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Gerard R. Lazo

ORCID: 0000-0002-9160-2052

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Geneticist with the Crop Improvement and Genetics Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, Western Regional Research Center, Albany, CA, USA.

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Genetics Genomics Plant Science

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Geneticist

United States Department of Agriculture

Crop Improvement and Genetics

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Edited 31

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May 14, 2019

PEST sequences from a cactus dehydrin regulate its proteolytic degradation

101 downloads

324 views

Adriana L. Salazar-Retana, Israel Maruri-López, Itzell E. Hernández-Sánchez, Alicia Becerra-Flora, María de la Luz Guerrero-González, Juan Francisco Jiménez-Bremont

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6810 PubMed 31143531

April 11, 2019

Genome-wide analysis of maize OSCA family members and their involvement in drought stress

160 downloads

500 views

Shuangcheng Ding, Xin Feng, Hewei Du, Hongwei Wang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6765 PubMed 30997296

April 10, 2019

virMine: automated detection of viral sequences from complex metagenomic samples

425 downloads

1,911 views

Andrea Garretto, Thomas Hatzopoulos, Catherine Putonti

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6695 PubMed 30993039

April 10, 2019

MetaMSD: meta analysis for mass spectrometry data

272 downloads

546 views

So Young Ryu, George A. Wendt

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6699 PubMed 30993040

April 1, 2019

Identification of the GRAS gene family in the Brassica juncea genome provides insight into its role in stem swelling in stem mustard

190 downloads

431 views

Mengyao Li, Bo Sun, Fangjie Xie, Ronggao Gong, Ya Luo, Fen Zhang, Zesheng Yan, Haoru Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6682 PubMed 30972257

March 27, 2019

Pixel: a content management platform for quantitative omics data

232 downloads

752 views

Thomas Denecker, William Durand, Julien Maupetit, Charles Hébert, Jean-Michel Camadro, Pierre Poulain, Gaëlle Lelandais

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6623 PubMed 30944779

October 17, 2018

Genome-wide identification and analysis of the CNGC gene family in maize

220 downloads

803 views

Lidong Hao, Xiuli Qiao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5816 PubMed 30356996

September 28, 2018

Leaf photosynthetic function duration during yield formation of large-spike wheat in rainfed cropping systems

120 downloads

446 views

Lifang Wang, Jutao Sun, Chenyang Wang, Zhouping Shangguan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5532 PubMed 30280014

September 19, 2018

Identification of MOS9 as an interaction partner for chalcone synthase in the nucleus

1 citation

126 downloads

754 views

Jonathan I. Watkinson, Peter A. Bowerman, Kevin C. Crosby, Sherry B. Hildreth, Richard F. Helm, Brenda S.J. Winkel

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5598 PubMed 30258711

July 3, 2018

Recombination between T-DNA insertions to cause chromosomal deletions in Arabidopsis is a rare phenomenon

125 downloads

694 views

John F. Seagrist, Shih-Heng Su, Patrick J. Krysan

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5076 PubMed 30002957

June 20, 2018

GEsture: an online hand-drawing tool for gene expression pattern search

246 downloads

1,724 views

Chunyan Wang, Yiqing Xu, Xuelin Wang, Li Zhang, Suyun Wei, Qiaolin Ye, Youxiang Zhu, Hengfu Yin, Manoj Nainwal, Luis Tanon-Reyes, Feng Cheng, Tongming Yin, Ning Ye

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4927 PubMed 29942676

May 24, 2018

Identification of stem rust resistance genes in wheat cultivars in China using molecular markers

1 citation

447 downloads

1,013 views

Xiaofeng Xu, Depeng Yuan, Dandan Li, Yue Gao, Ziyuan Wang, Yang Liu, Siting Wang, Yuanhu Xuan, Hui Zhao, Tianya Li, Yuanhua Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4882 PubMed 29844997

March 6, 2018

Genome-wide identification and characterization of Dof transcription factors in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)

1 citation

423 downloads

1,880 views

Qingzhen Wei, Wuhong Wang, Tianhua Hu, Haijiao Hu, Weihai Mao, Qinmei Zhu, Chonglai Bao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4481 PubMed 29527420

