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  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Nicholas C. Carpita is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on plant science, with significant contributions to the understanding of plant cell walls and biomass-related bioeconomy applications. Carpita's work spans agricultural and biological sciences as well as engineering, with specialized engagement in plant science and biomedical engineering subfields.

The scientist's research addresses key topics such as polysaccharides and plant cell walls, biofuel production and bioconversion, plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, lignin and wood chemistry, advanced cellulose research, plant molecular biology, and plant responses to water stress.

Recent notable publications include:

  • "Climate change challenges, plant science solutions" (2022), published in The Plant Cell
  • "Redesigning plant cell walls for the biomass-based bioeconomy" (2020), published in Journal of Biological Chemistry
  • "Maize Brittle Stalk2-Like3, encoding a COBRA protein, functions in cell wall formation and carbohydrate partitioning" (2021), published in The Plant Cell
  • "Lack of xyloglucan in the cell walls of the Arabidopsis xxt1/xxt2 mutant results in specific increases in homogalacturonan and glucomannan" (2022), published in The Plant Journal
  • "Sustainable production of ammonia fertilizers from biomass" (2020), published in Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining

Carpita has frequently collaborated with other researchers including Maureen C. McCann, Anna T. Olek, Rachel A. Mertz, Haibing Yang, and Bryan W. Penning.

Their work has appeared often in venues such as The Plant Cell, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Journal of Biological Chemistry, The Plant Journal, and Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining.

Carpita has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) since 2012.

Best Publications

  • The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics

    Patrick S. Schnable;Doreen Ware;Robert S. Fulton;Joshua C. Stein

  • Structural models of primary cell walls in flowering plants: consistency of molecular structure with the physical properties of the walls during growth

    Nicholas C. Carpita;David M. Gibeaut

  • The Sorghum bicolor genome and the diversification of grasses

    Andrew H. Paterson;John E. Bowers;Rémy Bruggmann;Inna Dubchak

  • Measurement of uronic acids without interference from neutral sugars

    Tullia M.C.C. Filisetti-Cozzi;Nicholas C. Carpita

  • STRUCTURE AND BIOGENESIS OF THE CELL WALLS OF GRASSES

    Nicholas C. Carpita

  • Determination of the Pore Size of Cell Walls of Living Plant Cells

    Nicholas Carpita;Dario Sabularse;David Montezinos;Deborah P. Delmer

  • The cell wall

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  • COBRA encodes a putative GPI-anchored protein, which is polarly localized and necessary for oriented cell expansion in Arabidopsis

    Gary Schindelman;Atsushi Morikami;Jee Jung;Tobias I. Baskin

  • The MUR3 Gene of Arabidopsis Encodes a Xyloglucan Galactosyltransferase That Is Evolutionarily Related to Animal Exostosins

    Michael Madson;Christophe Dunand;Xuemei Li;Rajeev Verma

  • Changes in Esterification of the Uronic Acid Groups of Cell Wall Polysaccharides during Elongation of Maize Coleoptiles

    Jong-Bum Kim;Nicholas C. Carpita

  • MYB61 Is Required for Mucilage Deposition and Extrusion in the Arabidopsis Seed Coat

    Steven Penfield;Ruth C. Meissner;Douglas A. Shoue;Nicholas C. Carpita

  • Cell Wall Architecture of the Elongating Maize Coleoptile

    Nicholas C. Carpita;Marianne Defernez;Kim Findlay;Brian Wells

  • Linkage structure of carbohydrates by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) of partially methylated alditol acetates.

    N. C. Carpita

  • The mur2 mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana lacks fucosylated xyloglucan because of a lesion in fucosyltransferase AtFUT1.

    Gary F. Vanzin;Michael Madson;Nicholas C. Carpita;Natasha V. Raikhel

  • Solutes Contributing to Osmotic Adjustment in Cultured Plant Cells Adapted to Water Stress

    Sangita Handa;Ray A. Bressan;Avtar K. Handa;Nicholas C. Carpita

  • Phosphate starvation responses are mediated by sugar signaling in Arabidopsis

    Athikkattuvalasu S. Karthikeyan;Deepa K. Varadarajan;Ajay Jain;Michael A. Held

  • Molecular Breeding to Enhance Ethanol Production from Corn and Sorghum Stover

    Wilfred Vermerris;Ana Saballos;Gebisa Ejeta;Nathan S. Mosier

  • A rapid method to screen for cell-wall mutants using discriminant analysis of Fourier transform infrared spectra

    Limei Chen;Nicholas C. Carpita;Wolf-Dieter Reiter;Reginald H. Wilson

  • Novel rhamnogalacturonan I and arabinoxylan polysaccharides of flax seed mucilage.

    Radnaa Naran;Guibing Chen;Nicholas C. Carpita

  • The MUR3 Gene of Arabidopsis Encodes a Xyloglucan Galactosyltransferase That Is Evolutionarily Related to

    Michael Madson;Christophe Dunand;Xuemei Li;Rajeev Verma

Frequent Co-Authors

Maureen C. McCann
Maureen C. McCann Purdue University West Lafayette
Marcos Silveira Buckeridge
Marcos Silveira Buckeridge Universidade de São Paulo
Ray A. Bressan
Ray A. Bressan Purdue University West Lafayette
Wolf-Dieter Reiter
Wolf-Dieter Reiter University of Connecticut
Wilfred Vermerris
Wilfred Vermerris University of Florida
Keith Roberts
Keith Roberts John Innes Centre
Angus S. Murphy
Angus S. Murphy University of Maryland, College Park
Mark F. Davis
Mark F. Davis National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Paul M. Hasegawa
Paul M. Hasegawa Purdue University West Lafayette
Hilkka I. Kenttämaa
Hilkka I. Kenttämaa Purdue University West Lafayette

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