Attila Kereszt

6.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 4.6k citations indexed

About

Attila Kereszt is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Attila Kereszt has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 4.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Plant Science, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Attila Kereszt's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (49 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (28 papers) and Nematode management and characterization studies (10 papers). Attila Kereszt is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (49 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (28 papers) and Nematode management and characterization studies (10 papers). Attila Kereszt collaborates with scholars based in Hungary, France and United States. Attila Kereszt's co-authors include Éva Kondorosi, Peter Mergaert, Gabriella Endré, G. B. Kiss, Péter Kaló, Zoltán Kevei, Gergely Maróti, Peter M. Gresshoff, S. Mihacea and Attila Farkas and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Attila Kereszt

62 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

A receptor kinase gene regulating symbiotic nodule development

2002 537 citations Gabriella Endré, Attila Kereszt et al. profile →
Plant Peptides Govern Terminal Differentiation of Bacteria in Symbiosis

2010 417 citations Willem Van de Velde, Grigor Zehirov et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Attila Kereszt Hungary	36	3.9k	1.0k	1.0k	396	317	63	4.6k
Peter Mergaert France	43	4.2k 1.1×	1.3k 1.2×	1.2k 1.2×	674 1.7×	479 1.5×	98	5.5k
Kathryn A. VandenBosch United States	28	3.1k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	546 0.5×	299 0.8×	112 0.4×	38	3.5k
Ádám Kondorosi Hungary	51	5.7k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	1.4k 1.4×	92 0.2×	626 2.0×	108	6.5k
Marcelle Holsters Belgium	45	4.6k 1.2×	1.7k 1.6×	1.2k 1.1×	19 0.0×	423 1.3×	93	5.4k
Lorenzo Segovia Mexico	27	1.5k 0.4×	1.1k 1.1×	398 0.4×	30 0.1×	527 1.7×	61	2.9k
Miguel A. Cevallos Mexico	28	1.4k 0.3×	843 0.8×	193 0.2×	50 0.1×	433 1.4×	89	2.4k
Steven V. Beer United States	41	6.4k 1.6×	1.4k 1.3×	82 0.1×	80 0.2×	318 1.0×	133	7.2k
Stéphane Genin France	45	7.0k 1.8×	1.5k 1.5×	84 0.1×	88 0.2×	418 1.3×	90	8.2k
Z. A. Pretorius South Africa	31	6.6k 1.7×	2.5k 2.4×	539 0.5×	35 0.1×	103 0.3×	134	7.2k
L. Rossen United Kingdom	22	1.4k 0.4×	725 0.7×	292 0.3×	37 0.1×	311 1.0×	27	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Attila Kereszt

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Attila Kereszt

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Lima, Rui M., Hilda Tiricz, Ferhan Ayaydin, et al.. (2025). Diverse triggers, common outcome: Senescence in Fix⁻ Medicago truncatula nodules. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 199(3).

Qin, Qiulin, Jingyin Yu, Shengming Yang, et al.. (2024). Species-specific microsymbiont discrimination mediated by a Medicago receptor kinase. Science Advances. 10(31). eadp6436–eadp6436. 3 indexed citations

Liu, Jinge, Qiulin Qin, Shengming Yang, et al.. (2022). Paired Medicago receptors mediate broad-spectrum resistance to nodulation by Sinorhizobium meliloti carrying a species-specific gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(51). e2214703119–e2214703119. 12 indexed citations

Wang, Ting, et al.. (2022). Varietas Delectat: Exploring Natural Variations in Nitrogen-Fixing Symbiosis Research. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 856187–856187. 6 indexed citations

Guefrachi, Ibtissem, Quentin Barrière, Olivier Pierre, et al.. (2019). From Intracellular Bacteria to Differentiated Bacteroids: Transcriptome and Metabolome Analysis in Aeschynomene Nodules Using the Bradyrhizobium sp. Strain ORS285 bclA Mutant. Journal of Bacteriology. 201(17). 3 indexed citations

