Beat Keller

43.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
302 papers, 20.2k citations indexed

About

Beat Keller is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Beat Keller has authored 302 papers receiving a total of 20.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 263 papers in Plant Science, 79 papers in Molecular Biology and 37 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Beat Keller's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (171 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (109 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (78 papers). Beat Keller is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (171 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (109 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (78 papers). Beat Keller collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Beat Keller's co-authors include Thomas Wicker, Catherine Feuillet, Nabila Yahiaoui, Simon G. Krattinger, G. Schachermayr, Nils Stein, Monika Messmer, M. Winzeler, Susanne Brunner and Christoph Ringli and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Beat Keller

296 papers receiving 19.5k 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.

A Putative ABC Transporter Confers Durable Resistance to Multiple Fungal Pathogens in Wheat

2009 986 citations Simon G. Krattinger, Evans Lagudah et al. Science profile →
Nuclear Activity of MLA Immune Receptors Links Isolate-Specific and Basal Disease-Resistance Responses

2006 577 citations Qian‐Hua Shen, Yusuke Saijo et al. Science profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Beat Keller	18.3k	5.7k	3.0k	1.3k	979	302	20.2k
Francesco Salamini	16.3k 0.9×	7.8k 1.4×	2.5k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	607 0.6×	308	19.3k
Steven H. Strauss	7.4k 0.4×	7.6k 1.3×	2.0k 0.7×	524 0.4×	889 0.9×	203	11.9k
Qi Xie	14.1k 0.8×	9.3k 1.6×	756 0.2×	715 0.6×	328 0.3×	189	16.6k
Peter M. Gresshoff	12.9k 0.7×	3.9k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	476 0.4×	3.9k 4.0×	268	16.1k
M. D. Bennett	12.1k 0.7×	7.2k 1.3×	2.9k 1.0×	624 0.5×	553 0.6×	178	14.7k
Julia Bailey‐Serres	15.4k 0.8×	6.4k 1.1×	869 0.3×	404 0.3×	353 0.4×	138	18.8k
Christophe Plomion	4.5k 0.2×	3.4k 0.6×	2.6k 0.9×	841 0.7×	366 0.4×	194	9.0k
J. Allan Downie	11.9k 0.7×	4.3k 0.8×	1.1k 0.4×	314 0.3×	3.5k 3.6×	204	16.1k
Robert J. Schmitz	9.5k 0.5×	7.9k 1.4×	1.8k 0.6×	203 0.2×	215 0.2×	173	13.2k
Jonathan F. Wendel	22.0k 1.2×	12.6k 2.2×	5.8k 1.9×	1.0k 0.8×	486 0.5×	299	28.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Beat Keller

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Beat Keller

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

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Isaksson, Jonatan, et al.. (2025). Interactions of Wheat Powdery Mildew Effectors Involved in Recognition by the Wheat NLR PM3. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 38(6). 861–868.

Goto, Y, Marc W. Schmid, Helen Zbinden, et al.. (2025). Chitin Soil Amendment Triggers Systemic Plant Disease Resistance Through Enhanced Pattern‐Triggered Immunity. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 23(11). 5032–5044. 2 indexed citations

Jung, Esther, et al.. (2024). Breeding for durable resistance against biotrophic fungal pathogens using transgenes from wheat. Molecular Breeding. 44(2). 8–8. 4 indexed citations

Stefan, Laura, Javier Sánchez‐Martín, Thomas Kurth, et al.. (2024). A genotype–phenotype approach to discriminate Central European spelt landraces from modern wheat-spelt intercrosses in the Swiss context. Euphytica. 220(9). 1 indexed citations

Greenwood, Julian R., Thomas Kroj, Mary Jeanie Telebanco‐Yanoria, et al.. (2024). Genome-wide association analysis uncovers rice blast resistance alleles of Ptr and Pia. Communications Biology. 7(1). 607–607. 16 indexed citations

