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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Katayoon Dehesh is affiliated with the University of California, Riverside in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Within these, they focus on subfields such as Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Materials Chemistry, Genetics, and Biochemistry.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis
  • Enzyme Structure and Function
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis

A number of recent publications illustrate the scope and focus of their research. These include:

  • "DHH1/DDX6-like RNA helicases maintain ephemeral half-lives of stress-response mRNAs" (2020, Nature Plants)
  • "The eukaryotic MEP-pathway genes are evolutionarily conserved and originated from Chlaymidia and cyanobacteria" (2021, BMC Genomics)
  • "Plastidial retrograde modulation of light and hormonal signaling: an odyssey" (2021, New Phytologist)
  • "Dosage differences in 12-OXOPHYTODIENOATE REDUCTASE genes modulate wheat root growth" (2023, Nature Communications)
  • "Retrograde Induction of phyB Orchestrates Ethylene-Auxin Hierarchy to Regulate Growth" (2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)

The frequent collaborators of Katayoon Dehesh include Haiyan Ke, Liping Zeng, Jingzhe Guo, María Fernanda Gómez-Méndez, and Jinzheng Wang.

Their work has been published regularly in a number of venues, with multiple publications in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Plants
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Communications
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Katayoon Dehesh has received recognition from academic institutions, having been awarded fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2013. Additionally, they were recognized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2017 in the domain of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology.

Best Publications

  • An Arabidopsis gene regulatory network for secondary cell wall synthesis

    M. Taylor-Teeples;L. Lin;M. De Lucas;G. Turco

  • Retrograde Signaling by the Plastidial Metabolite MEcPP Regulates Expression of Nuclear Stress-Response Genes

    Yanmei Xiao;Tatyana Savchenko;Edward E.K. Baidoo;Edward E.K. Baidoo;Wassim E. Chehab

  • Mechanical Stress Induces Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses via a Novel cis-Element

    Justin walley;Sean Coughlan;Matthew E Hudson;Michael Fulton Covington

  • Functional Convergence of Oxylipin and Abscisic Acid Pathways Controls Stomatal Closure in Response to Drought

    Tatyana Savchenko;Venkat A. Kolla;Chang Quan Wang;Zainab Nasafi

  • Production of high levels of 8:0 and 10:0 fatty acids in transgenic canola by overexpression of Ch FatB2, a thioesterase cDNA from Cuphea hookeriana.

    Katayoon Dehesh;Aubrey Jones;Deborah S. Knutzon;Toni A. Voelker

  • Structure of the complex between the antibiotic cerulenin and its target, beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase.

    Martin Moche;Gunter Schneider;Patricia Edwards;Katayoon Dehesh

  • Crystal structure of beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase II from E.coli reveals the molecular architecture of condensing enzymes.

    Weijun Huang;Jia Jia;Patricia Edwards;Katayoon Dehesh

  • Arabidopsis HY8 locus encodes phytochrome A

    Katayoon Dehesh;Chris Franci;Brian M. Parks;Kevin A. Seeley

  • Overexpression of 3-Ketoacyl-Acyl-Carrier Protein Synthase IIIs in Plants Reduces the Rate of Lipid Synthesis

    Katayoon Dehesh;Heeyoung Tai;Patricia Edwards;James Byrne

  • Arachidonic acid: an evolutionarily conserved signaling molecule modulates plant stress signaling networks

    Tatyana Savchenko;Justin W. Walley;Justin W. Walley;E. Wassim Chehab;Yanmei Xiao

  • Retrograde Signals: Integrators of Interorganellar Communication and Orchestrators of Plant Development.

    Amancio de Souza;Jin-Zheng Wang;Katayoon Dehesh

  • Distinct roles of jasmonates and aldehydes in plant-defense responses.

    E. Wassim Chehab;Roy Kaspi;Tatyana Savchenko;Heather Rowe

  • Fatty acids and early detection of pathogens

    Justin W Walley;Daniel J Kliebenstein;Daniel J Kliebenstein;Richard M Bostock;Katayoon Dehesh

  • phyB is evolutionarily conserved and constitutively expressed in rice seedling shoots

    Katayoon Dehesh;James Tepperman;Alan H. Christensen;Peter H. Quail

  • The chromatin remodeler SPLAYED regulates specific stress signaling pathways.

    Justin W. Walley;Heather C. Rowe;Yanmei Xiao;E. Wassim Chehab

  • Localization of NADPH‐protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase in dark‐grown wheat (Triticum aestivum) by immuno‐electron microscopy before and after transformation of the prolamellar bodies

    Margareta Ryberg;Katayoon Dehesh

  • A trans-acting factor that binds to a GT-motif in a phytochrome gene promoter.

    Katayoon Dehesh;Wesley B. Bruce;Peter H. Quail

  • BBX19 Interacts with CONSTANS to Repress FLOWERING LOCUS T Transcription, Defining a Flowering Time Checkpoint in Arabidopsis

    Chang-Quan Wang;Cade Guthrie;Mostafa Khoshhal Sarmast;Katayoon Dehesh

  • Deficiencies in jasmonate-mediated plant defense reveal quantitative variation in Botrytis cinerea pathogenesis.

    Heather C. Rowe;Justin W. Walley;Jason Corwin;Eva K.-F. Chan

  • KAS IV: a 3-ketoacyl-ACP synthase from Cuphea sp. is a medium chain specific condensing enzyme.

    Katayoon Dehesh;Patricia Edwards;JoAnne Fillatti;Mary Slabaugh

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter H. Quail
Peter H. Quail University of California, Berkeley
Daniel J. Kliebenstein
Daniel J. Kliebenstein University of California, Davis
Jay D. Keasling
Jay D. Keasling University of California, Berkeley
Edward E. K. Baidoo
Edward E. K. Baidoo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Richard M. Bostock
Richard M. Bostock University of California, Davis
Ylva Lindqvist
Ylva Lindqvist Karolinska Institute
Abhaya M. Dandekar
Abhaya M. Dandekar University of California, Davis
Sten Stymne
Sten Stymne Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Colin M. Lazarus
Colin M. Lazarus University of Bristol
Klaus Palme
Klaus Palme University of Freiburg

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