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Biology and Biochemistry
Sweden
2023

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
12551
World Ranking
9817
National Ranking
138

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  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Sweden Leader Award

Overview

Sten Stymne is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily addresses topics within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Engineering. The scientist's work encompasses subfields such as Plant Science, Biochemistry, Insect Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics Sten Stymne has explored include:

  • Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
  • Biodiesel Production and Applications
  • Insect and Pesticide Research
  • Insect Pheromone Research and Control
  • Research in Cotton Cultivation
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research

The scientist has published in several peer-reviewed journals across diverse scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Tribology International

Recent significant papers by Sten Stymne are:

  • "Oil crops for the future", 2020, Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • "Insect pest management with sex pheromone precursors from engineered oilseed plants", 2022, Nature Sustainability
  • "Acyltransferases Regulate Oil Quality in Camelina sativa Through Both Acyl Donor and Acyl Acceptor Specificities", 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • "Lubrication characteristics of wax esters from oils produced by a genetically-enhanced oilseed crop", 2020, Tribology International
  • "Phosphatidylcholine:diacylglycerol cholinephosphotransferase's unique regulation of castor bean oil quality", 2022, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Sten Stymne has collaborated extensively with other researchers in the field. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Ida Lager
  • Edgar B. Cahoon
  • Simon Jeppson
  • Per Hofvander
  • Christer Löfstedt

Best Publications

  • Phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase: an enzyme that catalyzes the acyl-CoA-independent formation of triacylglycerol in yeast and plants.

    Anders Dahlqvist;Ulf Ståhl;Marit Lenman;Antoni Banas

  • Storage Lipid Synthesis Is Non-essential in Yeast

    Line Sandager;Maria H. Gustavsson;Ulf Ståhl;Anders Dahlqvist

  • Biochemical pathways in seed oil synthesis

    Philip D Bates;Sten Stymne;John Ohlrogge

  • High-value oils from plants.

    John M. Dyer;Sten Stymne;Allan G. Green;Anders S. Carlsson

  • Identification of Non-Heme Diiron Proteins That Catalyze Triple Bond and Epoxy Group Formation

    Michael Lee;Marit Lenman;Antoni Banaś;Maureen Bafor

  • Cloning and functional characterization of a phospholipid:diacylglycerol acyltransferase from Arabidopsis

    Ulf Ståhl;Anders S Carlsson;Marit Lenman;Anders Dahlqvist

  • 8 – Triacylglycerol Biosynthesis

    Sten Stymne;Allan Keith Stobart

  • Ricinoleic acid biosynthesis and triacylglycerol assembly in microsomal preparations from developing castor-bean (Ricinus communis) endosperm.

    M Bafor;M A Smith;L Jonsson;K Stobart

  • The Biosynthesis of Linoleate from Oleoyl‐CoA via Oleoyl‐Phosphatidylcholine in Microsomes of Developing Safflower Seeds

    Sten Stymne;Lars-Åke Appelqvist

  • Fatty Acid Phytyl Ester Synthesis in Chloroplasts of Arabidopsis

    Felix Lippold;Katharina vom Dorp;Marion Abraham;Georg Hölzl

  • Replacing fossil oil with fresh oil – with what and for what?

    Anders S Carlsson;Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz;Allan G Green;Sten Stymne

  • Driving on Biomass

    John Ohlrogge;Doug Allen;Bill Berguson;Dean DellaPenna

  • Transcriptional stimulation of rate-limiting components of the autophagic pathway improves plant fitness.

    Elena A Minina;Panagiotis N Moschou;Ramesh R Vetukuri;Victoria Sanchez-Vera

  • Metabolic Interactions between the Lands Cycle and the Kennedy Pathway of Glycerolipid Synthesis in Arabidopsis Developing Seeds

    Liping Wang;Wenyun Shen;Michael Kazachkov;Guanqun Chen

  • Plant Acyl-CoA:Lysophosphatidylcholine Acyltransferases (LPCATs) Have Different Specificities in Their Forward and Reverse Reactions

    Ida Lager;Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz;Xue-Rong Zhou;Katarzyna Jasieniecka

  • Triacylglycerols are synthesised and utilized by transacylation reactions in microsomal preparations of developing safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) seeds

    Keith Stobart;Manuel Mancha;Marit Lenman;Anders Dahlqvist

  • Metabolic engineering of new fatty acids in plants.

    Surinder P Singh;Xue-Rong Zhou;Qing Liu;Sten Stymne

  • A bifunctional delta-fatty acyl acetylenase/desaturase from the moss Ceratodon purpureus. A new member of the cytochrome b5 superfamily.

    Petra Sperling;Michael Lee;Thomas Girke;Ulrich Zähringer

  • Functional expression of five Arabidopsis fatty acyl-CoA reductase genes in Escherichia coli

    Thuy T.P. Doan;Anders S. Carlsson;Mats Hamberg;Leif Bülow

  • A family of eukaryotic lysophospholipid acyltransferases with broad specificity

    Ulf Ståhl;Kjell Stålberg;Sten Stymne;Hans Ronne

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulf Stahl
Ulf Stahl Technical University of Berlin
Surinder P. Singh
Surinder P. Singh Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Peter V. Bozhkov
Peter V. Bozhkov Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Johnathan A. Napier
Johnathan A. Napier Rothamsted Research
Richard P. Haslam
Richard P. Haslam Rothamsted Research
Thomas Girke
Thomas Girke University of California, Riverside
John B. Ohlrogge
John B. Ohlrogge Michigan State University
Leif Bülow
Leif Bülow Lund University
Olga Sayanova
Olga Sayanova Rothamsted Research
Peter Dörmann
Peter Dörmann University of Bonn

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