Lothar Willmitzer

48.0k total citations · 13 hit papers
366 papers, 36.2k citations indexed

About

Lothar Willmitzer is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Lothar Willmitzer has authored 366 papers receiving a total of 36.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 243 papers in Plant Science, 232 papers in Molecular Biology and 71 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Lothar Willmitzer's work include Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (91 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (74 papers) and Potato Plant Research (65 papers). Lothar Willmitzer is often cited by papers focused on Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (91 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (74 papers) and Potato Plant Research (65 papers). Lothar Willmitzer collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Israel. Lothar Willmitzer's co-authors include Alisdair R. Fernie, Joachim Kopka, Jeff Schell, Richard N. Trethewey, Uwe Sonnewald, Rainer Höfgen, Ute Roessner, Oliver Fiehn, J. Logemann and Jan Lisec and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Lothar Willmitzer

363 papers receiving 34.8k citations

Hit Papers

Improved method for the isolation of RNA from plant tissues 1987 2026 2000 2013 1987 2006 2000 2004 2000 500 1000 1.5k
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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.

  1. Improved method for the isolation of RNA from plant tissues
    1987 1.7k citations Jeff Schell, Lothar Willmitzer et al. profile →
  2. Gas chromatography mass spectrometry–based metabolite profiling in plants
    2006 1.7k citations Jan Lisec, Nicolas Schauer et al. profile →
  3. Metabolite profiling for plant functional genomics
    2000 1.6k citations Oliver Fiehn, Joachim Kopka et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  4. GMD@CSB.DB: the Golm Metabolome Database
    2004 1.1k citations Joachim Kopka, Nicolas Schauer et al. profile →
  5. Simultaneous analysis of metabolites in potato tuber by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry
    2000 907 citations Ute Roessner, Joachim Kopka et al. The Plant Journal profile →
  6. Storage of competent cells forAgrobacteriumtransformation
    1988 893 citations Lothar Willmitzer et al. profile →
  7. Metabolic Profiling Allows Comprehensive Phenotyping of Genetically or Environmentally Modified Plant Systems
    2001 785 citations Ute Roessner, Oliver Fiehn et al. profile →
  8. Construction of an intron-containing marker gene: Splicing of the intron in transgenic plants and its use in monitoring early events in Agrobacterium-mediated plant transformation
    1990 704 citations Lothar Willmitzer et al. Molecular and General Genetics MGG profile →
  9. Metabolite profiling: from diagnostics to systems biology
    2004 652 citations Alisdair R. Fernie, Richard N. Trethewey et al. profile →
  10. Comprehensive metabolic profiling and phenotyping of interspecific introgression lines for tomato improvement
    2006 553 citations Nicolas Schauer, Ute Roessner et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
  11. GC–MS libraries for the rapid identification of metabolites in complex biological samples
    2005 528 citations Nicolas Schauer, Dirk Steinhauser et al. FEBS Letters profile →
  12. Evidence of the crucial role of sucrose synthase for sink strength using transgenic potato plants (Solanum tuberosum L.)
    1995 452 citations Lothar Willmitzer, Uwe Sonnewald et al. The Plant Journal profile →
  13. Genomic and metabolic prediction of complex heterotic traits in hybrid maize
    2012 439 citations Christian Riedelsheimer, Angelika Czedik‐Eysenberg et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lothar Willmitzer Germany 93 23.8k 21.4k 3.5k 2.8k 2.3k 366 36.2k
Mark Stitt Germany 129 45.4k 1.9× 27.9k 1.3× 3.2k 0.9× 897 0.3× 2.1k 1.0× 439 58.2k
Alisdair R. Fernie Germany 142 52.8k 2.2× 45.0k 2.1× 4.6k 1.3× 1.5k 0.5× 3.9k 1.8× 1.2k 79.1k
Marc Van Montagu Belgium 122 39.6k 1.7× 33.7k 1.6× 1.2k 0.4× 7.3k 2.6× 2.2k 1.0× 598 53.1k
Dirk Inzé Belgium 141 50.6k 2.1× 36.9k 1.7× 1.2k 0.3× 2.3k 0.8× 1.8k 0.8× 591 62.2k
Richard A. Dixon United States 121 35.2k 1.5× 35.5k 1.7× 3.8k 1.1× 5.9k 2.1× 1.0k 0.5× 440 61.0k
Jeffrey B. Harborne United Kingdom 76 18.6k 0.8× 13.3k 0.6× 6.0k 1.7× 973 0.3× 844 0.4× 539 34.8k
Jian‐Kang Zhu United States 159 90.7k 3.8× 52.7k 2.5× 1.7k 0.5× 1.3k 0.5× 3.2k 1.4× 576 104.8k
Wolf B. Frommer Germany 102 23.0k 1.0× 13.7k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 674 0.2× 875 0.4× 294 30.6k
Carl Erik Olsen Denmark 75 9.6k 0.4× 12.0k 0.6× 2.0k 0.6× 1.3k 0.4× 414 0.2× 533 22.4k
Jonathan Gershenzon Germany 107 22.2k 0.9× 23.7k 1.1× 3.6k 1.0× 1.9k 0.7× 1.5k 0.7× 481 41.9k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lothar Willmitzer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lothar Willmitzer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lothar Willmitzer based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lothar Willmitzer. Lothar Willmitzer is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Luzarowski, Marcin, Monika Kosmacz, Ewelina Sokołowska, et al.. (2017). Affinity purification with metabolomic and proteomic analysis unravels diverse roles of nucleoside diphosphate kinases. Journal of Experimental Botany. 68(13). 3487–3499. 30 indexed citations
