Ramona Marasco

4.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
78 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Ramona Marasco is a scholar working on Ecology, Plant Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ramona Marasco has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Ecology, 27 papers in Plant Science and 24 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ramona Marasco's work include Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (37 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (16 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (10 papers). Ramona Marasco is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology (37 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (16 papers) and Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (10 papers). Ramona Marasco collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, Italy and Tunisia. Ramona Marasco's co-authors include Daniele Daffonchio, Eleonora Rolli, Sara Borin, Francesca Mapelli, Marco Fusi, Ameur Chérif, C. Sorlini, Gianpiero Vigani, Graziano Zocchi and Grégoire Michoud and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Ramona Marasco

74 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

Improved plant resistance to drought is promoted by the root‐associated microbiome as a water stress‐dependent trait

2014 411 citations Eleonora Rolli, Ramona Marasco et al. profile →
A Drought Resistance-Promoting Microbiome Is Selected by Root System under Desert Farming

2012 342 citations Ramona Marasco, Eleonora Rolli et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ramona Marasco Saudi Arabia	28	1.9k	974	661	312	304	78	3.1k
José M. Igual Spain	30	2.0k 1.0×	742 0.8×	669 1.0×	152 0.5×	247 0.8×	112	3.3k
Achim Quaiser France	17	1.3k 0.7×	1.3k 1.3×	1.0k 1.5×	344 1.1×	251 0.8×	26	2.8k
W. H. Gera Hol Netherlands	24	1.3k 0.7×	910 0.9×	749 1.1×	192 0.6×	159 0.5×	34	2.6k
Ángel Valverde Spain	36	1.6k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	768 1.2×	157 0.5×	213 0.7×	87	3.3k
Shengjing Shi New Zealand	16	2.2k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	854 1.3×	169 0.5×	362 1.2×	35	3.5k
Pamela Weisenhorn United States	18	1.1k 0.6×	908 0.9×	595 0.9×	247 0.8×	190 0.6×	26	2.3k
Terrence H. Bell United States	23	1.1k 0.6×	800 0.8×	512 0.8×	162 0.5×	525 1.7×	61	2.2k
Weibing Xun China	33	1.9k 1.0×	1.3k 1.3×	923 1.4×	179 0.6×	316 1.0×	62	3.5k
Thilo Eickhorst Germany	24	3.4k 1.8×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.6×	566 1.8×	325 1.1×	34	4.9k
Mattias de Hollander Netherlands	26	2.6k 1.4×	1.3k 1.4×	1.2k 1.8×	409 1.3×	221 0.7×	38	4.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ramona Marasco

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Ezzat, Leïla, Hannes Peter, Susheel Bhanu Busi, et al.. (2025). Diversity and biogeography of the bacterial microbiome in glacier-fed streams. Nature. 637(8046). 622–630. 12 indexed citations

Michoud, Grégoire, Marc W. Van Goethem, Charlène Odobel, et al.. (2025). Metabolic redundancy and specialisation of novel sulfide-oxidizing Sulfurimonas and Sulfurovum along the brine-seawater interface of the Kebrit Deep. Environmental Microbiome. 20(1). 19–19. 2 indexed citations

Michoud, Grégoire, et al.. (2024). Experimental evidence on the impact of climate-induced hydrological and thermal variations on glacier-fed stream biofilms. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 101(1).

Mahjoubi, Mouna, Elias Asimakis, Panagiota Stathopoulou, et al.. (2024). Diversity and networking of uni-cyanobacterial cultures and associated heterotrophic bacteria from the benthic microbial mat of a desert hydrothermal spring. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 100(12). 1 indexed citations

Klein, Shannon G., Alexandra Steckbauer, Ramona Marasco, et al.. (2024). Oxygen supersaturation adds resistance to a cnidarian: Symbiodiniaceae holobiont under moderate warming in experimental settings. Frontiers in Marine Science. 11.

