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PhD Genetics Cornell University
Masters Genetics Cornell University
Bachelors Biology University of the Philippines

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According to Wikipedia, Michael D. Purugganan is a Filipino-American biologist and former journalist. He is the Silver Professor of Biology and the former Dean of Science of New York University . Purugganan is also an affiliated faculty member of NYU Abu Dhabi and the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World , and since 2022, has been the director of 19 Washington Square North, the academic space of NYUAD in New York City. He was the former director of the NYU Center for Genomics and Systems Biology in New York and Abu Dhabi .

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Plant phenotypic plasticity in a changing climate. (2010) (1557)
Evolution of crop species: genetics of domestication and diversification (2013) (746)
Current perspectives and the future of domestication studies (2014) (552)
A Multiparent Advanced Generation Inter-Cross to Fine-Map Quantitative Traits in Arabidopsis thaliana (2009) (546)
The nature of selection during plant domestication (2009) (462)
A latitudinal cline in flowering time in Arabidopsis thaliana modulated by the flowering time gene FRIGIDA. (2004) (452)
The evolutionary dynamics of plant duplicate genes. (2005) (435)
Genome-Wide Patterns of Nucleotide Polymorphism in Domesticated Rice (2007) (425)
The early stages of duplicate gene evolution (2003) (405)
Molecular evidence for a single evolutionary origin of domesticated rice (2011) (405)
Molecular evolution of flower development: diversification of the plant MADS-box regulatory gene family. (1995) (397)
Epistatic interaction between Arabidopsis FRI and FLC flowering time genes generates a latitudinal cline in a life history trait. (2004) (380)
The Extent of Linkage Disequilibrium in Rice (Oryza sativa L.) (2007) (313)
The cost of inbreeding in Arabidopsis (2002) (299)
Convergent evolution and parallelism in plant domestication revealed by an expanding archaeological record (2014) (290)
A Conserved Mutation in an Ethylene Biosynthesis Enzyme Leads to Andromonoecy in Melons (2008) (277)
Selection Under Domestication: Evidence for a Sweep in the Rice Waxy Genomic Region (2006) (259)
Epialleles via DNA methylation: consequences for plant evolution. (2004) (205)
The rice genome revolution: from an ancient grain to Green Super Rice (2018) (201)
Molecular evidence on the origin and evolution of glutinous rice. (2002) (200)
Candidate Gene Association Mapping of Arabidopsis Flowering Time (2009) (196)
The evolution of plant development. (2004) (177)
Interspecific hybrid ancestry of a plant adaptive radiation: allopolyploidy of the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae) inferred from floral homeotic gene duplications. (1999) (176)
Molecular footprints of domestication and improvement in soybean revealed by whole genome re-sequencing (2013) (174)
Fitness Effects Associated with the Major Flowering Time Gene FRIGIDA in Arabidopsis thaliana in the Field (2007) (173)
The Rice Paradox: Multiple Origins but Single Domestication in Asian Rice (2017) (164)
Novel loci control variation in reproductive timing in Arabidopsis thaliana in natural environments. (2002) (163)
Accelerated regulatory gene evolution in an adaptive radiation (2001) (162)
Alternative splicing induced by insertion of retrotransposons into the maize waxy gene. (1992) (162)
Possible Loss of the Chloroplast Genome in the Parasitic Flowering Plant Rafflesia lagascae (Rafflesiaceae) (2014) (158)
ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA REVEAL SLOW RATES OF EVOLUTION DURING PLANT DOMESTICATION (2011) (156)
The molecular population genetics of the Tomato spotted wilt virus (TSWV) genome (2004) (156)
Genotype-environment interactions at quantitative trait loci affecting inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2003) (155)
Evolutionary Insights into the Nature of Plant Domestication (2019) (146)
Heterogeneous selection at specific loci in natural environments in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2003) (145)
Domestication history and geographical adaptation inferred from a SNP map of African rice (2016) (138)
Quantitative trait loci for inflorescence development in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2002) (136)
Whole genome re-sequencing of date palms yields insights into diversification of a fruit tree crop (2015) (132)
Linkage Disequilibrium Mapping of Arabidopsis CRY2 Flowering Time Alleles Sequence data from this article have been deposited with the EMBL/GenBank Data Libraries under accession nos. AY576055, AY576271. (2004) (128)
