Gianfranco Diretto

Best Publications

• Metabolic Engineering of Potato Carotenoid Content through Tuber-Specific Overexpression of a Bacterial Mini-Pathway

  Gianfranco Diretto;Salim Al-Babili;Raffaela Tavazza;Velia Papacchioli

  417
  Citations

• Metabolic engineering of potato tuber carotenoids through tuber-specific silencing of lycopene epsilon cyclase

  Gianfranco Diretto;Raffaela Tavazza;Ralf Welsch;Daniele Pizzichini

  339
  Citations

• Metabolic engineering of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants

  Giovanni Giuliano;Raffaela Tavazza;Gianfranco Diretto;Peter Beyer

  335
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• Novel carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase catalyzes the first dedicated step in saffron crocin biosynthesis

  Sarah Frusciante;Gianfranco Diretto;Mark Bruno;Paola Ferrante

  319
  Citations

• Carotenoid accumulation during tomato fruit ripening is modulated by the auxin-ethylene balance

  Liyan Su;Gianfranco Diretto;Eduardo Purgatto;Saïda Danoun

  265
  Citations

• Silencing of beta-carotene hydroxylase increases total carotenoid and beta-carotene levels in potato tubers

  Gianfranco Diretto;Ralf Welsch;Raffaela Tavazza;Fabienne Mourgues

  204
  Citations

• The chimeric repressor version of an Ethylene Response Factor (ERF) family member, Sl-ERF.B3, shows contrasting effects on tomato fruit ripening.

  Mingchun Liu;Mingchun Liu;Gianfranco Diretto;Julien Pirrello;Julien Pirrello;Jean-Paul Roustan;Jean-Paul Roustan

  176
  Citations

• Transcriptome and Metabolome Reprogramming in Tomato Plants by Trichoderma harzianum strain T22 Primes and Enhances Defense Responses Against Aphids.

  Mariangela Coppola;Gianfranco Diretto;Maria Cristina Digilio;Sheridan Lois Woo

  162
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• Light Remodels Lipid Biosynthesis in Nannochloropsis gaditana by Modulating Carbon Partitioning between Organelles.

  Alessandro Alboresi;Giorgio Perin;Nicola Vitulo;Gianfranco Diretto

  129
  Citations

• An alternative, zeaxanthin epoxidase-independent abscisic acid biosynthetic pathway in plants.

  Kun-Peng Jia;Kun-Peng Jia;Jianing Mi;Shawkat Ali;Hajime Ohyanagi

  121
  Citations

• Manipulation of β-carotene levels in tomato fruits results in increased ABA content and extended shelf life

  Gianfranco Diretto;Sarah Frusciante;Claudia Fabbri;Nicolas Schauer

  108
  Citations

• Incorporation of natural antioxidants from rice straw into renewable starch films

  Carolin Menzel;Chelo González-Martínez;Francisco Vilaplana;Gianfranco Diretto

  101
  Citations

• Tissue-Specific Accumulation of Sulfur Compounds and Saponins in Different Parts of Garlic Cloves from Purple and White Ecotypes

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  97
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• Several geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase isoforms supply metabolic substrates for carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato

  M Victoria Barja;Miguel Ezquerro;Stefano Beretta;Gianfranco Diretto

  91
  Citations

• Transcriptional-Metabolic Networks in β-Carotene-Enriched Potato Tubers: The Long and Winding Road to the Golden Phenotype

  Gianfranco Diretto;Salim Al-Babili;Raffaela Tavazza;Federico Scossa

  90
  Citations

• Candidate Enzymes for Saffron Crocin Biosynthesis Are Localized in Multiple Cellular Compartments

  Olivia Costantina Demurtas;Sarah Frusciante;Paola Ferrante;Gianfranco Diretto

  85
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• Improved protocol for Agrobacterium mediated transformation of tomato and production of transgenic plants containing carotenoid biosynthetic gene CsZCD

  Dongliang Qiu;Dongliang Qiu;Gianfranco Diretto;Raffaela Tavarza;Giovanni Giuliano

  85
  Citations

• Efficient production of saffron crocins and picrocrocin in Nicotiana benthamiana using a virus-driven system

  Maricarmen Martí;Gianfranco Diretto;Verónica Aragonés;Sarah Frusciante

  76
  Citations

• ABCC transporters mediate the vacuolar accumulation of crocins in saffron stigmas

  Olivia Costantina Demurtas;Rita de Brito Francisco;Gianfranco Diretto;Paola Ferrante

  75
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• Evolutionarily distinct carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases are responsible for crocetin production in Buddleja davidii.

  Oussama Ahrazem;Gianfranco Diretto;Javier Argandoña;Ángela Rubio-Moraga

  70
  Citations