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Franz Berthiller

Franz Berthiller

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Chemistry

D-Index
57
Citations
13627
World Ranking
10974
National Ranking
70

Overview

Franz Berthiller is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria and contributes to research primarily in the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans multiple subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Spectroscopy, and Cell Biology.

The research topics that Berthiller covers are diverse and focus on several key areas: mycotoxins in agriculture and food, ruminant nutrition and digestive physiology, gut microbiota and health, metabolomics and mass spectrometry studies, analytical chemistry and chromatography, plant pathogens and fungal diseases, and wheat and barley genetics and pathology.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Effect of Temperature, Water Activity and Carbon Dioxide on Fungal Growth and Mycotoxin Production of Acclimatised Isolates of Fusarium verticillioides and F. graminearum, 2020, Toxins
  • Progressive microbial adaptation of the bovine rumen and hindgut in response to a step-wise increase in dietary starch and the influence of phytogenic supplementation, 2022, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Adapting an Ergosterol Extraction Method with Marine Yeasts for the Quantification of Oceanic Fungal Biomass, 2021, Journal of Fungi
  • Development and Validation of an LC-MS/MS Based Method for the Determination of Deoxynivalenol and Its Modified Forms in Maize, 2021, Toxins
  • Identification and Functional Characterization of the Gene Cluster Responsible for Fusaproliferin Biosynthesis in Fusarium proliferatum, 2021, Toxins

Berthiller has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Heidi Schwartz, Gerhard Adam, Qendrim Zebeli, Sara Ricci, and Ezequias Castillo-Lopez. Coauthor collaborations range in publication counts with Schwartz appearing 16 times, followed by Adam with 9, Zebeli with 8, Ricci with 7, and Castillo-Lopez with 7.

The scientist's work has appeared repeatedly in certain publication venues, reflecting research focus areas. These venues include:

  • Toxins (7 publications)
  • World Mycotoxin Journal (5 publications)
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (2 publications)
  • Journal of Chromatography A (2 publications)
  • Analytica Chimica Acta (2 publications)

Franz Berthiller's contributions address complex challenges related to fungal biology, toxin analysis, and plant pathology while integrating advanced analytical techniques such as mass spectrometry and chromatography. This research supports a broad understanding of agricultural sciences with a strong interdisciplinary approach, focusing on the interaction between plant systems, microbial ecology, and food safety.

Best Publications

  • Masked mycotoxins: A review

    Franz Berthiller;Colin Crews;Chiara Dall'Asta;Sarah De Saeger

  • Development and validation of a liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometric method for the determination of 39 mycotoxins in wheat and maize.

    Michael Sulyok;Franz Berthiller;Rudolf Krska;Rainer Schuhmacher

  • Impact of food processing and detoxification treatments on mycotoxin contamination.

    Petr Karlovsky;Michele Suman;Franz Berthiller;Johan De Meester

  • Detoxification of the Fusarium Mycotoxin Deoxynivalenol by a UDP-glucosyltransferase from Arabidopsis thaliana

    Brigitte Poppenberger;Franz Berthiller;Doris Lucyshyn;Tobias Sieberer

  • Optimization and validation of a quantitative liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric method covering 295 bacterial and fungal metabolites including all regulated mycotoxins in four model food matrices.

    Alexandra Malachová;Michael Sulyok;Eduardo Beltrán;Franz Berthiller

  • Masked mycotoxins: determination of a deoxynivalenol glucoside in artificially and naturally contaminated wheat by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Franz Berthiller;Chiara Dall'Asta;Rainer Schuhmacher;Marc Lemmens

  • Emerging Mycotoxins: Beyond Traditionally Determined Food Contaminants

    Christiane Gruber-Dorninger;Barbara Novak;Veronika Nagl;Franz Berthiller

  • Rapid simultaneous determination of major type A- and B-trichothecenes as well as zearalenone in maize by high performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry

    Franz Berthiller;Rainer Schuhmacher;Gerhard Buttinger;Rudolf Krska

  • Proposal of a comprehensive definition of modified and other forms of mycotoxins including “masked” mycotoxins

    Michael Rychlik;Hans-Ulrich Humpf;Doris Marko;Sven Dänicke

  • Hydrolytic fate of deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside during digestion.

    Franz Berthiller;Rudolf Krska;Konrad J. Domig;Wolfgang Kneifel

  • Formation, determination and significance of masked and other conjugated mycotoxins

    Franz Berthiller;Rainer Schuhmacher;Gerhard Adam;Rudolf Krska

  • Occurrence of deoxynivalenol and its 3-β-D-glucoside in wheat and maize

    Franz Berthiller;Chiara Dall'Asta;Roberto Corradini;Rosangela Marchelli

  • Chromatographic methods for the simultaneous determination of mycotoxins and their conjugates in cereals.

    Franz Berthiller;Michael Sulyok;Rudolf Krska;Rainer Schuhmacher

  • New insights into the human metabolism of the Fusarium mycotoxins deoxynivalenol and zearalenone.

    Benedikt Warth;Michael Sulyok;Franz Berthiller;Rainer Schuhmacher

  • Occurrence of Deoxynivalenol and Its Major Conjugate, Deoxynivalenol-3-Glucoside, in Beer and Some Brewing Intermediates

    Marta Kostelanska;Jana Hajslova;Milena Zachariasova;Alexandra Malachova

  • Simultaneous determination of major type A and B trichothecenes, zearalenone and certain modified metabolites in Finnish cereal grains with a novel liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometric method

    Alexis V. Nathanail;Jenna Syvähuoko;Alexandra Malachová;Marika Jestoi

  • Development and validation of a (semi-)quantitative UHPLC-MS/ MS method for the determination of 191 mycotoxins and other fungal metabolites in almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts and pistachios

    Elisabeth Varga;Thomas Glauner;Franz Berthiller;Rudolf Krska

  • Transcriptome analysis of the barley-deoxynivalenol interaction: evidence for a role of glutathione in deoxynivalenol detoxification.

    Stephanie A. Gardiner;Jayanand Boddu;Franz Berthiller;Christian Hametner

  • Assessment of human deoxynivalenol exposure using an LC-MS/MS based biomarker method.

    Benedikt Warth;Michael Sulyok;Philipp Fruhmann;Franz Berthiller

  • Metabolism of the masked mycotoxin deoxynivalenol-3-glucoside in rats.

    Veronika Nagl;Heidi Schwartz;Rudolf Krska;Wulf-Dieter Moll

  • Advances in the analysis of mycotoxins and its quality assurance.

    Rudolf Krska;Elvira Welzig;F Berthiller;A Molinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Krska
Rudolf Krska BOKU University
Rainer Schuhmacher
Rainer Schuhmacher BOKU University
Marc Lemmens
Marc Lemmens BOKU University
Michael Sulyok
Michael Sulyok BOKU University
Chiara Dall’Asta
Chiara Dall’Asta University of Parma
Michele Solfrizzo
Michele Solfrizzo National Research Council (CNR)
Josef Glössl
Josef Glössl BOKU University
Karl Kuchler
Karl Kuchler Medical University of Vienna
Susan P. McCormick
Susan P. McCormick United States Department of Agriculture
Gary J. Muehlbauer
Gary J. Muehlbauer University of Minnesota

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