George W. Bassel

9.6k total citations · 5 hit papers
70 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

George W. Bassel is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, George W. Bassel has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 61 papers in Plant Science, 41 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in George W. Bassel's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (42 papers), Seed Germination and Physiology (22 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (19 papers). George W. Bassel is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (42 papers), Seed Germination and Physiology (22 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (19 papers). George W. Bassel collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Canada. George W. Bassel's co-authors include J. Derek Bewley, W. E. Finch-Savage, Hiroyuki Nonogaki, Michael J. Holdsworth, Daniel J. Gibbs, Nicholas J. Provart, Robert T. Mullen, Frederica L. Theodoulou, Julia Bailey‐Serres and Takeshi Fukao and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

George W. Bassel

69 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Seed vigour and crop establishment: extending performance beyond adaptation

2015 616 citations George W. Bassel et al. Journal of Experimental Botany profile →
Germination—Still a mystery

2010 576 citations George W. Bassel, J. Derek Bewley et al. profile →
Homeostatic response to hypoxia is regulated by the N-end rule pathway in plants

2011 564 citations Daniel J. Gibbs, Seung Cho Lee et al. Nature profile →
Arabidopsis PYR/PYL/RCAR Receptors Play a Major Role in Quantitative Regulation of Stomatal Aperture and Transcriptional Response to Abscisic Acid

2012 427 citations George W. Bassel, Michael J. Holdsworth et al. The Plant Cell profile →
Ethylene-mediated nitric oxide depletion pre-adapts plants to hypoxia stress

2019 234 citations Sjon Hartman, Zeguang Liu et al. Nature Communications profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George W. Bassel United Kingdom	36	4.8k	2.6k	242	228	180	70	5.7k
Elison B. Blancaflor United States	47	6.0k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	211 0.9×	306 1.3×	199 1.1×	108	6.9k
Yang Zhao China	42	6.7k 1.4×	3.4k 1.3×	249 1.0×	115 0.5×	73 0.4×	105	7.8k
Edgar P. Spalding United States	52	6.8k 1.4×	3.5k 1.3×	166 0.7×	129 0.6×	221 1.2×	96	7.6k
Taishi Umezawa Japan	31	8.4k 1.8×	3.9k 1.5×	213 0.9×	117 0.5×	72 0.4×	57	9.2k
Takuya Yoshida Japan	33	5.9k 1.2×	3.3k 1.3×	207 0.9×	106 0.5×	72 0.4×	67	7.3k
Girdhar K. Pandey India	43	6.0k 1.3×	2.8k 1.1×	164 0.7×	99 0.4×	71 0.4×	109	6.7k
Sean R. Cutler United States	42	9.2k 1.9×	5.0k 1.9×	298 1.2×	155 0.7×	104 0.6×	80	10.8k
C. Robertson McClung United States	57	7.0k 1.5×	4.9k 1.9×	289 1.2×	168 0.7×	298 1.7×	109	8.4k
Hannes Kollist Estonia	46	6.0k 1.3×	2.4k 0.9×	483 2.0×	89 0.4×	190 1.1×	82	6.8k
Fuminori Takahashi Japan	33	5.5k 1.2×	3.0k 1.2×	167 0.7×	95 0.4×	70 0.4×	63	6.5k

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Pandey, Shashank K., Jay P. Maurya, Bibek Aryal, et al.. (2024). A regulatory module mediating temperature control of cell-cell communication facilitates tree bud dormancy release. The EMBO Journal. 43(23). 5793–5812. 7 indexed citations

Liew, Lim Chee, Yue You, Marina Oliva, et al.. (2024). Establishment of single-cell transcriptional states during seed germination. Nature Plants. 10(9). 1418–1434. 20 indexed citations

Fischer, Sabine, George W. Bassel, & Philip Kollmannsberger. (2023). Tissues as networks of cells: towards generative rules of complex organ development. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 20(204). 20230115–20230115. 4 indexed citations

