Sarah Morran

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Sarah Morran is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Pollution. According to data from OpenAlex, Sarah Morran has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Plant Science, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 10 papers in Pollution. Recurrent topics in Sarah Morran's work include Weed Control and Herbicide Applications (15 papers), Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (10 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (8 papers). Sarah Morran is often cited by papers focused on Weed Control and Herbicide Applications (15 papers), Pesticide and Herbicide Environmental Studies (10 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (8 papers). Sarah Morran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Brazil. Sarah Morran's co-authors include Todd A. Gaines, Franck E. Dayan, Patrick J. Tranel, Carlos Alberto Gonsiorkiewicz Rigon, Anita Küpper, Stephen O. Duke, Neil J. Shirley, Sergiy Lopato, Peter Langridge and Omid Eini and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Biological Chemistry, PLoS ONE and The Plant Journal.

In The Last Decade

Sarah Morran

20 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Mechanisms of evolved herbicide resistance

2020 428 citations Todd A. Gaines, Stephen O. Duke et al. Journal of Biological Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sarah Morran United States	10	1.1k	569	332	75	41	22	1.2k
William L. Patzoldt United States	12	1.1k 1.0×	594 1.0×	523 1.6×	93 1.2×	69 1.7×	15	1.2k
Anita Küpper United States	12	738 0.7×	314 0.6×	368 1.1×	74 1.0×	38 0.9×	15	816
Ian A. Zelaya United States	11	820 0.8×	322 0.6×	398 1.2×	114 1.5×	48 1.2×	17	880
Bernal E. Valverde Costa Rica	18	786 0.7×	264 0.5×	263 0.8×	72 1.0×	59 1.4×	53	904
Liyao Dong China	17	980 0.9×	375 0.7×	489 1.5×	39 0.5×	62 1.5×	53	1.1k
Lang Pan China	22	1.2k 1.1×	546 1.0×	603 1.8×	36 0.5×	52 1.3×	65	1.3k
Aimone Porri United States	18	958 0.9×	713 1.3×	165 0.5×	48 0.6×	63 1.5×	29	1.1k
M. D. Osuna Spain	23	1.2k 1.1×	385 0.7×	751 2.3×	145 1.9×	75 1.8×	66	1.3k
Carlos Alberto Gonsiorkiewicz Rigon Brazil	9	550 0.5×	211 0.4×	255 0.8×	59 0.8×	27 0.7×	23	598
Richard R. Evans United States	5	614 0.6×	292 0.5×	154 0.5×	57 0.8×	33 0.8×	7	715

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sarah Morran

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sarah Morran

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sarah Morran. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sarah Morran 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 Sarah Morran. Sarah Morran is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Patterson, Eric L., Luan Cutti, Sarah Morran, et al.. (2025). Assembly and Annotation of the Tetraploid Salsola tragus (Russian Thistle) Genome. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(2). 1 indexed citations

Cutti, Luan, Víctor Llaca, Kevin Fengler, et al.. (2025). Chromosome‐level assemblies of Amaranthus palmeri, Amaranthus retroflexus, and Amaranthus hybridus allow for genomic comparisons and identification of a sex‐determining region. The Plant Journal. 121(4). e70027–e70027. 6 indexed citations

Morran, Sarah, Eric L. Patterson, Yu‐Hung Hung, et al.. (2025). A transposable element insertion in AUX/IAA16 disrupts splicing and causes auxin resistance in Bassia scoparia. The Plant Journal. 123(2). e70339–e70339.

Morran, Sarah, Luan Cutti, Eric L. Patterson, et al.. (2025). Chromosome-Level Assemblies of the Allohexaploid Genomes of Conyza sumatrensis and Conyza bonariensis. Genome Biology and Evolution. 17(4).

