Guillaume Bécard

17.2k total citations · 8 hit papers
68 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Guillaume Bécard is a scholar working on Plant Science, Pharmacology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Guillaume Bécard has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Plant Science, 21 papers in Pharmacology and 14 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Guillaume Bécard's work include Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (46 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (25 papers) and Fungal Biology and Applications (21 papers). Guillaume Bécard is often cited by papers focused on Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (46 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (25 papers) and Fungal Biology and Applications (21 papers). Guillaume Bécard collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Canada. Guillaume Bécard's co-authors include Virginie Puech‐Pagès, J. André Fortin, Yves Piché, Christophe Roux, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Soizic Rochange, Maria Victoria Gómez Roldán, Mireille Chabaud, Jean‐Charles Portais and Alain Jauneau and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, PLoS ONE and Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

In The Last Decade

Guillaume Bécard

68 papers receiving 10.4k 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.

Strigolactone inhibition of shoot branching

2008 1.6k citations Maria Victoria Gómez Roldán, Soraya Fermas et al. Nature profile →
Fungal lipochitooligosaccharide symbiotic signals in arbuscular mycorrhiza

2010 690 citations Fabienne Maillet, Véréna Poinsot et al. Nature profile →
Early events of vesicular–arbuscular mycorrhiza formation on Ri T‐DNA transformed roots

1988 634 citations Guillaume Bécard et al. New Phytologist profile →
Strigolactones Stimulate Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi by Activating Mitochondria

2006 553 citations Arnaud Besserer, Virginie Puech‐Pagès et al. PLoS Biology profile →
Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Transformed Roots of Medicago truncatula for the Study of Nitrogen-Fixing and Endomycorrhizal Symbiotic Associations

2001 552 citations Aurélien Boisson‐Dernier, Mireille Chabaud et al. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions profile →
Strigolactones affect lateral root formation and root-hair elongation in Arabidopsis

2010 391 citations Yoram Kapulnik, Pierre‐Marc Delaux et al. profile →
Short‐chain chitin oligomers from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi trigger nuclear C a ²⁺ spiking in M edicago truncatula roots and their production is enhanced by strigolactone

2013 358 citations Andrea Genre, Mireille Chabaud et al. New Phytologist profile →
Primary transcripts of microRNAs encode regulatory peptides

2015 345 citations Dominique Lauressergues, Jean‐Malo Couzigou et al. Nature profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guillaume Bécard

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Guillaume Bécard. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Guillaume Bécard 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 Guillaume Bécard. Guillaume Bécard 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

