Kamil Witek

7.2k citations

34 papers · 2.1k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 22

Co-authors: Jonathan D. G. Jones Florian Jupe Agnieszka Witek Brande B. H. Wulff Burkhard Steuernagel Jacek Hennig Matthew D. Clark Graham Etherington
Topics: Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (21 papers)Plant Pathogens and Resistance (13 papers)Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (13 papers)
Cited by: Plant Science Horticulture Biotechnology
Journals: Cell Nature Genetics Nature Biotechnology
Partner nations: United Kingdom Poland United States

In The Last Decade

Kamil Witek

32 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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Rapid cloning of disease-resistance genes in plants using mutagenesis and sequence capture

2016 280 citations Burkhard Steuernagel, Sambasivam Periyannan et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
A Species-Wide Inventory of NLR Genes and Alleles in Arabidopsis thaliana

2019 240 citations Anna-Lena Van de Weyer, Freddy Monteiro et al. Cell profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping 2025 ·Nature Plants ·(unknown),Inmaculada Hernández‐Pinzón,(unknown),Noriko Ishikawa,Toshiyuki Komori,Oadi Matny,Amelia Hubbard,Kamil Witek,(unknown),(unknown),Phon Green,Antonín Dreiseitl,(unknown),Toshihiko Komari,(unknown),Brian J. Steffenson,H. Peter van Esse,Matthew Moscou	0
2	Structural basis for heat tolerance in plant NLR immune receptors 2025 ·bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) ·(unknown),Kamil Witek,Heekyung Ahn,Małgorzata Lichocka,(unknown),(unknown),Agnieszka Witek,Jacek Hennig,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Jarosław Poznański	0
3	Interfamily co-transfer of sensor and helper NLRs extends immune receptor functionality between angiosperms 2025 ·Cell ·Xiaofei Du,(unknown),Kamil Witek,(unknown),Jacob L. Houghton,Xiao Lin,Heekyung Ahn,Yu Zhang,Fuhao Cui,Wenxian Sun,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Hailong Guo	6
4	Solanum americanum genome-assisted discovery of immune receptors that detect potato late blight pathogen effectors 2023 ·Nature Genetics ·Xiao Lin,Yuxin Jia,(unknown),Maxim Prokchorchik,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Jung Heo,Kamil Witek,Matthew Smoker,(unknown),(unknown),(unknown),Chunzhi Zhang,Soon Ju Park,Kee Hoon Sohn,Sanwen Huang,Jonathan D. G. Jones	37
5	The Ry_sto immune receptor recognises a broadly conserved feature of potyviral coat proteins 2022 ·New Phytologist ·(unknown),Kamil Witek,Jarosław Poznański,(unknown),Tadeusz Malinowski,Małgorzata Lichocka,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Jacek Hennig	18
6	A potato late blight resistance gene protects against multiple Phytophthora species by recognizing a broadly conserved RXLR-WY effector 2022 ·Molecular Plant ·Xiao Lin,(unknown),(unknown),Marina Pais,Kamil Witek,Heekyung Ahn,He Zhao,(unknown),Hari S. Karki,Tianqiao Song,Chih‐Hang Wu,Hiroaki Adachi,Sophien Kamoun,Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers,Jonathan D. G. Jones	45
7	Identification of Avramr1 from Phytophthora infestans using long read and cDNA pathogen‐enrichment sequencing (PenSeq) 2020 ·Molecular Plant Pathology ·Xiao Lin,Tianqiao Song,(unknown),Kamil Witek,Agathe Jouet,Florian Jupe,Agnieszka Witek,Hari S. Karki,Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers,Ingo Hein,Jonathan D. G. Jones	24
8	Evolution of NLR resistance genes with noncanonical N‐terminal domains in wild tomato species 2020 ·New Phytologist ·Kyungyong Seong,Eun–Young Seo,Kamil Witek,Meng Li,Brian J. Staskawicz	64
9	The NLR-Annotator Tool Enables Annotation of the Intracellular Immune Receptor Repertoire 2020 ·PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Burkhard Steuernagel,Kamil Witek,Simon G. Krattinger,Ricardo H. Ramírez-González,Henk‐jan Schoonbeek,Guotai Yu,Erin Baggs,Agnieszka Witek,Inderjit Singh Yadav,Ksenia V. Krasileva,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Cristóbal Uauy,Beat Keller,Christopher J. Ridout,Brande B. H. Wulff	113
10	Extreme resistance to Potato virus Y in potato carrying the Ry _sto gene is mediated by a TIR ‐ NLR immune receptor 2019 ·Plant Biotechnology Journal ·(unknown),Kamil Witek,Katarzyna Szajko,Agnieszka Witek,(unknown),Iwona Wasilewicz‐Flis,Henryka Jakuczun,Waldemar Marczewski,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Jacek Hennig	69
