John P. Rathjen

12.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
81 papers, 8.5k citations indexed

About

John P. Rathjen is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John P. Rathjen has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 8.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Plant Science, 20 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in John P. Rathjen's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (58 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (39 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (20 papers). John P. Rathjen is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (58 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (39 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (20 papers). John P. Rathjen collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. John P. Rathjen's co-authors include Peter N. Dodds, Selena Giménez-Ibañez, Dagmar R. Hann, Cyril Zipfel, Alexandra M. E. Jones, Scott C. Peck, Brian J. Staskawicz, Vardis Ntoukakis, Cécile Segonzac and Jia Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

John P. Rathjen

77 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

Plant immunity: towards an integrated view of plant–pathogen interactions

2010 2.4k citations Peter N. Dodds, John P. Rathjen Nature Reviews Genetics profile →
The receptor-like kinase SERK3/BAK1 is a central regulator of innate immunity in plants

2007 896 citations Dagmar R. Hann, Selena Giménez-Ibañez et al. profile →

Peers

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Gitta Coaker United States

Thorsten Nürnberger Germany

Fumiaki Katagiri United States

Brad Day United States

Frank L. W. Takken Netherlands

Jeffrey G. Ellis Australia

Daolong Dou China

Hiromasa Saitoh Japan

Delphine Chinchilla Switzerland

M.H.A.J. Joosten Netherlands

Gitta Coaker United States

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John P. Rathjen

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20 of 20 papers shown

Möller, Mareike, et al.. (2026). Defense Recognition of a Stripe Rust Fungal Effector Is Uncoupled from Disease Outcomes in Wheat. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 39(1). 141–152.

Hu, Yiheng, et al.. (2025). Global transcriptome changes during growth of a novel Penicillium coffeae isolate on the wheat stripe rust fungus, Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 176. 103956–103956.

Zhang, Xiaoxiao, et al.. (2025). Identification of a Key Gain-of-Function Residue for Effector Binding by In Vitro Shuffling of Barley Mla NLR Genes. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 38(3). 454–462.

Greenwood, Julian R., et al.. (2024). Multiplexed effector screening for recognition by endogenous resistance genes using positive defense reporters in wheat protoplasts. New Phytologist. 241(6). 2621–2636. 6 indexed citations

Sheikh, Arsheed H., Ana Domínguez‐Ferreras, Daniela J. Sueldo, et al.. (2023). Dynamic changes of the Prf/Pto tomato resistance complex following effector recognition. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2568–2568. 14 indexed citations

Binos, Steve, et al.. (2021). A new method to visualize CEP hormone–CEP receptor interactions in vascular tissue in vivo. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(18). 6164–6174. 8 indexed citations

Schwessinger, Benjamin, Yan‐Jun Chen, Josef Korbinian Vogt, et al.. (2020). Distinct Life Histories Impact Dikaryotic Genome Evolution in the Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis Causing Stripe Rust in Wheat. Genome Biology and Evolution. 12(5). 597–617. 31 indexed citations

Hu, Yiheng, et al.. (2019). Pathogen Detection and Microbiome Analysis of Infected Wheat Using a Portable DNA Sequencer. Phytobiomes Journal. 3(2). 92–101. 26 indexed citations

Schalamun, Miriam, David Kainer, David Eccles, et al.. (2018). Harnessing the MinION: An example of how to establish long‐read sequencing in a laboratory using challenging plant tissue from Eucalyptus pauciflora. Molecular Ecology Resources. 19(1). 77–89. 51 indexed citations

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Schwessinger, Benjamin, Jana Sperschneider, William S. Cuddy, et al.. (2018). A Near-Complete Haplotype-Phased Genome of the Dikaryotic Wheat Stripe Rust Fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici Reveals High Interhaplotype Diversity. mBio. 9(1). 94 indexed citations

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Miller, Marisa E., Ying Zhang, Vahid Omidvar, et al.. (2018). De Novo Assembly and Phasing of Dikaryotic Genomes from Two Isolates of Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae , the Causal Agent of Oat Crown Rust. mBio. 9(1). 51 indexed citations

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Schwessinger, Benjamin & John P. Rathjen. (2017). Extraction of High Molecular Weight DNA from Fungal Rust Spores for Long Read Sequencing. Methods in molecular biology. 1659. 49–57. 19 indexed citations

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Giménez-Ibañez, Selena, Marta Botër, Gemma Fernández‐Barbero, et al.. (2014). The Bacterial Effector HopX1 Targets JAZ Transcriptional Repressors to Activate Jasmonate Signaling and Promote Infection in Arabidopsis. PLoS Biology. 12(2). e1001792–e1001792. 197 indexed citations

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Monaghan, Jacqueline, Susanne Matschi, Oluwaseyi Shorinola, et al.. (2014). The Calcium-Dependent Protein Kinase CPK28 Buffers Plant Immunity and Regulates BIK1 Turnover. Cell Host & Microbe. 16(5). 605–615. 201 indexed citations

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Ntoukakis, Vardis, Alexi L. Balmuth, Tatiana S. Mucyn, et al.. (2013). The Tomato Prf Complex Is a Molecular Trap for Bacterial Effectors Based on Pto Transphosphorylation. PLoS Pathogens. 9(1). e1003123–e1003123. 42 indexed citations

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Dodds, Peter N. & John P. Rathjen. (2010). Plant immunity: towards an integrated view of plant–pathogen interactions. Nature Reviews Genetics. 11(8). 539–548. 2412 indexed citations breakdown →

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Giménez-Ibañez, Selena, Dagmar R. Hann, Vardis Ntoukakis, et al.. (2009). AvrPtoB Targets the LysM Receptor Kinase CERK1 to Promote Bacterial Virulence on Plants. Current Biology. 19(5). 423–429. 350 indexed citations

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Balmuth, Alexi L. & John P. Rathjen. (2007). Genetic and molecular requirements for function of the Pto/Prf effector recognition complex in tomato and Nicotiana benthamiana. The Plant Journal. 51(6). 978–990. 26 indexed citations

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Andriotis, Vasilios M. E., et al.. (2004). A Patch of Surface-Exposed Residues Mediates Negative Regulation of Immune Signaling by Tomato Pto Kinase[W]. The Plant Cell. 16(10). 2809–2821. 66 indexed citations

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Ding, Shou‐Wei, et al.. (1995). Efficient infection from cDNA clones of cucumber mosaic cucumovirus RNAs in a new plasmid vector. Journal of General Virology. 76(2). 459–464. 48 indexed citations

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