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Manuel J. Torres
Researcher at University of California, Davis
Publications - 9
Citations - 1198
Manuel J. Torres is an academic researcher from University of California, Davis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Haustorium & Parasitic plant. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 9 publications receiving 1104 citations. Previous affiliations of Manuel J. Torres include University of Georgia & San Francisco State University.
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The draft genome of the transgenic tropical fruit tree papaya (Carica papaya Linnaeus)
Ray Ming,Shaobin Hou,Yun Feng,Qingyi Yu,Alexandre Dionne-Laporte,Jimmy H. Saw,Pavel Senin,Wei Wang,Benjamin V. Ly,Kanako L. T. Lewis,Steven L. Salzberg,Lu Feng,Matthew Jones,Rachel L. Skelton,Jan E. Murray,Cuixia Chen,Wubin Qian,Junguo Shen,Peng Du,Moriah Eustice,Eric J. Tong,Haibao Tang,Eric Lyons,Robert E. Paull,Todd P. Michael,Kerr Wall,Danny W. Rice,Henrik H. Albert,Ming Li Wang,Yun J. Zhu,Michael C. Schatz,Niranjan Nagarajan,Ricelle A. Acob,Peizhu Guan,Andrea Blas,Ching Man Wai,Christine M. Ackerman,Yan Ren,Chao Liu,Jianmei Wang,Jianping Wang,Jong Kuk Na,Eugene V. Shakirov,Brian J. Haas,Jyothi Thimmapuram,David R. Nelson,Xiyin Wang,John E. Bowers,Andrea R. Gschwend,Arthur L. Delcher,Ratnesh Singh,Jon Y. Suzuki,Savarni Tripathi,Neupane Kabi Raj,Hairong Wei,Beth Irikura,Maya Devi Paidi,Ning Jiang,Wenli Zhang,Gernot G. Presting,Aaron J. Windsor,Rafael Navajas-Pérez,Manuel J. Torres,F. Alex Feltus,Brad W. Porter,Yingjun Li,A. Max Burroughs,Ming-Cheng Luo,Lei Liu,David A. Christopher,Stephen M. Mount,Paul H. Moore,Tak Sugimura,Jiming Jiang,Mary A. Schuler,Vikki Friedman,Thomas Mitchell-Olds,Dorothy E. Shippen,Claude W. dePamphilis,Jeffrey D. Palmer,Michael Freeling,Andrew H. Paterson,Dennis Gonsalves,Lei Wang,Maqsudul Alam +84 more
TL;DR: Papaya offers numerous advantages as a system for fruit-tree functional genomics, and this draft genome sequence provides the foundation for revealing the basis of Carica’s distinguishing morpho-physiological, medicinal and nutritional properties.
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Transcriptional Responses in the Hemiparasitic Plant Triphysaria versicolor to Host Plant Signals
TL;DR: The identification of genes transcriptionally regulated by haustorium-inducing factors provides a framework for dissecting genetic pathways recruited by parasitic plants during the transition to heterotrophic growth.
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Pscroph, a parasitic plant EST database enriched for parasite associated transcripts
Manuel J. Torres,Manuel J. Torres,Alexey Tomilov,Alexey Tomilov,Natalya Tomilova,Natalya Tomilova,Russell L. Reagan,John I. Yoder +7 more
TL;DR: Libraries prepared from Triphysaria roots treated with host roots or haustorium inducing factors were enriched for transcripts predicted to function in stress responses, electron transport or protein metabolism.
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Alleles conferring improved fiber quality from EMS mutagenesis of elite cotton genotypes.
Jinesh D. Patel,Robert J. Wright,Robert J. Wright,Dick L. Auld,Rahul Chandnani,Valorie H. Goff,Jennifer Ingles,Gary J. Pierce,Manuel J. Torres,Manuel J. Torres,Andrew H. Paterson +10 more
TL;DR: Genetic improvements for many fiber traits are obtained by mutagenesis of elite cottons, mitigating genetic uniformity in this inbred polyploid by contributing novel alleles important to ongoing crop improvement.
Chemical signalling between plants: mechanistic similarities between phytotoxic allelopathy and host recognition by parasitic plants
Alexey Tomilov,Natalya Tomilova,Dong Hyun Shin,Denneal Jamison,Manuel J. Torres,Russell L. Reagan,Heather McGray,Tizita Horning,Ruth Truong,Aj Nava,Adrian Nava,John I. Yoder +11 more
TL;DR: Genomic approaches were used to demonstrate that similar genetic pathways are up-regulated in parasitic roots upon contact with host plants as are regulated in response to allelochemical exposure, and support the hypothesis that parasitic plants have recruited allelotoxin defence mechanisms for host-plant recognition.