Climate envelope modelling reveals intraspecific relationships among flowering phenology, niche breadth and potential range size in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2012) (121)
The evolution of molecular genetic pathways and networks (2004) (120)
Molecular Phylogeography of Domesticated Barley Traces Expansion of Agriculture in the Old World (2007) (117)
EGRINs (Environmental Gene Regulatory Influence Networks) in Rice That Function in the Response to Water Deficit, High Temperature, and Agricultural Environments[OPEN] (2016) (116)
Molecular population genetics of the Arabidopsis CAULIFLOWER regulatory gene: nonneutral evolution and naturally occurring variation in floral homeotic function. (1998) (109)
Accelerated electron transfer between metal complexes mediated by DNA. (1988) (107)
Quantitative trait loci for floral morphology in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2000) (105)
Genome-Wide Patterns of Arabidopsis Gene Expression in Nature (2012) (103)
Darwinian Selection on a Selfing Locus (2004) (103)
Contrasting evolutionary forces in the Arabidopsis thaliana floral developmental pathway. (2002) (100)
Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice (2019) (99)
Variation and selection at the CAULIFLOWER floral homeotic gene accompanying the evolution of domesticated Brassica oleracea. (2000) (98)
Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement: comparative data on rate and sequence of domestication (2010) (98)
Molecular population genetics of floral homeotic loci. Departures from the equilibrium-neutral model at the APETALA3 and PISTILLATA genes of Arabidopsis thaliana. (1999) (94)
Linking molecular insight and ecological research (2002) (92)
Genetics of microenvironmental canalization in Arabidopsis thaliana (2007) (91)
Integration of responses within and across Arabidopsis natural accessions uncovers loci controlling root systems architecture (2013) (90)
Independent origins of self‐compatibility in Arabidopsis thaliana (2007) (90)
The molecular evolution of development (1998) (88)
Copy Number Variation in Domestication. (2019) (84)
Sequence Variation of MicroRNAs and Their Binding Sites in Arabidopsis1[W] (2008) (83)
The cooperative amoeba: Dictyostelium as a model for social evolution. (2011) (83)
Candidate Genes, Quantitative Trait Loci, and Functional Trait Evolution in Plants (2003) (81)
Plasticity Regulators Modulate Specific Root Traits in Discrete Nitrogen Environments (2013) (81)
Variation, Sex, and Social Cooperation: Molecular Population Genetics of the Social Amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum (2010) (78)
Vernalization sensitivity in Arabidopsis thaliana (Brassicaceae): the effects of latitude and FLC variation. (2005) (77)
Selection on rapidly evolving proteins in the Arabidopsis genome. (2003) (76)
Filler DNA is associated with spontaneous deletions in maize. (1990) (76)
Cross-species hybridization and the origin of North African date palms (2019) (75)
Storytelling and story testing in domestication (2014) (72)
Longitudinal trends in climate drive flowering time clines in North American Arabidopsis thaliana (2012) (71)
Molecular evolution of magellan, a maize Ty3/gypsy-like retrotransposon. (1994) (70)
The molecular population genetics of regulatory genes (2000) (69)
Population genomics of the Arabidopsis thaliana flowering time gene network. (2009) (69)
The Genetic Architecture of Shoot Branching in Arabidopsis thaliana: A Comparative Assessment of Candidate Gene Associations vs. Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping (2007) (69)
Molecular evolution of the plant R regulatory gene family. (1994) (68)
Natural selection in gene-dense regions shapes the genomic pattern of polymorphism in wild and domesticated rice. (2012) (68)
Genomic Variation in Rice: Genesis of Highly Polymorphic Linkage Blocks during Domestication (2006) (67)
Map-based cloning of quantitative trait loci: progress and prospects. (2001) (66)
Variation in Arabidopsis flowering time associated with cis-regulatory variation in CONSTANS (2014) (65)
The strength and pattern of natural selection on gene expression in rice (2020) (65)
The molecular genetic basis of plant adaptation. (2006) (64)
Comprehensive phenotypic analysis of rice (Oryza sativa) response to salinity stress. (2015) (58)
Multiple Origin but Single Domestication Led to Oryza sativa (2018) (57)
Phylogeography of Asian wild rice, Oryza rufipogon: a genome‐wide view (2012) (57)
Nanopore sequencing-based genome assembly and evolutionary genomics of circum-basmati rice (2020) (57)
Comparative Sequencing of Plant Genomes: Choices to Make (2006) (56)
Molecular population genetics of redundant floral-regulatory genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. (2005) (55)
