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Robert VanBuren

PeerJ Editor & Reviewer

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Assistant professor in the department of Horticulture at Michigan State University. Previously I was an NSF-NPGI postdoctoral associate at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. I completed my PhD at the University of Illinois under Ray Ming. My broad expertise are in the areas of plant genetics, genomics, evolution and molecular biology. I am interested in crop improvement and domestication, the evolution of sex chromosomes, and adaptive traits to arid environments such as the evolution of CAM photosynthesis and desiccation tolerance in resurrection plants.

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Genetics Genomics Plant Science

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PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

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Michigan State University

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Assistant Professor

Michigan State University

Horticulture

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October 13, 2020

An efficient sorghum protoplast assay for transient gene expression and gene editing by CRISPR/Cas9

Ruirui Meng, Chenchen Wang, Lihua Wang, Yanlong Liu, Qiuwen Zhan, Jiacheng Zheng, Jieqin Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10077 PubMed 33083135

June 26, 2020

Highly diverse root endophyte bacterial community is driven by growth substrate and is plant genotype-independent in common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)

Aarón Barraza, Juan Carlos Vizuet-de-Rueda, Raúl Alvarez-Venegas

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9423 PubMed 32617194

June 5, 2020

A de novo assembly of the sweet cherry (Prunus avium cv. Tieton) genome using linked-read sequencing technology

Jiawei Wang, Weizhen Liu, Dongzi Zhu, Xiang Zhou, Po Hong, Hongjun Zhao, Yue Tan, Xin Chen, Xiaojuan Zong, Li Xu, Lisi Zhang, Hairong Wei, Qingzhong Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9114 PubMed 32547856

January 6, 2020

Comparative analysis of primary metabolites and transcriptome changes between ungrafted and pumpkin-grafted watermelon during fruit development

Ali Aslam, Shengjie Zhao, Muhammad Azam, Xuqiang Lu, Nan He, Bingbing Li, Junling Dou, Hongju Zhu, Wenge Liu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8259 PubMed 31934503

November 11, 2019

Vitis flower types: from the wild to crop plants

João L. Coito, Helena G. Silva, Miguel J.N. Ramos, Jorge Cunha, José Eiras-Dias, Sara Amâncio, Maria M.R. Costa, Margarida Rocheta

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7879 PubMed 31737441

September 20, 2019

A draft genome and transcriptome of common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) as resources for evolutionary, ecological, and molecular studies in milkweeds and Apocynaceae

Kevin Weitemier, Shannon C.K. Straub, Mark Fishbein, C. Donovan Bailey, Richard C. Cronn, Aaron Liston

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7649 PubMed 31579586

June 21, 2019

SMRT sequencing analysis reveals the full-length transcripts and alternative splicing patterns in Ananas comosus var. bracteatus

Jun Ma, Yixuan Xiang, Yingyuan Xiong, Zhen Lin, Yanbin Xue, Meiqin Mao, Lingxia Sun, Yujue Zhou, Xi Li, Zhuo Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7062 PubMed 31275743

April 17, 2019

Comparisons of WUE in twelve genotypes of winter wheat and the relationship between δ¹³C and WUE

Guirong Huang, Xinying Zhang, Yajing Wang, Fu Feng, Xurong Mei, Xiuli Zhong

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6767 PubMed 31024770

December 4, 2018

Complete chloroplast genome sequences of Dioscorea: Characterization, genomic resources, and phylogenetic analyses

Zhenyu Zhao, Xin Wang, Yi Yu, Subo Yuan, Dan Jiang, Yujun Zhang, Teng Zhang, Wenhao Zhong, Qingjun Yuan, Luqi Huang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6032 PubMed 30533315

December 4, 2018

Comprehensive tissue-specific transcriptome profiling of pineapple (Ananas comosus) and building an eFP-browser for further study

Qi Mao, Chengjie Chen, Tao Xie, Aiping Luan, Chaoyang Liu, Yehua He

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6028 PubMed 30564517

September 11, 2018

Growth under cold conditions in a wide perennial ryegrass panel is under tight physiological control

Lena Förster, Jim Grant, Thibauld Michel, Carl Ng, Susanne Barth

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5520 PubMed 30221088

July 17, 2018

Whole-genome amplification in double-digest RADseq results in adequate libraries but fewer sequenced loci

Bruno A. S. de Medeiros, Brian D. Farrell

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5089 PubMed 30038852

February 21, 2018

Diversity in root growth responses to moisture deficit in young faba bean (Vicia faba L.) plants

Kiflemariam Yehuala Belachew, Kerstin A. Nagel, Fabio Fiorani, Frederick L. Stoddard

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4401 PubMed 29492343

December 7, 2017

Population structure and phenotypic variation of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum from dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) in the United States

Zhian N. Kamvar, B. Sajeewa Amaradasa, Rachana Jhala, Serena McCoy, James R. Steadman, Sydney E. Everhart

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4152 PubMed 29230376

October 31, 2017

Genome size and identification of abundant repetitive sequences in Vallisneria spinulosa

RuiJuan Feng, Xin Wang, Min Tao, Guanchao Du, Qishuo Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3982 PubMed 29104828

September 7, 2017

Particle bombardment and subcellular protein localization analysis in the aquatic plant Egeria densa

Yasuhide Osaki, Yutaka Kodama

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3779 PubMed 28894649

August 23, 2017

Allele specific expression analysis identifies regulatory variation associated with stress-related genes in the Mexican highland maize landrace Palomero Toluqueño

M. Rocío Aguilar-Rangel, Ricardo A. Chávez Montes, Eric González-Segovia, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, June K. Simpson, Ruairidh J.H. Sawers

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3737 PubMed 28852597

July 20, 2017

Herbicide injury induces DNA methylome alterations in Arabidopsis

Gunjune Kim, Christopher R. Clarke, Hailey Larose, Hong T. Tran, David C. Haak, Liqing Zhang, Shawn Askew, Jacob Barney, James H. Westwood

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3560 PubMed 28740750

September 29, 2016

The complete chloroplast genome sequence of Gentiana lawrencei var. farreri (Gentianaceae) and comparative analysis with its congeneric species

Peng-Cheng Fu, Yan-Zhao Zhang, Hui-Min Geng, Shi-Long Chen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2540 PubMed 27703869

May 10, 2016

Heat shock factors in tomatoes: genome-wide identification, phylogenetic analysis and expression profiling under development and heat stress

Xuedong Yang, Weimin Zhu, Hui Zhang, Na Liu, Shoubo Tian

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1961 PubMed 27190703

November 26, 2015

Reference genes selection for transcript normalization in kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) under salinity and drought stress

Xiaoping Niu, Jianmin Qi, Meixia Chen, Gaoyang Zhang, Aifen Tao, Pingping Fang, Jiantang Xu, Sandra A. Onyedinma, Jianguang Su

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1347 PubMed 26644967

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August 24, 2018

Comparative analysis of whole flower transcriptomes in the Zingiberales

Ana Maria R. Almeida, Alma Piñeyro-Nelson, Roxana B. Yockteng, Chelsea D. Specht

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5490 PubMed 30155368