Marco Todesco

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
37 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Marco Todesco is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Marco Todesco has authored 37 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Plant Science, 16 papers in Genetics and 12 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Marco Todesco's work include Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (9 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (7 papers). Marco Todesco is often cited by papers focused on Genetic diversity and population structure (12 papers), Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (9 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (7 papers). Marco Todesco collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and United States. Marco Todesco's co-authors include Detlef Weigel, Ignacio Rubio‐Somoza, Javier Paz‐Ares, Adrián Vallí, Isabel Mateos, José M. Franco‐Zorrilla, Antonio Leyva, María Isabel Puga, Juan Antonio Garcı́a and Loren H. Rieseberg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Marco Todesco

33 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Target mimicry provides a new mechanism for regulation of microRNA activity

2007 1.6k citations Marco Todesco, Ignacio Rubio‐Somoza et al. profile →
Hybridization and extinction

2016 534 citations Marco Todesco, Gregory L. Owens et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marco Todesco Canada	17	2.4k	1.8k	588	584	274	37	3.5k
Catherine Kidner United Kingdom	25	2.3k 1.0×	2.9k 1.6×	405 0.7×	271 0.5×	652 2.4×	61	3.9k
Matthew A. Campbell United States	26	1.6k 0.7×	1.8k 1.0×	790 1.3×	143 0.2×	266 1.0×	81	3.4k
Inés Álvarez Spain	18	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.7×	565 1.0×	145 0.2×	1.3k 4.6×	67	2.4k
Marie Mirouze France	22	2.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	330 0.6×	102 0.2×	123 0.4×	33	3.1k
Na Song China	21	946 0.4×	1.2k 0.7×	569 1.0×	153 0.3×	55 0.2×	189	2.2k
Stephen Rudd Finland	25	1.7k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	346 0.6×	45 0.1×	211 0.8×	46	3.0k
Weidong Bao United States	15	1.6k 0.7×	2.1k 1.2×	643 1.1×	112 0.2×	246 0.9×	25	3.0k
Michael S. Barker United States	34	3.0k 1.3×	2.6k 1.4×	1.4k 2.4×	106 0.2×	1.8k 6.4×	69	4.7k
Matthew B. Hufford United States	27	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	1.3k 2.2×	35 0.1×	411 1.5×	51	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Marco Todesco

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marco Todesco

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Marco Todesco. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Marco Todesco 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 Marco Todesco. Marco Todesco is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sheth, Seema N., et al.. (2026). Rapid evolution predicts demographic recovery after extreme drought. Science. 391(6790). 1172–1176.

Percy, Diana M., et al.. (2025). A High-Quality Phased Genome Assembly of Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica ssp. dioica). Plants. 14(1). 124–124. 2 indexed citations

Seifi, Hamed Soren, Thomas O’Brien, Marco Todesco, et al.. (2025). Mapping and characterization of a novel powdery mildew resistance locus (PM2) in Cannabis sativa L.. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1543229–1543229. 1 indexed citations

Huang, Kaichi, Kate L. Ostevik, Mojtaba Jahani, et al.. (2024). Inversions contribute disproportionately to parallel genomic divergence in dune sunflowers. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 9(2). 325–335. 3 indexed citations

Catrice, Olivier, Srinidhi V. Holalu, S. Terzić, et al.. (2023). Progresses of the international community to understand sunflower–pollinator interactions through multiscale approaches. OCL. 30. 17–17.

Robertis, Riccardo De, et al.. (2023). The role of radiomics in hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery: a literature review. 3(3). 166–79. 3 indexed citations

Owens, Gregory L., Kaichi Huang, Marco Todesco, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2023). Re-evaluating Homoploid Reticulate Evolution in Helianthus Sunflowers. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(2). 20 indexed citations

Soudi, Shaghayegh, Mojtaba Jahani, Marco Todesco, et al.. (2023). Repeatability of adaptation in sunflowers reveals that genomic regions harbouring inversions also drive adaptation in species lacking an inversion. eLife. 12. 4 indexed citations

Huang, Kaichi, Kate L. Ostevik, Cassandra Elphinstone, et al.. (2022). Mutation Load in Sunflower Inversions Is Negatively Correlated with Inversion Heterozygosity. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(5). 25 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L., Marco Todesco, Natalia Bercovich, et al.. (2021). Standing variation rather than recent adaptive introgression probably underlies differentiation of the texanus subspecies of Helianthus annuus. Molecular Ecology. 30(23). 6229–6245. 11 indexed citations

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Yang, Li, Yu-Pan Zou, Ting‐Shen Han, et al.. (2018). Parallel Evolution of Common Allelic Variants Confers Flowering Diversity in Capsella rubella. The Plant Cell. 30(6). 1322–1336. 21 indexed citations

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Zhu, Wangsheng, Maricris Zaidem, Anna-Lena Van de Weyer, et al.. (2018). Modulation of ACD6 dependent hyperimmunity by natural alleles of an Arabidopsis thaliana NLR resistance gene. PLoS Genetics. 14(9). e1007628–e1007628. 25 indexed citations

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Owens, Gregory L., Marco Todesco, Emily B. M. Drummond, Sam Yeaman, & Loren H. Rieseberg. (2017). A novel post hoc method for detecting index switching finds no evidence for increased switching on the Illumina HiSeq X. Molecular Ecology Resources. 18(1). 169–175. 16 indexed citations

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Todesco, Marco & Felipe Fenselau de Felippes. (2015). Why Benthamiana Went Viral. Trends in Plant Science. 21(1). 4–6. 2 indexed citations

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Todesco, Marco, Sang‐Tae Kim, Eunyoung Chae, et al.. (2014). Activation of the Arabidopsis thaliana Immune System by Combinations of Common ACD6 Alleles. PLoS Genetics. 10(7). e1004459–e1004459. 49 indexed citations

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Todesco, Marco, Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, Jun Cao, et al.. (2011). Natural Variation in Biogenesis Efficiency of Individual Arabidopsis thaliana MicroRNAs. Current Biology. 22(2). 166–170. 41 indexed citations

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Kawashima, Cintia Goulart, Colette Matthewman, Siqi Huang, et al.. (2011). Interplay of SLIM1 and miR395 in the regulation of sulfate assimilation in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 66(5). 863–876. 157 indexed citations

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Wollmann, Heike, Erica Mica, Marco Todesco, Jeff A. Long, & Detlef Weigel. (2010). On reconciling the interactions between APETALA2 , miR172 and AGAMOUS with the ABC model of flower development. Development. 137(21). 3633–3642. 197 indexed citations

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Todesco, Marco, Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, Tina T. Hu, et al.. (2010). Natural allelic variation underlying a major fitness trade-off in Arabidopsis thaliana. Nature. 465(7298). 632–636. 290 indexed citations

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Sureshkumar, Sridevi, et al.. (2009). A Genetic Defect Caused by a Triplet Repeat Expansion in Arabidopsis thaliana. Science. 323(5917). 1060–1063. 71 indexed citations

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