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Special Issue: How plants communicate with their biotic environment. 2017 ·Guillaume Bécard	1
2	Primary transcripts of microRNAs encode regulatory peptides breakdown → 2015 ·Nature ·Dominique Lauressergues, Jean‐Malo Couzigou, Hélène San Clemente, Yves Martinez, Christophe Dunand, Guillaume Bécard, Jean‐Philippe Combier	345
3	Short‐chain chitin oligomers from arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi trigger nuclear C a ²⁺ spiking in M edicago truncatula roots and their production is enhanced by strigolactone breakdown → 2013 ·New Phytologist ·Andrea Genre, Mireille Chabaud, Coline Balzergue, Virginie Puech‐Pagès, Mara Novero, Thomas Rey, Joëlle Fournier, Soizic Rochange, Guillaume Bécard, Paola Bonfante, (unknown)	358
4	High phosphate reduces host ability to develop arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis without affecting root calcium spiking responses to the fungus 2013 ·Frontiers in Plant Science ·Coline Balzergue, Mireille Chabaud, David G. Barker, Guillaume Bécard, Soizic Rochange	92
5	Origin of strigolactones in the green lineage 2012 ·New Phytologist ·Pierre‐Marc Delaux, Xiaonan Xie, Ruth Timme, Virginie Puech‐Pagès, Christophe Dunand, Émilie Lecompte, Charles F. Delwiche, Koichi Yoneyama, Guillaume Bécard, Nathalie Séjalon‐Delmas	210
6	Metabolite profiling of pea roots in response to phosphate availability 2011 ·Plant Signaling & Behavior ·(unknown), Coline Balzergue, Soizic Rochange, (unknown), Fabien Létisse, Jean‐Charles Portais, Guillaume Bécard, Virginie Puech‐Pagès	3
7	Light is a positive regulator of strigolactone levels in tomato roots 2011 ·Journal of Plant Physiology ·Hinanit Koltai, Maja Cohen, (unknown), Einav Mayzlish‐Gati, Guillaume Bécard, Virginie Puech, (unknown), N. Resnick, Smadar Wininger, Yoram Kapulnik	38
8	Fungal lipochitooligosaccharide symbiotic signals in arbuscular mycorrhiza breakdown → 2010 ·Nature ·Fabienne Maillet, Véréna Poinsot, Olivier André, Virginie Puech‐Pagès, (unknown), (unknown), Laurence Cromer, (unknown), Damien Formey, Andréas Niebel, (unknown), Hugues Driguez, Guillaume Bécard, Jean Dénarié	690
9	The regulation of arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis by phosphate in pea involves early and systemic signalling events 2010 ·Journal of Experimental Botany ·Coline Balzergue, Virginie Puech‐Pagès, Guillaume Bécard, Soizic Rochange	187
10	Strigolactone inhibition of shoot branching breakdown → 2008 ·Nature ·Maria Victoria Gómez Roldán, Soraya Fermas, Philip B. Brewer, Virginie Puech‐Pagès, Elizabeth A. Dun, Jean‐Paul Pillot, Fabien Létisse, Radoslava Matúšová, Saı̈da Danoun, Jean‐Charles Portais, Harro J. Bouwmeester, Guillaume Bécard, Christine A. Beveridge, Catherine Rameau, Soizic Rochange	1643
11	Rhizosphere communication of plants, parasitic plants and AM fungi 2007 ·Trends in Plant Science ·Harro J. Bouwmeester, Christophe Roux, Juan A. López‐Ráez, Guillaume Bécard	348
12	Strigolactones 2007 ·Plant Signaling & Behavior ·Maria Victoria Gómez Roldán, Christophe Roux, (unknown), Guillaume Bécard, Virginie Puech	26
13	Presymbiotic growth and sporal morphology are affected in the arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus Gigaspora margarita cured of its endobacteria 2007 ·Cellular Microbiology ·Erica Lumini, Valeria Bianciotto, Patricia Jargeat, Mara Novero, Alessandra Salvioli, Antonella Faccio, Guillaume Bécard, Paola Bonfante	111
14	Strigolactones Stimulate Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi by Activating Mitochondria breakdown → 2006 ·PLoS Biology ·Arnaud Besserer, Virginie Puech‐Pagès, Patrick Kiefer, Maria Victoria Gómez Roldán, Alain Jauneau, Sébastien Roy, Jean‐Charles Portais, Christophe Roux, Guillaume Bécard, Nathalie Séjalon-Delmas	553
15	Targeted inoculation of Medicago truncatula in vitro root cultures reveals MtENOD11 expression during early stages of infection by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi 2002 ·New Phytologist ·Mireille Chabaud, (unknown), (unknown), Guillaume Bécard, David G. Barker	81
16	Agrobacterium rhizogenes-Transformed Roots of Medicago truncatula for the Study of Nitrogen-Fixing and Endomycorrhizal Symbiotic Associations breakdown → 2001 ·Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Aurélien Boisson‐Dernier, Mireille Chabaud, (unknown), Guillaume Bécard, Charles Rosenberg, David G. Barker	552
17	The Pre-Symbiotic Growth of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Is Induced by a Branching Factor Partially Purified from Plant Root Exudates 2000 ·Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Marc Buée, Martial Rossignol, Alain Jauneau, Raoul Ranjeva, Guillaume Bécard	230
18	Effect of Vesicular–Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi on Rooting of Sciadopitys verticillata Sieb & Zucc. Cuttings 1995 ·HortScience ·David D. Douds, Guillaume Bécard, P. E. PFEFFER, Landis W. Doner, (unknown), (unknown)	11
19	Life Cycle of Glomus Intraradix in Root Organ Culture 1992 ·Mycologia ·(unknown), Guillaume Bécard, Yves Piché	154
20	Long-term in vitro culture of an endomycorrhizal fungus, Gigaspora margarita, on Ri T-DNA transformed roots of carrot 1992 ·Symbiosis ·Tahir Abdoulaye Diop, Guillaume Bécard, Yves Piché	46

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