Farkas, Attila, Gergely Maróti, Attila Kereszt, & Éva Kondorosi. (2017). Comparative Analysis of the Bacterial Membrane Disruption Effect of Two Natural Plant Antimicrobial Peptides. Frontiers in Microbiology. 8. 51–51. 90 indexed citations

Nagy, Krisztina, Balázs Bogos, Zsolt Szegletes, et al.. (2016). Antimicrobial nodule-specific cysteine-rich peptides disturb the integrity of bacterial outer and inner membranes and cause loss of membrane potential. Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. 15(1). 43–43. 40 indexed citations

Szűcs, Attila, et al.. (2015). Next-Generation Sequencing and its new possibilities in medicine. Acta Biologica Szegediensis. 59. 323–339. 2 indexed citations

Scholl, Suzy, Maud Kamal, Leanne de Koning, et al.. (2013). HPV Pathway Profiling: HPV Related Cervical Dysplasia and Carcinoma Studies. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 19(8). 1379–1394. 1 indexed citations

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Maróti, Gergely, Attila Kereszt, Éva Kondorosi, & Peter Mergaert. (2011). Natural roles of antimicrobial peptides in microbes, plants and animals. Research in Microbiology. 162(4). 363–374. 209 indexed citations

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Kereszt, Attila, Peter Mergaert, Gergely Maróti, & Éva Kondorosi. (2011). Innate immunity effectors and virulence factors in symbiosis. Current Opinion in Microbiology. 14(1). 76–81. 18 indexed citations

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Kereszt, Attila, Peter Mergaert, & Éva Kondorosi. (2011). Bacteroid Development in Legume Nodules: Evolution of Mutual Benefit or of Sacrificial Victims?. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 24(11). 1300–1309. 77 indexed citations

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Velde, Willem Van de, Grigor Zehirov, Ágnes Szatmári, et al.. (2010). Plant Peptides Govern Terminal Differentiation of Bacteria in Symbiosis. Science. 327(5969). 1122–1126. 417 indexed citations breakdown →

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Jakab, Júlia, R. Varma Penmetsa, Colby G. Starker, et al.. (2007). An ERF Transcription Factor in Medicago truncatula That Is Essential for Nod Factor Signal Transduction. The Plant Cell. 19(4). 1221–1234. 235 indexed citations

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Kevei, Zoltán, Peter Mergaert, Gábor V. Horváth, et al.. (2007). 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase1 Interacts with NORK and Is Crucial for Nodulation in Medicago truncatula. The Plant Cell. 19(12). 3974–3989. 108 indexed citations

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Endré, Gabriella, et al.. (2006). Strategies to obtain stable transgenic plants from non-embryogenic lines: complementation of the nn 1 mutation of the NORK gene in Medicago sativa MN1008. Plant Cell Reports. 25(8). 799–806. 2 indexed citations

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Cinege, Gyöngyi, et al.. (2004). The roles of different regions of the CycH protein in c-type cytochrome biogenesis in Sinorhizobium meliloti. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 271(2). 171–179. 11 indexed citations

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Kiss, Ernö, Peter Mergaert, Boglàrka Olàh, et al.. (1998). Conservation of noIR in the Sinorhizobium and Rhizobium Genera of the Rhizobiaceae Family. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 11(12). 1186–1195. 29 indexed citations

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Putnoky, Péter, Attila Kereszt, Tatsunosuke Nakamura, et al.. (1998). The pha gene cluster of Rhizobium meliloti involved in pH adaptation and symbiosis encodes a novel type of K⁺ efflux system. Molecular Microbiology. 28(6). 1091–1101. 91 indexed citations

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Kereszt, Attila, et al.. (1998). Integrative promoter cloning plasmid vectors forRhizobium meliloti. FEMS Microbiology Letters. 159(1). 7–13. 8 indexed citations

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