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63
Citations
14491
World Ranking
10204
National Ranking
4454

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
  • 2003 - Dennis R. Hoagland Award, American Society of Plant Biologists
  • 2000 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peggy G. Lemaux is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research spans agricultural and biological sciences and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The primary focus areas of their work include plant science, molecular biology, agronomy and crop science, ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics, and biotechnology. Their scientific inquiry covers several main topics, such as:

  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Bioenergy Crop Production and Management
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Responses to Water Stress
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering

The scientist's recent papers reflect work published primarily in prominent scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • "Co-occurrence networks reveal more complexity than community composition in resistance and resilience of microbial communities," 2022, Nature Communications
  • "Fungal community assembly in drought-stressed sorghum shows stochasticity, selection, and universal ecological dynamics," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals role of iron metabolism in drought-induced rhizosphere microbiome dynamics," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "A calcium signalling network activates vacuolar K+ remobilization to enable plant adaptation to low-K environments," 2020, Nature Plants
  • "Holo-omics for deciphering plant-microbiome interactions," 2021, Microbiome

Frequent collaborators in their research include Jeffery Dahlberg, John P. Vogel, Devin Coleman-Derr, Robert B. Hutmacher, and John W. Taylor.

The venues in which this scientist frequently publishes include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Plants
  • Plant Direct
  • Journal of Visualized Experiments

This scientist has received several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists, 2009
  • Dennis R. Hoagland Award, American Society of Plant Biologists, 2003
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2000

Best Publications

  • Transformation of Maize Cells and Regeneration of Fertile Transgenic Plants.

    W. J. Gordon-Kamm;T. M. Spencer;M. L. Mangano;T. R. Adams

  • Generation of Large Numbers of Independently Transformed Fertile Barley Plants.

    Yuechun Wan;P. G. Lemaux

  • Advancing Crop Transformation in the Era of Genome Editing

    Fredy Altpeter;Nathan M. Springer;Laura E. Bartley;Ann E. Blechl

  • Methods and compositions for the production of stably transformed fertile monocot plants and cells thereof

    Thomas R. Adams;Sheryl A. Chambers;Richard J. Daines;William J. Gordon-Kamm

  • Drought delays development of the sorghum root microbiome and enriches for monoderm bacteria

    Ling Xu;Dan Naylor;Dan Naylor;Zhaobin Dong;Zhaobin Dong;Tuesday Simmons;Tuesday Simmons

  • Transient rates of synthesis of individual polypeptides in E. coli following temperature shifts

    Peggy G. Lemaux;Sherrie L. Herendeen;Philip L. Bloch;Frederick C. Neidhardt

  • Production of proteins in plant seeds

    Peggy G. Lemaux;Myeong-Je Cho;Robert B. Buchanan

  • Leafy cotyledon genes are essential for induction of somatic embryogenesis of Arabidopsis

    Malgorzata D. Gaj;Malgorzata D. Gaj;Shibo Zhang;John J. Harada;Peggy G. Lemaux

  • Fungal community assembly in drought-stressed sorghum shows stochasticity, selection, and universal ecological dynamics

    Cheng Gao;Liliam Montoya;Ling Xu;Ling Xu;Mary Madera

  • Genetically Engineered Plants and Foods: A Scientist's Analysis of the Issues (Part I)

    Peggy G. Lemaux

  • Bialaphos selection of stable transformants from maize cell culture

    T. M. Spencer;W. J. Gordon-Kamm;R. J. Daines;W. G. Start

  • Digestibility of protein and starch from sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is linked to biochemical and structural features of grain endosperm

    Joshua H. Wong;Tsang Lau;Nick Cai;Jaswinder Singh

  • A membrane-associated thioredoxin required for plant growth moves from cell to cell, suggestive of a role in intercellular communication

    Ling Meng;Joshua H. Wong;Lewis J. Feldman;Peggy G. Lemaux

  • Process of producing fertile transgenic zea mays plants and progeny comprising a gene encoding phosphinothricin acetyl transferase

    Thomas R. Adams;Sheryl A. Chambers;Richard J. Daines;William J. Gordon-Kamm

  • Transformation of recalcitrant barley cultivars through improvement of regenerability and decreased albinism

    Myeong-Je Cho;Wen Jiang;Peggy G. Lemaux

  • Segregation of transgenes in maize.

    Spencer Tm;O'Brien Jv;Start Wg;Adams Tr

  • Evolutionary expansion, gene structure, and expression of the rice wall-associated kinase gene family.

    Shibo Zhang;Calvin Chen;Lei Li;Ling Meng

  • Overexpression of thioredoxin h leads to enhanced activity of starch debranching enzyme (pullulanase) in barley grain

    Myeong-Je Cho;Joshua H. Wong;Corina Marx;Wen Jiang

  • Methods and compositions for the increase of yield in plants

    T. Spencer;Thomas Adams;Richard Daines;William Gordon-Kamm

  • Germacrene C synthase from Lycopersicon esculentum cv. VFNT Cherry tomato: cDNA isolation, characterization, and bacterial expression of the multiple product sesquiterpene cyclase

    Sheila M. Colby;John Crock;Barbara Dowdle-Rizzo;Peggy G. Lemaux

Frequent Co-Authors

Bob B. Buchanan
Bob B. Buchanan University of California, Berkeley
Devin Coleman-Derr
Devin Coleman-Derr University of California, Berkeley
Patrick M. Hayes
Patrick M. Hayes Oregon State University
Robert B. Hutmacher
Robert B. Hutmacher University of California, Davis
John P. Vogel
John P. Vogel University of California, Berkeley
John W. Taylor
John W. Taylor University of California, Berkeley
Andris Kleinhofs
Andris Kleinhofs Washington State University
Christer Jansson
Christer Jansson Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Nils Stein
Nils Stein University of Western Australia
Stanley N. Cohen
Stanley N. Cohen Stanford University

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