Eric Messens

6.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
44 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Eric Messens is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric Messens has authored 44 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Molecular Biology, 22 papers in Plant Science and 12 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Eric Messens's work include Plant Gene Expression Analysis (12 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (7 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (6 papers). Eric Messens is often cited by papers focused on Plant Gene Expression Analysis (12 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (7 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (6 papers). Eric Messens collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and France. Eric Messens's co-authors include Marc Van Montagu, J. Schell, Scott E. Stachel, Patricia Zambryski, Danny De Waele, Ann Depicker, M. Holsters, Kris Morreel, Wout Boerjan and John Ralph and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Eric Messens

43 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Transfection and transformation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

1978 887 citations Eric Messens, Marc Van Montagu et al. Molecular and General Genetics MGG profile →
Identification of the signal molecules produced by wounded plant cells that activate T-DNA transfer in Agrobacterium tumefaciens

1985 750 citations Eric Messens, Marc Van Montagu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric Messens Belgium	24	3.1k	2.6k	1.2k	761	303	44	4.3k
Mária Hrmová Australia	45	2.3k 0.7×	4.1k 1.6×	1.7k 1.4×	1.5k 2.0×	399 1.3×	133	5.9k
Teemu H. Teeri Finland	44	4.0k 1.3×	3.3k 1.3×	849 0.7×	309 0.4×	173 0.6×	124	5.1k
Bernard Fritig France	41	2.9k 0.9×	5.0k 1.9×	798 0.7×	297 0.4×	201 0.7×	76	6.3k
L.M.A. Ferreira Portugal	36	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.4×	1.7k 2.3×	194 0.6×	94	3.8k
Brian Miki Canada	44	4.3k 1.4×	4.5k 1.7×	800 0.7×	153 0.2×	276 0.9×	105	5.7k
Felice Cervone Italy	53	3.0k 1.0×	7.3k 2.8×	613 0.5×	526 0.7×	343 1.1×	114	8.0k
Pierrette Geoffroy France	18	2.3k 0.7×	2.4k 0.9×	480 0.4×	400 0.5×	102 0.3×	21	3.4k
Tatsuji Seki Japan	28	1.8k 0.6×	691 0.3×	700 0.6×	500 0.7×	307 1.0×	87	2.5k
Thomas M. Wood Netherlands	37	1.5k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	1.9k 1.6×	2.6k 3.4×	225 0.7×	95	3.8k
Bartel Vanholme Belgium	35	1.7k 0.6×	2.3k 0.9×	259 0.2×	607 0.8×	143 0.5×	65	3.4k

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Morreel, Kris, Oana Dima, Hoon Kim, et al.. (2010). Mass Spectrometry-Based Sequencing of Lignin Oligomers. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 153(4). 1464–1478. 158 indexed citations

Maes, Martine, Hanneke Huvenne, & Eric Messens. (2009). Brenneria salicis , the bacterium causing watermark disease in willow, resides as an endophyte in wood. Environmental Microbiology. 11(6). 1453–1462. 18 indexed citations

Huvenne, Hanneke, Geert Goeminne, Martine Maes, & Eric Messens. (2008). Identification of quorum sensing signal molecules and oligolignols associated with watermark disease in willow (Salix sp.). Journal of Chromatography B. 872(1-2). 83–89. 4 indexed citations

Dauwe, Rébecca, Kris Morreel, Geert Goeminne, et al.. (2007). Molecular phenotyping of lignin‐modified tobacco reveals associated changes in cell‐wall metabolism, primary metabolism, stress metabolism and photorespiration. The Plant Journal. 52(2). 263–285. 147 indexed citations

Morreel, Kris, Geert Goeminne, Véronique Storme, et al.. (2006). Genetical metabolomics of flavonoid biosynthesis in Populus: a case study. The Plant Journal. 47(2). 224–237. 97 indexed citations

