Matias Kirst

13.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
102 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Matias Kirst is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Matias Kirst has authored 102 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Plant Science, 44 papers in Genetics and 42 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Matias Kirst's work include Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (32 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (22 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). Matias Kirst is often cited by papers focused on Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (32 papers), Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (22 papers) and Forest ecology and management (17 papers). Matias Kirst collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and Spain. Matias Kirst's co-authors include Dário Grattapaglia, Ronald R. Sederoff, Márcio F. R. Resende, Evandro Novaes, Patricio Muńoz, John M. Davis, Leandro G. Neves, Derek Drost, Christopher Dervinis and Γεώργιος Παππάς and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Matias Kirst

100 papers receiving 5.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A chemical genetic roadmap to improved tomato flavor

2017 580 citations Márcio F. R. Resende, Matias Kirst et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matias Kirst United States	41	3.5k	2.2k	1.9k	664	460	102	5.9k
John Mackay Canada	40	2.5k 0.7×	2.9k 1.3×	810 0.4×	932 1.4×	972 2.1×	143	5.3k
Ross Whetten United States	35	3.1k 0.9×	3.0k 1.4×	874 0.5×	764 1.2×	911 2.0×	77	5.6k
Nathaniel R. Street Sweden	36	2.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	962 0.5×	374 0.6×	526 1.1×	87	4.6k
A. Karp United Kingdom	43	3.6k 1.0×	2.3k 1.1×	1.1k 0.6×	298 0.4×	829 1.8×	150	6.0k
Marcos Deon Vilela de Resende Brazil	34	4.4k 1.3×	433 0.2×	1.9k 1.0×	892 1.3×	223 0.5×	329	5.9k
Andrzej Kilian Australia	57	8.9k 2.6×	2.8k 1.3×	4.6k 2.5×	564 0.8×	264 0.6×	232	12.0k
Yousry A. El‐Kassaby Canada	41	2.8k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	2.2k 1.2×	1.9k 2.8×	170 0.4×	326	6.4k
Lee E. Gunter United States	28	1.8k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	625 0.3×	182 0.3×	332 0.7×	53	3.1k
Trevor R. Hodkinson Ireland	34	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.7×	652 0.3×	373 0.6×	552 1.2×	144	4.3k
Dário Grattapaglia Brazil	50	4.4k 1.3×	2.6k 1.2×	3.9k 2.1×	1.4k 2.1×	219 0.5×	154	8.3k

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Pereira, Wendell J., Christopher Dervinis, Matias Kirst, et al.. (2025). Single-nucleus transcriptomics revealed auxin-driven mechanisms of wood plasticity to enhance severe drought tolerance in poplar. Genome biology. 26(1). 312–312. 1 indexed citations

Pereira, Wendell J., et al.. (2024). Investigating biological nitrogen fixation via single-cell transcriptomics. Journal of Experimental Botany. 76(4). 931–949. 2 indexed citations

El‐Dien, Omnia Gamal, Macaire M. S. Yuen, Matias Kirst, et al.. (2023). Genetic architecture of terpene chemistry and growth traits and the impact of inbreeding on these traits in western redcedar (Thuja plicata). Evolutionary Applications. 16(3). 673–687. 2 indexed citations

Pereira, Wendell J., Sara Knaack, Sanhita Chakraborty, et al.. (2022). Functional and comparative genomics reveals conserved noncoding sequences in the nitrogen‐fixing clade. New Phytologist. 234(2). 634–649. 4 indexed citations

El‐Dien, Omnia Gamal, Macaire M. S. Yuen, Rod Stirling, et al.. (2022). Genomic selection reveals hidden relatedness and increased breeding efficiency in western redcedar polycross breeding. Evolutionary Applications. 15(8). 1291–1312. 5 indexed citations