July 27, 2017

Identification of ecogeographical gaps in the Spanish Aegilops collections with potential tolerance to drought and salinity

3 citations

399 downloads

1,813 views

Rosa María Garcia, Mauricio Parra-Quijano, Jose María Iriondo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3494 PubMed 28761779

July 3, 2017

Quantitative proteome-level analysis of paulownia witches’ broom disease with methyl methane sulfonate assistance reveals diverse metabolic changes during the infection and recovery processes

7 citations

325 downloads

1,682 views

Zhe Wang, Wenshan Liu, Guoqiang Fan, Xiaoqiao Zhai, Zhenli Zhao, Yanpeng Dong, Minjie Deng, Yabing Cao

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3495 PubMed 28690927

May 18, 2017

StrainSeeker: fast identification of bacterial strains from raw sequencing reads using user-provided guide trees

8 citations

747 downloads

2,659 views

Märt Roosaare, Mihkel Vaher, Lauris Kaplinski, Märt Möls, Reidar Andreson, Maarja Lepamets, Triinu Kõressaar, Paul Naaber, Siiri Kõljalg, Maido Remm

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3353 PubMed 28533988

February 15, 2017

ToxGen: an improved reference database for the identification of type B-trichothecene genotypes in Fusarium

6 citations

329 downloads

1,662 views

Tomasz Kulik, Kessy Abarenkov, Maciej Buśko, Katarzyna Bilska, Anne D. van Diepeningen, Anna Ostrowska-Kołodziejczak, Katarzyna Krawczyk, Balázs Brankovics, Sebastian Stenglein, Jakub Sawicki, Juliusz Perkowski

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2992 PubMed 28229023

January 24, 2017

The DNA methylation level against the background of the genome size and t-heterochromatin content in some species of the genus Secale L

3 citations

361 downloads

1,811 views

Anna Kalinka, Magdalena Achrem, Paulina Poter

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2889 PubMed 28149679

November 8, 2016

RGFA: powerful and convenient handling of assembly graphs

1 citation

274 downloads

2,140 views

Giorgio Gonnella, Stefan Kurtz

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2681 PubMed 27843717

October 25, 2016

Proliferation of group II introns in the chloroplast genome of the green alga Oedocladium carolinianum (Chlorophyceae)

6 citations

361 downloads

1,529 views

Jean-Simon Brouard, Monique Turmel, Christian Otis, Claude Lemieux

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2627 PubMed 27812423

August 31, 2016

Genome-wide identification and characterization of GRAS transcription factors in sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera)

9 citations

447 downloads

2,220 views

Yu Wang, Shenglu Shi, Ying Zhou, Yu Zhou, Jie Yang, Xiaoqing Tang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2388 PubMed 27635351

February 23, 2016

Unravelling potential virulence factor candidates in Xanthomonas citri. subsp. citri by secretome analysis

8 citations

617 downloads

2,799 views

Rafael M. Ferreira, Leandro M. Moreira, Jesus A. Ferro, Marcia R.R. Soares, Marcelo L. Laia, Alessandro M. Varani, Julio C.F. de Oliveira, Maria Ines T. Ferro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1734 PubMed 26925342

August 25, 2015

Composition, taxonomy and functional diversity of the oropharynx microbiome in individuals with schizophrenia and controls

56 citations

2,673 downloads

17,171 views

Eduardo Castro-Nallar, Matthew L. Bendall, Marcos Pérez-Losada, Sarven Sabuncyan, Emily G. Severance, Faith B. Dickerson, Jennifer R. Schroeder, Robert H. Yolken, Keith A. Crandall

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1140 PubMed 26336637

March 17, 2015

GROM-RD: resolving genomic biases to improve read depth detection of copy number variants

8 citations

586 downloads

2,236 views

Sean D. Smith, Joseph K. Kawash, Andrey Grigoriev

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.836 PubMed 25802807

March 3, 2015

VaRank: a simple and powerful tool for ranking genetic variants

37 citations

961 downloads