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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists
  • 2015 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Eran Pichersky is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. The scientist's research primarily focuses on the field of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with notable contributions in Molecular Biology, Pharmacology, Insect Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Biotechnology.

Their research topics cover Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, Plant Gene Expression Analysis, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, Plant and animal studies, Insect-Plant Interactions and Control, Biochemical and biochemical processes, and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms.

Frequent co-authors of Eran Pichersky include Haiyang Xu, Fei Zhou, Robert L. Last, Ying Wang, and Zhengguo Li.

Publication venues where the scientist's work has appeared multiple times include Current Opinion in Plant Biology, New Phytologist, Frontiers in Plant Science, Plant and Cell Physiology, and Trends in Plant Science.

Significant recent papers include:

  • More is better: the diversity of terpene metabolism in plants, 2020, Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • The complete functional characterisation of the terpene synthase family in tomato, 2020, New Phytologist
  • How Plants Synthesize Pyrethrins: Safe and Biodegradable Insecticides, 2020, Trends in Plant Science
  • Engineering of tomato type VI glandular trichomes for trans-chrysanthemic acid biosynthesis, the acid moiety of natural pyrethrin insecticides, 2022, Metabolic Engineering
  • A Trichome-Specific, Plastid-Localized Tanacetum cinerariifolium Nudix Protein Hydrolyzes the Natural Pyrethrin Pesticide Biosynthetic Intermediate trans-Chrysanthemyl Diphosphate, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science

Eran Pichersky has been recognized with several fellowships, including Fellowship of the American Society of Plant Biologists in 2017, Fellowship of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2015, and Fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • The family of terpene synthases in plants: A mid-size family of genes for specialized metabolism that is highly diversified throughout the kingdom

    Feng Chen;Dorothea Tholl;Jörg Bohlmann;Eran Pichersky

  • The formation and function of plant volatiles: perfumes for pollinator attraction and defense

    Eran Pichersky;Jonathan Gershenzon

  • Biochemistry of Plant Volatiles

    Natalia Dudareva;Eran Pichersky;Jonathan Gershenzon

  • Biosynthesis of Plant Volatiles: Nature's Diversity and Ingenuity

    Eran Pichersky;Joseph P. Noel;Natalia Dudareva

  • Genetics and biochemistry of secondary metabolites in plants: an evolutionary perspective.

    Eran Pichersky;David R Gang

  • The Tomato Homolog of CORONATINE-INSENSITIVE1 Is Required for the Maternal Control of Seed Maturation, Jasmonate-Signaled Defense Responses, and Glandular Trichome Development

    Lei Li;Youfu Zhao;Bonnie C. McCaig;Byron A. Wingerd

  • An evolutionarily conserved protein binding sequence upstream of a plant light-regulated gene.

    G Giuliano;E Pichersky;V S Malik;M P Timko

  • Why do plants produce so many terpenoid compounds

    Eran Pichersky;Robert A. Raguso

  • Biochemical and Molecular Genetic Aspects of Floral Scents

    Natalia Dudareva;Eran Pichersky

  • An investigation of the storage and biosynthesis of phenylpropenes in sweet basil.

    David R. Gang;Jihong Wang;Natalia Dudareva;Kyoung Hee Nam

  • Tomato yellow leaf curl virus: a whitefly-transmitted geminivirus with a single genomic component.

    Nir Navot;Eran Pichersky;Muhammad Zeidan;Dani Zamir

  • Convergent Evolution in Plant Specialized Metabolism

    Eran Pichersky;Efraim Lewinsohn

  • Biosynthesis and Emission of Terpenoid Volatiles from Arabidopsis Flowers

    Feng Chen;Dorothea Tholl;John C. D'Auria;Afgan Farooq

  • Evolution of floral scent in Clarkia: novel patterns of S-linalool synthase gene expression in the C. breweri flower.

    Natalia Dudareva;Leland Cseke;Victoria M. Blanc;Eran Pichersky

  • Eugenol and isoeugenol, characteristic aromatic constituents of spices, are biosynthesized via reduction of a coniferyl alcohol ester

    Takao Koeduka;Eyal Fridman;David R. Gang;Daniel G. Vassão

  • Harnessing plant trichome biochemistry for the production of useful compounds

    Anthony L. Schilmiller;Eran Pichersky

  • Monoterpenes in the glandular trichomes of tomato are synthesized from a neryl diphosphate precursor rather than geranyl diphosphate

    Anthony L. Schilmiller;Ines Schauvinhold;Matthew Larson;Richard Xu

  • An Arabidopsis thaliana gene for methylsalicylate biosynthesis, identified by a biochemical genomics approach, has a role in defense

    Feng Chen;John C. D'Auria;Dorothea Tholl;Jeannine R. Ross

  • Rose Scent: Genomics Approach to Discovering Novel Floral Fragrance–Related Genes

    Inna Guterman;Moshe Shalit;Moshe Shalit;Naama Menda;Dan Piestun

  • Two sesquiterpene synthases are responsible for the complex mixture of sesquiterpenes emitted from Arabidopsis flowers

    Dorothea Tholl;Feng Chen;Jana Petri;Jonathan Gershenzon

Frequent Co-Authors

Natalia Dudareva
Natalia Dudareva Purdue University West Lafayette
Efraim Lewinsohn
Efraim Lewinsohn Agricultural Research Organization
Joseph P. Noel
Joseph P. Noel Salk Institute for Biological Studies
David R. Gang
David R. Gang Washington State University
Jonathan Gershenzon
Jonathan Gershenzon Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology
Alexander Vainstein
Alexander Vainstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Beverley R. Green
Beverley R. Green University of British Columbia
Rod Peakall
Rod Peakall Australian National University
Robert A. Raguso
Robert A. Raguso Cornell University
Dani Zamir
Dani Zamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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