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Pal Maliga publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pal Maliga sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 227 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Pal Maliga D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pal Maliga sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 84 D-Index — 69th percentile

69% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Pal Maliga is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in the United States. The primary research focus lies within Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with particular emphasis on Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Plant Science, Genetics, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Animal Genetics and Reproduction

Among the frequent co-authors working with Pal Maliga are:

  • Lisa M. LaManna
  • Tarinee Tungsuchat-Huang
  • Aki Matsuoka
  • Qiguo Yu
  • Salah E. Abdel-Ghany

Key publication venues for Pal Maliga's work include:

  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Journal
  • Methods in molecular biology
  • Nature Plants

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Pal Maliga include:

  • Engineering the plastid and mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants, 2022, Nature Plants
  • Transformation of the Plastid Genome in Tobacco: The Model System for Chloroplast Genome Engineering, 2021, Methods in molecular biology

Other relevant papers associated with their collaborations cover topics such as rapid sequence evolution linked to genetic incompatibilities in plastids, independent translation of ORFs in dicistronic operons, and CRISPR-based gene inactivation techniques in plants.

Pal Maliga has contributed to book publications as well, including a title published by Springer Science+Business Media:

  • Chloroplast Biotechnology, 2021

Recognition for contributions to science includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2016.

Best Publications

  • The small, versatile pPZP family of Agrobacterium binary vectors for plant transformation

    Peter Hajdukiewicz;Zora Svab;Pal Maliga

  • High-frequency plastid transformation in tobacco by selection for a chimeric aadA gene.

    Zora Svab;Pal Maliga

  • Stable transformation of plastids in higher plants

    Zora Svab;Peter Hajdukiewicz;Pal Maliga

  • Plastid transformation in higher plants.

    Pal Maliga

  • The two RNA polymerases encoded by the nuclear and the plastid compartments transcribe distinct groups of genes in tobacco plastids

    Peter T.J. Hajdukiewicz;Lori A. Allison;Pal Maliga

  • Identification of a functional respiratory complex in chloroplasts through analysis of tobacco mutants containing disrupted plastid ndh genes

    Paul A. Burrows;Leonid A. Sazanov;Zora Svab;Pal Maliga

  • Streptomycin-resistant Plants from Callus Culture of Haploid Tobacco

    P. Maliga;Ágnes Sz.-Breznovits;L. Márton

  • Amplification of a Chimeric Bacillus Gene in Chloroplasts Leads to an Extraordinary Level of an Insecticidal Protein in Tobacco

    Kevin E. McBride;Zora Svab;David J. Schaaf;Patrick S. Hogan

  • Deletion of rpoB reveals a second distinct transcription system in plastids of higher plants.

    Lori A. Allison;Lee D. Simon;Pal Maliga

  • Callus Induction and Plant Regeneration from Mesophyll Protoplasts of Nicotiana sylvestris

    J.I. Nagy;P. Maliga

  • Streptomycin resistant and sensitive somatic hybrids of Nicotiana tabacum + Nicotiana knightiana: correlation of resistance to N. tabacum plastids

    L Menczel;Ferenc Nagy;Z R Kiss;P Maliga

  • Expression of tetanus toxin Fragment C in tobacco chloroplasts

    John S. Tregoning;Peter Nixon;Hiroshi Kuroda;Zora Svab

  • Stable genetic transformation of intact Nicotiana cells by the particle bombardment process

    Theodore M. Klein;Elisabeth C. Harper;Zora Svab;John C. Sanford

  • Fluorescent antibiotic resistance marker for tracking plastid transformation in higher plants.

    Muhammad Sarwar Khan;Pal Maliga

  • Method for stably transforming plastids of multicellular plants

    Pal Maliga;Zora S. Maliga

  • Progress towards commercialization of plastid transformation technology

    Pal Maliga

  • Interspecific chloroplast recombination in a Nicotiana somatic hybrid

    Peter Medgyesy;Erzsebet Fejes;Pal Maliga

  • Kanamycin resistance as a selectable marker for plastid transformation in tobacco

    Helaine Carrer;Tish Noel Hockenberry;Zora Svab;Pal Maliga

  • Accumulation of D1 polypeptide in tobacco plastids is regulated via the untranslated region of the psbA mRNA.

    J.M. Staub;P. Maliga

  • Plastid transformation in arabidopsis thaliana

    Pal Maliga;Samir R. Sikdar;Siva Vanga Reddy

Frequent Co-Authors

Ferenc Nagy
Ferenc Nagy Institute of Plant Biology
Peter J. Nixon
Peter J. Nixon Imperial College London
Gordon Dougan
Gordon Dougan University of Cambridge
Joachim Messing
Joachim Messing Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Neil F. Fairweather
Neil F. Fairweather Imperial College London
Octavio Paredes-López
Octavio Paredes-López Instituto Politécnico Nacional
Klaas J. van Wijk
Klaas J. van Wijk Cornell University
Thomas Börner
Thomas Börner Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Ian Small
Ian Small University of Western Australia
Ralph Bock
Ralph Bock Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology

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