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, David A. Bird, John J. H. Shin, 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

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.

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 →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Heather E. McFarlane	2.4k	1.6k	328	186	177	49	2.9k
Arun Sampathkumar	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	225 0.7×	215 1.2×	116 0.7×	50	2.5k
Thierry Desnos	4.6k 1.9×	2.3k 1.4×	221 0.7×	215 1.2×	147 0.8×	43	5.1k
Kian Hématy	2.4k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	176 0.5×	81 0.4×	109 0.6×	23	2.7k
Jozef Mravec	2.5k 1.0×	2.0k 1.3×	217 0.7×	60 0.3×	123 0.7×	49	3.0k
Clara Sánchez‐Rodríguez	2.6k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	370 1.1×	82 0.4×	88 0.5×	39	2.9k
Hideo Nakashita	2.5k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	295 0.9×	176 0.9×	115 0.6×	75	3.1k
Fuguang Li	3.8k 1.6×	2.4k 1.5×	122 0.4×	80 0.4×	107 0.6×	160	4.5k
Trevor H. Yeats	2.8k 1.2×	1.6k 1.0×	108 0.3×	96 0.5×	160 0.9×	29	3.6k
Samantha Vernhettes	3.6k 1.5×	2.1k 1.3×	234 0.7×	615 3.3×	397 2.2×	40	4.0k
Edouard Pesquet	2.3k 0.9×	1.9k 1.2×	128 0.4×	64 0.3×	421 2.4×	57	2.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

McFarlane, Heather E., et al.. (2025). Protocol for detecting intracellular aggregations in Arabidopsis thaliana cell wall mutants using FM4-64 staining. STAR Protocols. 6(1). 103665–103665. 1 indexed citations

Czymmek, Kirk J., Yoselin Benitez‐Alfonso, Tessa M. Burch‐Smith, et al.. (2025). Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer. The Plant Cell. 37(7). 1 indexed citations

Yu, Yan, Zhenping Sun, Chengcheng Xing, et al.. (2025). Kinesin proteins HUG1 and HUG2 are essential for the formation and transportation of male germ units in Arabidopsis pollen tubes. Nature Plants. 11(8). 1489–1499.

McFarlane, Heather E., et al.. (2025). Understanding cell wall signaling to open new opportunities for modifying plant cell walls. Canadian Journal of Plant Science. 105. 1–8. 1 indexed citations

McFarlane, Heather E., et al.. (2024). Two roads diverge for cellulose synthase complex trafficking. Trends in Plant Science. 29(8). 839–841.

McFarlane, Heather E., et al.. (2022). Regulation of cellulose synthesis via exocytosis and endocytosis. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 69. 102273–102273. 25 indexed citations

Wang, Baojie, Etienne H. Meyer, Natalie Hoffmann, et al.. (2022). The TOR complex controls ATP levels to regulate actin cytoskeleton dynamics in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(38). e2122969119–e2122969119. 29 indexed citations

Hoffmann, Natalie, S. B. King, Lacey Samuels, & Heather E. McFarlane. (2021). Subcellular coordination of plant cell wall synthesis. Developmental Cell. 56(7). 933–948. 67 indexed citations

McFarlane, Heather E., Kelsey L. Picard, Timothy E. Gookin, et al.. (2021). A G protein-coupled receptor-like module regulates cellulose synthase secretion from the endomembrane system in Arabidopsis. Developmental Cell. 56(10). 1484–1497.e7. 29 indexed citations

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McFarlane, Heather E., et al.. (2021). Analysis of cellulose synthase activity in Arabidopsis using spinning disk microscopy. STAR Protocols. 2(4). 100863–100863. 8 indexed citations

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Parsons, Harriet T., Tim J. Stevens, Heather E. McFarlane, et al.. (2019). Separating Golgi Proteins from Cis to Trans Reveals Underlying Properties of Cisternal Localization. The Plant Cell. 31(9). 2010–2034. 36 indexed citations

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Li, Ming, Ryan P. McQuinn, Kai Xun Chan, et al.. (2019). A GDSL Esterase/Lipase Catalyzes the Esterification of Lutein in Bread Wheat. The Plant Cell. 31(12). 3092–3112. 63 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yi, Youjun Zhang, Heather E. McFarlane, et al.. (2018). Inhibition of TOR Represses Nutrient Consumption, Which Improves Greening after Extended Periods of Etiolation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 178(1). 101–117. 26 indexed citations

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Ebert, Berit, Carsten Rautengarten, Heather E. McFarlane, et al.. (2018). A Golgi UDP-GlcNAc transporter delivers substrates for N-linked glycans and sphingolipids. Nature Plants. 4(10). 792–801. 31 indexed citations

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Schneider, René, Lu Tang, Edwin R. Lampugnani, et al.. (2017). Two Complementary Mechanisms Underpin Cell Wall Patterning during Xylem Vessel Development. The Plant Cell. 29(10). 2433–2449. 52 indexed citations

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McFarlane, Heather E., et al.. (2017). Multiscale Structural Analysis of Plant ER–PM Contact Sites. Plant and Cell Physiology. 58(3). pcw224–pcw224. 36 indexed citations

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Steiner, Alexander, Katarzyna Rybak, Melina Altmann, et al.. (2016). Cell cycle‐regulated PLEIADE/AtMAP65‐3 links membrane and microtubule dynamics during plant cytokinesis. The Plant Journal. 88(4). 531–541. 28 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yi, Nino Nikolovski, Mathias Sorieul, et al.. (2016). Golgi-localized STELLO proteins regulate the assembly and trafficking of cellulose synthase complexes in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications. 7(1). 11656–11656. 96 indexed citations

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Chen, Li‐Qing, et al.. (2015). A Cascade of Sequentially Expressed Sucrose Transporters in the Seed Coat and Endosperm Provides Nutrition for the Arabidopsis Embryo. The Plant Cell. 27(3). 607–619. 327 indexed citations breakdown →

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Huang, Yan, Xuejin Chen, Yanan Liu, et al.. (2013). Mitochondrial AtPAM16 is required for plant survival and the negative regulation of plant immunity. Nature Communications. 4(1). 2558–2558. 63 indexed citations

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