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Richard A. Jorgensen

Richard A. Jorgensen

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Genetics

D-Index
45
Citations
30796
World Ranking
4185
National Ranking
1802

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard A. Jorgensen is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States. Their recent scholarly contributions are focused in the field of plant biology, with publications appearing primarily in the journal The Plant Cell.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Thank you and best wishes to Annette Kessler, Peer Review Manager for The Plant Cell, 2022, The Plant Cell
  • Turning the page on front matter: Wishing Nan Eckardt a joyful retirement, 2024, The Plant Cell

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Ralph S. Quatrano
  • Cathie Martin
  • Sabeeha Merchant
  • Blake C. Meyers
  • Robert B. Goldberg

Richard A. Jorgensen's work has been published primarily in the following venue:

  • The Plant Cell

In recognition of contributions to the scientific community, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2005.

Best Publications

  • Ribosomal DNA spacer-length polymorphisms in barley: mendelian inheritance, chromosomal location, and population dynamics.

    M A Saghai-Maroof;K M Soliman;R A Jorgensen;R W Allard

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

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

  • Introduction of a Chimeric Chalcone Synthase Gene into Petunia Results in Reversible Co-Suppression of Homologous Genes in trans.

    Carolyn Napoli;Christine Lemieux;Richard Jorgensen

  • The Chlamydomonas Genome Reveals the Evolution of Key Animal and Plant Functions

    Sabeeha S. Merchant;Simon E. Prochnik;Olivier Vallon;Elizabeth H. Harris

  • Analysis of histone acetyltransferase and histone deacetylase families of Arabidopsis thaliana suggests functional diversification of chromatin modification among multicellular eukaryotes

    Ritu Pandey;Andreas Müller;Carolyn A. Napoli;David A. Selinger

  • Genetic and developmental control of anthocyanin biosynthesis.

    Hugo K. Dooner;Timothy P. Robbins;Richard A. Jorgensen

  • The tiny eukaryote Ostreococcus provides genomic insights into the paradox of plankton speciation

    Brian Palenik;Jane Grimwood;Andrea Aerts;Pierre Rouzé

  • Genetic engineering of novel plant phenotypes

    Richard A. Jorgensen;Carolyn A. Napoli

  • A restriction enzyme cleavage map of Tn5 and location of a region encoding neomycin resistance.

    Richard A. Jorgensen;Steven J. Rothstein;Williams S. Reznikoff

  • Chalcone synthase cosuppression phenotypes in petunia flowers: comparison of sense vs. antisense constructs and single-copy vs. complex T-DNA sequences

    Richard A. Jorgensen;Paul D. Cluster;James English;Qiudeng Que

  • FLOWERING LOCUS T Protein May Act as the Long-Distance Florigenic Signal in the Cucurbits

    Ming Kuem Lin;Helene Belanger;Young Jin Lee;Erika Varkonyi-Gasic

  • Altered gene expression in plants due totrans interactions between homologous genes

    Richard Jorgensen

  • Cosuppression, Flower Color Patterns, and Metastable Gene Expression States

    Richard A. Jorgensen

  • An RNA-based information superhighway in plants

    Richard A. Jorgensen;Ross G. Atkinson;Richard L. S. Forster;William J. Lucas

  • The Frequency and Degree of Cosuppression by Sense Chalcone Synthase Transgenes Are Dependent on Transgene Promoter Strength and Are Reduced by Premature Nonsense Codons in the Transgene Coding Sequence.

    Qiudeng Que;Huai-Yu Wang;James J. English;Richard A. Jorgensen

  • Phytochrome control of RNA levels in developing pea and mung-bean leaves.

    William F. Thompson;Marylee Everett;Neil O. Polans;Richard A. Jorgensen

  • T-DNA is organized predominantly in inverted repeat structures in plants transformed with Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58 derivatives

    Richard Jorgensen;Christine Snyder;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • Conditional Male Fertility in Chalcone Synthase-Deficient Petunia

    L. P. Taylor;R. Jorgensen

  • Effectiveness of RNA interference in transgenic plants

    Arthur Kerschen;Carolyn A. Napoli;Richard A. Jorgensen;Andreas E. Müller

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

William S. Reznikoff
William S. Reznikoff Marine Biological Laboratory
Chris Bowler
Chris Bowler École Normale Supérieure
Daniel S. Rokhsar
Daniel S. Rokhsar University of California, Berkeley
William F. Thompson
William F. Thompson North Carolina State University
Steven J. Rothstein
Steven J. Rothstein University of Guelph
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
R. W. Allard
R. W. Allard University of California, Davis
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Asaf Salamov
Asaf Salamov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Jeffrey D. Palmer
Jeffrey D. Palmer Indiana University

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