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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2014 - Promega Biotechnology Research Award, American Society for Microbiology
  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Joachim Messing was affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. Their research focused primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with 7 publications in this field, as well as Medicine, covering 4 publications.

The scientist's work spanned various subfields including Plant Science, Gastroenterology, Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Ecology. Their research topics included Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Celiac Disease Research and Management, Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, and Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics.

Joachim Messing's recent publications featured titles such as:

  • Exceptional subgenome stability and functional divergence in the allotetraploid Ethiopian cereal teff (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Long-read sequencing reveals genomic structural variations that underlie creation of quality protein maize (2020, Nature Communications)
  • Flowering and Seed Production across the Lemnaceae (2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences)
  • Unusual predominance of maintenance DNA methylation in Spirodela polyrhiza (2020, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • Natural variants of α-gliadin peptides within wheat proteins with reduced toxicity in coeliac disease (2020, British Journal Of Nutrition)

Frequent coauthors who collaborated with Joachim Messing included Todd P. Michael, Paul Fourounjian, Nika Japelj, Tanja Šuligoj, and Beatriz Côrte-Real. Their work was often published in venues such as Nature Communications, British Journal Of Nutrition, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Joachim Messing received several recognitions throughout their career, including being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2002, receiving the Promega Biotechnology Research Award from the American Society for Microbiology in 2014, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 2015, and designation as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Improved M13 phage cloning vectors and host strains: nucleotide sequences of the M13mp18 and pUC19 vectors

    Celeste Yanisch-Perron;Jeffrey Vieira;Joachim Messing

  • The pUC plasmids, an M13mp7-derived system for insertion mutagenesis and sequencing with synthetic universal primers.

    Jeffrey Vieira;Joachim Messing

  • New M13 vectors for cloning.

    Joachim Messing

  • The map-based sequence of the rice genome

    Takashi Matsumoto;Jianzhong Wu;Hiroyuki Kanamori;Yuichi Katayose

  • Production of Single-Stranded Plasmid DNA

    Jeffrey Vieira;Joachim Messing

  • The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

    Andrew H. Paterson;John E. Bowers;Rémy Bruggmann;Inna Dubchak

  • 11 – Production of Single-Stranded Plasmid DNA

    Jeffrey Vieira;Joachim Messing

  • A new pair of M13 vectors for selecting either DNA strand of double-digest restriction fragments.

    Joachim Messing;Jeffrey Vieira

  • A system for shotgun DNA sequencing.

    Joachim Messing;Roberto Crea;Peter H. Seeburg

  • Construction of improved M13 vectors using oligodeoxynucleotide-directed mutagenesis.

    Jan Norrander;Tomas Kempe;Joachim Messing

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    John P. Vogel;David F. Garvin;Todd C. Mockler;Jeremy Schmutz

  • CARPEL FACTORY, a Dicer Homolog, and HEN1, a Novel Protein, Act in microRNA Metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Wonkeun Park;Junjie Li;Rentao Song;Joachim Messing

  • Filamentous coliphage M13 as a cloning vehicle: insertion of a HindII fragment of the lac regulatory region in M13 replicative form in vitro.

    J Messing;B Gronenborn;B Müller-Hill;P Hans Hopschneider

  • New pUC-derived cloning vectors with different selectable markers and DNA replication origins.

    J Vieira;J Messing

  • The making of strand-specific M13 probes.

    Hu Nien-tai;Joachim Messing

  • The complete nucleotide sequence of an infectious clone of cauliflower mosaic virus by M13mp7 shotgun sequencing

    Richard C. Gardner;Alan J. Howarth;Peter Hahn;Marianne Brown-Luedi

  • Close split of sorghum and maize genome progenitors

    Zuzana Swigonová;Jinsheng Lai;Jianxin Ma;Wusirika Ramakrishna

  • Gene expression of a gene family in maize based on noncollinear haplotypes

    Rentao Song;Joachim Messing

  • Physical and genetic structure of the maize genome reflects its complex evolutionary history.

    Fusheng Wei;Ed Coe;Ed Coe;William Nelson;Arvind K Bharti

  • Sequence composition and genome organization of maize.

    Joachim Messing;Arvind K. Bharti;Wojciech M. Karlowski;Heidrun Gundlach

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen University of Georgia
Rod A. Wing
Rod A. Wing University of Arizona
Jianxin Ma
Jianxin Ma Purdue University West Lafayette
Rentao Song
Rentao Song China Agricultural University
Carol Soderlund
Carol Soderlund University of Arizona
Rémy Bruggmann
Rémy Bruggmann University of Bern
Georg Haberer
Georg Haberer Technical University of Munich
Klaus F. X. Mayer
Klaus F. X. Mayer Technical University of Munich
Heidrun Gundlach
Heidrun Gundlach Helmholtz Zentrum München
Wusirika Ramakrishna
Wusirika Ramakrishna Central University of Punjab

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