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Chris Somerville
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 284
Citations - 48146
Chris Somerville is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mutant & Arabidopsis. The author has an hindex of 122, co-authored 284 publications receiving 45742 citations. Previous affiliations of Chris Somerville include Washington State University & Michigan State University.
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Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma
David Tilman,Robert H. Socolow,Jonathan A. Foley,Jason Hill,Eric D. Larson,Lee R. Lynd,Stephen W. Pacala,John M. Reilly,Tim Searchinger,Chris Somerville,Robert H. Williams +10 more
TL;DR: Exploiting multiple feedstocks, under new policies and accounting rules, to balance biofuel production, food security, and greenhouse-gas reduction and to accept the undesirable impacts of biofuels done wrong.
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Visualization of Cellulose Synthase Demonstrates Functional Association with Microtubules
Alexander R. Paredez,Alexander R. Paredez,Chris Somerville,Chris Somerville,David W. Ehrhardt +4 more
TL;DR: Inhibition of microtubule polymerization changed the fine-scale distribution and pattern of moving CESA complexes in the membrane, indicating a relatively direct mechanism for guidance of cellulose deposition by the cytoskeleton.
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Toward a Systems Approach to Understanding Plant Cell Walls
Chris Somerville,Chris Somerville,Stefan Bauer,Ginger Brininstool,Michelle R Facette,Michelle R Facette,Thorsten Hamann,J. Milne,Erin Osborne,Alexander R. Paredez,Alexander R. Paredez,Staffan Persson,Theodore K. Raab,Sonja Vorwerk,Heather Youngs,Heather Youngs +15 more
TL;DR: Progress in integrating biophysical, developmental, and genetic information into a useful model will require a system-based approach.
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Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic Biofuels
TL;DR: In 2008, the world produced approximately 87 gigaliters of liquid biofuels, which is roughly equal to the volume of liquid fuel consumed by Germany that year; however, all of this biofuel was produced from crops developed for food production, raising concerns about the net energy and greenhouse gas effects.
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Insensitivity to Ethylene Conferred by a Dominant Mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana
TL;DR: Results of ethylene binding experiments in vivo indicate that this receptor may be affected by the etr mutation, and this receptor appears to share some common element in their transduction pathways—for example, a single receptor for ethylene.