Uwe Heinig

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Uwe Heinig is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Ecology and Plant Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Uwe Heinig has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Molecular Biology, 6 papers in Ecology and 5 papers in Plant Science. Recurrent topics in Uwe Heinig's work include Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (5 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (4 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (4 papers). Uwe Heinig is often cited by papers focused on Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies (5 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (4 papers) and Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (4 papers). Uwe Heinig collaborates with scholars based in Israel, Germany and United States. Uwe Heinig's co-authors include Asaph Aharoni, Stefan Jennewein, Ilana Rogachev, Sergey Malitsky, Samuel Bocobza, Pablo D. Cárdenas, Tamar Unger, Poonam C. Singh, Yury Tikunov and Arnaud Bovy and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Uwe Heinig

20 papers receiving 1.3k citations

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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.

Biosynthesis of Antinutritional Alkaloids in Solanaceous Crops Is Mediated by Clustered Genes

2013 428 citations Maxim Itkin, Uwe Heinig et al. Science profile →

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Ronald Maul Germany

Xiaomin Yu China

Romain Larbat France

Dominique Rolin France

Anna Szakiel Poland

Isabel Desgagné‐Penix Canada

Michael Gutensohn United States

Anna Torelli Italy

Gangqiang Dong China

Ronald Maul Germany

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Uwe Heinig

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Uwe Heinig. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Uwe Heinig 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 Uwe Heinig. Uwe Heinig is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Dong, Yonghui, Liron Feldberg, Yi Wang, et al.. (2025). Triple labeling of metabolites for metabolome analysis (TLEMMA): a stable isotope labeling approach for metabolite identification and network reconstruction. The Plant Journal. 123(1). e70333–e70333.

Dong, Yonghui, et al.. (2024). Metabolite Annotation through Stable Isotope Labeling. TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry. 181. 118037–118037. 2 indexed citations

Lerer‐Goldshtein, Tali, Zohar Eyal, Moshe Goldsmith, et al.. (2024). Genetic control over biogenic crystal morphogenesis in zebrafish. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(3). 383–392. 13 indexed citations

Berman, Paula, Luis Alejandro de Haro, Sayantan Panda, et al.. (2024). The biosynthetic pathway of the hallucinogen mescaline and its heterologous reconstruction. Molecular Plant. 17(7). 1129–1150. 6 indexed citations

Dong, Yonghui, et al.. (2023). PICA: Pixel Intensity Correlation Analysis for Deconvolution and Metabolite Identification in Mass Spectrometry Imaging. Analytical Chemistry. 95(2). 1652–1662. 5 indexed citations

Arya, Gulab Chand, Yonghui Dong, Uwe Heinig, et al.. (2022). The metabolic and proteomic repertoires of periderm tissue in skin of the reticulated Sikkim cucumber fruit. Horticulture Research. 9. uhac092–uhac092. 12 indexed citations

Engels, Benedikt, Uwe Heinig, Reinhard Meusinger, et al.. (2020). Isolation of a gene cluster from Armillaria gallica for the synthesis of armillyl orsellinate–type sesquiterpenoids. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology. 105(1). 211–224. 10 indexed citations

Feldberg, Liron, Yonghui Dong, Uwe Heinig, Ilana Rogachev, & Asaph Aharoni. (2018). DLEMMA-MS-Imaging for Identification of Spatially Localized Metabolites and Metabolic Network Map Reconstruction. Analytical Chemistry. 90(17). 10231–10238. 25 indexed citations

Sonawane, Prashant D., Uwe Heinig, Sayantan Panda, et al.. (2018). Short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase governs steroidal specialized metabolites structural diversity and toxicity in the genus Solanum. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(23). E5419–E5428. 69 indexed citations

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Polturak, Guy, Uwe Heinig, Dena Leshkowitz, et al.. (2017). Transcriptome and Metabolic Profiling Provides Insights into Betalain Biosynthesis and Evolution in Mirabilis jalapa. Molecular Plant. 11(1). 189–204. 105 indexed citations

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Szymański, Jędrzej, Yishai Levin, Alon Savidor, et al.. (2017). Label‐free deep shotgun proteomics reveals protein dynamics during tomato fruit tissues development. The Plant Journal. 90(2). 396–417. 66 indexed citations

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Shahaf, Nir, Ilana Rogachev, Uwe Heinig, et al.. (2016). The WEIZMASS spectral library for high-confidence metabolite identification. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12423–12423. 80 indexed citations

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Cárdenas, Pablo D., et al.. (2014). The bitter side of the nightshades: Genomics drives discovery in Solanaceae steroidal alkaloid metabolism. Phytochemistry. 113. 24–32. 92 indexed citations

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Heinig, Uwe & Asaph Aharoni. (2014). Analysis of Steroidal Alkaloids and Saponins in Solanaceae Plant Extracts Using UPLC-qTOF Mass Spectrometry. Methods in molecular biology. 1153. 171–185. 15 indexed citations

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Vunsh, Ron, Uwe Heinig, Sergey Malitsky, et al.. (2014). Manipulating duckweed through genome duplication. Plant Biology. 17(s1). 115–119. 11 indexed citations

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Itkin, Maxim, Uwe Heinig, Oren Tzfadia, et al.. (2013). Biosynthesis of Antinutritional Alkaloids in Solanaceous Crops Is Mediated by Clustered Genes. Science. 341(6142). 175–179. 428 indexed citations breakdown →

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Heinig, Uwe, et al.. (2013). Getting to the bottom of Taxol biosynthesis by fungi. Fungal Diversity. 60(1). 161–170. 154 indexed citations

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Heinig, Uwe, Michael Gutensohn, Natalia Dudareva, & Asaph Aharoni. (2012). The challenges of cellular compartmentalization in plant metabolic engineering. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 24(2). 239–246. 67 indexed citations

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Engels, Benedikt, Uwe Heinig, Torsten Grothe, Marc Stadler, & Stefan Jennewein. (2010). Cloning and Characterization of an Armillaria gallica cDNA Encoding Protoilludene Synthase, Which Catalyzes the First Committed Step in the Synthesis of Antimicrobial Melleolides. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 286(9). 6871–6878. 66 indexed citations

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Heinig, Uwe, et al.. (2010). Development of carbon plasma-coated multiwell plates for high-throughput mass spectrometric analysis of highly lipophilic fermentation products. Analytical Biochemistry. 403(1-2). 108–113. 2 indexed citations

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