Thomas Kroj

7.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 5.5k citations indexed

About

Thomas Kroj is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Kroj has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 5.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Plant Science, 23 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Thomas Kroj's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (45 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (24 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (12 papers). Thomas Kroj is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (45 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (24 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (12 papers). Thomas Kroj collaborates with scholars based in France, Germany and China. Thomas Kroj's co-authors include François Parcy, Marc Jakoby, Jens Tiedemann, Jesús Vicente‐Carbajosa, Bernd Weißhaar, Wolfgang Dröge‐Laser, Dominique Roby, Stella Césari, Imre E. Somssich and Véronique Chalvon and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Kroj

55 papers receiving 5.5k citations

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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.

bZIP transcription factors in Arabidopsis

2002 1.4k citations Thomas Kroj et al. profile →
The Rice Resistance Protein Pair RGA4/RGA5 Recognizes the Magnaporthe oryzae Effectors AVR-Pia and AVR1-CO39 by Direct Binding

2013 397 citations Stella Césari, Véronique Chalvon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Kroj France	30	5.0k	2.6k	617	250	190	57	5.5k
Eiichi Minami Japan	47	5.1k 1.0×	2.9k 1.1×	539 0.9×	256 1.0×	146 0.8×	94	6.0k
Patrick Schweizer Germany	43	4.7k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	640 1.0×	245 1.0×	148 0.8×	93	5.2k
Dominique Roby France	47	5.7k 1.1×	2.9k 1.1×	520 0.8×	311 1.2×	212 1.1×	80	6.5k
Mansour Karimi Belgium	25	4.9k 1.0×	4.1k 1.6×	321 0.5×	374 1.5×	134 0.7×	50	6.1k
Dingzhong Tang China	38	5.4k 1.1×	2.1k 0.8×	479 0.8×	115 0.5×	283 1.5×	109	5.9k
Thomas Eulgem United States	29	7.6k 1.5×	5.3k 2.0×	445 0.7×	304 1.2×	164 0.9×	47	8.8k
Baofang Fan United States	33	5.3k 1.1×	3.7k 1.4×	323 0.5×	269 1.1×	105 0.6×	53	6.4k
Pingtao Ding United Kingdom	27	4.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	356 0.6×	214 0.9×	66 0.3×	38	4.7k
Yasuo Niwa Japan	24	4.0k 0.8×	4.1k 1.5×	319 0.5×	617 2.5×	108 0.6×	54	5.6k
Wan-Ling Chiu United States	16	4.6k 0.9×	3.5k 1.3×	278 0.5×	386 1.5×	146 0.8×	19	5.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Kroj

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Kroj

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Villette, Claire, Véronique Chalvon, Isabelle Meusnier, et al.. (2025). Rice JASMONIC ACID OXIDASES control resting jasmonate metabolism to promote growth and repress basal immune responses. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 198(1).

Baudin, Maël, Pierre Gladieux, Didier Tharreau, et al.. (2024). Pyricularia oryzae : Lab star and field scourge. Molecular Plant Pathology. 25(4). 11 indexed citations

Greenwood, Julian R., Thomas Kroj, Mary Jeanie Telebanco‐Yanoria, et al.. (2024). Genome-wide association analysis uncovers rice blast resistance alleles of Ptr and Pia. Communications Biology. 7(1). 607–607. 16 indexed citations

Xiao, Gui, Stella Césari, Karine Lambou, et al.. (2024). The unconventional resistance protein PTR recognizes the Magnaporthe oryzae effector AVR-Pita in an allele-specific manner. Nature Plants. 10(6). 994–1004. 10 indexed citations

Lambou, Karine, Jérôme Collemare, Crystel Barbisan, et al.. (2024). The bZIP transcription factor BIP1 of the rice blast fungus is essential for infection and regulates a specific set of appressorium genes. PLoS Pathogens. 20(1). e1011945–e1011945. 5 indexed citations

