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Michael P. Timko is affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on agricultural and biological sciences, with significant contributions to biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work spans several interrelated subfields, including plant science, molecular biology, pharmacology, cancer research, and insect science.

Their main research topics include plant parasitism and resistance, agricultural pest management studies, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, plant gene expression analysis, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, insect-plant interactions and control, and allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions.

Recent publications by Michael P. Timko cover a range of subjects linked to plant biology and molecular interactions. These include:

  • "Jasmonic Acid Signaling and Molecular Crosstalk with Other Phytohormones," 2021, International Journal of Molecular Sciences
  • "Genomic evidence for convergent evolution of gene clusters for momilactone biosynthesis in land plants," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Genomics of sorghum local adaptation to a parasitic plant," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Management of Infection by Parasitic Weeds: A Review," 2020, Plants
  • "Genomic insights into the evolution of Echinochloa species as weed and orphan crop," 2022, Nature Communications

The venues in which the scientist frequently publishes include Plants, Research Square, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and The Journal of Hand Surgery, with multiple contributions in several of these journals.

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, frequently partnering with other researchers such as Longjiang Fan, Yifei Shen, Hai Liu, Enhui Shen, and Qinjie Chu. These coauthors reflect ongoing research engagements in related fields and topics.

Best Publications

  • An evolutionarily conserved protein binding sequence upstream of a plant light-regulated gene.

    G Giuliano;E Pichersky;V S Malik;M P Timko

  • The evolution of parasitism in plants.

    James H. Westwood;John I. Yoder;Michael P. Timko;Claude W. dePamphilis

  • 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

  • Regulation by heme of mitochondrial protein transport through a conserved amino acid motif

    Julia Tait Lathrop;Michael P. Timko

  • Tobacco transcription factors: novel insights into transcriptional regulation in the Solanaceae.

    Paul J. Rushton;Marta T. Bokowiec;Shengcheng Han;Hongbo Zhang

  • Light-inducible and chloroplast-associated expression of a chimaeric gene introduced into Nicotiana tabacum using a Ti plasmid vector

    L. Herrera-Estrella;G. Van den Broeck;R. Maenhaut;M. Van Montagu

  • Echinochloa crus-galli genome analysis provides insight into its adaptation and invasiveness as a weed.

    Longbiao Guo;Jie Qiu;Chuyu Ye;Gulei Jin

  • Cowpea, a multifunctional legume.

    Michael P. Timko;B.B. Singh

  • Four genes in two diverged subfamilies encode the ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase small subunit polypeptides of Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Enno Krebbers;Jef Seurinck;Lydia Herdies;Anthony R. Cashmore

  • Light regulation of plant gene expression by an upstream enhancer-like element

    M. P. Timko;A. P. Kausch;C. Castresana;J. Fassler

  • Tobacco transcription factors NtMYC2a and NtMYC2b form nuclear complexes with the NtJAZ1 repressor and regulate multiple jasmonate-inducible steps in nicotine biosynthesis.

    Hong-Bo Zhang;Marta T. Bokowiec;Paul J. Rushton;Paul J. Rushton;Sheng-Cheng Han;Sheng-Cheng Han

  • Light-inducible and tissue-specific expression of a chimaeric gene under control of the 5'-flanking sequence of a pea chlorophyll a/b-binding protein gene.

    June Simpson;Michael P. Timko;Anthony R. Cashmore;Jeff Schell

  • AFLP analysis of genetic polymorphism and evolutionary relationships among cultivated and wild Nicotiana species

    Nan Ren;Michael P. Timko

  • Genomic variation associated with local adaptation of weedy rice during de-domestication

    Jie Qiu;Yongjun Zhou;Lingfeng Mao;Chuyu Ye

  • Gene-for-gene resistance in Striga-cowpea associations.

    Jianxiong Li;Michael P. Timko

  • An improved genetic linkage map for cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.) Combining AFLP, RFLP, RAPD, biochemical markers, and biological resistance traits

    J T Ouédraogo;B S Gowda;M Jean;T J Close

  • A light-dependent complementation system for analysis of NADPH:protochlorophyllide oxidoreductase: identification and mutagenesis of two conserved residues that are essential for enzyme activity.

    Helen M. Wilks;Michael P. Timko

  • Comparative transcriptome analyses reveal core parasitism genes and suggest gene duplication and repurposing as sources of structural novelty

    Zhenzhen Yang;Eric K. Wafula;Loren A. Honaas;Huiting Zhang

  • The Parasitic Plant Genome Project: New Tools for Understanding the Biology of Orobanche and Striga

    James H. Westwood;Claude W. dePamphilis;Malay Das;Mónica Fernández-Aparicio;Mónica Fernández-Aparicio

  • Sequencing and analysis of the gene-rich space of cowpea.

    Michael P Timko;Paul J Rushton;Thomas W Laudeman;Marta T Bokowiec

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony R. Cashmore
Anthony R. Cashmore University of Pennsylvania
Claude W. dePamphilis
Claude W. dePamphilis Pennsylvania State University
Mónica Fernández-Aparicio
Mónica Fernández-Aparicio Spanish National Research Council
James H. Westwood
James H. Westwood Virginia Tech
John I. Yoder
John I. Yoder University of California, Davis
Luis Herrera-Estrella
Luis Herrera-Estrella Texas Tech University
Longjiang Fan
Longjiang Fan Zhejiang University
Henrik Aronsson
Henrik Aronsson University of Gothenburg
Norman J. Wickett
Norman J. Wickett University of Vienna
Jianming Li
Jianming Li University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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