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Overview

Robert R. Klein is affiliated with the Agricultural Research Service in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, agricultural and biological sciences, with a focus on genetics, agronomy and crop science, and plant science. The scientist's work also addresses aspects related to small animals and molecular biology.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Animal health and immunology
  • Animal Diversity and Health Studies
  • Milk Quality and Mastitis in Dairy Cows

Robert R. Klein has contributed publications in a range of journals, with frequent venues including:

  • Crop Science
  • Veterinary Medicine International
  • The Plant Genome
  • Journal of Crop Improvement
  • Plants

Their recent papers include:

  • Clinical and Diagnostic Significance of Lactate Dehydrogenase and Its Isoenzymes in Animals, 2020, Veterinary Medicine International
  • Variation in mitogenome structural conformation in wild and cultivated lineages of sorghum corresponds with domestication history and plastome evolution, 2023, BMC Plant Biology
  • Assessing combining abilities, genomic data, and genotype × environment interactions to predict hybrid grain sorghum performance, 2021, The Plant Genome
  • Comparative Analysis of Methods for Somatic Cell Counting in Cow's Milk and Relationship between Somatic Cell Count and Occurrence of Intramammary Bacteria, 2023, Veterinary Sciences
  • Predicting heterosis in grain sorghum hybrids using sequence-based genetic similarity estimates, 2020, Journal of Crop Improvement

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including:

  • Patricia E. Klein
  • William L. Rooney
  • Jales M. O. Fonseca
  • Ramasamy Perumal
  • Leo Hoffmann

Best Publications

  • Sorghum stay-green QTL individually reduce post-flowering drought-induced leaf senescence

    Karen Harris;PK Subudhi;Andrew Borrell;David Jordan

  • Coincident light and clock regulation of pseudoresponse regulator protein 37 (PRR37) controls photoperiodic flowering in sorghum

    Rebecca L. Murphy;Robert R. Klein;Daryl T. Morishige;Jeff A. Brady

  • Sorghum bicolor's transcriptome response to dehydration, high salinity and ABA

    Christina D. Buchanan;Sanghyun Lim;Ron A. Salzman;Ioannis Kagiampakis

  • A high-density genetic map of Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench based on 2926 AFLP, RFLP and SSR markers.

    M A Menz;R R Klein;J E Mullet;J A Obert

  • Transcription and RNA stability are important determinants of higher plant chloroplast RNA levels.

    John E. Mullet;Robert R. Klein

  • Light-regulated translation of chloroplast proteins. I. Transcripts of psaA-psaB, psbA, and rbcL are associated with polysomes in dark-grown and illuminated barley seedlings.

    Robert R. Klein;Hugh S. Mason;John E. Mullet

  • A high-throughput AFLP-based method for constructing integrated genetic and physical maps: progress toward a sorghum genome map.

    Patricia E. Klein;Robert R. Klein;Samuel W. Cartinhour;Paul E. Ulanch

  • Genetic diversity of public inbreds of sorghum determined by mapped AFLP and SSR markers.

    Monica A. Menz;Robert R. Klein;Robert R. Klein;Natalie C. Unruh;William L. Rooney

  • Chlorophyll regulates accumulation of the plastid-encoded chlorophyll apoproteins CP43 and D1 by increasing apoprotein stability.

    John E. Mullet;Patricia Gamble Klein;Robert R. Klein

  • Control of gene expression during higher plant chloroplast biogenesis. Protein synthesis and transcript levels of psbA, psaA-psaB, and rbcL in dark-grown and illuminated barley seedlings.

    R R Klein;J E Mullet

  • Fertility restorer locus Rf1 of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) encodes a pentatricopeptide repeat protein not present in the colinear region of rice chromosome 12

    R. R. Klein;P. E. Klein;J. E. Mullet;P. Minx

  • Transcriptional profiling of sorghum induced by methyl jasmonate, salicylic acid, and aminocyclopropane carboxylic acid reveals cooperative regulation and novel gene responses.

    Ron A. Salzman;Jeff A. Brady;Scott A. Finlayson;Christina D. Buchanan

  • A consensus genetic map of sorghum that integrates multiple component maps and high-throughput Diversity Array Technology (DArT) markers

    Emma S Mace;Jean-Francois Rami;Sophie Bouchet;Patricia E Klein

  • Mutational analysis of the tobacco vein mottling virus genome.

    Patricia Gamble Klein;Robert R. Klein;Emilio Rodriguez-Cerezo;Arthur G. Hunt

  • Regulation of chloroplast-encoded chlorophyll-binding protein translation during higher plant chloroplast biogenesis.

    R R Klein;J E Mullet

  • Chromosome Identification and Nomenclature of Sorghum bicolor

    Jeong Soon Kim;Patricia E. Klein;Robert R. Klein;H. James Price

  • Light-induced transcription of chloroplast genes. psbA transcription is differentially enhanced in illuminated barley.

    Robert R. Klein;John E. Mullet

  • Accumulation of heat shock proteins in field-grown cotton.

    John J. Burke;Jerry L. Hatfield;Robert R. Klein;John E. Mullet

  • Identification of genomic regions that affect grain-mould incidence and other traits of agronomic importance in sorghum

    R. R. Klein;R. Rodriguez-Herrera;J. A. Schlueter;P. E. Klein

  • In vitro synthesis of chlorophyll a in the dark triggers accumulation of chlorophyll a apoproteins in barley etioplasts.

    Lutz A. Eichacker;Jürgen Soll;Petra Lauterbach;Wolfhart Rüdiger

Frequent Co-Authors

Patricia E. Klein
Patricia E. Klein Texas A&M University
John E. Mullet
John E. Mullet Texas A&M University
William L. Rooney
William L. Rooney Texas A&M University
David M. Stelly
David M. Stelly Texas A&M University
David R. Jordan
David R. Jordan University of Queensland
Doreen Ware
Doreen Ware Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
John J. Burke
John J. Burke Agricultural Research Service
Kevin L. Childs
Kevin L. Childs Michigan State University
Michael E. Salvucci
Michael E. Salvucci United States Department of Agriculture
Henry T. Nguyen
Henry T. Nguyen University of Missouri

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