William Erskine

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

• Agriculture
• Botany
• Gene

His primary scientific interests are in Agronomy, Germplasm, Botany, Crop and Genetics. In his work, Breeding program is strongly intertwined with Ecology, which is a subfield of Agronomy. His research integrates issues of Genetic variability, Genetic variation, Blight and Locus in his study of Germplasm.

His Botany research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Coat, Horticulture and Gene–environment interaction. His research in Crop intersects with topics in Productivity, Domestication and Agriculture. His Plant breeding research includes elements of photoperiodism, Water-use efficiency and Sowing.

His most cited work include:

• Screening techniques and sources of resistance to abiotic stresses in cool-season food legumes (126 citations)
• A genetic linkage map of lentil (Lens sp.) based on RAPD and AFLP markers using recombinant inbred lines (94 citations)
• Current and future strategies in breeding lentil for resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses (87 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

William Erskine spends much of his time researching Agronomy, Botany, Germplasm, Cultivar and Crop. His research on Agronomy frequently connects to adjacent areas such as Mediterranean climate. As a part of the same scientific family, William Erskine mostly works in the field of Botany, focusing on Horticulture and, on occasion, Genotype.

His studies in Germplasm integrate themes in fields like Plant disease resistance, Agriculture, Resistance and Genetic diversity. He has included themes like Agroforestry and Agricultural economics in his Agriculture study. William Erskine combines subjects such as Legume and Crop yield with his study of Cultivar.

He most often published in these fields:

• Agronomy (46.76%)
• Botany (21.30%)
• Germplasm (20.37%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

• Agronomy (46.76%)
• Trifolium subterraneum (4.17%)
• Crop (14.81%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

His main research concerns Agronomy, Trifolium subterraneum, Crop, Genome and Heritability. His Gene pool research extends to Agronomy, which is thematically connected. William Erskine interconnects Legume, Leaf size, Botany and Agrobacterium tumefaciens in the investigation of issues within Trifolium subterraneum.

His work in the fields of Seed dormancy overlaps with other areas such as Medicago truncatula. His Crop study which covers Domestication that intersects with Zoology, Genotype, Adaptation, Mediterranean climate and Plant biochemistry. His work carried out in the field of Germination brings together such families of science as Pisum, Germplasm, Sowing, Plant physiology and Seedling.

Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:

• The loss of vernalization requirement in narrow-leafed lupin is associated with a deletion in the promoter and de-repressed expression of a Flowering Locus T (FT) homologue. (42 citations)
• Adapting legume crops to climate change using genomic approaches (28 citations)
• Exploring the genetic and adaptive diversity of a pan-Mediterranean crop wild relative: narrow-leafed lupin. (25 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

• Agriculture
• Botany
• Gene

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Genetics, Genetic diversity, Gene, Genetic variation and Domestication. In the subject of general Genetics, his work in Locus, Promoter and Vernalization is often linked to Florigen and Vernalization response, thereby combining diverse domains of study. His Genetic diversity study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Agriculture, Ecology and Mediterranean Basin.

Genomics is closely connected to Food security in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Genetic variation. His Domestication study combines topics in areas such as Crop, Genetic linkage, Single-nucleotide polymorphism, Genotype and Adaptation. His study with Trifolium subterraneum involves better knowledge in Agronomy.