Nicholas C. Carpita

26.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
155 papers, 14.7k citations indexed

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Nicholas C. Carpita is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas C. Carpita has authored 155 papers receiving a total of 14.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Plant Science, 56 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Nicholas C. Carpita's work include Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (93 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (34 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (31 papers). Nicholas C. Carpita is often cited by papers focused on Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (93 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (34 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (31 papers). Nicholas C. Carpita collaborates with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Nicholas C. Carpita's co-authors include David M. Gibeaut, Maureen C. McCann, Deborah P. Delmer, David Montezinos, Jongbum Kim, Ray A. Bressan, Douglas A. Shoue, Claudia E. Vergara, Jan Kanabus and Sarah E. Wyatt and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas C. Carpita

154 papers receiving 14.1k citations

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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.

Structural models of primary cell walls in flowering plants: consistency of molecular structure with the physical properties of the walls during growth

1993 2.8k citations Nicholas C. Carpita, David M. Gibeaut profile →
Measurement of uronic acids without interference from neutral sugars

1991 1.3k citations Nicholas C. Carpita et al. profile →
STRUCTURE AND BIOGENESIS OF THE CELL WALLS OF GRASSES

1996 675 citations Nicholas C. Carpita profile →
Determination of the Pore Size of Cell Walls of Living Plant Cells

1979 659 citations Nicholas C. Carpita et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas C. Carpita United States	61	11.6k	5.0k	2.7k	2.5k	1.9k	155	14.7k
Stephen C. Fry United Kingdom	67	14.9k 1.3×	5.9k 1.2×	3.0k 1.1×	2.6k 1.0×	2.7k 1.4×	269	17.8k
William G. T. Willats Denmark	62	10.7k 0.9×	5.9k 1.2×	1.8k 0.6×	3.0k 1.2×	1.3k 0.7×	196	14.6k
Debra Mohnen United States	37	7.5k 0.6×	3.4k 0.7×	1.3k 0.5×	2.3k 0.9×	1.1k 0.6×	70	9.0k
Markus Pauly United States	63	9.0k 0.8×	5.2k 1.0×	3.1k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	148	11.8k
Malcolm A. O’Neill United States	45	7.7k 0.7×	2.8k 0.6×	1.2k 0.4×	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.6×	100	9.3k
Peter Ulvskov Denmark	38	4.5k 0.4×	2.4k 0.5×	1.7k 0.6×	1.1k 0.4×	688 0.4×	90	6.5k
Maureen C. McCann United States	51	6.2k 0.5×	3.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	547 0.3×	104	7.9k
John M. Labavitch United States	56	8.0k 0.7×	2.2k 0.4×	815 0.3×	1.3k 0.5×	791 0.4×	157	9.7k
Jørn Dalgaard Mikkelsen Denmark	44	5.0k 0.4×	3.1k 0.6×	945 0.3×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	121	8.2k
Ronald D. Hatfield United States	56	4.9k 0.4×	4.0k 0.8×	5.5k 2.0×	1.9k 0.8×	877 0.5×	120	11.0k

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Shiga, Tânia Misuzu, Haibing Yang, Bryan W. Penning, et al.. (2021). A TEMPO-catalyzed oxidation–reduction method to probe surface and anhydrous crystalline-core domains of cellulose microfibril bundles. Cellulose. 28(9). 5305–5319. 6 indexed citations

Julius, Benjamin T, Rachel A. Mertz, Jan Knoblauch, et al.. (2021). Maize Brittle Stalk2-Like3 , encoding a COBRA protein, functions in cell wall formation and carbohydrate partitioning. The Plant Cell. 33(10). 3348–3366. 21 indexed citations

Carpita, Nicholas C. & Maureen C. McCann. (2020). Redesigning plant cell walls for the biomass-based bioeconomy. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(44). 15144–15157. 56 indexed citations

Penning, Bryan W., Maureen C. McCann, & Nicholas C. Carpita. (2019). Evolution of the Cell Wall Gene Families of Grasses. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 1205–1205. 23 indexed citations