Marasco, Ramona, Grégoire Michoud, Elena Gonella, et al.. (2024). Sorlinia euscelidii gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel acetic acid bacterium isolated from the leafhopper Euscelidius variegatus (Hemiptera: Cicadellidae). INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 74(10). 2 indexed citations

Booth, Jenny Marie, Marco Fusi, Ramona Marasco, & Daniele Daffonchio. (2023). The microbial landscape in bioturbated mangrove sediment: A resource for promoting nature‐based solutions for mangroves. Microbial Biotechnology. 16(8). 1584–1602. 22 indexed citations

Michoud, Grégoire, Tyler J. Kohler, Leïla Ezzat, et al.. (2023). The dark side of the moon: first insights into the microbiome structure and function of one of the last glacier-fed streams in Africa. Royal Society Open Science. 10(8). 230329–230329. 6 indexed citations

Marasco, Ramona, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, Marc W. Van Goethem, Federico Rossi, & Daniele Daffonchio. (2023). Diamonds in the rough: Dryland microorganisms are ecological engineers to restore degraded land and mitigate desertification. Microbial Biotechnology. 16(8). 1603–1610. 12 indexed citations

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Marasco, Ramona, Marco Fusi, Cristina Coscolín, et al.. (2023). Enzyme adaptation to habitat thermal legacy shapes the thermal plasticity of marine microbiomes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 1045–1045. 17 indexed citations

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Mapelli, Francesca, Lorenzo Vergani, Elisa Terzaghi, et al.. (2022). Pollution and edaphic factors shape bacterial community structure and functionality in historically contaminated soils. Microbiological Research. 263. 127144–127144. 8 indexed citations

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Kohler, Tyler J., Stilianos Fodelianakis, Grégoire Michoud, et al.. (2022). Glacier shrinkage will accelerate downstream decomposition of organic matter and alters microbiome structure and function. Global Change Biology. 28(12). 3846–3859. 16 indexed citations

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Mosbah, Amor, Raoudha Ferjani, Panagiota Stathopoulou, et al.. (2021). The Impact of the Inoculation of Phosphate-Solubilizing Bacteria Pantoea agglomerans on Phosphorus Availability and Bacterial Community Dynamics of a Semi-Arid Soil. Microorganisms. 9(8). 1661–1661. 27 indexed citations

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Michoud, Grégoire, et al.. (2021). Mangrovivirga cuniculi gen. nov., sp. nov., a moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from bioturbated Red Sea mangrove sediment, and proposal of the novel family Mangrovivirgaceae fam. nov.. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY. 71(7). 5 indexed citations

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Booth, Jenny Marie, Marco Fusi, Ramona Marasco, et al.. (2019). The role of fungi in heterogeneous sediment microbial networks. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7537–7537. 43 indexed citations

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Marasco, Ramona, Marco Fusi, Grégoire Michoud, et al.. (2019). Consistent bacterial selection by date palm root system across heterogeneous desert oasis agroecosystems. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 4033–4033. 33 indexed citations

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Marasco, Ramona, Eleonora Rolli, Marco Fusi, Grégoire Michoud, & Daniele Daffonchio. (2018). Grapevine rootstocks shape underground bacterial microbiome and networking but not potential functionality. Microbiome. 6(1). 3–3. 197 indexed citations

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Marasco, Ramona, Marco Fusi, Jean‐Baptiste Ramond, et al.. (2018). Rhizosheath microbial community assembly of sympatric desert speargrasses is independent of the plant host. Microbiome. 6(1). 215–215. 115 indexed citations

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Chérif, Hanène, Ramona Marasco, Eleonora Rolli, et al.. (2015). Oasis desert farming selects environment‐specific date palm root endophytic communities and cultivable bacteria that promote resistance to drought. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 7(4). 668–678. 120 indexed citations

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Balloi, Annalisa, Eleonora Rolli, Ramona Marasco, et al.. (2010). The role of microorganisms in bioremediation and phytoremediation of polluted and stressed soils.. AGROCHIMICA. 54(6). 353–369. 22 indexed citations

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