Peter Beyer

13.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
117 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Peter Beyer is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Beyer has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Molecular Biology, 52 papers in Biochemistry and 32 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Beyer's work include Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (70 papers), Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (51 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (38 papers). Peter Beyer is often cited by papers focused on Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (70 papers), Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress (51 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (38 papers). Peter Beyer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and France. Peter Beyer's co-authors include Salim Al‐Babili, Ralf Welsch, Ingo Potrykus, Paola Lucca, Xudong Ye, Andreas Klöti, Hans Kleinig, Jing Zhang, Giovanni Giuliano and Johannes von Lintig and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Peter Beyer

116 papers receiving 9.5k 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.

Engineering the Provitamin A (β-Carotene) Biosynthetic Pathway into (Carotenoid-Free) Rice Endosperm

2000 1.4k citations Xudong Ye, Salim Al‐Babili et al. Science profile →
The Path from β-Carotene to Carlactone, a Strigolactone-Like Plant Hormone

2012 693 citations Adrian Alder, Muhammad Jamil et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter Beyer Germany	55	6.9k	4.1k	4.0k	944	882	117	9.9k
Manuel Rodríguez‐Concepción Spain	60	8.9k 1.3×	4.1k 1.0×	3.9k 1.0×	424 0.4×	697 0.8×	152	11.3k
Dean DellaPenna United States	59	7.4k 1.1×	4.6k 1.1×	4.4k 1.1×	425 0.5×	1.0k 1.2×	93	10.4k
Paul D. Fraser United Kingdom	58	8.4k 1.2×	4.1k 1.0×	5.1k 1.3×	287 0.3×	1.1k 1.2×	188	11.8k
Salim Al‐Babili Saudi Arabia	56	6.3k 0.9×	6.6k 1.6×	3.0k 0.7×	2.8k 3.0×	592 0.7×	184	11.2k
A. Winkel United States	36	7.3k 1.1×	5.0k 1.2×	2.2k 0.6×	435 0.5×	112 0.1×	101	10.1k
Teresa Capell Spain	46	4.9k 0.7×	3.8k 0.9×	1.3k 0.3×	140 0.1×	352 0.4×	142	7.3k
Donald R. McCarty United States	52	6.0k 0.9×	8.2k 2.0×	1.1k 0.3×	728 0.8×	130 0.1×	108	10.4k
Norihiko Misawa Japan	53	6.6k 1.0×	858 0.2×	3.5k 0.9×	178 0.2×	2.1k 2.4×	196	8.2k
Changfu Zhu Spain	39	3.1k 0.5×	2.3k 0.6×	2.0k 0.5×	127 0.1×	543 0.6×	106	5.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Beyer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Beyer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Beyer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Beyer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Beyer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Peter Beyer. Peter Beyer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Piddock, Laura J. V., Yewande Alimi, James L. Anderson, et al.. (2024). Advancing global antibiotic research, development and access. Nature Medicine. 30(9). 2432–2443. 32 indexed citations

Camagna, Maurizio, Alexander Grundmann, Cornelia Bär, et al.. (2018). Enzyme Fusion Removes Competition for Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate in Carotenogenesis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 179(3). 1013–1027. 68 indexed citations

Koschmieder, Julian, et al.. (2017). Structure of Phytoene Desaturase Provides Insights into Herbicide Binding and Reaction Mechanisms Involved in Carotene Desaturation. Structure. 25(8). 1222–1232.e3. 47 indexed citations

Samodelov, Sophia L., Hannes M. Beyer, Xiujie Guo, et al.. (2016). StrigoQuant: A genetically encoded biosensor for quantifying strigolactone activity and specificity. Science Advances. 2(11). e1601266–e1601266. 45 indexed citations

Wüst, Florian, Patrick Schaub, K.G. Beisel, et al.. (2015). Tissue-Specific Apocarotenoid Glycosylation Contributes to Carotenoid Homeostasis in Arabidopsis Leaves. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 168(4). 1550–1562. 75 indexed citations

