Dirk Becker

9.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
91 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Dirk Becker is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Becker has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 79 papers in Plant Science, 45 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Dirk Becker's work include Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (44 papers), Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (29 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (26 papers). Dirk Becker is often cited by papers focused on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (44 papers), Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies (29 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (26 papers). Dirk Becker collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Saudi Arabia and Japan. Dirk Becker's co-authors include Rainer Hedrich, Petra Dietrich, Peter Ache, M. Rob G. Roelfsema, Sergey Shabala, Ingo Drèyer, Stefan Hoth, Klaus Palme, Jörg Kudla and Natalya Ivashikina and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Becker

90 papers receiving 6.6k 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.

Advances and current challenges in calcium signaling

2018 452 citations Jörg Kudla, Dirk Becker et al. New Phytologist profile →
Going beyond nutrition: Regulation of potassium homoeostasis as a common denominator of plant adaptive responses to environment

2014 365 citations Dirk Becker, Sergey Shabala et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dirk Becker Germany	44	5.5k	2.7k	406	383	270	91	6.7k
Maya Belghazi France	38	3.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.8×	444 1.1×	49 0.1×	163 0.6×	99	5.9k
Urban Johanson Sweden	31	3.6k 0.7×	3.6k 1.3×	275 0.7×	22 0.1×	117 0.4×	51	5.7k
Jianxu Li China	33	404 0.1×	2.0k 0.7×	164 0.4×	770 2.0×	101 0.4×	77	3.3k
Koji Muramoto Japan	41	536 0.1×	3.9k 1.4×	291 0.7×	251 0.7×	114 0.4×	190	6.1k
Tina Romeis Germany	42	6.8k 1.2×	3.4k 1.3×	99 0.2×	18 0.0×	85 0.3×	64	7.8k
Huw H. Rees United Kingdom	37	471 0.1×	1.7k 0.6×	2.1k 5.3×	386 1.0×	73 0.3×	199	4.9k
Sarjeet S. Gill United States	49	2.8k 0.5×	6.5k 2.4×	828 2.0×	75 0.2×	11 0.0×	145	8.5k
Tomohiko Kato Japan	47	9.0k 1.6×	7.1k 2.6×	147 0.4×	28 0.1×	96 0.4×	77	10.6k
Alexandra M. E. Jones United Kingdom	46	6.9k 1.2×	3.6k 1.3×	137 0.3×	53 0.1×	35 0.1×	99	8.8k
Kiminori Toyooka Japan	44	4.5k 0.8×	4.1k 1.5×	110 0.3×	21 0.1×	74 0.3×	139	7.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Dirk Becker

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dirk Becker

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Bazihizina, Nadia, Sönke Scherzer, Nadine Schäfer, et al.. (2024). Sugar beet PMT5a and STP13 carriers suitable for proton‐driven plasma membrane sucrose and glucose import in taproots. The Plant Journal. 118(6). 2219–2232. 6 indexed citations

Sussmilch, Frances C., Tobias Maierhofer, Johannes Herrmann, et al.. (2024). Gaining or cutting SLAC : the evolution of plant guard cell signalling pathways. New Phytologist. 244(6). 2295–2310. 5 indexed citations

Zhou, Yang, Dirk Becker, Shang Fa Yang, et al.. (2024). Probing plant signal processing optogenetically by two channelrhodopsins. Nature. 633(8031). 872–877. 13 indexed citations

Lu, Jinping, Ingo Drèyer, Miles Sasha Dickinson, et al.. (2023). Vicia faba SV channel VfTPC1 is a hyperexcitable variant of plant vacuole Two Pore Channels. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Scherzer, Sönke, Sonja Bauer, Dirk Becker, et al.. (2023). DYSCALCULIA, a Venus flytrap mutant without the ability to count action potentials. Current Biology. 33(3). 589–596.e5. 6 indexed citations

Weiste, Christoph, Silvio Collani, Markus Krischke, et al.. (2021). Perturbations in plant energy homeostasis prime lateral root initiation via SnRK1-bZIP63-ARF19 signaling. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(37). 51 indexed citations

Böhm, Jennifer, Sönke Scherzer, Khaled A. S. Al‐Rasheid, et al.. (2020). The Venus flytrap trigger hair–specific potassium channel KDM1 can reestablish the K+ gradient required for hapto-electric signaling. PLoS Biology. 18(12). e3000964–e3000964. 28 indexed citations

Kudla, Jörg, Dirk Becker, Erwin Grill, et al.. (2018). Advances and current challenges in calcium signaling. New Phytologist. 218(2). 414–431. 452 indexed citations breakdown →

Dindas, Julian, Sönke Scherzer, M. Rob G. Roelfsema, et al.. (2018). AUX1-mediated root hair auxin influx governs SCFTIR1/AFB-type Ca2+ signaling. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1174–1174. 155 indexed citations

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Scherzer, Sönke, Lana Shabala, Jörg Fromm, et al.. (2017). Insect haptoelectrical stimulation of Venus flytrap triggers exocytosis in gland cells. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(18). 4822–4827. 39 indexed citations

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Mueller, Thomas D., Dirk Becker, J. Schultz, et al.. (2016). Gating of the two‐pore cation channel AtTPC1 in the plant vacuole is based on a single voltage‐sensing domain. Plant Biology. 18(5). 750–760. 22 indexed citations

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Tapken, Daniel, et al.. (2013). A Plant Homolog of Animal Glutamate Receptors Is an Ion Channel Gated by Multiple Hydrophobic Amino Acids. Science Signaling. 6(279). ra47–ra47. 90 indexed citations

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Becker, Dirk, et al.. (2011). Transgenic sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor L. Moench) developed by transformation with chitinase and chitosanase genes from Trichoderma harzianum expresses tolerance to anthracnose. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BIOTECHNOLOGY. 10(19). 3659–3670. 14 indexed citations

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Wieser, Herbert, et al.. (2007). Characterization of wheat with strongly reduced α-gliadin content.. 8(7). 13–16. 18 indexed citations

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Englert, Markus, et al.. (2007). Plant pre-tRNA splicing enzymes are targeted to multiple cellular compartments. Biochimie. 89(11). 1351–1365. 42 indexed citations

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Latz, Andreas, Natalya Ivashikina, Susanne Fischer, et al.. (2006). In planta AKT2 subunits constitute a pH- and Ca2+-sensitive inward rectifying K+ channel. Planta. 225(5). 1179–1191. 26 indexed citations

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Wieser, Herbert, et al.. (2005). Silencing the [alpha]-gliadins in wheat. Acta Biologica Cracoviensia. Series Zoologia. 47(1). 2 indexed citations

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Müller, Katharina, M. Rob G. Roelfsema, Andreas Latz, et al.. (2005). AtGLR3.4, a glutamate receptor channel-like gene is sensitive to touch and cold. Planta. 222(3). 418–427. 143 indexed citations

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Moshelion, Menachem, Dirk Becker, Katrin Czempinski, et al.. (2002). Diurnal and Circadian Regulation of Putative Potassium Channels in a Leaf Moving Organ. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 128(2). 634–642. 72 indexed citations

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Hoth, Stefan, Dietmar Geiger, Dirk Becker, & Rainer Hedrich. (2001). The Pore of Plant K⁺ Channels Is Involved in Voltage and pH Sensing: Domain-Swapping between Different K⁺ Channel α-Subunits. The Plant Cell. 13(4). 943–952. 35 indexed citations

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