Morran, Sarah, Ana Cláudia Langaro, Luiz Henrique Saes Zobiole, et al.. (2023). Nontarget‐site resistance due to rapid physiological response in 2,4‐D resistant Conyza sumatrensis: reduced 2,4‐D translocation and auxin‐induced gene expression. Pest Management Science. 79(10). 3581–3592. 6 indexed citations

Borella, Júnior, Ana Cláudia Langaro, Sarah Morran, et al.. (2022). Rapid photosynthetic and physiological response of 2,4-D–resistant Sumatran fleabane (Conyza sumatrensis) to 2,4-D as a survival strategy. Weed Science. 70(3). 298–308. 4 indexed citations

Borella, Júnior, et al.. (2021). Sumatran fleabane (Conyza sumatrensis) resistant to PSI-inhibiting herbicides and physiological responses to paraquat. Weed Science. 70(1). 46–54. 8 indexed citations

Morran, Sarah, et al.. (2020). Synthetic auxin herbicides: finding the lock and key to weed resistance. Plant Science. 300. 110631–110631. 58 indexed citations

Takano, Hudson Kagueyama, Amanda S. Souza, Sarah Morran, et al.. (2020). Evolution of EPSPS double mutation imparting glyphosate resistance in wild poinsettia (Euphorbia heterophylla L.). PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0238818–e0238818. 4 indexed citations

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Gaines, Todd A., Stephen O. Duke, Sarah Morran, et al.. (2020). Mechanisms of evolved herbicide resistance. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 295(30). 10307–10330. 428 indexed citations breakdown →

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Kumar, Vipan, Rui Liu, R. S. Currie, et al.. (2020). Cross-resistance to atrazine and metribuzin in multiple herbicide-resistant kochia accessions: confirmation, mechanism, and management. Weed Technology. 35(4). 539–546. 4 indexed citations

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Matzrafi, Maor, Sarah Morran, & Marie Jasieniuk. (2020). Recurrent Selection with Glufosinate at Low Rates Reduces the Susceptibility of a Lolium perenne ssp. multiflorum Population to Glufosinate. Agronomy. 10(9). 1288–1288. 9 indexed citations

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Brunharo, Caio A. C. G., et al.. (2018). EPSPS duplication and mutation involved in glyphosate resistance in the allotetraploid weed species Poa annua L.. Pest Management Science. 75(6). 1663–1670. 22 indexed citations

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Morran, Sarah, Marcelo L. Moretti, Caio A. C. G. Brunharo, Albert J. Fischer, & Bradley D. Hanson. (2018). Multiple target site resistance to glyphosate in junglerice ( Echinochloa colona ) lines from California orchards. Pest Management Science. 74(12). 2747–2753. 14 indexed citations

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Moretti, Marcelo L., et al.. (2017). Transcription of putative tonoplast transporters in response to glyphosate and paraquat stress in Conyza bonariensis and Conyza canadensis and selection of reference genes for qRT-PCR. PLoS ONE. 12(7). e0180794–e0180794. 23 indexed citations

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Bi, Huihui, Sukanya Luang, Yuan Li, et al.. (2016). Identification and characterization of wheat drought-responsive MYB transcription factors involved in the regulation of cuticle biosynthesis. Journal of Experimental Botany. 67(18). 5363–5380. 71 indexed citations

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Malone, Jenna, Sarah Morran, Neil J. Shirley, Peter Boutsalis, & Christopher Preston. (2015). EPSPS gene amplification in glyphosate‐resistant Bromus diandrus. Pest Management Science. 72(1). 81–88. 82 indexed citations

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Wei, Jia, Omid Eini, Sarah Morran, et al.. (2013). Optimization of TaDREB3 gene expression in transgenic barley using cold‐inducible promoters. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 11(6). 659–670. 63 indexed citations

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Morran, Sarah, Omid Eini, Rohan Singh, et al.. (2010). Improvement of stress tolerance of wheat and barley by modulation of expression of DREB/CBF factors. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 9(2). 230–249. 343 indexed citations

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Lopato, Sergiy, et al.. (2006). Isolation of plant transcription factors using a modified yeast one-hybrid system.. Plant Methods. 2(1). 3–3. 51 indexed citations

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