David E. Somers

10.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

David E. Somers is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, David E. Somers has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Plant Science, 46 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Endocrine and Autonomic Systems. Recurrent topics in David E. Somers's work include Light effects on plants (54 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (47 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (37 papers). David E. Somers is often cited by papers focused on Light effects on plants (54 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (47 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (37 papers). David E. Somers collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and United Kingdom. David E. Somers's co-authors include Steve A. Kay, Woe‐Yeon Kim, Paul F. Devlin, Peter H. Quail, Jeongsik Kim, Thomas F. Schultz, Lei Wang, Paloma Más, Sumire Fujiwara and Ruishuang Geng and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

David E. Somers

68 papers receiving 7.7k 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.

Cloning of the Arabidopsis Clock Gene TOC1 , an Autoregulatory Response Regulator Homolog

2000 672 citations David E. Somers, Steve A. Kay et al. Science profile →
Phytochromes and Cryptochromes in the Entrainment of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock

1998 613 citations David E. Somers, Steve A. Kay et al. Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David E. Somers United States	42	7.1k	5.4k	935	427	217	69	7.9k
Paloma Más Spain	36	6.2k 0.9×	4.1k 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	420 1.0×	185 0.9×	92	7.1k
Marcelo J. Yanovsky Argentina	47	6.8k 1.0×	5.1k 0.9×	770 0.8×	306 0.7×	250 1.2×	100	7.9k
Stacey L. Harmer United States	38	7.2k 1.0×	5.2k 1.0×	884 0.9×	227 0.5×	305 1.4×	59	8.5k
Chentao Lin United States	55	9.8k 1.4×	6.9k 1.3×	593 0.6×	1.2k 2.8×	212 1.0×	112	10.9k
Terry L. Thomas United States	32	2.7k 0.4×	2.7k 0.5×	908 1.0×	428 1.0×	259 1.2×	56	4.9k
Takato Imaizumi United States	42	7.6k 1.1×	5.6k 1.0×	328 0.4×	307 0.7×	473 2.2×	71	8.3k
Elaine M. Tobin United States	46	5.7k 0.8×	5.2k 1.0×	544 0.6×	306 0.7×	143 0.7×	87	6.9k
Tokitaka Oyama Japan	27	4.2k 0.6×	3.8k 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	657 1.5×	132 0.6×	57	5.7k
Isabelle A. Carré United Kingdom	27	3.1k 0.4×	2.2k 0.4×	566 0.6×	172 0.4×	99 0.5×	46	3.6k
Ghislaı̀n Breton United States	28	3.5k 0.5×	2.5k 0.5×	337 0.4×	121 0.3×	249 1.1×	41	4.4k

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Kim, Woe‐Yeon, et al.. (2024). HOS 15‐mediated turnover of PRR 7 enhances freezing tolerance. New Phytologist. 244(3). 798–810. 5 indexed citations

Cha, Joon‐Yung, Jeongsik Kim, Myung Geun Ji, et al.. (2022). The Na ⁺ /H ⁺ antiporter SALT OVERLY SENSITIVE 1 regulates salt compensation of circadian rhythms by stabilizing GIGANTEA in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(33). e2207275119–e2207275119. 24 indexed citations

Somers, David E., et al.. (2021). Cost-effective circadian mechanism: rhythmic degradation of circadian proteins spontaneously emerges without rhythmic post-translational regulation. iScience. 24(7). 102726–102726. 6 indexed citations

Somers, David E., et al.. (2019). Luciferase-Based Screen for Post-translational Control Factors in the Regulation of the Pseudo-Response Regulator PRR7. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 667–667. 4 indexed citations

Cha, Joon‐Yung, Jeongsik Kim, Tae-Sung Kim, et al.. (2017). GIGANTEA is a co-chaperone which facilitates maturation of ZEITLUPE in the Arabidopsis circadian clock. Nature Communications. 8(1). 3–3. 118 indexed citations

Foo, Mathias, David E. Somers, & Pan‐Jun Kim. (2016). Kernel Architecture of the Genetic Circuitry of the Arabidopsis Circadian System. PLoS Computational Biology. 12(2). e1004748–e1004748. 27 indexed citations

Choudhary, Mani Kant, Yuko Nomura, Lei Wang, Hirofumi Nakagami, & David E. Somers. (2015). Quantitative Circadian Phosphoproteomic Analysis of Arabidopsis Reveals Extensive Clock Control of Key Components in Physiological, Metabolic, and Signaling Pathways. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 14(8). 2243–2260. 81 indexed citations

Kim, Yumi, Miji Yeom, Hyunmin Kim, et al.. (2013). ELF4 Regulates GIGANTEA Chromatin Access through Subnuclear Sequestration. Cell Reports. 3(3). 671–677. 85 indexed citations

Wang, Lei, Jeongsik Kim, & David E. Somers. (2012). Transcriptional corepressor TOPLESS complexes with pseudoresponse regulator proteins and histone deacetylases to regulate circadian transcription. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(2). 761–766. 219 indexed citations

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Kim, Tae-Sung, Woe Yeon Kim, Sumire Fujiwara, et al.. (2011). HSP90 functions in the circadian clock through stabilization of the client F-box protein ZEITLUPE. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(40). 16843–16848. 71 indexed citations

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Kim, Jeongsik & David E. Somers. (2010). Rapid Assessment of Gene Function in the Circadian Clock Using Artificial MicroRNA in Arabidopsis Mesophyll Protoplasts . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 154(2). 611–621. 88 indexed citations

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Kim, Woe‐Yeon, Patrice A. Salomé, Sumire Fujiwara, David E. Somers, & C. Robertson McClung. (2010). Characterization of Pseudo-Response Regulators in Plants. Methods in enzymology on CD-ROM/Methods in enzymology. 471. 357–378. 11 indexed citations

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Denlinger, David L., et al.. (2010). Photoperiodism : the biological calendar. Oxford University Press eBooks. 88 indexed citations

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Fujiwara, Sumire, Lei Wang, Linqu Han, et al.. (2008). Post-translational Regulation of the Arabidopsis Circadian Clock through Selective Proteolysis and Phosphorylation of Pseudo-response Regulator Proteins. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 283(34). 23073–23083. 185 indexed citations

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Kim, Woe‐Yeon, Sumire Fujiwara, Sung‐Suk Suh, et al.. (2007). ZEITLUPE is a circadian photoreceptor stabilized by GIGANTEA in blue light. Nature. 449(7160). 356–360. 473 indexed citations

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Somers, David E., et al.. (2007). Posttranslational Photomodulation of Circadian Amplitude. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 72(1). 193–200. 6 indexed citations

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Somers, David E., Woe‐Yeon Kim, & Ruishuang Geng. (2004). The F-Box Protein ZEITLUPE Confers Dosage-Dependent Control on the Circadian Clock, Photomorphogenesis, and Flowering Time[W]. The Plant Cell. 16(3). 769–782. 195 indexed citations

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Risseeuw, Eddy, Travis Banks, Enwu Liu, et al.. (2003). Protein interaction analysis of SCF ubiquitin E3 ligase subunits from Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 34(6). 753–767. 201 indexed citations

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Hicks, Karen A., Andrew J. Millar, Isabelle A. Carré, et al.. (1996). Conditional Circadian Dysfunction of the Arabidopsis early-flowering 3 Mutant. Science. 274(5288). 790–792. 310 indexed citations

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Somers, David E. & Peter H. Quail. (1995). Phytochrome-Mediated Light Regulation of PHYA- and PHYB-GUS Transgenes in Arabidopsis thaliana Seedlings. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 107(2). 523–534. 65 indexed citations

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