Gerhard Sandmann

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Best Publications

• The potential for the improvement of carotenoid levels in foods and the likely systemic effects

  H. van den Berg;R. Faulks;H.F. Granado;J. Hirschberg

  654
  Citations

• Transgenic multivitamin corn through biofortification of endosperm with three vitamins representing three distinct metabolic pathways.

  Shaista Naqvi;Changfu Zhu;Gemma Farre;Koreen Ramessar

  611
  Citations

• Mutations in the Arabidopsis gene IMMUTANS cause a variegated phenotype by inactivating a chloroplast terminal oxidase associated with phytoene desaturation.

  Pierre Carol;David Stevenson;Cordelia Bisanz;Jürgen Breitenbach

  428
  Citations

• Combinatorial genetic transformation generates a library of metabolic phenotypes for the carotenoid pathway in maize

  Changfu Zhu;Shaista Naqvi;Jürgen Breitenbach;Gerhard Sandmann

  409
  Citations

• Copper-mediated Lipid Peroxidation Processes in Photosynthetic Membranes

  Gerhard Sandmann;Peter Böger

  399
  Citations

• Carotenoid biosynthesis in microorganisms and plants.

  Gerhard Sandmann

  398
  Citations

• High-Level Production of Beta-Carotene in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Successive Transformation with Carotenogenic Genes from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous

  René Verwaal;Jing Wang;Jean-Paul Meijnen;Hans Visser

  386
  Citations

• Molecular and biochemical characterization of herbicide-resistant mutants of cyanobacteria reveals that phytoene desaturation is a rate-limiting step in carotenoid biosynthesis.

  D. Chamovitz;G. Sandmann;J. Hirschberg

  360
  Citations

• Carotenoid Biosynthesis and Biotechnological Application

  Gerhard Sandmann

  353
  Citations

• Genetic engineering of a zeaxanthin-rich potato by antisense inactivation and co-suppression of carotenoid epoxidation.

  S. Römer;J. Lübeck;F. Kauder;S. Steiger

  341
  Citations

• Transformation of the green alga Haematococcus pluvialis with a phytoene desaturase for accelerated astaxanthin biosynthesis.

  Jens Steinbrenner;Gerhard Sandmann

  319
  Citations

• Biotechnological production of astaxanthin with Phaffia rhodozyma / Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous

  Isabell Schmidt;Hendrik Schewe;Sören Gassel;Chao Jin

  287
  Citations

• A single polypeptide catalyzing the conversion of phytoene to zeta-carotene is transcriptionally regulated during tomato fruit ripening.

  Iris Pecker;Daniel Chamovitz;Hartmut Linden;Gerhard Sandmann

  267
  Citations

• Understanding carotenoid metabolism as a necessity for genetic engineering of crop plants.

  Gerhard Sandmann;Susanne Römer;Paul D. Fraser

  264
  Citations

• Functional expression of the Erwinia uredovora carotenoid biosynthesis gene crtl in transgenic plants showing an increase of beta-carotene biosynthesis activity and resistance to the bleaching herbicide norflurazon.

  Norihiko Misawa;Shigeyuki Yamano;Hartmut Linden;Maria R. de Felipe

  252
  Citations

• Isolation and functional characterisation of a novel type of carotenoid biosynthetic gene from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous.

  J. C. Verdoes;P. Krubasik;G. Sandmann;A. J. J. van Ooyen

  218
  Citations

• Novel hydroxycarotenoids with improved antioxidative properties produced by gene combination in Escherichia coli.

  Manuela Albrecht;Shinichi Takaichi;Sabine Steiger;Zheng-Yu Wang

  204
  Citations

• Expression of an Erwinia phytoene desaturase gene not only confers multiple resistance to herbicides interfering with carotenoid biosynthesis but also alters xanthophyll metabolism in transgenic plants

  Norihiko Misawa;Kazumori Masamoto;Tamaki Hori;Takeshi Ohtani

  200
  Citations

• Genetic manipulation of carotenoid biosynthesis: strategies, problems and achievements

  Gerhard Sandmann

  194
  Citations

• Bleaching Herbicide Norflurazon Inhibits Phytoene Desaturase by Competition with the Cofactors

  Jürgen Breitenbach;Changfu Zhu;Gerhard Sandmann

  185
  Citations