Brett Williams

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
54 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Brett Williams is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Epidemiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brett Williams has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Plant Science, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Epidemiology. Recurrent topics in Brett Williams's work include Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (13 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (9 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (8 papers). Brett Williams is often cited by papers focused on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (13 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (9 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (8 papers). Brett Williams collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and South Africa. Brett Williams's co-authors include Martin B. Dickman, Mehdi Kabbage, Sagadevan Mundree, Linh Thi My Hoang, Yurong Li, Jill M. Farrant, Melvin J. Oliver, Henk W. M. Hilhorst, J. Derek Bewley and Lalehvash Moghaddam and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Blood.

In The Last Decade

Brett Williams

52 papers receiving 2.3k 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.

Tipping the Balance: Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Secreted Oxalic Acid Suppresses Host Defenses by Manipulating the Host Redox Environment

2011 378 citations Brett Williams, Mehdi Kabbage et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Brett Williams Australia	23	1.9k	793	249	245	177	54	2.4k
Kirsten Krause Norway	27	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 2.0×	423 1.7×	99 0.4×	211 1.2×	61	2.5k
Sophia L. Stone Canada	27	3.4k 1.8×	2.9k 3.7×	341 1.4×	214 0.9×	190 1.1×	37	4.3k
Shahjahan Ali United States	21	977 0.5×	1.0k 1.3×	109 0.4×	91 0.4×	62 0.4×	44	1.9k
Trevor M. Nolan United States	23	3.2k 1.7×	2.0k 2.6×	69 0.3×	86 0.4×	196 1.1×	34	3.7k
Dong‐Ha Oh United States	23	1.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.5×	145 0.6×	109 0.4×	46 0.3×	55	2.3k
Pietro Piffanelli Italy	34	3.0k 1.6×	1.7k 2.1×	207 0.8×	386 1.6×	31 0.2×	72	3.7k
Ramesh Raina United States	22	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 1.3×	171 0.7×	296 1.2×	52 0.3×	39	2.3k
Yee‐yung Charng Taiwan	29	3.1k 1.6×	2.6k 3.3×	82 0.3×	92 0.4×	46 0.3×	42	4.0k
Roger I. Pennell United Kingdom	18	3.5k 1.8×	2.2k 2.8×	214 0.9×	164 0.7×	62 0.4×	30	4.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Brett Williams

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brett Williams

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20 of 20 papers shown

Williams, Brett, et al.. (2025). Defying Death: A Multi-Omics Approach to Understanding Desiccation Tolerance and Senescence in Eragrostis nindensis. Plants. 14(21). 3360–3360.

Bhowmik, Sudipta, et al.. (2024). ‘Friend versus foe’—does autophagy help regulate symbiotic plant–microbe interactions and can it be manipulated to improve legume cultivation?. FEBS Letters. 599(5). 645–655.

Felippes, Felipe Fenselau de, Julia Bally, Chris J. Blackman, et al.. (2024). Evidence for within‐species transition between drought response strategies in Nicotiana benthamiana. New Phytologist. 244(2). 464–476. 2 indexed citations

Kim, Young‐Mo, Ryan McClure, Alexander S. Beliaev, et al.. (2023). Tripogon loliiformis tolerates rapid desiccation after metabolic and transcriptional priming during initial drying. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 20613–20613. 3 indexed citations

Bhowmik, Sudipta, Johannes Friedl, David Rowlings, et al.. (2023). The cytoprotective co-chaperone, AtBAG4, supports increased nodulation and seed protein content in chickpea without yield penalty. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 18553–18553. 5 indexed citations

Higgins, Thomas J., et al.. (2021). Comparative TMT Proteomic Analysis Unveils Unique Insights into Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner) Resistance in Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(11). 5941–5941. 7 indexed citations

Shao, Dandan, Ashish Ranjan, Steven A. Whitham, et al.. (2021). Host-Induced Gene Silencing of a Sclerotinia sclerotiorum oxaloacetate acetylhydrolase Using Bean Pod Mottle Virus as a Vehicle Reduces Disease on Soybean. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 677631–677631. 26 indexed citations

Oduor, Richard, et al.. (2020). Comparative Analysis Delineates the Transcriptional Resistance Mechanisms for Pod Borer Resistance in the Pigeonpea Wild Relative Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.) Thouars. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(1). 309–309. 12 indexed citations

Hoang, Linh Thi My, et al.. (2020). A Wild Cajanus scarabaeoides (L.), Thouars, IBS 3471, for Improved Insect-Resistance in Cultivated Pigeonpea. Agronomy. 10(4). 517–517. 17 indexed citations

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Hoang, Linh Thi My, et al.. (2019). Investigation of Insect Resistance Components in Wild Pigeonpea Cajanus Scarabaeoides. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 27–27. 2 indexed citations

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Bhowmik, Sudipta, Hao Long, Linh Thi My Hoang, et al.. (2019). Robust Genetic Transformation System to Obtain Non-chimeric Transgenic Chickpea. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 524–524. 39 indexed citations

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Tao, Yongfu, Emma Mace, Brett Williams, et al.. (2018). Characterization of Linkage Disequilibrium and Population Structure in a Mungbean Diversity Panel. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 2102–2102. 55 indexed citations

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Jain, Sachin, et al.. (2018). A Bcl-2 Associated Athanogene (bagA) Modulates Sexual Development and Secondary Metabolism in the Filamentous Fungus Aspergillus nidulans. Frontiers in Microbiology. 9. 1316–1316. 7 indexed citations

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Artur, Mariana A S, Júlio Maia, Martijn F. L. Derks, et al.. (2017). A footprint of desiccation tolerance in the genome of Xerophyta viscosa. Nature Plants. 3(4). 17038–17038. 98 indexed citations

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Bhowmik, Sudipta, et al.. (2017). Finger on the Pulse: Pumping Iron into Chickpea. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 1755–1755. 16 indexed citations

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Hoang, Linh Thi My, Thach Tran, Thuy Nguyen, et al.. (2016). Improvement of Salinity Stress Tolerance in Rice: Challenges and Opportunities. Agronomy. 6(4). 54–54. 167 indexed citations

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Williams, Brett, Lalehvash Moghaddam, Hao Long, et al.. (2015). Trehalose Accumulation Triggers Autophagy during Plant Desiccation. PLoS Genetics. 11(12). e1005705–e1005705. 92 indexed citations

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Williams, Brett, et al.. (2008). Plant programmed cell death: can't live with it; can't live without it. Molecular Plant Pathology. 9(4). 531–544. 99 indexed citations

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Agerholm, Inge, Søren Ziebe, Brett Williams, et al.. (2005). Sequential FISH analysis using competitive displacement of labelled peptide nucleic acid probes for eight chromosomes in human blastomeres. Human Reproduction. 20(4). 1072–1077. 11 indexed citations

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Taylor, Kerry, R. Rodwell, Debra L. Taylor, et al.. (1995). Normal (RT-PCR negative) stem cells can be collected following lenograstim therapy in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in major/complete cytogenetic response (MCR/CCR) on alpha-interferon (alpha-IFN).. Blood. 86(10). 3955–3955. 1 indexed citations

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