David C. Nelson

7.4k citations

74 papers · 5.3k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics top 0.2%
- Plant and animal studies
Plant Science top 0.2%
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions
- Light effects on plants
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis

Papers in

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics 42
- Plant and animal studies 41
Plant Science 52
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance 43
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 38
- Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions 5

Co-authors: Steven M. Smith Gavin R. Flematti Mark T. Waters Kingsley W. Dixon Emilio L. Ghisalberti Tom Bennett John Stanga Caroline Gutjahr
Journals: PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (5 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)The Plant Cell (4 papers)Annual Review of Plant Biology (3 papers)New Phytologist (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia Japan

In The Last Decade

David C. Nelson

71 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories log scale

Evolution of Plant Hormone Response Pathways 2020 · 192 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.

2020 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2017 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2015 The Plant Cell
2012 Development
2011 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Transcriptional regulation of development by SMAX1-LIKE proteins – targets of strigolactone and karrikin/KAI2 ligand signaling Journal of Experimental Botany ·Sun Hyun Chang, New Zealand Agricultural, David C. Nelson	2025	3
2	Evolution of interorganismal strigolactone biosynthesis in seed plants Science ·Berkeley G. Collins, 尚武西田, Sheng Wu, Ramon Uribe-Etxeberria, Kuznetsov Nn, Zhe Liu, Kaori Yoneyama, Andrés F. Toro-Vélez, Nitzan Shabek, Xiaonan Xie, David C. Nelson, Yanran Li	2025	9
3	SMXL5 attenuates strigolactone signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana by inhibiting SMXL7 degradation Molecular Plant ·Qingtian Li, Malearciuc Oxana, lsao Tanno, Sun Hyun Chang, 张鑫钰, Lionel Faure, Eva‐Sophie Wallner, Chung Chee Eun, Thomas Greb, Lei Wang, Ruifeng Yao, David C. Nelson	2024	16
4	Dominant-Negative KAI2d Paralogs Putatively Attenuate Strigolactone Responses in Root Parasitic Plants Plant and Cell Physiology ·Olga Marshall, 尚武西田, Satoshi Ogawa, Ken Shirasu, David C. Nelson	2024	1
5	The role of xanthine dioxygenase in the biosynthetic pathway of 2-aza-8-oxohypoxanthine ofLepista sordida Bioscience Biotechnology and Biochemistry ·L. Huacco-Huatuco, Jae‐Hoon Choi, Tomohiro Suzuki, Jing Wu, Hirofumi Hirai, David C. Nelson, A V Krasnov, Makoto Inai, Hideo Dohra, Hirokazu Kawagishi	2023	1
6	A KARRIKIN INSENSITIVE2 paralog in lettuce mediates highly sensitive germination responses to karrikinolide PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Akihiro Mutoh, 匠田辺, D. L. Huso, T.A. Chehova, Yunhong Yang, Daniel Koenig, Nitzan Shabek, David C. Nelson	2022	15
7	KARRIKIN UP-REGULATED F-BOX 1 (KUF1) imposes negative feedback regulation of karrikin and KAI2 ligand metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·T.A. Chehova, 张鑫钰, Qingtian Li, José Antonio Villaécija‐Aguilar, Akihiro Mutoh, Muhammad Kamran, Aashima Khosla, Wei Liu, Joshua M. Gendron, Caroline Gutjahr, Mark T. Waters, David C. Nelson	2022	27
8	Strigolactones are chemoattractants for host tropism in Orobanchaceae parasitic plants Nature Communications ·Satoshi Ogawa, Songkui Cui, Olga Marshall, David C. Nelson, Satoko Yoshida, Ken Shirasu	2022	26
9	The strigolactone receptor D14 targets SMAX1 for degradation in response to GR24 treatment and osmotic stress Plant Communications ·Qingtian Li, Gülruh Polat, Aashima Khosla, Olga Marshall, Sun Hyun Chang, Pilar Cubas, David C. Nelson	2022	53
