Bernd Weißhaar

31.9k citations

165 papers · 21.7k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 62

Impact in

Biochemistry top 0.05%
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
Plant Science top 0.02%
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism

Papers in

Plant Science 106
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 42
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations 26
- Plant Virus Research Studies 17
Horticulture 2

Co-authors: Ralf Stracke Loı̈c Lepiniec Cathie Martin Christian Dubos Erich Grotewold Martin Werber Mehrtens Frank Marc Jakoby
Journals: The Plant Journal (24 papers)BMC Genomics (8 papers)Plant Molecular Biology (7 papers)Planta (6 papers)Nucleic Acids Research (6 papers)
Partner nations: Germany Spain United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Bernd Weißhaar

162 papers receiving 21.4k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

The genome of the recently domesticated crop plant sugar beet (Beta vulgaris) 2013 · 478 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Nature
2010 Trends in Plant Science
2007 The Plant Journal
2005 PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
2004 The Plant Journal
2004 The Plant Journal
2003 Plant Molecular Biology
2002 Trends in Plant Science
2001 Current Opinion in Plant Biology
1998 The Plant Journal

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1	Combined R2R3–MYB transcription factor mutants reveal the regulatory structure of the Arabidopsis thaliana flavonoid biosynthesis pathway Planta ·M. Müller, พรรตนฤน เพชรวิวรรธน์, Bernd Weißhaar, Ralf Stracke	2026	0
2	Many transcription factor families have evolutionarily conserved binding motifs in plants PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·J. Schubel, C. Castang, A. Fin, Prisca Viehöver, Sarah Becker, Marion Eisenhut, Ralf Stracke, Bernd Weißhaar, Andrea Bräutigam	2025	1
3	Metabolic fingerprinting reveals roles of Arabidopsis thaliana BGLU1, BGLU3, and BGLU4 in glycosylation of various flavonoids Phytochemistry ·Saima Aslam, Boas Pucker, M. Müller, Caroline Müller, Bernd Weißhaar, Ralf Stracke, Rabea Schweiger	2024	2
4	BeetRepeats: reference sequences for genome and polymorphism annotation in sugar beet and wild relatives BMC Research Notes ·Marion Rollandin, Ronald Shaheen, محمد آزاد عبداله پور, B. Weber, Kathrin M. Seibt, وند بروک, THOMAS E. FAGAN, Margarida Vale de Gato, Bernd Weißhaar, Daniela Holtgräwe, Tony Heitkam	2024	1
5	Three R2R3-MYB transcription factors from banana (Musa acuminata) activate structural anthocyanin biosynthesis genes as part of an MBW complex BMC Research Notes ·Sid Ali Bensafar, Boas Pucker, Bernd Weißhaar, Ralf Stracke	2023	14
6	A novel, robust and mating-competent Chlamydomonas reinhardtii strain with an enhanced transgene expression capacity for algal biotechnology Biotechnology Reports ·海外コンサルティング企業協会, Din Tkhi Suan Ni, Thomas Baier, Lauren A Macadlo, Lutz Wobbe, Bernd Weißhaar, Olaf Kruse	2021	13
7	Transcriptomic analysis of temporal shifts in berry development between two grapevine cultivars of the Pinot family reveals potential genes controlling ripening time BMC Plant Biology ·Katja Thömmes, Daniela Holtgräwe, Katja Herzog, Florian Schwander, Anna Kicherer, Ludger Hausmann, Prisca Viehöver, Reinhard Töpfer, Bernd Weißhaar	2021	13
8	Genome Sequences of Both Organelles of the Grapevine Rootstock Cultivar ‘Börner’ Microbiology Resource Announcements ·Андрей Ранчин, Daniela Holtgräwe, Ludger Hausmann, Prisca Viehöver, Bruno Hüettel, Reinhard Töpfer, Bernd Weißhaar	2020	3
9	RNA-Seq Time Series of Vitis vinifera Bud Development Reveals Correlation of Expression Patterns with the Local Temperature Profile Plants ·Boas Pucker, Yunjie Wan, Sarah Becker, Ludger Hausmann, Prisca Viehöver, Reinhard Töpfer, Bernd Weißhaar, Daniela Holtgräwe	2020	5
