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Shauna Somerville

Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology, UC Berkeley
Verified email at berkeley.edu
Cited by 22000

The role of plant cell wall polysaccharide composition in disease resistance

S Vorwerk, S Somerville, C Somerville - Trends in plant science, 2004 - cell.com
The high degree of structural complexity of plant cell wall polysaccharides has led to
suggestions that some components might function as latent signal molecules that are released …

Host–pathogen warfare at the plant cell wall

K Hématy, C Cherk, S Somerville - Current opinion in plant biology, 2009 - Elsevier
… this commentary, we suggest that in addition to its structural role, the plant cell wall also relays
information about the environment to the cell cytoplasm via signal transduction pathway(s) …

Plant functional genomics

C Somerville, S Somerville - Science, 1999 - science.org
Nucleotide sequencing of the Arabidopsis genome is nearing completion, sequencing of
the rice genome has begun, and large amounts of expressed sequence tag information are …

[BOOK][B] Queering the color line: Race and the invention of homosexuality in American culture

SB Somerville - 2000 - books.google.com
… I dedicate this book to my parents, Bridget and Brendan Somerville, whose creativity and
generosity have always guided my efforts. I am profoundly grateful for all the ways they have …

[HTML][HTML] Comparison of stratified primary care management for low back pain with current best practice (STarT Back): a randomised controlled trial

…, K Konstantinou, CJ Main, E Mason, S Somerville… - The Lancet, 2011 - thelancet.com
Background Back pain remains a challenge for primary care internationally. One model that
has not been tested is stratification of the management according to the patient's prognosis (…

Coordinated plant defense responses in Arabidopsis revealed by microarray analysis

…, T Richmond, SC Somerville… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
… Spots were individually quantified by using imagene's fixed circle method; sample value …
replicate slides by using the following procedure: normalized value S = χ/σ, where χ = sample …

Sugar transporters for intercellular exchange and nutrition of pathogens

…, D Chermak, G Antony, FF White, SC Somerville… - Nature, 2010 - nature.com
… Individual cells were analysed by quantitative ratio imaging of CFP and Venus emission (acquisition
interval 5 s; Fc/D corresponds to normalized emission intensity ratio 15 ). HEK293T/…

SNARE-protein-mediated disease resistance at the plant cell wall

…, M Stein, A Freialdenhoven, SC Somerville… - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
… The HvSNAP34 silencing (superscript s) construct was co-… Susceptibility of HvSNAP34 S
plus MLA6 cells provided a … syntaxin sharing interacting partner(s) with ROR2 contributes to the …

Pre- and Postinvasion Defenses Both Contribute to Nonhost Resistance in Arabidopsis

…, D Scheel, F Llorente, A Molina, J Parker, S Somerville… - science, 2005 - science.org
Nonhost resistance describes the immunity of an entire plant species against nonadapted
pathogen species. We report that Arabidopsis PEN2 restricts pathogen entry of two …

A genome-wide transcriptional analysis using Arabidopsis thaliana Affymetrix gene chips determined plant responses to phosphate deprivation

…, P Ortet, A Creff, S Somerville… - Proceedings of the …, 2005 - National Acad Sciences
S-mgfp4 at HindIII/XbaI replacing the 35 S promoter (kindly provided by J. Haseloff, University
of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK). Transgenic plants were generated by vacuum infiltration …