Jonathan Lightner

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
14 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Jonathan Lightner is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Jonathan Lightner has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Molecular Biology, 7 papers in Plant Science and 6 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Jonathan Lightner's work include Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (6 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (5 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (2 papers). Jonathan Lightner is often cited by papers focused on Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (6 papers), Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis (5 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (2 papers). Jonathan Lightner collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Jonathan Lightner's co-authors include John Browse, Narendra Singh Yadav, Kenneth A. Feldmann, Clarence A. Ryan, Gregg A. Howe, Jingrui Wu, Stephanie K. Clendennen, Wendy Wagoner, Helena Mathews and Xing Liang Liu and has published in prestigious journals such as The Plant Cell, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and The Plant Journal.

In The Last Decade

Jonathan Lightner

13 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Arabidopsis FAD2 gene encodes the enzyme that is essential for polyunsaturated lipid synthesis.

1994 583 citations Jonathan Lightner, Kenneth A. Feldmann et al. The Plant Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jonathan Lightner United States	11	1.2k	1.1k	641	308	124	14	1.8k
Ashis Kumar Nandi India	31	1.9k 1.6×	908 0.8×	105 0.2×	145 0.5×	95 0.8×	77	2.3k
Young Sam Seo South Korea	20	747 0.6×	544 0.5×	165 0.3×	82 0.3×	49 0.4×	24	979
Alison D. Gilday United Kingdom	23	2.0k 1.7×	1.6k 1.4×	539 0.8×	61 0.2×	12 0.1×	26	2.7k
Hirotada Fukushige United States	13	1.0k 0.9×	619 0.5×	115 0.2×	230 0.7×	22 0.2×	21	1.3k
María Isabel Rodríguez‐García Spain	26	885 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	179 0.3×	28 0.1×	28 0.2×	84	1.7k
Bertrand Dubreucq France	28	2.4k 2.0×	2.3k 2.0×	496 0.8×	19 0.1×	279 2.3×	36	3.2k
Nicholas J. Bate Canada	9	895 0.8×	764 0.7×	38 0.1×	265 0.9×	93 0.8×	14	1.3k
Wolfgang Dröge‐Laser Germany	32	4.6k 3.9×	3.4k 3.0×	118 0.2×	68 0.2×	49 0.4×	45	5.2k
Kevin Rozwadowski Canada	15	1.4k 1.2×	1.1k 1.0×	78 0.1×	44 0.1×	49 0.4×	20	1.7k
Jeannine R. Ross United States	14	904 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	51 0.1×	157 0.5×	23 0.2×	14	1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Jonathan Lightner

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jonathan Lightner

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Johnsson, Martin, Roger Ros‐Freixedes, Gregor Gorjanc, et al.. (2018). Sequence variation, evolutionary constraint, and selection at the CD163 gene in pigs. Genetics Selection Evolution. 50(1). 69–69. 7 indexed citations

Lightner, Jonathan. (2017). Opportunities to improve health, production efficiency and sustainability through applied gene editing. 1(0). 1 indexed citations

Deschamps, Stéphane, Mauricio La Rota, Phyllis Biddle, et al.. (2010). Rapid Genome‐wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Discovery in Soybean and Rice via Deep Resequencing of Reduced Representation Libraries with the Illumina Genome Analyzer. The Plant Genome. 3(1). 42 indexed citations

Mathews, Helena, et al.. (2003). Activation Tagging in Tomato Identifies a Transcriptional Regulator of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis, Modification, and Transport. The Plant Cell. 15(8). 1689–1703. 413 indexed citations

Lightner, Jonathan & Timothy Caspar. (1998). Seed mutagenesis of Arabidopsis.. PubMed. 82. 91–103. 27 indexed citations

Lightner, Jonathan, et al.. (1997). Novel mutations affecting leaf stearate content and plant size in Arabidopsis. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 94(8). 975–981. 10 indexed citations

Wu, Jingrui, Jonathan Lightner, Nigel W. M. Warwick, & John Browse. (1997). Low-Temperature Damage and Subsequent Recovery of fab1 Mutant Arabidopsis Exposed to 2[deg]C. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 113(2). 347–356. 61 indexed citations

Howe, Gregg A., Jonathan Lightner, John Browse, & Clarence A. Ryan. (1996). An Octadecanoid Pathway Mutant (JL5) of Tomato Is Compromised in Signaling for Defense against Insect Attack. The Plant Cell. 8(11). 2067–2067. 18 indexed citations

Howe, Gregg A., Jonathan Lightner, John Browse, & Clarence A. Ryan. (1996). An octadecanoid pathway mutant (JL5) of tomato is compromised in signaling for defense against insect attack.. The Plant Cell. 8(11). 2067–2077. 377 indexed citations

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Lightner, Jonathan, Jingrui Wu, & John Browse. (1994). A Mutant of Arabidopsis with Increased Levels of Stearic Acid. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 106(4). 1443–1451. 86 indexed citations

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Lightner, Jonathan, et al.. (1994). Arabidopsis FAD2 Gene Encodes the Enzyme That Is Essential for Polyunsaturated Lipid Synthesis. The Plant Cell. 6(1). 147–147. 98 indexed citations

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Lightner, Jonathan, et al.. (1994). Arabidopsis FAD2 gene encodes the enzyme that is essential for polyunsaturated lipid synthesis.. The Plant Cell. 6(1). 147–158. 583 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lightner, Jonathan, Douglas W. James, Hugo K. Dooner, & John Browse. (1994). Altered body morphology is caused by increased stearate levels in a mutant of Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 6(3). 401–412. 46 indexed citations

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Lightner, Jonathan, Gregory Pearce, Clarence A. Ryan, & John Browse. (1993). Isolation of signaling mutants of tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum). Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 241-241(5-6). 595–601. 58 indexed citations

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