Vidal, Ramón, et al.. (2022). Transcriptome Analysis Reveals Putative Genes Involved in the Lipid Metabolism of Chaulmoogra Oil Biosynthesis in Carpotroche brasiliensis (Raddi) A.Gray, a Tropical Tree Species. Forests. 13(11). 1806–1806. 1 indexed citations

Triozzi, Paolo M., T. B. Irving, Sanhita Chakraborty, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal cytokinin response imaging and ISOPENTENYLTRANSFERASE 3 function in Medicago nodule development. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 188(1). 560–575. 16 indexed citations

Rios, Esteban F., Márcio F. R. Resende, Matias Kirst, et al.. (2021). Genomic prediction in family bulks using different traits and cross-validations in pine. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 11(9). 9 indexed citations

Mavrodiev, Evgeny V., Christopher Dervinis, W. Mark Whitten, et al.. (2021). A new, simple, highly scalable, and efficient protocol for genomic DNA extraction from diverse plant taxa. Applications in Plant Sciences. 9(3). e11413–e11413. 18 indexed citations

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Balmant, Kelly M., Christopher Dervinis, Gustavo de los Campos, et al.. (2020). The Genetic Regulation of Alternative Splicing in Populus deltoides. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 590–590. 3 indexed citations

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Oliveira, Ivone de Bem, Márcio F. R. Resende, Luís Felipe V. Ferrão, et al.. (2019). Genomic Prediction of Autotetraploids; Influence of Relationship Matrices, Allele Dosage, and Continuous Genotyping Calls in Phenotype Prediction. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 9(4). 1189–1198. 56 indexed citations

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Müller, Bárbara S. F., Janeo Eustáquio de Almeida Filho, Bruno Marco de Lima, et al.. (2018). Independent and Joint‐GWASfor growth traits inEucalyptusby assembling genome‐wide data for 3373 individuals across four breeding populations. New Phytologist. 221(2). 818–833. 45 indexed citations

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Müller, Bárbara S. F., Leandro G. Neves, Janeo Eustáquio de Almeida Filho, et al.. (2017). Genomic prediction in contrast to a genome-wide association study in explaining heritable variation of complex growth traits in breeding populations of Eucalyptus. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 524–524. 62 indexed citations

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Conde, Daniel, Christopher Dervinis, Matias Kirst, et al.. (2017). Overexpression of DEMETER, a DNA demethylase, promotes early apical bud maturation in poplar. Plant Cell & Environment. 40(11). 2806–2819. 28 indexed citations

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Conde, Daniel, Anne‐Laure Le Gac, Mariano Perales, et al.. (2017). Chilling‐responsive DEMETER‐LIKE DNA demethylase mediates in poplar bud break. Plant Cell & Environment. 40(10). 2236–2249. 62 indexed citations

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Westbrook, Jared W., Vikram E. Chhatre, Le‐Shin Wu, et al.. (2015). A Consensus Genetic Map for Pinus taeda and Pinus elliottii and Extent of Linkage Disequilibrium in Two Genotype-Phenotype Discovery Populations of Pinus taeda. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 5(8). 1685–1694. 34 indexed citations

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Maron, Lyza, C. T. Guimarães, Matias Kirst, et al.. (2013). Aluminum tolerance in maize is associated with higher MATE1 gene copy number. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(13). 5241–5246. 222 indexed citations

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Harfouche, Antoine, Richard Meilan, Matias Kirst, et al.. (2011). Accelerating the domestication of forest trees in a changing world. Trends in Plant Science. 17(2). 64–72. 86 indexed citations

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Grattapaglia, Dário, Christophe Plomion, Matias Kirst, & Ronald R. Sederoff. (2009). Genomics of growth traits in forest trees. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 12(2). 148–156. 96 indexed citations

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Kirst, Matias, et al.. (2003). Apparent homology of expressed genes from wood-forming tissues of loblolly pine ( Pinus taeda L.) with Arabidopsis thaliana. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(12). 7383–7388. 138 indexed citations

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