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59
Citations
32064
World Ranking
12246
National Ranking
5234

Overview

Qi Sun is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their work encompasses a variety of specific subfields including Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Genetics, Immunology, and Spectroscopy.

Their research topics cover diverse areas such as Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Horticultural and Viticultural Research, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Advanced Proteomics Techniques and Applications, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, and Fermentation and Sensory Analysis.

Qi Sun has published papers in a range of scientific journals. Notable recent papers include:

  • Polysaccharides regulate Th1/Th2 balance: A new strategy for tumor immunotherapy, 2023, Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
  • Haplotyping the Vitis collinear core genome with rhAmpSeq improves marker transferability in a diverse genus, 2020, Nature Communications
  • The Arabidopsis PeptideAtlas: Harnessing worldwide proteomics data to create a comprehensive community proteomics resource, 2021, The Plant Cell
  • Flavonoids regulate tumor-associated macrophages - From structure-activity relationship to clinical potential (Review), 2022, Pharmacological Research
  • Spatial metabolomics reveals glycogen as an actionable target for pulmonary fibrosis, 2023, Nature Communications

The researcher frequently collaborates with several coauthors, including:

  • Cheng Zou
  • Lance Cadle-Davidson
  • Klaas J. van Wijk
  • Mark Leppert
  • Zhi Sun

Qi Sun has published in multiple venues, with several papers appearing repeatedly in:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy
  • Nature Communications
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • A Robust, Simple Genotyping-by-Sequencing (GBS) Approach for High Diversity Species

    Robert J. Elshire;Jeffrey C. Glaubitz;Qi-ying Sun;Jesse A. Poland

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

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

  • TASSEL-GBS: a high capacity genotyping by sequencing analysis pipeline

    Jeffrey C. Glaubitz;Terry M. Casstevens;Fei Lu;James Harriman

  • The Genetic Architecture of Maize Flowering Time

    Edward S. Buckler;Edward S. Buckler;James B. Holland;James B. Holland;Peter J. Bradbury;Peter J. Bradbury;Charlotte B. Acharya

  • Genetic properties of the maize nested association mapping population.

    Michael D. McMullen;Michael D. McMullen;Stephen Kresovich;Hector Sanchez Villeda;Peter Bradbury;Peter Bradbury

  • Genome-wide association study of leaf architecture in the maize nested association mapping population

    Feng Tian;Peter J Bradbury;Patrick J Brown;Patrick J Brown;Hsiaoyi Hung

  • A first-generation haplotype map of maize

    Michael A. Gore;Jer Ming Chia;Robert J. Elshire;Qi Sun

  • The developmental dynamics of the maize leaf transcriptome

    Pinghua Li;Lalit Ponnala;Neeru Gandotra;Lin Wang

  • Sorting Signals, N-Terminal Modifications and Abundance of the Chloroplast Proteome

    Boris L Zybailov;Heidi Rutschow;Giulia Friso;Andrea Rudella

  • Host genetic variation impacts microbiome composition across human body sites

    Ran Blekhman;Julia K. Goodrich;Katherine Huang;Qi Sun

  • Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux

    Jer Ming Chia;Chi Song;Peter J. Bradbury;Peter J. Bradbury;Denise Costich;Denise Costich

  • A large maize (Zea mays L.) SNP genotyping array: development and germplasm genotyping, and genetic mapping to compare with the B73 reference genome.

    Martin W. Ganal;Gregor Durstewitz;Andreas Polley;Aurélie Bérard

  • In-Depth Analysis of the Thylakoid Membrane Proteome of Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplasts: New Proteins, New Functions, and a Plastid Proteome Database

    Giulia Friso;Lisa Giacomelli;A. Jimmy Ytterberg;Jean-Benoit Peltier

  • PPDB, the Plant Proteomics Database at Cornell

    Qi Sun;Boris L. Zybailov;Wojciech Majeran;Giulia Friso

  • Construction of the third-generation Zea mays haplotype map.

    Robert Bukowski;Xiaosen Guo;Yanli Lu;Cheng Zou

  • The Oligomeric Stromal Proteome of Arabidopsis thaliana Chloroplasts

    Jean-Benoit Peltier;Yang Cai;Qi Sun;Vladimir Zabrouskov

  • New functions of the thylakoid membrane proteome of Arabidopsis thaliana revealed by a simple, fast, and versatile fractionation strategy.

    Jean-Benoit Peltier;A. Jimmy Ytterberg;Qi Sun;Klaas J. van Wijk

  • Functional Differentiation of Bundle Sheath and Mesophyll Maize Chloroplasts Determined by Comparative Proteomics

    Wojciech Majeran;Yang Cai;Qi Sun;Klaas J. van Wijk

  • Comparative analyses of C-4 and C-3 photosynthesis in developing leaves of maize and rice

    Lin Wang;Angelika Czedik-Eysenberg;Rachel A Mertz;Yaqing Si

  • Reconstruction of Metabolic Pathways, Protein Expression, and Homeostasis Machineries across Maize Bundle Sheath and Mesophyll Chloroplasts: Large-Scale Quantitative Proteomics Using the First Maize Genome Assembly

    Giulia Friso;Wojciech Majeran;Mingshu Huang;Qi Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward S. Buckler
Edward S. Buckler Cornell University
Klaas J. van Wijk
Klaas J. van Wijk Cornell University
Doreen Ware
Doreen Ware Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Peter J. Bradbury
Peter J. Bradbury United States Department of Agriculture
Lance Cadle-Davidson
Lance Cadle-Davidson Agricultural Research Service
James B. Holland
James B. Holland North Carolina State University
Jian Hua
Jian Hua Cornell University
Bruce I. Reisch
Bruce I. Reisch Cornell University
Jason P. Londo
Jason P. Londo United States Department of Agriculture
Thomas P. Brutnell
Thomas P. Brutnell Donald Danforth Plant Science Center

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