William E. Fry

11.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
123 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

William E. Fry is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William E. Fry has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 114 papers in Plant Science, 49 papers in Cell Biology and 28 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William E. Fry's work include Plant Pathogens and Resistance (100 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (80 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (49 papers). William E. Fry is often cited by papers focused on Plant Pathogens and Resistance (100 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (80 papers) and Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (49 papers). William E. Fry collaborates with scholars based in United States, Colombia and United Kingdom. William E. Fry's co-authors include Stephen B. Goodwin, Niklaus J. Grünwald, Kevin Myers, Christine D. Smart, A. Drenth, Michael G. Milgroom, Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti, G. A. Forbes, Ian M. Small and A. McLeod and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Ecology.

In The Last Decade

William E. Fry

123 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Phytophthora infestans : the plant (and R gene) destroyer

2008 572 citations William E. Fry Molecular Plant Pathology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William E. Fry United States	43	6.0k	2.6k	1.5k	803	246	123	6.4k
Krishna V. Subbarao United States	47	7.4k 1.2×	3.6k 1.4×	1.8k 1.3×	209 0.3×	184 0.7×	230	8.1k
Martin J. Barbetti Australia	44	7.2k 1.2×	2.4k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	343 0.4×	372 1.5×	315	7.9k
A. Drenth Australia	35	4.7k 0.8×	3.1k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	217 0.3×	135 0.5×	175	5.1k
S. T. Koike United States	38	4.5k 0.7×	2.6k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	217 0.3×	161 0.7×	292	5.0k
Cees Waalwijk Netherlands	45	5.1k 0.9×	3.7k 1.4×	1.7k 1.2×	234 0.3×	148 0.6×	141	6.4k
Alejandro Pérez-Garcı́a Spain	37	4.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.6×	1.3k 0.9×	242 0.3×	120 0.5×	107	5.0k
Eduardo S. G. Mizubuti Brazil	35	3.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	636 0.4×	307 0.4×	139 0.6×	156	3.7k
Gary P. Munkvold United States	38	5.0k 0.8×	2.8k 1.0×	1.1k 0.7×	297 0.4×	73 0.3×	134	5.5k
Bruce I. Reisch United States	26	2.5k 0.4×	590 0.2×	1.2k 0.8×	831 1.0×	144 0.6×	81	3.0k
Mark Mazzola United States	50	6.6k 1.1×	2.5k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	129 0.2×	175 0.7×	140	7.4k

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Restrepo, Silvia, et al.. (2022). Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Phytophthora infestans Isolates Associated with Tomato and Potato Crops in Colombia. Phytopathology. 112(8). 1783–1794. 6 indexed citations

Cai, Guohong, William E. Fry, & Bradley I. Hillman. (2019). PiRV-2 stimulates sporulation in Phytophthora infestans. Virus Research. 271. 197674–197674. 22 indexed citations

Martin, Frank N., et al.. (2019). Insights into evolving global populations of Phytophthora infestans via new complementary mtDNA haplotype markers and nuclear SSRs. PLoS ONE. 14(1). e0208606–e0208606. 25 indexed citations

Turissini, David A., Giovanna Danies, Martha Cárdenas, et al.. (2018). Phytophthora betacei, a new species within Phytophthora clade 1c causing late blight on Solanum betaceum in Colombia. Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi. 41(1). 39–55. 21 indexed citations

Cai, Guohong, Kevin Myers, William E. Fry, & Bradley I. Hillman. (2018). Phytophthora infestans RNA virus 2, a novel RNA virus from Phytophthora infestans, does not belong to any known virus group. Archives of Virology. 164(2). 567–572. 17 indexed citations

Saville, Amanda C., Kevin Myers, David E. L. Cooke, et al.. (2018). Large sub-clonal variation in Phytophthora infestans from recent severe late blight epidemics in India. Scientific Reports. 8(1). 4429–4429. 46 indexed citations

Hansen, Zachariah R., Kathryne L. Everts, William E. Fry, et al.. (2016). Genetic Variation within Clonal Lineages of Phytophthora infestans Revealed through Genotyping-By-Sequencing, and Implications for Late Blight Epidemiology. PLoS ONE. 11(11). e0165690–e0165690. 24 indexed citations

Danies, Giovanna, Kevin Myers, Silvia Restrepo, et al.. (2014). An Ephemeral Sexual Population of Phytophthora infestans in the Northeastern United States and Canada. PLoS ONE. 9(12). e116354–e116354. 36 indexed citations

Cai, Guohong, et al.. (2012). A new virus from the plant pathogenic oomycete Phytophthora infestans with an 8 kb dsRNA genome: The sixth member of a proposed new virus genus. Virology. 435(2). 341–349. 40 indexed citations

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Cai, Guohong, Silvia Restrepo, Kevin Myers, et al.. (2012). Gene profiling in partially resistant and susceptible near‐isogenic tomatoes in response to late blight in the field. Molecular Plant Pathology. 14(2). 171–184. 15 indexed citations

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Myers, Kevin, et al.. (2011). Characterization of Phytophthora infestans isolates from potato/tomato in 2010. Phytopathology. 101(6). 261–262. 2 indexed citations

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Runno-Paurson, Eve, William E. Fry, Triinu Remmel, Marika Mänd, & Kevin Myers. (2010). PHENOTYPIC AND GENOTYPIC CHARACTERISATION OF ESTONIAN ISOLATES OF PHYTOPHTHORA INFESTANS IN 2004-2007. Journal of Plant Pathology. 92(2). 381–390. 16 indexed citations

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Rauscher, Gilda, Ivan Šimko, Hilary Mayton, et al.. (2010). Quantitative resistance to late blight from Solanum berthaultii cosegregates with R Pi-ber : insights in stability through isolates and environment. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 121(8). 1553–1567. 23 indexed citations

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Mayton, Hilary, Helen Griffiths, Ivan Šimko, et al.. (2009). Foliar and tuber late blight resistance in a Solanum tuberosum breeding population. Plant Breeding. 129(2). 197–201. 15 indexed citations

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Cai, Guohong, Kevin Myers, Bradley I. Hillman, & William E. Fry. (2009). A novel virus of the late blight pathogen, Phytophthora infestans, with two RNA segments and a supergroup 1 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Virology. 392(1). 52–61. 33 indexed citations

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McLeod, A., B. A. Fry, Paola Zuluaga, Kevin Myers, & William E. Fry. (2008). Toward Improvements of Oomycete Transformation Protocols. Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology. 55(2). 103–109. 56 indexed citations

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Fry, William E.. (2008). Phytophthora infestans : the plant (and R gene) destroyer. Molecular Plant Pathology. 9(3). 385–402. 572 indexed citations breakdown →

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McLeod, A., Christine D. Smart, & William E. Fry. (2003). Characterization of 1,3-β-glucanase and 1,3;1,4-β-glucanase genes from Phytophthora infestans. Fungal Genetics and Biology. 38(2). 250–263. 52 indexed citations

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Goodwin, Stephen B., A. Drenth, & William E. Fry. (1992). Cloning and genetic analyses of two highly polymorphic, moderately repetitive nuclear DNAs from Phytophthora infestans. Current Genetics. 22(2). 107–115. 251 indexed citations

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Doster, M. A., et al.. (1989). The influence of host resistance and climate on the initial appearance of foliar late blight of potato from infected seed tubers. American Journal of Potato Research. 66(4). 227–233. 16 indexed citations

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