Alexandre de Saint Germain

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

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Alexandre de Saint Germain is a scholar working on Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexandre de Saint Germain has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Plant Science, 26 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and 4 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Alexandre de Saint Germain's work include Plant Parasitism and Resistance (27 papers), Plant and animal studies (26 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (20 papers). Alexandre de Saint Germain is often cited by papers focused on Plant Parasitism and Resistance (27 papers), Plant and animal studies (26 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (20 papers). Alexandre de Saint Germain collaborates with scholars based in France, Australia and United States. Alexandre de Saint Germain's co-authors include Catherine Rameau, Christine A. Beveridge, Elizabeth A. Dun, Jean‐Paul Pillot, François‐Didier Boyer, Sandrine Bonhomme, Colin Turnbull, Jean‐Bernard Pouvreau, Abdelhafid Bendahmane and Guillaume Clavé and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Alexandre de Saint Germain

28 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Antagonistic Action of Strigolactone and Cytokinin in Bud Outgrowth Control

2011 343 citations Elizabeth A. Dun, Alexandre de Saint Germain et al. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alexandre de Saint Germain France	19	1.7k	1.0k	498	65	30	29	1.8k
Petra Stirnberg United Kingdom	13	2.4k 1.4×	907 0.9×	1.2k 2.3×	60 0.9×	26 0.9×	14	2.5k
Jo Hepworth United Kingdom	12	1.2k 0.7×	539 0.5×	494 1.0×	26 0.4×	18 0.6×	17	1.2k
Magali Goussot France	9	1.4k 0.8×	508 0.5×	866 1.7×	43 0.7×	5 0.2×	10	1.6k
Christian Dumas France	22	1.3k 0.8×	415 0.4×	1.4k 2.7×	11 0.2×	22 0.7×	31	1.5k
Catherine C. Rameau France	10	1.7k 1.0×	660 0.6×	684 1.4×	75 1.2×	18 0.6×	13	1.9k
Songkui Cui Japan	17	773 0.5×	320 0.3×	275 0.6×	94 1.4×	22 0.7×	23	865
M. Rougier France	17	695 0.4×	199 0.2×	600 1.2×	25 0.4×	6 0.2×	41	875
Uljana Hesse South Africa	11	206 0.1×	298 0.3×	211 0.4×	14 0.2×	24 0.8×	16	522
Monica Carabelli Italy	16	1.5k 0.9×	69 0.1×	1.0k 2.1×	41 0.6×	10 0.3×	20	1.5k
Richard Waites United Kingdom	10	1.5k 0.9×	190 0.2×	1.3k 2.5×	16 0.2×	20 0.7×	12	1.6k

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Moreno, Juan C., Umar F. Shahul Hameed, Aparna Balakrishna, et al.. (2025). Arabidopsis response to the apocarotenoid zaxinone involves interference with strigolactone signaling via binding to DWARF14. Nature Communications. 16(1). 8789–8789. 1 indexed citations

Pillot, Jean‐Paul, Carine Géry, Laura Chauvin, et al.. (2025). Efficient and heritable gene editing through CRISPR‐Cas9 in Pisum sativum. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 23(8). 3398–3400.

Lopez‐Obando, Mauricio, Philippe Le Bris, Jean‐Paul Pillot, et al.. (2024). SUPPRESSOR OF MAX2 1-LIKE (SMXL) homologs are MAX2-dependent repressors of Physcomitrium patens growth. The Plant Cell. 36(5). 1655–1672. 3 indexed citations

Fiorilli, Valentina, Marco Forgia, Alexandre de Saint Germain, et al.. (2022). A structural homologue of the plant receptor D14 mediates responses to strigolactones in the fungal phytopathogen Cryphonectria parasitica. New Phytologist. 234(3). 1003–1017. 10 indexed citations

Cornu, David, Marion Dalmais, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, et al.. (2022). Structural and functional analyses explain Pea KAI2 receptor diversity and reveal stereoselective catalysis during signal perception. Communications Biology. 5(1). 126–126. 20 indexed citations

