| Metabolic engineering of potato carotenoid content through tuber-specific overexpression of a bacterial mini-pathway G Diretto, S Al-Babili, R Tavazza, V Papacchioli, P Beyer, G Giuliano PLoS One 2 (4), e350, 2007 | 425 | 2007 |
| Metabolic engineering of carotenoid biosynthesis in plants G Giuliano, R Tavazza, G Diretto, P Beyer, MA Taylor Trends in biotechnology 26 (3), 139-145, 2008 | 341 | 2008 |
| Metabolic engineering of potato tuber carotenoids through tuber-specific silencing of lycopene epsilon cyclase G Diretto, R Tavazza, R Welsch, D Pizzichini, F Mourgues, V Papacchioli, ... BMC plant biology 6, 1-11, 2006 | 330 | 2006 |
| Novel carotenoid cleavage dioxygenase catalyzes the first dedicated step in saffron crocin biosynthesis S Frusciante, G Diretto, M Bruno, P Ferrante, M Pietrella, A Prado-Cabrero, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (33), 12246-12251, 2014 | 308 | 2014 |
| Carotenoid accumulation during tomato fruit ripening is modulated by the auxin-ethylene balance L Su, G Diretto, E Purgatto, S Danoun, M Zouine, Z Li, JP Roustan, ... BMC plant biology 15, 1-12, 2015 | 253 | 2015 |
| Silencing of beta-carotene hydroxylase increases total carotenoid and beta-carotene levels in potato tubers G Diretto, R Welsch, R Tavazza, F Mourgues, D Pizzichini, P Beyer, ... BMC Plant Biology 7, 1-8, 2007 | 206 | 2007 |
| The chimeric repressor version of an Ethylene Response Factor (ERF) family member, Sl‐ERF.B3, shows contrasting effects on tomato fruit ripening M Liu, G Diretto, J Pirrello, JP Roustan, Z Li, G Giuliano, F Regad, ... New Phytologist 203 (1), 206-218, 2014 | 159 | 2014 |
| Transcriptome and Metabolome Reprogramming in Tomato Plants by Trichoderma harzianum strain T22 Primes and Enhances Defense Responses Against Aphids M Coppola, G Diretto, MC Digilio, SL Woo, G Giuliano, D Molisso, ... Frontiers in physiology 10, 745, 2019 | 139 | 2019 |
| Tissue-specific accumulation of sulfur compounds and saponins in different parts of garlic cloves from purple and white ecotypes G Diretto, A Rubio-Moraga, J Argandoña, P Castillo, L Gómez-Gómez, ... Molecules 22 (8), 1359, 2017 | 123 | 2017 |
| Light Remodels Lipid Biosynthesis in Nannochloropsis gaditana by Modulating Carbon Partitioning between Organelles A Alboresi, G Perin, N Vitulo, G Diretto, M Block, J Jouhet, A Meneghesso, ... Plant physiology 171 (4), 2468-2482, 2016 | 118 | 2016 |
| Manipulation of β‐carotene levels in tomato fruits results in increased ABA content and extended shelf life G Diretto, S Frusciante, C Fabbri, N Schauer, L Busta, Z Wang, AJ Matas, ... Plant biotechnology journal 18 (5), 1185-1199, 2020 | 102 | 2020 |
| An alternative, zeaxanthin epoxidase-independent abscisic acid biosynthetic pathway in plants KP Jia, J Mi, S Ali, H Ohyanagi, JC Moreno, A Ablazov, A Balakrishna, ... Molecular Plant 15 (1), 151-166, 2022 | 99 | 2022 |
| Incorporation of natural antioxidants from rice straw into renewable starch films C Menzel, C González-Martínez, F Vilaplana, G Diretto, A Chiralt International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 146, 976-986, 2020 | 95 | 2020 |
| Transcriptional-metabolic networks in β-carotene-enriched potato tubers: the long and winding road to the Golden phenotype G Diretto, S Al-Babili, R Tavazza, F Scossa, V Papacchioli, M Migliore, ... Plant physiology 154 (2), 899-912, 2010 | 88 | 2010 |
| Candidate enzymes for saffron crocin biosynthesis are localized in multiple cellular compartments OC Demurtas, S Frusciante, P Ferrante, G Diretto, NH Azad, M Pietrella, ... Plant Physiology 177 (3), 990-1006, 2018 | 82 | 2018 |
| Improved protocol for Agrobacterium mediated transformation of tomato and production of transgenic plants containing carotenoid biosynthetic gene CsZCD D Qiu, G Diretto, R Tavarza, G Giuliano Scientia Horticulturae 112 (2), 172-175, 2007 | 82 | 2007 |
| ABCC transporters mediate the vacuolar accumulation of crocins in saffron stigmas OC Demurtas, R de Brito Francisco, G Diretto, P Ferrante, S Frusciante, ... The Plant Cell 31 (11), 2789-2804, 2019 | 77 | 2019 |
| Efficient production of saffron crocins and picrocrocin in Nicotiana benthamiana using a virus-driven system M Martí, G Diretto, V Aragonés, S Frusciante, O Ahrazem, ... Metabolic Engineering 61, 238-250, 2020 | 71 | 2020 |
| Use of natural diversity and biotechnology to increase the quality and nutritional content of tomato and grape Q Gascuel, G Diretto, AJ Monforte, AM Fortes, A Granell Frontiers in plant science 8, 652, 2017 | 68 | 2017 |
| Several geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase isoforms supply metabolic substrates for carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato MV Barja, M Ezquerro, S Beretta, G Diretto, I Florez‐Sarasa, E Feixes, ... New Phytologist 231 (1), 255-272, 2021 | 66 | 2021 |