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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Sally A. Mackenzie is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong focus on Plant Science and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has contributed significantly to various topics including:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Nutrient Uptake and Metabolism
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis
  • Plant Tissue Culture and Regeneration
  • Protist Diversity and Phylogeny

Mackenzie's recent papers include the following works:

  • MSH1-induced heritable enhanced growth vigor through grafting is associated with the RdDM pathway in plants, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Segregation of an MSH1 RNAi transgene produces heritable non-genetic memory in association with methylome reprogramming, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Plant science decadal vision 2020-2030: Reimagining the potential of plants for a healthy and sustainable future, 2020, Plant Direct
  • A new take on organelle-mediated stress sensing in plants, 2021, New Phytologist
  • Integrative Network Analysis of Differentially Methylated and Expressed Genes for Biomarker Identification in Leukemia, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors working alongside Sally A. Mackenzie include:

  • Xiaodong Yang
  • Robersy Sánchez
  • Hardik Kundariya
  • Isaac J. Dopp
  • Alenka Hafner

The venues where Mackenzie has most frequently published are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Nature Communications
  • Plant Cell & Environment
  • Plant Direct
  • New Phytologist

Awards received by Mackenzie include the Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists in 2013 and the Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2003.

Best Publications

  • The genome sequence of allopolyploid Brassica juncea and analysis of differential homoeolog gene expression influencing selection

    Jinghua Yang;Dongyuan Liu;Xiaowu Wang;Changmian Ji

  • Higher plant mitochondria

    Sally Mackenzie;Lee McIntosh

  • Substoichiometric shifting in the plant mitochondrial genome is influenced by a gene homologous to MutS

    Ricardo V. Abdelnoor;Ryan Yule;Annakaisa Elo;Alan C. Christensen

  • Plant mitochondrial recombination surveillance requires unusual RecA and MutS homologs.

    Vikas Shedge;Maria Arrieta-Montiel;Alan C. Christensen;Sally A. Mackenzie

  • Stoichiometric Shifts in the Common Bean Mitochondrial Genome Leading to Male Sterility and Spontaneous Reversion to Fertility

    Hanna Janska;Rodrigo Sarria;Magdalena Woloszynska;Maria Arrieta-Montiel

  • Double-strand break repair processes drive evolution of the mitochondrial genome in Arabidopsis

    Jaime I. Davila;Maria P. Arrieta-Montiel;Yashitola Wamboldt;Jun Cao

  • Diversity of the Arabidopsis Mitochondrial Genome Occurs via Nuclear-Controlled Recombination Activity

    Maria P. Arrieta-Montiel;Vikas Shedge;Jaime Davila;Alan C. Christensen

  • Tracing evolutionary and developmental implications of mitochondrial stoichiometric shifting in the common bean

    Maria Arrieta-Montiel;Anna Lyznik;Magdalena Woloszynska;Hanna Janska

  • Fertility Restoration Is Associated with Loss of a Portion of the Mitochondrial Genome in Cytoplasmic Male-Sterile Common Bean.

    Sally A. Mackenzie;Christine D. Chase

  • Specific expression in reproductive tissues and fate of a mitochondrial sterility-associated protein in cytoplasmic male-sterile bean.

    Andre R. Abad;Brian J. Mehrtens;Sally A. Mackenzie

  • Transgenic induction of mitochondrial rearrangements for cytoplasmic male sterility in crop plants

    Ajay Pal S. Sandhu;Ricardo V. Abdelnoor;Ricardo V. Abdelnoor;Sally Ann Mackenzie

  • A Cytoplasmic Male Sterility–Associated Mitochondrial Peptide in Common Bean Is Post-Translationally Regulated

    Rodrigo Sarria;Anna Lyznik;C. Eduardo Vallejos;Sally A. Mackenzie

  • Dual-Domain, Dual-Targeting Organellar Protein Presequences in Arabidopsis Can Use Non-AUG Start Codons

    Alan C. Christensen;Anna Lyznik;Saleem Mohammed;Christian G. Elowsky

  • MutS HOMOLOG1 Is a Nucleoid Protein That Alters Mitochondrial and Plastid Properties and Plant Response to High Light

    Ying Zhi Xu;Maria P. Arrieta-Montiel;Kamaldeep S. Virdi;Wilson B.M. de Paula

  • Detection of DNA sequence polymorphisms among wheat varieties.

    S. He;H. Ohm;S. Mackenzie

  • Plant organellar protein targeting: a traffic plan still under construction

    Sally Ann MacKenzie

  • Nuclear Genes That Encode Mitochondrial Proteins for DNA and RNA Metabolism Are Clustered in the Arabidopsis Genome

    Annakaisa Elo;Anna Lyznik;Delkin O. Gonzalez;Stephen D. Kachman

  • A cytoplasmic male sterility-associated mitochondrial protein causes pollen disruption in transgenic tobacco

    Shichuan He;Andre R. Abad;Stanton B. Gelvin;Sally Ann MacKenzie

  • A mitochondrial DNA sequence is associated with abnormal pollen development in cytoplasmic male sterile bean plants

    Carol Johns;Meiqing Lu;Anna Lyznik;Sally Mackenzie

  • Mitochondrial genome dynamics in plants and animals: convergent gene fusions of a MutS homologue.

    Ricardo V. Abdelnoor;Ricardo V. Abdelnoor;Alan C. Christensen;Saleem Mohammed;Bryan Munoz-Castillo

Frequent Co-Authors

Ismail M. Dweikat
Ismail M. Dweikat University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Lee McIntosh
Lee McIntosh Michigan State University
Thomas E. Clemente
Thomas E. Clemente University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Deepak Pental
Deepak Pental University of Delhi
Michael J. Axtell
Michael J. Axtell Pennsylvania State University
Xiaowu Wang
Xiaowu Wang Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
David B. Stern
David B. Stern Boyce Thompson Institute
Randy C. Shoemaker
Randy C. Shoemaker Agricultural Research Service
James A. Birchler
James A. Birchler University of Missouri
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

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