Jo Hepworth

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Jo Hepworth is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jo Hepworth has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Plant Science, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Jo Hepworth's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (14 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (8 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (6 papers). Jo Hepworth is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (14 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (8 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (6 papers). Jo Hepworth collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Sweden and Germany. Jo Hepworth's co-authors include Ottoline Leyser, Caroline Dean, Michael Lenhard, Naoki Shinohara, Tobias Sieberer, Malgorzata A. Domagalska, Dörte Müller, Lisa Williamson, Gilu George and Yanxia Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

Jo Hepworth

15 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rice cytochrome P450 MAX1 homologs catalyze distinct steps in strigolactone biosynthesis

2014 286 citations Yanxia Zhang, Aalt D. J. van Dijk et al. Nature Chemical Biology profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jo Hepworth United Kingdom	12	1.2k	539	494	41	26	17	1.2k
Ludovico Dreni Italy	16	1.3k 1.1×	150 0.3×	1.0k 2.0×	168 4.1×	29 1.1×	26	1.4k
Jin‐Yong Hu China	15	616 0.5×	97 0.2×	501 1.0×	69 1.7×	11 0.4×	33	777
Manuela Silva Portugal	16	1.1k 1.0×	103 0.2×	788 1.6×	152 3.7×	39 1.5×	33	1.3k
Stephanie C. Kerr Australia	7	556 0.5×	237 0.4×	227 0.5×	17 0.4×	21 0.8×	9	587
Naden T. Krogan Canada	16	1.1k 0.9×	63 0.1×	921 1.9×	35 0.9×	11 0.4×	21	1.1k
Taikui Zhang China	10	229 0.2×	192 0.4×	275 0.6×	66 1.6×	18 0.7×	17	445
Marta Adelina Mendes Italy	17	876 0.7×	119 0.2×	752 1.5×	27 0.7×	14 0.5×	29	952
Hokuto Nakayama Japan	13	499 0.4×	109 0.2×	366 0.7×	56 1.4×	17 0.7×	32	600
Susanna Atwell United States	12	619 0.5×	104 0.2×	315 0.6×	230 5.6×	11 0.4×	12	805
Franziska Fichtner Germany	14	864 0.7×	141 0.3×	362 0.7×	30 0.7×	28 1.1×	21	952

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jo Hepworth

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17 of 17 papers shown

Penfield, Steven, et al.. (2025). Seasons and shape: inflorescences from autumn to summer. Journal of Experimental Botany. 76(18). 5207–5224.

Kurup, Smita, Laura Siles, Jo Hepworth, et al.. (2025). DeepCanola: Phenotyping brassica pods using semi-synthetic data and active learning. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 237. 110470–110470. 1 indexed citations

Jones, D. Marc, Jo Hepworth, Rachel Wells, et al.. (2024). A transcriptomic time-series reveals differing trajectories during pre-floral development in the apex and leaf in winter and spring varieties of Brassica napus. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 3538–3538.

Zhu, Pan, et al.. (2024). Flowering time: From physiology, through genetics to mechanism. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 195(1). 190–212. 43 indexed citations

Zhao, Yusheng, Pan Zhu, Jo Hepworth, et al.. (2021). Natural temperature fluctuations promote COOLAIR regulation of FLC. Genes & Development. 35(11-12). 888–898. 43 indexed citations

Calderwood, Alexander, Jo Hepworth, Lorelei Bilham, et al.. (2021). Comparative transcriptomics reveals desynchronisation of gene expression during the floral transition between Arabidopsis andBrassica rapacultivars. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2. e4–e4. 5 indexed citations

Hepworth, Jo, Rea L. Antoniou-Kourounioti, Judith A. Irwin, et al.. (2020). Natural variation in autumn expression is the major adaptive determinant distinguishing Arabidopsis FLC haplotypes. eLife. 9. 34 indexed citations

Calderwood, Alexander, Andrew Lloyd, Jo Hepworth, et al.. (2020). Total FLC transcript dynamics from divergent paralogue expression explains flowering diversity in Brassica napus. New Phytologist. 229(6). 3534–3548. 33 indexed citations

Antoniou-Kourounioti, Rea L., et al.. (2020). Unique and contrasting effects of light and temperature cues on plant transcriptional programs. Transcription. 11(3-4). 134–159. 3 indexed citations

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Hepworth, Jo, Rea L. Antoniou-Kourounioti, Rebecca Bloomer, et al.. (2018). Absence of warmth permits epigenetic memory of winter in Arabidopsis. Nature Communications. 9(1). 639–639. 81 indexed citations

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Antoniou-Kourounioti, Rea L., Jo Hepworth, Susan Duncan, et al.. (2018). Temperature Sensing Is Distributed throughout the Regulatory Network that Controls FLC Epigenetic Silencing in Vernalization. Cell Systems. 7(6). 643–655.e9. 51 indexed citations

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Hepworth, Jo & Caroline Dean. (2015). Flowering Locus C’s Lessons: Conserved Chromatin Switches Underpinning Developmental Timing and Adaptation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 168(4). 1237–1245. 79 indexed citations

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Cardoso, Catarina, Yanxia Zhang, Muhammad Jamil, et al.. (2014). Natural variation of rice strigolactone biosynthesis is associated with the deletion of two MAX1 orthologs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(6). 2379–2384. 110 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yanxia, Aalt D. J. van Dijk, Adrian Scaffidi, et al.. (2014). Rice cytochrome P450 MAX1 homologs catalyze distinct steps in strigolactone biosynthesis. Nature Chemical Biology. 10(12). 1028–1033. 286 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hepworth, Jo & Michael Lenhard. (2013). Regulation of plant lateral-organ growth by modulating cell number and size. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 17. 36–42. 120 indexed citations

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Challis, Richard, et al.. (2013). A Role forMORE AXILLARY GROWTH1(MAX1) in Evolutionary Diversity in Strigolactone Signaling Upstream ofMAX2 . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 161(4). 1885–1902. 76 indexed citations

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Shinohara, Naoki, Tobias Sieberer, Lisa Williamson, et al.. (2010). Strigolactones enhance competition between shoot branches by dampening auxin transport. Development. 137(17). 2905–2913. 284 indexed citations

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