Heather E. McFarlane

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
49 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Heather E. McFarlane is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Heather E. McFarlane has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Plant Science, 28 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Heather E. McFarlane's work include Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (32 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (21 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (18 papers). Heather E. McFarlane is often cited by papers focused on Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (32 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (21 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (18 papers). Heather E. McFarlane collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Australia and Germany. Heather E. McFarlane's co-authors include Staffan Persson, Lacey Samuels, John J. H. Shin, David A. Bird, Wolf B. Frommer, Tamara L. Western, Davide Sosso, Li‐Qing Chen, Delphine Gendre and Yoichiro Watanabe and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Heather E. McFarlane

47 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

The Cell Biology of Cellulose Synthesis

2014 405 citations Heather E. McFarlane, Staffan Persson et al. profile →
A Cascade of Sequentially Expressed Sucrose Transporters in the Seed Coat and Endosperm Provides Nutrition for the Arabidopsis Embryo

2015 327 citations Li‐Qing Chen, Davide Sosso et al. The Plant Cell profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Heather E. McFarlane

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Protocol for detecting intracellular aggregations in Arabidopsis thaliana cell wall mutants using FM4-64 staining 2025 ·STAR Protocols ·(unknown), (unknown), Heather E. McFarlane	1
2	Kinesin proteins HUG1 and HUG2 are essential for the formation and transportation of male germ units in Arabidopsis pollen tubes 2025 ·Nature Plants ·Yan Yu, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Zhenping Sun, (unknown), Chengcheng Xing, Jing Zhou, (unknown), Yu Zhu, Heather E. McFarlane, (unknown), Xiaoxia Zhang, Bo Xu, (unknown), Haiyun Ren, Yi Zhang	0
3	Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer 2025 ·The Plant Cell ·Kirk J. Czymmek, Yoselin Benitez‐Alfonso, Tessa M. Burch‐Smith, Luigi Di Costanzo, Georgia Drakakaki, Michelle Facette, Daniel Kierzkowski, (unknown), (unknown), Suruchi Roychoudhry, Heather E. McFarlane	1
4	Understanding cell wall signaling to open new opportunities for modifying plant cell walls 2025 ·Canadian Journal of Plant Science ·(unknown), Heather E. McFarlane	1
5	Two roads diverge for cellulose synthase complex trafficking 2024 ·Trends in Plant Science ·(unknown), Heather E. McFarlane	0
6	The TOR complex controls ATP levels to regulate actin cytoskeleton dynamics in Arabidopsis 2022 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), Baojie Wang, (unknown), Etienne H. Meyer, (unknown), Natalie Hoffmann, Heather E. McFarlane, (unknown), (unknown), Kelsey L. Picard, Patrick Giavalisco, Staffan Persson, Yi Zhang	29
7	Regulation of cellulose synthesis via exocytosis and endocytosis 2022 ·Current Opinion in Plant Biology ·(unknown), Heather E. McFarlane	25
8	A G protein-coupled receptor-like module regulates cellulose synthase secretion from the endomembrane system in Arabidopsis 2021 ·Developmental Cell ·Heather E. McFarlane, (unknown), (unknown), Kelsey L. Picard, Timothy E. Gookin, (unknown), David Chakravorty, Luisa M. Trindade, José M. Alonso, Sarah M. Assmann, Staffan Persson	29
9	Analysis of cellulose synthase activity in Arabidopsis using spinning disk microscopy 2021 ·STAR Protocols ·(unknown), (unknown), Heather E. McFarlane	8
10	Insights from the Structure of a Plant Cellulose Synthase Trimer 2020 ·Trends in Plant Science ·(unknown), Heather E. McFarlane	14
11	Separating Golgi Proteins from Cis to Trans Reveals Underlying Properties of Cisternal Localization 2019 ·The Plant Cell ·Harriet T. Parsons, Tim J. Stevens, Heather E. McFarlane, Silvia Vidal‐Melgosa, Johannes Griss, Nicola Lawrence, Richard Butler, Mirta Mittelstedt Leal de Sousa, Michelle Salemi, William G. T. Willats, Christopher J. Petzold, Joshua L. Heazlewood, Kathryn S. Lilley	36
12	A GDSL Esterase/Lipase Catalyzes the Esterification of Lutein in Bread Wheat 2019 ·The Plant Cell ·(unknown), Ming Li, Ryan P. McQuinn, Kai Xun Chan, Heather E. McFarlane, Maria Ermakova, Robert T. Furbank, Daryl J. Mares, Chongmei Dong, K. J. Chalmers, P. J. Sharp, Diane E. Mather, Barry J. Pogson	63
13	The companion of cellulose synthase 1 confers salt tolerance through a Tau-like mechanism in plants 2019 ·Nature Communications ·Christopher Kesten, (unknown), René Schneider, Heather E. McFarlane, Anne Diehl, Ghazanfar Abbas Khan, Barth‐Jan van Rossum, Edwin R. Lampugnani, Witold Szymański, (unknown), Peter Schmieder, Kristina Ford, (unknown), Joshua L. Heazlewood, Clara Sánchez‐Rodríguez, Hartmut Oschkinat, Staffan Persson	69
14	Two Complementary Mechanisms Underpin Cell Wall Patterning during Xylem Vessel Development 2017 ·The Plant Cell ·René Schneider, Lu Tang, Edwin R. Lampugnani, (unknown), Rahul Lathe, Yi Zhang, Heather E. McFarlane, Edouard Pesquet, Totte Niittylä, Shawn D. Mansfield, Yihua Zhou, Staffan Persson	52
15	Multiscale Structural Analysis of Plant ER–PM Contact Sites 2017 ·Plant and Cell Physiology ·Heather E. McFarlane, Eun Kyoung Lee, Laura S. van Bezouwen, (unknown), Abel Rosado, Lacey Samuels	36
16	Cell cycle‐regulated PLEIADE/AtMAP65‐3 links membrane and microtubule dynamics during plant cytokinesis 2016 ·The Plant Journal ·Alexander Steiner, Katarzyna Rybak, Melina Altmann, Heather E. McFarlane, Susan Klaeger, Ngoc Nguyen, Eva Facher, Alexander Ivakov, Gerhard Wanner, Bernhard Küster, Staffan Persson, Pascal Falter‐Braun, Marie‐Theres Hauser, Farhah F. Assaad	28
17	A Cascade of Sequentially Expressed Sucrose Transporters in the Seed Coat and Endosperm Provides Nutrition for the Arabidopsis Embryo breakdown → 2015 ·The Plant Cell ·Li‐Qing Chen, (unknown), (unknown), Davide Sosso, Heather E. McFarlane, (unknown), Lacey Samuels, Wolf B. Frommer	327
18	Cell Wall Polysaccharides are Mislocalized to the Vacuole in echidna Mutants 2013 ·Plant and Cell Physiology ·Heather E. McFarlane, Yoichiro Watanabe, Delphine Gendre, (unknown), Gabriel Levesque‐Tremblay, George W. Haughn, Rishikesh P. Bhalerao, Lacey Samuels	39
19	Mitochondrial AtPAM16 is required for plant survival and the negative regulation of plant immunity 2013 ·Nature Communications ·Yan Huang, Xuejin Chen, Yanan Liu, Charlotte Roth, Charles Copeland, Heather E. McFarlane, Shuai Huang, Volker Lipka, Marcel Wiermer, Xin Li	63
20	Plant cell wall secretion and lipid traffic at membrane contact sites of the cell cortex 2011 ·PROTOPLASMA ·Lacey Samuels, Heather E. McFarlane	25

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