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Samuel C. Zeeman

Samuel C. Zeeman

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
18885
World Ranking
6614
National Ranking
125

Overview

Samuel C. Zeeman is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and has a research focus spanning Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their scholarly output prominently covers Plant Science and Molecular Biology, while also addressing topics related to Nutrition and Dietetics, Biomedical Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research topics include Food composition and properties, Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Biofuel production and bioconversion, Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology, and Algal biology and biofuel production.

Key recent publications reflect a broad interest in plant biology and starch metabolism:

  • Starch: A Flexible, Adaptable Carbon Store Coupled to Plant Growth (2020, Annual Review of Plant Biology)
  • A multifaceted analysis reveals two distinct phases of chloroplast biogenesis during de-etiolation in Arabidopsis (2021, eLife)
  • Morphological bases of phytoplankton energy management and physiological responses unveiled by 3D subcellular imaging (2021, Nature Communications)
  • STARCH SYNTHASE5, a Noncanonical Starch Synthase-Like Protein, Promotes Starch Granule Initiation in Arabidopsis (2020, The Plant Cell)
  • Evolutionary innovations in starch metabolism (2020, Current Opinion in Plant Biology)

Their frequent co-authors include Simona Eicke, Barbara Pfister, Melanie R. Abt, Michaela Fischer-Stettler, and Mayank Sharma, showing collaborations that contributed to various scientific outputs.

Samuel C. Zeeman publishes regularly in well-known venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, New Phytologist, Nature Communications, and The Plant Cell, indicating an active presence in key journals addressing plant biology and molecular research.

Best Publications

  • Starch: its metabolism, evolution, and biotechnological modification in plants.

    Samuel C. Zeeman;Jens Kossmann;Alison M. Smith

  • Starch turnover: pathways, regulation and role in growth.

    Mark Stitt;Samuel C Zeeman

  • Diurnal Changes in the Transcriptome Encoding Enzymes of Starch Metabolism Provide Evidence for Both Transcriptional and Posttranscriptional Regulation of Starch Metabolism in Arabidopsis Leaves

    Steven M. Smith;Daniel C. Fulton;Tansy Chia;David Thorneycroft

  • A Previously Unknown Maltose Transporter Essential for Starch Degradation in Leaves

    Totte Niittylä;Gaëlle Messerli;Martine Trevisan;Jychian Chen

  • Quantification of starch in plant tissues

    Alison M Smith;Samuel C Zeeman

  • The diurnal metabolism of leaf starch.

    Samuel C. Zeeman;Steven M. Smith;Alison M. Smith

  • The Arabidopsis sex1 Mutant Is Defective in the R1 Protein, a General Regulator of Starch Degradation in Plants, and Not in the Chloroplast Hexose Transporter

    Tien-Shin Yu;Heike Kofler;Rainer E. Häusler;Diana Hille

  • Regulation of leaf starch degradation by abscisic acid is important for osmotic stress tolerance in plants

    Matthias Ruben Thalmann;Diana Pazmino;David Seung;Daniel Horrer

  • Formation of starch in plant cells

    Barbara Pfister;Samuel C. Zeeman

  • β-AMYLASE4, a Noncatalytic Protein Required for Starch Breakdown, Acts Upstream of Three Active β-Amylases in Arabidopsis Chloroplasts

    Daniel C. Fulton;Michaela Stettler;Tabea Mettler;Cara K. Vaughan

  • A Mutant of Arabidopsis Lacking a Chloroplastic Isoamylase Accumulates Both Starch and Phytoglycogen

    Samuel C. Zeeman;Takayuki Umemoto;Wei-Ling Lue;Pui Au-Yeung

  • Starch Metabolism in Arabidopsis

    Sebastian Streb;Samuel C. Zeeman

  • A cytosolic glucosyltransferase is required for conversion of starch to sucrose in Arabidopsis leaves at night

    Tansy Chia;David Thorneycroft;Andrew Chapple;Gaëlle Messerli

  • A critical role for disproportionating enzyme in starch breakdown is revealed by a knock‐out mutation in Arabidopsis

    Joanna H. Critchley;Samuel C. Zeeman;Takeshi Takaha;Alison M. Smith

  • Plastidial α-Glucan Phosphorylase Is Not Required for Starch Degradation in Arabidopsis Leaves But Has a Role in the Tolerance of Abiotic Stress

    Samuel C. Zeeman;David Thorneycroft;Nicole Schupp;Andrew Chapple

  • A starch-accumulating mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana deficient in a chloroplastic starch-hydrolysing enzyme.

    Samuel C. Zeeman;Fred Northrop;Alison M. Smith;Tom ap Rees

  • STARCH-EXCESS4 Is a Laforin-Like Phosphoglucan Phosphatase Required for Starch Degradation in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Oliver Kötting;Diana Santelia;Christoph Edner;Simona Eicke

  • The control of amylose synthesis

    K.a.y. Denyer;Philip Johnson;Samuel Zeeman;Alison M. Smith

  • Arabidopsis mutants Atisa1 and Atisa2 have identical phenotypes and lack the same multimeric isoamylase, which influences the branch point distribution of amylopectin during starch synthesis.

    Thierry Delatte;Martine Trevisan;Mary L. Parker;Samuel C. Zeeman

  • Regulation of starch metabolism: the age of enlightenment?

    Oliver Kötting;Jens Kossmann;Samuel C Zeeman;James R Lloyd

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison M. Smith
Alison M. Smith John Innes Centre
Steven M. Smith
Steven M. Smith University of Tasmania
Diana Santelia
Diana Santelia ETH Zurich
Mark Stitt
Mark Stitt Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Regina Feil
Regina Feil Max Planck Society
John E. Lunn
John E. Lunn Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology
Felix Henrique Paim Kessler
Felix Henrique Paim Kessler Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
H. Ekkehard Neuhaus
H. Ekkehard Neuhaus Technical University of Kaiserslautern
Gaétan Glauser
Gaétan Glauser University of Neuchâtel
Bruno Studer
Bruno Studer ETH Zurich

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