Sara Farrona

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Sara Farrona is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sara Farrona has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Plant Science, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Sara Farrona's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (21 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (12 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (9 papers). Sara Farrona is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (21 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (12 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (9 papers). Sara Farrona collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Ireland and Spain. Sara Farrona's co-authors include George Coupland, Coral Vincent, Franziska Turck, Laurent Corbesier, Seonghoe Jang, Iain Searle, Fabio Fornara, Lionel Gissot, Colin Turnbull and Antonis Giakountis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sara Farrona

26 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

FT Protein Movement Contributes to Long-Distance Signaling in Floral Induction of Arabidopsis

2007 1.7k citations Laurent Corbesier, Coral Vincent et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sara Farrona Germany	21	3.5k	2.8k	225	161	105	27	3.9k
José L. Pruneda-Paz United States	29	4.0k 1.1×	2.9k 1.0×	156 0.7×	95 0.6×	74 0.7×	43	4.5k
Hidetaka Kaya Japan	22	3.5k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	145 0.6×	117 0.7×	56 0.5×	39	4.0k
Nanae Ueda Japan	11	1.9k 0.5×	1.3k 0.4×	138 0.6×	95 0.6×	54 0.5×	13	2.2k
Cristina Ferrándiz Spain	37	5.3k 1.5×	4.4k 1.5×	229 1.0×	383 2.4×	116 1.1×	73	5.7k
Franziska Turck Germany	35	5.1k 1.4×	4.1k 1.4×	411 1.8×	254 1.6×	101 1.0×	54	5.6k
Sarah J. Liljegren United States	21	4.1k 1.2×	3.5k 1.3×	180 0.8×	335 2.1×	50 0.5×	26	4.5k
Yong‐Mei Bi Canada	28	2.8k 0.8×	1.2k 0.4×	208 0.9×	92 0.6×	152 1.4×	37	3.0k
Xian Sheng Zhang China	39	3.4k 1.0×	2.9k 1.0×	268 1.2×	244 1.5×	126 1.2×	96	3.9k
Yoo‐Sun Noh South Korea	26	3.2k 0.9×	2.6k 0.9×	105 0.5×	103 0.6×	59 0.6×	39	3.5k
Mingqiu Dai China	28	3.4k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	296 1.3×	46 0.3×	103 1.0×	44	3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Sara Farrona

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sara Farrona

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sara Farrona. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sara Farrona based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Sara Farrona. Sara Farrona is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Farrona, Sara, et al.. (2025). Piecing the puzzle together: Analyses in plants at the single-cell resolution. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 88. 102821–102821.

Haider, Saqlain & Sara Farrona. (2024). Decoding histone 3 lysine methylation: Insights into seed germination and flowering. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 81. 102598–102598. 4 indexed citations

Bourbousse, Clara, Antoine Fort, Michał Krzysztoń, et al.. (2024). The UBP5 histone H2A deubiquitinase counteracts PRCs-mediated repression to regulate Arabidopsis development. Nature Communications. 15(1). 667–667. 10 indexed citations

Avramidou, Evangelia V., Miroslav Baránek, Sophie Brunel‐Muguet, et al.. (2021). Epigenetics for Crop Improvement in Times of Global Change. Biology. 10(8). 766–766. 90 indexed citations

Farrona, Sara, et al.. (2020). Plant Epigenetic Stress Memory Induced by Drought: A Physiological and Molecular Perspective. Methods in molecular biology. 2093. 243–259. 60 indexed citations

Santos, Ana Paula, Valérie Gaudin, Iva Mozgová, et al.. (2020). Tidying-up the plant nuclear space: domains, functions, and dynamics. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(17). 5160–5178. 16 indexed citations

Mikulski, Paweł, Mareike L. Hohenstatt, Sara Farrona, et al.. (2019). The Chromatin-Associated Protein PWO1 Interacts with Plant Nuclear Lamin-like Components to Regulate Nuclear Size. The Plant Cell. 31(5). 1141–1154. 53 indexed citations

Farrona, Sara, et al.. (2018). Plant Deubiquitinases and Their Role in the Control of Gene Expression Through Modification of Histones. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 2274–2274. 51 indexed citations

Liu, Liang-Yu, Sara Farrona, Sonja Klemme, & Franziska Turck. (2014). Post-fertilization expression of FLOWERING LOCUS T suppresses reproductive reversion. Frontiers in Plant Science. 5. 164–164. 30 indexed citations

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Engelhorn, Julia, Julia J. Reimer, Ulrike Göbel, et al.. (2012). DEVELOPMENT-RELATED PcG TARGET IN THE APEX 4 controls leaf margin architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana. Development. 139(14). 2566–2575. 25 indexed citations

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Farrona, Sara, Lidia Hurtado, Rosana March‐Díaz, et al.. (2011). Brahma Is Required for Proper Expression of the Floral Repressor FLC in Arabidopsis. PLoS ONE. 6(3). e17997–e17997. 46 indexed citations

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Adrian, Jessika, Sara Farrona, Julia J. Reimer, et al.. (2010). cis-Regulatory Elements and Chromatin State Coordinately Control Temporal and Spatial Expression ofFLOWERING LOCUS TinArabidopsis . The Plant Cell. 22(5). 1425–1440. 253 indexed citations

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Aichinger, Ernst, Corina Belle R. Villar, Sara Farrona, et al.. (2009). CHD3 Proteins and Polycomb Group Proteins Antagonistically Determine Cell Identity in Arabidopsis. PLoS Genetics. 5(8). e1000605–e1000605. 149 indexed citations

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Wang, Renhou, Sara Farrona, Coral Vincent, et al.. (2009). PEP1 regulates perennial flowering in Arabis alpina. Nature. 459(7245). 423–427. 276 indexed citations

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Farrona, Sara, George Coupland, & Franziska Turck. (2008). The impact of chromatin regulation on the floral transition. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 19(6). 560–573. 59 indexed citations

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Corbesier, Laurent, Coral Vincent, Seonghoe Jang, et al.. (2007). FT Protein Movement Contributes to Long-Distance Signaling in Floral Induction of Arabidopsis. Science. 316(5827). 1030–1033. 1687 indexed citations breakdown →

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Turck, Franziska, François Roudier, Sara Farrona, et al.. (2007). Arabidopsis TFL2/LHP1 Specifically Associates with Genes Marked by Trimethylation of Histone H3 Lysine 27. PLoS Genetics. 3(6). e86–e86. 481 indexed citations

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Farrona, Sara, Lidia Hurtado, & José C. Reyes. (2007). A Nucleosome Interaction Module Is Required for Normal Function of Arabidopsis thaliana BRAHMA. Journal of Molecular Biology. 373(2). 240–250. 48 indexed citations

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Hurtado, Lidia, Sara Farrona, & José C. Reyes. (2006). The putative SWI/SNF complex subunit BRAHMA activates flower homeotic genes in Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Molecular Biology. 62(1-2). 291–304. 114 indexed citations

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Turck, Franziska, François Roudier, Sara Farrona, et al.. (2005). Arabidopsis TFL2/LHP1 Specifically Associates with Genes Marked by Trimethylation of Histone H3 Lysine 27. PLoS Genetics. preprint(2007). e86–e86. 2 indexed citations

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