Mapping of HKT1;5 Gene in Barley Using GWAS Approach and Its Implication in Salt Tolerance Mechanism (2018) (55)
Genome-wide association mapping of date palm fruit traits (2019) (55)
Molecular Population Genetics and Phenotypic Diversification of Two Populations of the Thermophilic Cyanobacterium Mastigocladus laminosus (2006) (54)
Whole-Genome Resequencing Reveals Extensive Natural Variation in the Model Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii[OPEN] (2015) (53)
The bracteatus pineapple genome and domestication of clonally propagated crops (2019) (52)
Duplication of the Brassica oleracea APETALA1 floral homeotic gene and the evolution of domesticated cauliflower. (1999) (51)
The MADS-box floral homeotic gene lineages predate the origin of seed plants: Phylogenetic and molecular clock estimates (1997) (48)
The Evolution of the Conserved ATPase Domain (CAD): Reconstructing the History of an Ancient Protein Module (1997) (47)
Genome assembly and characterization of a complex zfBED-NLR gene-containing disease resistance locus in Carolina Gold Select rice with Nanopore sequencing (2019) (46)
Complex rearrangements lead to novel chimeric gene fusion polymorphisms at the Arabidopsis thaliana MAF2-5 flowering time gene cluster. (2008) (46)
Molecular relationships between Australian annual wild rice, Oryza meridionalis, and two related perennial forms (2013) (46)
The Molecular Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Development: Flowering Time in Arabidopsis thaliana (2006) (44)
Molecular population genetics of the Arabidopsis CLAVATA2 region. The genomic scale of variation and selection in a selfing species. (2003) (44)
High-Diversity Genes in the Arabidopsis Genome Sequence data from this article have been deposited with the EMBL/GenBank Data Libraries under accession nos. DQ132063, DQ132370. (2005) (43)
Diversity and divergence patterns in regulatory genes suggest differential gene flow in recently derived species of the Hawaiian silversword alliance adaptive radiation (Asteraceae) (2007) (41)
Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics of Arabidopsis1 (2005) (39)
Regional modulation of a stochastically expressed factor determines photoreceptor subtypes in the Drosophila retina. (2013) (37)
Evolutionary Epigenomics of Retrotransposon-Mediated Methylation Spreading in Rice (2017) (37)
What is domestication? (2022) (36)
Transposon signatures: species‐specific molecular markers that utilize a class of multiple‐copy nuclear DNA (1995) (36)
Meta‐analysis and meta‐regression of transcriptomic responses to water stress in Arabidopsis (2016) (34)
Multiple abiotic stimuli are integrated in the regulation of rice gene expression under field conditions (2015) (34)
The genetics of plant morphological evolution. (2002) (34)
Natural variations at the Stay-Green gene promoter control lifespan and yield in rice cultivars (2020) (34)
Reply to Ge and Sang: A single origin of domesticated rice (2011) (33)
The splicing of transposable elements and its role in intron evolution (2004) (33)
Patterns of molecular evolution among paralogous floral homeotic genes. (1999) (33)
Merging Ecology, Molecular Evolution, and Functional Genetics (2003) (32)
Comparative Plant Genomics. Frontiers and Prospects (2005) (32)
Patterns of nucleotide variation in homoeologous regulatory genes in the allotetraploid Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae) (2003) (30)
Different evolutionary histories of two cation/proton exchanger gene families in plants (2013) (30)
The evolution of plant genomes: scaling up from a population perspective. (2008) (29)
Evolutionary and ecological functional genomics, from lab to the wild. (2019) (28)
GAI homologues in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (Asteraceae-Madiinae): molecular evolution of growth regulators in a rapidly diversifying plant lineage. (2002) (28)
PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (2009) (27)
Tracing ancestor rice of Suriname Maroons back to its African origin (2016) (26)
Advancing crop genomics from lab to field (2021) (24)
Heterogeneous evolution of the Myc-like Anthocyanin regulatory gene and its phylogenetic utility in Cornus L. (Cornaceae). (2004) (24)
The complex geography of domestication of the African rice Oryza glaberrima (2018) (23)
Migration, isolation and hybridization in island crop populations: the case of Madagascar rice (2010) (20)
An evolutionary genomic tale of two rice species (2014) (19)
An inferred fitness consequence map of the rice genome (2020) (18)
Extreme QTL mapping of germination speed in Arabidopsis thaliana (2016) (17)
Transposable elements as introns: evolutionary connections. (1993) (17)
The evolution of rice: molecular vignettes on its origins and spread (2010) (16)
