Rachel Amir - Publications

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1994-1997 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel 

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2023 Hacham Y, Shitrit O, Nisimi O, Friebach M, Amir R. Elucidating the importance of the catabolic enzyme, methionine-gamma-lyase, in stresses during Arabidopsis seed development and germination. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14: 1143021. PMID 37346132 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2023.1143021  0.408
2023 Girija A, Hacham Y, Dvir S, Panda S, Lieberman-Lazarovich M, Amir R. Cystathionine γ-synthase expression in seeds alters metabolic and DNA methylation profiles in Arabidopsis. Plant Physiology. PMID 37300538 DOI: 10.1093/plphys/kiad330  0.476
2022 Kumar K, Hacham Y, Amir R. The Effect of 10 Crop Plants That Served as Hosts on the Primary Metabolic Profile of the Parasitic Plant . Metabolites. 12. PMID 36557233 DOI: 10.3390/metabo12121195  0.355
2022 Dhakarey R, Yaritz U, Tian L, Amir R. A Myb transcription factor, PgMyb308-like, enhances the level of shikimate, aromatic amino acids, and lignins, but represses the synthesis of flavonoids and hydrolyzable tannins, in pomegranate (Punica granatum L.). Horticulture Research. PMID 35147167 DOI: 10.1093/hr/uhac008  0.428
2021 Trovato M, Funck D, Forlani G, Okumoto S, Amir R. Editorial: Amino Acids in Plants: Regulation and Functions in Development and Stress Defense. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12: 772810. PMID 34733310 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2021.772810  0.437
2020 Oliva M, Guy A, Galili G, Dor E, Schweitzer R, Amir R, Hacham Y. Enhanced Production of Aromatic Amino Acids in Tobacco Plants Leads to Increased Phenylpropanoid Metabolites and Tolerance to Stresses. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11: 604349. PMID 33510749 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.604349  0.779
2020 Girija A, Shotan D, Hacham Y, Amir R. The Level of Methionine Residues in Storage Proteins Is the Main Limiting Factor of Protein-Bound-Methionine Accumulation in Arabidopsis Seeds. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11: 1136. PMID 32849697 DOI: 10.3389/Fpls.2020.01136  0.344
2019 Cohen A, Hacham Y, Welfe Y, Khatib S, Avice JC, Amir R. Evidence of a significant role of glutathione reductase in the sulfur assimilation pathway. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. PMID 31782847 DOI: 10.1111/Tpj.14621  0.563
2019 Bar-Ya'akov I, Tian L, Amir R, Holland D. Primary Metabolites, Anthocyanins, and Hydrolyzable Tannins in the Pomegranate Fruit. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10: 620. PMID 31164897 DOI: 10.3389/Fpls.2019.00620  0.427
2019 Matityahu I, Godo I, Hacham Y, Amir R. The level of threonine in tobacco seeds is limited by substrate availability, while the level of methionine is limited also by the activity of cystathionine γ-synthase. Plant Science. 283: 195-201. PMID 31128689 DOI: 10.1016/J.Plantsci.2019.02.020  0.493
2019 Reyes-Hernández BJ, Shishkova S, Amir R, Quintana-Armas AX, Napsucialy-Mendivil S, Cervantes-Gamez RG, Torres-Martínez HH, Montiel J, Wood CD, Dubrovsky JG. Root stem cell niche maintenance and apical meristem activity critically depend on THREONINE SYNTHASE1. Journal of Experimental Botany. PMID 30972413 DOI: 10.1093/Jxb/Erz165  0.45
2019 Amir R, Cohen H, Hacham Y. Revisiting the attempts to fortify methionine contents in plant seeds. Journal of Experimental Botany. PMID 30911752 DOI: 10.1093/Jxb/Erz134  0.554
2019 Amir R, Borochov-Neori H, Tian L, Holland D. The biodiversity of different traits of pomegranate fruit peels from a broad collection of diverse cultivars Scientia Horticulturae. 246: 842-848. DOI: 10.1016/J.Scienta.2018.10.048  0.333
