Steven Ball

16.8k citations

116 papers · 8.5k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

Nutrition and Dietetics top 0.05%
- Food composition and properties
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology
Biotechnology top 0.1%
- Enzyme Production and Characterization

Papers in ⓘ

Biotechnology 29
- Enzyme Production and Characterization 29
Nutrition and Dietetics 39
- Food composition and properties 32
- Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology 20

Co-authors: Alain Buléon (15 shared papers)Véronique Planchot (9 shared papers)Paul Colonna (5 shared papers)Matthew K. Morell (11 shared papers)Christophe d’Hulst (34 shared papers)David Dauvillée (33 shared papers)Alan M. Myers (7 shared papers)Christophe Colleoni (36 shared papers)
Journals: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (18 papers)The Plant Cell (7 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (6 papers)Trends in Plant Science (5 papers)Eukaryotic Cell (4 papers)
Partner nations: France United States Germany

In The Last Decade

Steven Ball

115 papers receiving 8.2k citations

Hit Papers

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From Bacterial Glycogen to Starch: Understanding the Biogenesis of the Plant Starch Granule 2003 · 562 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2003 Annual Review of Plant Biology
1998 International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

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1	Starch granules: structure and biosynthesis International Journal of Biological Macromolecules ·Alain Buléon, Paul Colonna, Véronique Planchot, Steven Ball Hit paper breakdown →	1998	1482
2	From Bacterial Glycogen to Starch: Understanding the Biogenesis of the Plant Starch Granule Annual Review of Plant Biology ·Steven Ball, Matthew K. Morell Hit paper breakdown →	2003	562
3	Recent Progress toward Understanding Biosynthesis of the Amylopectin Crystal PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Alan M. Myers, Matthew K. Morell, Martha G. James, Steven Ball	2000	389
4	From Glycogen to Amylopectin: A Model for the Biogenesis of the Plant Starch Granule Cell ·Steven Ball, Hanping Guan, Martha G. James, Alan M. Myers, Peter L. Keeling, Grégory Mouille, Alain Buléon, Paul Colonna, J. Preiss	1996	350
5	Chlamydomonas starchless mutant defective in ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase hyper-accumulates triacylglycerol Metabolic Engineering ·Yantao Li, Danxiang Han, Guongrong Hu, David Dauvillée, Milton R. Sommerfeld, Steven Ball, Qiang Hu	2010	286
6	The phenotype of soluble starch synthase IV defective mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana suggests a novel function of elongation enzymes in the control of starch granule formation The Plant Journal ·Isaac Roldán, Fabrice Wattebled, M. Mercedes Lucas, David Delvallé, Véronique Planchot, Sebastián Jiménez, Ricardo Pérez, Steven Ball, Christophe d’Hulst, Ángel Mérida	2007	200
7	Preamylopectin Processing: A Mandatory Step for Starch Biosynthesis in Plants. The Plant Cell ·Grégory Mouille, Marie‐Lise Maddelein, Nathalie Libessart, Philippe Talaga, André Decq, Brigitte Delrue, Steven Ball	1996	185
8	The evolution of glycogen and starch metabolism in eukaryotes gives molecular clues to understand the establishment of plastid endosymbiosis Journal of Experimental Botany ·Steven Ball, Christophe Colleoni, Ugo Cenci, Jenifer Nirmal Raj, Catherine Tirtiaux	2011	181
9	Genome of the red alga Porphyridium purpureum Nature Communications ·Debashish Bhattacharya, Dana C. Price, Cheong Xin Chan, Huan Qiu, Nicholas D. Rose, Steven Ball, Andreas P.M. Weber, Maria Cecilia Arias, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro M. Coutinho, Anagha Krishnan, Simone Zäuner, Shannon U. Morath, Frédérique Hilliou, Andrea Egizi, Marie-Mathilde Perrineau, Hwan Su Yoon	2013	163
10	Progress in understanding the biosynthesis of amylose Trends in Plant Science ·Steven Ball, Marion H. B. J. Van de Wal, Richard G. F. Visser	1998	158
11	Mutants of Arabidopsis Lacking a Chloroplastic Isoamylase Accumulate Phytoglycogen and an Abnormal Form of Amylopectin PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Fabrice Wattebled, Ying Dong, Sylvain Dumez, David Delvallé, Véronique Planchot, Pierre Berbezy, Darshna Vyas, Paul Colonna, Manash Chatterjee, Steven Ball, Christophe d’Hulst	2005	146
