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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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May 24, 2018

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

13 downloads

93 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

March 6, 2018

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

1 citation

120 downloads

716 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

1 citation

181 downloads

1,064 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

4 citations

178 downloads

974 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

4 citations

543 downloads

1,699 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

3 citations

219 downloads

1,006 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

221 downloads

874 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

201 downloads

1,511 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)

5 citations

253 downloads

1,022 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)

7 citations

334 downloads

1,337 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

3 citations

474 downloads

2,271 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

34 citations

2,266 downloads

14,250 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

4 citations

438 downloads

1,738 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

31 citations

799 downloads