Simone Ferrari

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 4.5k citations indexed

About

Simone Ferrari is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Simone Ferrari has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 4.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Plant Science, 22 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Simone Ferrari's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (28 papers), Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (25 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (14 papers). Simone Ferrari is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (28 papers), Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (25 papers) and Plant Reproductive Biology (14 papers). Simone Ferrari collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Germany. Simone Ferrari's co-authors include Giulia De Lorenzo, Frederick M. Ausubel, R Galletti, Felice Cervone, Carine Denoux, Julia Dewdney, Julia M. Plotnikova, Donatella Vairo, Daniela Pontiggia and José M. Alonso and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Plant Cell and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Simone Ferrari

50 papers receiving 4.4k 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.

Oligogalacturonides: plant damage-associated molecular patterns and regulators of growth and development

2013 375 citations Simone Ferrari Frontiers in Plant Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simone Ferrari Italy	29	4.1k	1.5k	412	204	182	52	4.5k
Baozhu Guo United States	43	4.5k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	287 0.7×	66 0.3×	202 1.1×	146	5.0k
Ann L. T. Powell United States	30	2.8k 0.7×	1.3k 0.9×	406 1.0×	71 0.3×	180 1.0×	39	3.2k
Yūichi Katayose Japan	29	4.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.4×	285 0.7×	69 0.3×	91 0.5×	72	4.9k
Marie‐Thérèse Esquerré‐Tugayé France	30	2.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.7×	510 1.2×	93 0.5×	139 0.8×	56	3.2k
Wangzhen Guo China	45	6.4k 1.5×	2.0k 1.3×	199 0.5×	108 0.5×	76 0.4×	215	6.9k
Hiroshi Takatsuji Japan	40	5.1k 1.2×	3.1k 2.0×	340 0.8×	117 0.6×	61 0.3×	76	5.7k
T. Lynne Reuber United States	22	5.4k 1.3×	3.4k 2.2×	203 0.5×	86 0.4×	110 0.6×	27	6.1k
Xinhua Ding China	28	2.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	261 0.6×	86 0.4×	87 0.5×	97	3.1k
Anne Frary Türkiye	31	4.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.4×	308 0.7×	63 0.3×	305 1.7×	98	5.7k
Pierre Coutos‐Thévenot France	25	2.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	226 0.5×	78 0.4×	257 1.4×	39	2.8k

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Bellini, E., et al.. (2025). A bio-based approach to produce inducers of plant defense responses through fermentation of agri-food waste biomass with white rot fungi. Plant Stress. 18. 101020–101020.

Badary, Amr, et al.. (2024). Selection and characterization of a Parachlorella kessleri microalgal strain able to assimilate lactose, and grow on dairy waste. Biomass and Bioenergy. 188. 107344–107344. 2 indexed citations

Lorrai, Riccardo, Sara Raggi, Kristoffer Jonsson, et al.. (2024). Cell wall integrity modulates HOOKLESS1 and PHYTOCHROME INTERACTING FACTOR4 expression controlling apical hook formation. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 196(2). 1562–1578. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Ping, Pierce Jamieson, Lin Zhang, et al.. (2020). The Cotton Wall-Associated Kinase GhWAK7A Mediates Responses to Fungal Wilt Pathogens by Complexing with the Chitin Sensory Receptors. The Plant Cell. 32(12). 3978–4001. 97 indexed citations

Ranocha, Philippe, Aurélie Le Ru, Alain Jauneau, et al.. (2020). Coordination of five class III peroxidase-encoding genes for early germination events of Arabidopsis thaliana. Plant Science. 298. 110565–110565. 24 indexed citations

Benedetti, Manuel, Daniela Pontiggia, Sara Raggi, et al.. (2015). Plant immunity triggered by engineered in vivo release of oligogalacturonides, damage-associated molecular patterns. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(17). 5533–5538. 162 indexed citations

Savatin, Daniel V., et al.. (2013). The non-traditional growth regulator pectimorf is an elicitor of defense responses and protects Arabidopsis against Botrytis cinerea. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 3 indexed citations

Ferrari, Simone. (2013). Oligogalacturonides: plant damage-associated molecular patterns and regulators of growth and development. Frontiers in Plant Science. 4. 49–49. 375 indexed citations breakdown →

Francocci, Fedra, Vincenzo Lionetti, Simone Ferrari, et al.. (2013). Analysis of pectin mutants and natural accessions of Arabidopsis highlights the impact of de-methyl-esterified homogalacturonan on tissue saccharification. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 6(1). 163–163. 42 indexed citations

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Savatin, Daniel V., Simone Ferrari, Francesca Sicilia, & Giulia De Lorenzo. (2011). Oligogalacturonide-Auxin Antagonism Does Not Require Posttranscriptional Gene Silencing or Stabilization of Auxin Response Repressors in Arabidopsis . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 157(3). 1163–1174. 72 indexed citations

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Bertazzon, Nadia, Alessandro Raiola, Massimo Gardiman, et al.. (2011). Transient silencing of the grapevine gene VvPGIP1 by agroinfiltration with a construct for RNA interference. Plant Cell Reports. 31(1). 133–143. 33 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Simone, Luca Sella, Michela Janni, et al.. (2011). Transgenic expression of polygalacturonase‐inhibiting proteins in Arabidopsis and wheat increases resistance to the flower pathogen Fusarium graminearum. Plant Biology. 14(s1). 31–38. 96 indexed citations

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Denoux, Carine, R Galletti, Nicole D. Mammarella, et al.. (2008). Activation of Defense Response Pathways by OGs and Flg22 Elicitors in Arabidopsis Seedlings. Molecular Plant. 1(3). 423–445. 396 indexed citations

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Fortunati, Alessio, et al.. (2008). Rha1, a new mutant of Arabidopsis disturbed in root slanting, gravitropism and auxin physiology. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 3(11). 989–990. 3 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Simone, R Galletti, Carine Denoux, et al.. (2007). Resistance to Botrytis cinerea Induced in Arabidopsis by Elicitors Is Independent of Salicylic Acid, Ethylene, or Jasmonate Signaling But Requires PHYTOALEXIN DEFICIENT3 . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 144(1). 367–379. 333 indexed citations

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Mattei, Benedetta, R Galletti, Cinzia Manfredini, et al.. (2005). Recognition and signalling in the cell wall: The case of endopolygalacturonase, PGIP and oligogalacturonides. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 139(1). 24–27. 12 indexed citations

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Alonso, José M., Anna N. Stepanova, Roberto Solano, et al.. (2003). Five components of the ethylene-response pathway identified in a screen for weak ethylene-insensitive mutants in Arabidopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(5). 2992–2997. 311 indexed citations

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Ferrari, Simone, Donatella Vairo, Frederick M. Ausubel, Felice Cervone, & Giulia De Lorenzo. (2002). Tandemly Duplicated Arabidopsis Genes That Encode Polygalacturonase-Inhibiting Proteins Are Regulated Coordinately by Different Signal Transduction Pathways in Response to Fungal Infection. The Plant Cell. 15(1). 93–106. 229 indexed citations

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Lorenzo, Giulia De & Simone Ferrari. (2002). Polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins in defense against phytopathogenic fungi. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 5(4). 295–299. 187 indexed citations

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Migliaccio, Fernando, et al.. (1998). Hook formation in sunflower seedlings is directed by both positive gravitropism and a form of circumnutation. Plant Biosystems - An International Journal Dealing with all Aspects of Plant Biology. 132(1). 11–16. 1 indexed citations

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