Barthe, Philippe, Karine de Guillen, Stella Césari, et al.. (2024). The structural landscape and diversity of Pyricularia oryzae MAX effectors revisited. PLoS Pathogens. 20(5). e1012176–e1012176. 12 indexed citations

Oikawa, Kaori, Koki Fujisaki, Motoki Shimizu, et al.. (2024). The blast pathogen effector AVR-Pik binds and stabilizes rice heavy metal-associated (HMA) proteins to co-opt their function in immunity. PLoS Pathogens. 20(11). e1012647–e1012647. 4 indexed citations

Bagheri, Abdolreza, et al.. (2023). The RLCK subfamily VII‐4 controls pattern‐triggered immunity and basal resistance to bacterial and fungal pathogens in rice. The Plant Journal. 115(5). 1345–1356. 10 indexed citations

Chalvon, Véronique, et al.. (2022). The activity of the RGA5 sensor NLR from rice requires binding of its integrated HMA domain to effectors but not HMA domain self‐interaction. Molecular Plant Pathology. 23(9). 1320–1330. 5 indexed citations

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Césari, Stella, Véronique Chalvon, Martine Pugnière, et al.. (2022). New recognition specificity in a plant immune receptor by molecular engineering of its integrated domain. Nature Communications. 13(1). 1524–1524. 67 indexed citations

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Césari, Stella, et al.. (2022). Insight into the structure and molecular mode of action of plant paired NLR immune receptors. Essays in Biochemistry. 66(5). 513–526. 19 indexed citations

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Chochois, Vincent, et al.. (2021). A novel robust and high‐throughput method to measure cell death in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves by fluorescence imaging. Molecular Plant Pathology. 22(12). 1688–1696. 12 indexed citations

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Césari, Stella & Thomas Kroj. (2017). Transposon-Mediated NLR Exile to the Pollen Allows Rice Blast Resistance without Yield Penalty. Molecular Plant. 10(5). 665–667. 3 indexed citations

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Liao, Jingjing, Huichuan Huang, Isabelle Meusnier, et al.. (2016). Pathogen effectors and plant immunity determine specialization of the blast fungus to rice subspecies. eLife. 5. 46 indexed citations

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Cayrol, Bastien, Amandine Delteil, Enrico Gobbato, Thomas Kroj, & Jean‐Benoît Morel. (2016). Three wall-associated kinases required for rice basal immunity form protein complexes in the plasma membrane. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 11(4). e1149676–e1149676. 15 indexed citations

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Guillen, Karine de, Diana Ortiz, Jérôme Gracy, et al.. (2015). Structure Analysis Uncovers a Highly Diverse but Structurally Conserved Effector Family in Phytopathogenic Fungi. PLoS Pathogens. 11(10). e1005228–e1005228. 166 indexed citations

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Césari, Stella, Hiroyuki Kanzaki, Tadashi Fujiwara, et al.. (2014). The NB ‐ LRR proteins RGA 4 and RGA 5 interact functionally and physically to confer disease resistance. The EMBO Journal. 33(17). 1941–1959. 274 indexed citations

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Tronchet, Maurice, Claudine Balagué, Thomas Kroj, Lise Jouanin, & Dominique Roby. (2009). Cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenases‐C and D, key enzymes in lignin biosynthesis, play an essential role in disease resistance in Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant Pathology. 11(1). 83–92. 223 indexed citations

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Meyer, Damien F., Emmanuelle Lauber, Dominique Roby, Matthieu Arlat, & Thomas Kroj. (2005). Optimization of pathogenicity assays to study the Arabidopsis thaliana – Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris pathosystem. Molecular Plant Pathology. 6(3). 327–333. 60 indexed citations

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Kroj, Thomas, Márcio Elias Ferreira, Maurice Tronchet, et al.. (2004). An Arabidopsis mutant with altered hypersensitive response to Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris , hxc1 , displays a complex pathophenotype. Molecular Plant Pathology. 5(5). 453–464. 7 indexed citations

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