Ka‐Wai Ma

1.0k total citations
13 papers, 638 citations indexed

About

Ka‐Wai Ma is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ka‐Wai Ma has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 638 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Plant Science, 4 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Ka‐Wai Ma's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (11 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (8 papers) and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (5 papers). Ka‐Wai Ma is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (11 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (8 papers) and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (5 papers). Ka‐Wai Ma collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. Ka‐Wai Ma's co-authors include Wenbo Ma, Paul Schulze‐Lefert, Jana Ordon, Aurélia Emonet, Niko Geldner, Jikui Song, Rubén Garrido‐Oter, Charles Copeland, Yulong Niu and Hirofumi Nakagami and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Plant Cell and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Ka‐Wai Ma

13 papers receiving 633 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ka‐Wai Ma United States	10	508	181	61	37	35	13	638
Doron Teper United States	18	720 1.4×	195 1.1×	67 1.1×	31 0.8×	31 0.9×	35	803
Sebastian Pfeilmeier United Kingdom	11	411 0.8×	177 1.0×	57 0.9×	39 1.1×	36 1.0×	18	516
Ashish Ranjan India	13	496 1.0×	181 1.0×	62 1.0×	14 0.4×	38 1.1×	35	644
Tatiana S. Mucyn United States	10	850 1.7×	205 1.1×	48 0.8×	55 1.5×	20 0.6×	11	935
Jana Čechová Czechia	11	275 0.5×	171 0.9×	75 1.2×	38 1.0×	23 0.7×	41	406
Guillaume P. Robin France	11	481 0.9×	187 1.0×	154 2.5×	14 0.4×	22 0.6×	12	585
Linlu Qi China	14	416 0.8×	347 1.9×	163 2.7×	21 0.6×	17 0.5×	26	618
Xinqiu Tan China	14	498 1.0×	177 1.0×	112 1.8×	52 1.4×	84 2.4×	48	637
Subhasis Karmakar India	15	588 1.2×	277 1.5×	45 0.7×	13 0.4×	39 1.1×	22	679

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ka‐Wai Ma

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13 of 13 papers shown

Ordon, Jana, Elke Logemann, Tak Lee, et al.. (2025). Conserved immunomodulation and variation in host association by Xanthomonadales commensals in Arabidopsis root microbiota. Nature Plants. 11(3). 612–631. 4 indexed citations

Copeland, Charles, Paul Schulze‐Lefert, & Ka‐Wai Ma. (2025). Potential and challenges for application of microbiomes in agriculture. The Plant Cell. 37(8). 3 indexed citations

Ordon, Jana, Julien Thouin, Ryohei Thomas Nakano, et al.. (2024). Chromosomal barcodes for simultaneous tracking of near-isogenic bacterial strains in plant microbiota. Nature Microbiology. 9(4). 1117–1129. 6 indexed citations

Hassani, M. Amine, Max Crüsemann, Pengfan Zhang, et al.. (2023). Cofunctioning of bacterial exometabolites drives root microbiota establishment. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(15). e2221508120–e2221508120. 52 indexed citations

Ma, Ka‐Wai, Jana Ordon, & Paul Schulze‐Lefert. (2022). Gnotobiotic Plant Systems for Reconstitution and Functional Studies of the Root Microbiota. Current Protocols. 2(2). e362–e362. 14 indexed citations

Emonet, Aurélia, Feng Zhou, Jordan Vacheron, et al.. (2021). Spatially Restricted Immune Responses Are Required for Maintaining Root Meristematic Activity upon Detection of Bacteria. Current Biology. 31(5). 1012–1028.e7. 57 indexed citations

Ma, Ka‐Wai, Yulong Niu, Yong Jia, et al.. (2021). Coordination of microbe–host homeostasis by crosstalk with plant innate immunity. Nature Plants. 7(6). 814–825. 133 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhimin, Ka‐Wai Ma, Linfeng Gao, et al.. (2017). Mechanism of host substrate acetylation by a YopJ family effector. Nature Plants. 3(8). 17115–17115. 52 indexed citations

Ma, Ka‐Wai & Wenbo Ma. (2016). Phytohormone pathways as targets of pathogens to facilitate infection. Plant Molecular Biology. 91(6). 713–725. 126 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhimin, Ka‐Wai Ma, Shuguang Yuan, et al.. (2016). Structure of a pathogen effector reveals the enzymatic mechanism of a novel acetyltransferase family. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology. 23(9). 847–852. 36 indexed citations

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Ma, Ka‐Wai & Wenbo Ma. (2016). YopJ Family Effectors Promote Bacterial Infection through a Unique Acetyltransferase Activity. Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews. 80(4). 1011–1027. 84 indexed citations

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Ma, Ka‐Wai, Shushu Jiang, Donghyuk Lee, et al.. (2015). Two serine residues in Pseudomonas syringae effector HopZ1a are required for acetyltransferase activity and association with the host co‐factor. New Phytologist. 208(4). 1157–1168. 35 indexed citations

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Ma, Ka‐Wai, et al.. (2011). Chromatin Configuration as a Battlefield in Plant-Bacteria Interactions. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 157(2). 535–543. 36 indexed citations

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