Selected publications:

2019

• Amirova K., Dimitrova P., Marchev A.S.,Aneva I.Y., Georgiev M.I. (2019). Clinopodium vulgare L. (wild basil) extract and its active constituents modulate cyclooxygenase-2 expression in neutrophils. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 124, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2018.11.054. IF 3.98
• Vasileva L., Ivanovska M., Murdjeva M., Saracheva K., Georgiev M. (2019). Immunoregulatory natural compounds in stress-induced depression: An alternative or an adjunct to conventional antidepressant therapy? Food and Chemical Toxicology. 127, 81–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2019.03.004. IF 3.98

2018

• Alseekh S., Fernie A.R. (2018). Metabolomics 20 years on: What have we learned and what hurdles remain?. Plant Journal. 94(6),933–942. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.13950. IF 5.9
• Alseekh S., Wu S., Brotman Y., Fernie A.R. (2018). Guidelines for sample normalization to minimize batch variation for large-scale metabolic profiling of plant natural genetic variance. Methods in Molecular Biology. 1778, 33–46. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7819-9_3.
• Chen, L., Teng, H., Xie, Z., Cao, H., Cheang, W. S., Skalicka-Woniak, K., Georgiev,M., Xiao, J. (2018). Modifications of dietary flavonoids towards improved bioactivity: An update on structure–activity relationship. Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition. 58(4), 513–527. https://doi.org/10.1080/10408398.2016.1196334. IF 6.1
• Durgud M., Gupta S., Ivanov I. Omidbakhshfard A., Benina M., Alseekh A., Staykov N., Hauen-stein M., Dijkwel P.P., Hörtensteiner S., Toneva V., Brotman Y., Fernie A.R., Mueller-Roeber B., Gechev T. (2018). Molecular mechanisms preventing senescence in response to prolonged darkness in a desiccation–tolerant plant. Plant Physiology. 177(3),1319–1338. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.00055. IF 6.5
• Kopka J., Fernie A.R. (2018). Editorial overview: Plant synthetic and systems biology. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 49, viii–xi. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copbio.2017.10.001. IF 9.3
• Vasileva L., Marchev A., Georgiev M. (2018). Causes and solutions to “globesity”: The new fa(s)t alarming global epidemic. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 121,177–193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2018.08.071. IF 3.9
• Vasileva L., Saracheva K., Ivanovska M.,Petrova A., Marchev A., Georgiev M., Murdjeva M., Getova D. (2018). Antidepressant-like effect of salidroside and curcumin on the immunoreactivity of rats subjected to a chronic mild stress model. Food and Chemical Toxicology. 121,604–611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2018.08.071. IF 3.9
• Ma, X., Zhang, Y., Turečková, V., Xue, G.-P., Fernie, A.R., Mueller-Roeber, B., Balazadeh, S.(2018) NAC transcription factor SlNAP2 in tomato regulates leaf senescence and fruit yield. Plant Physiology. 177(3),1286–1302. https://doi.org/10.1104/pp.18.00292 IF 6.5
• Petrov, V., Qureshi, M. K., Hille, J., Gechev, T. (2018). Occurrence, biochemistry and biological effects of host-selective plant mycotoxins. Food and Chemical Toxicology : An International Journal Published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association. 112,251–264. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.fct.2017.12.047. IF 3.8
• Scossa F., Benina M., Alseekh S., Zhang Y. and Fernie A.R. (2018). The integration of metabolomics and next -generation sequencing data to elucidate the pathways of natural product metabolism in medicinal plants. Planta Medica 84(12/13),855–873. http://doi.org/10.1055/a-0630-1899. IF 2.3
• Zhang, K., Logacheva, M. D., Meng, Y., Hu, J., Wan, D., Li, L., Janovska, D., Zhiyong, W., Georgiev, M., … Zhou, M. (2018). Jasmonate-responsive MYB factors spatially repress rutin biosynthesis in Fagopyrum tataricum. Journal of Experimental Botany. 69(8),1955–1966. http://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ery032. IF 5.8
• Zhu, G., Wang, S., Huang, Z., Zhang, S., Liao, Q., Zhang, C., Lin, T., Qin, M., Peng, M., Yang, C., Cao, X., Han, X., Wang, X., Van Der Knaap, E., Zhang, Z., Cui, X., Klee, H., Fernie, A., Luo, J., Huang, S. (2018). Rewiring of the fruit metabolome in tomato breeding. Cell. 172(1),249–261. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2017.12.019. IF 30.4

2017

• Braicu, C., Mehterov, N., Vladimirov, B., Sarafian, V., Nabavi, S. M., Atanasov, A. G., & Berindan-Neagoe, I. (2017). Nutrigenomics in cancer: Revisiting the effects of natural compounds. Seminars in Cancer Biology. 46,84–106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semcancer.2017.06.011. IF 9.1
• Gulei, D., Mehterov, N., Nabavi, S. M., Atanasov, A. G., Berindan-Neagoe, I. (2017). Targeting ncRNAs by plant secondary metabolites: The ncRNAs game in the balance towards malignancy inhibition. Biotechnology Advances. 36(6),1779–1799. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biotechadv.2017.11.003. IF 10.6
• Schwahn, K., Beleggia, R., Omranian, N., Nikoloski, Z. (2017). Stoichiometric Correlation Analysis: Principles of Metabolic Functionality from Metabolomics Data.  Frontiers in Plant Science.  8,2152. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2017.02152. IF 4.3
• Tohge, T., Fernie A. (2017). An Overview of Compounds Derived from the Shikimate and Phenylpropanoid Pathways and Their Medicinal Importance. Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry. 17(12),1013-1027. https://doi.org/10.2174/1389557516666160624123425. IF 2.9

2016

• Georgiev, M., (2016). From plants to pharmacy shelf: natural products revival. Phytochemistry Reviews. 15(4),511–513. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-016-9465-1.
• Marchev, A., Dinkova-Kostova, A., György, Z., Mirmazloum, I., Aneva, I., Georgiev, M. (2016). Rhodiola rosea L.: from golden root to green cell factories. Phytochemistry Reviews. 15(4),515–536. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11101-016-9453-5.
• Messerschmidt, K., Hochrein, L., Dehm, D., Schulz, K., Mueller-Roeber, B. (2016). Characterizing seamless ligation cloning extract for synthetic biological applications. Analytical Biochemistry. 509, 24–32. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ab.2016.05.029.
• Tohge, T., Wendenburg, R., Ishihara, H., Nakabayashi, R., Watanabe, M., Sulpice, R., … Fernie, A. (2016). Characterization of a recently evolved flavonol-phenylacyltransferase gene provides signatures of natural light selection in Brassicaceae. Nature Communications. 7,1–11. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12399.

Books and book chapters:

• Yordanova, Z., Georgiev, M. (2017). Cell Factories. In B. Thomas, B. G. Murray, & D. J. Murphy (Eds.). Encyclopedia of Applied Plant Sciences (Second Edition) (pp. 72–76). Oxford: Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-394807-6.00158-1.