Cyril Zipfel

38.1k total citations · 20 hit papers
166 papers, 25.0k citations indexed

About

Cyril Zipfel is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Microbiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cyril Zipfel has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 25.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Plant Science, 42 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Microbiology. Recurrent topics in Cyril Zipfel's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (132 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (68 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (58 papers). Cyril Zipfel is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (132 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (68 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (58 papers). Cyril Zipfel collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Switzerland and Germany. Cyril Zipfel's co-authors include Georg Felix, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Thomas Boller, Silke Robatzek, Alberto P. Macho, Delphine Chinchilla, Freddy Boutrot, Daniel Couto, Jacqueline Monaghan and Yasuhiro Kadota and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Cyril Zipfel

162 papers receiving 24.7k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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 flagellin-induced complex of the receptor FLS2 and BAK1 initiates plant defence

2007 1.4k citations Cyril Zipfel, Silke Robatzek et al. profile →
Perception of the Bacterial PAMP EF-Tu by the Receptor EFR Restricts Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation

2006 1.4k citations Cyril Zipfel, Gernot Kunze et al. profile →
Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception

2004 1.3k citations Cyril Zipfel, Silke Robatzek et al. profile →
Regulation of pattern recognition receptor signalling in plants

2016 923 citations Daniel Couto, Cyril Zipfel profile →
Plant pattern-recognition receptors

2014 774 citations Cyril Zipfel profile →
Direct Regulation of the NADPH Oxidase RBOHD by the PRR-Associated Kinase BIK1 during Plant Immunity

2014 713 citations Yasuhiro Kadota, Jan Sklenář et al. profile →
Plant PRRs and the Activation of Innate Immune Signaling

2014 676 citations Alberto P. Macho, Cyril Zipfel profile →
The N Terminus of Bacterial Elongation Factor Tu Elicits Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis Plants

2004 658 citations Gernot Kunze, Cyril Zipfel et al. The Plant Cell profile →
Structural Basis for flg22-Induced Activation of the Arabidopsis FLS2-BAK1 Immune Complex

2013 562 citations Alberto P. Macho, Cyril Zipfel et al. Science profile →
The Arabidopsis Leucine-Rich Repeat Receptor–Like Kinases BAK1/SERK3 and BKK1/SERK4 Are Required for Innate Immunity to Hemibiotrophic and Biotrophic Pathogens

2011 537 citations Benjamin Schwessinger, Alexandra M. E. Jones et al. The Plant Cell profile →
Plant signalling in symbiosis and immunity

2017 513 citations Cyril Zipfel et al. profile →
The receptor kinase FER is a RALF-regulated scaffold controlling plant immune signaling

2017 508 citations Martin Stegmann, Jacqueline Monaghan et al. Science profile →
Function, Discovery, and Exploitation of Plant Pattern Recognition Receptors for Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance

2017 497 citations Cyril Zipfel et al. profile →
Plant pattern recognition receptor complexes at the plasma membrane

2012 491 citations Jacqueline Monaghan, Cyril Zipfel profile →
Pattern-recognition receptors in plant innate immunity

2008 473 citations Cyril Zipfel profile →
Regulation of the NADPH Oxidase RBOHD During Plant Immunity

2015 459 citations Yasuhiro Kadota, Ken Shirasu et al. profile →
Bacteria establish an aqueous living space in plants crucial for virulence

2016 315 citations Cyril Zipfel, Sheng Yang He et al. profile →
Molecular mechanisms of early plant pattern-triggered immune signaling

2021 274 citations Thomas A. DeFalco, Cyril Zipfel profile →
The transcriptional landscape of Arabidopsis thaliana pattern-triggered immunity

2021 196 citations Marta Bjornson, Cyril Zipfel et al. profile →
Ca ²⁺ signals in plant immunity

