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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
51
Citations
11015
World Ranking
1996
National Ranking
524

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Gene
  • Ecology

Matthew A. Jenks mainly focuses on Arabidopsis, Cuticle, Wax, Botany and Plant cuticle. His Arabidopsis study introduces a deeper knowledge of Biochemistry. His Cuticle research includes elements of Middle lamella, Pleiotropy, Turgor pressure, Horticulture and Cutin.

His Wax study incorporates themes from Cell wall, Abscisic acid and Agronomy. His studies link Thellungiella with Botany. His Plant cuticle research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Cultivar, Sodium and Plant physiology.

His most cited work include:

  • Salt Cress. A Halophyte and Cryophyte Arabidopsis Relative Model System and Its Applicability to Molecular Genetic Analyses of Growth and Development of Extremophiles (386 citations)
  • Field-based phenomics for plant genetics research (368 citations)
  • The impact of water deficiency on leaf cuticle lipids of Arabidopsis. (332 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Botany, Wax, Cuticle, Mutant and Cutin. Matthew A. Jenks has included themes like Epicuticular wax and Horticulture in his Botany study. His Wax study also includes

  • Drought tolerance which is related to area like Irrigation,
  • Silique which connect with Inflorescence.

Specifically, his work in Cuticle is concerned with the study of Plant cuticle. His Mutant research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Mutation and Sorghum. His work deals with themes such as Chlorophyll, Metabolism and Lipid biosynthesis, which intersect with Cutin.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (52.68%)
  • Wax (40.18%)
  • Cuticle (29.46%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2020)?

  • Wax (40.18%)
  • Botany (52.68%)
  • Cutin (19.64%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Wax, Botany, Cutin, Agronomy and Cuticle are his primary areas of study. His study in Wax is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Composition, Arabidopsis, Mutant, Gene and Horticulture. In general Arabidopsis, his work in Fatty acid elongase complex is often linked to Very long chain fatty acid linking many areas of study.

His Botany study typically links adjacent topics like Fatty acid elongation. Matthew A. Jenks combines subjects such as Drought tolerance, Molecular breeding, Trichome and Plant cuticle with his study of Cutin. Within one scientific family, Matthew A. Jenks focuses on topics pertaining to Inflorescence under Cuticle, and may sometimes address concerns connected to Silique, Metabolic pathway, Thellungiella and Gene expression.

Between 2016 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • The Acyl Desaturase CER17 Is Involved in Producing Wax Unsaturated Primary Alcohols and Cutin Monomers (21 citations)
  • Characterization of leaf cuticular waxes and cutin monomers of Camelina sativa and closely-related Camelina species (11 citations)
  • A century of guayule: Comprehensive genetic characterization of the US national guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray) germplasm collection (10 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Botany
  • Gene
  • Ecology

His primary areas of investigation include Botany, Wax, Cutin, Cuticle and Genetic marker. His studies deal with areas such as Camelina, Irrigation, Monobasic acid, Polyunsaturated fatty acid and Camelina sativa as well as Botany. His Wax study is concerned with Biochemistry in general.

His Cutin research includes themes of Ultrastructure, Arabidopsis, Mutant and Drought tolerance. Matthew A. Jenks interconnects Agronomy, Crop, Plant breeding, Ripening and Pepper in the investigation of issues within Cuticle. The concepts of his Genetic marker study are interwoven with issues in Germplasm, Hybrid, Genetic diversity and Introgression.

Best Publications

  • Field-based phenomics for plant genetics research

    Jeffrey W. White;Pedro Andrade-Sanchez;Michael A. Gore;Kevin F. Bronson

  • The impact of water deficiency on leaf cuticle lipids of Arabidopsis.

