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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Quentin C. B. Cronk is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada. Their research encompasses diverse areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work is distributed across several subfields including molecular biology, plant science, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, genetics, and nature and landscape conservation.

The researcher has contributed extensively to topics such as plant and animal studies, plant reproductive biology, bioenergy crop production and management, genetic diversity and population structure, yeasts and rust fungi studies, ecology and vegetation dynamics studies, and botany, ecology, and taxonomy studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Diana M. Percy, Brian J. Sanderson, Tao Ma, Matthew S. Olson, and Mannfred M. A. Boehm. The scientist's research findings have been published mostly in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Biodiversity Data Journal, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Botany, and Nature Plants.

Selected recent publications include:

  • A single gene underlies the dynamic evolution of poplar sex determination (2020, Nature Plants)
  • Dark extinction: the problem of unknown historical extinctions (2021, Biology Letters)
  • Default Sex and Single Gene Sex Determination in Dioecious Plants (2020, Frontiers in Plant Science)
  • Functional Characterization of Terpene Synthases Accounting for the Volatilized-Terpene Heterogeneity in Lathyrus odoratus Cultivar Flowers (2020, Plant and Cell Physiology)
  • Extinction Dynamics Under Extreme Conservation Threat: The Flora of St Helena (2020, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution)

Throughout their career, Quentin C. B. Cronk has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2011. Their body of work demonstrates a focus on genetic and ecological aspects of plant biology, emphasizing sex determination, extinction dynamics, and biochemical pathways in plants.

Best Publications

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray)

    G. A. Tuskan;G. A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

  • Plant Invaders: The threat to natural ecosystems

    Quentin C.B. Cronk;Janice L. Fuller

  • The genome of flax (Linum usitatissimum) assembled de novo from short shotgun sequence reads.

    Zhiwen Wang;Neil Hobson;Leonardo Galindo;Shilin Zhu

  • Ecological and socioeconomic impacts of invasive alien species in island ecosystems.

    Jamie K Reaser;Laura A Meyerson;Quentin Cronk;Maj De Poorter

  • Bird-pollinated flowers in an evolutionary and molecular context

    Quentin Cronk;Isidro Ojeda

  • Plann: A Command-Line Application for Annotating Plastome Sequences

    Daisie I. Huang;Quentin C. B. Cronk

  • Adaptive introgression: a plant perspective.

    Adriana Suarez-Gonzalez;Christian Lexer;Quentin C. B. Cronk

  • A phylogenetic analysis of Rhamnaceae using rbcL and trnL-F plastid DNA sequences.

    James E. Richardson;Michael F. Fay;Quentin C. B. Cronk;Quentin C. B. Cronk;Diane Bowman;Diane Bowman

  • Rapid and recent origin of species richness in the Cape flora of South Africa

    James E. Richardson;James E. Richardson;Frans M. Weitz;Frans M. Weitz;Michael F. Fay;Quentin C. B. Cronk;Quentin C. B. Cronk

  • Developmental Genetics and Plant Evolution

    Quentin C.B. Cronk;Richard M. Bateman;Julie A. Hawkins

  • Ultra-barcoding in cacao (Theobroma spp.; Malvaceae) using whole chloroplast genomes and nuclear ribosomal DNA

    Nolan Kane;Saemundur Sveinsson;Hannes Dempewolf;Ji Yong Yang

  • A single gene underlies the dynamic evolution of poplar sex determination

    Niels A Müller;Birgit Kersten;Ana P Leite Montalvão;Niklas Mähler

  • Geographical and environmental gradients shape phenotypic trait variation and genetic structure in Populus trichocarpa

    Athena D. McKown;Robert D. Guy;Jaroslav Klápště;Jaroslav Klápště;Armando Geraldes

  • Islands: stability, diversity, conservation

    Q. C. B. Cronk

  • Genome‐wide association implicates numerous genes underlying ecological trait variation in natural populations of Populus trichocarpa

    Athena D. McKown;Jaroslav Klápště;Jaroslav Klápště;Robert D. Guy;Armando Geraldes

  • Use of Ecotilling as an efficient SNP discovery tool to survey genetic variation in wild populations of Populus trichocarpa

    Erin J. Gilchrist;George W. Haughn;Cheng C. Ying;Sarah P. Otto

  • Plant-Insect Interactions: Double-Dating Associated Insect and Plant Lineages Reveals Asynchronous Radiations

    Diana M. Percy;Diana M. Percy;Roderic D.M. Page;Quentin C.B. Cronk;Quentin C.B. Cronk

  • PLANT EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT IN A POST-GENOMIC CONTEXT

    Quentin C. B. Cronk

  • Origin and relationships of Saintpaulia (Gesneriaceae) based on ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacer (ITS) sequences

    Michael Möller;Quentin C. B. Cronk;Quentin C. B. Cronk

  • The genome of black cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) - eScholarship

    G.A. Tuskan;S. DiFazio;S. Jansson;J. Bohlmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl J. Douglas
Carl J. Douglas University of British Columbia
Michael Möller
Michael Möller Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Shawn D. Mansfield
Shawn D. Mansfield University of British Columbia
Robert D. Guy
Robert D. Guy University of British Columbia
Yousry A. El-Kassaby
Yousry A. El-Kassaby University of British Columbia
Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg University of British Columbia
Christian Lexer
Christian Lexer University of Vienna
Arnoldo Santos-Guerra
Arnoldo Santos-Guerra University of Seville
Gerald A. Tuskan
Gerald A. Tuskan Oak Ridge National Laboratory
James E. Richardson
James E. Richardson University College Cork

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