2022 136 citations Philipp Köster, Thomas A. DeFalco et al. profile →

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Chitin Soil Amendment Triggers Systemic Plant Disease Resistance Through Enhanced Pattern‐Triggered Immunity 2025 ·Plant Biotechnology Journal ·(unknown), Y Goto, Marc W. Schmid, Helen Zbinden, Victoria Widrig, (unknown), Joël F. Pothier, Beat Keller, Cyril Zipfel	2
2	Leveraging coevolutionary insights and AI-based structural modeling to unravel receptor–peptide ligand-binding mechanisms 2024 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Simon Snoeck, Hyun Kyung Lee, Marc W. Schmid, Kyle W. Bender, (unknown), Álvaro D. Fernández-Fernández, Julia Santiago, Cyril Zipfel	12
3	The leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase QSK1 regulates PRR-RBOHD complexes targeted by the bacterial effector HopF2Pto 2024 ·The Plant Cell ·Y Goto, Yasuhiro Kadota, Malick Mbengué, Jennifer D. Lewis, Hidenori Matsui, (unknown), Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Jan Sklenář, Paul Derbyshire, Arisa Shibata, Yasunori Ichihashi, David S. Guttman, Hirofumi Nakagami, Takamasa Suzuki, Frank L.H. Menke, Silke Robatzek, Darrell Desveaux, Cyril Zipfel, Ken Shirasu	2
4	S-acylation stabilizes ligand-induced receptor kinase complex formation during plant pattern-triggered immune signaling 2023 ·Current Biology ·Charlotte H. Hurst, Dionne Turnbull, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Michaela Kopischke, Paul Davies, Susan R. Jones, Silke Robatzek, Cyril Zipfel, Julien Gronnier, Piers A. Hemsley	18
5	Evolutionary analysis of the LORELEI gene family in plants reveals regulatory subfunctionalization 2022 ·PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·(unknown), (unknown), Ming‐Che Liu, Thomas A. DeFalco, Martin Stegmann, Andrew D. L. Nelson, Kara M. McNamara, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Sarah Hancock, Shin‐Han Shiu, Cyril Zipfel, Alice Y. Cheung, Mark A. Beilstein, Ravishankar Palanivelu	16
6	Genotyping-by-sequencing-based identification of Arabidopsis pattern recognition receptor RLP32 recognizing proteobacterial translation initiation factor IF1 2022 ·Nature Communications ·Fan Li, Katja Fröhlich, (unknown), Rory N. Pruitt, Isabell Albert, Lisha Zhang, Anna Joe, Chenlei Hua, (unknown), Markus Albert, Sang‐Tae Kim, Detlef Weigel, Cyril Zipfel, Eunyoung Chae, Andrea A. Gust, Thorsten Nürnberger	25
7	Activation loop phosphorylation of a non-RD receptor kinase initiates plant innate immune signaling 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Kyle W. Bender, Daniel Couto, Yasuhiro Kadota, Alberto P. Macho, Jan Sklenář, Paul Derbyshire, Marta Bjornson, Thomas A. DeFalco, (unknown), (unknown), Benjamin Schwessinger, Vardis Ntoukakis, Lena Stransfeld, Alexandra M. E. Jones, Frank L.H. Menke, Cyril Zipfel	18
8	Evolution of chlorophyll degradation is associated with plant transition to land 2021 ·The Plant Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Niklaus Fankhauser, Cyril Zipfel, Stefan Hörtensteiner, Sylvain Aubry	18
9	The Arabidopsis immune receptor EFR increases resistance to the bacterial pathogens Xanthomonas and Xylella in transgenic sweet orange 2021 ·Plant Biotechnology Journal ·(unknown), Natália Sousa Teixeira‐Silva, Katarzyna Rybak, (unknown), (unknown), Silke Robatzek, Cyril Zipfel, Alessandra Alves de Souza	35
10	A novel allele of the Arabidopsis thaliana MACPF protein CAD1 results in deregulated immune signaling 2021 ·Genetics ·(unknown), Melissa Bredow, Kathrin Thor, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Cyril Zipfel, Jacqueline Monaghan	13
