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Trevor C. Charles

Trevor C. Charles

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
47
Citations
9812
World Ranking
18635
National Ranking
650

Overview

Trevor C. Charles is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research spans key areas within Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Medicine. A significant portion of their work focuses on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, and Biomedical Engineering as primary subfields.

Their research covers a range of topics including SARS-CoV-2 detection and testing, gut microbiota and health, biosensors and analytical detection, probiotics and fermented foods, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, microbial community ecology and physiology, and biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties.

Trevor C. Charles has contributed to multiple publications across various frequent venues. These include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Scientific Reports, Frontiers in Microbiology, Microbiome, and Trends in Microbiology.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Trevor C. Charles include:

  • Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges (2020), Microbiome
  • Microbiome Interconnectedness throughout Environments with Major Consequences for Healthy People and a Healthy Planet (2023), Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
  • Fungal and Bacterial Microbiome Associated with the Rhizosphere of Native Plants from the Atacama Desert (2020), Microorganisms
  • Development of Microbiome Biobanks - Challenges and Opportunities (2020), Trends in Microbiology
  • Correction to: Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges (2020), Microbiome

Frequent co-authors that Trevor has collaborated with include:

  • Delaney Nash
  • Alyssa K. Overton
  • Jennifer J. Knapp
  • Jozef I. Nissimov
  • Gabriele Berg

Best Publications

  • Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges

    Gabriele Berg;Daria Rybakova;Doreen Fischer;Tomislav Cernava

  • Amelioration of high salinity stress damage by plant growth-promoting bacterial endophytes that contain ACC deaminase.

    Shimaila Ali;Trevor C. Charles;Bernard R. Glick

  • Isolation and characterization of new plant growth-promoting bacterial endophytes

    Shimaila Rashid;Trevor C. Charles;Bernard R. Glick

  • An ACC deaminase minus mutant of Enterobacter cloacae UW4 no longer promotes root elongation.

    Jiping Li;Daniel H. Ovakim;Trevor C. Charles;Bernard R. Glick

  • A chromosomally encoded two-component sensory transduction system is required for virulence of Agrobacterium tumefaciens.

    T C Charles;E W Nester

  • 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate (ACC) Deaminase Genes in Rhizobia from Southern Saskatchewan

    Jin Duan;Kirsten M. Müller;Trevor C. Charles;Susanne Vesely

  • Polyphasic microbial community analysis of petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated soils from two northern Canadian communities.

    D. Juck;T. Charles;T. Charles;L.G. Whyte;C.W. Greer

  • Expression of an exogenous 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase gene in Sinorhizobium meliloti increases its ability to nodulate alfalfa.

    Wenbo Ma;Trevor C. Charles;Bernard R. Glick

  • The role of PHB metabolism in the symbiosis of rhizobia with legumes

    Maria A. Trainer;Trevor C. Charles

  • Analysis of C4-dicarboxylate transport genes in Rhizobium meliloti

    O. K. Yarosh;T. C. Charles;T. M. Finan

  • Current and future resources for functional metagenomics.

    Kathy N. Lam;Jiujun Cheng;Katja Engel;Josh D. Neufeld

  • Analysis of a 1600-kilobase Rhizobium meliloti megaplasmid using defined deletions generated in vivo.

    Trevor C. Charles;Turlough M. Finan

  • Delay of flower senescence by bacterial endophytes expressing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase

    S. Ali;T.C. Charles;B.R. Glick

  • A bioinformatics approach to the determination of genes involved in endophytic behavior in Burkholderia spp.

    Shimaila Ali;Jin Duan;Trevor C. Charles;Bernard R. Glick

  • A global pH sensor: Agrobacterium sensor protein ChvG regulates acid-inducible genes on its two chromosomes and Ti plasmid.

    Luoping Li;Yonghui Jia;Qingming Hou;Trevor C. Charles

  • A novel bacteriocin, thuricin 17, produced by plant growth promoting rhizobacteria strain Bacillus thuringiensis NEB17: isolation and classification

    E.J. Gray;K.D. Lee;A.M. Souleimanov;M.R. Di Falco

  • Preformed dimeric state of the sensor protein VirA is involved in plant--Agrobacterium signal transduction.

    Shen Q. Pan;Trevor Charles;Shouguang Jin;Zhi-Liang Wu

  • Multisubstrate Isotope Labeling and Metagenomic Analysis of Active Soil Bacterial Communities

    Y. Verastegui;J. Cheng;K. Engel;D. Kolczynski

  • Co-inoculation dose and root zone temperature for plant growth promoting rhizobacteria on soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr] grown in soil-less media ☆

    Yuming Bai;Bo Pan;Trevor C. Charles;Donald L. Smith

  • The class IId bacteriocin thuricin-17 increases plant growth.

    Kyung Dong Lee;Elizabeth J. Gray;Fazli Mabood;Woo-Jin Jung

Frequent Co-Authors

Josh D. Neufeld
Josh D. Neufeld University of Waterloo
Eugene W. Nester
Eugene W. Nester University of Washington
Bernard R. Glick
Bernard R. Glick University of Waterloo
Donald L. Smith
Donald L. Smith McGill University
Turlough M. Finan
Turlough M. Finan McMaster University
David R. Rose
David R. Rose University of Waterloo
Balakrishnan Prithiviraj
Balakrishnan Prithiviraj Dalhousie University
Angela Sessitsch
Angela Sessitsch Austrian Institute of Technology
Bruno W. S. Sobral
Bruno W. S. Sobral Virginia Tech
Wolfgang R. Streit
Wolfgang R. Streit Universität Hamburg

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