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Overview

John C. Cushman is affiliated with the University of Nevada Reno in the United States. Their research primarily intersects Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their subfields of study encompass Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Food Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Biomedical Engineering. Cushman's work covers various main research topics including Botanical Research and Applications, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Plant Diversity and Evolution, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Plant Molecular Biology Research, and Plant responses to water stress.

Frequently publishing in specialized venues, Cushman has contributed multiple papers to Annals of Botany, The Plant Journal, Plants, Frontiers in Plant Science, and bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Cushman include:

  • Disentangling Sources of Gene Tree Discordance in Phylogenomic Data Sets: Testing Ancient Hybridizations in Amaranthaceae s.l (2020, Systematic Biology)
  • Plant tissue succulence engineering improves water-use efficiency, water-deficit stress attenuation and salinity tolerance in Arabidopsis (2020, The Plant Journal)
  • Realizing the Potential of Camelina sativa as a Bioenergy Crop for a Changing Global Climate (2022, Plants)
  • The final piece of the Triangle of U: Evolution of the tetraploid Brassica carinata genome (2022, The Plant Cell)
  • Multiple mechanisms explain loss of anthocyanins from betalain-pigmented Caryophyllales, including repeated wholesale loss of a key anthocyanidin synthesis enzyme (2023, New Phytologist)

Cushman has collaborated repeatedly with several co-authors in their publications, including Won Cheol Yim, Jesse A. Mayer, Juan K. Q. Solomon, Nicholas A. Niechayev, and Dhurba Neupane.

Best Publications

  • Genomic approaches to plant stress tolerance.

    John C Cushman;Hans J Bohnert

  • Tolerance of mannitol-accumulating transgenic wheat to water stress and salinity.

    Tilahun Abebe;Arron C. Guenzi;Bjorn Martin;John C. Cushman

  • Water and salinity stress in grapevines: early and late changes in transcript and metabolite profiles.

    Grant R. Cramer;Ali Ergül;Jerome Grimplet;Richard L. Tillett

  • The Microbial Opsin Family of Optogenetic Tools

    Feng Zhang;Johannes Vierock;Ofer Yizhar;Lief E. Fenno

  • The pineapple genome and the evolution of CAM photosynthesis

    Ray Ming;Ray Ming;Robert VanBuren;Robert VanBuren;Robert VanBuren;Ching Man Wai;Ching Man Wai;Haibao Tang;Haibao Tang

  • Water deficit alters differentially metabolic pathways affecting important flavor and quality traits in grape berries of Cabernet Sauvignon and Chardonnay

    Laurent G Deluc;David R Quilici;Alain Decendit;Jérôme Grimplet

  • Transcriptomic and metabolite analyses of Cabernet Sauvignon grape berry development.

    Laurent G Deluc;Jérôme Grimplet;Matthew D Wheatley;Richard L Tillett

  • Crassulacean acid metabolism. A plastic photosynthetic adaptation to arid environments.

    John C. Cushman

  • The EAR-motif of the Cys2/His2-type Zinc Finger Protein Zat7 Plays a Key Role in the Defense Response of Arabidopsis to Salinity Stress

    Sultan Ciftci-Yilmaz;Mustafa R. Morsy;Luhua Song;Alicia Coutu

  • Tissue-specific mRNA expression profiling in grape berry tissues

    Jerome Grimplet;Laurent G Deluc;Richard L Tillett;Matthew D Wheatley

  • A genomics approach towards salt stress tolerance

    Hans J. Bohnert;Patricia Ayoubi;Chris Borchert;Ray A. Bressan

  • Proteomic analysis reveals differences between Vitis vinifera L. cv. Chardonnay and cv. Cabernet Sauvignon and their responses to water deficit and salinity

    Delphine Vincent;Ali Ergül;Marlene C. Bohlman;Elizabeth A. R. Tattersall

  • Engineering crassulacean acid metabolism to improve water-use efficiency

    Anne M. Borland;Anne M. Borland;James Hartwell;David J. Weston;Karen A. Schlauch

  • Evolution along the crassulacean acid metabolism continuum

    Katia Silvera;Kurt M. Neubig;W. Mark Whitten;Norris H. Williams

  • A Sister Group Contrast Using Untargeted Global Metabolomic Analysis Delineates the Biochemical Regulation Underlying Desiccation Tolerance in Sporobolus stapfianus

    Melvin J. Oliver;Lining Guo;Danny C. Alexander;John A. Ryals

  • Proteomic profiling of tandem affinity purified 14‐3‐3 protein complexes in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Ing-Feng Chang;Amy Curran;Rebekah Woolsey;David Quilici

  • A roadmap for research on crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) to enhance sustainable food and bioenergy production in a hotter, drier world.

    Xiaohan Yang;John C. Cushman;Anne M. Borland;Anne M. Borland;Erika J. Edwards

  • Salt stress leads to differential expression of two isogenes of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase during Crassulacean acid metabolism induction in the common ice plant.

    John C. Cushman;Gabriele Meyer;Christine B. Michalowski;Jurgen M. Schmitt

  • Salt tolerance, salt accumulation, and ionic homeostasis in an epidermal bladder-cell-less mutant of the common ice plant Mesembryanthemum crystallinum

    Sakae Agarie;Toshifumi Shimoda;Yumi Shimizu;Kathleen Baumann

  • Osmoregulation in Plants: Implications for Agriculture1

    John C. Cushman

Frequent Co-Authors

Anne M. Borland
Anne M. Borland Newcastle University
Grant R. Cramer
Grant R. Cramer University of Nevada Reno
Hans J. Bohnert
Hans J. Bohnert University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ray Ming
Ray Ming University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gerald A. Tuskan
Gerald A. Tuskan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ron Mittler
Ron Mittler University of Missouri
Melvin J. Oliver
Melvin J. Oliver University of Missouri
Jeffrey F. Harper
Jeffrey F. Harper University of Nevada Reno
Klaus Winter
Klaus Winter Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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