Tessa M. Burch‐Smith

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
58 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

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Tessa M. Burch‐Smith is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tessa M. Burch‐Smith has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Plant Science, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Tessa M. Burch‐Smith's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (20 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (20 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (20 papers). Tessa M. Burch‐Smith is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (20 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (20 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (20 papers). Tessa M. Burch‐Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Tessa M. Burch‐Smith's co-authors include Savithramma P. Dinesh‐Kumar, Patricia Zambryski, Michael Schiff, Yule Liu, Gregory B. Martin, Jeffrey C. Anderson, Kirk J. Czymmek, Jeffrey L. Caplan, Krzysztof Bobik and Padmavathi Mamillapalli and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Tessa M. Burch‐Smith

57 papers receiving 3.8k citations

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Applications and advantages of virus‐induced gene silencing for gene function studies in plants

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tessa M. Burch‐Smith United States	27	3.3k	1.7k	295	257	193	58	3.8k
Xiuren Zhang United States	25	4.1k 1.3×	3.0k 1.8×	267 0.9×	275 1.1×	245 1.3×	50	5.0k
Christophe Lacomme United Kingdom	24	2.8k 0.8×	1.6k 0.9×	266 0.9×	503 2.0×	243 1.3×	39	3.3k
Rosa Lozano‐Durán China	34	3.4k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	150 0.5×	306 1.2×	444 2.3×	95	3.7k
Peter Moffett Canada	35	4.3k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	334 1.1×	441 1.7×	406 2.1×	84	4.9k
Jean‐Benoit Morel France	20	3.0k 0.9×	1.6k 0.9×	152 0.5×	272 1.1×	178 0.9×	38	3.5k
Dominique Pontier France	28	3.1k 0.9×	1.9k 1.1×	106 0.4×	153 0.6×	162 0.8×	34	3.7k
Alison G. Roberts United Kingdom	29	2.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	433 1.5×	248 1.0×	118 0.6×	40	3.5k
Arthur G. Hunt United States	37	2.8k 0.8×	2.8k 1.6×	556 1.9×	395 1.5×	239 1.2×	112	4.4k
Ari Sadanandom United Kingdom	36	3.8k 1.2×	2.3k 1.4×	136 0.5×	104 0.4×	210 1.1×	76	4.8k
Guido Sessa Israel	34	3.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.7×	129 0.4×	110 0.4×	120 0.6×	80	3.7k

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Czymmek, Kirk J., Yoselin Benitez‐Alfonso, Tessa M. Burch‐Smith, et al.. (2025). Best practices in plant fluorescence imaging and reporting: A primer. The Plant Cell. 37(7). 1 indexed citations

Adams, Nikki, Sarbottam Piya, Min Xu, et al.. (2025). Glucosinolates can act as signals to modulate intercellular trafficking via plasmodesmata. New Phytologist. 246(3). 1163–1182. 1 indexed citations

Alazem, Mazen, et al.. (2025). Regulation of cell-to-cell trafficking by viral movement proteins. Journal of Experimental Botany. 77(3). 714–731. 2 indexed citations

Burch‐Smith, Tessa M., et al.. (2024). The dicot homolog of maize PPR103 carries a C-terminal DYW domain and may have a role in C-to-U editing of some chloroplast RNA transcripts. Plant Molecular Biology. 114(2). 28–28.

Roberts, Daniel M., et al.. (2024). Comparing Methods for Detection and Quantification of Plasmodesmal Callose in Nicotiana benthamiana Leaves During Defense Responses. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 37(5). 427–431. 4 indexed citations

Alazem, Mazen, et al.. (2023). Viral synergism suppresses R gene-mediated resistance by impairing downstream defense mechanisms in soybean. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 192(4). 3088–3105. 9 indexed citations

Kang, Byung‐Ho, Charles T. Anderson, Shin‐ichi Arimura, et al.. (2021). A glossary of plant cell structures: Current insights and future questions. The Plant Cell. 34(1). 10–52. 34 indexed citations

Ganusova, Elena E., et al.. (2020). Chloroplast-to-nucleus retrograde signalling controls intercellular trafficking via plasmodesmata formation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1801). 20190408–20190408. 26 indexed citations

Wang, Aiming, Tessa M. Burch‐Smith, & Yi Li. (2020). Focus on Cell Biology of Virus-Plant and Virus-Vector Interactions. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 33(1). 5–5. 1 indexed citations

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Piya, Sarbottam, Jinyi Liu, Tessa M. Burch‐Smith, Thomas J. Baum, & Tarek Hewezi. (2019). A role for Arabidopsis growth-regulating factors 1 and 3 in growth–stress antagonism. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(4). 1402–1417. 41 indexed citations

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Bobik, Krzysztof, et al.. (2018). The essential chloroplast ribosomal protein uL15c interacts with the chloroplast RNA helicase ISE2 and affects intercellular trafficking through plasmodesmata. New Phytologist. 221(2). 850–865. 25 indexed citations

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Ganusova, Elena E., et al.. (2018). RNA on the move: The plasmodesmata perspective. Plant Science. 275. 1–10. 36 indexed citations

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Hewezi, Tarek, et al.. (2017). Phytopathogen-induced changes to plant methylomes. Plant Cell Reports. 37(1). 17–23. 25 indexed citations

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Dunlap, John R., et al.. (2017). Spatial distribution of organelles in leaf cells and soybean root nodules revealed by focused ion beam-scanning electron microscopy. Functional Plant Biology. 45(2). 180–191. 15 indexed citations

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Plett, Jonathan M., Hengfu Yin, Ritesh Mewalal, et al.. (2017). Populus trichocarpa encodes small, effector-like secreted proteins that are highly induced during mutualistic symbiosis. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 382–382. 28 indexed citations

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Ganusova, Elena E., et al.. (2017). Altered Expression of a Chloroplast Protein Affects the Outcome of Virus and Nematode Infection. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 30(6). 478–488. 24 indexed citations

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Brunkard, Jacob O., Tessa M. Burch‐Smith, Anne M. Runkel, & Patricia Zambryski. (2014). Investigating Plasmodesmata Genetics with Virus-Induced Gene Silencing and an Agrobacterium-Mediated GFP Movement Assay. Methods in molecular biology. 1217. 185–198. 16 indexed citations

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Burch‐Smith, Tessa M., et al.. (2012). Reduced levels of class 1 reversibly glycosylated polypeptide increase intercellular transport via plasmodesmata. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 7(1). 62–67. 16 indexed citations

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Burch‐Smith, Tessa M. & Patricia Zambryski. (2012). Plasmodesmata Paradigm Shift: Regulation from Without Versus Within. Annual Review of Plant Biology. 63(1). 239–260. 123 indexed citations

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Stonebloom, Solomon, Tessa M. Burch‐Smith, In-Soon Kim, et al.. (2009). Loss of the plant DEAD-box protein ISE1 leads to defective mitochondria and increased cell-to-cell transport via plasmodesmata. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(40). 17229–17234. 123 indexed citations

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