John C. Cushman

University of Nevada, Reno — United States

Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Life Sciences

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Research Topics

Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms(85), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance(80), Algal biology and biofuel production(24), Botanical Research and Applications(23), Plant Molecular Biology Research(21)

Publications229 total

Synthetic crassulacean acid metabolism (SynCAM) for improving water-use efficiency in plants
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences·2025· 2 cited
Exploring the phenotypic diversity of Eragrostis tef for biomass and grain production under optimum growth conditions
Frontiers in Plant Science·2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Water use efficiency of teff (Eragrostis tef (ZUCC.) TROTTER) breeding lines under different irrigation treatments
2025
The Nitrogen Preference of Cactus Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica): A Sand Culture Snapshot
Plants·2024Open Access
Biomass production of 14 accessions of cactus pear (<i>Opuntia</i> spp.) under semi‐arid land conditions
Journal of Agronomy and Crop Science·2024· 3 cited
Comprehensive expression profiling analysis to investigate salt and drought responding genes in wild barley (Hordeum spontaneum L.)
Plant Stress·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
The role of drought-induced proteins in regulating drought tolerance in cereals
Burleigh Dodds series in agricultural science·2023
Multiple mechanisms explain loss of anthocyanins from betalain‐pigmented Caryophyllales, including repeated wholesale loss of a key anthocyanidin synthesis enzyme
New Phytologist·2023· 45 citedOpen Access
Epidermal bladder cells as a herbivore defense mechanism
Current Biology·2023· 24 citedOpen Access
Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) at the crossroads: a special issue to honour 50 years of CAM research by Klaus Winter
Annals of Botany·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Humboldt Review: Tissue succulence in plants: Carrying water for climate change
Journal of Plant Physiology·2023· 23 citedOpen Access
Expression Profiling of Salt- And Drought-Stress Responsive Genes in Wild Barley (Hordeum spontaneum L.)
Preprints.org·2023· 3 citedOpen Access
Developmental dynamics of crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) in <i>Opuntia ficus-indica</i>
Annals of Botany·2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Engineering crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) pathways in plants
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)·2023Open Access
Methods of engineered tissue succulence in plants
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)·2023Open Access
The starch-deficient plastidic <i>PHOSPHOGLUCOMUTASE</i> mutant of the constitutive crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) species <i>Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi</i> impacts diel regulation and timing of stomatal CO2 responsiveness
Annals of Botany·2023· 7 citedOpen Access
Epidermal Bladder Cells as a Herbivore Defence Mechanism
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access
Evolutionary blocks to anthocyanin accumulation and the loss of an anthocyanin carrier protein in betalain-pigmented Caryophyllales
2022Open Access
The final piece of the Triangle of U: Evolution of the tetraploid <i>Brassica carinata</i> genome
The Plant Cell·2022· 55 citedOpen Access
Realizing the Potential of Camelina sativa as a Bioenergy Crop for a Changing Global Climate
Plants·2022· 68 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Karen Schlauch(10), Hans J. Bohnert(9), Grant R. Cramer(9), Matthew D. Wheatley(7), Jérôme Grimplet(6), Richard Tillett(6), Anne M. Borland(6), Gerald A. Tuskan(5), Xiaohan Yang(5), Elizabeth A. R. Tattersall(5), David R. Quilici(5), Laurent Deluc(5), Mary Ann Cushman(5), Won Cheol Yim(4), Ali Ergül(4), Craig Osborne(4), Ron Mittler(4), James Hartwell(4), Klaus Winter(4), Ray Ming(3)