2019 Harel-Beja R, Tian L, Freilich S, Habashi R, Borochov-Neori H, Lahav T, Trainin T, Doron-Faigenboim A, Ophir R, Bar-Ya’akov I, Amir R, Holland D. Gene expression and metabolite profiling analyses of developing pomegranate fruit peel reveal interactions between anthocyanin and punicalagin production Tree Genetics & Genomes. 15. DOI: 10.1007/S11295-019-1329-6  0.399
2019 Rubinovich L, Segev B, Habashi R, Con P, Amir R. Establishment of Punica granatum L. peel cell culture to produce bioactive compounds Plant Cell Tissue and Organ Culture. 138: 131-140. DOI: 10.1007/S11240-019-01609-3  0.324
2018 Amir R, Galili G, Cohen H. The metabolic roles of free amino acids during seed development. Plant Science : An International Journal of Experimental Plant Biology. 275: 11-18. PMID 30107877 DOI: 10.1016/J.Plantsci.2018.06.011  0.648
2018 Yu Y, Hou W, Hacham Y, Sun S, Wu C, Matityahu I, Song S, Amir R, Han T. Constitutive expression of feedback-insensitive cystathionine γ-synthase increases methionine levels in soybean leaves and seeds Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 17: 54-62. DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(16)61599-X  0.477
2017 Wilson AE, Feng X, Ono NN, Holland D, Amir R, Tian L. Characterization of a UGT84 family glycosyltransferase provides new insights into substrate binding and reactivity of galloylglucose ester-forming UGTs. Biochemistry. PMID 29140084 DOI: 10.1021/Acs.Biochem.7B00946  0.476
2017 Cohen H, Hacham Y, Panizel I, Rogachev I, Aharoni A, Amir R. Repression of CYSTATHIONINE γ-SYNTHASE in Seeds Recruits the S-methylmethionine Cycle. Plant Physiology. PMID 28536103 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.17.00579  0.5
2017 Dor E, Galili S, Smirnov E, Hacham Y, Amir R, Hershenhorn J. The Effects of Herbicides Targeting Aromatic and Branched Chain Amino Acid Biosynthesis Support the Presence of Functional Pathways in Broomrape. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8: 707. PMID 28523011 DOI: 10.3389/Fpls.2017.00707  0.491
2017 Nativ N, Hacham Y, Hershenhorn J, Dor E, Amir R. Metabolic Investigation of Reveals Significant Changes during Developmental Stages and in Its Different Organs. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8: 491. PMID 28439279 DOI: 10.3389/Fpls.2017.00491  0.526
2017 Cohen H, Salmon A, Tietel Z, Hacham Y, Amir R. The relative contribution of genes operating in the S-methylmethionine cycle to methionine metabolism in Arabidopsis seeds. Plant Cell Reports. PMID 28289884 DOI: 10.1007/S00299-017-2124-1  0.503
2017 Shilo T, Rubin B, Plakhine D, Gal S, Amir R, Hacham Y, Wolf S, Eizenberg H. Secondary Effects of Glyphosate Action in Phelipanche aegyptiaca: Inhibition of Solute Transport from the Host Plant to the Parasite. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8: 255. PMID 28289424 DOI: 10.3389/Fpls.2017.00255  0.386
2017 Hacham Y, Matityahu I, Amir R. Transgenic tobacco plants having a higher level of methionine are more sensitive to oxidative stress. Physiologia Plantarum. 160: 242-252. PMID 28233326 DOI: 10.1111/Ppl.12557  0.556
2016 Hacham Y, Hershenhorn J, Dor E, Amir R. Primary metabolic profiling of Egyptian broomrape (Phelipanche aegyptiaca) compared to its host tomato roots. Journal of Plant Physiology. 205: 11-19. PMID 27589222 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jplph.2016.08.005  0.394
2016 Cohen H, Amir R. Dose-dependent effects of higher methionine levels on the transcriptome and metabolome of transgenic Arabidopsis seeds. Plant Cell Reports. PMID 27271687 DOI: 10.1007/S00299-016-2003-1  0.518
2016 Cohen H, Shir OM, Yu Y, Hou W, Sun S, Han T, Amir R. Genetic background and environmental conditions drive metabolic variation in wild type and transgenic soybean (Glycine max) seeds. Plant, Cell & Environment. PMID 27038216 DOI: 10.1111/Pce.12748  0.402
