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Peter Palukaitis

Peter Palukaitis

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Microbiology
Korea
2022

D-Index & Metrics

Microbiology

D-Index
70
Citations
15064
World Ranking
1966
National Ranking
12

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Microbiology in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Peter Palukaitis is affiliated with Seoul Women's University in South Korea. Their research primarily focuses on plant virus interactions, with a strong emphasis on plant immunity and molecular biology aspects related to viral infections.

Their major fields of study include Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broad areas, their work concentrates on subfields such as Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Key topics covered in Peter Palukaitis's research are:

  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Viral Infections and Vectors
  • Mosquito-borne Diseases and Control

The scientist has published extensively in journals such as Viruses, Current Opinion in Virology, The Plant Pathology Journal, Advances in Virus Research, and PLoS Pathogens. The distribution of their publications shows a focus on the journal Viruses, with four publications, followed by notable contributions to Current Opinion in Virology and The Plant Pathology Journal.

Selected recent papers authored by Peter Palukaitis include:

  • "R gene mediated defense against viruses" (2020, Current Opinion in Virology)
  • "Resistance to Turnip Mosaic Virus in the Family Brassicaceae" (2021, The Plant Pathology Journal)
  • "The Forgotten Tobamovirus Genes Encoding the 54 kDa Protein and the 4-6 kDa Proteins" (2024, Viruses)

Frequent collaborators with Peter Palukaitis comprise Ju-Yeon Yoon, Masoud Akbarimotlagh, Masoud Shams-Bakhsh, Eseul Baek, and Xiaorong Tao, with the highest number of joint publications being eight with Ju-Yeon Yoon.

Best Publications

  • Top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology

    Karen Beth G. Scholthof;Scott Adkins;Henryk Czosnek;Peter Palukaitis

  • Cucumber Mosaic Virus

    Peter Palukaitis;Marilyn J. Roossinck;Ralf G. Dietzgen;Richard I.B. Francki

  • Characterization of cucumber mosaic virus. IV. Movement protein and coat protein are both essential for cell-to-cell movement of cucumber mosaic virus

    Tomas Canto;Denton A.M. Prior;Karl-Heinz Hellwald;Karl J. Oparka

  • Cucumber mosaic virus 3a protein potentiates cell-to-cell trafficking of CMV RNA in tobacco plants.

    Biao Ding;Qiubo Li;Lynda Nguyen;Peter Palukaitis

  • Satellite RNAs of plant viruses: structures and biological effects.

    M J Roossinck;D Sleat;P Palukaitis

  • Construction of full-length cDNA clones of cucumber mosaic virus RNAs 1, 2 and 3: Generation of infectious RNA transcripts

    Thomas M. Rizzo;Peter Palukaitis

  • Cucumber Mosaic Virus 2b Protein Subcellular Targets and Interactions: Their Significance to RNA Silencing Suppressor Activity

    Inmaculada González;Llucia Martínez;Daria V. Rakitina;Mathew G. Lewsey

  • Virus movement in infected plants

    Andrew J. Maule;Peter Palukaitis

  • A defective replicase gene induces resistance to cucumber mosaic virus in transgenic tobacco plants.

    Joseph M. Anderson;Peter Palukaitis;Milton Zaitlin

  • Signaling in induced resistance.

    John P Carr;Mathew G Lewsey;Peter Palukaitis;Peter Palukaitis

  • Replicase-mediated resistance to plant virus disease.

    Peter Palukaitis;Milton Zaitlin

  • The kinetics of infection of zucchini squash by cucumber mosaic virus indicate a function for RNA 1 in virus movement

    Amit Gal-On;Igor Kaplan;Marilyn J. Roossinck;Peter Palukaitis

  • The Movement Protein of Cucumber Mosaic Virus Traffics into Sieve Elements in Minor Veins of Nicotiana clevelandii

    Leila M. Blackman;Petra Boevink;Simon Santa Cruz;Peter Palukaitis

  • The plant defense response to cucumber mosaic virus in cowpea is elicited by the viral polymerase gene and affects virus accumulation in single cells

    Chung-Ho Kim;Chung-Ho Kim;Peter Palukaitis

  • Virulence and differential local and systemic spread of cucumber mosaic virus in tobacco are affected by the CMV 2b protein.

    Avril J. Soards;Alex M. Murphy;Peter Palukaitis;John P. Carr

  • Characterization of Synergy Between Cucumber mosaic virus and Potyviruses in Cucurbit Hosts.

    Yongzeng Wang;Victor Gaba;Jie Yang;Peter Palukaitis

  • Characterization of cucumber mosaic virus I. Molecular heterogeneity mapping of RNA 3 in eight CMV strains

    Judith Owen;Peter Palukaitis

  • Mapping local and systemic symptom determinants of cucumber mosaic cucumovirus in tobacco

    Lee Zhang;Kaoru Hanada;Peter Palukaitis

  • A single amino acid substitution in the coat protein of cucumber mosaic virus induces chlorosis in tobacco.

    Michael H. Shintaku;Lee Zhang;Peter Palukaitis

  • Comparison of the Nucleic Acid- and NTP-Binding Properties of the Movement Protein of Cucumber Mosaic Cucumovirus and Tobacco Mosaic Tobamovirus

    Qiubo Li;Peter Palukaitis

Frequent Co-Authors

John P. Carr
John P. Carr University of Cambridge
Milton Zaitlin
Milton Zaitlin Cornell University
Stewart M. Gray
Stewart M. Gray Cornell University
Marilyn J. Roossinck
Marilyn J. Roossinck Pennsylvania State University
Amit Gal-On
Amit Gal-On Agricultural Research Organization
Michael E. Taliansky
Michael E. Taliansky James Hutton Institute
Shelly Praveen
Shelly Praveen Shriram Institute for Industrial Research
Robert H. Symons
Robert H. Symons University of Adelaide
Fernando García-Arenal
Fernando García-Arenal Technical University of Madrid
Karl J. Oparka
Karl J. Oparka University of Edinburgh

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