11	Pseudomonas syringae addresses distinct environmental challenges during plant infection through the coordinated deployment of polysaccharides 2021 ·Journal of Experimental Botany ·(unknown), (unknown), Sebastian Pfeilmeier, Stephen Bornemann, Cyril Zipfel, (unknown)	12
12	A membrane-bound ankyrin repeat protein confers race-specific leaf rust disease resistance in wheat 2021 ·Nature Communications ·Markus C. Kolodziej, Jyoti Singla, Javier Sánchez‐Martín, Helen Zbinden, Hana Šimková, Miroslava Karafiátová, Jaroslav Doležel, Julien Gronnier, (unknown), Gaétan Glauser, Wangsheng Zhu, Philipp Köster, Cyril Zipfel, Thomas Wicker, Simon G. Krattinger, Beat Keller	79
13	Lumi-Map, a Real-Time Luciferase Bioluminescence Screen of Mutants Combined with MutMap, Reveals Arabidopsis Genes Involved in PAMP-Triggered Immunity 2020 ·Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Hiroaki Kato, Kiyoshi Onai, Akira Abe, Motoki Shimizu, Hiroki Takagi, Chika Tateda, Hiroe Utsushi, (unknown), Saeko Kitakura, Érika Ono, Cyril Zipfel, Yoshitaka Takano, Masahiro Ishiura, Ryohei Terauchi	4
14	Chitin perception in plasmodesmata characterizes submembrane immune-signaling specificity in plants 2020 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cécilia Cheval, (unknown), Matthew G. Johnston, Jeroen de Keijzer, Andrew Breakspear, Xiaokun Liu, (unknown), Yasuhiro Kadota, Cyril Zipfel, Christine Faulkner	59
15	TTL Proteins Scaffold Brassinosteroid Signaling Components at the Plasma Membrane to Optimize Signal Transduction in Arabidopsis 2019 ·The Plant Cell ·Vítor Amorim‐Silva, (unknown), Araceli G. Castillo, Naoufal Lakhssassi, Alicia Esteban del Valle, Jessica Pérez‐Sancho, Yansha Li, David Posé, (unknown), Jinxing Lin, Victoriano Valpuesta, Omar Borsani, Cyril Zipfel, Alberto P. Macho, Miguel A. Botella	54
16	The plant cell wall integrity maintenance and immune signaling systems cooperate to control stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana 2018 ·Science Signaling ·Timo Engelsdorf, Nora Gigli‐Bisceglia, Manikandan Veerabagu, Joseph F. McKenna, Lauri Vaahtera, Frauke Augstein, Dieuwertje van der Does, Cyril Zipfel, Thorsten Hamann	169
17	The receptor kinase FER is a RALF-regulated scaffold controlling plant immune signaling breakdown → 2017 ·Science ·Martin Stegmann, Jacqueline Monaghan, Elwira Smakowska‐Luzan, Hanna Rövenich, Anita Lehner, Nicholas Holton, Youssef Belkhadir, Cyril Zipfel	508
18	A Bacterial Tyrosine Phosphatase Inhibits Plant Pattern Recognition Receptor Activation 2014 ·Science ·Alberto P. Macho, Benjamin Schwessinger, Vardis Ntoukakis, Alexandre Brutus, Cécile Segonzac, Sonali Roy, Yasuhiro Kadota, Man‐Ho Oh, Jan Sklenář, Paul Derbyshire, Rosa Lozano‐Durán, Frederikke Gro Malinovsky, Jacqueline Monaghan, Frank L.H. Menke, Steven C. Huber, Sheng Yang He, Cyril Zipfel	129
19	A receptor-like protein mediates the response to pectin modification by activating brassinosteroid signaling 2014 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sebastian Wolf, Dieuwertje van der Does, Friederike Ladwig, Carsten Sticht, (unknown), Ann-Kathrin Schürholz, Sebastian Augustin, Nana F. Keinath, Thomas Rausch, Steffen Greiner, Karin Schumacher, Klaus Harter, Cyril Zipfel, Herman Höfte	130
20	The N Terminus of Bacterial Elongation Factor Tu Elicits Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis Plants breakdown → 2004 ·The Plant Cell ·Gernot Kunze, Cyril Zipfel, Silke Robatzek, Karsten Niehaus, Thomas Boller, Georg Felix	658

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