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Joseph Hirschberg publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joseph Hirschberg sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 114 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Joseph Hirschberg D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Joseph Hirschberg sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

Joseph Hirschberg is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research spans several intersecting fields, primarily within agricultural and biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and medicine.

Their work focuses on a diverse set of topics, including:

  • Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Biocrusts and Microbial Ecology
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Plant Reproductive Biology

Hirschberg has contributed to research published in prominent journals, with frequent appearances in:

  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • The Plant Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Plant Science

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Hirschberg include:

  • "Development of zeaxanthin-rich tomato fruit through genetic manipulations of carotenoid biosynthesis," 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • "Perturbations in the Carotenoid Biosynthesis Pathway in Tomato Fruit Reactivate the Leaf-Specific Phytoene Synthase 2," 2022, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "A desert Chlorella sp. that thrives at extreme high-light intensities using a unique photoinhibition protection mechanism," 2023, The Plant Journal
  • "The potential of dynamic physiological traits in young tomato plants to predict field-yield performance," 2021, Plant Science
  • "Multi-year field trials provide a massive repository of trait data on a highly diverse population of tomato and uncover novel determinants of tomato productivity," 2023, The Plant Journal

Hirschberg's research collaborations include frequent co-authorship with several researchers, notably:

  • Dani Zamir
  • Amit Koch
  • Uri Karniel
  • Varda Mann
  • Guy Levin

Their scientific contributions reflect a broad engagement with molecular biology and plant sciences, often addressing molecular and physiological aspects of plant biology as well as ecological and biochemical processes related to plant productivity, carotenoid biosynthesis, and photoprotection strategies.

Best Publications

  • Carotenoid biosynthesis in flowering plants.

    Joseph Hirschberg

  • An alternative pathway to β-carotene formation in plant chromoplasts discovered by map-based cloning of Beta and old-gold color mutations in tomato

    Gil Ronen;Lea Carmel-Goren;Dani Zamir;Joseph Hirschberg

  • Cloning of tangerine from Tomato Reveals a Carotenoid Isomerase Essential for the Production of β-Carotene and Xanthophylls in Plants

    Tal Isaacson;Gil Ronen;Dani Zamir;Joseph Hirschberg

  • 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

  • Molecular Basis of Herbicide Resistance in Amaranthus hybridus.

    Joseph Hirschberg;Lee Mcintosh

  • Abscisic acid deficiency in the tomato mutant high-pigment 3 leading to increased plastid number and higher fruit lycopene content.

    Navot Galpaz;Qiang Wang;Naama Menda;Dani Zamir

  • Cloning and characterization of the cDNA for lycopene beta-cyclase from tomato reveals decrease in its expression during fruit ripening.

    Iris Pecker;Rachel Gabbay;Francis X. Cunningham;Joseph Hirschberg

  • 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

  • Molecular structure and enzymatic function of lycopene cyclase from the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp strain PCC7942.

    Francis X. Cunningham;Zairen Sun;Daniel Chamovitz;Joseph Hirschberg

  • Metabolic engineering of astaxanthin production in tobacco flowers

    Varda Mann;Mark Harker;Iris Pecker;Joseph Hirschberg

  • A Chromoplast-Specific Carotenoid Biosynthesis Pathway Is Revealed by Cloning of the Tomato white-flower Locus

    Navot Galpaz;Gil Ronen;Zehava Khalfa;Dani Zamir

  • New insights into metabolic properties of marine bacteria encoding proteorhodopsins

    Gazalah Sabehi;Alexander Loy;Kwang Hwan Jung;Ranga Partha

  • 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

  • Functional characterization of CmCCD1, a carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase from melon.

    Mwafaq Ibdah;Yaniv Azulay;Vitaly Portnoy;Boris Wasserman

  • Analysis in Vitro of the Enzyme CRTISO Establishes a Poly-cis-Carotenoid Biosynthesis Pathway in Plants

    Tal Isaacson;Itzhak Ohad;Peter Beyer;Joseph Hirschberg

  • Cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of the gene encoding beta-C-4-oxygenase, that converts beta-carotene to the ketocarotenoid canthaxanthin in Haematococcus pluvialis.

    Tamar Lotan;Joseph Hirschberg

  • There is more to tomato fruit colour than candidate carotenoid genes.

    Yong-Sheng Liu;Amit Gur;Gil Ronen;Mathilde Causse

  • Comparative fruit colouration in watermelon and tomato

    Y. Tadmor;S. King;A. Levi;A. Davis

  • Epistasis in tomato color mutations involves regulation of phytoene synthase 1 expression by cis-carotenoids

    David E. Kachanovsky;Shdema Filler;Tal Isaacson;Joseph Hirschberg

  • Metabolic engineering of astaxanthin production in tobacco flowers. Nat Biotechnol 18: 888-892

    Varda Mann;Mark Harker;Iris Pecker;Joseph Hirschberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel A. Chamovitz
Daniel A. Chamovitz Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Dani Zamir
Dani Zamir Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Itzhak Ohad
Itzhak Ohad Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Gerhard Sandmann
Gerhard Sandmann Goethe University Frankfurt
Yaakov Tadmor
Yaakov Tadmor Agricultural Research Organization
Efraim Lewinsohn
Efraim Lewinsohn Agricultural Research Organization
Lee McIntosh
Lee McIntosh Michigan State University
Elisabeth Gantt
Elisabeth Gantt University of Maryland, College Park
James J. Giovannoni
James J. Giovannoni Boyce Thompson Institute

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