Philipp Köster

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
15 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Philipp Köster is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Philipp Köster has authored 15 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Plant Science, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Philipp Köster's work include Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (7 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (5 papers). Philipp Köster is often cited by papers focused on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (10 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (7 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (5 papers). Philipp Köster collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Saudi Arabia. Philipp Köster's co-authors include Jörg Kudla, Cyril Zipfel, Abdulrahman A. Alatar, Thomas A. DeFalco, Prabha Manishankar, Nili Wang, Kai H. Edel, Kenji Hashimoto, Rainer Waadt and Kazuyuki Kuchitsu and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, The EMBO Journal and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Philipp Köster

15 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Ca ²⁺ signals in plant immunity

2022 136 citations Philipp Köster, Thomas A. DeFalco et al. The EMBO Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Philipp Köster Germany	14	1.1k	414	23	20	19	15	1.2k
Lixue Guo China	16	843 0.8×	476 1.1×	20 0.9×	15 0.8×	18 0.9×	56	998
Yongqing Yang China	11	803 0.7×	482 1.2×	33 1.4×	18 0.9×	16 0.8×	16	976
Jeffery F. Harper United States	8	807 0.7×	463 1.1×	24 1.0×	9 0.5×	33 1.7×	10	909
Shaw-Jye Wu Taiwan	16	1.1k 1.0×	726 1.8×	32 1.4×	12 0.6×	25 1.3×	26	1.3k
Ming Zhong China	12	827 0.8×	546 1.3×	12 0.5×	23 1.1×	22 1.2×	21	959
Stamatis Rigas Greece	19	930 0.9×	612 1.5×	30 1.3×	12 0.6×	20 1.1×	35	1.2k
Julien Séchet France	12	845 0.8×	394 1.0×	16 0.7×	14 0.7×	36 1.9×	18	915
Hongtao Ji China	16	1.2k 1.1×	674 1.6×	20 0.9×	60 3.0×	21 1.1×	29	1.4k
Ghulam Qanmber China	21	1.1k 1.0×	743 1.8×	11 0.5×	27 1.4×	32 1.7×	50	1.2k
Sophia Ng Australia	13	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 2.6×	42 1.8×	14 0.7×	20 1.1×	15	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Philipp Köster

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15 of 15 papers shown

Köster, Philipp, Changyun Liu, Qiuyan Dong, et al.. (2025). A bi-kinase module sensitizes and potentiates plant immune signaling. Science Advances. 11(4). eadt9804–eadt9804. 7 indexed citations

Monte, Isabel, Thomas A. DeFalco, Philipp Köster, et al.. (2023). Conservation of the PBL-RBOH immune module in land plants. Current Biology. 33(6). 1130–1137.e5. 28 indexed citations

Köster, Philipp, Thomas A. DeFalco, & Cyril Zipfel. (2022). Ca ²⁺ signals in plant immunity. The EMBO Journal. 41(12). e110741–e110741. 136 indexed citations breakdown →

Kolodziej, Markus C., Jyoti Singla, Javier Sánchez‐Martín, et al.. (2021). A membrane-bound ankyrin repeat protein confers race-specific leaf rust disease resistance in wheat. Nature Communications. 12(1). 956–956. 79 indexed citations

Fujita, Satoshi, Damien De Bellis, Kai H. Edel, et al.. (2020). SCHENGEN receptor module drives localized ROS production and lignification in plant roots. The EMBO Journal. 39(9). e103894–e103894. 81 indexed citations

Waadt, Rainer, et al.. (2020). Dual-Reporting Transcriptionally Linked Genetically Encoded Fluorescent Indicators Resolve the Spatiotemporal Coordination of Cytosolic Abscisic Acid and Second Messenger Dynamics in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 32(8). 2582–2601. 61 indexed citations

Grätz, Regina, Prabha Manishankar, Rumen Ivanov, et al.. (2019). CIPK11-Dependent Phosphorylation Modulates FIT Activity to Promote Arabidopsis Iron Acquisition in Response to Calcium Signaling. Developmental Cell. 48(5). 726–740.e10. 88 indexed citations

Köster, Philipp, Lukas Wallrad, Kai H. Edel, et al.. (2018). The battle of two ions: Ca²⁺ signalling against Na⁺ stress. Plant Biology. 21(S1). 39–48. 70 indexed citations

Manishankar, Prabha, Nili Wang, Philipp Köster, Abdulrahman A. Alatar, & Jörg Kudla. (2018). Calcium signaling during salt stress and in the regulation of ion homeostasis. Journal of Experimental Botany. 69(17). 4215–4226. 212 indexed citations

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Huang, Shouguang, Kathrin Schlücking, Philipp Köster, et al.. (2018). Wounding-Induced Stomatal Closure Requires Jasmonate-Mediated Activation of GORK K+ Channels by a Ca2+ Sensor-Kinase CBL1-CIPK5 Complex. Developmental Cell. 48(1). 87–99.e6. 83 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xinxin, Philipp Köster, Kathrin Schlücking, et al.. (2018). CBL1‐CIPK26‐mediated phosphorylation enhances activity of the NADPH oxidase RBOHC, but is dispensable for root hair growth. FEBS Letters. 592(15). 2582–2593. 33 indexed citations

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Hamamoto, Shin, Koko Moriya, Aiko Matsuura, et al.. (2018). N‐myristoylation and S‐acylation are common modifications of Ca²⁺‐regulated Arabidopsis kinases and are required for activation of the SLAC1 anion channel. New Phytologist. 218(4). 1504–1521. 61 indexed citations

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Han, Jian‐Pu, Philipp Köster, Martin Scholz, et al.. (2018). Fine‐tuning of RBOHF activity is achieved by differential phosphorylation and Ca²⁺ binding. New Phytologist. 221(4). 1935–1949. 126 indexed citations

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Costa, Alex, Laura Luoni, Kenji Hashimoto, et al.. (2017). Ca2+-dependent phosphoregulation of the plasma membrane Ca2+-ATPase ACA8 modulates stimulus-induced calcium signatures. Journal of Experimental Botany. 68(12). 3215–3230. 71 indexed citations

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Schlücking, Kathrin, Kai H. Edel, Philipp Köster, et al.. (2013). A New β-Estradiol-Inducible Vector Set that Facilitates Easy Construction and Efficient Expression of Transgenes Reveals CBL3-Dependent Cytoplasm to Tonoplast Translocation of CIPK5. Molecular Plant. 6(6). 1814–1829. 55 indexed citations

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