Per Hofvander

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Per Hofvander is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Per Hofvander has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Plant Science, 32 papers in Molecular Biology and 16 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Per Hofvander's work include Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (16 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (13 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (11 papers). Per Hofvander is often cited by papers focused on Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (16 papers), CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (13 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (11 papers). Per Hofvander collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and Argentina. Per Hofvander's co-authors include Mariette Andersson, Helle Turesson, Anders S. Carlsson, Sten Stymne, Alessandro Nicolia, Niklas Olsson, Matías Nicolás González, Ann‐Sofie Fält, Allan Green and Jenny Lindberg Yilmaz and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Per Hofvander

51 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Efficient targeted multiallelic mutagenesis in tetraploid potato (Solanum tuberosum) by transient CRISPR-Cas9 expression in protoplasts

2016 329 citations Mariette Andersson, Helle Turesson et al. Plant Cell Reports profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Per Hofvander Sweden	24	1.4k	1.3k	395	249	220	54	2.2k
Guojiang Wu China	26	1.6k 1.2×	2.3k 1.7×	161 0.4×	56 0.2×	72 0.3×	88	2.9k
Sateesh Kagale Canada	22	1.5k 1.0×	2.4k 1.8×	275 0.7×	110 0.4×	76 0.3×	46	2.9k
Xiucai Zhao China	11	2.0k 1.4×	2.0k 1.5×	44 0.1×	52 0.2×	153 0.7×	13	2.8k
Xiuping Guo China	44	2.4k 1.7×	4.9k 3.7×	84 0.2×	93 0.4×	82 0.4×	92	5.7k
R. K. Downey Canada	28	1.7k 1.2×	1.7k 1.3×	621 1.6×	149 0.6×	57 0.3×	80	2.5k
Keshun Yu United States	27	771 0.5×	1.7k 1.3×	439 1.1×	160 0.6×	96 0.4×	33	2.3k
Rongxin Shen China	18	1.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.5×	27 0.1×	42 0.2×	160 0.7×	26	2.7k
Guiai Jiao China	26	802 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	21 0.1×	105 0.4×	43 0.2×	71	2.1k
Ya‐Jie Tang China	25	1.1k 0.8×	261 0.2×	52 0.1×	221 0.9×	45 0.2×	42	1.6k
Fangcheng Bi China	22	777 0.6×	1.1k 0.8×	44 0.1×	52 0.2×	85 0.4×	51	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Per Hofvander

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Fields of papers citing papers by Per Hofvander

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Per Hofvander

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Barregård, Lars, Christina Dixelius, Florencia Harari, et al.. (2025). Review: Strategies for limiting dietary cadmium in cereals. Plant Science. 357. 112535–112535.

Andersson, Mariette, May Bente Brurberg, Per Hofvander, et al.. (2024). Colour change in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) tubers by disruption of the anthocyanin pathway via ribonucleoprotein complex delivery of the CRISPR/Cas9 system. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 157(2). 4 indexed citations

Hu, Jia, Jun Su, Selçuk Aslan, et al.. (2023). Improved bioenergy value of residual rice straw by increased lipid levels from upregulation of fatty acid biosynthesis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 16(1). 90–90. 5 indexed citations

Turesson, Helle, et al.. (2023). Pho1a (plastid starch phosphorylase) is duplicated and essential for normal starch granule phenotype in tubers of Solanum tuberosum L. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1220973–1220973. 10 indexed citations

Irisarri, Iker, Patricia Scholz, Kerstin Schmitt, et al.. (2022). A seed‐like proteome in oil‐rich tubers. The Plant Journal. 112(2). 518–534. 11 indexed citations

Wang, Honglei, Bao‐Jian Ding, Tara J. Nazarenus, et al.. (2022). Insect pest management with sex pheromone precursors from engineered oilseed plants. Nature Sustainability. 5(11). 981–990. 25 indexed citations

Ding, Bao‐Jian, Honglei Wang, Timothy P. Durrett, et al.. (2022). Manufacturing specialized wax esters in plants. Metabolic Engineering. 72. 391–402. 2 indexed citations

Xia, Yi-Han, Bao‐Jian Ding, Shuanglin Dong, et al.. (2022). Release of moth pheromone compounds from Nicotiana benthamiana upon transient expression of heterologous biosynthetic genes. BMC Biology. 20(1). 80–80. 9 indexed citations

González, Matías Nicolás, G Massa, Mariette Andersson, et al.. (2021). Comparative potato genome editing: Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation and protoplasts transfection delivery of CRISPR/Cas9 components directed to StPPO2 gene. Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture (PCTOC). 145(2). 291–305. 33 indexed citations

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Hofvander, Per, Erik Andréasson, & Mariette Andersson. (2021). Potato trait development going fast-forward with genome editing. Trends in Genetics. 38(3). 218–221. 18 indexed citations

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Zhao, Xue, Shishanthi Jayarathna, Helle Turesson, et al.. (2021). Amylose starch with no detectable branching developed through DNA-free CRISPR-Cas9 mediated mutagenesis of two starch branching enzymes in potato. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 4311–4311. 63 indexed citations

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Ortíz, Rodomiro, Mulatu Geleta, Ida Lager, et al.. (2020). Oil crops for the future. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 56. 181–189. 44 indexed citations

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Andersson, Mariette, Helle Turesson, Stéphanie Arrivault, et al.. (2018). Inhibition of plastid PPase and NTT leads to major changes in starch and tuber formation in potato. Journal of Experimental Botany. 69(8). 1913–1924. 12 indexed citations

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Ding, Bao‐Jian, Per Hofvander, Honglei Wang, et al.. (2014). A plant factory for moth pheromone production. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3353–3353. 59 indexed citations

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Iven, Tim, Cornelia Herrfurth, Ellen Hornung, et al.. (2013). Wax ester profiling of seed oil by nano-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry. Plant Methods. 9(1). 24–24. 45 indexed citations

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Ng’uni, Dickson, et al.. (2012). Comparative genetic diversity and nutritional quality variation among some important Southern African sorghum accessions [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]. Australian Journal of Crop Science. 6(1). 56–64. 32 indexed citations

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Turesson, Helle, Salla Marttila, Karl‐Erik Gustavsson, et al.. (2010). Characterization of oil and starch accumulation in tubers of Cyperus esculentus var. sativus (Cyperaceae): A novel model system to study oil reserves in nonseed tissues. American Journal of Botany. 97(11). 1884–1893. 56 indexed citations

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Hofvander, Per, et al.. (2004). Field performance and starch characteristics of high‐amylose potatoes obtained by antisense gene targeting of two branching enzymes. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 2(4). 311–320. 57 indexed citations

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Andersson, Mariette, et al.. (2003). A novel selection system for potato transformation using a mutated AHAS gene. Plant Cell Reports. 22(4). 261–267. 39 indexed citations

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Lilius, G., et al.. (2000). Enhanced fructose levels in field grown potato tubers expressing a thermostable glucose isomerase. Biotechnology Letters. 22(12). 1035–1041. 3 indexed citations

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