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Overview

Seung Y. Rhee is affiliated with the Carnegie Institution for Science in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on fields within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. These main disciplines encompass significant investigation into molecular mechanisms and biological systems related to plants and other organisms.

The subfields of study associated with their work include:

  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Aging
  • Ecology
  • Global and Planetary Change

Rhee's research topics cover various aspects of plant molecular biology and physiology, often exploring plant nutrient uptake, metabolism, and stress responses. Major areas of investigation include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

The scientist has published extensively in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) with 23 publications, Plant Direct with 5, Trends in Plant Science and Nature Communications with 4 each, and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY with 3. This distribution indicates an active engagement with both preprint archives and peer-reviewed journals specializing in plant and molecular biology.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Rhee include:

  • Kangmei Zhao (11 joint publications)
  • Daniel Ginzburg (10 joint publications)
  • Bo Xue (10 joint publications)
  • Yanniv Dorone (10 joint publications)
  • Charles Hawkins (9 joint publications)

Selected recent publications demonstrate their focus on plant sciences and molecular biology:

  • Nanotechnology to advance CRISPR-Cas genetic engineering of plants, 2021, Nature Nanotechnology
  • Plant Metabolic Network 15: A resource of genome-wide metabolism databases for 126 plants and algae, 2021, Journal of Integrative Plant Biology
  • A prion-like protein regulator of seed germination undergoes hydration-dependent phase separation, 2021, Cell
  • Mineral nutrient signaling controls photosynthesis: focus on iron deficiency-induced chlorosis, 2021, Trends in Plant Science
  • Genome-enabled discovery of anthraquinone biosynthesis in Senna tora, 2020, Nature Communications

Best Publications

  • The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource.

    Harris Ma;Clark J;Ireland A;Lomax J

  • MAPMAN: a user-driven tool to display genomics data sets onto diagrams of metabolic pathways and other biological processes

    Oliver Thimm;Oliver Bläsing;Yves Gibon;Axel Nagel

  • The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR): a model organism database providing a centralized, curated gateway to Arabidopsis biology, research materials and community

    Seung Yon Rhee;William D. Beavis;Tanya Z. Berardini;Guanghong Chen

  • Integration of Brassinosteroid Signal Transduction with the Transcription Network for Plant Growth Regulation in Arabidopsis

    Yu Sun;Xi Ying Fan;Xi Ying Fan;Dong Mei Cao;Wenqiang Tang

  • iTAK: A Program for Genome-wide Prediction and Classification of Plant Transcription Factors, Transcriptional Regulators, and Protein Kinases.

    Yi Zheng;Chen Jiao;Honghe Sun;Hernan G. Rosli

  • Big data: The future of biocuration.

    Doug Howe;Maria Costanzo;Petra Fey;Takashi Gojobori

  • The Gene Ontology project in 2008

    Midori A Harris;Jennifer I. Deegan;Amelia Ireland;Jane Lomax

  • Use and misuse of the gene ontology annotations.

    Seung Yon Rhee;Valerie Wood;Kara Dolinski;Sorin Draghici

  • The Arabidopsis Information Resource (TAIR): a comprehensive database and web-based information retrieval, analysis, and visualization system for a model plant

    Eva Huala;Allan W. Dickerman;Margarita Garcia-Hernandez;Danforth Weems

  • MetaCyc: a multiorganism database of metabolic pathways and enzymes

    Ron Caspi;Hartmut Foerster;Carol A. Fulcher;Rebecca Hopkinson

  • Freezing-sensitive tomato has a functional CBF cold response pathway, but a CBF regulon that differs from that of freezing-tolerant Arabidopsis.

    Xin Zhang;Sarah G. Fowler;Hongmei Cheng;Yigong Lou

  • Functional Annotation of the Arabidopsis Genome Using Controlled Vocabularies

    Tanya Z. Berardini;Suparna Mundodi;Leonore Reiser;Eva Huala

  • An ontology for cell types

    Jonathan Bard;Seung Y Rhee;Michael Ashburner;Michael Ashburner

  • AraCyc: a biochemical pathway database for Arabidopsis.

    Lukas A. Mueller;Peifen Zhang;Seung Y. Rhee

  • Ontologies in biology: design, applications and future challenges.

    Jonathan B. L. Bard;Seung Y. Rhee

  • Gene Ontology Consortium. The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource

    Harris Ma;J. Clark;A. Ireland;J. Lomax

  • Tetrad Analysis Possible in Arabidopsis with Mutation of the QUARTET (QRT) Genes

    Daphne Preuss;Seung Y. Rhee;Ronald W. Davis

  • Rational association of genes with traits using a genome-scale gene network for Arabidopsis thaliana

    Insuk Lee;Bindu Ambaru;Pranjali Thakkar;Edward M Marcotte

  • Genome-Wide Prediction of Metabolic Enzymes, Pathways, and Gene Clusters in Plants

    Pascal Schläpfer;Peifen Zhang;Chuan Wang;Taehyong Kim

  • Genomic Signatures of Specialized Metabolism in Plants

    Lee Chae;Taehyong Kim;Ricardo Nilo-Poyanco;Seung Y. Rhee

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter F. Stevens
Peter F. Stevens Missouri Botanical Garden
Pankaj Jaiswal
Pankaj Jaiswal Oregon State University
Doreen Ware
Doreen Ware Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Lukas A. Mueller
Lukas A. Mueller Boyce Thompson Institute
Elizabeth A. Kellogg
Elizabeth A. Kellogg Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner University of Cambridge
David W. Ehrhardt
David W. Ehrhardt Carnegie Institution for Science
Kara Dolinski
Kara Dolinski Princeton University
Susan R. McCouch
Susan R. McCouch Cornell University
Lincoln Stein
Lincoln Stein Ontario Institute for Cancer Research

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