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110
Citations
44820
World Ranking
536
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Peter H. Quail is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on plant molecular biology, with an emphasis on the interaction of light with plant systems.

The scientist's research spans two main fields: Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work specifically targets the subfields of Plant Science and Molecular Biology.

Major topics covered in their publications include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Light effects on plants
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance

Frequent publication venues for the scientist include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Nature Communications
  • Physiologia Plantarum

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by the scientist are:

  • "Central clock components modulate plant shade avoidance by directly repressing transcriptional activation activity of PIF proteins," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Arabidopsis ACINUS is O-glycosylated and regulates transcription and alternative splicing of regulators of reproductive transitions," 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Light signaling in plants-a selective history," 2024, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "Phytochrome-imposed inhibition of PIF7 activity shapes photoperiodic growth in Arabidopsis together with PIF1, 3, 4 and 5," 2020, Physiologia Plantarum
  • "Photobodies reveal their secret," 2021, Nature Plants

Frequent co-authors they have collaborated with include:

  • Jutta Dalton-Roesler
  • Eduardo González-Grandío
  • Pablo Leivar
  • Yang Bi
  • Zhiping Deng

Best Publications

  • A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp indica)

    Stephen A. Goff;Darrell Ricke;Tien-Hung Lan;Gernot Presting

  • Ubiquitin promoter-based vectors for high-level expression of selectable and/or screenable marker genes in monocotyledonous plants.

    Alan H. Christensen;Peter H. Quail;Peter H. Quail

  • The Arabidopsis basic/helix-loop-helix transcription factor family.

    Gabriela Toledo-Ortiz;Enamul Huq;Peter H. Quail

  • Maize polyubiquitin genes: structure, thermal perturbation of expression and transcript splicing, and promoter activity following transfer to protoplasts by electroporation.

    Alan H. Christensen;Robert A. Sharrock;Peter H. Quail

  • Novel phytochrome sequences in Arabidopsis thaliana: structure, evolution, and differential expression of a plant regulatory photoreceptor family

    Robert A. Sharrock;Peter H. Quail

  • PIFs: pivotal components in a cellular signaling hub

    Pablo Leivar;Peter H. Quail;Peter H. Quail

  • Phytochromes: photosensory perception and signal transduction

    Peter H. Quail;Margaret T. Boylan;Brian M. Parks;Timothy W. Short

  • Phytochrome functions in Arabidopsis development

    Keara A. Franklin;Peter H. Quail;Peter H. Quail

  • Phytochrome photosensory signalling networks

    Peter H. Quail;Peter H. Quail

  • PIF3, a phytochrome-interacting factor necessary for normal photoinduced signal transduction, is a novel basic helix-loop-helix protein.

    Min Ni;James M Tepperman;James M Tepperman;Peter H Quail;Peter H Quail

  • Direct Targeting of Light Signals to a Promoter Element-Bound Transcription Factor

    Jaime F. Martı́nez-Garcı́a;Enamul Huq;Peter H. Quail

  • Functional selectivity of recombinant mammalian SWI/SNF subunits

    Shilpa Kadam;Glenn S. McAlpine;Michael L. Phelan;Robert E. Kingston

  • A light-switchable gene promoter system

    Sae Shimizu-Sato;Sae Shimizu-Sato;Enamul Huq;Enamul Huq;James M. Tepperman;James M. Tepperman;Peter H. Quail;Peter H. Quail

  • cop1: a regulatory locus involved in light-controlled development and gene expression in Arabidopsis.

    Xing-Wang Deng;Timothy Caspar;Peter H. Quail

  • COP1, an arabidopsis regulatory gene, encodes a protein with both a zinc-binding motif and a Gβ homologous domain

    Xing Wang Deng;Xing Wang Deng;Minami Matsui;Ning Wei;Doris Wagner

  • PIF4, a phytochrome-interacting bHLH factor, functions as a negative regulator of phytochrome B signaling in Arabidopsis

    Enamul Huq;Peter H. Quail

  • Multiple Phytochrome-Interacting bHLH Transcription Factors Repress Premature Seedling Photomorphogenesis in Darkness

    Pablo Leivar;Elena Monte;Elena Monte;Elena Monte;Yoshito Oka;Yoshito Oka;Tiffany Liu;Tiffany Liu

  • Photoactivated phytochrome induces rapid PIF3 phosphorylation prior to proteasome-mediated degradation.

    Bassem Al-Sady;Weimin Ni;Weimin Ni;Stefan Kircher;Eberhard Schäfer

  • Binding of phytochrome B to its nuclear signalling partner PIF3 is reversibly induced by light

    Min Ni;James M. Tepperman;James M. Tepperman;Peter H. Quail;Peter H. Quail

  • Multiple transcription-factor genes are early targets of phytochrome A signaling

    James M. Tepperman;Tong Zhu;Hur-Song Chang;Xun Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Enamul Huq
Enamul Huq The University of Texas at Austin
Katayoon Dehesh
Katayoon Dehesh University of California, Riverside
Matthew E. Hudson
Matthew E. Hudson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Doris Wagner
Doris Wagner University of Pennsylvania
David E. Somers
David E. Somers The Ohio State University
Robert A. Sharrock
Robert A. Sharrock Montana State University
Garry C. Whitelam
Garry C. Whitelam University of Leicester
Richard D. Vierstra
Richard D. Vierstra Washington University in St. Louis
Jaime F. Martínez-García
Jaime F. Martínez-García Spanish National Research Council
Xing Wang Deng
Xing Wang Deng Peking University

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