David Tepfer

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
63 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

David Tepfer is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Tepfer has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Plant Science, 43 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in David Tepfer's work include Plant tissue culture and regeneration (33 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (14 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (10 papers). David Tepfer is often cited by papers focused on Plant tissue culture and regeneration (33 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (14 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (10 papers). David Tepfer collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Morocco. David Tepfer's co-authors include Lise Jouanin, Mylène Durand‐Tardif, J L Slightom, Annik Petit, Mary-Dell Chilton, F. Casse‐Delbart, Chantal David, Jacques Tempé, Sumita Jha and Arlette Goldmann and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

David Tepfer

63 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Transformation of several species of higher plants by agr... 1982 2026 1996 2011 1984 1982 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. Transformation of several species of higher plants by agrobacterium rhizogenes: Sexual transmission of the transformed genotype and phenotype
    1984 524 citations David Tepfer Cell profile →
  2. Agrobacterium rhizogenes inserts T-DNA into the genomes of the host plant root cells
    1982 482 citations David Tepfer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Tepfer France 30 2.7k 2.4k 927 150 125 63 3.3k
Hector E. Flores United States 28 2.4k 0.9× 2.6k 1.1× 334 0.4× 54 0.4× 127 1.0× 55 3.5k
Darwin W. Reed Canada 30 2.7k 1.0× 1.0k 0.4× 291 0.3× 163 1.1× 179 1.4× 76 3.6k
Helmut Kindl Germany 35 3.0k 1.1× 1.7k 0.7× 525 0.6× 169 1.1× 161 1.3× 160 4.1k
Machteld C. Mok United States 27 2.6k 1.0× 3.1k 1.3× 328 0.4× 50 0.3× 195 1.6× 66 3.8k
Yoshihiro Ozeki Japan 36 2.7k 1.0× 1.7k 0.7× 272 0.3× 96 0.6× 210 1.7× 150 3.4k
R. Horgan United Kingdom 32 1.9k 0.7× 2.2k 0.9× 219 0.2× 61 0.4× 202 1.6× 86 2.9k
Pierre Benveniste France 39 3.5k 1.3× 1.3k 0.5× 193 0.2× 200 1.3× 182 1.5× 112 4.5k
Jacques Hille Netherlands 36 2.6k 1.0× 3.7k 1.5× 364 0.4× 39 0.3× 248 2.0× 101 4.6k
B. Parthier Germany 36 2.3k 0.9× 3.3k 1.4× 351 0.4× 105 0.7× 497 4.0× 129 4.7k
Tsune Kosuge United States 27 1.5k 0.5× 2.0k 0.8× 292 0.3× 93 0.6× 103 0.8× 56 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Tepfer

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Tepfer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Tepfer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Tepfer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with David Tepfer. David Tepfer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Tepfer, David, et al.. (2009). Survival of Seeds in Impacts at 1 km s-1 and Above. LPI. 1239. 1 indexed citations
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Kostrzak, Anna, Minerva Cervantes Gonzalez, Denise Guétard, et al.. (2009). Oral administration of low doses of plant-based HBsAg induced antigen-specific IgAs and IgGs in mice, without increasing levels of regulatory T cells. Vaccine. 27(35). 4798–4807. 37 indexed citations
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Chaudhuri, K. N., et al.. (2008). Transgenic mimicry of pathogen attack stimulates growth and secondary metabolite accumulation. Transgenic Research. 18(1). 121–134. 28 indexed citations
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Chaudhuri, K. N., Biswajit Ghosh, David Tepfer, & Sumita Jha. (2005). Genetic transformation of Tylophora indica with Agrobacterium rhizogenes�A4: growth and tylophorine productivity in different transformed root clones. Plant Cell Reports. 24(1). 25–35. 62 indexed citations
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Chioccioli, Maurizio, et al.. (2005). Unsuccessful search for DNA transfer from transgenic plants to bacteria in the intestine of the tobacco horn worm, Manduca sexta. Transgenic Research. 14(2). 207–215. 9 indexed citations
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Barbier, Bernard, Patrice Coll, Hervé Cottin, et al.. (2002). The "AMINO" experiment on expose. ESASP. 518. 59–62. 1 indexed citations
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Burnet, Michael, Arlette Goldmann, Roger F. Drong, et al.. (2000). The stachydrine catabolism region in Sinorhizobium meliloti encodes a multi-enzyme complex similar to the xenobiotic degrading systems in other bacteria. Gene. 244(1-2). 151–161. 27 indexed citations
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Tepfer, David, et al.. (1998). Phytophthora Resistance Through Production of a Fungal Protein Elicitor (β-Cryptogein) in Tobacco. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 11(1). 64–67. 24 indexed citations
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O’Donohue, Michael, et al.. (1995). Chemical synthesis, expression and mutagenesis of a gene encoding ?-cryptogein, an elicitin produced by Phytophthora cryptogea. Plant Molecular Biology. 27(3). 577–586. 42 indexed citations
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Ben‐Hayyim, Gozal, et al.. (1994). Changing root system architecture through inhibition of putrescine and feruloyl putrescine accumulation. FEBS Letters. 342(2). 145–148. 21 indexed citations
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Tepfer, David, et al.. (1992). Use of Agrobacterium rhizogenes to create transgenic apple trees having an altered organogenic response to hormones. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 85(1). 105–109. 37 indexed citations
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Jouanin, Lise, David Bouchez, Roger F. Drong, David Tepfer, & Jerry L. Slightom. (1989). Analysis of TR-DNA/plant junctions in the genome of a Convolvulus arvensis clone transformed by Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain A4. Plant Molecular Biology. 12(1). 75–85. 23 indexed citations
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Tepfer, David, et al.. (1989). Use of roots transformed by Agrobacterium rhizogenes in rhizosphere research: applications in studies of cadmium assimilation from sewage sludges. Plant Molecular Biology. 13(3). 295–302. 20 indexed citations
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Lévesque, H., et al.. (1988). Common evolutionary origin of the central portions of the Ri TL-DNA of Agrobacterium rhizogenes and the Ti T-DNAs of Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Plant Molecular Biology. 11(6). 731–744. 80 indexed citations
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Tepfer, David. (1984). Transformation of Several Species of Higher Plants by Agrobacterium rhizogenes. Cell. 47. 959–967. 31 indexed citations
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Tepfer, David & Howard T. Bonnett. (1972). The role of phytochrome in the geotropic behavior of roots of Convolvulus arvensis. Planta. 106(4). 311–324. 43 indexed citations

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