Li‐Qing Chen

10.8k citations

60 papers · 7.3k indexed · 9 hit papers · h-index 30

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.1%
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant responses to water stress
- Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
Molecular Biology top 5%
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms

Papers in

Plant Science 46
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 39
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 21
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis 11
- Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls 7
- Plant responses to water stress 5
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance 4
Microbiology 3

Co-authors: Wolf B. Frommer Davide Sosso Alisdair R. Fernie Sonia OsorioYi WangLily S. Cheung Jiang Xu He Liu
Journals: Frontiers in Plant Science (4 papers)Nature (4 papers)New Phytologist (4 papers)PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (3 papers)The Plant Cell (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States China Germany

In The Last Decade

Li‐Qing Chen

57 papers receiving 7.2k citations

Hit Papers

9 papers align trajectories log scale

Modulating macrophage phenotype for accelerated wound healing with chlorogenic acid-loaded nanocomposite hydrogel 2024 · 58 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2024 Journal of Controlled Release
2021 Nature Plants
2020 National Science Review
2015 Current Opinion in Plant Biology
2015 Annual Review of Biochemistry
2015 The Plant Cell
2011 Science
2010 Nature
2006 Cell

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#	Work
1	The Crucial Roles of Phloem Companion Cells in Response to Phosphorus Deficiency Plant Cell & Environment ·Chao Xia, Jing Huang, Xiangjun Zhou, Raja S. Payyavula, Hai Lan, Li‐Qing Chen, Robert Turgeon, Cankui Zhang	2025	1
2	SWEET Family Transporters Act as Water-Conducting Carrier Proteins in Plants Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling ·Balaji Selvam, Arnav Paul, Ya‐Chi Yu, Li‐Qing Chen, Diwakar Shukla	2025	0
3	Sugar accumulation enhancement in sorghum stem is associated with reduced reproductive sink strength and increased phloem unloading activity Frontiers in Plant Science ·Xueyi Xue, Gabriel Beuchat, Jiang Wang, Ya‐Chi Yu, Stephen P. Moose, Jin Chen, Li‐Qing Chen	2023	4
4	AtSWEET1 negatively regulates plant susceptibility to root-knot nematode disease Frontiers in Plant Science ·Yuan Zhou, Dan Zhao, Yuxi Duan, Lijie Chen, Haiyan Fan, Yuanyuan Wang, Xiaoyu Liu, Li‐Qing Chen, Yuanhu Xuan, Xiaofeng Zhu	2023	15
5	Hexose transporter SWEET5 confers galactose sensitivity to Arabidopsis pollen germination via a galactokinase PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Jiang Wang, Ya‐Chi Yu, Ye Li, Li‐Qing Chen	2022	25
6	Sucrose rather than GA transported by AtSWEET13 and AtSWEET14 supports pollen fitness at late anther development stages New Phytologist ·Jiang Wang, Xueyi Xue, Houqing Zeng, Jiankun Li, Li‐Qing Chen	2022	30
7	SWEET13 transport of sucrose, but not gibberellin, restores male fertility in Arabidopsis sweet13;14 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Reika Isoda, Zoltan Palmai, Akira Yoshinari, Li‐Qing Chen, Florence Tama, Wolf B. Frommer, Masayoshi Nakamura	2022	22
8	Efficient delivery of a DNA aptamer-based biosensor into plant cells for glucose sensing through thiol-mediated uptake Science Advances ·Quanbing Mou, Xueyi Xue, Yuan Ma, Mandira Banik, Valeria Garcia, Weijie Guo, Jiang Wang, Tingjie Song, Li‐Qing Chen, Yi Lu	2022	44
9	Hexose transporter CsSWEET7a in cucumber mediates phloem unloading in companion cells for fruit development PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Yaxin Li, Huan Liu, Xuehui Yao, Jiang Wang, Sheng Jun Feng, Lulu Sun, Si Ma, Kang Xu, Li‐Qing Chen, Xiaolei Sui	2021	56
10	Locally restricted glucose availability in the embryonic hypocotyl determines seed germination under abscisic acid treatment New Phytologist ·Xueyi Xue, Ya‐Chi Yu, Yue Wu, Huiling Xue, Li‐Qing Chen	2021	19
