Alexander Förderer

651 total citations · 1 hit paper
8 papers, 354 citations indexed

About

Alexander Förderer is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Förderer has authored 8 papers receiving a total of 354 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Plant Science, 2 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Ecology. Recurrent topics in Alexander Förderer's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (4 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (3 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (3 papers). Alexander Förderer is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (4 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (3 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (3 papers). Alexander Förderer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United Kingdom. Alexander Förderer's co-authors include Jijie Chai, Franziska Turck, Yue Zhou, Ertong Li, Paul Schulze‐Lefert, Zhifu Han, Dongli Yu, Junbiao Chang, Jie Wen and Xiaoxiao Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Förderer

8 papers receiving 347 citations

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A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels

2022 169 citations Alexander Förderer, Ertong Li et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexander Förderer Germany	7	292	124	32	27	15	8	354
Oksana Fursova Russia	9	398 1.4×	287 2.3×	24 0.8×	28 1.0×	31 2.1×	15	514
Cristian Antonio Rojas Brazil	12	617 2.1×	304 2.5×	20 0.6×	13 0.5×	28 1.9×	16	687
Alexandra Menna Switzerland	7	350 1.2×	110 0.9×	9 0.3×	8 0.3×	10 0.7×	8	398
Zeyu Yang China	6	292 1.0×	130 1.0×	8 0.3×	11 0.4×	10 0.7×	11	335
Xunlu Zhu United States	11	355 1.2×	239 1.9×	25 0.8×	11 0.4×	6 0.4×	15	438
Xia Meng China	8	440 1.5×	408 3.3×	15 0.5×	10 0.4×	6 0.4×	11	578
Charlotte Roth Germany	11	367 1.3×	325 2.6×	12 0.4×	16 0.6×	13 0.9×	14	543
Minami Shimizu Japan	10	347 1.2×	280 2.3×	8 0.3×	12 0.4×	12 0.8×	20	507
Jiquan Ou China	8	217 0.7×	144 1.2×	69 2.2×	21 0.8×	9 0.6×	9	339
Guilherme Loss-Morais Brazil	11	267 0.9×	281 2.3×	12 0.4×	17 0.6×	11 0.7×	13	454

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Förderer

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

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8 of 8 papers shown

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Fan, Renchun, Lei Feng, Yaling Liu, et al.. (2025). An NLR receptor confers broad‐spectrum resistance to diversified powdery mildew sublineages in wheat and barley. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 23(7). 2482–2484. 1 indexed citations

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Förderer, Alexander & Jiorgos Kourelis. (2023). NLR immune receptors: structure and function in plant disease resistance. Biochemical Society Transactions. 51(4). 1473–1483. 12 indexed citations

3.

Förderer, Alexander, Ertong Li, Aaron W. Lawson, et al.. (2022). A wheat resistosome defines common principles of immune receptor channels. Nature. 610(7932). 532–539. 169 indexed citations breakdown →

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Förderer, Alexander, Dongli Yu, Ertong Li, & Jijie Chai. (2022). Resistosomes at the interface of pathogens and plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 67. 102212–102212. 17 indexed citations

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Song, Wen, Alexander Förderer, Dongli Yu, & Jijie Chai. (2020). Structural biology of plant defence. New Phytologist. 229(2). 692–711. 34 indexed citations

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Zhou, Yue, Haitao Cui, Alexander Förderer, et al.. (2017). Ctf4-related protein recruits LHP1-PRC2 to maintain H3K27me3 levels in dividing cells in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(18). 4833–4838. 39 indexed citations

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Förderer, Alexander, Yue Zhou, & Franziska Turck. (2016). The age of multiplexity: recruitment and interactions of Polycomb complexes in plants. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 29. 169–178. 54 indexed citations

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Buhmann, Matthias T., B. Schulze, Alexander Förderer, David Schleheck, & Peter G. Kroth. (2016). Bacteria may induce the secretion of mucin‐like proteins by the diatom Phaeodactylum tricornutum. Journal of Phycology. 52(3). 463–474. 28 indexed citations

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