Becker, Claude, Richard Berthomé, Philippe Delavault, et al.. (2022). The ecologically relevant genetics of plant–plant interactions. Trends in Plant Science. 28(1). 31–42. 21 indexed citations

Germain, Alexandre de Saint, Guillaume Clavé, Jean‐Paul Pillot, et al.. (2022). Expansion of the Strigolactone Profluorescent Probes Repertory: The Right Probe for the Right Application. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 887347–887347. 8 indexed citations

Lopez‐Obando, Mauricio, François‐Didier Boyer, David Cornu, et al.. (2021). The Physcomitrium ( Physcomitrella ) patens PpKAI2L receptors for strigolactones and related compounds function via MAX2-dependent and -independent pathways. The Plant Cell. 33(11). 3487–3512. 26 indexed citations

Kerr, Stephanie C., S. B. Patil, Alexandre de Saint Germain, et al.. (2021). Integration of the SMXL/D53 strigolactone signalling repressors in the model of shoot branching regulation in Pisum sativum. The Plant Journal. 107(6). 1756–1770. 38 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhenhua, Alexandre de Saint Germain, François‐Didier Boyer, et al.. (2021). Three mutations repurpose a plant karrikin receptor to a strigolactone receptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(30). 27 indexed citations

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Germain, Alexandre de Saint, Guillaume Clavé, & François‐Didier Boyer. (2021). Synthesis of Profluorescent Strigolactone Probes for Biochemical Studies. Methods in molecular biology. 2309. 219–231. 6 indexed citations

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Pillot, Jean‐Paul, Philippe Le Bris, Jean‐Bernard Pouvreau, et al.. (2021). Strigolactones (SLs) modulate the plastochron by regulating KLUH (KLU) transcript abundance in Arabidopsis. New Phytologist. 232(5). 1909–1916. 7 indexed citations

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Lopez‐Obando, Mauricio, Beate Hoffmann, Alexandre de Saint Germain, et al.. (2018). Physcomitrella patens MAX2 characterization suggests an ancient role for this F‐box protein in photomorphogenesis rather than strigolactone signalling. New Phytologist. 219(2). 743–756. 28 indexed citations

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Kameoka, Hiromu, Elizabeth A. Dun, Mauricio Lopez‐Obando, et al.. (2016). Phloem Transport of the Receptor DWARF14 Protein Is Required for Full Function of Strigolactones. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 172(3). 1844–1852. 30 indexed citations

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Germain, Alexandre de Saint, Guillaume Clavé, Marie‐Ange Badet‐Denisot, et al.. (2016). An histidine covalent receptor and butenolide complex mediates strigolactone perception. Nature Chemical Biology. 12(10). 787–794. 213 indexed citations

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Boyer, François‐Didier, Alexandre de Saint Germain, Jean‐Bernard Pouvreau, et al.. (2013). New Strigolactone Analogs as Plant Hormones with Low Activities in the Rhizosphere. Molecular Plant. 7(4). 675–690. 81 indexed citations

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Germain, Alexandre de Saint, Sandrine Bonhomme, François‐Didier Boyer, & Catherine Rameau. (2013). Novel insights into strigolactone distribution and signalling. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 16(5). 583–589. 95 indexed citations

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Dun, Elizabeth A., Alexandre de Saint Germain, Catherine Rameau, & Christine A. Beveridge. (2012). Dynamics of Strigolactone Function and Shoot Branching Responses in Pisum sativum. Molecular Plant. 6(1). 128–140. 75 indexed citations

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Germain, Alexandre de Saint, Nils Braun, & Catherine Rameau. (2010). Les strigolactones, une nouvelle classe d'hormones qui contrôlent la ramification des plantes. Biologie Aujourd hui. 204(1). 43–49. 1 indexed citations

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Marchant, Dominique, Kuai Yu, Karine Bigot, et al.. (2007). New VMD2 gene mutations identified in patients affected by Best vitelliform macular dystrophy. Journal of Medical Genetics. 44(3). e70–e70. 39 indexed citations

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