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Barbara Ann Halkier

Barbara Ann Halkier

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
77
Citations
23530
World Ranking
4734
National Ranking
41

Overview

Barbara Ann Halkier is affiliated with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences.

Their subfields of study focus on Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Food Science, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, and Biochemistry.

Key topics that characterize their research include:

  • Genomics, phytochemicals, and oxidative stress
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Nitrogen and Sulfur Effects on Brassica
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms
  • Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Halkier include Christoph Crocoll, Deyang Xu, Alexander Schulz, Cuiwei Wang, and Pascal Hunziker.

Their publications are often featured in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Frontiers in Plant Science, Food and Energy Security, Transgenic Research, and Natural Product Reports.

Selected recent papers demonstrate the scope of their research:

  • "Herbivore feeding preference corroborates optimal defense theory for specialized metabolites within plants," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Characterization of Arabidopsis CYP79C1 and CYP79C2 by Glucosinolate Pathway Engineering in Nicotiana benthamiana Shows Substrate Specificity Toward a Range of Aliphatic and Aromatic Amino Acids," 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Export of defensive glucosinolates is key for their accumulation in seeds," 2023, Nature
  • "Prospects to improve the nutritional quality of crops," 2021, Food and Energy Security
  • "Engineering and optimization of the 2-phenylethylglucosinolate production in Nicotiana benthamiana by combining biosynthetic genes from Barbarea vulgaris and Arabidopsis thaliana," 2021, The Plant Journal

Best Publications

  • BIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY OF GLUCOSINOLATES

    Barbara Ann Halkier;Jonathan Gershenzon

  • Biosynthesis of glucosinolates – gene discovery and beyond

    Ida E. Sønderby;Fernando Geu-Flores;Barbara A. Halkier

  • Glucosinolate research in the Arabidopsis era.

    Ute Wittstock;Barbara A Halkier

  • A unified nomenclature of NITRATE TRANSPORTER 1/PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER family members in plants

    Sophie Léran;Kranthi Varala;Jean Christophe Boyer;Maurizio Chiurazzi

  • Advancing uracil-excision based cloning towards an ideal technique for cloning PCR fragments

    Hussam H. Nour-Eldin;Bjarne G. Hansen;Morten H. H. Nørholm;Jacob K. Jensen

  • Cytochrome P450 CYP79B2 from Arabidopsis catalyzes the conversion of tryptophan to indole-3-acetaldoxime, a precursor of indole glucosinolates and indole-3-acetic acid.

    Michael Dalgaard Mikkelsen;Carsten Hørslev Hansen;Ute Wittstock;Barbara Ann Halkier

  • NRT/PTR transporters are essential for translocation of glucosinolate defence compounds to seeds

    Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin;Tonni Grube Andersen;Meike Burow;Svend Roesen Madsen

  • Arabidopsis Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenase 71A13 Catalyzes the Conversion of Indole-3-Acetaldoxime in Camalexin Synthesis

    Majse Nafisi;Sameer Goregaoker;Christopher J. Botanga;Erich Glawischnig

  • Modulation of CYP79 Genes and Glucosinolate Profiles in Arabidopsis by Defense Signaling Pathways

    Michael Dalgaard Mikkelsen;Bent Larsen Petersen;Erich Glawischnig;Anders Bøgh Jensen

  • Arabidopsis mutants in the C-S lyase of glucosinolate biosynthesis establish a critical role for indole-3-acetaldoxime in auxin homeostasis.

    Michael Dalgaard Mikkelsen;Peter Naur;Barbara Ann Halkier

  • Camalexin is synthesized from indole-3-acetaldoxime, a key branching point between primary and secondary metabolism in Arabidopsis

    Erich Glawischnig;Bjarne Gram Hansen;Carl Erik Olsen;Barbara Ann Halkier

  • The biosynthesis of glucosinolates

    Barbara Ann Halkier;Liangcheng Du

  • Microbial production of indolylglucosinolate through engineering of a multi-gene pathway in a versatile yeast expression platform

    Michael Dalgaard Mikkelsen;Line Due Buron;Bo Salomonsen;Carl Erik Olsen

  • A Systems Biology Approach Identifies a R2R3 MYB Gene Subfamily with Distinct and Overlapping Functions in Regulation of Aliphatic Glucosinolates

    Ida Elken Sønderby;Bjarne Gram Hansen;Nanna Bjarnholt;Carla Ticconi

  • Composition and content of glucosinolates in developing Arabidopsis thaliana

    Bent Larsen Petersen;Sixue Chen;Carsten Hørslev Hansen;Carl Erik Olsen

  • USER fusion: a rapid and efficient method for simultaneous fusion and cloning of multiple PCR products

    Fernando Geu-Flores;Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin;Morten T Nielsen;Barbara A. Halkier

  • Linking metabolic QTLs with network and cis-eQTLs controlling biosynthetic pathways.

    Adam M Wentzell;Heather C Rowe;Bjarne Gram Hansen;Carla Ticconi

  • CYP71B15 (PAD3) catalyzes the final step in camalexin biosynthesis

    Regina Schuhegger;Majse Nafisi;Madina Mansourova;Bent Larsen Petersen

  • Cytochrome P450 CYP79A2 from Arabidopsis thaliana L. Catalyzes the conversion of L-phenylalanine to phenylacetaldoxime in the biosynthesis of benzylglucosinolate.

    Ute Wittstock;Barbara Ann Halkier

  • Linking Metabolic QTL with Network and cis-eQTL Controlling Biosynthetic Pathways

    Adam M Wentzell;Heather C Rowe;Bjarne Gram Hansen;Carla Ticconi

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Erik Olsen
Carl Erik Olsen University of Copenhagen
Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin
Hussam Hassan Nour-Eldin University of Copenhagen
Birger Lindberg Møller
Birger Lindberg Møller University of Copenhagen
Daniel J. Kliebenstein
Daniel J. Kliebenstein University of California, Davis
Søren Bak
Søren Bak University of Copenhagen
Alexander Schulz
Alexander Schulz University of Copenhagen
Sixue Chen
Sixue Chen University of Florida
Liangcheng Du
Liangcheng Du University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Jonathan Gershenzon
Jonathan Gershenzon Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Peter B. Høj
Peter B. Høj University of Adelaide

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