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Yair Shachar-Hill is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their research primarily focuses on photosynthetic processes, lipid metabolism, and algal biology, among other topics within plant science and microbial metabolic engineering.

The scientist has published extensively in various high-impact venues. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Photosynthesis Research
  • UNC Libraries

Their main fields of study encompass biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with significant subfields such as molecular biology, plant science, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, biochemistry, and global and planetary change.

Yair Shachar-Hill's research topics show a focus on:

  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis
  • Algal biology and biofuel production
  • Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Biofuel production and bioconversion

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Shachar-Hill, notable works include:

  • The metabolic origins of non-photorespiratory CO2 release during photosynthesis: a metabolic flux analysis, 2021, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Reimport of carbon from cytosolic and vacuolar sugar pools into the Calvin-Benson cycle explains photosynthesis labeling anomalies, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Daylength variation affects growth, photosynthesis, leaf metabolism, partitioning, and metabolic fluxes, 2023, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Large fluxes of fatty acids from membranes to triacylglycerol and back during N-deprivation and recovery in Chlamydomonas, 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Re-Programing Glucose Catabolism in the Microalga Chlorella sorokiniana under Light Condition, 2022, Biomolecules

Frequent co-authors on their publications include:

  • Joshua A. M. Kaste
  • Yuan Xu
  • Berkley J. Walker
  • Thomas D. Sharkey
  • Na Pang

Best Publications

  • Nitrogen transfer in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

    Manjula Govindarajulu;Philip E. Pfeffer;Hairu Jin;Jehad Abubaker

  • Genome of an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus provides insight into the oldest plant symbiosis

    Emilie Tisserant;Mathilde Malbreil;Alan Kuo;Annegret Kohler

  • Carbon Metabolism and Transport in Arbuscular Mycorrhizas

    Berta Bago;Philip E. Pfeffer;Yair Shachar-Hill

  • Changes in Transcript Abundance in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii following Nitrogen Deprivation Predict Diversion of Metabolism

    Rachel Miller;Guangxi Wu;Rahul R. Deshpande;Astrid Vieler

  • Rubisco without the Calvin cycle improves the carbon efficiency of developing green seeds

    Jörg Schwender;Fernando Goffman;John B. Ohlrogge;Yair Shachar-Hill

  • Carbon uptake and the metabolism and transport of lipids in an arbuscular mycorrhiza

    Philip E. Pfeffer;David D. Douds;Guillaume Bécard;Yair Shachar-Hill

  • The transcriptome of the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Glomus intraradices (DAOM 197198) reveals functional tradeoffs in an obligate symbiont

    E. Tisserant;A. Kohler;P. Dozolme-Seddas;R. Balestrini

  • Genome, Functional Gene Annotation, and Nuclear Transformation of the Heterokont Oleaginous Alga Nannochloropsis oceanica CCMP1779

    Astrid Vieler;Guangxi Wu;Chia Hong Tsai;Blair Bullard

  • The uptake, metabolism, transport and transfer of nitrogen in an arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

    H. Jin;H. Jin;P. E. Pfeffer;D. D. Douds;E. Piotrowski

  • From genome to function: the Arabidopsis aquaporins

    Francoise Quigley;Francoise Quigley;Joshua M Rosenberg;Yair Shachar-Hill;Hans J Bohnert;Hans J Bohnert

  • Partitioning of intermediary carbon metabolism in vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal leek

    Yair Shachar-Hill;P. E. Pfeffer;D. Douds;S. F. Osman

  • Carbon Export from Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Roots Involves the Translocation of Carbohydrate as well as Lipid

    Berta Bago;Philip E. Pfeffer;Jehad Abubaker;Jeongwon Jun

  • Translocation and Utilization of Fungal Storage Lipid in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

    Berta Bago;Warren Zipfel;Rebecca M. Williams;Jeongwon Jun

  • A flux model of glycolysis and the oxidative pentosephosphate pathway in developing Brassica napus embryos

    Joerg Schwender;John B. Ohlrogge;Yair Shachar-Hill

  • What are aquaporins for

    A. E. Hill;B. Shachar-Hill;Y. Shachar-Hill

  • Measuring multiple fluxes through plant metabolic networks

    R.G. Ratcliffe;Y. Shachar-Hill

  • Mitochondrial Metabolism in Developing Embryos of Brassica napus

    Jörg Schwender;Yair Shachar-Hill;John B. Ohlrogge

  • The role of light in soybean seed filling metabolism

    Doug K. Allen;John B. Ohlrogge;Yair Shachar-Hill

  • Regulation of the nitrogen transfer pathway in the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis: gene characterization and the coordination of expression with nitrogen flux.

    Chunjie Tian;Beth Kasiborski;Raman Koul;Peter J. Lammers

  • The response of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to nitrogen deprivation: A systems biology analysis

    Jeong Jin Park;Hongxia Wang;Mahmoud Gargouri;Rahul R. Deshpande

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip E. Pfeffer
Philip E. Pfeffer Agricultural Research Service
John B. Ohlrogge
John B. Ohlrogge Michigan State University
David D. Douds
David D. Douds Agricultural Research Service
Andrew D. Hanson
Andrew D. Hanson University of Florida
Guillaume Bécard
Guillaume Bécard Paul Sabatier University
Stefan A. Rensing
Stefan A. Rensing University of Freiburg
Shin-Han Shiu
Shin-Han Shiu Michigan State University
Christoph Benning
Christoph Benning Michigan State University
Francis Martin
Francis Martin University of Lorraine
Gerald A. Tuskan
Gerald A. Tuskan Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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