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Paul D. Fraser is affiliated with Royal Holloway University of London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple areas within biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and agricultural and biological sciences. The principal subfields of their work include molecular biology, plant science, biochemistry, biotechnology, and nutrition and dietetics.

The scientist's research primarily focuses on topics such as plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, antioxidant activity and oxidative stress, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant tissue culture and regeneration, cassava research and cyanide, transgenic plants and applications, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Significant publications authored or co-authored by Paul D. Fraser include:

  • Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices, 2021, Nature Methods
  • Inactivation of rice starch branching enzyme IIb triggers broad and unexpected changes in metabolism by transcriptional reprogramming, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • A transcriptomic, metabolomic and cellular approach to the physiological adaptation of tomato fruit to high temperature, 2020, Plant Cell & Environment
  • Engineering Metabolism in Nicotiana Species: A Promising Future, 2020, Trends in biotechnology
  • Genome-wide analyses of cassava Pathogenesis-related (PR) gene families reveal core transcriptome responses to whitefly infestation, salicylic acid and jasmonic acid, 2020, BMC Genomics

Paul D. Fraser frequently collaborates with several researchers, with notable co-authors including Margit Drapal, Laura Pérez-Fons, Eugenia M. A. Enfissi, Marilise Nogueira, and Luís Augusto Becerra López-Lavalle.

In terms of dissemination channels, Fraser's work appears often in journals such as the Journal of Biological Chemistry, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), The Plant Journal, Journal of Plant Physiology, and Phytochemistry.

Best Publications

  • The biosynthesis and nutritional uses of carotenoids.

    Paul D Fraser;Peter M Bramley

  • Mass spectrometry-based metabolomics: a guide for annotation, quantification and best reporting practices

    Saleh Alseekh;Asaph Aharoni;Yariv Brotman;Kevin Contrepois

  • Chemical derivatization and mass spectral libraries in metabolic profiling by GC/MS and LC/MS/MS

    John M. Halket;Daniel Waterman;Anna M. Przyborowska;Raj K. P. Patel

  • Carotenoid Biosynthesis during Tomato Fruit Development (Evidence for Tissue-Specific Gene Expression)

    P. D. Fraser;M. R. Truesdale;C. R. Bird;W. Schuch

  • Fruit-specific RNAi-mediated suppression of DET1 enhances carotenoid and flavonoid content in tomatoes

    Ganga Rao Davuluri;Ageeth van Tuinen;Paul D Fraser;Alessandro Manfredonia

  • Evaluation of transgenic tomato plants expressing an additional phytoene synthase in a fruit-specific manner.

    Paul D. Fraser;Susanne Romer;Cathie A. Shipton;Philippa B. Mills

  • Elevation of the provitamin A content of transgenic tomato plants.

    Susanne Römer;Paul D. Fraser;Joy W. Kiano;Cathie A. Shipton

  • Manipulation of the Blue Light Photoreceptor Cryptochrome 2 in Tomato Affects Vegetative Development, Flowering Time, and Fruit Antioxidant Content

    Leonardo Giliberto;Gaetano Perrotta;Patrizia Pallara;James L. Weller

  • Constitutive expression of a fruit phytoene synthase gene in transgenic tomatoes causes dwarfism by redirecting metabolites from the gibberellin pathway

    Rupert G. Fray;Andrew Wallace;Paul D. Fraser;Daniel Valero

  • Application of high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detection to the metabolic profiling of plant isoprenoids

    P. D. Fraser;M. E. S. Pinto;D. E. Holloway;P. M. Bramley

  • Transcriptome and Metabolite Profiling Show That APETALA2a Is a Major Regulator of Tomato Fruit Ripening

    Rumyana Karlova;Faye M. Rosin;Jacqueline Busscher-Lange;Violeta Parapunova

  • Genetic improvement of tomato by targeted control of fruit softening.

    Selman Uluisik;Natalie H Chapman;Rebecca A. Smith;Mervin Poole

  • Metabolic engineering of the mevalonate and non‐mevalonate isopentenyl diphosphate‐forming pathways for the production of health‐promoting isoprenoids in tomato

    Eugenia M. A. Enfissi;Paul D. Fraser;Luisa-Maria Lois;Albert Boronat

  • Recommendations for Reporting Metabolite Data

    Alisdair R. Fernie;Asaph Aharoni;Lothar Willmitzer;Mark Stitt

  • Manipulation of Phytoene Levels in Tomato Fruit: Effects on Isoprenoids, Plastids, and Intermediary Metabolism

    Paul D. Fraser;Eugenia M.A. Enfissi;John M. Halket;Mark R. Truesdale

  • Standards for plant synthetic biology: a common syntax for exchange of DNA parts.

    Nicola J. Patron;Nicola J. Patron;Diego Orzaez;Sylvestre Marillonnet;Heribert Warzecha

  • Expression of an exogenous isopentenyl diphosphate isomerase gene enhances isoprenoid biosynthesis in Escherichia coli

    Susumu Kajiwara;Paul D. Fraser;Keiji Kondo;Norihiko Misawa

  • Identification and quantification of carotenoids, tocopherols and chlorophylls in commonly consumed fruits and vegetables.

    Jennifer Burns;Paul D Fraser;Peter M Bramley

  • Cytoplasmic Pink1 activity protects neurons from dopaminergic neurotoxin MPTP

    M. Emdadul Haque;Kelly J. Thomas;Cheryl D'Souza;Steve Callaghan

  • A SQUAMOSA MADS Box Gene Involved in the Regulation of Anthocyanin Accumulation in Bilberry Fruits

    Laura Jaakola;Mervin Poole;Matthew O. Jones;Terttu Kämäräinen-Karppinen

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter M. Bramley
Peter M. Bramley Royal Holloway University of London
Gerhard Sandmann
Gerhard Sandmann Goethe University Frankfurt
Norihiko Misawa
Norihiko Misawa Ishikawa Prefectural University
Wolfgang Schuch
Wolfgang Schuch AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
Leticia Mora
Leticia Mora Spanish National Research Council
Graham B. Seymour
Graham B. Seymour University of Nottingham
Alisdair R. Fernie
Alisdair R. Fernie Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Peter St George-Hyslop
Peter St George-Hyslop Columbia University
Fidel Toldrá
Fidel Toldrá Spanish National Research Council
Changfu Zhu
Changfu Zhu University of Lleida

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