12	Waxy Chlamydomonas reinhardtii: monocellular algal mutants defective in amylose biosynthesis and granule-bound starch synthase activity accumulate a structurally modified amylopectin Journal of Bacteriology ·Brigitte Delrue, Thierry Fontaine, Françoise H. Routier, André Decq, J M Wieruszeski, N. Van den Koornhuyse, Marie‐Lise Maddelein, Bernard Fournet, Steven Ball	1992	146
13	Soluble starch synthase I: a major determinant for the synthesis of amylopectin in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves The Plant Journal ·David Delvallé, Sylvain Dumez, Fabrice Wattebled, Isaac Roldán, Véronique Planchot, Pierre Berbezy, Paul Colonna, Darshna Vyas, Manash Chatterjee, Steven Ball, Ángel Mérida, Christophe d’Hulst	2005	142
14	Starchless Mutants ofChlamydomonas reinhardtiiLack the Small Subunit of a Heterotetrameric ADP-Glucose Pyrophosphorylase Journal of Bacteriology ·Christophe Zabawinski, Nathalie van den Koornhuyse, Christophe d’Hulst, Ralf Schlichting, Christoph Giersch, Brigitte Delrue, Jean-Marie Lacroix, Jack Preiss, Steven Ball	2001	133
15	Physiology of starch storage in the monocellular alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Plant Science ·Steven Ball, Léon Dirick, André Decq, Jean-Claude Martiat, RenéF. Matagne	1990	132
16	Metabolic Symbiosis and the Birth of the Plant Kingdom Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Philippe Deschamps, Christophe Colleoni, Yasunori Nakamura, Eiji Suzuki, Jean‐Luc Putaux, Alain Buléon, Sophie Haebel, Gerhard Ritte, Martin Steup, Luisa I. Falcón, David Moreira, Wolfgang Löffelhardt, Jenifer Nirmal Raj, Charlotte Plancke, Christophe d’Hulst, David Dauvillée, Steven Ball	2007	119
17	Hydrogen Production in Chlamydomonas: Photosystem II-Dependent and -Independent Pathways Differ in Their Requirement for Starch Metabolism PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Vincent Chochois, David Dauvillée, Audrey Beyly, Dimitri Tolleter, Stéphan Cuiné, Hélène Timpano, Steven Ball, Laurent Cournac, Gilles Peltier	2009	116
18	Circadian Clock Regulation of Starch Metabolism Establishes GBSSI as a Major Contributor to Amylopectin Synthesis in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Jean‐Philippe Ral, Christophe Colleoni, Fabrice Wattebled, David Dauvillée, Clément Nempont, Philippe Deschamps, Zhongyi Li, Matthew K. Morell, Ravindra N. Chibbar, Saul Purton, Christophe d’Hulst, Steven Ball	2006	112
19	Reperfusion haemorrhage as determined by cardiovascular MRI is a predictor of adverse left ventricular remodelling and markers of late arrhythmic risk Heart ·Adam N Mather, Timothy Fairbairn, Steven Ball, John P. Greenwood, Sven Plein	2010	110
20	Amylose Is Synthesized in Vitro by Extension of and Cleavage from Amylopectin Journal of Biological Chemistry ·M. van de Wal, Christophe d’Hulst, Jean‐Paul Vincken, Alain Buléon, Richard G. F. Visser, Steven Ball	1998	108

About Steven Ball

Steven Ball is a scholar working on Biotechnology, Nutrition and Dietetics, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Plant Science and Ecology, having authored 116 papers that have together received 8.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Food composition and properties (32 papers), Enzyme Production and Characterization (29 papers), Algal biology and biofuel production (24 papers), Protist diversity and phylogeny (21 papers), Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (20 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (19 papers), Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (17 papers) and Phytase and its Applications (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Nutrition and Dietetics (3.9k citations), Biotechnology (1.6k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (1.6k citations), Plant Science (3.0k citations) and Food Science (1.2k citations). Steven Ball has collaborated with scholars based in France, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Alain Buléon, Véronique Planchot, Paul Colonna, Matthew K. Morell, Christophe d’Hulst, David Dauvillée, Alan M. Myers, Christophe Colleoni, Martha G. James and Grégory Mouille. Their work appears in journals such as PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, The Plant Cell, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Trends in Plant Science and Eukaryotic Cell.

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