Gilbert, Sarah, et al.. (2019). Linkage structure of cell-wall polysaccharides from three duckweed species. Carbohydrate Polymers. 223. 115119–115119. 26 indexed citations

Aryal, Uma K., et al.. (2019). Differential distributions of trafficking and signaling proteins of the maize ER-Golgi apparatus. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 14(12). 1672513–1672513. 2 indexed citations

Penning, Bryan W., Tânia Misuzu Shiga, Jacob Shreve, et al.. (2019). Expression profiles of cell-wall related genes vary broadly between two common maize inbreds during stem development. BMC Genomics. 20(1). 785–785. 11 indexed citations

Pattathil, Sivakumar, Uma K. Aryal, Bryan W. Penning, et al.. (2019). Glycome and Proteome Components of Golgi Membranes Are Common between Two Angiosperms with Distinct Cell-Wall Structures. The Plant Cell. 31(5). 1094–1112. 30 indexed citations

Shiga, Tânia Misuzu, Weihua Xiao, Haibing Yang, et al.. (2017). Enhanced rates of enzymatic saccharification and catalytic synthesis of biofuel substrates in gelatinized cellulose generated by trifluoroacetic acid. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 10(1). 310–310. 19 indexed citations

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Shiga, Tânia Misuzu, et al.. (2017). Two banana cultivars differ in composition of potentially immunomodulatory mannan and arabinogalactan. Carbohydrate Polymers. 164. 31–41. 15 indexed citations

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Rayon, Catherine, Davide Mercadante, Christopher E. Hart, et al.. (2016). The Cell Wall Arabinose-Deficient Arabidopsis thaliana Mutant murus5 Encodes a Defective Allele of REVERSIBLY GLYCOSYLATED POLYPEPTIDE2. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 171(3). 1905–1920. 6 indexed citations

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Olek, Anna T., Lee Makowski, John Badger, et al.. (2016). Rice Cellulose SynthaseA8 Plant-Conserved Region Is a Coiled-Coil at the Catalytic Core Entrance. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 173(1). 482–494. 25 indexed citations

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Domon, Jean-Marc, Françoise Fournet, Hélène Sellier, et al.. (2014). Structural alteration of cell wall pectins accompanies pea development in response to cold. Phytochemistry. 104. 37–47. 70 indexed citations

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Carpita, Nicholas C.. (2011). Progress in the biological synthesis of the plant cell wall: new ideas for improving biomass for bioenergy. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 23(3). 330–337. 52 indexed citations

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Held, Michael, Bryan W. Penning, Amanda S. Brandt, et al.. (2008). Small-interfering RNAs from natural antisense transcripts derived from a cellulose synthase gene modulate cell wall biosynthesis in barley. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 105(51). 20534–20539. 73 indexed citations

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Madson, Michael A., Christophe Dunand, Xuemei Li, et al.. (2003). The MUR3 Gene of Arabidopsis Encodes a Xyloglucan Galactosyltransferase That Is Evolutionarily Related to Animal Exostosins. The Plant Cell. 15(7). 1662–1670. 255 indexed citations

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Carpita, Nicholas C., Marianne Defernez, Kim Findlay, et al.. (2001). Cell Wall Architecture of the Elongating Maize Coleoptile. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 127(2). 551–565. 229 indexed citations

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Penfield, Steven, et al.. (2001). MYB61 Is Required for Mucilage Deposition and Extrusion in the Arabidopsis Seed Coat. The Plant Cell. 13(12). 2777–2791. 252 indexed citations

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Gorshkova, Tatyana, et al.. (1996). Metabolizable polysaccharides in flax cell walls revealed by photosynthetic pulse-chase experiments. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology. 43(2). 155–159. 1 indexed citations

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Carpita, Nicholas C.. (1983). Hemicellulosic Polymers of Cell Walls of Zea Coleoptiles. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 72(2). 515–521. 60 indexed citations

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