Craig S. Pikaard
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Indiana University
Publications
201
Citations
17,383
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
42
Publishing since 1984
Craig S. Pikaard studies how plants control which genes are switched on or off, focusing on the molecular machinery that silences genes through chemical marks on DNA and chromatin (the packaged form of DNA). Much of the work uses the model plant Arabidopsis to understand specialized enzymes (RNA polymerases IV and V) that generate small RNA molecules guiding DNA methylation, as well as a phenomenon called nucleolar dominance where certain ribosomal RNA genes are silenced.
Publication activity has been uneven over the past decade, alternating between more productive years and quieter ones, with a recent average of about 1.6 papers per year.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- A narrow range of transcript-error rates across the Tree of Life
Science Advances · 2025
- A Narrow Range of Transcript-error Rates Across the Tree of Life
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023
- Sequence and epigenetic landscapes of active and silent nucleolus organizer regions in <i>Arabidopsis</i>
Science Advances · 2023
- Reaching for the off switch in nucleolar dominance
The Plant Journal · 2023
- Sequence and epigenetic landscapes of active and silenced nucleolus organizers in Arabidopsis
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2023
- Beyond transcription: compelling open questions in plant RNA biology
The Plant Cell · 2022
- Decision letter: Histone H1 prevents non-CG methylation-mediated small RNA biogenesis in Arabidopsis heterochromatin
2021
- Author response: A DCL3 dicing code within Pol IV-RDR2 transcripts diversifies the siRNA pool guiding RNA-directed DNA methylation
2021
- Targeted Enrichment of rRNA Gene Tandem Arrays for Ultra-Long Sequencing by Selective Restriction Endonuclease Digestion
Frontiers in Plant Science · 2021
- A DCL3 dicing code within Pol IV-RDR2 transcripts diversifies the siRNA pool guiding RNA-directed DNA methylation
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021
- Analysis of siRNA Precursors Generated by RNA Polymerase IV and RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase 2 in Arabidopsis
Methods in molecular biology · 2019
- Reconstitution of siRNA Biogenesis In Vitro: Novel Reaction Mechanisms and RNA Channeling in the RNA-Directed DNA Methylation Pathway
Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology · 2019
- Reaction mechanisms of Pol IV, RDR2 and DCL3 drive RNA channeling in the siRNA-directed DNA methylation pathway
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2019
- The NRPD1 N-terminus contains a Pol IV-specific motif that is critical for genome surveillance in Arabidopsis
Nucleic Acids Research · 2019
- The Pol IV largest subunit CTD quantitatively affects siRNA levels guiding RNA-directed DNA methylation
Nucleic Acids Research · 2019
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×11
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences×4
- Genes & Development×4
- Nucleic Acids Research×3
- Cell Reports×2
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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.
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