Dorone, Yanniv, Steven Boeynaems, Eduardo Flores, et al.. (2021). A prion-like protein regulator of seed germination undergoes hydration-dependent phase separation. Cell. 184(16). 4284–4298.e27. 126 indexed citations

Graeff, Moritz, Jos R. Wendrich, Julien Dorier, et al.. (2021). A single-cell morpho-transcriptomic map of brassinosteroid action in the Arabidopsis root. Molecular Plant. 14(12). 1985–1999. 50 indexed citations

Gibbs, Daniel J., et al.. (2021). Network analysis of Arabidopsis mitochondrial dynamics reveals a resolved tradeoff between physical distribution and social connectivity. Cell Systems. 12(5). 419–431.e4. 20 indexed citations

Benjamins, René, et al.. (2020). A Molecular Signal Integration Network Underpinning Arabidopsis Seed Germination. Current Biology. 30(19). 3703–3712.e4. 67 indexed citations

Hartman, Sjon, Zeguang Liu, Hans van Veen, et al.. (2019). Ethylene-mediated nitric oxide depletion pre-adapts plants to hypoxia stress. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4020–4020. 234 indexed citations breakdown →

Bassel, George W.. (2019). Multicellular Systems Biology: Quantifying Cellular Patterning and Function in Plant Organs Using Network Science. Molecular Plant. 12(6). 731–742. 11 indexed citations

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Duran‐Nebreda, Salva & George W. Bassel. (2018). Fluorescein Transport Assay to Assess Bulk Flow of Molecules Through the Hypocotyl in Arabidopsis thaliana. BIO-PROTOCOL. 8(7). e2791–e2791. 4 indexed citations

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Yan, Dawei, et al.. (2017). Temperature variability is integrated by a spatially embedded decision-making center to break dormancy in Arabidopsis seeds. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(25). 6629–6634. 77 indexed citations

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Bassel, George W., et al.. (2017). Quantitative analysis of the 3D cell shape changes driving soybean germination. Journal of Experimental Botany. 68(7). 1531–1537. 7 indexed citations

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Saidi, Younousse, Laura A. Moody, Daniel R. McLeod, et al.. (2016). The decision to germinate is regulated by divergent molecular networks in spores and seeds. New Phytologist. 211(3). 952–966. 52 indexed citations

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Stamm, Petra, et al.. (2016). The Transcription Factor ATHB5 Affects GA-Mediated Plasticity in Hypocotyl Cell Growth during Seed Germination. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 173(1). 907–917. 38 indexed citations

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Montenegro‐Johnson, Thomas D., Petra Stamm, Soeren Strauss, et al.. (2015). Digital Single-Cell Analysis of Plant Organ Development Using 3DCellAtlas. The Plant Cell. 27(4). 1018–1033. 49 indexed citations

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Bassel, George W. & Richard S. Smith. (2015). Quantifying morphogenesis in plants in 4D. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 29. 87–94. 37 indexed citations

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Gibbs, Daniel J., Seung Cho Lee, Nurulhikma Md Isa, et al.. (2011). Homeostatic response to hypoxia is regulated by the N-end rule pathway in plants. Nature. 479(7373). 415–418. 564 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bassel, George W., Michael J. Holdsworth, & Nicholas J. Provart. (2011). Seed Bioinformatics. Methods in molecular biology. 773. 403–419. 1 indexed citations

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Bassel, George W., Robert T. Mullen, & J. Derek Bewley. (2006). ABI3 expression ceases following, but not during, germination of tomato and Arabidopsis seeds. Journal of Experimental Botany. 57(6). 1291–1297. 39 indexed citations

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Bassel, George W., et al.. (2005). The Emergence of Embryos from Hard Seeds is Related to the Structure of the Cell Walls of the Micropylar Endosperm, and not to Endo-β-mannanase Activity. Annals of Botany. 96(7). 1165–1173. 41 indexed citations

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