Joseph Hirschberg

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Best Publications

• Carotenoid biosynthesis in flowering plants.

  Joseph Hirschberg

  1090
  Citations

• 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

  796
  Citations

• 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

  728
  Citations

• 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

• Molecular Basis of Herbicide Resistance in Amaranthus hybridus.

  Joseph Hirschberg;Lee Mcintosh

  613
  Citations

• 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

  400
  Citations

• 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

  383
  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

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

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

  350
  Citations

• Metabolic engineering of astaxanthin production in tobacco flowers

  Varda Mann;Mark Harker;Iris Pecker;Joseph Hirschberg

  324
  Citations

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

  Navot Galpaz;Gil Ronen;Zehava Khalfa;Dani Zamir

  278
  Citations

• New insights into metabolic properties of marine bacteria encoding proteorhodopsins

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

  276
  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

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

  Mwafaq Ibdah;Yaniv Azulay;Vitaly Portnoy;Boris Wasserman

  243
  Citations

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

  Tal Isaacson;Itzhak Ohad;Peter Beyer;Joseph Hirschberg

  241
  Citations

• 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

  231
  Citations

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

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

  219
  Citations

• Comparative fruit colouration in watermelon and tomato

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

  217
  Citations

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

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

  207
  Citations

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

  Varda Mann;Mark Harker;Iris Pecker;Joseph Hirschberg

  5
  Citations