Google Scholar Link (All citations= 1194) Citation indices (i10-index= 13 and h-index = 12)

I. PUBLICATIONS (Refereed Journals):

1)Masoud, S.A., Johnson, L.B. and Sorensen, E.L. (1990). High transmission of paternal plastid DNA in alfalfa plants demonstrated by restriction fragment length polymorphic analysis. Theoretical and Applied Genetics 79: 49-55. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.865

2) Masoud, S.A., Gill, B.S. and Johnson, L.B. (1991). C-banding of alfalfa chromosomes: standard karyotype and analysis of a somaclonal variant. Journal of Heredity 82:335-338. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.052

3) Masoud, S.A., Johnson, L.B. and White, F.F. (1992). The sequence within two primers influences the optimum concentration of dimethyl sulfoxide in the PCR. PCR Methods and Applications (Genome Research)2:89-90. (pdf link) (Link to the Journal)Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 11.342

4)Masoud, S.A., Johnson, L.B., White, F.F. and Reeck, G.R. (1993). Expression of a cysteine proteinase inhibitor (oryzacystatin-I) in transgenic tobacco plants. Plant Molecular Biology 21:655-663. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.978

5)Zhu, Q., Maher, E.A., Masoud, S., Dixon, R.A. and Lamb, C.A. (1994). Enhanced protection against fungal attack by constitutive co-expression of chitinase and glucanase genes in transgenic tobacco. Bio/technology (Nature Biotechnology) 12:807-812. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)Latest 5-Year Impact Factor:29.495

6)Masoud, S.A., Zhu, Q., Lamb, C.J. and Dixon, R.A. (1996). Constitutive expression of an inducible b-1,3-glucanase in alfalfa reduces disease severity caused by the oomycete pathogen Phytopthora megasperma f. sp. medicaginis, but does not reduce disease severity of chitin-containing fungi. Transgenic Research 5:313-323. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.467

7)Masoud, S.A., Ding, X., Johnson, L.B. and White, F.F. (1996). Expression of a corn bifunctional inhibitor of serine proteinase and insect alpha-amylase in transgenic tobacco plants. Plant Science 115:59-69. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.050

8)Sewalt, V.J.H., Ni, W., Blount, J.B., Jung, H.G., Masoud, S.A., Howles, P.A., Lamb, C. and Dixon, R.A. (1997). Reduced lignin content and altered lignin composition in transgenic tobacco down-regulated in expression of L-phenylalnine ammonia-lyase or cinnamate 4-hydroxylase. Plant Physiology 115:41-50. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 6.982

9)Hazegh-Azam, M., Kim, S.S., Masoud, S., Andersson, L., White, F., Johnson, L., Muthukrishnan, S. and Reeck, G. (1998). The corn inhibitor of activated Hageman factor: purification and properties of two recombinant forms of the protein. Protein Expression and Purification 13(2): 143-149. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.563

10) Blount, J.W., Korth, K.L., Masoud, S.A., Rasmussen, S., Lamb, C. and Dixon, R.A. (2000). Altering expression of cinnamic acid 4-hydroxylase in transgenic plants identifies a feedback loop at the entry point into the phenylpropanoid pathway. Plant Physiology 122:107-116. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 6.982

11) Masoud, S. A. (2002). Specificity of different PCR primers for Verticillium dahliae isolated from olive trees in Jordan. Mutah Lil-Buhuth wad-Dirasat 17 (3): 89-104. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

12) Blount, J.W., Masoud, S.A., Sumner, L.W., Huhman, D. and Dixon, R.A. (2002) Over-expression of cinnamate 4-hydroxylase leads to increased accumulation of acetosyringone in elicited tobacco cell-suspension cultures. Planta 214:902-910. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.372

13) Migdadi, H., Tell, A. and Masoud, S. (2003). Performance of some Aegilops species under different water regimes (Research note). Dirasat, Agriculture Sciences 30 (2):166-177. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

14) Migdadi, H. M., Tell, A. M. and Masoud, S. A. (2004).Genetic diversity in some Aegilops species in Jordan revealed using RAPD. Plant Genetic Resources Newsletter 139:47-52. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

15) Migdadi, H. M., Masoud, S. A. and Tell, A. M. (2004). Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis of some species of Aegilops. Dirasat, Agriculture Sciences 31 (1):53-59. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

16) Karajeh, M., Abu-Gharbieh, W. and Masoud, S. (2005). First report of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne arenaria Race 2 from several vegetable crops in Jordan. Plant Disease 89:206. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal;Published by The American Phytopathological Society)

