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  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Richard W. Michelmore is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields primarily within the agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology.

The main fields of study include:

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Michelmore's subfields of study highlight a focus on plant and molecular biology along with infectious diseases and genetics:

  • Plant Science
  • Molecular Biology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Genetics
  • Cell Biology

The topics covered in their work often involve plant pathology, molecular interactions, and genetics, including:

  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Plant Physiology and Cultivation Studies

Michelmore has a record of frequent collaborations with other researchers, including:

  • Dean Lavelle
  • María José Truco
  • Rongkui Han
  • Kyle Fletcher
  • Keri Cavanaugh

Their publications are distributed across several journals with notable recurring venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • Phytopathology

Selected recent papers representative of Michelmore's work include:

  • "Viral Load Among Vaccinated and Unvaccinated, Asymptomatic and Symptomatic Persons Infected With the SARS-CoV-2 Delta Variant," 2022, Open Forum Infectious Diseases
  • "Upregulation of a KN1 homolog by transposon insertion promotes leafy head development in lettuce," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Effector prediction and characterization in the oomycete pathogen Bremia lactucae reveal host-recognized WY domain proteins that lack the canonical RXLR motif," 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • "Phytopathogen Effectors Use Multiple Mechanisms to Manipulate Plant Autophagy," 2020, Cell Host & Microbe
  • "A Composite Analysis of Flowering Time Regulation in Lettuce," 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science

Michelmore has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an award received in 2002.

Best Publications

  • Identification of markers linked to disease-resistance genes by bulked segregant analysis: a rapid method to detect markers in specific genomic regions by using segregating populations.

    Richard W Michelmore;I. Paran;R. V. Kesseli

  • Development of reliable PCR-based markers linked to downy mildew resistance genes in lettuce

    I. Paran;Richard W Michelmore

  • Genome-Wide Analysis of NBS-LRR–Encoding Genes in Arabidopsis

    Blake C. Meyers;Alexander Kozik;Alyssa Griego;Hanhui Kuang

  • Clusters of resistance genes in plants evolve by divergent selection and a birth-and-death process.

    Richard W. Michelmore;Blake C. Meyers

  • Plant disease resistance genes encode members of an ancient and diverse protein family within the nucleotide‐binding superfamily

    Blake C. Meyers;Allan W. Dickerman;Richard W. Michelmore;Subramoniam Sivaramakrishnan;Subramoniam Sivaramakrishnan

  • Plant NBS-LRR proteins: adaptable guards

    Leah McHale;Xiaoping Tan;Patrice Koehl;Richard W Michelmore

  • The genome sequences of Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, the diploid ancestors of cultivated peanut.

    David John Bertioli;David John Bertioli;Steven B Cannon;Lutz Froenicke;Guodong Huang

  • Molecular basis of gene-for-gene specificity in bacterial speck disease of tomato

    Steven R. Scofield;Christian M. Tobias;John P. Rathjen;Jeff H. Chang

  • The genome sequence of segmental allotetraploid peanut Arachis hypogaea

    David J. Bertioli;Jerry Jenkins;Josh Clevenger;Olga Dudchenko

  • Optimization of Agrobacterium‐mediated transient assays of gene expression in lettuce, tomato and Arabidopsis

    Tadeusz Wroblewski;Anna Tomczak;Richard W Michelmore

  • Genome assembly with in vitro proximity ligation data and whole-genome triplication in lettuce.

    Sebastian Reyes-Chin-Wo;Zhiwen Wang;Xinhua Yang;Alexander Kozik

  • Global eQTL Mapping Reveals the Complex Genetic Architecture of Transcript-Level Variation in Arabidopsis

    Marilyn A. L. West;Kyunga Kim;Daniel J. Kliebenstein;Hans van Leeuwen

  • Multiple Paleopolyploidizations during the Evolution of the Compositae Reveal Parallel Patterns of Duplicate Gene Retention after Millions of Years

    Michael S. Barker;Nolan C. Kane;Nolan C. Kane;Marta Matvienko;Alexander Kozik

  • The Major Resistance Gene Cluster in Lettuce Is Highly Duplicated and Spans Several Megabases

    Blake C. Meyers;Doris B. Chin;Katherine A. Shen;Subramoniam Sivaramakrishnan

  • TIR-X and TIR-NBS proteins: two new families related to disease resistance TIR-NBS-LRR proteins encoded in Arabidopsis and other plant genomes.

    Blake C. Meyers;Michele Morgante;Richard W. Michelmore

  • Identification of restriction fragment length polymorphism and random amplified polymorphic DNA markers linked to downy mildew resistance genes in lettuce, using near-isogenic lines.

    Ilan Paran;Richard Kesseli;Richard Michelmore

  • Receptor-like Genes in the Major Resistance Locus of Lettuce Are Subject to Divergent Selection

    Blake C. Meyers;Katherine A. Shen;Pejaman Rohani;Brandon S. Gaut

  • Transformation of lettuce (Lactuca sativa) mediated by Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

    Richard W Michelmore;Ellen Marsh;Susan Seely;Benoit Landry

  • A Genetic Map of Lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) with Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism, Isozyme, Disease Resistance and Morphological Markers.

    Benoit S. Landry;Rick V. Kesseli;Barry Farrara;Richard W. Michelmore

  • Genetic analysis of the fungus, Bremia lactucae, using restriction fragment length polymorphisms.

    S. H. Hulbert;T. W. Ilott;E. J. Legg;S. E. Lincoln

Frequent Co-Authors

Blake C. Meyers
Blake C. Meyers University of California, Davis
Loren H. Rieseberg
Loren H. Rieseberg University of British Columbia
Ivan Simko
Ivan Simko United States Department of Agriculture
Steven J. Knapp
Steven J. Knapp University of California, Davis
Krishna V. Subbarao
Krishna V. Subbarao University of California, Davis
Brian J. Staskawicz
Brian J. Staskawicz University of California, Berkeley
Howard S. Judelson
Howard S. Judelson University of California, Riverside
Ilan Paran
Ilan Paran Agricultural Research Organization
Hamid Ashrafi
Hamid Ashrafi North Carolina State University
Rajeev K. Varshney
Rajeev K. Varshney Murdoch University

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