Pingtao Ding

7.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
38 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Pingtao Ding is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Immunology. According to data from OpenAlex, Pingtao Ding has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Plant Science, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Immunology. Recurrent topics in Pingtao Ding's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (29 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (17 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (14 papers). Pingtao Ding is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (29 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (17 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (14 papers). Pingtao Ding collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and China. Pingtao Ding's co-authors include Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Jonathan D. G. Jones, Yuli Ding, Heekyung Ahn, Yuelin Zhang, Xiu‐Fang Xin, Minhang Yuan, Xin Li, Yaxi Zhang and Zane Duxbury and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Pingtao Ding

37 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Mutual potentiation of plant immunity by cell-surface and intracellular receptors

2021 680 citations Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Heekyung Ahn et al. Nature profile →
PTI-ETI crosstalk: an integrative view of plant immunity

2021 568 citations Minhang Yuan, Bruno Pok Man Ngou et al. Current Opinion in Plant Biology profile →
Thirty years of resistance: Zig-zag through the plant immune system

2022 526 citations Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Pingtao Ding et al. The Plant Cell profile →
Stories of Salicylic Acid: A Plant Defense Hormone

2020 507 citations Pingtao Ding et al. Trends in Plant Science profile →
Plant immune networks

2021 240 citations Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Jonathan D. G. Jones et al. Trends in Plant Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pingtao Ding United Kingdom	27	4.2k	1.4k	356	214	162	38	4.7k
Jan Sklenář United Kingdom	34	4.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	539 1.5×	189 0.9×	126 0.8×	63	4.6k
Darrell Desveaux Canada	41	4.0k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	383 1.1×	122 0.6×	144 0.9×	83	4.6k
David Mackey United States	34	4.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	382 1.1×	130 0.6×	205 1.3×	65	5.2k
Frank L.H. Menke United Kingdom	36	4.3k 1.0×	2.3k 1.6×	386 1.1×	162 0.8×	175 1.1×	58	5.1k
Guido Sessa Israel	34	3.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	326 0.9×	129 0.6×	120 0.7×	80	3.7k
Jack H. Vossen Netherlands	36	4.1k 1.0×	1.4k 1.0×	810 2.3×	201 0.9×	157 1.0×	70	4.7k
Delphine Chinchilla Switzerland	28	7.4k 1.8×	2.2k 1.6×	578 1.6×	261 1.2×	190 1.2×	35	8.0k
Thomas Kroj France	30	5.0k 1.2×	2.6k 1.9×	617 1.7×	250 1.2×	141 0.9×	57	5.5k
Wendy E. Durrant United States	9	3.0k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	382 1.1×	92 0.4×	204 1.3×	9	3.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Pingtao Ding

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pingtao Ding

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pingtao Ding

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Löffelhardt, Birgit, Lili Huang, Jonathan D. G. Jones, et al.. (2025). Engineered pattern recognition receptors enhance broad-spectrum plant resistance. Nature Biotechnology.

Sakai, Toshiyuki, et al.. (2025). Unlocking gene regulatory networks for crop resilience and sustainable agriculture. Nature Biotechnology. 43(8). 1254–1265. 5 indexed citations

Chhillar, Himanshu, et al.. (2025). Modular mechanisms of immune priming and growth inhibition mediated by plant effector-triggered immunity. Cell Reports. 44(3). 115394–115394. 1 indexed citations

Liu, Chen, Thorsten Pfirrmann, Elena A. Minina, et al.. (2024). Seed longevity is controlled by metacaspases. Nature Communications. 15(1). 6748–6748. 6 indexed citations

Zhou, Yulu, et al.. (2023). Plant HEM1 specifies a condensation domain to control immune gene translation. Nature Plants. 9(2). 289–301. 37 indexed citations

Tang, Bozeng, et al.. (2023). Cell-type-specific responses to fungal infection in plants revealed by single-cell transcriptomics. Cell Host & Microbe. 31(10). 1732–1747.e5. 62 indexed citations

Ngou, Bruno Pok Man, Pingtao Ding, & Jonathan D. G. Jones. (2022). Thirty years of resistance: Zig-zag through the plant immune system. The Plant Cell. 34(5). 1447–1478. 526 indexed citations breakdown →

Jiang, Yuxiang & Pingtao Ding. (2022). Calcium signaling in plant immunity: a spatiotemporally controlled symphony. Trends in Plant Science. 28(1). 74–89. 65 indexed citations

Ding, Pingtao, Toshiyuki Sakai, Nicolás Manosalva Pérez, et al.. (2021). Chromatin accessibility landscapes activated by cell-surface and intracellular immune receptors. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(22). 7927–7941. 19 indexed citations

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Ngou, Bruno Pok Man, Heekyung Ahn, Pingtao Ding, & Jonathan D. G. Jones. (2021). Mutual potentiation of plant immunity by cell-surface and intracellular receptors. Nature. 592(7852). 110–115. 680 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mukhi, Nitika, Pingtao Ding, Adam R. Bentham, et al.. (2021). Perception of structurally distinct effectors by the integrated WRKY domain of a plant immune receptor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(50). 37 indexed citations

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Yuan, Minhang, Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Pingtao Ding, & Xiu‐Fang Xin. (2021). PTI-ETI crosstalk: an integrative view of plant immunity. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 62. 102030–102030. 568 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ding, Pingtao, Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Oliver J. Furzer, et al.. (2020). High‐resolution expression profiling of selected gene sets during plant immune activation. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 18(7). 1610–1619. 16 indexed citations

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Duxbury, Zane, Shanshan Wang, Jeannette L. Tenthorey, et al.. (2020). Induced proximity of a TIR signaling domain on a plant-mammalian NLR chimera activates defense in plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(31). 18832–18839. 56 indexed citations

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Ngou, Bruno Pok Man, Heekyung Ahn, Pingtao Ding, et al.. (2020). Estradiol-inducible AvrRps4 expression reveals distinct properties of TIR-NLR-mediated effector-triggered immunity. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(6). 2186–2197. 32 indexed citations

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Bjornson, Marta, Kaisa Kajala, Cyril Zipfel, & Pingtao Ding. (2020). Low-cost and High-throughput RNA-seq Library Preparation for Illumina Sequencing from Plant Tissue. BIO-PROTOCOL. 10(20). e3799–e3799. 6 indexed citations

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Castel, Baptiste, Bruno Pok Man Ngou, Volkan Çevik, et al.. (2018). Diverse NLR immune receptors activate defence via the RPW8‐NLR NRG1. New Phytologist. 222(2). 966–980. 193 indexed citations

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Ma, Yan, Hailong Guo, Panagiotis N. Moschou, et al.. (2018). Distinct modes of derepression of an Arabidopsis immune receptor complex by two different bacterial effectors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(41). 10218–10227. 65 indexed citations

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Huh, Sung Un, Volkan Çevik, Pingtao Ding, et al.. (2017). Protein-protein interactions in the RPS4/RRS1 immune receptor complex. PLoS Pathogens. 13(5). e1006376–e1006376. 97 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yaxi, et al.. (2012). The Ankyrin-Repeat Transmembrane Protein BDA1 Functions Downstream of the Receptor-Like Protein SNC2 to Regulate Plant Immunity. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 159(4). 1857–1865. 72 indexed citations

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