17) Abu-Gharbieh, W. I., Karajeh, M. and Masoud, S. (2005). Current distribution of the root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne species and races) in Jordan. Jordan Journal of Agriculture Sciences 1(1): 43-47. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

18) Karajeh, M., Abu-Gharbieh, W. and Masoud, S. (2005). Virulence of root-knot nematodes, Meloidogyne spp., on tomato bearing the Mi gene for resistance. Phytopathologia Mediterranea 44(1): 24-28. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

19) Al-Nashash, Aida, Migdadi, H., Saoub, H .and Masoud, S. (2005). Evaluation of Jordanian barley (Hordeum vulgare L) landraces collected from diverse environments. Dirasat: Agricultural Sciences 32 (2). (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

20)Karajeh, M.and Masoud, S.A (2006) Molecular Detection of Verticillium dahliae Kleb. in Asymptomatic Olive Trees. J. Phytopathology154:496499. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest 5-Year Impact Factor: 0.983

21) Al-Khatib, M., Abu-Blan, H. and Masoud, S. (2006). Determination of resistance of locally grown tomato varieties to Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici in Jordan under greenhouse conditions. Jordan Journal of Agricultural Sciences 2 (3):251-256. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

22) Karajeh, M.R., Abu-Gharbieh, W. I. and Masoud, S. (2006). A comparison among diagnostic means used to identify root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne species and races) from Jordan. Pak. J. Nematol. 24(1): 27-38. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

23) Al-Nashash, A., Migdadi, H., Shatnawi, M. A., Saoub, H. and Masoud, S. (2007). Assessment of genetic variation among Jordanian barley landraces (Hordeum vulgare L.) as reveled by molecular markers. American-Eurasian J. Agricultural Environ. Sci. 2 (1): 68-74. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

24) Shoumalia, L., Masoud, H., Khlaif, H., Migdadi, H. and Masoud, S. (2007). Serologic and molecular characterization of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Jordanian clinical isolates compared with the strains of International Antigenic Typing Scheme. Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease 58:393-398. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest 5-Year Impact Factor:2.451

25) Al-Nashash, A., Migdadi, H., Shatnawi, M. A., Saoub, H. and Masoud, S. (2007). Assessment of phenotypic diversity among Jordanian barley landraces (Hordeum vulgare L.). Biotechnology 6 (2): 232-238. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal)

26) Karajeh, M.R., Abu-Gharbieh, W.I. and Masoud, S. A. (2010). DNA extraction and PCR-based diagnosis of the root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne species and races) of Jordan. Jordan Journal of Agricultural Sciences 6(3):342-352. (Abstract)

27) Herzallah, S. ; Al-Ameiri, N. ; Al-Dmoor, H. ; Masoud, S. ; Shawabkeh, K. (2014) Meat and organs quality of broiler chickens fed diet contaminated with B1 aflatoxin. 12 (3):376-380. Global Veterinaria (Abstract)

28) N Ameiri, S Masoud, NI Alkhalaileh, A Ismail, T Gradek, S Herzallah (2015). The role of innovative Gradek beads in water evaporation and retention and in supporting plant growth. American-Eurasian Journal of Agricultural Environmental Sciences 15(5): 863-867. (Abstract)

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II. PUBLICATIONS (Reviews, book chapter, reports):

1)Dixon, R.A., Lamb, C.J., Masoud, S.A., Sewalt, V.J.H. and Paiva, N.L. (1996). Metabolic engineering: Prospect for crop improvement through genetic manipulation of phenylpropanoid biosynthesis and defense responses. Gene 179:61-71. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal) Latest Impact Factor=2.416.

2)Dixon, R.A., Lamb, C.J., Paiva, N.L. and Masoud, S.A. (1996). Improvement of natural defense responses. In: Engineering Plants for Commercial Products and Applications; Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 792:126-139. (Abstract) (Link to the Journal).

3)Howles, P., Masoud, S.A, Blount, J.W., Rasmussen, S., Lamb, C. and Dixon, R.A. (1999). Overexpression of L-phenylalanine ammonia-lyase and cinnamate 4-hydroxylase in tobacco cell suspension cultures. In: Plant Biotechnology and in vitro Biology in the 21st Century. A. Altman et al. (eds), Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. PP 297-301. (Abstract) (Link to the Book).

4)UNDP (2001) Microbiology, biotechnology and biosafety. In: Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan-Jordan. (Abstract) (Link to the Report).

5)Masoud, S. A., Karajeh, M. (2003) Diagnosis of Verticillium dahliae kleb. latent infection on olive using DNA-fingerprinting techniques in Jordan, The Higher Council of Science and Technology-Jordan. (Abstract)(Link to the HCST).