Müller, Marion C., Lukas Kunz, Seraina Schudel, et al.. (2022). Ancient variation of the AvrPm17 gene in powdery mildew limits the effectiveness of the introgressed rye Pm17 resistance gene in wheat. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(30). e2108808119–e2108808119. 27 indexed citations

Kolodziej, Markus C., Jyoti Singla, Javier Sánchez‐Martín, et al.. (2021). A membrane-bound ankyrin repeat protein confers race-specific leaf rust disease resistance in wheat. Nature Communications. 12(1). 956–956. 79 indexed citations

Stanley, Claire E., Florian Walder, Stefanie S. Schmieder, et al.. (2021). A versatile microfluidic platform measures hyphal interactions between Fusarium graminearum and Clonostachys rosea in real-time. Communications Biology. 4(1). 262–262. 23 indexed citations

Praz, Coraline R., Anne C. Roulin, Helen Zbinden, et al.. (2021). Identification of specificity‐defining amino acids of the wheat immune receptor Pm2 and powdery mildew effector AvrPm2. The Plant Journal. 106(4). 993–1007. 31 indexed citations

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Steuernagel, Burkhard, Kamil Witek, Simon G. Krattinger, et al.. (2020). The NLR-Annotator Tool Enables Annotation of the Intracellular Immune Receptor Repertoire. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 183(2). 468–482. 113 indexed citations

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Krattinger, Simon G., Joohyun Kang, Rainer Böni, et al.. (2019). Abscisic acid is a substrate of the ABC transporter encoded by the durable wheat disease resistance gene Lr34. New Phytologist. 223(2). 853–866. 102 indexed citations

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Müller, Marion C., Coraline R. Praz, Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos, et al.. (2018). A chromosome‐scale genome assembly reveals a highly dynamic effector repertoire of wheat powdery mildew. New Phytologist. 221(4). 2176–2189. 70 indexed citations

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Robert, Christelle A. M., Tobias Züst, Lingfei Hu, et al.. (2018). Convergent evolution of a metabolic switch between aphid and caterpillar resistance in cereals. Science Advances. 4(12). eaat6797–eaat6797. 58 indexed citations

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Schnippenkoetter, Wendelin, Clive Lo, Guoquan Liu, et al.. (2017). The wheat Lr34 multipathogen resistance gene confers resistance to anthracnose and rust in sorghum. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 15(11). 1387–1396. 55 indexed citations

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Krattinger, Simon G., Evans Lagudah, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, et al.. (2009). A Putative ABC Transporter Confers Durable Resistance to Multiple Fungal Pathogens in Wheat. Science. 323(5919). 1360–1363. 986 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kaur, Navreet, Kenneth Street, Michael Mackay, Nabila Yahiaoui, & Beat Keller. (2008). Allele mining and sequence diversity at the wheat powdery mildew resistance locus Pm3. The Sydney eScholarship Repository (The University of Sydney). 4 indexed citations

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Shen, Qian‐Hua, Yusuke Saijo, Christoph Biskup, et al.. (2006). Nuclear Activity of MLA Immune Receptors Links Isolate-Specific and Basal Disease-Resistance Responses. Science. 315(5815). 1098–1103. 577 indexed citations breakdown →

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Isidore, Edwige, Patricia E. Klein, Arnaud Bellec, et al.. (2005). Large Intraspecific Haplotype Variability at the Rph7 Locus Results from Rapid and Recent Divergence in the Barley Genome. The Plant Cell. 17(2). 361–374. 52 indexed citations

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Ringli, Christoph, Nicolas Baumberger, Anouck Diet, Beat Frey, & Beat Keller. (2002). ACTIN2 Is Essential for Bulge Site Selection and Tip Growth during Root Hair Development of Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 129(4). 1464–1472. 119 indexed citations

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Keller, Beat. (1996). Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry: a new versatile tool for surface analysis. DORA Empa (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa)).

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