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Marja C.P. Timmermans

Marja C.P. Timmermans

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
10249
World Ranking
17106
National Ranking
1184

Overview

Marja C.P. Timmermans is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany and conducts research primarily in the Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their work focuses extensively on Plant Science, supported by significant contributions in areas such as Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Genetics, and Biochemistry.

The scientist's research covers several main topics including Plant Molecular Biology Research, Single-cell and Spatial Transcriptomics, Plant Reproductive Biology, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Plant Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism, Cell Image Analysis Techniques, and the effects of light on plants.

Marja C.P. Timmermans has coauthored multiple papers with frequent collaborators such as Tom Denyer, Michael M. Wudick, Wolf B. Frommer, Emanuele Scacchi, and Antje Feller.

Frequent publication venues for their work include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Plant Cell, Trends in Plant Science, Nature Plants, and Genome Research.

Their recent papers include:

  • "Distinct identities of leaf phloem cells revealed by single cell transcriptomics" (2020, The Plant Cell)
  • "Crafting a blueprint for single-cell RNA sequencing" (2021, Trends in Plant Science)
  • "To move or not to move: roles and specificity of plant RNA mobility" (2020, Current Opinion in Plant Biology)
  • "Specification of leaf dorsiventrality via a prepatterned binary readout of a uniform auxin input" (2022, Nature Plants)
  • "PscB: A Browser to Explore Plant Single Cell RNA-Sequencing Data Sets" (2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY)

Best Publications

  • microRNA-mediated repression of rolled leaf1 specifies maize leaf polarity

    Michelle T. Juarez;Jonathan S. Kui;Jonathan S. Kui;Julie Thomas;Bradley A. Heller

  • Spatiotemporal Developmental Trajectories in the Arabidopsis Root Revealed Using High-Throughput Single-Cell RNA Sequencing.

    Tom Denyer;Xiaoli Ma;Simon Klesen;Emanuele Scacchi

  • Genome-wide discovery and characterization of maize long non-coding RNAs

    Lin Li;Steven R. Eichten;Rena Shimizu;Katherine Petsch

  • ROUGH SHEATH2 : A myb protein that represses knox homeobox genes in maize lateral organ primordia

    Marja C. P. Timmermans;Andrew Hudson;Philip W. Becraft;Timothy Nelson

  • Pattern formation via small RNA mobility

    Daniel H. Chitwood;Fabio T.S. Nogueira;Miya D. Howell;Taiowa A. Montgomery

  • Direct Repression of KNOX Loci by the ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 Complex of Arabidopsis

    Mengjuan Guo;Julie Thomas;Galen Collins;Galen Collins;Marja C.P. Timmermans;Marja C.P. Timmermans

  • Distinct identities of leaf phloem cells revealed by single cell transcriptomics.

    Ji Yun Kim;Efthymia Symeonidi;Tin Yau Pang;Tom Denyer

  • Two small regulatory RNAs establish opposing fates of a developmental axis.

    Fabio T.S. Nogueira;Shahinez Madi;Daniel H. Chitwood;Michelle T. Juarez

  • Specification of adaxial cell fate during maize leaf development

    Michelle T. Juarez;Michelle T. Juarez;Richard W. Twigg;Marja C. P. Timmermans

  • Maize rough sheath2 and its Arabidopsis orthologue ASYMMETRIC LEAVES1 interact with HIRA, a predicted histone chaperone, to maintain knox gene silencing and determinacy during organogenesis.

    Tara L. Phelps-Durr;Julie Thomas;Phil Vahab;Marja C.P. Timmermans

  • Small RNAs are on the move

    Daniel H. Chitwood;Marja C. P. Timmermans

  • A Protodermal miR394 Signal Defines a Region of Stem Cell Competence in the Arabidopsis Shoot Meristem

    Steffen Knauer;Anna L. Holt;Ignacio Rubio-Somoza;Elise J. Tucker

  • Signals and prepatterns: new insights into organ polarity in plants.

    Aman Y. Husbands;Daniel H. Chitwood;Yevgeniy Plavskin;Marja C.P. Timmermans

  • The ASYMMETRIC LEAVES complex maintains repression of KNOX homeobox genes via direct recruitment of Polycomb-repressive complex2

    Mukesh Lodha;Cristina F. Marco;Marja C.P. Timmermans

  • Global gene expression analysis of the shoot apical meristem of maize (Zea mays L.)

    Kazuhiro Ohtsu;Marianne B. Smith;Scott J. Emrich;Lisa A. Borsuk

  • The expression domain of PHANTASTICA determines leaflet placement in compound leaves

    Minsung Kim;Sheila McCormick;Marja Timmermans;Neelima Sinha

  • Regulation of small RNA accumulation in the maize shoot apex.

    Fabio T. S. Nogueira;Daniel H. Chitwood;Daniel H. Chitwood;Shahinez Madi;Kazuhiro Ohtsu

  • Leafbladeless1 is required for dorsoventrality of lateral organs in maize

    Marja C. P. Timmermans;Neil P. Schultes;Julia P. Jankovsky;Timothy Nelson

  • Establishing leaf polarity: the role of small RNAs and positional signals in the shoot apex.

    Daniel H. Chitwood;Daniel H. Chitwood;Mengjuan Guo;Fabio T. S. Nogueira;Marja C. P. Timmermans;Marja C. P. Timmermans

  • Genic and nongenic contributions to natural variation of quantitative traits in maize

    Xianran Li;Chengsong Zhu;Cheng Ting Yeh;Wei Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Scanlon
Michael J. Scanlon Cornell University
Patrick S. Schnable
Patrick S. Schnable Iowa State University
Daniel H. Chitwood
Daniel H. Chitwood Michigan State University
Gary J. Muehlbauer
Gary J. Muehlbauer University of Minnesota
Jianming Yu
Jianming Yu Iowa State University
Nathan M. Springer
Nathan M. Springer University of Minnesota
Wolf B. Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Dan Nettleton
Dan Nettleton Iowa State University
Xiaoli Ma
Xiaoli Ma Georgia Institute of Technology
Mitsuyasu Hasebe
Mitsuyasu Hasebe The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, SOKENDAI

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