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Overview

Kent D. Chapman is affiliated with the University of North Texas in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant contributions also in agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work covers a range of subfields including plant science, molecular biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, and mechanical engineering. Specific research topics that Kent D. Chapman addresses include:

  • Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
  • Photosynthetic processes and mechanisms
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Cannabis and cannabinoid research
  • Research in cotton cultivation
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Plant molecular biology research

Kent D. Chapman has published extensively in several scientific journals, with frequent appearances in these venues:

  • The Plant Cell
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Methods in Molecular Biology
  • New Phytologist
  • Trends in Plant Science

Recent notable publications include:

  • Lipid droplets in plants and algae: Distribution, formation, turnover and function, 2020, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Lipid Droplets: Packing Hydrophobic Molecules Within the Aqueous Cytoplasm, 2022, Annual Review of Plant Biology
  • The genome of jojoba ( Simmondsia chinensis ): A taxonomically isolated species that directs wax ester accumulation in its seeds, 2020, Science Advances
  • LDIP cooperates with SEIPIN and LDAP to facilitate lipid droplet biogenesis in Arabidopsis, 2021, The Plant Cell
  • CRISPR/Cas9-Induced fad2 and rod1 Mutations Stacked With fae1 Confer High Oleic Acid Seed Oil in Pennycress (Thlaspi arvense L.), 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science

Collaboration has been an element of their research, with frequent co-authors including Till Ischebeck, Trevor B. Romsdahl, Robert T. Mullen, John M. Dyer, and Mina Aziz, reflecting interdisciplinary teamwork in their research projects.

Best Publications

  • Lipidomics reveals that adiposomes store ether lipids and mediate phospholipid traffic.

    René Bartz;Wen Hong Li;Barney Venables;John K. Zehmer

  • Compartmentation of Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Plants

    Kent D. Chapman;John B. Ohlrogge

  • Biogenesis and functions of lipid droplets in plants: Thematic Review Series: Lipid Droplet Synthesis and Metabolism: from Yeast to Man

    Kent D. Chapman;John M. Dyer;Robert T. Mullen

  • An intimate collaboration between peroxisomes and lipid bodies

    Derk Douglas Binns;Tom Januszewski;Yue Chen;Justin Hill

  • The yeast lipin orthologue Pah1p is important for biogenesis of lipid droplets

    Oludotun Adeyo;Patrick J. Horn;SungKyung Lee;Derk Douglas Binns

  • Metabolic engineering of biomass for high energy density: oilseed-like triacylglycerol yields from plant leaves

    Thomas Vanhercke;Anna El Tahchy;Qing Liu;Xue-Rong Zhou

  • Phospholipase activity during plant growth and development and in response to environmental stress

    Kent D. Chapman

  • Identification of a New Class of Lipid Droplet-Associated Proteins in Plants

    Patrick J. Horn;Christopher N. James;Satinder K. Gidda;Aruna Kilaru

  • Drug evaluations using neuronal networks cultured on microelectrode arrays.

    S.I Morefield;E.W Keefer;K.D Chapman;G.W Gross

  • Substrate selectivities and lipid modulation of plant phospholipase D alpha, -beta, and -gamma.

    Kirk Pappan;Shea Austin-Brown;Kent D. Chapman;Xuemin Wang

  • Lipid Droplet-Associated Proteins (LDAPs) Are Required for the Dynamic Regulation of Neutral Lipid Compartmentation in Plant Cells.

    Satinder K Gidda;Sunjung Park;Michal Pyc;Olga Yurchenko

  • Arabidopsis SEIPIN Proteins Modulate Triacylglycerol Accumulation and Influence Lipid Droplet Proliferation.

    Yingqi Cai;Joel M. Goodman;Michal Pyc;Robert T. Mullen

  • Disruption of the Arabidopsis CGI-58 homologue produces Chanarin–Dorfman-like lipid droplet accumulation in plants

    Christopher N. James;Patrick J. Horn;Charlene R. Case;Satinder K. Gidda

  • Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization-mass spectrometry imaging (MALDI-MSI) for direct visualization of plant metabolites in situ.

    Drew Sturtevant;Young Jin Lee;Kent D. Chapman

  • Occurrence, metabolism, and prospective functions of N-acylethanolamines in plants.

    Kent D. Chapman

  • Turning Over a New Leaf in Lipid Droplet Biology

    Michal Pyc;Yingqi Cai;Michael S. Greer;Olga Yurchenko

  • Plant lipidomics: discerning biological function by profiling plant complex lipids using mass spectrometry.

    Ruth Welti;Jyoti Shah;Weiqi Li;Maoyin Li

  • Spatial Mapping of Lipids at Cellular Resolution in Embryos of Cotton

    Patrick J. Horn;Andrew R. Korte;Purnima B. Neogi;Ebony Love

  • Identification of a New Class of Lipid Droplet-Associated Proteins in Plants 1(C)(W)(OPEN)

    Patrick J. Horn;Christopher N. James;Satinder K. Gidda;Aruna Kilaru

  • Thematic Review Series: Lipid Droplet Synthesis and Metabolism: from Yeast to Man Biogenesis and functions of lipid droplets in plants

    Kent D. Chapman;John M. Dyer;Robert T. Mullen

Frequent Co-Authors

John M. Dyer
John M. Dyer United States Department of Agriculture
Elison B. Blancaflor
Elison B. Blancaflor Noble Research Institute
Robert T. Mullen
Robert T. Mullen University of Guelph
Edgar B. Cahoon
Edgar B. Cahoon University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Ivo Feussner
Ivo Feussner University of Göttingen
Vladimir Shulaev
Vladimir Shulaev University of North Texas
Ruth Welti
Ruth Welti Kansas State University
Richard A. Dixon
Richard A. Dixon University of North Texas
John B. Ohlrogge
John B. Ohlrogge Michigan State University
Ljudmilla Borisjuk
Ljudmilla Borisjuk Leibniz Association

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