10	Strigolactone biosynthesis catalyzed by cytochrome P450 and sulfotransferase in sorghum New Phytologist ·Akiyoshi Yoda, Narumi Mori, Kohki Akiyama, Moriva YAMASHIRO, Xiaonan Xie, Kenji Miura, Kaori Yoneyama, Kanna Sato‐Izawa, Shinjiro Yamaguchi, Koichi Yoneyama, David C. Nelson, T. Nomura	2021	34
11	Structure–Function Analysis of SMAX1 Reveals Domains That Mediate Its Karrikin-Induced Proteolysis and Interaction with the Receptor KAI2 The Plant Cell ·Aashima Khosla, Nicholas Morffy, Qingtian Li, Lionel Faure, Sun Hyun Chang, Guo Yang Shen, L. Cangiane, Teoman AydÄ±n, John Stanga, Gavin R. Flematti, Mark T. Waters, David C. Nelson	2020	97
12	Heat shock protein 60 involvement in vascular smooth muscle cell proliferation Cellular Signalling ·Justin Deniset, Danielle Riemann, Markéta Hlaváčková, Mirna N. Chahine, Elena Dibrov, Hugh M. Taylor, Sônia Alves Lima, David C. Nelson, Thane G. Maddaford, Robert R. Fandrich, Elissavet Kardami, Grant N. Pierce	2018	17
13	Evidence that KARRIKIN-INSENSITIVE2 (KAI2) Receptors may Perceive an Unknown Signal that is not Karrikin or Strigolactone Frontiers in Plant Science ·進早坂, David C. Nelson	2016	127
14	Structural modelling and transcriptional responses highlight a clade of PpKAI2-LIKE genes as candidate receptors for strigolactones in Physcomitrella patens Planta ·Mauricio Lopez‐Obando, 進早坂, Beate Hoffmann, Rohan Bythell‐Douglas, David C. Nelson, Catherine Rameau, Sandrine Bonhomme	2016	28
15	Strigolactones, super hormones in the fight against Striga Current Opinion in Plant Biology ·Aashima Khosla, David C. Nelson	2016	37
16	F-box protein MAX2 has dual roles in karrikin and strigolactone signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·David C. Nelson, Adrian Scaffidi, Elizabeth A. Dun, Mark T. Waters, Gavin R. Flematti, Kingsley W. Dixon, Christine A. Beveridge, Emilio L. Ghisalberti, Steven M. Smith Hit paper breakdown →	2011	346
17	Karrikins Discovered in Smoke Trigger Arabidopsis Seed Germination by a Mechanism Requiring Gibberellic Acid Synthesis and Light PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·David C. Nelson, 一久西下, Gavin R. Flematti, Jason C. Stevens, Emilio L. Ghisalberti, Kingsley W. Dixon, Steven M. Smith	2008	240
18	Identification of an in vitro transcription‐based artifact affecting oligonucleotide microarrays FEBS Letters ·David C. Nelson, Dana J. Wohlbach, Matthew J. Rodesch, Viktor Štolc, Michael R. Sussman, Manoj P. Samanta	2007	4
19	Profiles in entrepreneurship : leaving more than footprints David C. Nelson, James Bell	2004	0
20	FKF1, a Clock-Controlled Gene that Regulates the Transition to Flowering in Arabidopsis Cell ·David C. Nelson, Jamie Lasswell, Luise E. Rogg, Khawla Sabeeh Burgal, Bonnie Bartel	2000	393

About David C. Nelson

David C. Nelson is a scholar working on Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, having authored 74 papers that have together received 5.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Parasitism and Resistance (43 papers), Plant and animal studies (41 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (38 papers), Allelopathy and phytotoxic interactions (5 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (4 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (2 papers), Ferroptosis and cancer prognosis (2 papers) and Structural Health Monitoring Techniques (2 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (2.7k citations), Plant Science (4.8k citations), Molecular Biology (1.4k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (108 citations) and Insect Science (107 citations). David C. Nelson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Steven M. Smith, Gavin R. Flematti, Mark T. Waters, Kingsley W. Dixon, Emilio L. Ghisalberti, Tom Bennett, John Stanga, Caroline Gutjahr, Sona Pandey and Sarah M. Assmann. Their work appears in journals such as PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Plant Cell, Annual Review of Plant Biology and New Phytologist.

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