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Frank Van Breusegem

Frank Van Breusegem

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Biology and Biochemistry
Belgium
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
90
Citations
43395
World Ranking
2388
National Ranking
36

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Frank Van Breusegem is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and has contributed extensively to the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, as well as Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Their research primarily focuses on Molecular Biology and Plant Science, with additional work in Biochemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Spectroscopy.

The scientist's investigations are centered around key topics such as:

  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Redox biology and oxidative stress
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant responses to water stress

Recent publications by Van Breusegem include:

  • Reactive oxygen species signalling in plant stress responses, 2022, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • Improving oxidative stress resilience in plants, 2021, The Plant Journal
  • Reactive oxygen species and organellar signaling, 2021, Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Classification and Nomenclature of Metacaspases and Paracaspases: No More Confusion with Caspases, 2020, Molecular Cell
  • Detection of Damage-Activated Metacaspase Activity by Western Blot in Plants, 2022, Methods in molecular biology

Van Breusegem frequently publishes in notable journals and platforms such as:

  • Free Radical Biology and Medicine
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal of Experimental Botany
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science

Collaboration plays a significant role in their work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Patrick J. Willems
  • Jingjing Huang
  • Amna Mhamdi
  • Simon Stael
  • Kris Gevaert

Best Publications

  • Reactive oxygen gene network of plants

    Ron Mittler;Sandy Vanderauwera;Martin Gollery;Frank Van Breusegem

  • ROS signaling: the new wave?

    Ron Mittler;Ron Mittler;Sandy Vanderauwera;Nobuhiro Suzuki;Gad Miller

  • Signal transduction during oxidative stress

    Eva Vranová;Dirk Inzé;Frank Van Breusegem

  • Reactive oxygen species as signals that modulate plant stress responses and programmed cell death.

    Tsanko S. Gechev;Frank Van Breusegem;Julie M. Stone;Iliya Denev

  • Reactive Oxygen Species in Plant Cell Death

    Frank Van Breusegem;James F. Dat

  • Catalase function in plants: a focus on Arabidopsis mutants as stress-mimic models

    Amna Mhamdi;Guillaume Queval;Sejir Chaouch;Sandy Vanderauwera

  • The role of active oxygen species in plant signal transduction

    Frank Van Breusegem;Eva Vranová;James F. Dat;Dirk Inzé

  • How relevant are flavonoids as antioxidants in plants

    Iker Hernández;Iker Hernández;Leonor Alegre;Frank Van Breusegem;Frank Van Breusegem;Sergi Munné-Bosch

  • Transcriptomic Footprints Disclose Specificity of Reactive Oxygen Species Signaling in Arabidopsis

    Ilya Gadjev;Sandy Vanderauwera;Tsanko S. Gechev;Christophe Laloi

  • Singlet Oxygen Is the Major Reactive Oxygen Species Involved in Photooxidative Damage to Plants

    Christian Triantaphylidès;Markus Krischke;Frank Alfons Hoeberichts;Brigitte Ksas

  • Genome-Wide Analysis of Hydrogen Peroxide-Regulated Gene Expression in Arabidopsis Reveals a High Light-Induced Transcriptional Cluster Involved in Anthocyanin Biosynthesis

    Sandy Vanderauwera;Philip Zimmermann;Stéphane Rombauts;Steven Vandenabeele

  • Conditional oxidative stress responses in the Arabidopsis photorespiratory mutant cat2 demonstrate that redox state is a key modulator of daylength-dependent gene expression, and define photoperiod as a crucial factor in the regulation of H2O2-induced cell death.

    Guillaume Queval;Emmanuelle Issakidis-Bourguet;Frank A. Hoeberichts;Michaël Vandorpe

  • Induction of systemic resistance in tomato by N-acyl-L-homoserine lactone-producing rhizosphere bacteria.

    Regina Schuhegger;Alexandra Ihring;Stephan Gantner;GüNTHER Bahnweg

  • Perturbation of Indole-3-Butyric Acid Homeostasis by the UDP-Glucosyltransferase UGT74E2 Modulates Arabidopsis Architecture and Water Stress Tolerance

    Vanesa B. Tognetti;Olivier Van Aken;Olivier Van Aken;Kris Morreel;Korneel Vandenbroucke

  • Arabidopsis Type I Metacaspases Control Cell Death

    Nuria S. Coll;Dominique Vercammen;Andrea Smidler;Charles Clover

  • Reactive oxygen species in plant development

    Amna Mhamdi;Frank Van Breusegem

  • Hydrogen peroxide—a central hub for information flow in plant cells

    Veselin Dimitrov Petrov;Frank Van Breusegem

  • Spreading the news: subcellular and organellar reactive oxygen species production and signalling

    Lorin Mignolet-Spruyt;Enjun Xu;Niina Idänheimo;Frank A. Hoeberichts

  • Double antisense plants lacking ascorbate peroxidase and catalase are less sensitive to oxidative stress than single antisense plants lacking ascorbate peroxidase or catalase

    Ludmila Rizhsky;Elza Hallak-Herr;Frank Van Breusegem;Shimon Rachmilevitch

  • The role of active oxygen species in plant signal transduction

    Eva Vranová;Frank Van Breusegem;James F Dat;Enric Belles-Boix

Frequent Co-Authors

Dirk Inzé
Dirk Inzé Ghent University
Joris Messens
Joris Messens Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Kris Gevaert
Kris Gevaert Ghent University
Olivier Van Aken
Olivier Van Aken Lund University
Klaas Vandepoele
Klaas Vandepoele Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie
Jaakko Kangasjärvi
Jaakko Kangasjärvi University of Helsinki
James Whelan
James Whelan La Trobe University
Riet De Rycke
Riet De Rycke Ghent University
Graham Noctor
Graham Noctor University of Paris-Saclay

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