John M. Christie

17.4k citations

155 papers · 12.6k · 3 hit papers · h-index 58

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.05%
- Light effects on plants
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
Geophysics top 0.5%
- Geological and Geochemical Analysis
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- earthquake and tectonic studies

Papers in

Plant Science 76
- Light effects on plants 72
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 38
Molecular Biology 61
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 58

Co-authors: Winslow R. Briggs (16 shared papers)D. T. Griggs (17 shared papers)Trevor E. Swartz (6 shared papers)Gareth I. Jenkins (11 shared papers)Michael Salomon (3 shared papers)Stuart Sullivan (18 shared papers)Masamitsu Wada (5 shared papers)Roberto A. Bogomolni (4 shared papers)
Journals: Science (8 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (7 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (7 papers)PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (6 papers)The Plant Journal (6 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Japan

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John M. Christie

154 papers receiving 12.0k citations

John M. Christie's Hit Papers

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Phototropin Blue-Light Receptors 2006 · 728 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2006 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2002 Trends in Plant Science
2001 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Phototropin Blue-Light Receptors Annual Review of Plant Biology ·John M. Christie Hit paper breakdown →	2006	728
2	Phototropins 1 and 2: versatile plant blue-light receptors Trends in Plant Science ·Winslow R. Briggs, John M. Christie Hit paper breakdown →	2002	613
3	Arabidopsis nph1 and npl1: Blue light receptors that mediate both phototropism and chloroplast relocation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tatsuya Sakai, Takatoshi Kagawa, Masahiro Kasahara, Trevor E. Swartz, John M. Christie, Winslow R. Briggs, Masamitsu Wada, Kiyotaka Okada Hit paper breakdown →	2001	574
4	Arabidopsis NPH1: A Flavoprotein with the Properties of a Photoreceptor for Phototropism Science ·John M. Christie, Philippe Reymond, Gary K. Powell, Paul Bernasconi, Andrei A. Raibekas, Emmanuel Liscum, Winslow R. Briggs	1998	490
5	Photochemical and Mutational Analysis of the FMN-Binding Domains of the Plant Blue Light Receptor, Phototropin^, Biochemistry ·Michael Salomon, John M. Christie, Elke Knieb, Ulrika Lempert, Winslow R. Briggs	2000	476
6	The Photocycle of a Flavin-binding Domain of the Blue Light Photoreceptor Phototropin Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Trevor E. Swartz, Stephanie B. Corchnoy, John M. Christie, James W. Lewis, István Szundi, Winslow R. Briggs, Roberto A. Bogomolni	2001	469
7	LOV (light, oxygen, or voltage) domains of the blue-light photoreceptor phototropin (nph1): Binding sites for the chromophore flavin mononucleotide Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·John M. Christie, Michael Salomon, Kazunari Nozue, Masamitsu Wada, Winslow R. Briggs	1999	463
8	Microstructures and Preferred Orientations of Experimentally Deformed Quartzites Geological Society of America Bulletin ·Jan Tullis, John M. Christie, D. T. Griggs	1973	366
9	Plant UVR8 Photoreceptor Senses UV-B by Tryptophan-Mediated Disruption of Cross-Dimer Salt Bridges Science ·John M. Christie, A.S. Arvai, Katherine J. Baxter, Monika Heilmann, Ashley J. Pratt, Andrew O’Hara, Sharon M. Kelly, Michael Hothorn, Brian O. Smith, Kenichi Hitomi, Gareth I. Jenkins, Elizabeth D. Getzoff	2012	350
10	Photochemical Properties of the Flavin Mononucleotide-Binding Domains of the Phototropins from Arabidopsis, Rice, andChlamydomonas reinhardtii PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Masahiro Kasahara, Trevor E. Swartz, Margaret A. Olney, Akihiko Onodera, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Hideya Fukuzawa, Erika Asamizu, Satoshi Tabata, Hiromi Kajiya‐Kanegae, Makoto Takano, John M. Christie, Akira Nagatani, Winslow R. Briggs	2002	244
11	Disruption of the LOV−Jα Helix Interaction Activates Phototropin Kinase Activity Biochemistry ·Shannon M. Harper, John M. Christie, Kevin H. Gardner	2004	238
12	Phototropin LOV domains exhibit distinct roles in regulating photoreceptor function The Plant Journal ·John M. Christie, Trevor E. Swartz, Roberto A. Bogomolni, Winslow R. Briggs	2002	235
13	Optogenetic manipulation of stomatal kinetics improves carbon assimilation, water use, and growth Science ·Maria Papanatsiou, Jan Petersen, Louise M. Henderson, Yizhou Wang, John M. Christie, Michael R. Blatt	2019	233
14	The photoreversible fluorescent protein iLOV outperforms GFP as a reporter of plant virus infection Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sean Chapman, Christine Faulkner, Eirini Kaiserli, Carlos García‐Mata, Eugene I. Savenkov, Alison G. Roberts, Karl Oparka, John M. Christie	2008	222
15	Distinct UV-B and UV-A/blue light signal transduction pathways induce chalcone synthase gene expression in Arabidopsis cells. The Plant Cell ·John M. Christie, Gareth I. Jenkins	1996	216
16	Plant Flavoprotein Photoreceptors Plant and Cell Physiology ·John M. Christie, Laura Blackwood, Jan Petersen, Stuart Sullivan	2014	210
17	phot1 Inhibition of ABCB19 Primes Lateral Auxin Fluxes in the Shoot Apex Required For Phototropism PLoS Biology ·John M. Christie, Haibing Yang, Gregory L. Richter, Stuart Sullivan, Catriona E. Thomson, Jinshan Lin, Boosaree Titapiwatanakun, Margaret Ennis, Eirini Kaiserli, Ok Ran Lee, Jiří Adamec, Wendy Ann Peer, Angus Murphy	2011	195
18	Shock processes in porous quartzite: Transmission electron microscope observations and theory Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology ·S. W. Kieffer, Prem P. Phakey, John M. Christie	1976	188
19	Phosphorylation of BLUS1 kinase by phototropins is a primary step in stomatal opening Nature Communications ·Atsushi Takemiya, Naoyuki Sugiyama, Hiroshi Fujimoto, Toshifumi Tsutsumi, Shota Yamauchi, Asami Hiyama, Yasuomi Tada, John M. Christie, Ken‐ichiro Shimazaki	2013	169
20	Yield models for forest management [UK]. P. N. Edwards, John M. Christie	1981	152

About John M. Christie

John M. Christie is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Geophysics, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience and Astronomy and Astrophysics, having authored 155 papers that have together received 12.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Light effects on plants (72 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (58 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (38 papers), Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (23 papers), Planetary Science and Exploration (21 papers), Geological and Geochemical Analysis (20 papers), High-pressure geophysics and materials (17 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (7.7k citations), Geophysics (2.2k citations), Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience (2.7k citations), Molecular Biology (6.6k citations) and Biophysics (276 citations). John M. Christie has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. Frequent co-authors include Winslow R. Briggs, D. T. Griggs, Trevor E. Swartz, Gareth I. Jenkins, Michael Salomon, Stuart Sullivan, Masamitsu Wada, Roberto A. Bogomolni, Jan Petersen and Alison Ord. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and The Plant Journal.

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