Amit Gur

3.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Amit Gur is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Amit Gur has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Plant Science, 21 papers in Genetics and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Amit Gur's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers), Advances in Cucurbitaceae Research (10 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (9 papers). Amit Gur is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers), Advances in Cucurbitaceae Research (10 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (9 papers). Amit Gur collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Germany. Amit Gur's co-authors include Dani Zamir, Tzili Pleban, Yaniv Semel, Alisdair R. Fernie, Ilse Balbo, Fernando Carrari, Joachim Kopka, Ute Roessner, Claudia Bruedigam and Nicolas Schauer and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Biotechnology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Amit Gur

30 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

Comprehensive metabolic profiling and phenotyping of inte... 2006 2026 2012 2019 2006 100 200 300 400 500
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Comprehensive metabolic profiling and phenotyping of interspecific introgression lines for tomato improvement
    2006 553 citations Yaniv Semel, Amit Gur et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Amit Gur Israel 21 1.4k 900 705 159 99 31 1.9k
Tzili Pleban Israel 11 1.6k 1.1× 936 1.0× 631 0.9× 97 0.6× 96 1.0× 14 2.0k
John Uhlig United States 15 975 0.7× 575 0.6× 394 0.6× 180 1.1× 103 1.0× 16 1.3k
Mehtap Yıldız Türkiye 13 836 0.6× 308 0.3× 382 0.5× 77 0.5× 105 1.1× 60 1.1k
Yaniv Semel Israel 11 1.3k 0.9× 920 1.0× 476 0.7× 97 0.6× 93 0.9× 12 1.6k
Chunzhi Zhang China 17 1.5k 1.0× 912 1.0× 297 0.4× 107 0.7× 351 3.5× 29 2.0k
Yoonkang Hur South Korea 28 1.5k 1.1× 1.3k 1.5× 171 0.2× 166 1.0× 62 0.6× 96 2.1k
Dariusz Grzebelus Poland 19 985 0.7× 660 0.7× 235 0.3× 102 0.6× 79 0.8× 78 1.3k
Laura Toppino Italy 24 1.3k 0.9× 663 0.7× 404 0.6× 179 1.1× 145 1.5× 48 1.6k
Francesca Taranto Italy 19 1.0k 0.7× 261 0.3× 393 0.6× 141 0.9× 193 1.9× 46 1.4k
Mu Zhuang China 25 1.7k 1.2× 1.3k 1.5× 246 0.3× 115 0.7× 66 0.7× 153 2.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amit Gur

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Paris, Harry S. & Amit Gur. (2025). Southern Italy: birthplace of the Cocozelle squash, Cucurbita pepo subsp. pepo, Cocozelle Group. Euphytica. 221(11). 1 indexed citations
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Tzuri, Galil, Elad Oren, ‎Tal Isaacson, et al.. (2025). Meta genetic analysis of melon sweetness. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 138(4). 68–68. 1 indexed citations
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Manasherova, Ekaterina, et al.. (2024). The dominant white color trait of the melon fruit rind is associated with epicuticular wax accumulation. Planta. 260(4). 97–97. 2 indexed citations
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Oren, Elad, Galil Tzuri, ‎Tal Isaacson, et al.. (2022). Pan‐genome and multi‐parental framework for high‐resolution trait dissection in melon ( Cucumis melo ). The Plant Journal. 112(6). 1525–1542. 20 indexed citations
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Oren, Elad, ‎Tal Isaacson, Galil Tzuri, et al.. (2021). Underground heterosis for yield improvement in melon. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(18). 6205–6218. 12 indexed citations
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Cohen, Roni, Harry S. Paris, Amit Gur, et al.. (2021). Occurrence of Macrophomina phaseolina in Israel: Challenges for Disease Management and Crop Germplasm Enhancement. Plant Disease. 106(1). 15–25. 21 indexed citations
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Oren, Elad, Galil Tzuri, Ayala Meir, et al.. (2019). The multi-allelic APRR2 gene is associated with fruit pigment accumulation in melon and watermelon. Journal of Experimental Botany. 70(15). 3781–3794. 90 indexed citations
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Feder, Ari, Noam Chayut, Amit Gur, et al.. (2019). The Role of Carotenogenic Metabolic Flux in Carotenoid Accumulation and Chromoplast Differentiation: Lessons From the Melon Fruit. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1250–1250. 22 indexed citations
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Edelstein, M., R. Cohen, Amit Gur, et al.. (2017). Performance of interspecific Cucurbita rootstocks compared to their parental lines. Scientia Horticulturae. 216. 45–50. 9 indexed citations
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Gur, Amit, Galil Tzuri, Ayala Meir, et al.. (2017). Genome-Wide Linkage-Disequilibrium Mapping to the Candidate Gene Level in Melon (Cucumis melo). Scientific Reports. 7(1). 9770–9770. 50 indexed citations
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Toubiana, David, Nengyi Zhang, Karl A. Kremling, et al.. (2016). Correlation-Based Network Analysis of Metabolite and Enzyme Profiles Reveals a Role of Citrate Biosynthesis in Modulating N and C Metabolism in Zea mays. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7. 1022–1022. 20 indexed citations
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Gur, Amit & Dani Zamir. (2015). Mendelizing all Components of a Pyramid of Three Yield QTL in Tomato. Frontiers in Plant Science. 6. 1096–1096. 18 indexed citations
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Zhang, Nengyi, Amit Gur, Yves Gibon, et al.. (2010). Genetic Analysis of Central Carbon Metabolism Unveils an Amino Acid Substitution That Alters Maize NAD-Dependent Isocitrate Dehydrogenase Activity. PLoS ONE. 5(4). e9991–e9991. 28 indexed citations
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Gur, Amit, Sonia Osorio, Eyal Fridman, Alisdair R. Fernie, & Dani Zamir. (2010). hi2-1, A QTL which improves harvest index, earliness and alters metabolite accumulation of processing tomatoes. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 121(8). 1587–1599. 25 indexed citations
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Semel, Yaniv, J. Nissenbaum, Naama Menda, et al.. (2006). Overdominant quantitative trait loci for yield and fitness in tomato. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(35). 12981–12986. 216 indexed citations
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Gur, Amit & Dani Zamir. (2004). Unused Natural Variation Can Lift Yield Barriers in Plant Breeding. PLoS Biology. 2(10). e245–e245. 242 indexed citations
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Gur, Amit, Yaniv Semel, A. Cahaner, & Dani Zamir. (2004). Real Time QTL of complex phenotypes in tomato interspecific introgression lines. Trends in Plant Science. 9(3). 107–109. 30 indexed citations
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Barg, Rivka, Amit Gur, Inna Chmelnitsky, et al.. (2004). The tomato early fruit specific gene Lefsm1 defines a novel class of plant-specific SANT/MYB domain proteins. Planta. 221(2). 197–211. 36 indexed citations
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Liu, Yongsheng, Amit Gur, Gil Ronen, et al.. (2003). There is more to tomato fruit colour than candidate carotenoid genes. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 1(3). 195–207. 131 indexed citations
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Fridman, Eyal, Amit Gur, Michal Shoresh, et al.. (2002). Two tightly linked QTLs modify tomato sugar content via different physiological pathways. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 266(5). 821–826. 93 indexed citations

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