Luís Herrera‐Estrella

27.2k citations

248 papers · 17.2k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 65

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.02%
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
Biotechnology top 0.1%
- Transgenic Plants and Applications

Papers in

Plant Science 195
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 67
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 66
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance 34
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis 28
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects 22
Biotechnology 33
- Transgenic Plants and Applications 31

Co-authors: José López‐Bucio Alfredo Cruz‐Ramírez Marc Van Montagu Damar López‐Arredondo Marco Antonio Leyva‐González June Simpson Enrique Ibarra‐Laclette Marı́a Fernanda Nieto-Jacobo
Journals: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (19 papers)The Plant Journal (14 papers)PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (11 papers)Trends in Plant Science (9 papers)Plant Cell Reports (8 papers)
Partner nations: Mexico United States Venezuela

In The Last Decade

Luís Herrera‐Estrella

243 papers receiving 16.5k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Plant abiotic stress response and nutrient use efficiency 2020 · 911 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.

2020 Science China Life Sciences
2014 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2013 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
2013 Nature
2003 Current Opinion in Plant Biology
2002 PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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1	Cell‐type‐specific response to silicon treatment in soybean leaves revealed by single‐nucleus RNA sequencing and targeted gene editing The Plant Journal ·Vikas Devkar, Leonidas D’Agostino, Arjun Ojha Kshetry, Yi Chen, Kaushik Ghose, Yong‐Villalobos Lenin, Altafhusain B. Nadaf, V. P. Thirumalaikumar, Aleksandra Skirycz, Humira Sonah, Jianxin Ma, Robert M. Stupar, Tony Miller, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Rupesh Deshmukh, Gunvant Patil	2025	1
2	Single-cell transcriptomic landscape of sorghum leaf reveals cell-specific mineral nutrient regulation Plant Physiology Reports ·Leonidas D’Agostino, Vikas Devkar, Yong‐Villalobos Lenin, S. V. Krishna Jagadish, Rupesh Deshmukh, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Gunvant Patil	2025	0
3	Hormetic and transcriptomic responses of the toxic alga Prymnesium parvum to glyphosate The Science of The Total Environment ·Ricardo A. Chávez Montes, Mousumi A. Mary, Rakib H. Rashel, Mohamed Fokar, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Damar López‐Arredondo, Reynaldo Patiño	2024	2
4	Leucine-rich repeat receptor kinase BM41 regulates cuticular wax deposition in sorghum Journal of Experimental Botany ·Ran Tian, Héctor‐Rogelio Nájera‐González, Deepti Nigam, Adil Khan, Junping Chen, Zhanguo Xin, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Yinping Jiao	2024	3
5	Beneficial Effects of Phosphite in Arabidopsis thaliana Mediated by Activation of ABA, SA, and JA Biosynthesis and Signaling Pathways Plants ·Francisco Gabriel Pérez-Zavala, Jonathan Odilón Ojeda‐Rivera, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Damar López‐Arredondo	2024	2
6	Wild grass‐derived alleles represent a genetic architecture for the resilience of modern common wheat to stresses The Plant Journal ·Mostafa Abdelrahman, Yasir Serag Alnor Gorafi, Saad Sulieman, Sudisha Jogaiah, Aarti Gupta, Hisashi Tsujimoto, Henry T. Nguyen, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Lam‐Son Phan Tran	2024	2
7	ROOT PENETRATION INDEX 3 , a major quantitative trait locus associated with root system penetrability in Arabidopsis Journal of Experimental Botany ·Elohim Bello‐Bello, Thelma Y. Rico-Cambron, Lesly Abril Ortiz Ramírez, Rubén Rellán‐Álvarez, Luís Herrera‐Estrella	2022	3
8	Insights into bear evolution from a Pleistocene polar bear genome Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Tianying Lan, Kalle Leppälä, Crystal Tomlin, Sandra L. Talbot, George K. Sage, Sean D. Farley, Richard T. Shideler, Lutz Bachmann, Øystein Wiig, Victor A. Albert, Jarkko Salojärvi, Thomas Mailund, Daniela I. Drautz‐Moses, Stephan C. Schuster, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Charlotte Lindqvist	2022	19
9	Viability markers for determination of desiccation tolerance and critical stages during dehydration in Selaginella species Journal of Experimental Botany ·Gerardo Alejo‐Jacuinde, Tania Kean-Galeno, Norma Martínez‐Gallardo, J. Daniel Tejero-Díez, Klaus Mehltreter, John P. Délano-Frier, Melvin J. Oliver, June Simpson, Luís Herrera‐Estrella	2022	6
