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17583
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Overview

Youn-Il Park is affiliated with Chungnam National University in South Korea and focuses research primarily in agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The scientist's work spans multiple subfields including plant science, molecular biology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, and oceanography.

The research interests emphasize topics such as photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, algal biology and biofuel production, light effects on plants, biocrusts and microbial ecology, plant molecular biology research, remote sensing in agriculture, and aquatic ecosystems and phytoplankton dynamics.

Recent publications by Youn-Il Park include these notable papers:

  • "The NanDeSyn database for Nannochloropsis systems and synthetic biology", 2020, The Plant Journal
  • "Phytochrome B photobodies are comprised of phytochrome B and its primary and secondary interacting proteins", 2023, Nature Communications
  • "High Ambient Temperature Accelerates Leaf Senescence via PHYTOCHROME-INTERACTING FACTOR 4 and 5 in Arabidopsis.", 2020, PubMed
  • "Genomic Survey of Salt Acclimation-Related Genes in the Halophilic Cyanobacterium Euhalothece sp. Z-M001", 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Genetic Impairment of Cellulose Biosynthesis Increases Cell Wall Fragility and Improves Lipid Extractability from Oleaginous Alga Nannochloropsis salina", 2020, Microorganisms

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as Frontiers in Plant Science, Nature Communications, PubMed, Plant Biotechnology Reports, and The Plant Journal.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated multiple times with Youn-Il Park include:

  • Hee Wook Yang
  • Ji-Young Song
  • Seok Won Jeong
  • Jong-Min Lim
  • Hyo-Jun Lee

Best Publications

  • The Senescence-Induced Staygreen Protein Regulates Chlorophyll Degradation

    So-Yon Park;Jae-Woong Yu;Jong-Sung Park;Jinjie Li

  • The grand design of photosynthesis: Acclimation of the photosynthetic apparatus to environmental cues

    Jan M. Anderson;Wah Soon Chow;Youn-Il Park

  • Photoinactivation and photoprotection of photosystem II in nature

    Jan M. Anderson;Y.-I. Park;W. S. Chow

  • A novel α‐type carbonic anhydrase associated with the thylakoid membrane in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is required for growth at ambient CO2

    Jan Karlsson;Adrian K. Clarke;Zhi‐Yuan Chen;Stephanie Y. Hugghins

  • HY5 regulates anthocyanin biosynthesis by inducing the transcriptional activation of the MYB75/PAP1 transcription factor in Arabidopsis.

    Dong Ho Shin;MyungGoo Choi;Keunhwa Kim;Geul Bang

  • Ethylene Suppression of Sugar-Induced Anthocyanin Pigmentation in Arabidopsis

    Seok Won Jeong;Prasanta Kumar Das;Sae Chae Jeoung;Ji Young Song

  • Impaired Function of the Tonoplast-Localized Sucrose Transporter in Rice, OsSUT2, Limits the Transport of Vacuolar Reserve Sucrose and Affects Plant Growth

    Joon Seob Eom;Jung Il Cho;Anke Reinders;Sang Won Lee

  • Unifying model for the photoinactivation of Photosystem II in vivo under steady-state photosynthesis

    Jan M. Anderson;Jan M. Anderson;Youn-Il Park;Wah Soon Chow

  • Functional Conservation of a Root Hair Cell-Specific cis-Element in Angiosperms with Different Root Hair Distribution Patterns

    Dong Wook Kim;Sang Ho Lee;Sang-Bong Choi;Su-Kyung Won

  • Light inactivation of functional photosystem II in leaves of peas grown in moderate light depends on photon exposure

    Youn-Il Park;Wah Soon Chow;Jan M. Anderson

  • Role of the Rice Hexokinases OsHXK5 and OsHXK6 as Glucose Sensors

    Jung-Il Cho;Nayeon Ryoo;Joon-Seob Eom;Dae-Woo Lee

  • Sugar-Hormone Cross-Talk in Anthocyanin Biosynthesis

    Prasanta Kumar Das;Dong Ho Shin;Sang-Bong Choi;Youn-Il Park

  • Near-UV cyanobacteriochrome signaling system elicits negative phototaxis in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

    Ji-Young Song;Hye Sun Cho;Jung-Il Cho;Jong-Seong Jeon

  • Expression of the isiA gene is essential for the survival of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942 by protecting photosystem II from excess light under iron limitation.

    Youn‐Il Park;Stefan Sandström;Petter Gustafsson;Gunnar Öquist

  • Role of the plastidic glucose translocator in the export of starch degradation products from the chloroplasts in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Man-Ho Cho;Hyemin Lim;Dong Ho Shin;Jong-Seong Jeon

  • Genome and evolution of the shade-requiring medicinal herb Panax ginseng.

    Nam Hoon Kim;Murukarthick Jayakodi;Sang Choon Lee;Beom Soon Choi

  • Chloroplast Movement in the Shade Plant Tradescantia albiflora Helps Protect Photosystem II against Light Stress

    Y.-I. Park;Wah Soon Chow;J. M. Anderson

  • Current status and perspectives of genome editing technology for microalgae.

    Seungjib Jeon;Jong-Min Lim;Hyung-Gwan Lee;Sung-Eun Shin

  • Extended leaf longevity in the ore4-1 mutant of Arabidopsis with a reduced expression of a plastid ribosomal protein gene

    Hye Ryun Woo;Chang-Hyo Goh;Joon-Hyun Park;Bernard Teyssendier de la Serve

  • Formation of superhydrophobic poly(dimethysiloxane) by ultrafast laser-induced surface modification

    Tae Oh Yoon;Hyun Joo Shin;Sae Chae Jeoung;Youn-Il Park

Frequent Co-Authors

Wah Soon Chow
Wah Soon Chow Australian National University
Jan M. Anderson
Jan M. Anderson Australian National University
Gunnar Öquist
Gunnar Öquist Umeå University
Jong-Seong Jeon
Jong-Seong Jeon Kyung Hee University
Hye Sun Cho
Hye Sun Cho Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology
Gynheung An
Gynheung An Kyung Hee University
Giltsu Choi
Giltsu Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Alexander G. Ivanov
Alexander G. Ivanov University of Western Ontario
Tae-Ryong Hahn
Tae-Ryong Hahn Kyung Hee University
Petter Gustafsson
Petter Gustafsson Umeå University

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