David C. Baulcombe

50.8k citations

242 papers · 31.9k indexed · 17 hit papers · h-index 97

Impact in

Endocrinology top 0.02%
- Plant and Fungal Interactions Research
Plant Science top 0.01%
- Plant Virus Research Studies
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations

Papers in

Plant Science 224
- Plant Virus Research Studies 160
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 64
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 41
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 38
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations 30
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies 29
Biotechnology 48
- Transgenic Plants and Applications 39

Co-authors: Olivier Voinnet Nicolas Baumberger Attila Molnár Susan Angell Louise Jones Abdelhafid Bendahmane Alan J. Herr Sean Chapman
Journals: The Plant Journal (29 papers)The Plant Cell (28 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (16 papers)Journal of General Virology (11 papers)Virology (10 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Germany

In The Last Decade

David C. Baulcombe

241 papers receiving 30.7k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Roles of RNA silencing in viral and non-viral plant immunity and in the crosstalk between disease resistance systems 2022 · 130 citations

What are hit papers?

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.

2022 Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
2012 The Plant Cell
2010 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2010 Science
2009 Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)
2005 Science
2005 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2004 Development
2004 Nature
2001 The Plant Journal
2000 Cell
2000 Cell
1999 The Plant Cell
1999 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1998 The Plant Cell
1998 Cell
1997 Science

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All Works

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1	The Role of Viruses in Identifying and Analyzing RNA Silencing Annual Review of Virology ·David C. Baulcombe	2022	51
2	CHROMOMETHYLTRANSFERASE3/KRYPTONITE maintains the sulfurea paramutation in Solanum lycopersicum Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Cláudia Martinho, Zhengming Wang, 知子橋野, I. Kaus, Virginia B. Illingworth, Sandro Cappelletto, Quentin Gouil, Sebastian Müller, Maike Stam, Chang Liu, David C. Baulcombe	2022	6
3	Viral Fitness Determines the Magnitude of Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Reprograming of Defense Responses in Plants Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Régis L. Corrêa, Janelle R. Bolden, Lynette D’mello, Sebastian Müller, Silvia Ambrós, Sara López-Gomollón, Gustavo Gómez, David C. Baulcombe, Santiago F. Elena	2020	26
4	Maternal small RNAs mediate spatial-temporal regulation of gene expression, imprinting, and seed development in Arabidopsis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ryan C. Kirkbride, Jie Lu, Changqing Zhang, Rebecca A. Mosher, David C. Baulcombe, Z. Jeffrey Chen	2019	50
5	Enhanced resistance to bacterial and oomycete pathogens by short tandem target mimic RNAs in tomato Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alex Cantó‐Pastor, Bruno Santos, Adrián Vallí, WILLIAM C. SUMMERS, Sebastián Schornack, David C. Baulcombe	2019	100
6	Distinct roles of Argonaute in the green alga Chlamydomonas reveal evolutionary conserved mode of miRNA-mediated gene expression Scientific Reports ·Betty Chung, Adrián Vallí, Michael J. Deery, Francisco J. Navarro, Katherine A. Brown, S. Van Laeren, Julie A. Howard, Attila Molnár, David C. Baulcombe	2019	13
7	Environmental and epigenetic regulation of Rider retrotransposons in tomato PLoS Genetics ·Matthias Benoit, Hajk‐Georg Drost, Marco Catoni, Quentin Gouil, Sara López-Gomollón, David C. Baulcombe, Jerzy Paszkowski	2019	53
8	Endogenous miRNA in the green alga Chlamydomonas regulates gene expression through CDS-targeting Nature Plants ·Betty Chung, Michael J. Deery, Arnoud Groen, Julie A. Howard, David C. Baulcombe	2017	33
9	Epigenetic and Genetic Contributions to Adaptation in Chlamydomonas: Epigenetic Contributions to Adaptation Molecular Biology and Evolution ·Ilkka Kronholm, Andrew Bassett, David C. Baulcombe, Sinéad Collins	2017	1
10	Epigenetic transitions leading to heritable, RNA-mediated de novo silencing in Arabidopsis thaliana Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Donna M. Bond, David C. Baulcombe	2015	93
11	GM Science Update: a report to the Council for Science and Technology CentAUR (University of Reading) ·David C. Baulcombe, Jim M. Dunwell, Jingwei Dang, John A. Pickett, Pere Puigdomènech	2014	17
12	Maternal siRNAs as regulators of parental genome imbalance and gene expression in endosperm of Arabidopsis seeds Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Jie Lu, Changqing Zhang, David C. Baulcombe, Daniel Mckinney	2012	117
13	Silencing signals in plants Genome biology ·Attila Molnár, Charles W. Melnyk, David C. Baulcombe	2011	3
14	Small Silencing RNAs in Plants Are Mobile and Direct Epigenetic Modification in Recipient Cells Science ·Attila Molnár, Charles W. Melnyk, Andrew Bassett, Thomas J. Hardcastle, Seda Emiroğlu, David C. Baulcombe Hit paper breakdown →	2010	554
15	An RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase Prevents Meristem Invasion by Potato Virus X and Is Required for the Activity But Not the Production of a Systemic Silencing Signal PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Frank Schwach, Fabián E. Vaistij, Louise Jones, David C. Baulcombe	2005	382
16	Elicitor-Mediated Oligomerization of the Tobacco N Disease Resistance Protein The Plant Cell ·Pere Mestre, David C. Baulcombe	2005	201
17	RNA Polymerase IV Directs Silencing of Endogenous DNA Science ·Alan J. Herr, Maj‐Britt Jensen, Tamás Dalmay, David C. Baulcombe Hit paper breakdown →	2005	535
18	Silencing of a Gene Encoding a Protein Component of the Oxygen-Evolving Complex of Photosystem II Enhances Virus Replication in Plants Virology ·Truus E. M. Abbink, Jack Peart, Navid Azarafroz, David C. Baulcombe, John F. Bol, Huub J. M. Linthorst	2002	106
19	RNA-directed transcriptional gene silencing in plants can be inherited independently of the RNA trigger and requires Met1 for maintenance Current Biology ·Louise Jones, E. M. Jencks, David C. Baulcombe	2001	269
20	Genetic engineering of the potato cultivar Glenroe for increased resistance to potato virus X(PVX) Irish Journal of Agricultural and Food Research ·Charles Spillane, David C. Baulcombe, Tony A. Kavanagh	1998	4

About David C. Baulcombe

David C. Baulcombe is a scholar working on Plant Science, Biotechnology, Endocrinology, Horticulture and Molecular Biology, having authored 242 papers that have together received 31.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Virus Research Studies (160 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (64 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (50 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (41 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (39 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (38 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (30 papers) and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (29 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Endocrinology (4.2k citations), Plant Science (27.8k citations), Biotechnology (4.0k citations), Horticulture (381 citations) and Molecular Biology (15.2k citations). David C. Baulcombe has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Olivier Voinnet, Nicolas Baumberger, Attila Molnár, Susan Angell, Louise Jones, Abdelhafid Bendahmane, Alan J. Herr, Sean Chapman, Tamás Dalmay and Ana Montserrat Martín‐Hernández. Their work appears in journals such as The Plant Journal, The Plant Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of General Virology and Virology.

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