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Citations
23785
World Ranking
906
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479

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Vitaly Citovsky is affiliated with Stony Brook University in the United States. Their primary research spans Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with significant focus in subfields including Plant Science, Molecular Biology, and Biotechnology.

Their published work addresses several main topics such as Plant Virus Research Studies, Plant tissue culture and regeneration, Transgenic Plants and Applications, Plant Molecular Biology Research, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism.

Vitaly Citovsky's recent published papers include:

  • "Biolistic Approach for Transient Gene Expression Studies in Plants," 2020, Methods in Molecular Biology
  • "Receptor-like kinase BAM1 facilitates early movement of the Tobacco mosaic virus," 2021, Communications Biology
  • "Histone Deubiquitinase OTU1 Epigenetically Regulates DA1 and DA2, Which Control Arabidopsis Seed and Organ Size," 2020, iScience
  • "Genetic factors governing bacterial virulence and host plant susceptibility during Agrobacterium infection," 2022, Advances in Genetics
  • "Arabidopsis LSH10 transcription factor and OTLD1 histone deubiquitinase interact and transcriptionally regulate the same target genes," 2023, Communications Biology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Vitaly Citovsky include Phu-Tri Tran, Benoît Lacroix, Ido Keren, and Mi Sa Vo Phan.

The scientist's publications frequently appear in venues such as Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Journal of Visualized Experiments, Communications Biology, and iScience.

Recognized by peers, Vitaly Citovsky was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Top 10 plant pathogenic bacteria in molecular plant pathology

    John Mansfield;Stephane Genin;Shimpei Magori;Vitaly Citovsky

  • Advancing Crop Transformation in the Era of Genome Editing

    Fredy Altpeter;Nathan M. Springer;Laura E. Bartley;Ann E. Blechl

  • The P30 movement protein of tobacco mosaic virus is a single-strand nucleic acid binding protein

    Vitaly Citovsky;David Knorr;Gadi Schuster;Patricia Zambryski

  • The roles of plant phenolics in defence and communication during Agrobacterium and Rhizobium infection

    Amita Bhattacharya;Priyanka Sood;Vitaly Citovsky

  • Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation of plants: biology and biotechnology.

    Tzvi Tzfira;Vitaly Citovsky

  • Genetic transformation of HeLa cells by Agrobacterium

    Talya Kunik;Tzvi Tzfira;Yoram Kapulnik;Yedidya Gafni

  • pSAT vectors: a modular series of plasmids for autofluorescent protein tagging and expression of multiple genes in plants

    Tzvi Tzfira;Guo-Wei Tian;Beno°t Lacroix;Shachi Vyas

  • Agrobacterium T-DNA integration: molecules and models.

    Tzvi Tzfira;Jianxiong Li;Benoı̂t Lacroix;Vitaly Citovsky

  • Nuclear localization of Agrobacterium VirE2 protein in plant cells.

    Vitaly Citovsky;John Zupan;Debra Warnick;Patricia Zambryski

  • Subcellular localization of interacting proteins by bimolecular fluorescence complementation in planta.

    Vitaly Citovsky;Lan-Ying Lee;Shachi Vyas;Efrat Glick

  • Agrobacterium-plant cell DNA transport: have virulence proteins, will travel.

    Jinsong Sheng;Vitaly Citovsky

  • Interaction between the tobacco mosaic virus movement protein and host cell pectin methylesterases is required for viral cell-to-cell movement.

    Min-Huei Chen;Jinsong Sheng;Geoffrey Hind;Avtar K. Handa

  • Interaction with host SGS3 is required for suppression of RNA silencing by tomato yellow leaf curl virus V2 protein.

    Efrat Glick;Avi Zrachya;Yael Levy;Anahit Mett

  • Biology of callose (β-1,3-glucan) turnover at plasmodesmata

    Raul Zavaliev;Shoko Ueki;Bernard L. Epel;Vitaly Citovsky

  • The VirD2 protein of A. tumefaciens contains a C-terminal bipartite nuclear localization signal: implications for nuclear uptake of DNA in plant cells.

    Elizabeth A. Howard;John R. Zupan;Vitaly Citovsky;Patricia C. Zambryski

  • Direct functional assay for tobacco mosaic virus cell-to-cell movement protein and identification of a domain involved in increasing plasmodesmal permeability.

    Elisabeth Waigmann;William J. Lucas;Vitaly Citovsky;Patricia Zambryski

  • Involvement of targeted proteolysis in plant genetic transformation by Agrobacterium.

    Tzvi Tzfira;Manjusha Vaidya;Vitaly Citovsky

  • VIP1, an Arabidopsis protein that interacts with Agrobacterium VirE2, is involved in VirE2 nuclear import and Agrobacterium infectivity

    Tzvi Tzfira;Manjusha Vaidya;Vitaly Citovsky

  • The Ins and Outs of Nondestructive Cell-to-Cell and Systemic Movement of Plant Viruses

    Elisabeth Waigmann;Shoko Ueki;Kateryna Trutnyeva;Vitaly Citovsky

  • Partners-in-infection: host proteins involved in the transformation of plant cells by Agrobacterium.

    Tzvi Tzfira;Vitaly Citovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Tzvi Tzfira
Tzvi Tzfira University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Patricia Zambryski
Patricia Zambryski University of California, Berkeley
Abraham Loyter
Abraham Loyter Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Alexander Vainstein
Alexander Vainstein Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Sérgio Simões
Sérgio Simões University of Coimbra
Stanton B. Gelvin
Stanton B. Gelvin Purdue University West Lafayette
C. Neal Stewart
C. Neal Stewart University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Yoram Kapulnik
Yoram Kapulnik BARD The U.S.-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund
Pamela C. Ronald
Pamela C. Ronald University of California, Davis
Detlef Weigel
Detlef Weigel Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology

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