Daan A. Weits

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

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Daan A. Weits is a scholar working on Plant Science, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Daan A. Weits has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Plant Science, 6 papers in Biochemistry and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Daan A. Weits's work include Plant responses to water stress (21 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (6 papers). Daan A. Weits is often cited by papers focused on Plant responses to water stress (21 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers) and Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (6 papers). Daan A. Weits collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and Netherlands. Daan A. Weits's co-authors include Joost T. van Dongen, Francesco Licausi, Pierdomenico Perata, Beatrice Giuntoli, Monika Kosmacz, Federico M. Giorgi, Laurentius A. C. J. Voesenek, Sandro Parlanti, Heike Riegler and Rainer Hoefgen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Daan A. Weits

24 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Oxygen sensing in plants is mediated by an N-end rule pathway for protein destabilization

2011 612 citations Francesco Licausi, Monika Kosmacz et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daan A. Weits Italy	17	1.8k	622	324	182	168	24	2.0k
Beatrice Giuntoli Italy	19	2.1k 1.2×	710 1.1×	370 1.1×	280 1.5×	159 0.9×	30	2.5k
Angelika Mustroph Germany	24	2.5k 1.4×	790 1.3×	247 0.8×	373 2.0×	50 0.3×	37	2.7k
Sandro Parlanti Italy	12	943 0.5×	326 0.5×	108 0.3×	123 0.7×	50 0.3×	12	1.1k
Seok Keun Cho South Korea	24	1.5k 0.9×	1.5k 2.3×	51 0.2×	22 0.1×	125 0.7×	40	2.2k
Hanna Jańska Poland	23	649 0.4×	1.3k 2.2×	48 0.1×	79 0.4×	51 0.3×	58	1.6k
Cécile Raynaud France	29	1.8k 1.0×	1.8k 2.9×	53 0.2×	42 0.2×	77 0.5×	58	2.5k
Xiaofeng Fang China	23	1.1k 0.6×	1.3k 2.0×	91 0.3×	25 0.1×	49 0.3×	47	1.9k
Simon Stael Belgium	21	1.4k 0.8×	1.3k 2.0×	43 0.1×	24 0.1×	96 0.6×	43	2.0k
Quan‐Sheng Qiu China	20	1.5k 0.8×	844 1.4×	59 0.2×	33 0.2×	121 0.7×	52	1.9k
Johan Edqvist Sweden	23	842 0.5×	1.1k 1.7×	158 0.5×	45 0.2×	56 0.3×	33	1.5k

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Khan, Mohammad Shahneawz, Antoine Wallabrègue, Edward Smith, et al.. (2025). Hypoxia‐activated fluorescent probes as markers of oxygen levels in plant cells and tissues. New Phytologist. 247(6). 2998–3009. 1 indexed citations

Jiménez, Juan de la Cruz, Angelika Mustroph, Ole Pedersen, Daan A. Weits, & Romy Schmidt. (2024). Flooding stress and responses to hypoxia in plants. Functional Plant Biology. 51(4). 2 indexed citations

Herzog, Max, et al.. (2024). Tools to understand hypoxia responses in plant tissues. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 197(1). 2 indexed citations

Pantazopoulou, Chrysoula K., Sara Buti, Chi Tam Nguyen, et al.. (2023). Mechanodetection of neighbor plants elicits adaptive leaf movements through calcium dynamics. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5827–5827. 9 indexed citations

Kunkowska, Alicja B, Gerold J. M. Beckers, Christian Meyer, et al.. (2023). Target of rapamycin signaling couples energy to oxygen sensing to modulate hypoxic gene expression in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(3). e2212474120–e2212474120. 36 indexed citations

Carbonare, Luca Dalle, Luca Rindi, Fabio Bulleri, et al.. (2023). Dim artificial light at night alters gene expression rhythms and growth in a key seagrass species (Posidonia oceanica). Scientific Reports. 13(1). 10620–10620. 6 indexed citations

Weits, Daan A., Lina Zhou, Beatrice Giuntoli, et al.. (2022). Acquisition of hypoxia inducibility by oxygen sensing N‐terminal cysteine oxidase in spermatophytes. Plant Cell & Environment. 46(1). 322–338. 20 indexed citations

Weits, Daan A., Joost T. van Dongen, & Francesco Licausi. (2020). Molecular oxygen as a signaling component in plant development. New Phytologist. 229(1). 24–35. 95 indexed citations

Mariotti, Lorenzo, et al.. (2020). Auxin is required for the long coleoptile trait in japonica rice under submergence. New Phytologist. 229(1). 85–93. 29 indexed citations

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Iacopino, Sergio, et al.. (2020). An Improved HRPE-Based Transcriptional Output Reporter to Detect Hypoxia and Anoxia in Plant Tissue. Biosensors. 10(12). 197–197. 19 indexed citations

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Valeri, María Cristina, Giacomo Novi, Daan A. Weits, et al.. (2020). Botrytis cinerea induces local hypoxia in Arabidopsis leaves. New Phytologist. 229(1). 173–185. 50 indexed citations

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Weits, Daan A., Alicja B Kunkowska, Zoe Nemec Venza, et al.. (2019). An apical hypoxic niche sets the pace of shoot meristem activity. Nature. 569(7758). 714–717. 167 indexed citations

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Shukla, Vinay, et al.. (2019). A Ratiometric Sensor Based on Plant N-Terminal Degrons Able to Report Oxygen Dynamics in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Journal of Molecular Biology. 431(15). 2810–2820. 24 indexed citations

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Niccolini, Luca, et al.. (2019). Hypoxic Conditions in Crown Galls Induce Plant Anaerobic Responses That Support Tumor Proliferation. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 56–56. 48 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Romy, Martin Fulda, Melanie Paul, et al.. (2018). Low-oxygen response is triggered by an ATP-dependent shift in oleoyl-CoA in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(51). E12101–E12110. 66 indexed citations

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White, Mark D., Maria Klecker, Richard J. Hopkinson, et al.. (2017). Plant cysteine oxidases are dioxygenases that directly enable arginyl transferase-catalysed arginylation of N-end rule targets. Nature Communications. 8(1). 14690–14690. 180 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Romy, et al.. (2017). Oxygen Sensing and Integrative Stress Signaling in Plants. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 176(2). 1131–1142. 83 indexed citations

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Weits, Daan A., Beatrice Giuntoli, Monika Kosmacz, et al.. (2014). Plant cysteine oxidases control the oxygen-dependent branch of the N-end-rule pathway. Nature Communications. 5(1). 3425–3425. 305 indexed citations

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Licausi, Francesco, Monika Kosmacz, Daan A. Weits, et al.. (2011). Oxygen sensing in plants is mediated by an N-end rule pathway for protein destabilization. Nature. 479(7373). 419–422. 612 indexed citations breakdown →

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Licausi, Francesco, Daan A. Weits, Bikram Datt Pant, et al.. (2010). Hypoxia responsive gene expression is mediated by various subsets of transcription factors and miRNAs that are determined by the actual oxygen availability. New Phytologist. 190(2). 442–456. 140 indexed citations

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