10	A comparative genomics examination of desiccation tolerance and sensitivity in two sister grass species Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ricardo A. Chávez Montes, Anna Haber, Jeremy Pardo, Robyn F. Powell, Upendra K. Divisetty, Anderson Tadeu Silva, Tania Hernández‐Hernández, Vanildo Silveira, Haibao Tang, Eric Lyons, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Robert VanBuren, Melvin J. Oliver	2022	12
11	Functional analysis of the OsNPF4.5 nitrate transporter reveals a conserved mycorrhizal pathway of nitrogen acquisition in plants Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Shuangshuang Wang, Aiqun Chen, Kun Xie, Xiaofeng Yang, Zhenzhen Luo, Jiadong Chen, Dechao Zeng, Yuhan Ren, Congfan Yang, Lingxiao Wang, Huimin Feng, Damar López‐Arredondo, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Guohua Xu	2020	176
12	MEDIATOR16 orchestrates local and systemic responses to phosphate scarcity in Arabidopsis roots New Phytologist ·Javier Raya‐González, Jonathan Odilón Ojeda‐Rivera, Javier Mora‐Macias, Araceli Oropeza‐Aburto, León Francisco Ruíz‐Herrera, José López‐Bucio, Luís Herrera‐Estrella	2020	39
13	Selective fertilization with phosphite allows unhindered growth of cotton plants expressing the ptxD gene while suppressing weeds Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Devendra Pandeya, Damar López‐Arredondo, Madhusudhana R. Janga, LeAnne M. Campbell, Priscila Estrella-Hernández, Muthukumar Bagavathiannan, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Keerti S. Rathore	2018	41
14	Malate-dependent Fe accumulation is a critical checkpoint in the root developmental response to low phosphate Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Javier Mora‐Macias, Jonathan Odilón Ojeda‐Rivera, Dolores Gutiérrez-Alanís, Lenin Yong‐Villalobos, Araceli Oropeza‐Aburto, Javier Raya‐González, Gabriel Jiménez-Domínguez, Gabriela Chávez‐Calvillo, Rubén Rellán‐Álvarez, Luís Herrera‐Estrella	2017	234
15	Regulatory network analysis reveals novel regulators of seed desiccation tolerance in Arabidopsis thaliana Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sandra Isabel González-Morales, Ricardo A. Chávez Montes, Corina Hayano‐Kanashiro, Gerardo Alejo‐Jacuinde, Thelma Y. Rico-Cambron, Stefan de Folter, Luís Herrera‐Estrella	2016	106
16	Phospholipase DZ2 plays an important role in extraplastidic galactolipid biosynthesis and phosphate recycling in Arabidopsis roots Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alfredo Cruz‐Ramírez, Araceli Oropeza‐Aburto, Francisco Razo-Hernández, Enrique Ramı́rez-Chávez, Luís Herrera‐Estrella	2006	210
17	Alkamides Isolated from Plants Promote Growth and Alter Root Development in Arabidopsis PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Enrique Ramı́rez-Chávez, José López‐Bucio, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Jorge Molina‐Torres	2004	65
18	Activation Tagging Using the En-I Maize Transposon System in Arabidopsis PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Nayelli Marsch‐Martínez, Raffaella Greco, Gert van Arkel, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Andy Pereira	2002	108
19	Fate of Selectable Marker DNA Integrated into the Genome of Nicotiana tabacum DNA ·A.P. Czernilofsky, Rüdiger Hain, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Horst Lörz, Elisabeth Goyvaerts, Barbara Baker, Jeff Schell	1986	71
20	The use of the Ti plasmid of Agrobacterium to study the transfer and expression of foreign DNA in plant cells Ghent University Academic Bibliography (Ghent University) ·Patricia Zambryski, Luís Herrera‐Estrella, Marc De Block, Marc Van Montagu, Jeff Schell	1984	5

About Luís Herrera‐Estrella

Luís Herrera‐Estrella is a scholar working on Plant Science, Biotechnology, Horticulture, Molecular Biology and Endocrinology, having authored 248 papers that have together received 17.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (67 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (66 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (61 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (39 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (34 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (31 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (28 papers) and Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects (22 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (14.1k citations), Biotechnology (1.5k citations), Molecular Biology (7.4k citations), Horticulture (100 citations) and Soil Science (501 citations). Luís Herrera‐Estrella has collaborated with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Venezuela. Frequent co-authors include José López‐Bucio, Alfredo Cruz‐Ramírez, Marc Van Montagu, Damar López‐Arredondo, Marco Antonio Leyva‐González, June Simpson, Enrique Ibarra‐Laclette, Marı́a Fernanda Nieto-Jacobo, Lenin Sánchez-Calderón and Gerardo R. Argüello‐Astorga. Their work appears in journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Plant Journal, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Trends in Plant Science and Plant Cell Reports.

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