Murray Grant

14.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
117 papers, 9.9k citations indexed

About

Murray Grant is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Murray Grant has authored 117 papers receiving a total of 9.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Plant Science, 48 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Murray Grant's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (58 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (36 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (20 papers). Murray Grant is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (58 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (36 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (20 papers). Murray Grant collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Murray Grant's co-authors include Jonathan D. G. Jones, Alexandre Robert‐Seilaniantz, John W. Mansfıeld, William Truman, Mark H. Bennett, Gary J. Loake, Marta de Torres Zabala, Chris Lamb, Jeffery L. Dangl and Alexander Grabov and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Murray Grant

113 papers receiving 9.7k 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.

Hormone Crosstalk in Plant Disease and Defense: More Than Just JASMONATE-SALICYLATE Antagonism

2011 1.4k citations Murray Grant et al. profile →
Structure of the Arabidopsis RPM1 Gene Enabling Dual Specificity Disease Resistance

1995 738 citations Murray Grant et al. profile →
Salicylic acid in plant defence—the players and protagonists

2007 588 citations Murray Grant et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Murray Grant United Kingdom	46	8.8k	3.2k	871	834	412	117	9.9k
Jyoti Shah United States	49	8.4k 1.0×	3.5k 1.1×	730 0.8×	1.5k 1.8×	371 0.9×	97	10.0k
Pradeep Kachroo United States	50	7.6k 0.9×	2.9k 0.9×	644 0.7×	539 0.6×	229 0.6×	94	8.6k
Uwe Conrath Germany	37	7.2k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	838 1.0×	794 1.0×	512 1.2×	76	8.3k
Kenichi Tsuda Japan	45	8.3k 0.9×	2.6k 0.8×	668 0.8×	444 0.5×	262 0.6×	113	9.1k
Yoshihiro Narusaka Japan	31	6.3k 0.7×	3.0k 0.9×	844 1.0×	365 0.4×	276 0.7×	78	7.1k
Pascal Genschik France	54	8.7k 1.0×	6.3k 2.0×	639 0.7×	677 0.8×	274 0.7×	108	10.4k
Steven H. Spoel United Kingdom	36	7.3k 0.8×	3.2k 1.0×	526 0.6×	928 1.1×	349 0.8×	53	8.5k
Vı́ctor Flors Spain	49	9.4k 1.1×	2.4k 0.7×	830 1.0×	1.7k 2.0×	1.0k 2.5×	121	10.5k
Alfredo Herrera‐Estrella Mexico	49	5.5k 0.6×	3.2k 1.0×	1.3k 1.5×	566 0.7×	389 0.9×	125	7.2k
Shauna Somerville United States	56	12.4k 1.4×	5.4k 1.7×	1.5k 1.8×	512 0.6×	381 0.9×	103	14.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Murray Grant

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Fields of papers citing papers by Murray Grant

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Murray Grant

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Thomas, Gareth, József Vuts, David M. Withall, et al.. (2025). Inducible Volatile Chemical Signalling Drives Antifungal Activity of Trichoderma hamatum GD12 During Confrontation With the Pathogen Sclerotinia sclerotiorum . Environmental Microbiology Reports. 17(5). e70192–e70192.

Liu, Huazhen, Lakshminarayan M. Iyer, Paul C. Norris, et al.. (2025). Piperideine-6-carboxylic acid regulates vitamin B6 homeostasis and modulates systemic immunity in plants. Nature Plants. 11(2). 263–278. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Hongmei, et al.. (2025). Mitochondrial ROS trigger interorganellular signaling and prime ER processes to establish enhanced plant immunity. Science Advances. 11(40). eady9234–eady9234.