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Schrag, Tobias A., Georg Thaller, H. Friedrich Utz, et al.. (2017). Omics-based hybrid prediction in maize. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 130(9). 1927–1939. 83 indexed citations
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Wu, Si, Saleh Alseekh, Álvaro Cuadros‐Inostroza, et al.. (2016). Combined Use of Genome-Wide Association Data and Correlation Networks Unravels Key Regulators of Primary Metabolism in Arabidopsis thaliana. PLoS Genetics. 12(10). e1006363–e1006363. 59 indexed citations
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Bożek, Katarzyna, Yuning Wei, Yan Zheng, et al.. (2015). Organization and Evolution of Brain Lipidome Revealed by Large-Scale Analysis of Human, Chimpanzee, Macaque, and Mouse Tissues. Neuron. 85(4). 695–702. 121 indexed citations
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Caldana, Camila, Yan Li, Andrea Leisse, et al.. (2012). Systemic analysis of inducible target of rapamycin mutants reveal a general metabolic switch controlling growth in A rabidopsis thaliana . The Plant Journal. 73(6). 897–909. 200 indexed citations
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Riedelsheimer, Christian, Jan Lisec, Angelika Czedik‐Eysenberg, et al.. (2012). Genome-wide association mapping of leaf metabolic profiles for dissecting complex traits in maize. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(23). 8872–8877. 269 indexed citations
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Klie, Sebastian, Gareth Catchpole, Jędrzej Szymański, et al.. (2010). Metabolomic and transcriptomic stress response of Escherichia coli. Molecular Systems Biology. 6(1). 364–364. 391 indexed citations
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Hannah, Matthew A., Camila Caldana, Dirk Steinhauser, et al.. (2010). Combined Transcript and Metabolite Profiling of Arabidopsis Grown under Widely Variant Growth Conditions Facilitates the Identification of Novel Metabolite-Mediated Regulation of Gene Expression . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 152(4). 2120–2129. 59 indexed citations
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Meyer, Rhonda C., Matthias Steinfath, Jan Lisec, et al.. (2007). The metabolic signature related to high plant growth rate in Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(11). 4759–4764. 299 indexed citations
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Schauer, Nicolas, Dirk Steinhauser, Dietmar Schomburg, et al.. (2005). GC–MS libraries for the rapid identification of metabolites in complex biological samples. FEBS Letters. 579(6). 1332–1337. 528 indexed citations breakdown →
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Junker, Björn H., Chengcai Chu, Uwe Sonnewald, Lothar Willmitzer, & Alisdair R. Fernie. (2003). In plants the alc gene expression system responds more rapidly following induction with acetaldehyde than with ethanol. FEBS Letters. 535(1-3). 136–140. 40 indexed citations
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Szopa, Jan, et al.. (2001). Identification and quantification of catecholamines in potato plants (Solanum tuberosum) by GC–MS. Phytochemistry. 58(2). 315–320. 65 indexed citations
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Aksenova, N. P., T. Konstantinova, S. A. Golyanovskaya, et al.. (2000). Transformed potato plants as a model for studying the hormonal and carbohydrate regulation of tuberization.. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology. 47(3). 370–379. 27 indexed citations
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Hoffmann-Benning, Susanne, et al.. (1997). Gas exchange and ultrastructural analysis of transgenic potato plants expressing mRNA antisense construct targeted to the cp-fructose-1,6-bisphosphate phosphatase. Photosynthetica. 33. 455–465. 16 indexed citations
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Sonnewald, Uwe, Mohammad‐Reza Hajirezaei, Jens Koßmann, et al.. (1997). Increased potato tuber size resulting from apoplastic expression of a yeast invertase. Nature Biotechnology. 15(8). 794–797. 166 indexed citations
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Altmann, Thomas, et al.. (1995). Ac/Ds transposon mutagenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana: mutant spectrum and frequency of Ds insertion mutants. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 247(5). 646–652. 33 indexed citations
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Lemmers, M., Gilbert Engler, Marc Van Montagu, et al.. (1981). Le plasmide Ti, vecteur potentiel pour la modification génétique des plantes. Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University). 1 indexed citations
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Bode, Juergen, et al.. (1976). Sperm-Specific Proteins - Interaction with DNA and Chromatin and Influence of Phosphorylation Thereon. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 55(1). 39–48. 3 indexed citations

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