Kamil Witek

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Kamil Witek is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kamil Witek has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Plant Science, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Kamil Witek's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (21 papers), Plant Pathogens and Resistance (13 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (13 papers). Kamil Witek is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (21 papers), Plant Pathogens and Resistance (13 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (13 papers). Kamil Witek collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Poland and United States. Kamil Witek's 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 and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Genetics and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Kamil Witek

32 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

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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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kamil Witek United Kingdom	22	2.0k	488	166	162	121	34	2.1k
Florian Jupe United Kingdom	16	1.3k 0.7×	533 1.1×	107 0.6×	127 0.8×	85 0.7×	17	1.6k
Volkan Çevik United Kingdom	24	2.2k 1.1×	685 1.4×	97 0.6×	201 1.2×	58 0.5×	36	2.4k
Ana Victoria García Germany	16	1.3k 0.7×	586 1.2×	95 0.6×	42 0.3×	105 0.9×	27	1.6k
Hanhui Kuang China	24	3.5k 1.8×	1.2k 2.5×	312 1.9×	347 2.1×	217 1.8×	50	3.8k
Marc T. Nishimura United States	24	2.6k 1.3×	998 2.0×	124 0.7×	319 2.0×	41 0.3×	34	3.2k
Ricardo Oliva Philippines	23	2.2k 1.1×	438 0.9×	67 0.4×	493 3.0×	91 0.8×	63	2.3k
Simon R. Ellwood Australia	26	2.2k 1.1×	511 1.0×	131 0.8×	399 2.5×	24 0.2×	51	2.4k
Roger Thilmony United States	24	2.8k 1.4×	1.1k 2.2×	92 0.6×	224 1.4×	40 0.3×	46	3.2k
Sérgio Hermínio Brommonschenkel Brazil	18	1.9k 1.0×	700 1.4×	113 0.7×	327 2.0×	35 0.3×	54	2.1k
Boris Szurek France	30	3.3k 1.7×	1.8k 3.6×	119 0.7×	203 1.3×	42 0.3×	86	4.2k

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Hernández‐Pinzón, Inmaculada, Noriko Ishikawa, Toshiyuki Komori, et al.. (2025). Discovery of functional NLRs using expression level, high-throughput transformation and large-scale phenotyping. Nature Plants. 11(10). 2100–2114.

Witek, Kamil, Heekyung Ahn, Małgorzata Lichocka, et al.. (2025). Structural basis for heat tolerance in plant NLR immune receptors. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory).

Du, Xiaofei, Kamil Witek, Jacob L. Houghton, et al.. (2025). Interfamily co-transfer of sensor and helper NLRs extends immune receptor functionality between angiosperms. Cell. 188(17). 4505–4516.e14. 6 indexed citations

Lin, Xiao, Yuxin Jia, Maxim Prokchorchik, et al.. (2023). Solanum americanum genome-assisted discovery of immune receptors that detect potato late blight pathogen effectors. Nature Genetics. 55(9). 1579–1588. 37 indexed citations

Witek, Kamil, Jarosław Poznański, Tadeusz Malinowski, et al.. (2022). The Ry_sto immune receptor recognises a broadly conserved feature of potyviral coat proteins. New Phytologist. 235(3). 1179–1195. 18 indexed citations

Lin, Xiao, Marina Pais, Kamil Witek, et al.. (2022). A potato late blight resistance gene protects against multiple Phytophthora species by recognizing a broadly conserved RXLR-WY effector. Molecular Plant. 15(9). 1457–1469. 45 indexed citations

Lin, Xiao, Tianqiao Song, Kamil Witek, et al.. (2020). Identification of Avramr1 from Phytophthora infestans using long read and cDNA pathogen‐enrichment sequencing (PenSeq). Molecular Plant Pathology. 21(11). 1502–1512. 24 indexed citations

Seong, Kyungyong, Eun–Young Seo, Kamil Witek, Meng Li, & Brian J. Staskawicz. (2020). Evolution of NLR resistance genes with noncanonical N‐terminal domains in wild tomato species. New Phytologist. 227(5). 1530–1543. 64 indexed citations

Steuernagel, Burkhard, Kamil Witek, Simon G. Krattinger, et al.. (2020). The NLR-Annotator Tool Enables Annotation of the Intracellular Immune Receptor Repertoire. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 183(2). 468–482. 113 indexed citations

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Witek, Kamil, Katarzyna Szajko, Agnieszka Witek, et al.. (2019). Extreme resistance to Potato virus Y in potato carrying the Ry _sto gene is mediated by a TIR ‐ NLR immune receptor. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 18(3). 655–667. 69 indexed citations

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Weyer, Anna-Lena Van de, Freddy Monteiro, Oliver J. Furzer, et al.. (2019). A Species-Wide Inventory of NLR Genes and Alleles in Arabidopsis thaliana. Cell. 178(5). 1260–1272.e14. 240 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pais, Marina, Kentaro Yoshida, Artemis Giannakopoulou, et al.. (2018). Gene expression polymorphism underpins evasion of host immunity in an asexual lineage of the Irish potato famine pathogen. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 18(1). 93–93. 33 indexed citations

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Chen, Xinwei, Dominika Lewandowska, Miles R. Armstrong, et al.. (2018). Identification and rapid mapping of a gene conferring broad-spectrum late blight resistance in the diploid potato species Solanum verrucosum through DNA capture technologies. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 131(6). 1287–1297. 44 indexed citations

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Giolai, Michael, Pirita Paajanen, Walter Verweij, et al.. (2017). Comparative analysis of targeted long read sequencing approaches for characterization of a plant’s immune receptor repertoire. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 564–564. 32 indexed citations

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Steuernagel, Burkhard, Sambasivam Periyannan, Inmaculada Hernández‐Pinzón, et al.. (2016). Rapid cloning of disease-resistance genes in plants using mutagenesis and sequence capture. Nature Biotechnology. 34(6). 652–655. 280 indexed citations breakdown →

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Trantas, Emmanouil, Grazia Licciardello, Nalvo F. Almeida, et al.. (2015). Comparative genomic analysis of multiple strains of two unusual plant pathogens: Pseudomonas corrugata and Pseudomonas mediterranea. Frontiers in Microbiology. 6. 811–811. 32 indexed citations

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Baebler, Špela, Kamil Witek, Marko Petek, et al.. (2014). Salicylic acid is an indispensable component of the Ny-1 resistance-gene-mediated response against Potato virus Y infection in potato. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65(4). 1095–1109. 107 indexed citations

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Witek, Kamil, et al.. (2012). Two high-resolution structures of potato endo-1,3-β-glucanase reveal subdomain flexibility with implications for substrate binding. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 68(6). 713–723. 16 indexed citations

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Witek, Kamil, et al.. (2012). Structures of an active-site mutant of a plant 1,3-β-glucanase in complex with oligosaccharide products of hydrolysis. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 69(1). 52–62. 20 indexed citations

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Szajko, Katarzyna, M Chrzanowska, Kamil Witek, et al.. (2007). 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. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 116(2). 297–303. 60 indexed citations

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