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Michael W. Bevan is affiliated with the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom and has a research profile focused on Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work primarily revolves around plant science and molecular biology, with additional contributions in genetics, oncology, and emergency medicine.

The main topics of Bevan's research include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Bevan's frequent co-authors are:

  • Neil McKenzie
  • Caroline Smith
  • Jack Dumenil
  • Benguo Gu
  • Charlotte Miller

The scientist has published multiple papers in a variety of venues. The publication venues where Bevan has frequently contributed include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature
  • Trends in Genetics

Notable recent papers authored by Bevan or co-authored include:

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding, 2020, Nature
  • Fast-forward breeding for a food-secure world, 2021, Trends in Genetics
  • Unlocking plant genetics with telomere-to-telomere genome assemblies, 2024, Nature Genetics
  • Reduced chromatin accessibility underlies gene expression differences in homologous chromosome arms of diploid Aegilops tauschii and hexaploid wheat, 2020, GigaScience
  • Rapid delivery systems for future food security, 2021, Nature Biotechnology

Best Publications

  • GUS fusions: beta‐glucuronidase as a sensitive and versatile gene fusion marker in higher plants.

    R. A. Jefferson;T. A. Kavanagh;M. W. Bevan

  • The map-based sequence of the rice genome

    Takashi Matsumoto;Jianzhong Wu;Hiroyuki Kanamori;Yuichi Katayose

  • Binary Agrobacterium vectors for plant transformation

    Michael Bevan

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

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

  • Analysis of the bread wheat genome using whole-genome shotgun sequencing

    Rachel Brenchley;Manuel Spannagl;Matthias Pfeifer;Gary L. A. Barker

  • Sequence and analysis of chromosome 4 of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana

    K. Mayer;C. Schüller;R. Wambutt;G. Murphy

  • Analysis of 1.9 Mb of contiguous sequence from chromosome 4 of Arabidopsis thaliana

    M. Bevan;I. Bancroft;E. Bent

  • A chimaeric antibiotic resistance gene as a selectable marker for plant cell transformation

    Michael W. Bevan;Richard B. Flavell;Mary-Dell Chilton

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding.

    Sean Walkowiak;Sean Walkowiak;Liangliang Gao;Cecile Monat;Georg Haberer

  • Towards functional characterisation of the members of the R2R3‐MYB gene family from Arabidopsis thaliana

    Harald D. Kranz;Marten Denekamp;Raffaella Greco;Hailing Jin

  • Genome sequence of the progenitor of the wheat D genome Aegilops tauschii

    Ming-Cheng Luo;Yong Q Gu;Daniela Puiu;Hao Wang

  • Reduced cellulose synthesis invokes lignification and defense responses in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Ana Caño-Delgado;Steven Penfield;Caroline Smith;Merryn Catley

  • Genetic definition and sequence analysis of Arabidopsis centromeres.

    Gregory P. Copenhaver;Kathryn Nickel;Takashi Kuromori;Maria Ines Benito

  • Control of final seed and organ size by the DA1 gene family in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Yunhai Li;Leiying Zheng;Fiona Corke;Caroline Smith

  • Impaired sucrose-induction mutants reveal the modulation of sugar-induced starch biosynthetic gene expression by abscisic acid signalling.

    Fred Rook;Fiona Corke;Roderick Card;Georg Munz

  • Structure and transcription of the nopaline synthase gene region of T-DNA.

    Michael Bevan;Wayne M. Barnes;Marry-Dell Chilton

  • A flower-specific Myb protein activates transcription of phenylpropanoid biosynthetic genes.

    R.W.M. Sablowski;E. Moyano;F.A. Culianez-Macia;W. Schuch

  • An improved assembly and annotation of the allohexaploid wheat genome identifies complete families of agronomic genes and provides genomic evidence for chromosomal translocations

    Bernardo J. Clavijo;Luca Venturini;Christian Schudoma;Gonzalo Garcia Accinelli

  • Expression of biologically active viral satellite RNA from the nuclear genome of transformed plants

    David C. Baulcombe;Graham R. Saunders;Michael W. Bevan;Michael A. Mayo

  • Characterisation of a pine MYB that regulates lignification.

    Astrid Patzlaff;Stephanie McInnis;Adrian Courtenay;Christine Surman

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus F. X. Mayer
Klaus F. X. Mayer Technical University of Munich
David C. Baulcombe
David C. Baulcombe University of Cambridge
Bryan D. Harrison
Bryan D. Harrison James Hutton Institute
Jonathan M. Wright
Jonathan M. Wright Earlham Institute
Ian Bancroft
Ian Bancroft University of York
M. A. Mayo
M. A. Mayo James Hutton Institute
Michael J. Holdsworth
Michael J. Holdsworth University of Nottingham
Ksenia V. Krasileva
Ksenia V. Krasileva University of California, Berkeley
Hans-Werner Mewes
Hans-Werner Mewes Technical University of Munich
Anthony Hall
Anthony Hall Norwich Research Park

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