Walter Suza

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Walter Suza is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Walter Suza has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Plant Science, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 6 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Walter Suza's work include Insect and Pesticide Research (4 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (4 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (4 papers). Walter Suza is often cited by papers focused on Insect and Pesticide Research (4 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (4 papers) and Insect-Plant Interactions and Control (4 papers). Walter Suza collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Africa and Ghana. Walter Suza's co-authors include Paul Staswick, Martha L. Rowe, Bogdan Şerban, İskender Tiryaki, Thomas Lübberstedt, Argelia Lorence, Mats Hámberg, Otto Miersch, Claus Wasternack and Andrzej Guranowski and has published in prestigious journals such as The Plant Cell, FEBS Letters and Nature Climate Change.

In The Last Decade

Walter Suza

20 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Characterization of an Arabidopsis Enzyme Family That Conjugates Amino Acids to Indole-3-Acetic Acid

2005 871 citations Paul Staswick, Bogdan Şerban et al. The Plant Cell profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Walter Suza United States	12	1.4k	773	262	123	91	20	1.6k
Martha L. Rowe United States	11	1.5k 1.1×	853 1.1×	317 1.2×	186 1.5×	61 0.7×	17	1.8k
Changsong Zou China	18	1.7k 1.2×	1.2k 1.5×	101 0.4×	56 0.5×	80 0.9×	30	2.1k
Ayed M. Al-Abdallat Jordan	20	1.5k 1.1×	681 0.9×	100 0.4×	56 0.5×	234 2.6×	59	1.7k
Jianping Cheng China	15	861 0.6×	431 0.6×	142 0.5×	58 0.5×	43 0.5×	28	1.0k
Zhanao Deng United States	20	1.3k 1.0×	728 0.9×	140 0.5×	136 1.1×	108 1.2×	144	1.6k
Nawaporn Onkokesung United Kingdom	18	837 0.6×	495 0.6×	263 1.0×	137 1.1×	27 0.3×	26	1.0k
Lotte Caarls Netherlands	11	1.1k 0.8×	369 0.5×	322 1.2×	108 0.9×	31 0.3×	18	1.2k
Weimin Fang China	21	1.0k 0.7×	670 0.9×	78 0.3×	154 1.3×	249 2.7×	70	1.3k
Guohong Mao United States	11	1.9k 1.3×	1.0k 1.3×	81 0.3×	41 0.3×	40 0.4×	17	2.1k
Weichao Fang China	20	1.0k 0.7×	721 0.9×	73 0.3×	88 0.7×	126 1.4×	58	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Walter Suza

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Walter Suza

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Fehr, W. R. & Walter Suza. (2025). Principles of Cultivar Development. 4 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter & Kendall R. Lamkey. (2023). Quantitative Genetics for Plant Breeding. 4 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter, et al.. (2023). The impact of ‘framing’ in the adoption of GM crops. GM crops & food. 14(1). 1–11. 4 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter, Paul Gibson, Julia Sibiya, et al.. (2023). Educating the Next Generation of Plant Breeders in Sub-Saharan Africa. 1 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter & Kendall R. Lamkey. (2023). Molecular Plant Breeding. 11 indexed citations

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Sibiya, Julia, et al.. (2022). Improving drought tolerance in maize: Tools and techniques. Frontiers in Genetics. 13. 1001001–1001001. 18 indexed citations

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Lübberstedt, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Maize Zmcyp710a8 Mutant as a Tool to Decipher the Function of Stigmasterol in Plant Metabolism. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 732216–732216. 6 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter & Donald Lee. (2021). Genetics, Agriculture, and Biotechnology. 1 indexed citations

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Andorf, Carson M., William D. Beavis, Matthew B. Hufford, et al.. (2019). Technological advances in maize breeding: past, present and future. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 132(3). 817–849. 121 indexed citations

10.

Suza, Walter, et al.. (2019). Why Do Plants Convert Sitosterol to Stigmasterol?. Frontiers in Plant Science. 10. 354–354. 92 indexed citations

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Lübberstedt, Thomas, et al.. (2018). Risks and opportunities of GM crops: Bt maize example. Global Food Security. 19. 84–91. 36 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter, et al.. (2017). Characterization of Two Arabidopsis L-Gulono-1,4-lactone Oxidases, AtGulLO3 and AtGulLO5, Involved in Ascorbate Biosynthesis. PubMed. 4(12). 389–417. 25 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter, Paul Gibson, Richard Edema, et al.. (2016). Plant breeding capacity building in Africa. Nature Climate Change. 6(11). 976–976. 8 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter & Joe Chappell. (2015). Spatial and temporal regulation of sterol biosynthesis in Nicotiana benthamiana. Physiologia Plantarum. 157(2). 120–134. 11 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter, et al.. (2010). Exploring the impact of wounding and jasmonates on ascorbate metabolism. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 48(5). 337–350. 55 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter, Martha L. Rowe, Mats Hámberg, & Paul Staswick. (2009). A tomato enzyme synthesizes (+)-7-iso-jasmonoyl-l-isoleucine in wounded leaves. Planta. 231(3). 717–728. 71 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter & Paul Staswick. (2008). The role of JAR1 in Jasmonoyl-l-isoleucine production during Arabidopsis wound response. Planta. 227(6). 1221–1232. 201 indexed citations

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Guranowski, Andrzej, Otto Miersch, Paul Staswick, Walter Suza, & Claus Wasternack. (2007). Substrate specificity and products of side‐reactions catalyzed by jasmonate:amino acid synthetase (JAR1). FEBS Letters. 581(5). 815–820. 69 indexed citations

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Suza, Walter. (2006). Exploring the role of jasmonic acid amido synthetases in plant wound response. Insecta mundi. 1 indexed citations

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Staswick, Paul, et al.. (2005). Characterization of an Arabidopsis Enzyme Family That Conjugates Amino Acids to Indole-3-Acetic Acid. The Plant Cell. 17(2). 616–627. 871 indexed citations breakdown →

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