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  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Natalia Dudareva is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research mainly focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant portion of work relating to agricultural and biological sciences.

The research encompasses subfields such as molecular biology, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, biotechnology, and pharmacology. Specific topics extensively covered include plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, plant gene expression analysis, plant and animal studies, biochemical and biochemical processes, plant parasitism and resistance, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, and plant reproductive biology.

Publications by this scientist frequently appear in several prominent venues, including:

  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • The Plant Journal
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications

Coauthor collaborations are notable with researchers such as Xingqi Huang, John A. Morgan, Joseph H. Lynch, Pan Liao, and Benoît Boachon.

Selected recent publications include:

  • Adaptive mechanisms of plant specialized metabolism connecting chemistry to function (2021), Nature Chemical Biology
  • The biosynthesis of thymol, carvacrol, and thymohydroquinone in Lamiaceae proceeds via cytochrome P450s and a short-chain dehydrogenase (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The evolutionary origins of the cat attractant nepetalactone in catnip (2020), Science Advances
  • Aromatic Amino Acids: A Complex Network Ripe for Future Exploration (2020), Trends in Plant Science
  • Cuticle thickness affects dynamics of volatile emission from petunia flowers (2020), Nature Chemical Biology

Natalia Dudareva was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • The function of terpene natural products in the natural world.

    Jonathan Gershenzon;Natalia Dudareva

  • Biosynthesis, function and metabolic engineering of plant volatile organic compounds.

    Natalia Dudareva;Antje Klempien;Joëlle K. Muhlemann;Ian Kaplan

  • Plant Volatiles: Recent Advances and Future Perspectives

    Natalia Dudareva;Florence Negre;Dinesh A. Nagegowda;Irina Orlova

  • The shikimate pathway and aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in plants.

    Hiroshi Maeda;Natalia Dudareva

  • Biochemistry of Plant Volatiles

    Natalia Dudareva;Eran Pichersky;Jonathan Gershenzon

  • Biosynthesis of Plant Volatiles: Nature's Diversity and Ingenuity

    Eran Pichersky;Joseph P. Noel;Natalia Dudareva

  • The nonmevalonate pathway supports both monoterpene and sesquiterpene formation in snapdragon flowers.

    Natalia Dudareva;Susanna Andersson;Irina Orlova;Nathalie Gatto

  • Biochemical and Molecular Genetic Aspects of Floral Scents

    Natalia Dudareva;Eran Pichersky

  • An investigation of the storage and biosynthesis of phenylpropenes in sweet basil.

    David R. Gang;Jihong Wang;Natalia Dudareva;Kyoung Hee Nam

  • Understanding in vivo benzenoid metabolism in petunia petal tissue.

    Jennifer Boatright;Florence Negre;Xinlu Chen;Christine M. Kish

  • Evolution of floral scent in Clarkia: novel patterns of S-linalool synthase gene expression in the C. breweri flower.

    Natalia Dudareva;Leland Cseke;Victoria M. Blanc;Eran Pichersky

  • (E)-β-Ocimene and Myrcene Synthase Genes of Floral Scent Biosynthesis in Snapdragon: Function and Expression of Three Terpene Synthase Genes of a New Terpene Synthase Subfamily

    Natalia Dudareva;Diane Martin;Christine M. Kish;Natalia Kolosova

  • Eugenol and isoeugenol, characteristic aromatic constituents of spices, are biosynthesized via reduction of a coniferyl alcohol ester

    Takao Koeduka;Eyal Fridman;David R. Gang;Daniel G. Vassão

  • Floral volatiles: from biosynthesis to function

    Joëlle K. Muhlemann;Antje Klempien;Natalia Dudareva

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

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

  • Developmental Regulation of Methyl Benzoate Biosynthesis and Emission in Snapdragon Flowers

    Natalia Dudareva;Lisa M. Murfitt;Craig J. Mann;Nina Gorenstein

  • A Familiar Ring to It: Biosynthesis of Plant Benzoic Acids

    Joshua R. Widhalm;Natalia Dudareva

  • Plant phenylacetaldehyde synthase is a bifunctional homotetrameric enzyme that catalyzes phenylalanine decarboxylation and oxidation.

    Yasuhisa Kaminaga;Jennifer Schnepp;Greg Peel;Christine M. Kish

  • Regulation of Circadian Methyl Benzoate Emission in Diurnally and Nocturnally Emitting Plants

    Natalia Kolosova;Nina Gorenstein;Christine M. Kish;Natalia Dudareva

  • Metabolic engineering of plant volatiles

    Natalia Dudareva;Eran Pichersky

Frequent Co-Authors

Eran Pichersky
Eran Pichersky University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David Rhodes
David Rhodes Purdue University West Lafayette
Joseph P. Noel
Joseph P. Noel Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Efraim Lewinsohn
Efraim Lewinsohn Agricultural Research Organization
Alexander Vainstein
Alexander Vainstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Clint Chapple
Clint Chapple Purdue University West Lafayette
C. Robin Buell
C. Robin Buell University of Georgia
David R. Gang
David R. Gang Washington State University
Robert C. Schuurink
Robert C. Schuurink University of Amsterdam
Douglas E. Soltis
Douglas E. Soltis University of Florida

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