Chris Somerville

40.8k citations
191 papers · 29.0k · 10 hit papers · h-index 95

Impact in

  • Biochemistry top 0.01%
    • Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
  • Plant Science top 0.01%
    • Plant Molecular Biology Research
    • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
    • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
    • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance

Papers in

    • Plant Molecular Biology Research 47
    • Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls 47
    • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 40
    • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 39
    • Plant Reproductive Biology 30
    • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis 17

Chris Somerville

190 papers receiving 28.0k citations

Chris Somerville's Hit Papers

Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic Biofuels 2010 · 1.0k citations
1.0k0+13+27Years since publication2505007501000

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Chris Somerville
Comparison fields: 5 of 179
  • Biochemistry 3.9k
  • Plant Science 19.4k
  • Molecular Biology 15.9k
  • Biotechnology 1.2k
  • Biomaterials 1.8k
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside Chris Somerville, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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Beneficial Biofuels—The Food, Energy, and Environment Trilemma
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20091194
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Feedstocks for Lignocellulosic Biofuels
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20101007
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Toward a Systems Approach to Understanding Plant Cell Walls
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2004955
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Random GFP∷cDNA fusions enable visualization of subcellular structures in cells of Arabidopsis at a high frequency
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2000820
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Insensitivity to Ethylene Conferred by a Dominant Mutation in Arabidopsis thaliana
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1988752
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Cellulose Synthesis in Higher Plants
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2006726
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Cellulosic Biofuels
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2008535
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Auxin-resistant mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana with an altered morphology
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1987495
9 1992494
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Sulfonylurea-resistant mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana
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1986494
11 2007461
12 1991458
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Alterations in Growth, Photosynthesis, and Respiration in a Starchless Mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Deficient in Chloroplast Phosphoglucomutase Activity
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1985437
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About Chris Somerville

Chris Somerville is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Biomedical Engineering and Biomaterials, having authored 191 papers that have together received 29.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (47 papers), Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (47 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (40 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (39 papers), Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (34 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (30 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (20 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biochemistry (3.9k citations), Plant Science (19.4k citations), Molecular Biology (15.9k citations), Biotechnology (1.2k citations) and Biomaterials (1.8k citations). Chris Somerville has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Frequent co-authors include John Browse, Mark Estelle, Andrew Carroll, David W. Ehrhardt, George W. Haughn, Heather Youngs, Shauna Somerville, Sean R. Cutler, William L. Ogren and Staffan Persson. Their work appears in journals such as PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Plant Cell, Science and Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

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