2016 Cohen H, Pajak A, Pandurangan S, Amir R, Marsolais F. Higher endogenous methionine in transgenic Arabidopsis seeds affects the composition of storage proteins and lipids. Amino Acids. PMID 26888094 DOI: 10.1007/S00726-016-2193-4  0.431
2016 Galili G, Amir R, Fernie AR. The Regulation of Essential Amino Acid Synthesis and Accumulation in Plants. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 67: 153-78. PMID 26735064 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev-Arplant-043015-112213  0.681
2015 Brychkova G, Yarmolinsky D, Batushansky A, Grishkevich V, Khozin-Goldberg I, Fait A, Amir R, Fluhr R, Sagi M. Sulfite Oxidase Activity Is Essential for Normal Sulfur, Nitrogen and Carbon Metabolism in Tomato Leaves. Plants (Basel, Switzerland). 4: 573-605. PMID 27135342 DOI: 10.3390/plants4030573  0.696
2015 Stein O, Damari-Weissler H, Secchi F, Rachamilevitch S, German MA, Yeselson Y, Amir R, Schaffer A, Holbrook NM, Aloni R, Zwieniecki MA, Granot D. The tomato plastidic fructokinase SlFRK3 plays a role in xylem development. The New Phytologist. PMID 26467542 DOI: 10.1111/Nph.13705  0.4
2015 Frank A, Cohen H, Hoffman D, Amir R. Methionine and S-methylmethionine exhibit temporal and spatial accumulation patterns during the Arabidopsis life cycle. Amino Acids. 47: 497-510. PMID 25488426 DOI: 10.1007/S00726-014-1881-1  0.529
2014 Cohen H, Israeli H, Matityahu I, Amir R. Seed-specific expression of a feedback-insensitive form of CYSTATHIONINE-γ-SYNTHASE in Arabidopsis stimulates metabolic and transcriptomic responses associated with desiccation stress. Plant Physiology. 166: 1575-92. PMID 25232013 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.114.246058  0.532
2014 Hacham Y, Koussevitzky S, Kirma M, Amir R. Glutathione application affects the transcript profile of genes in Arabidopsis seedling Journal of Plant Physiology. 171: 1444-1451. PMID 25077999 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jplph.2014.06.016  0.742
2014 Chen C, Letnik I, Hacham Y, Dobrev P, Ben-Daniel BH, Vanková R, Amir R, Miller G. ASCORBATE PEROXIDASE6 protects Arabidopsis desiccating and germinating seeds from stress and mediates cross talk between reactive oxygen species, abscisic acid, and auxin. Plant Physiology. 166: 370-83. PMID 25049361 DOI: 10.1104/pp.114.245324  0.377
2014 Orgil O, Schwartz E, Baruch L, Matityahu I, Mahajna J, Amir R. The antioxidative and anti-proliferative potential of non-edible organs of the pomegranate fruit and tree Lwt - Food Science and Technology. 58: 571-577. DOI: 10.1016/J.Lwt.2014.03.030  0.331
2014 Matityahu I, Glazer I, Holland D, Bar-Ya’akov I, Ben-Arie R, Amir R. Total Antioxidative Capacity and Total Phenolic Levels in Pomegranate Husks Correlate to Several Postharvest Fruit Quality Parameters Food and Bioprocess Technology. 7: 1938-1949. DOI: 10.1007/S11947-013-1184-7  0.334
2013 Matityahu I, Godo I, Hacham Y, Amir R. Tobacco seeds expressing feedback-insensitive cystathionine gamma-synthase exhibit elevated content of methionine and altered primary metabolic profile. Bmc Plant Biology. 13: 206. PMID 24314105 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-13-206  0.536
2013 Hacham Y, Matityahu I, Amir R. Light and sucrose up-regulate the expression level of Arabidopsis cystathionine γ-synthase, the key enzyme of methionine biosynthesis pathway. Amino Acids. 45: 1179-90. PMID 23933995 DOI: 10.1007/S00726-013-1576-Z  0.534
2013 Song S, Hou W, Godo I, Wu C, Yu Y, Matityahu I, Hacham Y, Sun S, Han T, Amir R. Soybean seeds expressing feedback-insensitive cystathionine γ-synthase exhibit a higher content of methionine. Journal of Experimental Botany. 64: 1917-26. PMID 23530130 DOI: 10.1093/Jxb/Ert053  0.468
2013 Galili G, Amir R. Fortifying plants with the essential amino acids lysine and methionine to improve nutritional quality. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 11: 211-22. PMID 23279001 DOI: 10.1111/Pbi.12025  0.671