Divergent Selection and Primary Gene Flow Shape Incipient Speciation of a Riparian Tree on Hawaii Island (2019) (16)
Rapid evolutionary changes in gene expression in response to climate fluctuations (2020) (16)
Evolution of Plant Phenotypes, from Genomes to Traits (2016) (15)
Interspecific evolution in plant microsatellite structure. (2000) (14)
MicroRNAs in plants (2008) (13)
The Plant Proteome Folding Project: Structure and Positive Selection in Plant Protein Families (2012) (13)
Annual Plant Reviews Volume 45 The Evolution of Plant Form (2013) (12)
Introduction to Theme “Genomics in Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics” (2013) (12)
Cryptic Genetic Variation for Arabidopsis thaliana Seed Germination Speed in a Novel Salt Stress Environment (2016) (12)
Erratum to: Cultivation as slow evolutionary entanglement: comparative data on rate and sequence of domestication (2012) (11)
Pheromones, social behaviour and the functions of secondary metabolism in bacteria (1995) (11)
Developing maps of fitness consequences for plant genomes. (2016) (11)
Natural variation in plant telomere length is associated with flowering time (2021) (10)
Evolutionary patterns in the antR-Cor gene in the dwarf dogwood complex (Cornus, Cornaceae) (2007) (10)
Adaptive radiation and regulatory gene evolution in the Hawaiian silversword alliance (ASTERACEAE) (2005) (9)
Functional and geographical differentiation of candidate balanced polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana (2009) (9)
Genome Analysis Traces Regional Dispersal of Rice in Taiwan and Southeast Asia (2021) (8)
Molecular genetic variation of animals and plants under domestication (2022) (7)
Levels and Patterns of Nucleotide Variation in Domestication QTL Regions on Rice Chromosome 3 Suggest Lineage-Specific Selection (2011) (7)
Molecular Clocks and Archeogenomics of a Late Period Egyptian Date Palm Leaf Reveal Introgression from Wild Relatives and Add Timestamps on the Domestication (2021) (7)
Corrections And Clarifications (2008) (7)
Ancestral polymorphisms shape the adaptive radiation of Metrosideros across the Hawaiian Islands (2021) (7)
The genomes of ancient date palms germinated from 2,000 y old seeds (2021) (7)
Sociogenomics of self vs. non-self cooperation during development of Dictyostelium discoideum (2014) (6)
The genetics and evolution of flowering time variation in plants: Identifying genes that control a key life history transition (2011) (6)
Systems genetics of plant adaptation to environmental stresses. (2016) (6)
Intron and polypeptide evolution of conserved NPA to NPA motif regions in plant aquaporins (2003) (5)
Complexities in Genome Structure and Evolution (2010) (5)
Insulators in Plants: Progress and Open Questions (2021) (4)
Evolutionary systems biology reveals patterns of rice adaptation to drought-prone agro-ecosystems (2021) (3)
Patterns of Volatile Diversity Yield Insights Into the Genetics and Biochemistry of the Date Palm Fruit Volatilome (2022) (3)
Evolutionary and ecological genomics of Arabidopsis (2017) (3)
The chloroplast genome of the pincushion cactus Mammilllaria haageana subsp. san-angelensis, a Mexican endangered species (2020) (3)
Nanopore-based genome assembly and the evolutionary genomics of basmati rice (2018) (3)
Nanopore sequence-based genome assembly of the basmati rice (2018) (3)
The bracteatus pineapple genome and domestication of clonally propagated crops (2019) (2)
The Splicing of Transposable Elements (2002) (2)
Evolutionary systems biology reveals patterns of rice adaptation to drought-prone agro-ecosystems. (2021) (2)
The influence of genetic architecture on responses to selection under drought in rice (2022) (2)
Multiple origin but single domestication led to domesticated Asian rice (2017) (2)
Scale-invariant spatial patterns in genome organization (1993) (2)
Evolution of development: molecules, mechanisms and phylogenetics. (1996) (2)
Arabidopsis as a model organism in evolutionary genetics (2006) (2)
Selection on old variants drives adaptive radiation of Metrosideros across the Hawaiian Islands (2020) (1)
Different evolutionary histories of two cation/proton exchanger gene families in plants (2013) (1)
Sociogenomics of self vs. non-self cooperation during development of Dictyostelium discoideum (2014) (1)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Nucleotide diversity and linkage disequilibrium in loblolly pine. (2004) (1)
Complex Rearrangements Lead to Novel Chimeric Gene Fusion Polymorphisms at the Arabidopsis MAF 2-5 Flowering Time Gene Cluster (2018) (1)
Archaeogenomics of a ~2,100-year-old Egyptian leaf provides a new timestamp on date palm domestication (2020) (1)
Environmental gene regulatory influence networks in rice (Oryza sativa):response to water deficit, high temperature and agricultural environments (2016) (1)
