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Luis Herrera-Estrella

Luis Herrera-Estrella

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Genetics

D-Index
84
Citations
31031
World Ranking
1353
National Ranking
639

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2004 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2003 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Luis Herrera-Estrella is affiliated with Texas Tech University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a substantial focus on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Additional subfields include Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment and Global and Planetary Change.

The scientist's main research topics include Plant Molecular Biology Research, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, and Algal biology and biofuel production.

Recent publications demonstrate a range of studies addressing plant biology and stress responses. Notable papers include:

  • Plant abiotic stress response and nutrient use efficiency, 2020, Science China Life Sciences
  • Functional analysis of the OsNPF4.5 nitrate transporter reveals a conserved mycorrhizal pathway of nitrogen acquisition in plants, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Altering Plant Architecture to Improve Performance and Resistance, 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • Genome accessibility dynamics in response to phosphate limitation is controlled by the PHR1 family of transcription factors in Arabidopsis, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Defective cytokinin signaling reprograms lipid and flavonoid gene-to-metabolite networks to mitigate high salinity in Arabidopsis, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist has published frequently in several key venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • The Plant Journal

Throughout their career, Luis Herrera-Estrella has collaborated with a number of frequent coauthors such as Damar López-Arredondo, Lam-Son Phan Tran, Araceli Oropeza-Aburto, Lenin Yong-Villalobos, and Ricardo A. Chávez Montes.

Recognized for their contributions to science, the individual has been awarded fellowships by prestigious organizations, including being named a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2019, a Fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2004, and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences since 2003.

Best Publications

  • The role of nutrient availability in regulating root architecture.

    José López-Bucio;Alfredo Cruz-Ramı́rez;Luis Herrera-Estrella

  • Plant abiotic stress response and nutrient use efficiency.

    Zhizhong Gong;Liming Xiong;Huazhong Shi;Shuhua Yang

  • Expression of chimaeric genes transferred into plant cells using a Ti-plasmid-derived vector

    Luis Herrera-Estrella;Anna Depicker;Marc Van Montagu;Jeff Schell

  • Phosphate Availability Alters Architecture and Causes Changes in Hormone Sensitivity in the Arabidopsis Root System

    José López-Bucio;Esmeralda Hernández-Abreu;Lenin Sánchez-Calderón;María Fernanda Nieto-Jacobo

  • Phosphate Nutrition: Improving Low-Phosphate Tolerance in Crops

    Damar Lizbeth López-Arredondo;Marco Antonio Leyva-González;Sandra Isabel González-Morales;José López-Bucio

  • Whole-genome sequencing of cultivated and wild peppers provides insights into Capsicum domestication and specialization

    Cheng Qin;Cheng Qin;Changshui Yu;Yaou Shen;Xiaodong Fang;Xiaodong Fang

  • Aluminum tolerance in transgenic plants by alteration of citrate synthesis.

    Juan Manuel de la Fuente;Verenice Ramı́rez-Rodrı́guez;José Luis Cabrera-Ponce;Luis Herrera-Estrella

  • Positive regulatory role of strigolactone in plant responses to drought and salt stress

    Chien Van Ha;Marco Antonio Leyva-Gonzalez;Yuriko Osakabe;Uyen Thi Tran

  • Chimeric genes as dominant selectable markers in plant cells

    L. Herrera-Estrella;M. De Block;E. Messens;J.-P. Hernalsteens

  • Organic acid metabolism in plants: from adaptive physiology to transgenic varieties for cultivation in extreme soils.

    José López-Bucio;Marı́a Fernanda Nieto-Jacobo;Verenice Ramı́rez-Rodrı́guez;Luis Herrera-Estrella

  • Expression of foreign genes in regenerated plants and in their progeny.

    Marc De Block;Luis Herrera-Estrella;Marc Van Montagu;Jeff Schell

  • Phosphate Availability Alters Lateral Root Development in Arabidopsis by Modulating Auxin Sensitivity via a Mechanism Involving the TIR1 Auxin Receptor

    Claudia Anahí Pérez-Torres;José López-Bucio;Alfredo Cruz-Ramírez;Enrique Ibarra-Laclette

  • Using membrane transporters to improve crops for sustainable food production

    Julian I. Schroeder;Emmanuel Delhaize;Wolf B. Frommer;Mary Lou Guerinot

  • Chimaeric gene coding for a transit peptide and a heterologous polypeptide

    Luis Herrera-Estrella;Guidi Van Den Broeck;Marc Van Montagu;Peter Schreier

  • Phosphate starvation induces a determinate developmental program in the roots of Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Lenin Sánchez-Calderón;José López-Bucio;José López-Bucio;Alejandra Chacón-López;Alfredo Cruz-Ramírez

  • Geminivirus replication origins have a group-specific organization of iterative elements: A model for replication

    G.R. Argüello-Astorga;R.G. Guevara-González;L.R. Herrera-Estrella;R.F. Rivera-Bustamante

  • Enhanced phosphorus uptake in transgenic tobacco plants that overproduce citrate

    J López-Bucio;O M de La Vega;A Guevara-García;L Herrera-Estrella

  • Targeting of a foreign protein to chloroplasts by fusion to the transit peptide from the small subunit of ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase.

    Guido Van den Broeck;Michael P. Timko;Albert P. Kausch;Anthony R. Cashmore

  • Right 25 by terminus sequence of the nopaline t-DNA is essential for and determines direction of DNA transfer from Agrobacterium to the plant genome

    Kan Wang;Luis Herrera-Estrella;Marc Van Montagu;Patricia Zambryski

  • Uptake, integration, expression and genetic transmission of a selectable chimaeric gene by plant protoplasts

    Rüdiger Hain;Priska Stabel;Armin P Czernilofsky;Hans-Henning Steinbiß

Frequent Co-Authors

José López-Bucio
José López-Bucio Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo
June Simpson
June Simpson Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Jeff Schell
Jeff Schell Max Planck Society
Alfredo Herrera-Estrella
Alfredo Herrera-Estrella Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Anthony R. Cashmore
Anthony R. Cashmore University of Pennsylvania
Lam-Son Phan Tran
Lam-Son Phan Tran Texas Tech University
Patricia Zambryski
Patricia Zambryski University of California, Berkeley
M. Van Montagu
M. Van Montagu Ghent University
Stephan C. Schuster
Stephan C. Schuster Nanyang Technological University
Michael P. Timko
Michael P. Timko University of Virginia

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