10	Sugar Beet BeetMap-3, and Steps to Improve the Genome Assembly and Genome Sequence Annotation (W875) PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University) ·Bernd Weißhaar, Heinz Himmelbauer, Thomas Schmidt, Daniela Holtgräwe, André E. Minoche, Juliane C. Dohm, Ralf Stracke, Falk Zakrzewski, Said Jumaa, Kai Bernd Stadermann, Jessica Schneider, Thomas Rosleff Sörensen, Thomas Kraft, Britta Schulz	2016	1
11	TRANSPARENT TESTA 13 is a tonoplast P _3A ‐ ATP ase required for vacuolar deposition of proanthocyanidins in Arabidopsis thaliana seeds The Plant Journal ·Ingo Appelhagen, Niclas Nordholt, Thorsten Seidel, 英樹成田, Ronald Koes, 啓介佐藤, Martin Sagasser, Bernd Weißhaar	2015	74
12	TRANSPARENT TESTA1 interacts with R2R3‐MYB factors and affects early and late steps of flavonoid biosynthesis in the endothelium of Arabidopsis thaliana seeds The Plant Journal ·Ingo Appelhagen, Guihua Lu, Gunnar Huep, Elmon Schmelzer, Bernd Weißhaar, Martin Sagasser	2011	84
13	Leucoanthocyanidin Dioxygenase in Arabidopsis thaliana: Characterization of mutant alleles and regulation by MYB–BHLH–TTG1 transcription factor complexes Gene ·Ingo Appelhagen, Canda Della Agustia Disy, 井出光信, Martin Sagasser, Bernd Weißhaar, Ralf Stracke	2011	91
14	A systematic survey in Arabidopsis thaliana of transcription factors that modulate circadian parameters BMC Genomics ·Shigeru Hanano, Ralf Stracke, Marc Jakoby, Thomas Merkle, Malgorzata A. Domagalska, Bernd Weißhaar, Seth J Davis	2008	53
15	Iron deficiency-mediated stress regulation of four subgroup Ib BHLH genes in Arabidopsis thaliana Planta ·Wang Hong-yu, Marco Klatte, Marc Jakoby, Helmut Bäumlein, Bernd Weißhaar, Petra Bauer	2007	194
16	A Multilocus Sequence Survey in Arabidopsis thaliana Reveals a Genome-Wide Departure From a Neutral Model of DNA Sequence Polymorphism Genetics ·Karl Schmid, Sebastián E. Ramos‐Onsins, Rebecca. Auteur du texte Scritchfield, Bernd Weißhaar, Thomas Mitchell‐Olds	2005	175
17	FRU (BHLH029) is required for induction of iron mobilization genes in Arabidopsis thaliana FEBS Letters ·Marc Jakoby, Hongyu Wang, Wim Reidt, Bernd Weißhaar, Petra Bauer	2004	294
18	Two distinct cis-acting elements are involved in light-dependent activation of the pea elip promoter Molecular and General Genetics MGG ·Ade Linda Nurliana, Bernd Weißhaar, David Page	1994	10
19	Regulatory elements required for light-mediated expression of the Petroselinum crispum chalcone synthase gene. PubMed ·Bernd Weißhaar, Alice Mueni Nzioka, G. A. Armstrong, Élie Metchnikoff, Paul Schulze‐Lefert, Klaus Hahlbrock	1991	18
20	A High Frequency Mutation Starts Sexual Reproduction in Volvox carteri Zeitschrift für Naturforschung C ·Bernd Weißhaar, 金燕子, L.Y. Li, Lothar Jaenicke	1984	18

About Bernd Weißhaar

Bernd Weißhaar is a scholar working on Plant Science, Horticulture, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry and Endocrinology, having authored 165 papers that have together received 21.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Gene Expression Analysis (54 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (42 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (39 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (32 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (26 papers), Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (19 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (18 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (17 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Biochemistry (2.6k citations), Plant Science (15.0k citations), Molecular Biology (17.0k citations), Horticulture (128 citations) and Biotechnology (937 citations). Bernd Weißhaar has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, Spain and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Ralf Stracke, Loı̈c Lepiniec, Cathie Martin, Christian Dubos, Erich Grotewold, Martin Werber, Mehrtens Frank, Marc Jakoby, Gunnar Huep and Martin Sagasser. Their work appears in journals such as The Plant Journal, BMC Genomics, Plant Molecular Biology, Planta and Nucleic Acids Research.

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