Dimitar Douchkov

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Dimitar Douchkov is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dimitar Douchkov has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Plant Science, 9 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Dimitar Douchkov's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (12 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (12 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Resistance (9 papers). Dimitar Douchkov is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (12 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (12 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Resistance (9 papers). Dimitar Douchkov collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Australia and United Kingdom. Dimitar Douchkov's co-authors include Patrick Schweizer, Jochen Kumlehn, Daniela Nowara, Göetz Hensel, Christopher J. Ridout, Jane Shaw, Christophe Lacomme, Uwe Zierold, Axel Himmelbach and Stefanie Lück and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, The Plant Cell and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Dimitar Douchkov

31 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

HIGS: Host-Induced Gene Silencing in the Obligate Biotrophic Fungal Pathogen Blumeria graminis

2010 521 citations Daniela Nowara, Christophe Lacomme et al. The Plant Cell profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dimitar Douchkov Germany	18	1.4k	614	169	117	95	33	1.6k
Christopher Dardick United States	18	1.3k 0.9×	605 1.0×	133 0.8×	65 0.6×	59 0.6×	31	1.5k
Diana Fernandez France	24	1.3k 0.9×	466 0.8×	384 2.3×	83 0.7×	76 0.8×	62	1.7k
Hao Feng China	24	1.3k 0.9×	642 1.0×	249 1.5×	118 1.0×	27 0.3×	71	1.6k
Qingzhen Zhao China	17	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 2.3×	166 1.0×	55 0.5×	45 0.5×	26	2.4k
Neha Potnis United States	23	2.3k 1.6×	386 0.6×	292 1.7×	67 0.6×	57 0.6×	59	2.5k
Jun Guo China	28	1.8k 1.3×	747 1.2×	240 1.4×	78 0.7×	20 0.2×	68	1.9k
Tadeusz Wróblewski United States	17	1.3k 0.9×	662 1.1×	99 0.6×	66 0.6×	253 2.7×	22	1.5k
Fabienne Vailleau France	22	1.9k 1.3×	567 0.9×	140 0.8×	47 0.4×	29 0.3×	36	2.1k
Jung‐Gun Kim United States	16	1.2k 0.8×	619 1.0×	60 0.4×	71 0.6×	43 0.5×	22	1.5k
Chenlei Hua China	21	1.4k 1.0×	532 0.9×	181 1.1×	126 1.1×	33 0.3×	31	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dimitar Douchkov

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Lück, Stefanie, Salim Bourras, & Dimitar Douchkov. (2025). Deep phenotyping platform for microscopic plant-pathogen interactions. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1462694–1462694. 1 indexed citations

Maier, Oliver, et al.. (2025). Accelerated Haustoria Segmentation Enables Rapid Gene Function Analysis in Cereal–Powdery Mildew Pathosystems. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 38(6). 825–833.

Lück, Stefanie, Uwe Scholz, & Dimitar Douchkov. (2024). Introducing GWAStic: a user-friendly, cross-platform solution for genome-wide association studies and genomic prediction. Bioinformatics Advances. 4(1). vbae177–vbae177. 1 indexed citations

Kim, Saet‐Byul, Stefanie Lück, Dimitar Douchkov, et al.. (2023). Two pathogen loci determine Blumeria graminis f. sp. tritici virulence to wheat resistance gene Pm1a. New Phytologist. 238(4). 1546–1561. 12 indexed citations

Shimelis, Hussein, T. Terefe, Salim Bourras, et al.. (2023). Breeding Wheat for Powdery Mildew Resistance: Genetic Resources and Methodologies—A Review. Agronomy. 13(4). 1173–1173. 14 indexed citations

Douchkov, Dimitar, et al.. (2022). High-throughput imaging of powdery mildew resistance of the winter wheat collection hosted at the German Federal ex situ Genebank for Agricultural and Horticultural Crops. GigaScience. 12. 3 indexed citations

Douchkov, Dimitar, Stefanie Lück, Sandip M. Kale, et al.. (2022). Mining for New Sources of Resistance to Powdery Mildew in Genetic Resources of Winter Wheat. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 836723–836723. 15 indexed citations

Douchkov, Dimitar, et al.. (2020). BluVision Macro - a software for automated powdery mildew and rust disease quantification on detached leaves.. The Journal of Open Source Software. 5(51). 2259–2259. 8 indexed citations

Zhou, Binbin, J. Burke, Fiona M. Doohan, et al.. (2020). A small secreted protein from Zymoseptoria tritici interacts with a wheat E3 ubiquitin ligase to promote disease. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(2). 733–746. 13 indexed citations

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Lück, Stefanie, et al.. (2020). “Macrobot”: An Automated Segmentation-Based System for Powdery Mildew Disease Quantification. Plant Phenomics. 2020. 5839856–5839856. 28 indexed citations

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Liu, Fang, Dimitar Douchkov, Armin Djamei, et al.. (2020). Identification of novel genetic factors underlying the host-pathogen interaction between barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) and powdery mildew (Blumeria graminis f. sp. hordei). PLoS ONE. 15(7). e0235565–e0235565. 7 indexed citations

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Douchkov, Dimitar, et al.. (2019). “Blaster” – a graphical user interface for common sequence analysis tools. The Journal of Open Source Software. 4(44). 1411–1411. 1 indexed citations

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Chowdhury, Jamil, Stefanie Lück, Dimitar Douchkov, et al.. (2017). Altered Expression of Genes Implicated in Xylan Biosynthesis Affects Penetration Resistance against Powdery Mildew. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 445–445. 22 indexed citations

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Douchkov, Dimitar, et al.. (2012). The conserved oligomeric G olgi complex is involved in penetration resistance of barley to the barley powdery mildew fungus. Molecular Plant Pathology. 14(3). 230–240. 47 indexed citations

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Nowara, Daniela, Christophe Lacomme, Jane Shaw, et al.. (2010). HIGS: Host-Induced Gene Silencing in the Obligate Biotrophic Fungal Pathogen Blumeria graminis . The Plant Cell. 22(9). 3130–3141. 521 indexed citations breakdown →

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Douchkov, Dimitar, et al.. (2010). Convergent evidence for a role of WIR1 proteins during the interaction of barley with the powdery mildew fungus Blumeria graminis. Journal of Plant Physiology. 168(1). 20–29. 12 indexed citations

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Hensel, Göetz, Axel Himmelbach, Wanxin Chen, Dimitar Douchkov, & Jochen Kumlehn. (2010). Transgene expression systems in the Triticeae cereals. Journal of Plant Physiology. 168(1). 30–44. 23 indexed citations

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Perović, Dragan, Peter Tiffin, Dimitar Douchkov, Helmut Bäumlein, & Andreas Graner. (2007). An integrated approach for the comparative analysis of a multigene family: The nicotianamine synthase genes of barley. Functional & Integrative Genomics. 7(2). 169–179. 10 indexed citations

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Czihal, Andreas, Dimitar Douchkov, Jens Tiedemann, et al.. (2007). Iron assimilation and transcription factor controlled synthesis of riboflavin in plants. Planta. 226(1). 147–158. 68 indexed citations

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Altpeter, Fredy, Alok Varshney, Dimitar Douchkov, et al.. (2005). Stable expression of a defense-related gene in wheat epidermis under transcriptional control of a novel promoter confers pathogen resistance. Plant Molecular Biology. 57(2). 271–283. 70 indexed citations

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