11	Phosphorylation of SWEET sucrose transporters regulates plant root:shoot ratio under drought Nature Plants ·Qing-Chao Chen, Tao Hu, Xiaohua Li, Chun‐Peng Song, Jian‐Kang Zhu, Li‐Qing Chen, Yang Zhao Hit paper breakdown →	2021	179
12	Combined analyses of translatome and transcriptome in Arabidopsis reveal new players responding to magnesium deficiency Journal of Integrative Plant Biology ·Yaxin Li, Qianqian Li, Gabriel Beuchat, Houqing Zeng, Cankui Zhang, Li‐Qing Chen	2021	7
13	Distinct identities of leaf phloem cells revealed by single cell transcriptomics The Plant Cell ·Ji Yun Kim, Efthymia Symeonidi, Tin Yau Pang, Tom Denyer, Diana Weidauer, Margaret Bezrutczyk, Manuel Miras, Nora R. Zöllner, Thomas Hartwig, Michael M. Wudick, Martin J. Lercher, Li‐Qing Chen, Marja C.P. Timmermans, Wolf B. Frommer	2020	200
14	A Subsidiary Cell-Localized Glucose Transporter Promotes Stomatal Conductance and Photosynthesis The Plant Cell ·Hai Wang, Shijuan Yan, Hongjia Xin, Wenjie Huang, Hao Zhang, Shouzhen Teng, Ya‐Chi Yu, Alisdair R. Fernie, Xiaoduo Lu, Pengcheng Li, Shengyan Li, Chunyi Zhang, Yong‐Ling Ruan, Li‐Qing Chen, Zhihong Lang	2019	63
15	A Cascade of Sequentially Expressed Sucrose Transporters in the Seed Coat and Endosperm Provides Nutrition for the Arabidopsis Embryo The Plant Cell ·Li‐Qing Chen, I Winnie Lin, Xiao-Qing Qu, Davide Sosso, Heather E. McFarlane, Alejandra Londoño, Lacey Samuels, Wolf B. Frommer Hit paper breakdown →	2015	327
16	SWEETs, transporters for intracellular and intercellular sugar translocation Current Opinion in Plant Biology ·Joon-Seob Eom, Li‐Qing Chen, Davide Sosso, Benjamin T Julius, I Winnie Lin, Xiao-Qing Qu, David Braun, Wolf B. Frommer Hit paper breakdown →	2015	405
17	Functional role of oligomerization for bacterial and plant SWEET sugar transporter family Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Yuan Hu Xuan, Yi Hu, Li‐Qing Chen, Davide Sosso, Daniel C. Ducat, Bi-Huei Hou, Wolf B. Frommer	2013	236
18	Sucrose Efflux Mediated by SWEET Proteins as a Key Step for Phloem Transport Science ·Li‐Qing Chen, Xiao-Qing Qu, Bi-Huei Hou, Davide Sosso, Sonia Osorio, Alisdair R. Fernie, Wolf B. Frommer Hit paper breakdown →	2011	1024
19	Optical sensors for monitoring dynamic changes of intracellular metabolite levels in mammalian cells Nature Protocols ·Bi-Huei Hou, Hitomi Takanaga, Guido Großmann, Li‐Qing Chen, Xiao-Qing Qu, Alexander M. Jones, Sylvie Lalonde, Oliver Schweissgut, Wolfgang Wiechert, Wolf B. Frommer	2011	92
20	The Effect of Blue Light Exposure on the Expression of Circadian Genes: Bmal1 and Cryptochrome 1 in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells of Jaundiced Neonates Pediatric Research ·An Chen, Lizhong Du, Yaping Xu, Li‐Qing Chen, Yidong Wu	2005	34

About Li‐Qing Chen

Li‐Qing Chen is a scholar working on Plant Science, Microbiology, Endocrinology, Molecular Biology and Rehabilitation, having authored 60 papers that have together received 7.3k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (39 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (21 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (11 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (8 papers), Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (7 papers), Plant responses to water stress (5 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (4 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (6.2k citations), Molecular Biology (2.5k citations), Horticulture (29 citations), Biochemistry (207 citations) and Agronomy and Crop Science (165 citations). Li‐Qing Chen has collaborated with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Wolf B. Frommer, Davide Sosso, Alisdair R. Fernie, Sonia Osorio, Yi Wang, Lily S. Cheung, Jiang Xu, He Liu, Hao‐Dong Li and Liang Feng. Their work appears in journals such as Frontiers in Plant Science, Nature, New Phytologist, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY and The Plant Cell.

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