Population Genomics of Plant Species (2014) (1)
The fractal nature of RNA secondary structure (1989) (1)
Nascent transcription and the associated cis-regulatory landscape in rice (2022) (1)
The Evolution of Plant Form: A Summary Perspective (2012) (1)
Environment, resources and conflict: The changing context of international security (1993) (1)
Sexual Recombination and Selection During Domestication of Clonally Propagated Pineapple (2018) (1)
Molecular evolution of magellan , a maize Ty 3 / gypsy-like retrotransposon ( transposable dement / interspedflc hybridization / Zea / Tnpsacum / waxy alde ) (1)
Vavilov’s law and phenotypes across species (2022) (1)
What lies behind a fruit crop variety name? A case study of the barnī date palm from al‐‘Ulā oasis, Saudi Arabia (2022) (1)
Deleterious Mutations and the Rare Allele Burden on Rice Gene Expression (2022) (1)
Molecular relationships between Australian annual wild rice, Oryza meridionalis, and two related perennial forms (2013) (1)
The Genome of the Mimosoid Legume Prosopis cineraria, a Desert Tree (2022) (1)
Dataset for "Selection on old variants drives adaptive radiation of Metrosideros across the Hawaiian archipelago" (2020) (0)
Correction: Integration of responses within and across Arabidopsis natural accessions uncovers loci controlling root systems architecture (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2015) 110 (15133-15138) DOI: 0.1073/pnas.1305883110) (2015) (0)
VERNALIZATION SENSITIVITY IN A RABIDOPSIS THALIANA ( BRASSICACEAE ) : THE EFFECTS OF LATITUDE AND FLC VARIATION 1 (2005) (0)
The rice genome revolution: from an ancient grain to Green Super Rice (2018) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of A GeneTrek analysis of the maize genome. (2007) (0)
Genomic history and ecology of the geographic spread of rice (2020) (0)
Molecular population genetics of the Arabidopsis CAULIFLOWER regulatory gene: Nonneutral evolution and naturally occurring variation in floral homeotic function (developmentyecotypeyf loweryinf lorescenceyMADS-box) (1998) (0)
M olecular B iology and E volution (2013) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Genetic evidence for a second domestication of barley (Hordeum vulgare) east of the Fertile Crescent. (2007) (0)
The strength and pattern of natural selection on gene expression in rice (2020) (0)
Author response: Multiple abiotic stimuli are integrated in the regulation of rice gene expression under field conditions (2015) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Organ-specific silencing of duplicated genes in a newly synthesized cotton allotetraploid. (2005) (0)
Around the world in a month (2013) (0)
The Evolution of Domesticated Plant Species (2020) (0)
The genetic architecture of shoot branching in Arabidopsis thaliana : A comparative assessment of candidate gene associations vs. QTL mapping (2007) (0)
Chapter 12 PERSPECTIVES ON ECOLOGICAL AND EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS BIOLOGY (2012) (0)
BIO (2010) (0)
Salt flat microbial diversity and dynamics across salinity gradient (2022) (0)
Update on Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics of Arabidopsis Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics of Arabidopsis 1 (2005) (0)
Evolutionary genomics supported Darwin's hypothesis about the evolution of selfing (2005) (0)
Fitness costs and benefits of gene expression plasticity in rice under drought (2021) (0)
Control as a unique attribute of domestication (a reply to Clement). (2022) (0)
An inferred fitness consequence map of the rice genome (2020) (0)
Population Genomics of Date Palms (2017) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Patterns of diversity and recombination along chromosome 1 of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.). (2002) (0)
Telomere lengths in plants are correlated with flowering time variation (2020) (0)
Nanopore sequencing-based genome assembly and evolutionary genomics of circum-basmati rice (2020) (0)
Molecular footprints of domestication and improvement in soybean revealed by whole genome re-sequencing (2013) (0)
Retraction (2008) (0)
Arabidopsis and related species as models to study speciation (2005) (0)
The seed transcriptome of Rafflesia reveals horizontal gene transfer and convergent evolution: Implications for conserving the world's largest flower (2023) (0)
The Genomics of Date Palms: Current Perspectives (2021) (0)
Lifelines: Michael Purugganan (2003) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Quantitative trait locus analysis of leaf dissection in tomato using Lycopersicon pennellii segmental introgression lines. (2004) (0)
Faculty Opinions recommendation of Assaying gene content in Arabidopsis. (2002) (0)

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