Featured Publications
1.Dueñas M.A., Craig R.J., Gallaher S.D., Moseley J.L., & Merchant S.S. Leaky ribosomal scanning enables tunable translation of bicistronic ORFs in green algae, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (9) e2417695122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417695122 (2025).
2. Craig R.J., Dueñas M.A.*, Camacho D.J.*, Gallaher, S.D., Avendaño-Monsalve M.C., Lin Y.T., Blaby-Haas C.E., Moseley J.L., & Merchant S.S. Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green alga Auxenochlorella, The Plant Cell, koaf259, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf259 (2025).
Full Publication List
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1. Craig R.J., Dueñas M.A.*, Camacho D.J.*, Gallaher, S.D., Avendaño-Monsalve M.C., Lin Y.T., Blaby-Haas C.E., Moseley J.L., & Merchant S.S. Targeted genetic manipulation and yeast-like evolutionary genomics in the green alga Auxenochlorella, The Plant Cell, koaf259, https://doi.org/10.1093/plcell/koaf259 (2025).
2. Dueñas M.A., Lin Y.T., Moseley J.L., & Merchant S.S. Transformation Protocol for Targeted Homologous Recombination in Auxenochlorella protothecoides. protocols.io https://dx.doi.org/10.17504/protocols.io.x54v922mql3e/v1 (2025).
3. Dueñas M.A., Craig R.J., Gallaher S.D., Moseley J.L., & Merchant S.S. Leaky ribosomal scanning enables tunable translation of bicistronic ORFs in green algae, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (9) e2417695122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2417695122 (2025).
4. Kaundal A., Sandhu D., Singh V., Dueñas, M.A., Acharya B.R., Nelson B. Ferreira, Litt A. Transgenic expression of Prunus persica Salt Overly Sensitive 2 (PpSOS2) in atsos2 mutant imparts salt tolerance in Arabidopsis. ACS Agricultural Science and Technology. 2(1):153-164, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsagscitech.1c00276 (2022).
5. Acharya B., Sandhu D., Dueñas C., Dueñas M.A. et al. Morphological, physiological, biochemical, and transcriptome studies reveal the importance of transporters and stress signaling pathways during salinity stress in Prunus. Scientific reports vol. 12,1 1274, doi:10.1038/s41598-022-05202-164 (2022).
6. Kaundal A., Sandhu D., Dueñas M.A., Ferreira JFS. Expression of the high-affinity K+ transporter 1 (PpHKT1) gene from almond rootstock ‘Nemaguard’ improved salt tolerance of transgenic Arabidopsis. PloS one vol. 14,3 e0214473, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0214473 (2019).
Preprints
1. Lin, Y-T., Dueñas M.A.*, Kosina S.*, Iavarone A.T., Khoo K., Nicora C.D., Purvine S.O., Northen T.R., Moseley J.L., Merchant S.S. Bioengineered algal lipids enriched in structured medium- and long-chain triacylglycerols, linoleate, and sn-2 palmitate for human milk fat substitutes. bioRxiv doi: https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.05.15.725531