Smita Kurup

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Smita Kurup is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Smita Kurup has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Plant Science, 30 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Biochemistry. Recurrent topics in Smita Kurup's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (14 papers), Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (12 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (9 papers). Smita Kurup is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (14 papers), Lipid metabolism and biosynthesis (12 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (9 papers). Smita Kurup collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Smita Kurup's co-authors include Peter J. Eastmond, Michael J. Holdsworth, Harrie van Erp, Guillaume Ménard, Huw Jones, Amélie A. Kelly, Giles Oldroyd, Guru Radhakrishnan, Leonie H. Luginbuehl and Andrew Breakspear and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Nature Biotechnology and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Smita Kurup

46 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Fatty acids in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are synthesized by the host plant

2017 490 citations Guillaume Ménard, Smita Kurup et al. profile →

Peers

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Cornelia Herrfurth Germany

Mark F. Belmonte Canada

Antony Champion France

Álvaro Cuadros‐Inostroza Germany

Jean‐Philippe Galaud France

Fabienne Morcillo France

Jyan-Chyun Jang United States

Jorge Vicente United Kingdom

James O. Berry United States

Cornelia Herrfurth Germany

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Citations per year, relative to Smita Kurup Smita Kurup (= 1×) peers Cornelia Herrfurth

Countries citing papers authored by Smita Kurup

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Smita Kurup

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Smita Kurup

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

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Griffiths, Cara A., Fernando Salvagiotti, Liana G. Acevedo‐Siaca, et al.. (2025). Membrane-permeable trehalose 6-phosphate precursor spray increases wheat yields in field trials. Nature Biotechnology. 44(2). 316–325. 4 indexed citations

Mishra, V. K., Swati Tyagi, Shalabh Dixit, et al.. (2025). Unveiling genetic basis of seedling emergence from deep soil depth under dry direct- seeded conditions in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1512234–1512234. 1 indexed citations

Kurup, Smita, Laura Siles, Jo Hepworth, et al.. (2025). DeepCanola: Phenotyping brassica pods using semi-synthetic data and active learning. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture. 237. 110470–110470. 1 indexed citations

Siles, Laura, et al.. (2025). Large scale phenotyping on the effect of heat and cold stress on Brassica napus during floral development. Plant Stress. 17. 100957–100957.

Venegas‐Calerón, Mónica, Antonio J. Moreno‐Pérez, Frédéric Beaudoin, et al.. (2025). Wax synthases from sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seeds. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 222. 109692–109692.

Moreno‐Pérez, Antonio J., Enrique Martínez‐Force, Rafael Garcés, et al.. (2024). Characterisation of fatty acyl reductases of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) seed. Plant Science. 341. 111992–111992. 2 indexed citations

Sandhu, Nitika, Mohini Prabha Singh, Vikas Verma, et al.. (2023). Integrating Association Mapping, Linkage Mapping, Fine Mapping with RNA Seq Conferring Seedling Vigor Improvement for Successful Crop Establishment in Deep Sown Direct-Seeded Rice. Rice. 16(1). 46–46. 4 indexed citations

Lowe, C. C., Milan O. Urban, Héctor Fabio Buendía, et al.. (2023). High Temperature Tolerance in a Novel, High-Quality Phaseolus vulgaris Breeding Line Is Due to Maintenance of Pollen Viability and Successful Germination on the Stigma. Plants. 12(13). 2491–2491. 3 indexed citations

Smith, Daniel P., Michael J. Deery, Richard Bayliss, et al.. (2023). A point mutation in the kinase domain of CRK10 leads to xylem vessel collapse and activation of defence responses in Arabidopsis. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(10). 3104–3121. 7 indexed citations

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Siles, Laura, et al.. (2023). Automated extraction of pod phenotype data from micro-computed tomography. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1120182–1120182. 2 indexed citations

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Ménard, Guillaume, Rupam Kumar Bhunia, Clarice Noleto Dias, et al.. (2022). Diverting phenylpropanoid pathway flux from sinapine to produce industrially useful 4-vinyl derivatives of hydroxycinnamic acids in Brassicaceous oilseeds. Metabolic Engineering. 70. 196–205. 9 indexed citations

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Kurup, Smita, et al.. (2020). Characterisation of bird cherry‐oat aphid (Rhopalosiphum padi L.) behaviour and aphid host preference in relation to partially resistant and susceptible wheat landraces. Annals of Applied Biology. 177(2). 184–194. 15 indexed citations

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Ménard, Guillaume, Fiona M. Bryant, Amélie A. Kelly, et al.. (2018). Natural variation in acyl editing is a determinant of seed storage oil composition. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 17346–17346. 6 indexed citations

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Ménard, Guillaume, Fiona M. Bryant, Amélie A. Kelly, et al.. (2017). Genome Wide Analysis of Fatty Acid Desaturation and Its Response to Temperature. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 173(3). 1594–1605. 48 indexed citations

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Ríos, Juan J., Jean Devonshire, Neil S. Graham, et al.. (2012). Distribution of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) in the leaves of Brassica rapa under varying exogenous Ca and Mg supply. Annals of Botany. 109(6). 1081–1089. 39 indexed citations

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Amoah, Stephen, Smita Kurup, Carlos M. Rodríguez López, et al.. (2012). A Hypomethylated population of Brassica rapa for forward and reverse Epi-genetics. BMC Plant Biology. 12(1). 193–193. 56 indexed citations

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MACROBBIE, E. A. C. & Smita Kurup. (2007). Signalling mechanisms in the regulation of vacuolar ion release in guard cells. New Phytologist. 175(4). 630–640. 53 indexed citations

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Moore, Ian, Marketa Samalova, & Smita Kurup. (2006). Transactivated and chemically inducible gene expression in plants. The Plant Journal. 45(4). 651–683. 127 indexed citations

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Kurup, Smita, Huw Jones, & Michael J. Holdsworth. (2000). Interactions of the developmental regulator ABI3 with proteins identified from developing Arabidopsis seeds. The Plant Journal. 21(2). 143–155. 176 indexed citations

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Walker, Elizabeth A., J.P. Ride, Smita Kurup, et al.. (1996). Molecular analysis of two functional homologues of the S 3 allele of the Papaver rhoeas self-incompatibility gene isolated from different populations. Plant Molecular Biology. 30(5). 983–994. 52 indexed citations

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