Pál Maliga

17.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
166 papers, 12.5k citations indexed

About

Pál Maliga is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pál Maliga has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 12.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Molecular Biology, 96 papers in Plant Science and 37 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Pál Maliga's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (101 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (87 papers) and Transgenic Plants and Applications (36 papers). Pál Maliga is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (101 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (87 papers) and Transgenic Plants and Applications (36 papers). Pál Maliga collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hungary and United Kingdom. Pál Maliga's co-authors include Zóra Sváb, Peter T. J. Hajdukiewicz, Lori A. Allison, Kerry Ann Lutz, Jeffrey M. Staub, László Márton, László Menczel, A. Breznovits, Ferenc Nagy and Hiroshi Kuroda and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Pál Maliga

162 papers receiving 11.9k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

The small, versatilepPZP family ofAgrobacterium binary vectors for plant transformation

1994 1.4k citations Zóra Sváb, Pál Maliga et al. Plant Molecular Biology profile →
High-frequency plastid transformation in tobacco by selection for a chimeric aadA gene.

1993 596 citations Zóra Sváb, Pál Maliga Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Stable transformation of plastids in higher plants.

1990 469 citations Zóra Sváb, Pál Maliga et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Streptomycin-resistant Plants from Callus Culture of Haploid Tobacco

1973 390 citations Pál Maliga et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pál Maliga United States	61	11.6k	6.9k	2.7k	920	540	166	12.5k
Tony A. Kavanagh Ireland	30	9.1k 0.8×	9.4k 1.4×	2.8k 1.0×	175 0.2×	509 0.9×	71	12.2k
Stanton B. Gelvin United States	55	9.6k 0.8×	8.3k 1.2×	3.6k 1.4×	131 0.1×	237 0.4×	131	11.5k
Gary S. Ditta United States	45	9.2k 0.8×	10.6k 1.6×	569 0.2×	238 0.3×	717 1.3×	56	13.5k
Michael Bevan United Kingdom	61	15.7k 1.4×	17.3k 2.5×	4.2k 1.6×	121 0.1×	415 0.8×	138	21.5k
R.T. Fraley United States	24	6.4k 0.5×	5.0k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	156 0.2×	117 0.2×	30	7.4k
Ann Depicker Belgium	49	8.9k 0.8×	8.1k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	67 0.1×	259 0.5×	153	12.0k
John Bedbrook United States	32	4.1k 0.4×	4.0k 0.6×	768 0.3×	200 0.2×	333 0.6×	52	5.7k
Peter Weisbeek Netherlands	48	6.2k 0.5×	6.7k 1.0×	229 0.1×	523 0.6×	253 0.5×	135	9.5k
Yao‐Guang Liu China	46	8.2k 0.7×	8.8k 1.3×	627 0.2×	120 0.1×	336 0.6×	188	11.9k
Zóra Sváb United States	27	3.8k 0.3×	2.6k 0.4×	1.0k 0.4×	259 0.3×	97 0.2×	37	4.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Barkan, Alice, et al.. (2024). Posttranscriptional tuning of gene expression over a large dynamic range in synthetic tobacco chloroplast operons. The Plant Journal. 119(5). 2437–2449.

Maliga, Pál. (2022). Engineering the plastid and mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants. Nature Plants. 8(9). 996–1006. 38 indexed citations

Abdel‐Ghany, Salah E., et al.. (2022). Rapid sequence evolution is associated with genetic incompatibilities in the plastid Clp complex. Plant Molecular Biology. 108(3). 277–287. 7 indexed citations

Matsuoka, Aki & Pál Maliga. (2021). Prospects for Reengineering Agrobacterium tumefaciens for T-DNA Delivery to Chloroplasts. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 186(1). 215–220. 3 indexed citations

Maliga, Pál. (2014). Chloroplast biotechnology : methods and protocols. Humana Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations

Maliga, Pál, et al.. (2014). Two Distinct Plastid Genome Configurations and Unprecedented Intraspecies Length Variation in the accD Coding Region in Medicago truncatula. DNA Research. 21(4). 417–427. 52 indexed citations

Thyssen, Gregory N., Zóra Sváb, & Pál Maliga. (2012). Cell-to-cell movement of plastids in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(7). 2439–2443. 65 indexed citations

Cardi, Teodoro, Paolo Lenzi, & Pál Maliga. (2010). Chloroplasts as expression platforms for plant-produced vaccines. Expert Review of Vaccines. 9(8). 893–911. 55 indexed citations

Lutz, Kerry Ann & Pál Maliga. (2008). Plastid genomes in a regenerating tobacco shoot derive from a small number of copies selected through a stochastic process. The Plant Journal. 56(6). 975–983. 19 indexed citations

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Lutz, Kerry Ann, et al.. (2007). A Guide to Choosing Vectors for Transformation of the Plastid Genome of Higher Plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 145(4). 1201–1210. 50 indexed citations

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Lutz, Kerry Ann, et al.. (2007). Plastid marker gene excision by the phiC31 phage site-specific recombinase. Plant Molecular Biology. 64(1-2). 137–143. 53 indexed citations

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Maliga, Pál, et al.. (2007). DNA markers define plastid haplotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Current Genetics. 51(4). 269–275. 4 indexed citations

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Maliga, Pál, Sylvie Corneille, Kerry Ann Lutz, et al.. (2003). Tobacco chloroplasts as a platform for vaccine production.. Plant Biotechnology. 2002. 397–400.

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Baena–González, Elena, Yagut Allahverdiyeva, Zóra Sváb, et al.. (2003). Deletion of the tobacco plastid psbA gene triggers an upregulation of the thylakoid‐associated NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex and the plastid terminal oxidase (PTOX). The Plant Journal. 35(6). 704–716. 41 indexed citations

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Maliga, Pál, Hiroshi Kuroda, & Sylvie Corneille. (2001). Chloroplasts for the production of recombinant proteins. Science Access. 3(1). 4 indexed citations

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Lutz, Kerry Ann & Pál Maliga. (2001). Lack of conservation of editing sites in mRNAs that encode subunits of the NAD(P)H dehydrogenase complex in plastids and mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana. Current Genetics. 40(3). 214–219. 24 indexed citations

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Sugita, Mamoru, Zóra Sváb, Pál Maliga, & Masahiro Sugiura. (1997). Targeted deletion of sprA from the tobacco plastid genome indicates that the encoded small RNA is not essential for pre-16S rRNA maturation in plastids. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 257(1). 23–27. 31 indexed citations

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Maliga, Pál, et al.. (1993). Plastid engineering in land plants: a conservative genome is open to change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 342(1301). 203–208. 21 indexed citations

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Maliga, Pál, et al.. (1990). Towards manipulation of plastid genes in higher plants.. Plant Biology. 10. 133–143. 2 indexed citations

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Menczel, László, et al.. (1987). Fusion-mediated combination of Ogura-type cytoplasmic male sterility with Brassica napus plastids using X-irradiated CMS protoplasts. Plant Cell Reports. 6(2). 98–101. 52 indexed citations

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