclear fusion in pollen embryogenesis of Datura innoxia Mill.

    N. Sunderland;G. B. Collins;J. M. Dunwell

  • Transgenic plants : methods and protocols

    Jim M. Dunwell;Andy C. Wetten

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Hall
Robert Hall Royal Holloway University of London
Wayne Powell
Wayne Powell Scotland's Rural College
Jeroen Hugenholtz
Jeroen Hugenholtz University of Groningen
Gianfranco Gilardi
Gianfranco Gilardi University of Turin
Lawrence P. Wackett
Lawrence P. Wackett University of Minnesota
Nicholas J. Turner
Nicholas J. Turner University of Manchester
Kan Wang
Kan Wang Iowa State University
Michiel Kleerebezem
Michiel Kleerebezem Wageningen University & Research
Rongling Wu
Rongling Wu Pennsylvania State University
Jonathan D. G. Jones
Jonathan D. G. Jones University of East Anglia

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