    Dylan K. Kosma;Brice Bourdenx;Amélie Bernard;Eugene P. Parsons

  • Salt Cress. A Halophyte and Cryophyte Arabidopsis Relative Model System and Its Applicability to Molecular Genetic Analyses of Growth and Development of Extremophiles

    Günsu Inan;Quan Zhang;Pinghua Li;Zenglan Wang

  • A Reevaluation of the Key Factors That Influence Tomato Fruit Softening and Integrity

    Montserrat Saladié;Antonio J. Matas;Tal Isaacson;Matthew A. Jenks

  • Cloning and characterization of the WAX2 gene of Arabidopsis involved in cuticle membrane and wax production

    Xinbo Chen;S. Mark Goodwin;Virginia L. Boroff;Xionglun Liu

  • Arabidopsis CER8 encodes LONG-CHAIN ACYL-COA SYNTHETASE 1 (LACS1) that has overlapping functions with LACS2 in plant wax and cutin synthesis

    Shiyou Lü;Tao Song;Dylan K. Kosma;Eugene P. Parsons

  • Leaf Epicuticular Waxes of the Eceriferum Mutants in Arabidopsis.

    Matthew A. Jenks;Hillary A. Tuttle;Sanford D. Eigenbrode;Kenneth A. Feldmann

  • Arabidopsis CYP86A2 represses Pseudomonas syringae type III genes and is required for cuticle development.

    Fangming Xiao;S. Mark Goodwin;Yanmei Xiao;Zhaoyu Sun

  • Cutin deficiency in the tomato fruit cuticle consistently affects resistance to microbial infection and biomechanical properties, but not transpirational water loss

    Tal Isaacson;Dylan K. Kosma;Antonio J. Matas;Gregory J. Buda

  • Advances in molecular breeding toward drought and salt tolerant crops

    Matthew A. Jenks;Paul M. Hasegawa;S. Mohan Jain

  • Chemically Induced Cuticle Mutation Affecting Epidermal Conductance to Water Vapor and Disease Susceptibility in Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

    M. A. Jenks;R. J. Joly;P. J. Peters;P. J. Rich

  • A genomics approach towards salt stress tolerance

    Hans J. Bohnert;Patricia Ayoubi;Chris Borchert;Ray A. Bressan

  • Plant Epicuticular Waxes: Function, Production, and Genetics

    Matthew A. Jenks;Edward N. Ashworth

  • Changes in leaf cuticular waxes of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) plants exposed to water deficit.

    Kwan Su Kim;Si Hyung Park;Matthew A. Jenks

  • Cuticular waxes of Arabidopsis

    Matthew A. Jenks;Sanford D. Eigenbrode;Bertrand Lemieux

  • Arabidopsis ECERIFERUM9 Involvement in Cuticle Formation and Maintenance of Plant Water Status

    Shiyou Lu;Huayan Zhao;David L. Des Marais;Eugene P. Parsons

  • Leaf cuticle and water loss in maize lines differing in dehydration avoidance

    Zoran Ristic;Matthew A. Jenks

  • Plant Abiotic Stress

    Matthew A. Jenks;Paul M. Hasegawa

  • Fruit cuticle lipid composition during development in tomato ripening mutants

    Dylan K. Kosma;Eugene P. Parsons;Tal Isaacson;Shiyou Lü

  • Characterization of physiological and biochemical factors associated with postharvest water loss in ripe pepper fruit during storage

    Maalekuu Kissinger;Sharon Tuvia-Alkalai;Yavin Shalom;Elazar Fallik

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael A. Gore
Michael A. Gore Cornell University
John M. Dyer
John M. Dyer United States Department of Agriculture
Kenneth A. Feldmann
Kenneth A. Feldmann University of Arizona
Ray A. Bressan
Ray A. Bressan Purdue University West Lafayette
Paul M. Hasegawa
Paul M. Hasegawa Purdue University West Lafayette
Aaron M. Rashotte
Aaron M. Rashotte Auburn University
John D. Axtell
John D. Axtell Purdue University West Lafayette
Ivan Baxter
Ivan Baxter Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Hans J. Bohnert
Hans J. Bohnert University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jocelyn K. C. Rose
Jocelyn K. C. Rose Cornell University

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