Rabiey, Mojgan, et al.. (2024). The potential of bacteriocins and bacteriophages to control bacterial disease of crops with a focus on Xanthomonas spp.. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 55(2). 302–326. 5 indexed citations

Harrison, Jamie, et al.. (2023). Phylogenomic Analysis Supports the Transfer of 20 Pathovars from Xanthomonas campestris into Xanthomonas euvesicatoria. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3(1). 29–45. 5 indexed citations

Harrison, Jamie, Rana M. F. Hussain, Vardis Ntoukakis, et al.. (2023). Draft genome sequences for ten strains of Xanthomonas species that have phylogenomic importance. Access Microbiology. 5(7). 2 indexed citations

Sheikh, Arsheed H., Ana Domínguez‐Ferreras, Daniela J. Sueldo, et al.. (2023). Dynamic changes of the Prf/Pto tomato resistance complex following effector recognition. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2568–2568. 14 indexed citations

Bayless, Adam M., Sisi Chen, Xiaoyan Xu, et al.. (2023). Plant and prokaryotic TIR domains generate distinct cyclic ADPR NADase products. Science Advances. 9(11). eade8487–eade8487. 45 indexed citations

Allwood, J. William, Alex Williams, Henriette Uthe, et al.. (2021). Unravelling Plant Responses to Stress—The Importance of Targeted and Untargeted Metabolomics. Metabolites. 11(8). 558–558. 55 indexed citations

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Parry, Geraint, Yoselin Benitez‐Alfonso, Daniel J. Gibbs, et al.. (2020). How to build an effective research network: lessons from two decades of the GARNet plant science community. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(22). 6881–6889. 1 indexed citations

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Penfold, Christopher A., Anastasiya Sybirna, John E. Reid, et al.. (2018). Branch-recombinant Gaussian processes for analysis of perturbations in biological time series. Bioinformatics. 34(17). i1005–i1013. 6 indexed citations

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Taj, Gohar, Payal Agarwal, Murray Grant, & Anil Kumar. (2016). Co-expression and in-silico interaction studies for inter-linking the activation of MAPK3 and LOX genes during pathogenesis of Alternaria brassicae in Brassica juncea. 1(1). 13–20. 5 indexed citations

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McCracken, A. R., et al.. (2015). Draft genome sequences of seven isolates of Phytophthora ramorum EU2 from Northern Ireland. Genomics Data. 6. 191–192. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Yaxiao, Rod Scott, James Doughty, Murray Grant, & Baoxiu Qi. (2015). Protein S-Acyltransferase 14: A Specific Role for Palmitoylation in Leaf Senescence in Arabidopsis. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 170(1). 415–428. 30 indexed citations

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Studholme, David J., Kate Le Cocq, Lauren S. Ryder, et al.. (2013). Investigating the beneficial traits of Trichoderma hamatum GD12 for sustainable agriculture—insights from genomics. Frontiers in Plant Science. 4. 258–258. 86 indexed citations

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Wootton, Lucie, Marta de Torres Zabala, William Truman, et al.. (2012). A Role for Nonsense-Mediated mRNA Decay in Plants: Pathogen Responses Are Induced in Arabidopsis thaliana NMD Mutants. PLoS ONE. 7(2). e31917–e31917. 110 indexed citations

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Zabala, Marta de Torres, Mark H. Bennett, William Truman, & Murray Grant. (2009). Antagonism between salicylic and abscisic acid reflects early host–pathogen conflict and moulds plant defence responses. The Plant Journal. 59(3). 375–386. 246 indexed citations

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Jones, Alexandra M. E., John W. Mansfıeld, & Murray Grant. (2007). Considerations on Post-Translational Modification and Protein Targeting in the Arabidopsis Defense Proteome. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 2(3). 153–154. 2 indexed citations

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Mansfıeld, John W., Ian R. Brown, George Tsiamis, et al.. (2006). Pseudomonas syringae effector AvrPtoB suppresses basal defence in Arabidopsis. The Plant Journal. 47(3). 368–382. 123 indexed citations

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Zabala, Marta de Torres, et al.. (2005). RIN13 Is a Positive Regulator of the Plant Disease Resistance Protein RPM1. The Plant Cell. 17(3). 1016–1028. 25 indexed citations

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