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Renate Schmidt is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. The research focuses primarily on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with 16 publications in this area, complemented by work in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology with 7 publications.

The scientist's research subfields include Plant Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, and Agronomy and Crop Science. These areas contribute to an extensive investigation of wheat and barley genetics and pathology, genetic mapping and diversity, and various aspects of genetics and plant breeding.

Renate Schmidt's main topics of work cover:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Selected recent publications illustrate the scope and themes of the scientist's work:

  • Unlocking big data doubled the accuracy in predicting the grain yield in hybrid wheat, 2021, Science Advances
  • Disentangling the genetic architecture of key traits for wheat hybrid seed production, 2025, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • A comprehensive overview and benchmarking analysis of fast algorithms for genome-wide association studies, 2023, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions recommendation of Meiotic crossover reduction by virus-induced gene silencing enables the efficient generation of chromosome substitution lines and reverse breeding in Arabidopsis thaliana., 2020, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Faculty Opinions recommendation of Targeted, random mutagenesis of plant genes with dual cytosine and adenine base editors., 2020, Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Jochen C. Reif
  • Yong Jiang
  • Yusheng Zhao
  • Guoliang Li
  • Norman Philipp

The scientist's publications appear predominantly in venues such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Science Advances, Journal of Experimental Botany, and Plant Communications.

Best Publications

  • RPS2 of Arabidopsis thaliana: a leucine-rich repeat class of plant disease resistance genes

    Andrew F. Bent;Barbara N. Kunkel;Douglas Dahlbeck;Kit L. Brown

  • Construction of an intron-containing marker gene : splicing of the intron in transgenic plants and its use in monitoring early events in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation

    G. Vancanneyt;R. Schmidt;A. O'Connor-Sanchez;L. Willmitzer

  • FCA, a Gene Controlling Flowering Time in Arabidopsis, Encodes a Protein Containing RNA-Binding Domains

    Richard Macknight;Ian Bancroft;Tania Page;Clare Lister

  • Expression of a yeast-derived invertase in the cell wall of tobacco and Arabidopsis plants leads to accumulation of carbohydrate and inhibition of photosynthesis and strongly influences growth and phenotype of transgenic tobacco plants.

    A. von Schaewen;M. Stitt;R. Schmidt;U. Sonnewald

  • A Novel Zinc Finger Protein Is Encoded by the Arabidopsis LSD1 Gene and Functions as a Negative Regulator of Plant Cell Death

    Robert A Dietrich;Michael H Richberg;Renate Schmidt;Caroline Dean

  • The Arabidopsis downy mildew resistance gene RPP5 shares similarity to the toll and interleukin-1 receptors with N and L6.

    JE Parker;MJ Coleman;V Szabo;LN Frost

  • Mechanisms of chromosome number reduction in Arabidopsis thaliana and related Brassicaceae species

    Martin A. Lysak;Alexandre Berr;Ales Pecinka;Renate Schmidt

  • Silencing in Arabidopsis T-DNA Transformants: The Predominant Role of a Gene-Specific RNA Sensing Mechanism versus Position Effects

    Daniel Schubert;Berthold Lechtenberg;Alexandra Forsbach;Mario Gils

  • A comparative linkage map of oilseed rape and its use for QTL analysis of seed oil and erucic acid content

    D. Qiu;C. Morgan;J. Shi;Y. Long

  • High efficiency Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana leaf and cotyledon explants.

    Renate Schmidt;Lothar Willmitzer

  • TOM1, an Arabidopsis gene required for efficient multiplication of a tobamovirus, encodes a putative transmembrane protein.

    Takuya Yamanaka;Takehiro Ohta;Miki Takahashi;Tetsuo Meshi

  • Physical Map and Organization of Arabidopsis thaliana Chromosome 4

    Renate Schmidt;Joanne West;Karina Love;Zoë Lenehan

  • A comprehensive characterization of single-copy T-DNA insertions in the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

    Alexandra Forsbach;Daniel Schubert;Berthold Lechtenberg;Mario Gils

  • MOR1/GEM1 has an essential role in the plant-specific cytokinetic phragmoplast

    David Twell;Soon Ki Park;Timothy J. Hawkins;Daniel Schubert

  • Efficient Transformation of Arabidopsis-Thaliana Using Direct Gene-Transfer to Protoplasts

    Brigitte Damm;Renate Schmidt;Lothar Willmitzer

  • Chilling sensitivity of Arabidopsis thaliana with genetically engineered membrane lipids.

    F P Wolter;R Schmidt;E Heinz

  • A quantitative genetic framework highlights the role of epistatic effects for grain-yield heterosis in bread wheat.

    Yong Jiang;Renate H Schmidt;Yusheng Zhao;Jochen C Reif

  • Nucleotide-Sequence of Proteinase Inhibitor-Ii Encoding Cdna of Potato (Solanum-Tuberosum) and Its Mode of Expression

    J. J. Sanchez-Serrano;R. Schmidt;J. Schell;L. Willmitzer

  • Forespore-specific transcription of a gene in the signal transduction pathway that governs Pro-sigma K processing in Bacillus subtilis.

    S Cutting;A Driks;R Schmidt;B Kunkel

  • Isolation and Characterization of a Gene from Solanum-Tuberosum Encoding Patatin, the Major Storage Protein of Potato-Tubers

    Sabine Rosahl;Renate Schmidt;Jeff Schell;Lothar Willmitzer

Frequent Co-Authors

Caroline Dean
Caroline Dean John Innes Centre
Lothar Willmitzer
Lothar Willmitzer Max Planck Society
Ian Bancroft
Ian Bancroft University of York
Thomas Altmann
Thomas Altmann Institute of Plant Genetics and Crop Plant Research
Jochen C. Reif
Jochen C. Reif Leibniz Association
Wolf B. Frommer
Wolf B. Frommer Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Thomas Martin
Thomas Martin University of California, San Francisco
Ingo Schubert
Ingo Schubert Leibniz Association
Rhonda C. Meyer
Rhonda C. Meyer Leibniz Association
George Coupland
George Coupland Max Planck Society

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