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Lukas A. Mueller is affiliated with the Boyce Thompson Institute in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within agricultural and biological sciences, with particular emphasis on plant science and molecular biology. Over the course of their career, they have contributed to a significant number of publications related to genetics, insect science, and horticulture.

Their recent scholarly work includes several papers published in prominent journals:

  • "Graph pangenome captures missing heritability and empowers tomato breeding" (2022, Nature)
  • "Genome of Solanum pimpinellifolium provides insights into structural variants during tomato breeding" (2020, Nature Communications)
  • "Exploiting the diversity of tomato: the development of a phenotypically and genetically detailed germplasm collection" (2020, Horticulture Research)
  • "Independent evolution of ancestral and novel defenses in a genus of toxic plants (Erysimum, Brassicaceae)" (2020, eLife)
  • "The Ontologies Community of Practice: A CGIAR Initiative for Big Data in Agrifood Systems" (2020, Patterns)

Mueller's body of work engages deeply with various topics, including:

  • Phytoplasmas and Hemiptera pathogens
  • Insect symbiosis and bacterial influences
  • Insect resistance and genetics
  • Banana cultivation and research
  • Studies on chitinases and chitosanases
  • Cassava research and cyanide
  • Plant virus research studies

Frequent collaborators in their research include Surya Saha, Mirella Flores-Gonzalez, Prashant S. Hosmani, Wayne B. Hunter, and Susan J. Brown. These coauthors have contributed alongside Mueller across multiple projects and publications.

Their work has been frequently published in venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Gigabyte
  • Scientific Reports
  • The Plant Journal
  • PLoS ONE

Within the fields of study, the scientist has a substantial focus on agricultural and biological sciences, reflected in 145 publications, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, comprising 70 publications. Subfields receiving concentrated attention include plant science, molecular biology, insect science, genetics, and horticulture.

Best Publications

  • The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution

    Shusei Sato;Satoshi Tabata;Hideki Hirakawa;Erika Asamizu

  • The MetaCyc database of metabolic pathways and enzymes and the BioCyc collection of pathway/genome databases

    Ron Caspi;Richard Billington;Luciana Ferrer;Hartmut Foerster

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

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

  • The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR): a model organism database providing a centralized, curated gateway to Arabidopsis biology, research materials and community

    Seung Yon Rhee;William D. Beavis;Tanya Z. Berardini;Guanghong Chen

  • The draft genome of watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) and resequencing of 20 diverse accessions

    Shaogui Guo;Shaogui Guo;Jianguo Zhang;Jianguo Zhang;Honghe Sun;Honghe Sun;Jerome Salse

  • The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR): a comprehensive database and web-based information retrieval, analysis, and visualization system for a model plant

    Eva Huala;Allan W. Dickerman;Margarita Garcia-Hernandez;Danforth Weems

  • The Sol Genomics Network (SGN)—from genotype to phenotype to breeding

    Noe Fernandez-Pozo;Naama Menda;Jeremy D. Edwards;Surya Saha

  • The SOL Genomics Network. A Comparative Resource for Solanaceae Biology and Beyond

    Lukas A. Mueller;Teri H. Solow;Nicolas Taylor;Beth Skwarecki

  • A Draft Genome Sequence of Nicotiana benthamiana to Enhance Molecular Plant-Microbe Biology Research

    Aureliano Bombarely;Hernan G. Rosli;Julia Vrebalov;Peter Moffett

  • Functional Annotation of the Arabidopsis Genome Using Controlled Vocabularies

    Tanya Z. Berardini;Suparna Mundodi;Leonore Reiser;Eva Huala

  • AN9, a petunia glutathione S-transferase required for anthocyanin sequestration, is a flavonoid-binding protein.

    Lukas A. Mueller;Christopher D. Goodman;Rebecca A. Silady;Virginia Walbot

  • Fern genomes elucidate land plant evolution and cyanobacterial symbioses

    Fay Wei Li;Fay Wei Li;Paul Brouwer;Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet;Shifeng Cheng

  • Insight into the evolution of the Solanaceae from the parental genomes of Petunia hybrida.

    Aureliano Bombarely;Michel Moser;Avichai Moshe Amrad;Manzhu Bao

  • Combining Bioinformatics and Phylogenetics to Identify Large Sets of Single-Copy Orthologous Genes (COSII) for Comparative, Evolutionary and Systematic Studies: A Test Case in the Euasterid Plant Clade

    Feinan Wu;Lukas A. Mueller;Dominique Crouzillat;Vincent Pétiard

  • High-resolution spatiotemporal transcriptome mapping of tomato fruit development and ripening

    Yoshihito Shinozaki;Philippe Nicolas;Noe Fernandez-Pozo;Qiyue Ma

  • The Sol Genomics Network (solgenomics.net): growing tomatoes using Perl

    Aureliano Bombarely;Naama Menda;Isaak Y Tecle;Robert M Buels

  • A reference genome for Nicotiana tabacum enables map-based cloning of homeologous loci implicated in nitrogen utilization efficiency.

    K. D. Edwards;N. Fernandez-Pozo;K. Drake-Stowe;M. Humphry

  • MetaCyc and AraCyc. Metabolic pathway databases for plant research.

    Peifen Zhang;Hartmut Foerster;Christophe P. Tissier;Lukas Mueller

  • Designing a transcriptome next-generation sequencing project for a nonmodel plant species1

    Susan R. Strickler;Aureliano Bombarely;Lukas A. Mueller

  • TAIR: a resource for integrated Arabidopsis data.

    Margarita Garcia-Hernandez;Tanya Z. Berardini;Guanghong Chen;Debbie Crist

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Giovannoni
James J. Giovannoni Boyce Thompson Institute
Zhangjun Fei
Zhangjun Fei Cornell University
Steven D. Tanksley
Steven D. Tanksley Cornell University
Seung Y. Rhee
Seung Y. Rhee Carnegie Institution for Science
Gregory B. Martin
Gregory B. Martin Boyce Thompson Institute
Giovanni Giuliano
Giovanni Giuliano National Agency For New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Jocelyn K. C. Rose
Jocelyn K. C. Rose Cornell University
Georg Jander
Georg Jander Boyce Thompson Institute
Susan J. Brown
Susan J. Brown Kansas State University
Dani Zamir
Dani Zamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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