11	A Species-Wide Inventory of NLR Genes and Alleles in Arabidopsis thalianabreakdown → 2019 ·Cell ·Anna-Lena Van de Weyer,Freddy Monteiro,Oliver J. Furzer,Marc T. Nishimura,Volkan Çevik,Kamil Witek,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Jeffery L. Dangl,Detlef Weigel,Felix Bemm	240
12	Gene expression polymorphism underpins evasion of host immunity in an asexual lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen 2018 ·BMC Evolutionary Biology ·Marina Pais,Kentaro Yoshida,Artemis Giannakopoulou,Mathieu A. Pel,Liliana M. Cano,Ricardo Oliva,Kamil Witek,Hannele Lindqvist‐Kreuze,Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers,Sophien Kamoun	33
13	Identification and rapid mapping of a gene conferring broad-spectrum late blight resistance in the diploid potato species Solanum verrucosum through DNA capture technologies 2018 ·Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Xinwei Chen,Dominika Lewandowska,Miles R. Armstrong,Katie Baker,(unknown),Micha Bayer,Brian Harrower,Karen McLean,Florian Jupe,Kamil Witek,A. K. Lees,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Glenn J. Bryan,Ingo Hein	44
14	Comparative analysis of targeted long read sequencing approaches for characterization of a plant’s immune receptor repertoire 2017 ·BMC Genomics ·Michael Giolai,Pirita Paajanen,Walter Verweij,Kamil Witek,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Matthew D. Clark	32
15	Rapid cloning of disease-resistance genes in plants using mutagenesis and sequence capturebreakdown → 2016 ·Nature Biotechnology ·Burkhard Steuernagel,Sambasivam Periyannan,Inmaculada Hernández‐Pinzón,Kamil Witek,Matthew N. Rouse,Guotai Yu,(unknown),Mick Ayliffe,Harbans Bariana,Jonathan D. G. Jones,Evans Lagudah,Brande B. H. Wulff	280
16	Comparative genomic analysis of multiple strains of two unusual plant pathogens: Pseudomonas corrugata and Pseudomonas mediterranea 2015 ·Frontiers in Microbiology ·Emmanouil Trantas,Grazia Licciardello,Nalvo F. Almeida,Kamil Witek,Cinzia P. Strano,Zane Duxbury,Filippos Ververidis,Dimitrios E. Goumas,Jonathan D. G. Jones,David S. Guttman,Vittoria Catara,Panagiotis F. Sarris	32
17	Salicylic acid is an indispensable component of the Ny-1 resistance-gene-mediated response against Potato virus Y infection in potato 2014 ·Journal of Experimental Botany ·Špela Baebler,Kamil Witek,Marko Petek,Katja Stare,M. Tušek‐Žnidarič,Marus̆a Pompe‐Novak,Jenny Renaut,Katarzyna Szajko,Danuta Strzelczyk‐Żyta,Waldemar Marczewski,(unknown),Kristina Gruden,Jacek Hennig	107
18	Two high-resolution structures of potato endo-1,3-β-glucanase reveal subdomain flexibility with implications for substrate binding 2012 ·Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·(unknown),Kamil Witek,Jacek Hennig,Mariusz Jaskólski	16
19	Structures of an active-site mutant of a plant 1,3-β-glucanase in complex with oligosaccharide products of hydrolysis 2012 ·Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography ·(unknown),Kamil Witek,Jacek Hennig,Mariusz Jaskólski	20
20	The novel gene Ny-1 on potato chromosome IX confers hypersensitive resistance to Potato virus Y and is an alternative to Ry genes in potato breeding for PVY resistance 2007 ·Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Katarzyna Szajko,M Chrzanowska,Kamil Witek,Danuta Strzelczyk‐Żyta,(unknown),Christiane Gebhardt,Jacek Hennig,Waldemar Marczewski	60

About Kamil Witek

Kamil Witek is a scholar working on Plant Science, Biotechnology and Nutrition and Dietetics, having authored 34 papers that have together received 2.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (21 papers), Plant Pathogens and Resistance (13 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (2.0k citations), Horticulture (17 citations) and Biotechnology (105 citations). Kamil Witek has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Poland and United States. Frequent co-authors include Jonathan D. G. Jones, Florian Jupe, Agnieszka Witek, Brande B. H. Wulff, Burkhard Steuernagel, Jacek Hennig, Matthew D. Clark, Graham Etherington, Waldemar Marczewski and Walter Verweij. Their work appears in journals such as Cell, Nature Genetics and Nature Biotechnology.

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