Arango, Jacobo, Matthieu Jourdan, Emmanuel Geoffriau, Peter Beyer, & Ralf Welsch. (2014). Carotene Hydroxylase Activity Determines the Levels of Both α-Carotene and Total Carotenoids in Orange Carrots. The Plant Cell. 26(5). 2223–2233. 121 indexed citations

Yu, Qiuju, et al.. (2014). Functional and molecular characterization of plastid terminal oxidase from rice (Oryza sativa). Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(8). 1284–1292. 42 indexed citations

Yu, Qiuju, et al.. (2014). In vitro analysis of the plastid terminal oxidase in photosynthetic electron transport. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1837(10). 1684–1690. 17 indexed citations

Ilg, Andrea, Mark Bruno, Peter Beyer, & Salim Al‐Babili. (2014). Tomato carotenoid cleavage dioxygenases 1A and 1B: Relaxed double bond specificity leads to a plenitude of dialdehydes, mono‐apocarotenoids and isoprenoid volatiles. FEBS Open Bio. 4(1). 584–593. 98 indexed citations

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Alder, Adrian, Muhammad Jamil, Mattia Marzorati, et al.. (2012). The Path from β-Carotene to Carlactone, a Strigolactone-Like Plant Hormone. Science. 335(6074). 1348–1351. 693 indexed citations breakdown →

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Arango, Jacobo, et al.. (2010). Putative storage root specific promoters from cassava and yam: cloning and evaluation in transgenic carrots as a model system. Plant Cell Reports. 29(6). 651–659. 25 indexed citations

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Ilg, Andrea, Peter Beyer, & Salim Al‐Babili. (2008). Characterization of the rice carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase 1 reveals a novel route for geranial biosynthesis. FEBS Journal. 276(3). 736–747. 121 indexed citations

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Diretto, Gianfranco, Ralf Welsch, Raffaela Tavazza, et al.. (2007). Silencing of beta-carotene hydroxylase increases total carotenoid and beta-carotene levels in potato tubers. BMC Plant Biology. 7(1). 11–11. 121 indexed citations

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Kloer, Daniel P., et al.. (2005). The Structure of a Retinal-Forming Carotenoid Oxygenase. Science. 308(5719). 267–269. 208 indexed citations

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Beyer, Peter, et al.. (2005). Function of the 23 kDa extrinsic protein of Photosystem II as a manganese binding protein and its role in photoactivation. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics. 1708(1). 63–70. 40 indexed citations

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Datta, Karabi, Niranjan Baisakh, Norman Oliva, et al.. (2003). Bioengineered ‘ golden ’ indica rice cultivars with β‐carotene metabolism in the endosperm with hygromycin and mannose selection systems. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 1(2). 81–90. 109 indexed citations

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Beyer, Peter, Salim Al‐Babili, Xudong Ye, et al.. (2002). Golden Rice: Introducing the β-Carotene Biosynthesis Pathway into Rice Endosperm by Genetic Engineering to Defeat Vitamin A Deficiency. Journal of Nutrition. 132(3). 506S–510S. 243 indexed citations

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Burkhardt, P. K., Peter Beyer, Joachim Wünn, et al.. (1997). Transgenic rice (Oryza sativa) endosperm expressing daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus) phytoene synthase accumulates phytoene, a key intermediate of provitamin A biosynthesis. The Plant Journal. 11(5). 1071–1078. 232 indexed citations

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Belingheri, Lionel, Peter Beyer, Hans Kleinig, & M. Gleizes. (1991). Solubilization and partial purification of squalene synthase from daffodil microsomal membranes. FEBS Letters. 292(1-2). 34–36. 8 indexed citations

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Beyer, Peter, Klaus Kreuz, & Hans Kleinig. (1980). ?-Carotene synthesis in isolated chromoplasts from Narcissus pseudonarcissus. Planta. 150(5). 435–438. 43 indexed citations

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