Damiani, Isabelle, Kris Morreel, Saı̈da Danoun, et al.. (2005). Metabolite Profiling Reveals a Role for Atypical Cinnamyl Alcohol Dehydrogenase CAD1 in the Synthesis of Coniferyl Alcohol in Tobacco Xylem. Plant Molecular Biology. 59(5). 753–769. 41 indexed citations

Rohde, Antje, Kris Morreel, John Ralph, et al.. (2004). Molecular Phenotyping of the pal1 and pal2 Mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana Reveals Far-Reaching Consequences on Phenylpropanoid, Amino Acid, and Carbohydrate Metabolism. The Plant Cell. 16(10). 2749–2771. 354 indexed citations

Rohde, Antje, Kris Morreel, John Ralph, et al.. (2004). Molecular phenotyping of the pal1 and pal2 mutants of Arabidopsis thaliana reveals far-reaching consequences on phenylpropanoid, amino acid, and carbohydrate metabolism. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 4 indexed citations

Lu, Fachuang, John Ralph, Kris Morreel, Eric Messens, & Wout Boerjan. (2004). Preparation and relevance of a cross-coupling product between sinapyl alcohol and sinapyl p-hydroxybenzoate. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 2(20). 2888–2888. 81 indexed citations

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Morreel, Kris, John Ralph, Fachuang Lu, et al.. (2004). Phenolic Profiling of Caffeic Acid O-Methyltransferase-Deficient Poplar Reveals Novel Benzodioxane Oligolignols. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 136(4). 4023–4036. 72 indexed citations

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Meyermans, Hugo, Kris Morreel, Catherine Lapierre, et al.. (2000). Modifications in Lignin and Accumulation of Phenolic Glucosides in Poplar Xylem upon Down-regulation of Caffeoyl-Coenzyme A O-Methyltransferase, an Enzyme Involved in Lignin Biosynthesis. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 275(47). 36899–36909. 214 indexed citations

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Chaerle, Laury, Wim Van Caeneghem, Eric Messens, et al.. (1999). Presymptomatic visualization of plant–virus interactions by thermography. Nature Biotechnology. 17(8). 813–816. 120 indexed citations

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Vereecke, Danny, Eric Messens, Klaus Klarskov, et al.. (1997). Patterns of phenolic compounds in leafy galls of tobacco. Planta. 201(3). 342–348. 43 indexed citations

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Verbruggen, Nathalie, Marc Van Montagu, & Eric Messens. (1992). Synthesis of the proline analogue [2,3‐³H]azetidine‐2‐carboxylic acid Uptake and incorporation in Arabidopsis thaliana and Escherichia coli. FEBS Letters. 308(3). 261–263. 8 indexed citations

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Maes, Martine & Eric Messens. (1992). Phenol as grinding material in RNA preparations. Nucleic Acids Research. 20(16). 4374–4374. 72 indexed citations

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Hedges, R. W. & Eric Messens. (1990). Genetic aspects of rhizosphere interactions. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 21 indexed citations

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Onckelen, H. Van, Patrick Rüdelsheim, Dirk Inzé, et al.. (1985). Tobacco plants transformed with the Agrobacterium T‐DNA gene 1 contain high amounts of indole‐3‐acetamide. FEBS Letters. 181(2). 373–376. 37 indexed citations

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Messens, Eric, et al.. (1985). Agrocinopine A, a phosphorylated opine is secreted from crown gall cells. The EMBO Journal. 4(3). 571–577. 17 indexed citations

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Herrera‐Estrella, Luís, Marc De Block, Eric Messens, et al.. (1983). Chimeric genes as dominant selectable markers in plant cells. The EMBO Journal. 2(6). 987–995. 332 indexed citations

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Larebeke, Nicolas Van, Jean-Pierre Hernálsteens, Alexander Picker, et al.. (1977). Transfer of Ti plasmids between Agrobacterium strains by mobilisation with the conjugative plasmid RP4. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 152(2). 119–124. 82 indexed citations

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