Gitta Coaker

11.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
96 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Gitta Coaker is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gitta Coaker has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Plant Science, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Gitta Coaker's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (71 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (55 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (25 papers). Gitta Coaker is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (71 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (55 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (25 papers). Gitta Coaker collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Israel. Gitta Coaker's co-authors include Brian J. Staskawicz, Brad Day, Stephen T. Chisholm, James R. Elmore, Jun Liu, Tania Y. Toruño, Ioannis Stergiopoulos, Johan H. J. Leveau, Gurdeep Rastogi and Danielle M. Stevens and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Gitta Coaker

94 papers receiving 8.2k 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.

Host-Microbe Interactions: Shaping the Evolution of the Plant Immune Response

2006 2.2k citations Gitta Coaker, Brian J. Staskawicz et al. profile →
Plant-Pathogen Effectors: Cellular Probes Interfering with Plant Defenses in Spatial and Temporal Manners

2016 457 citations Tania Y. Toruño, Gitta Coaker et al. profile →
Stress-induced reactive oxygen species compartmentalization, perception and signalling

2021 296 citations Danielle M. Stevens, Gitta Coaker et al. profile →

Peers

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Kenichi Tsuda Japan

Thorsten Nürnberger Germany

Ping He United States

John P. Rathjen Australia

Libo Shan United States

Doil Choi South Korea

Hailing Jin United States

Fumiaki Katagiri United States

Kinya Nomura United States

Kenichi Tsuda Japan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gitta Coaker

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gitta Coaker. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gitta Coaker 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 Gitta Coaker. Gitta Coaker is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bjornson, Marta, Dominique D. A. Pincot, Peter M. Henry, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. fragariae –Strawberry Interaction: Evolution, Infection, and Genetic Resistance. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 38(6). 812–824.

Figueroa, Melania, Gitta Coaker, & K. Kanyuka. (2024). Focus on the Effectors at the Interface of Plant–Microbe Interactions. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 37(3). 168–170. 1 indexed citations

Stevens, Danielle M., Alexandra J. Weisberg, Judith Fliegmann, et al.. (2024). Natural variation of immune epitopes reveals intrabacterial antagonism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(23). e2319499121–e2319499121. 14 indexed citations

Zhu, Jie, et al.. (2023). Single-cell profiling of Arabidopsis leaves to Pseudomonas syringae infection. Cell Reports. 42(7). 112676–112676. 59 indexed citations

Li, Tianrun, Jessica Franco, Tania Y. Toruño, et al.. (2023). Variation in microbial feature perception in the Rutaceae family with immune receptor conservation in citrus. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 193(1). 689–707. 10 indexed citations

Stevens, Danielle M., et al.. (2023). Overlapping Local and Systemic Defense Induced by an Oomycete Fatty Acid MAMP and Brown Seaweed Extract in Tomato. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 36(6). 359–371. 4 indexed citations

Zhu, Jie, Andrew Breakspear, Shree Prasad Thapa, et al.. (2022). Effectors from a Bacterial Vector-Borne Pathogen Exhibit Diverse Subcellular Localization, Expression Profiles, and Manipulation of Plant Defense. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 35(12). 1067–1080. 7 indexed citations

Ramasamy, Manikandan, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus Efflux Pump Inhibition by Antimicrobial Peptides. Molecules. 27(24). 8729–8729. 7 indexed citations

Rufián, José S., James R. Elmore, Eduardo R. Bejarano, Carmen R. Beuzón, & Gitta Coaker. (2021). ER Bodies Are Induced by Pseudomonas syringae and Negatively Regulate Immunity. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 34(9). 1001–1009. 9 indexed citations

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Xu, Ning, Deepak D. Bhandari, Dmitry Lapin, et al.. (2021). Bacterial effector targeting of a plant iron sensor facilitates iron acquisition and pathogen colonization. The Plant Cell. 33(6). 2015–2031. 52 indexed citations

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Klymiuk, Valentyna, Andrii Fatiukha, Dina Raats, et al.. (2020). Three previously characterized resistances to yellow rust are encoded by a single locus Wtk1. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(9). 2561–2572. 23 indexed citations

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Stevens, Danielle M., et al.. (2020). Phosphorylation of the Pseudomonas Effector AvrPtoB by Arabidopsis SnRK2.8 Is Required for Bacterial Virulence. Molecular Plant. 13(10). 1513–1522. 28 indexed citations

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Pang, Zhiqian, Li Zhang, Gitta Coaker, et al.. (2020). Citrus CsACD2 Is a Target of Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus in Huanglongbing Disease. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 184(2). 792–805. 65 indexed citations

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Lee, Donghyuk, Neeraj Lal, Shisong Ma, et al.. (2020). Regulation of reactive oxygen species during plant immunity through phosphorylation and ubiquitination of RBOHD. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1838–1838. 217 indexed citations

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Bolus, Stephen, Eduard Akhunov, Gitta Coaker, & Jorge Dubcovsky. (2019). Dissection of Cell Death Induction by Wheat Stem Rust Resistance Protein Sr35 and Its Matching Effector AvrSr35. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 33(2). 308–319. 28 indexed citations

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Clark, Kelley J., Jessica Franco, Simon Schwizer, et al.. (2018). An effector from the Huanglongbing-associated pathogen targets citrus proteases. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1718–1718. 143 indexed citations

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Kadota, Yasuhiro, Thomas W. H. Liebrand, Y Goto, et al.. (2018). Quantitative phosphoproteomic analysis reveals common regulatory mechanisms between effector‐ and PAMP‐triggered immunity in plants. New Phytologist. 221(4). 2160–2175. 98 indexed citations

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Luo, Xuming, Ning Xu, Junkai Huang, et al.. (2017). A Lectin Receptor-Like Kinase Mediates Pattern-Triggered Salicylic Acid Signaling. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 174(4). 2501–2514. 72 indexed citations

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Henry, Elizabeth, Tania Y. Toruño, Alain Jauneau, Laurent Deslandes, & Gitta Coaker. (2017). Direct and Indirect Visualization of Bacterial Effector Delivery into Diverse Plant Cell Types during Infection. The Plant Cell. 29(7). 1555–1570. 40 indexed citations

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Coaker, Gitta, Arnold M. Falick, & Brian J. Staskawicz. (2005). Activation of a Phytopathogenic Bacterial Effector Protein by a Eukaryotic Cyclophilin. Science. 308(5721). 548–550. 183 indexed citations

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