2012 Amir R, Han T, Ma F. Bioengineering approaches to improve the nutritional values of seeds by increasing their methionine content Molecular Breeding. 29: 915-924. DOI: 10.1007/S11032-011-9690-7  0.505
2010 Dafny-Yalin M, Glazer I, Bar-Ilan I, Kerem Z, Holland D, Amir R. Color, sugars and organic acids composition in aril juices and peel homogenates prepared from different pomegranate accessions. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 58: 4342-52. PMID 20232916 DOI: 10.1021/Jf904337T  0.355
2010 Amir R. Current understanding of the factors regulating methionine content in vegetative tissues of higher plants. Amino Acids. 39: 917-31. PMID 20140469 DOI: 10.1007/S00726-010-0482-X  0.599
2009 Schwartz E, Tzulker R, Glazer I, Bar-Ya'akov I, Wiesman Z, Tripler E, Bar-Ilan I, Fromm H, Borochov-Neori H, Holland D, Amir R. Environmental conditions affect the color, taste, and antioxidant capacity of 11 pomegranate accessions' fruits. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 57: 9197-209. PMID 19725542 DOI: 10.1021/Jf901466C  0.352
2009 Stein H, Wilensky M, Tsafrir Y, Rosenthal M, Amir R, Avraham T, Ofir K, Dgany O, Yayon A, Shoseyov O. Production of bioactive, post-translationally modified, heterotrimeric, human recombinant type-I collagen in transgenic tobacco. Biomacromolecules. 10: 2640-5. PMID 19678700 DOI: 10.1021/Bm900571B  0.428
2009 Czuj T, Zuk M, Starzycki M, Amir R, Szopa J. Engineering increases in sulfur amino acid contents in flax by overexpressing the yeast Met25 gene Plant Science. 177: 584-592. DOI: 10.1016/J.Plantsci.2009.08.008  0.507
2009 Shwartz E, Glazer I, Bar-Ya’akov I, Matityahu I, Bar-Ilan I, Holland D, Amir R. Changes in chemical constituents during the maturation and ripening of two commercially important pomegranate accessions Food Chemistry. 115: 965-973. DOI: 10.1016/J.Foodchem.2009.01.036  0.376
2008 Hacham Y, Matityahu I, Schuster G, Amir R. Overexpression of mutated forms of aspartate kinase and cystathionine gamma-synthase in tobacco leaves resulted in the high accumulation of methionine and threonine. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 54: 260-71. PMID 18208521 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-313X.2008.03415.X  0.59
2008 Galili S, Amir R, Galili G. Genetic Engineering of Amino Acid Metabolism in Plants Advances in Plant Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. 1: 49-80. DOI: 10.1016/S1755-0408(07)01003-X  0.64
2007 Tzulker R, Glazer I, Bar-Ilan I, Holland D, Aviram M, Amir R. Antioxidant activity, polyphenol content, and related compounds in different fruit juices and homogenates prepared from 29 different pomegranate accessions. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 55: 9559-70. PMID 17914875 DOI: 10.1021/Jf071413N  0.32
2007 Hacham Y, Song L, Schuster G, Amir R. Lysine enhances methionine content by modulating the expression of S-adenosylmethionine synthase. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 51: 850-61. PMID 17617175 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-313X.2007.03184.X  0.575
2006 Katz YS, Galili G, Amir R. Regulatory role of cystathionine-gamma-synthase and de novo synthesis of methionine in ethylene production during tomato fruit ripening. Plant Molecular Biology. 61: 255-68. PMID 16786305 DOI: 10.1007/S11103-006-0009-8  0.616
2006 Hacham Y, Schuster G, Amir R. An in vivo internal deletion in the N-terminus region of Arabidopsis cystathionine gamma-synthase results in CGS expression that is insensitive to methionine. The Plant Journal : For Cell and Molecular Biology. 45: 955-67. PMID 16507086 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-313X.2006.02661.X  0.529
