Birgit Kersten

3.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Birgit Kersten is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Birgit Kersten has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Molecular Biology, 21 papers in Plant Science and 17 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Birgit Kersten's work include Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications (12 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers). Birgit Kersten is often cited by papers focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies (13 papers), Advanced Biosensing Techniques and Applications (12 papers) and Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers). Birgit Kersten collaborates with scholars based in Germany, France and United States. Birgit Kersten's co-authors include Bernd Mueller‐Roeber, Diego Mauricio Riaño‐Pachón, Luiz Gustavo Guedes Corrêa, Paulino Pérez‐Rodríguez, Stefan A. Rensing, Matthias Fladung, Waltraud X. Schulze, Pawel Durek, Axel Nagel and Birte Pakull and has published in prestigious journals such as Nucleic Acids Research, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Birgit Kersten

74 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

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2009 586 citations Diego Mauricio Riaño‐Pachón, Birgit Kersten et al. Nucleic Acids Research profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Birgit Kersten Germany	27	1.8k	1.5k	364	218	172	77	2.7k
Svenja Meyer Germany	13	2.1k 1.1×	2.9k 1.9×	191 0.5×	81 0.4×	95 0.6×	16	3.9k
Claudette Job France	32	2.5k 1.3×	4.6k 3.1×	146 0.4×	128 0.6×	186 1.1×	62	5.6k
Antoine H. P. America Netherlands	34	1.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	174 0.5×	289 1.3×	44 0.3×	76	3.0k
Jennifer Normanly United States	28	3.4k 1.8×	3.2k 2.1×	314 0.9×	60 0.3×	159 0.9×	40	4.7k
Jaroslava Ovesná Czechia	26	1.1k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	262 0.7×	25 0.1×	123 0.7×	106	2.2k
Vasanth Singan United States	22	1.2k 0.6×	943 0.6×	134 0.4×	42 0.2×	212 1.2×	54	2.5k
Alexander Graf Germany	31	1.9k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	176 0.5×	86 0.4×	82 0.5×	55	3.4k
Isomaro Yamaguchi Japan	30	3.1k 1.7×	4.3k 2.9×	186 0.5×	41 0.2×	316 1.8×	166	5.0k
Ohkmae K. Park South Korea	32	2.0k 1.1×	2.9k 1.9×	69 0.2×	102 0.5×	86 0.5×	48	3.9k
Yoko Ikeda Japan	32	2.4k 1.3×	2.2k 1.5×	379 1.0×	22 0.1×	141 0.8×	105	3.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Birgit Kersten

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Mäder, Malte, Matthias Fladung, Ina Zimmer, et al.. (2025). Modulation of the leaf transcriptome of Quercus robur by specialist and generalist herbivorous insects. Tree Physiology. 46(2).

Kersten, Birgit, et al.. (2024). Identification of full-sibling families from natural single-tree ash progenies based on SSR markers and genome-wide SNPs. Journal of Plant Diseases and Protection. 131(5). 1301–1310.

Schroeder, Hilke & Birgit Kersten. (2023). A Small Set of Nuclear Markers for Reliable Differentiation of the Two Closely Related Oak Species Quercus Robur and Q. Petraea. Plants. 12(3). 566–566. 4 indexed citations

Mäder, Malte, et al.. (2023). Drought stress-induced Picea abies transcriptome changes in the context of functional interactions. Silvae genetica. 72(1). 163–175. 1 indexed citations

Montalvão, Ana Paula Leite, et al.. (2022). ARR17 controls dioecy in Populus by repressing B-class MADS-box gene expression. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1850). 24 indexed citations

Schroeder, Hilke, Birgit Kersten, Matthias Fladung, et al.. (2021). European oak chemical diversity – from ecotypes to herbivore resistance. New Phytologist. 232(2). 818–834. 26 indexed citations

Müller, Niels A., Birgit Kersten, Ana Paula Leite Montalvão, et al.. (2020). A single gene underlies the dynamic evolution of poplar sex determination. Nature Plants. 6(6). 630–637. 149 indexed citations

Sabatti, Maurizio, Muriel Gaudet, Niels A. Müller, et al.. (2019). Long-term study of a subdioecious Populus ×canescens family reveals sex lability of females and reproduction behaviour of cosexual plants. Plant Reproduction. 33(1). 1–17. 6 indexed citations

Kersten, Birgit, et al.. (2018). Identifizierung von 19 verschiedenen Pappelarten mit Hilfe von Chloroplasten- und Kernmarker-Sets. OpenAgrar. 68. 27–34. 1 indexed citations

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Schroeder, Hilke, Richard Cronn, Yulai Yanbaev, et al.. (2016). Development of Molecular Markers for Determining Continental Origin of Wood from White Oaks (Quercus L. sect. Quercus). PLoS ONE. 11(6). e0158221–e0158221. 42 indexed citations

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Kersten, Birgit, Andrea Ghirardo, Jörg‐Peter Schnitzler, et al.. (2013). Integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics decipher differences in the resistance of pedunculate oak to the herbivore Tortrix viridanaL.. BMC Genomics. 14(1). 737–737. 38 indexed citations

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Riaño‐Pachón, Diego Mauricio, Sabrina Kleeßen, Pawel Durek, et al.. (2010). Proteome-wide survey of phosphorylation patterns affected by nuclear DNA polymorphisms in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Genomics. 11(1). 411–411. 21 indexed citations

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Kleeßen, Sabrina, et al.. (2010). Proteomics – The key to understanding systems biology of Arabidopsis trichomes. Phytochemistry. 72(10). 1061–1070. 11 indexed citations

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Nagel, Axel, et al.. (2008). GabiPD: the GABI primary database--a plant integrative 'omics' database. Nucleic Acids Research. 37(Database). D954–D959. 26 indexed citations

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Kersten, Birgit, et al.. (2006). Phosphorylation Studies Using Plant Protein Microarrays. Humana Press eBooks. 355. 379–390. 5 indexed citations

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Grelle, Gerlinde, Susanne Kostka, Albrecht Otto, et al.. (2005). Identification of VCP/p97, Carboxyl Terminus of Hsp70-interacting Protein (CHIP), and Amphiphysin II Interaction Partners Using Membrane-based Human Proteome Arrays. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 5(2). 234–244. 46 indexed citations

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Kramer, Armin, Alexandra Possling, Volodymyr Radchuk, et al.. (2004). Identification of barley CK2α targets by using the protein microarray technology. Phytochemistry. 65(12). 1777–1784. 30 indexed citations

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Kersten, Birgit, Armin Kramer, S. Wehrmeyer, et al.. (2003). Generation of Arabidopsis protein chips for antibody and serum screening. Plant Molecular Biology. 52(5). 999–1010. 36 indexed citations

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Kersten, Birgit, et al.. (2001). Effects of visible light absorbing chemicals in the photomicronucleus test in Chinese hamster V79 cells. 23(2). 89–96. 6 indexed citations

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Müller, Lutz, Peter Kasper, Birgit Kersten, & Juan Zhang. (1998). Photochemical genotoxicity and photochemical carcinogenesis — Two sides of a Coin?. Toxicology Letters. 102-103. 383–387. 18 indexed citations

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