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Christopher D. Rock
Researcher at Texas Tech University
Publications - 50
Citations - 5082
Christopher D. Rock is an academic researcher from Texas Tech University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Abscisic acid & Arabidopsis. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 48 publications receiving 4734 citations. Previous affiliations of Christopher D. Rock include University of California, Berkeley & Michigan State University.
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Abscisic Acid Signaling in Seeds and Seedlings
TL;DR: Abscisic acid regulates many agronomically important aspects of plant development, including the synthesis of seed storage proteins and lipids, the promotion of seed desiccation tolerance and dormancy, and the inhibition of the phase transitions from embryonic to germinative growth and from.
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The aba mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana is impaired in epoxy-carotenoid biosynthesis
TL;DR: Evidence is provided that ABA is synthesized by oxidative cleavage of epoxy-carotenoids (the "indirect pathway") and the carotenoid mutant the authors describe undergoes normal greening.
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Modulation of Abscisic Acid Signal Transduction and Biosynthesis by an Sm-like Protein in Arabidopsis
Liming Xiong,Zhizhong Gong,Christopher D. Rock,Senthil Subramanian,Yan Guo,Wenying Xu,David W. Galbraith,Jian-Kang Zhu +7 more
TL;DR: A critical role for mRNA metabolism in the control of ABA signaling as well as in the regulation of A BA homeostasis is suggested.
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The Role of Hormones During Seed Development
TL;DR: The formation of a seed in the life cycle of higher plants is a unique adaptation that incorporates embryo development with various physiological processes that insure the survival of the plant in the next generation.
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Tansley review no. 120: pathways to abscisic acid-regulated gene expression.
TL;DR: ABA signalling involves putative ABA receptors (extracellular or intracellular), cell-surface membrane proteins including ion channels, glycoproteins and membrane trafficking components, secondary messengers such as phosphatidic acid, inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate, cyclic ADP-ribose and calcium, and protein phosphorylation/dephosphorylation cascades leading to chromatin remodelling and binding of transcriptional complexes to ABA-responsive promoter elements as mentioned in this paper.