2006 Matityahu I, Kachan L, Bar Ilan I, Amir R. Transgenic tobacco plants overexpressing the Met25 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae exhibit enhanced levels of cysteine and glutathione and increased tolerance to oxidative stress. Amino Acids. 30: 185-94. PMID 16193226 DOI: 10.1007/S00726-005-0250-5  0.586
2005 Avraham T, Badani H, Galili S, Amir R. Enhanced levels of methionine and cysteine in transgenic alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) plants over-expressing the Arabidopsis cystathionine gamma-synthase gene. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 3: 71-9. PMID 17168900 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-7652.2004.00102.X  0.53
2005 Galili G, Amir R, Hoefgen R, Hesse H. Improving the levels of essential amino acids and sulfur metabolites in plants. Biological Chemistry. 386: 817-31. PMID 16164407 DOI: 10.1515/Bc.2005.097  0.714
2005 Avraham T, Amir R. The expression level of threonine synthase and cystathionine-gamma-synthase is influenced by the level of both threonine and methionine in Arabidopsis plants. Transgenic Research. 14: 299-311. PMID 16145838 DOI: 10.1007/S11248-005-0273-4  0.547
2005 Gamrasni D, Matityahu I, Amir R. Aggregates formed as a result of the expression of yeast Met2 gene in transgenic tobacco plants, stimulate the production of stress-protective metabolites and increased the plants tolerance to heat stress Molecular Breeding. 15: 65-74. DOI: 10.1007/S11032-004-2737-2  0.575
2003 Guenoune D, Amir R, Badani H, Wolf S, Galili S. Coexpression of the soybean vegetative storage protein beta subunit (S-VSPbeta) either with the bacterial feedback-insensitive dihydrodipicolinate synthase or with S-VSPalpha stabilizes the S-VSPbeta transgene protein and enhances lysine production in transgenic tobacco plants. Transgenic Research. 12: 123-6. PMID 12650531 DOI: 10.1023/A:1022130100493  0.455
2002 Guenoune D, Amir R, Badani H, Wolf S, Galili S. Combined expression of S-VSPalpha in two different organelles enhances its accumulation and total lysine production in leaves of transgenic tobacco plants. Journal of Experimental Botany. 53: 1867-70. PMID 12177124 DOI: 10.1093/Jxb/Erf046  0.567
2002 Amir R, Hacham Y, Galili G. Cystathionine γ-synthase and threonine synthase operate in concert to regulate carbon flow towards methionine in plants Trends in Plant Science. 7: 153-156. PMID 11950610 DOI: 10.1016/S1360-1385(02)02227-6  0.671
2002 Guenoune D, Landau S, Amir R, Badani H, Devash L, Wolf S, Galili S. Resistance of soybean vegetative storage proteins (S-VSPs) to proteolysis by rumen microorganisms Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 50: 2256-2260. PMID 11929280 DOI: 10.1021/Jf010949K  0.47
2002 Hacham Y, Avraham T, Amir R. The N-terminal region of Arabidopsis cystathionine γ-synthase plays an important regulatory role in methionine metabolism Plant Physiology. 128: 454-462. PMID 11842149 DOI: 10.1104/Pp.010819  0.553
2000 GALILI G, TANG G, ZHU X, AMIR R, LEVANONY H, SHY G, HERMAN EM. PLANT SEEDS: AN EXCITING MODEL SYSTEM FOR DISSECTING MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR REGULATION OF METABOLIC PROCESSES Israel Journal of Plant Sciences. 48: 181-187. DOI: 10.1560/EEEP-KB7G-GGQH-5V0R  0.763
1999 Guenoune D, Amir R, Ben-Dor B, Wolf S, Galili S. A soybean vegetative storage protein accumulates to high levels in various organs of transgenic tobacco plants Plant Science. 145: 93-98. DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9452(99)00079-5  0.507
1997 Tang G, Zhu-Shimoni JX, Amir R, Zchori IB, Galili G. Cloning and expression of an Arabidopsis thaliana cDNA encoding a monofunctional aspartate kinase homologous to the lysine-sensitive enzyme of Escherichia coli. Plant Molecular Biology. 34: 287-93. PMID 9207844 DOI: 10.1023/A:1005849228945  0.713
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