Rebecca Van Acker

1.6k total citations
19 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Rebecca Van Acker is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Biomedical Engineering and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Rebecca Van Acker has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Molecular Biology, 16 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Rebecca Van Acker's work include Plant Gene Expression Analysis (15 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers) and Lignin and Wood Chemistry (12 papers). Rebecca Van Acker is often cited by papers focused on Plant Gene Expression Analysis (15 papers), Biofuel production and bioconversion (14 papers) and Lignin and Wood Chemistry (12 papers). Rebecca Van Acker collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and France. Rebecca Van Acker's co-authors include Wout Boerjan, Ruben Vanholme, Véronique Storme, Jenny C. Mortimer, Paul Dupree, John Ralph, Geert Goeminne, Bartel Vanholme, Gilles Pilate and Hoon Kim and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Rebecca Van Acker

19 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rebecca Van Acker Belgium 15 720 623 575 125 74 19 1.1k
Faride Unda Canada 20 608 0.8× 688 1.1× 433 0.8× 86 0.7× 91 1.2× 38 1.1k
Heather D. Coleman United States 13 621 0.9× 735 1.2× 420 0.7× 96 0.8× 119 1.6× 28 1.1k
Rebecca A. Smith United States 18 842 1.2× 802 1.3× 604 1.1× 162 1.3× 47 0.6× 31 1.4k
Lise Jouanin France 10 917 1.3× 741 1.2× 496 0.9× 217 1.7× 70 0.9× 14 1.3k
Brigitte Pollet France 8 670 0.9× 514 0.8× 376 0.7× 126 1.0× 88 1.2× 9 916
Nickolas Anderson United States 12 541 0.8× 577 0.9× 329 0.6× 106 0.8× 39 0.5× 17 936
Ajaya K. Biswal United States 14 411 0.6× 488 0.8× 248 0.4× 55 0.4× 65 0.9× 29 814
Akiyoshi Kawaoka Japan 16 804 1.1× 712 1.1× 196 0.3× 167 1.3× 38 0.5× 32 1.1k
Armin Wagner New Zealand 12 549 0.8× 404 0.6× 361 0.6× 154 1.2× 28 0.4× 16 790
Abdellah Barakate United Kingdom 22 1.1k 1.5× 918 1.5× 358 0.6× 246 2.0× 123 1.7× 29 1.6k

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All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Meester, Barbara De, Rebecca Van Acker, Marijke Steenackers, et al.. (2022). Field and saccharification performances of poplars severely downregulated in CAD1. New Phytologist. 236(6). 2075–2090. 13 indexed citations
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Meester, Barbara De, Ruben Vanholme, Rebecca Van Acker, et al.. (2022). Engineering Curcumin Biosynthesis in Poplar Affects Lignification and Biomass Yield. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 943349–943349. 10 indexed citations
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Behr, Marc, Fabien Baldacci‐Cresp, Annegret Kohler, et al.. (2020). Alterations in the phenylpropanoid pathway affect poplar ability for ectomycorrhizal colonisation and susceptibility to root-knot nematodes. Mycorrhiza. 30(5). 555–566. 9 indexed citations
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Acker, Rebecca Van, Wannes Voorend, Geert Goeminne, et al.. (2020). Rewired phenolic metabolism and improved saccharification efficiency of a Zea mays cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase 2 (zmcad2) mutant. The Plant Journal. 105(5). 1240–1257. 22 indexed citations
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Storme, Nico De, Rebecca Van Acker, Jonatan U. Fangel, et al.. (2018). Polyploidy Affects Plant Growth and Alters Cell Wall Composition. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 179(1). 74–87. 167 indexed citations
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Vries, Lisanne de, Ruben Vanholme, Rebecca Van Acker, et al.. (2018). Stacking of a low-lignin trait with an increased guaiacyl and 5-hydroxyguaiacyl unit trait leads to additive and synergistic effects on saccharification efficiency in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 11(1). 257–257. 22 indexed citations
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Cesarino, Igor, Lívia Vargas, Hoon Kim, et al.. (2017). Silencing CAFFEOYL SHIKIMATE ESTERASE Affects Lignification and Improves Saccharification in Poplar. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 175(3). 1040–1057. 92 indexed citations
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Acker, Rebecca Van, Annabelle Déjardin, Ruben Vanholme, et al.. (2017). Different Routes for Conifer- and Sinapaldehyde and Higher Saccharification upon Deficiency in the Dehydrogenase CAD1. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 175(3). 1018–1039. 99 indexed citations
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Özparpucu, Merve, Notburga Gierlinger, Ingo Burgert, et al.. (2017). The effect of altered lignin composition on mechanical properties of CINNAMYL ALCOHOL DEHYDROGENASE (CAD) deficient poplars. Planta. 247(4). 887–897. 27 indexed citations
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Toraman, Hilal Ezgi, Victor Abrahamsson, Ruben Vanholme, et al.. (2017). Application of Py-GC/MS coupled with PARAFAC2 and PLS-DA to study fast pyrolysis of genetically engineered poplars. Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 129. 101–111. 14 indexed citations
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Beckers, Bram, Michiel Op De Beeck, Nele Weyens, et al.. (2016). Lignin engineering in field-grown poplar trees affects the endosphere bacterial microbiome. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(8). 2312–2317. 85 indexed citations
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Acker, Rebecca Van, Ruben Vanholme, Kathleen Piens, & Wout Boerjan. (2016). Saccharification Protocol for Small-scale Lignocellulosic Biomass Samples to Test Processing of Cellulose into Glucose. BIO-PROTOCOL. 6(1). 26 indexed citations
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Baldacci‐Cresp, Fabien, Jean‐Charles Leplé, Rebecca Van Acker, et al.. (2015). PtaRHE1, a Populus tremula × Populus alba RING‐H2 protein of the ATL family, has a regulatory role in secondary phloem fibre development. The Plant Journal. 82(6). 978–990. 20 indexed citations
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Chylla, Roger A., Rebecca Van Acker, Hoon Kim, et al.. (2013). Plant cell wall profiling by fast maximum likelihood reconstruction (FMLR) and region-of-interest (ROI) segmentation of solution-state 2D 1H–13C NMR spectra. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 6(1). 45–45. 18 indexed citations
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Acker, Rebecca Van, Jean‐Charles Leplé, Dirk Aerts, et al.. (2013). Improved saccharification and ethanol yield from field-grown transgenic poplar deficient in cinnamoyl-CoA reductase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(2). 845–850. 155 indexed citations
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Acker, Rebecca Van, Ruben Vanholme, Véronique Storme, et al.. (2013). Lignin biosynthesis perturbations affect secondary cell wall composition and saccharification yield in Arabidopsis thaliana. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 6(1). 46–46. 244 indexed citations
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Vanholme, Bartel, Igor Cesarino, Geert Goeminne, et al.. (2013). Breeding with rare defective alleles (BRDA): a natural Populus nigra HCT mutant with modified lignin as a case study. New Phytologist. 198(3). 765–776. 83 indexed citations
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Acker, Rebecca Van, Véronique Storme, Geert Goeminne, et al.. (2011). Science, society and biosafety of a field trial with transgenic biofuel poplars. BMC Proceedings. 5(S7). 1 indexed citations
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Vanholme, Ruben, Rebecca Van Acker, & Wout Boerjan. (2010). Potential of Arabidopsis systems biology to advance the biofuel field. Trends in biotechnology. 28(11). 543–547. 41 indexed citations

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