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Plant Science and Agronomy
Saudi Arabia
2026
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Biology and Biochemistry
Saudi Arabia
2023

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
71
Citations
19822
World Ranking
661
National Ranking
4

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

Salim Al-Babili is affiliated with the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with extensive contributions specifically in Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, and Ecology.

The scientist has concentrated on several main topics within the field, including:

  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Plant Reproductive Biology

Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Plant Journal
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Molecular Plant

Salim Al-Babili has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors, notably:

  • Jian You Wang
  • Muhammad Jamil
  • Lamis Berqdar
  • Jianing Mi
  • Aparna Balakrishna

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Salim Al-Babili include:

  • "Plant apocarotenoids: from retrograde signaling to interspecific communication," 2020, The Plant Journal
  • "An alternative, zeaxanthin epoxidase-independent abscisic acid biosynthetic pathway in plants," 2021, Molecular Plant
  • "Carotenoid biofortification in crop plants: citius, altius, fortius," 2020, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular and Cell Biology of Lipids
  • "Canonical strigolactones are not the major determinant of tillering but important rhizospheric signals in rice," 2022, Science Advances
  • "On the biosynthesis and evolution of apocarotenoid plant growth regulators," 2020, Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology

Best Publications

  • Engineering the Provitamin A (β-Carotene) Biosynthetic Pathway into (Carotenoid-Free) Rice Endosperm

    Xudong Ye;Salim Al-Babili;Andreas Klöti;Jing Zhang

  • The Path from β-Carotene to Carlactone, a Strigolactone-Like Plant Hormone

    Adrian Alder;Muhammad Jamil;Mattia Marzorati;Mark Bruno

  • Strigolactones, a Novel Carotenoid-Derived Plant Hormone

    Salim Al-Babili;Harro J. Bouwmeester

  • The genome of Chenopodium quinoa

    David Erwin Jarvis;Yung Shwen Ho;Damien Lightfoot;Sandra M. Schmöckel

  • Golden Rice: Introducing the β-Carotene Biosynthesis Pathway into Rice Endosperm by Genetic Engineering to Defeat Vitamin A Deficiency

    Peter Beyer;Salim Al-Babili;Xudong Ye;Xudong Ye;Paola Lucca

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

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

  • Rice cytochrome P450 MAX1 homologs catalyze distinct steps in strigolactone biosynthesis

    Yanxia Zhang;Aalt D J van Dijk;Adrian Scaffidi;Gavin R Flematti

  • The biology of strigolactones

    Carolien P. Ruyter-Spira;Salim Al-Babili;Salim Al-Babili;Sander Van Der Krol;Harro J J Bouwmeester

  • Provitamin A Accumulation in Cassava (Manihot esculenta) Roots Driven by a Single Nucleotide Polymorphism in a Phytoene Synthase Gene

    Ralf Welsch;Jacobo Arango;Cornelia Bär;Bertha Salazar

  • MECHANISTIC ASPECTS OF CAROTENOID BIOSYNTHESIS

    Alexander R. Moise;Salim Al-Babili;Eleanore T. Wurtzel

  • A Third Phytoene Synthase Is Devoted to Abiotic Stress-Induced Abscisic Acid Formation in Rice and Defines Functional Diversification of Phytoene Synthase Genes

    Ralf Welsch;Florian Wüst;Cornelia Bär;Salim Al-Babili

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

    Sarah Frusciante;Gianfranco Diretto;Mark Bruno;Paola Ferrante

  • The Structure of a Retinal-Forming Carotenoid Oxygenase

    Daniel P. Kloer;Sandra Ruch;Salim Al-Babili;Peter Beyer

  • Carotenoid oxygenases: cleave it or leave it.

    Giovanni Giuliano;Salim Al-Babili;Johannes von Lintig

  • Golden Rice – five years on the road – five years to go?

    Salim Al-Babili;Peter Beyer

  • Bioengineered ‘golden’ indica rice cultivars with β‐carotene metabolism in the endosperm with hygromycin and mannose selection systems

    Karabi Datta;Niranjan Baisakh;Norman Oliva;Lina Torrizo

  • From carotenoids to strigolactones.

    Kunpeng Jia;Lina Abdulkareem Ali Baz;Salim Al-Babili

  • A novel carotenoid cleavage activity involved in the biosynthesis of Citrus fruit-specific apocarotenoid pigments

    María J. Rodrigo;Berta Alquézar;Enriqueta Alós;Víctor Medina

  • Characterization of the rice carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase 1 reveals a novel route for geranial biosynthesis.

    Andrea Ilg;Peter Beyer;Salim Al-Babili

  • Plant apocarotenoids: from retrograde signaling to interspecific communication

    Juan C Moreno;Jianing Mi;Yagiz Alagoz;Yagiz Alagoz;Salim Al-Babili

  • Provitamin A accumulation in Cassava (Manihot esculenta) roots driven by a single nucleotide polymorphism in a phytoene synthase gene[W] [Approved article]

    Ralf Welsch;Jacobo Arango;Cornelia Bar;Bertha Salazar

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Beyer
Peter Beyer University of Freiburg
Muhammad Jamil
Muhammad Jamil Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Heribert Hirt
Heribert Hirt King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Stefan T. Arold
Stefan T. Arold King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Tadao Asami
Tadao Asami University of Tokyo
Ikram Blilou
Ikram Blilou King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Mark Tester
Mark Tester King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Harro J. Bouwmeester
Harro J. Bouwmeester University of Amsterdam
Giovanni Giuliano
Giovanni Giuliano National Agency For New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Takashi Gojobori
Takashi Gojobori King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

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