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Overview

Gad Galili is affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and has contributed to multiple research areas focused on molecular biology, plant science, and cell biology within the broader disciplines of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, agricultural and biological sciences, and medicine.

Their research topics include:

  • Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress and Disease
  • Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
  • GABA and Rice Research
  • Polyamine Metabolism and Applications

Gad Galili's frequent co-authors are Jian Wu, Hadas Peled-Zehavi, Simon Michaeli, Moran Oliva, and Aviv Guy.

Their recent publications are as follows:

  • Enhanced Production of Aromatic Amino Acids in Tobacco Plants Leads to Increased Phenylpropanoid Metabolites and Tolerance to Stresses (2021, Frontiers in Plant Science)
  • ATI1 (ATG8-interacting protein 1) and ATI2 define a plant starvation-induced reticulophagy pathway and serve as MSBP1/MAPR5 cargo receptors (2021, Autophagy)
  • The m6A reader ECT2 post-transcriptionally regulates proteasome activity in Arabidopsis (2020, New Phytologist)
  • ATG8-interacting (ATI) 1 and 2 define a plant starvation-induced ER-phagy pathway and serve as MSBP1 (MAPR5) cargo-receptors (2020, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory))
  • Selective recognition of PTRE1 transcripts mediated by protein-protein interaction between the m6A reader ECT2 and PTRE1 (2024, Plant Communications)

The main publication venues where Gad Galili has contributed include:

  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Autophagy
  • New Phytologist
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Plant Communications

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Seed Development and Germination

    Jaime Kigel;Gad Galili

  • Highway or byway: the metabolic role of the GABA shunt in plants

    Aaron Fait;Hillel Fromm;Dirk Walter;Gad Galili

  • New insights into the shikimate and aromatic amino acids biosynthesis pathways in plants.

    Vered Tzin;Gad Galili

  • Overexpression of a Plasma Membrane Aquaporin in Transgenic Tobacco Improves Plant Vigor under Favorable Growth Conditions but Not under Drought or Salt Stress

    Refael Aharon;Yosepha Shahak;Smadar Wininger;Rozalina Bendov

  • Arabidopsis seed development and germination is associated with temporally distinct metabolic switches

    Aaron Fait;Ruthie Angelovici;Hadar Less;Itzhak Ohad

  • Production of glucocerebrosidase with terminal mannose glycans for enzyme replacement therapy of Gaucher's disease using a plant cell system

    Yoseph Shaaltiel;Daniel Bartfeld;Sharon Hashmueli;Gideon Baum

  • Seed desiccation: a bridge between maturation and germination

    Ruthie Angelovici;Gad Galili;Alisdair R. Fernie;Aaron Fait

  • The Biosynthetic Pathways for Shikimate and Aromatic Amino Acids in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Vered Tzin;Gad Galili

  • Cloning and characterization of a novel Mg2+/H+ exchanger

    Orit Shaul;Donald W. Hilgemann;Janice de‐Almeida‐Engler;Marc Van Montagu

  • Evidence for a novel route of wheat storage proteins to vacuoles.

    H Levanony;R Rubin;Y Altschuler;G Galili

  • Regulation of Lysine and Threonine Synthesis

    Gad Galili

  • Principal Transcriptional Programs Regulating Plant Amino Acid Metabolism in Response to Abiotic Stresses

    Hadar Less;Gad Galili

  • The Regulation of Essential Amino Acid Synthesis and Accumulation in Plants

    Gad Galili;Rachel Amir;Alisdair R. Fernie

  • Improving the content of essential amino acids in crop plants: goals and opportunities.

    Shai Ufaz;Gad Galili

  • Erratum to: Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition) (Autophagy, 12, 1, 1-222, 10.1080/15548627.2015.1100356

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Fortifying plants with the essential amino acids lysine and methionine to improve nutritional quality

    Gad Galili;Rachel Amir

  • Increased Lysine Synthesis Coupled with a Knockout of Its Catabolism Synergistically Boosts Lysine Content and Also Transregulates the Metabolism of Other Amino Acids in Arabidopsis Seeds

    Xiaohong Zhu;Gad Galili

  • Arabidopsis Seed Development and Germination Is Associated with Temporally Distinct

    Aaron Fait;Ruthie Angelovici;Hadar Less;Itzhak Ohad

Frequent Co-Authors

Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Guiliang Tang
Guiliang Tang Michigan Technological University
Asaph Aharoni
Asaph Aharoni Weizmann Institute of Science
Moshe Feldman
Moshe Feldman Weizmann Institute of Science
Brian A. Larkins
Brian A. Larkins University of Arizona
Aaron Fait
Aaron Fait Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Evelina Gatti
Evelina Gatti Aix-Marseille University
Avraham A. Levy
Avraham A. Levy Weizmann Institute of Science
Shazib Pervaiz
Shazib Pervaiz National University of Singapore
Efraim Lewinsohn
Efraim Lewinsohn Agricultural Research Organization

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