Plant Biology Faculty Among the Most Highly Cited

 

The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) tracks the frequency with which papers that appear in the scientific literature are cited in subsequent publications. High frequency of citation is widely recognized as a measure of the impact that a scientist's work has had on a field and on the work of peers. Four faculty members in the Department of Plant Biology, Carol Augspurger, Hans Bohnert, Steven Huber and Stephen Long, are among the select group of ISI's Highly Cited scientists. Representative recent publications that have contributed to our colleagues' Highly Cited status are listed below.

Carol Augspurger is widely recognized for her seminal work on seed dispersal and its role in forest biology in the New World tropics. Also highly regarded as an inspired teacher, Carol's Introductory Ecology course is perennially rated excellent by students, as is Carol's teaching in it.

Hans Bohnert, shown here during a recent visit to China, has been at the forefront in applying state of the art molecular and biochemical tools to understanding the physiological and genetic basis of salt and drought stress and tolerance in plants.

 

Lin YC, Augspurger CK (2006) Long-term study of neighbour-regulated demography during a decline in forest species diversity. Journal of Vegetation Science 17: 93-102.

 

Russo SE, Portnoy S and Augspurger CK (2006) Incorporating animal behavior into seed dispersal models: Implications for seed shadows. Ecology 87(12): 3160-3174.

 

Zahawi RA and Augspurger CK (2006) Tropical forest restoration: tree islands as recruitment foci in degraded lands of Honduras. Ecological Applications 16: 464-478.

 

 

Talame V., Ozturk ZN, Bohnert HJ, Tuberosa R (2007) Dynamics of water loss affects the differential expression of drought-related genes in barley. Journal of Experimental Botany 58: 229-240.

 

Sato K, Ohsato H, Izumi S, Miyazaki S, Bohnert HJ, Moriyama H, Fukuhara T (2007) Diurnal expressions of five protein phosphatase type 2C genes in the common ice plant, Mesembryanthemum crystallinum. Functional Plant Biology 34: 581-588.

 

Ma S, Bohnert HJ (2007) Integration of Arabidopsis thaliana stress-related transcript profiles, promoter structures, and cell-specific expression. Genome Biology 8: R49

 

Stephen Long has pioneered the development of the grass Miscanthus (shown behind him here) as a bioenergy crop. Stephen founded the Energy Biosciences Institute, where the culture and postharvest processing of energy crops such as Miscanthus will be explored.

Steven Huber has made numerous contributions to our understanding of how plant cells use protein stability and phosphorylation to regulate the activities of key enzymes in the assimilation of nitrogen and carbon into the pathways of metabolism.

 

Wittig, V.E., Ainsworth, E.A., Long, S.P. (2007) To what extent do current and projected increases in surface ozone affect photosynthesis and stomatal conductance of trees? A meta-analytic review of the last three decades of experiments. Plant, Cell & Environment 30:1150-1162.

 

Bernacchi, CJ; Kimball, BA; Quarles, DR; Long, SP; Ort, DR (2007) Decreases in stomatal conductance of soybean under open-air elevation of [CO2] are closely coupled with decreases in ecosystem evapotranspiration. Plant Physiology 143: 134-144.

 

Bernacchi, CJ; Leakey, ADB; Heady, LE; Morgan, PB; Dohleman, FG; McGrath, JM; Gillespie, KM; Wittig, VE; Rogers, A; Long, SP; Ort, DR (2006) Hourly and seasonal variation in photosynthesis and stomatal conductance of soybean grown at future CO2 and ozone concentrations for 3 years under fully open-air field conditions, Plant Cell and Environment 29: 2077-2090.

 

 

Qiu, QS, Hardin, SC, Mace, J, Brutnell, TP, Huber, SC (2007) Light and metabolic signals control the selective degradation of sucrose synthase in maize leaves during deetiolation. Plant Physiology 144: 468-478.

 

Huber, SC (2007) Exploring the role of protein phosphorylation in plants: from signalling to metabolism. Biochemical Society Transactions 35: 28-32.

 

Hardin SC, Duncan KA, Huber SC (2006) Determination of structural requirements and probable regulatory effectors for membrane association of maize sucrose synthase. Plant Physiology 141:1106-1119.