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Overview

Odd-Arne Olsen is affiliated with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Norway and specializes in research within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Cell Biology.

The main topics addressed in Olsen's research include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Calpain Protease Function and Regulation
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications

Olsen's recent publications reflect a focus on plant developmental biology and molecular mechanisms, with papers published in a range of venues. Notable works include:

  • "The Modular Control of Cereal Endosperm Development," 2020, published in Trends in Plant Science
  • "An autoactive NB-LRR gene causes Rht13 dwarfism in wheat," 2022, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "DEK1 displays a strong subcellular polarity during Physcomitrella patens 3D growth," 2020, published in New Phytologist
  • "Regulation of developmental gatekeeping and cell fate transition by the calpain protease DEK1 in Physcomitrium patens," 2024, published in Communications Biology
  • "Calpain DEK1 acts as a developmental switch gatekeeping cell fate transitions," 2021, published in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Frequent publication venues for Olsen include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Communications Biology

Collaborations form an important part of Olsen's research, working repeatedly with coauthors such as Pierre-François Perroud, Viktor Demko, Philippa Borrill, Rohit Mago, and Tianyuan Xu.

Best Publications

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • A chromosome-based draft sequence of the hexaploid bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) genome

    Klaus F. X. Mayer;Jane Rogers;Jaroslav Doležel

  • Ancient hybridizations among the ancestral genomes of bread wheat

    Thomas Marcussen;Simen R Sandve;Lise Heier;Manuel Spannagl

  • Nuclear Endosperm Development in Cereals and Arabidopsis thaliana

    Odd-Arne Olsen

  • ENDOSPERM DEVELOPMENT: Cellularization and Cell Fate Specification

    Odd-Arne Olsen

  • The Electronic Plant Gene Register

    Matthias Schmidt;Juergen Feierabend;Ya-Hsuan Hsu;Kin-Ying To

  • Genome interplay in the grain transcriptome of hexaploid bread wheat

    Matthias Pfeifer;Karl G. Kugler;Simen R. Sandve;Bujie Zhan

  • The defective kernel 1 (dek1) gene required for aleurone cell development in the endosperm of maize grains encodes a membrane protein of the calpain gene superfamily

    Stein Erik Lid;Darren Gruis;Rudolf Jung;Jennifer A. Lorentzen

  • Promoter from a lipid transfer protein gene

    Odd-Arne Olsen;Roger Kalla;Casper Linnestad

  • Development of endosperm in Arabidopsis thaliana

    R. C. Brown;Betty E. Lemmon;Hong Nguyen;Odd-Arne Olsen

  • Distinct isoforms of ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase occur inside and outside the amyloplasts in barley endosperm

    Tine Thorbjornsen;Per Villand;Kay Denyer;Odd-Arne Olsen

  • Insensitivity of Barley Endosperm ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase to 3-Phosphoglycerate and Orthophosphate Regulation

    L A Kleczkowski;P Villand;E Lüthi;O A Olsen

  • Endosperm Development in Barley: Microtubule Involvement in the Morphogenetic Pathway.

    Roy C. Brown;Betty E. Lemmon;Odd-Arne Olsen

  • sal1 determines the number of aleurone cell layers in maize endosperm and encodes a class E vacuolar sorting protein

    Bo Shen;Changjiang Li;Zhao Min;Robert B. Meeley

  • The promoter of the barley aleurone-specific gene encoding a putative 7 kDa lipid transfer protein confers aleurone cell-specific expression in transgenic rice

    Roger Kalla;Ko Shimamoto;Robert Potter;Peter Stein Nielsen

  • Subcellular localization and functional domain studies of DEFECTIVE KERNEL1 in maize and Arabidopsis suggest a model for aleurone cell fate specification involving CRINKLY4 and SUPERNUMERARY ALEURONE LAYER1.

    Qing Tian;Lene Olsen;Beimeng Sun;Stein Erik Lid

  • Seed-preferred promoters from end genes

    Susan J. Martino-Catt;Kathryn K. Lappegard;Odd-Arne Olsen;Casper Linnestad

  • Developmental biology of the cereal endosperm

    Odd-Arne Olsen;Casper Linnestad;Scott E Nichols

  • Transcripts encoding an oleosin and a dormancy-related protein are present in both the aleurone layer and the embryo of developing barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) seeds.

    R.B. Aalen;H.G. Opsahl-Ferstad;C. Linnestad;O.A. Olsen

  • Genome mapping of seed-borne allergens and immunoresponsive proteins in wheat

    Angéla Juhász;Angéla Juhász;Tatiana Belova;Chris G. Florides;Csaba Maulis

Frequent Co-Authors

Leszek A. Kleczkowski
Leszek A. Kleczkowski Umeå University
Klaus F. X. Mayer
Klaus F. X. Mayer Technical University of Munich
Rudi Appels
Rudi Appels University of Melbourne
Ralph S. Quatrano
Ralph S. Quatrano Washington University in St. Louis
Robert B. Meeley
Robert B. Meeley Pioneer Hi-Bred
Brande B. H. Wulff
Brande B. H. Wulff King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Manuel Spannagl
Manuel Spannagl Helmholtz Zentrum München
Burkhard Steuernagel
Burkhard Steuernagel John Innes Centre
Nils Stein
Nils Stein University of Western Australia
Jaroslav Doležel
Jaroslav Doležel Czech Academy of Sciences

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