Joseph R. Ecker

130.6k citations

272 papers · 67.3k indexed · 48 hit papers · h-index 135

Plant Science top 0.01%
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 120
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance 43
- Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management 33
- Light effects on plants 29
Molecular Biology top 0.01%
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation 44
- Plant Reproductive Biology 35
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 34
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics 26
Virology top 0.5%
Genetics top 0.05%
Horticulture top 0.5%

Co-authors: José M. Alonso Joseph R. Nery Ryan Lister Ronan C. O’Malley Hongwei Guo Gregg Roman Huaming Chen Plinio Guzmán
Cited by: Plant Science Molecular Biology Virology
Journals: The Plant Cell (28 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (27 papers)Nature (15 papers)
Partner nations: United States Australia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Joseph R. Ecker

270 papers receiving 66.1k 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.

2025 Nature
2021 Nature Communications
2018 Science
2017 Science
2017 Nature Protocols
2016 Science
2016 Nature Methods
2016 Cell
2015 Neuron
2015 eLife
2015 Nature
2015 Cell
2015 Nature
2013 Nature
2013 The Plant Cell
2013 eLife
2012 Science
2012 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2012 Genes & Development
2011 Nature
2011 Nature
2011 Science
2010 Nature Biotechnology
2009 Nature
2008 Cell
2007 Science
2006 Cell
2006 Science
2005 Nature Medicine
2005 The Plant Cell
2005 Development
2005 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2004 The Plant Cell
2004 PLoS Biology
2004 The Plant Cell
2003 Cell
2003 Current Opinion in Plant Biology
2003 Cell
2002 Cell
2002 The Plant Cell
2002 Genes & Development
1999 Science
1998 Genes & Development
1997 Cell
1995 Science
1994 Genomics
1993 Cell
1990 The Plant Cell

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1	BAllC and BAllCools: efficient formatting and operating for single-cell DNA methylation data Bioinformatics ·Wei Tian,Wubin Ding,Jiawei Shen,Daofeng Li,Ting Wang,Joseph R. Ecker	2024	1
2	A plant-specific syntaxin-6 protein contributes to the intracytoplasmic route for the begomovirus CabLCV PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·J BWade,Zhao You-ming,Maximiller Dal-Bianco,João Paulo Machado,José Cleydson F. Silva,Alice Y. Kim,Junshi Yazaki,Anésia A. Santos,Joseph R. Ecker,Elizabeth P. B. Fontes	2021	10
3	The Arabidopsis Auxin Receptor F-Box Proteins AFB4 and AFB5 Are Required for Response to the Synthetic Auxin Picloram G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·Michael J. Prigge,Kathleen Greenham,Yi Zhang,Aaron Santner,Cristina Castillejo,Andrew M. Mutka,Ronan C. O’Malley,Joseph R. Ecker,Barbara N. Kunkel,Mark Estelle	2016	82
4	Processing and Subcellular Trafficking of ER-Tethered EIN2 Control Response to Ethylene Gasbreakdown → Science ·Hong Qiao,Zhouxin Shen,Shao‐shan Carol Huang,Robert J. Schmitz,Mark A. Urich,Steven P. Briggs,Joseph R. Ecker	2012	409
5	Transgenerational Epigenetic Instability Is a Source of Novel Methylation Variantsbreakdown → Science ·Robert J. Schmitz,Matthew D. Schultz,Mathew G. Lewsey,Ronan C. O’Malley,Mark A. Urich,Ondrej Libiger,Nicholas J. Schork,Joseph R. Ecker	2011	479
6	A Combinatorial Interplay Among the 1-Aminocyclopropane-1-Carboxylate Isoforms Regulates Ethylene Biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana Genetics ·Atsunari Tsuchisaka,Guixia Yu,Hailing Jin,José M. Alonso,Joseph R. Ecker,Xiaoming Zhang,Shang Gao,Athanasios Theologis	2009	240
7	Common Sequence Polymorphisms Shaping Genetic Diversity in Arabidopsis thalianabreakdown → Science ·Richard M. Clark,Gabriele Schweikert,Christopher Toomajian,Stephan Ossowski,Georg Zeller,Paul Shinn,Norman Warthmann,Tina T. Hu,Glenn K. Fu,David A. Hinds,Huaming Chen,Kelly A. Frazer,Daniel H. Huson,Bernhard Schölkopf,Magnus Nordborg,Gunnar Rätsch,Joseph R. Ecker,Detlef Weigel	2007	526
8	Localization of Iron in Arabidopsis Seed Requires the Vacuolar Membrane Transporter VIT1breakdown → Science ·Sun A. Kim,Tracy Punshon,Antonio Lanzirotti,Liangtao Li,José M. Alonso,Joseph R. Ecker,Jerry Kaplan,Mary Lou Guerinot	2006	507
9	ETHYLENE-INSENSITIVE5 encodes a 5′→3′ exoribonuclease required for regulation of the EIN3-targeting F-box proteins EBF1/2 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Gabriela Olmedo,Hongwei Guo,Brian D. Gregory,Saeid Nourizadeh,Laura Aguilar‐Henonin,Hongjiang Li,Fengying An,Plinio Guzmán,Joseph R. Ecker	2006	139
10	The POLARIS Peptide of Arabidopsis Regulates Auxin Transport and Root Growth via Effects on Ethylene Signaling The Plant Cell ·Paul M. Chilley,Stuart A. Casson,Petr Tarkowski,N. Hawkins,J.T. Shen,Patrick J. Hussey,S. B. Barber,Joseph R. Ecker,W. Kieser,Keith Lindsey	2006	112
11	PHYTOCHROME KINASE SUBSTRATE 1 is a phototropin 1 binding protein required for phototropism Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Patricia Lariguet,Isabelle Schepens,Muh. Safei,Ullas V. Pedmale,Martine Trévisan,Chitose Kami,Susie Schofield,José M. Alonso,Joseph R. Ecker,Emmanuel Liscum,Christian Fankhauser	2006	134
12	Functional Genomic Analysis of the AUXIN/INDOLE-3-ACETIC ACID Gene Family Members in Arabidopsis thaliana [W] The Plant Cell ·Paul Overvoorde,Yoko Okushima,José Manuel Alonso Segura,April Chan,E. Broquerie,Joseph R. Ecker,Ana Cristina Manobanda Túquerres,Amy Liu,Courtney Onodera,Hong Quach,Alison M. Smith,Guixia Yu,Athanasios Theologis	2005	305
13	Quantitative trait locus mapping and DNA array hybridization identify an FLM deletion as a cause for natural flowering-time variation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Lucas Lara-Rojas,Justin Borevitz,Norman Warthmann,Shokat Akbarnezhad,Joseph R. Ecker,Joanne Chory,Detlef Weigel	2005	150
14	LUX ARRHYTHMO encodes a Myb domain protein essential for circadian rhythms Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Samuel P. Hazen,Thomas F. Schultz,José L. Pruneda-Paz,Justin Borevitz,Joseph R. Ecker,Steve A. Kay	2005	349
15	FRIGIDA-Independent Variation in Flowering Time of Natural Arabidopsis thaliana Accessions Genetics ·Lucas Lara-Rojas,Justin Borevitz,N. Henriette Uhlenhaut,Joseph R. Ecker,Joanne Chory,Detlef Weigel	2005	127
16	Light-Response Quantitative Trait Loci Identified with Composite Interval and eXtreme Array Mapping in Arabidopsis thalianaSequence data from this article have been deposited with the EMBL/GenBank Data Libraries under accession nos. AY394847 and AY466496. Genetics ·David J. Wolyn,Justin Borevitz,Olivier Loudet,Chris Schwartz,Julin Maloof,Joseph R. Ecker,Arturo Castañeda-Mendoza,Joanne Chory	2004	76
17	CBF2/DREB1C is a negative regulator of CBF1/DREB1B and CBF3/DREB1A expression and plays a central role in stress tolerance in Arabidopsis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·A. M. Romankevich,José M. Alonso,Joseph R. Ecker,Julio Salinas	2004	440
18	Mutations in the Ca ^{2 +} /H ⁺ Transporter CAX1 Increase CBF/DREB1 Expression and the Cold-Acclimation Response in Arabidopsis The Plant Cell ·Rafael Catalá,Elisa Santos,José M. Alonso,Joseph R. Ecker,José M. Martínez‐Zapater,Julio Salinas	2003	143
19	Five components of the ethylene-response pathway identified in a screen for weak ethylene-insensitive mutants in Arabidopsis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·José M. Alonso,Anna N. Stepanova,Roberto Solano,Ellen Wisman,Simone Ferrari,Frederick M. Ausubel,Joseph R. Ecker	2003	311
20	A Role for Peroxisomes in Photomorphogenesis and Development of Arabidopsis Science ·Jianping Hu,Maria L. Aguirre,Charles A. Peto,José M. Alonso,Joseph R. Ecker,Joanne Chory	2002	125

About Joseph R. Ecker

Joseph R. Ecker is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Virology, Genetics and Insect Science, having authored 272 papers that have together received 67.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (120 papers), Epigenetics and DNA Methylation (44 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (43 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (35 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (34 papers), Postharvest Quality and Shelf Life Management (33 papers), Light effects on plants (29 papers) and Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (43.3k citations), Molecular Biology (42.6k citations), Virology (1.6k citations), Genetics (7.7k citations) and Horticulture (186 citations). Joseph R. Ecker has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Australia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include José M. Alonso, Joseph R. Nery, Ryan Lister, Ronan C. O’Malley, Hongwei Guo, Gregg Roman, Huaming Chen, Plinio Guzmán, Charles C. Berry and Joseph J. Kieber. Their work appears in journals such as The Plant Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature, Cell and Science.

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