William Underwood

6.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
39 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

William Underwood is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Underwood has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Plant Science, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in William Underwood's work include Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (16 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (15 papers) and Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms (15 papers). William Underwood is often cited by papers focused on Sunflower and Safflower Cultivation (16 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (15 papers) and Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms (15 papers). William Underwood collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. William Underwood's co-authors include Sheng Yang He, Maeli Melotto, Kinya Nomura, Jessica M. Koczan, Shauna Somerville, Roger Thilmony, Shuqun Zhang, Hitomi Takanaga, Mara L. Hartung and Sylvie Lalonde and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

William Underwood

37 papers receiving 4.6k 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.

Plant Stomata Function in Innate Immunity against Bacterial Invasion

2006 1.4k citations Maeli Melotto, William Underwood et al. Cell profile →
Sugar transporters for intercellular exchange and nutrition of pathogens

2010 1.2k citations William Underwood, Shauna Somerville et al. profile →
Role of Stomata in Plant Innate Immunity and Foliar Bacterial Diseases

2008 513 citations Maeli Melotto, William Underwood et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Underwood United States	14	4.3k	1.2k	437	211	155	39	4.7k
Laurent Zimmerli Taiwan	27	4.4k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	498 1.1×	326 1.5×	212 1.4×	34	4.8k
David De Vleesschauwer Belgium	32	3.5k 0.8×	908 0.7×	387 0.9×	334 1.6×	170 1.1×	45	3.8k
Morten Petersen Denmark	34	5.4k 1.3×	3.3k 2.6×	366 0.8×	273 1.3×	185 1.2×	61	6.3k
Bernard Dumas France	36	2.8k 0.6×	941 0.8×	671 1.5×	124 0.6×	121 0.8×	76	3.4k
Patrick Schweizer Germany	43	4.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.5×	640 1.5×	346 1.6×	145 0.9×	93	5.2k
Sung Chul Lee South Korea	38	5.2k 1.2×	2.4k 1.9×	200 0.5×	160 0.8×	91 0.6×	132	5.8k
Marie‐Thérèse Esquerré‐Tugayé France	30	2.7k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	510 1.2×	334 1.6×	141 0.9×	56	3.2k
Justin W. Walley United States	28	2.4k 0.6×	1.8k 1.5×	231 0.5×	225 1.1×	91 0.6×	61	3.3k
Aureliano Bombarely United States	31	2.9k 0.7×	2.2k 1.8×	255 0.6×	122 0.6×	312 2.0×	86	4.0k
Iain W. Wilson Australia	35	4.3k 1.0×	2.6k 2.1×	336 0.8×	342 1.6×	218 1.4×	95	5.4k

Countries citing papers authored by William Underwood

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Underwood

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Pasche, Julie S., et al.. (2025). Identification and Characterization of Cultivated Sunflower Lines with Basal Stalk Rot Resistance Against Diverse Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Isolates. Phytopathology. 115(11). 1531–1539.

Underwood, William, et al.. (2024). Multiple Forms of Resistance to the Phomopsis Stem Canker Pathogens Diaporthe helianthi and D. gulyae in Sunflower. Plant Disease. 108(6). 1740–1749. 3 indexed citations

Underwood, William, et al.. (2024). First Report of Diaporthe caulivora Causing Phomopsis Stem Canker on Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) in Minnesota. Plant Disease. 109(2). 502–502.

Pogoda, Cloe S., Kyle G. Keepers, Zahirul I. Talukder, et al.. (2023). Heritable differences in abundance of bacterial rhizosphere taxa are correlated with fungal necrotrophic pathogen resistance. Molecular Ecology. 33(2). e17218–e17218. 5 indexed citations

Nelson, Berlin D., et al.. (2023). Population and genome-wide association studies of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum isolates collected from diverse host plants throughout the United States. Frontiers in Microbiology. 14. 1251003–1251003. 4 indexed citations

Talukder, Zahirul I., William Underwood, Xuehui Li, et al.. (2023). Genetic analysis of basal stalk rot resistance introgressed from wild Helianthus petiolaris into cultivated sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) using an advanced backcross population. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1278048–1278048. 1 indexed citations

Shamimuzzaman, Md, et al.. (2023). Mutation and sequencing‐based cloning and functional studies of a rust resistance gene in sunflower (Helianthus annuus). The Plant Journal. 115(2). 480–493. 2 indexed citations

Talukder, Zahirul I., William Underwood, Gerald J. Seiler, et al.. (2021). Unraveling the Sclerotinia Basal Stalk Rot Resistance Derived From Wild Helianthus argophyllus Using a High-Density Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Linkage Map. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 617920–617920. 13 indexed citations

Underwood, William, Charles Block, T. J. Gulya, et al.. (2020). A Greenhouse Method to Evaluate Sunflower Quantitative Resistance to Basal Stalk Rot Caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Plant Disease. 105(2). 464–472. 12 indexed citations

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Gulya, T. J., et al.. (2020). Determination of Virulence Phenotypes of Plasmopara halstedii in the United States. Plant Disease. 104(11). 2823–2831. 13 indexed citations

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Talukder, Zahirul I., Yunming Long, Gerald J. Seiler, William Underwood, & Lili Qi. (2019). Introgression and monitoring of wild Helianthus praecox alien segments associated with Sclerotinia basal stalk rot resistance in sunflower using genotyping-by-sequencing. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0213065–e0213065. 8 indexed citations

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Song, Qijian, William Underwood, Zhiwei Zhang, et al.. (2019). Molecular dissection of resistance gene cluster and candidate gene identification of Pl17 and Pl19 in sunflower by whole-genome resequencing. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 14974–14974. 14 indexed citations

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Feehan, Joanna M., et al.. (2017). Purification of High Molecular Weight Genomic DNA from Powdery Mildew for Long-Read Sequencing. Journal of Visualized Experiments. 13 indexed citations

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Underwood, William. (2016). Contributions of host cellular trafficking and organization to the outcomes of plant-pathogen interactions. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 56. 163–173. 6 indexed citations

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Underwood, William & Shauna Somerville. (2013). Perception of conserved pathogen elicitors at the plasma membrane leads to relocalization of the Arabidopsis PEN3 transporter. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(30). 12492–12497. 82 indexed citations

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Xin, Xiu‐Fang, Kinya Nomura, William Underwood, & Sheng Yang He. (2013). Induction and Suppression of PEN3 Focal Accumulation During Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 Infection of Arabidopsis. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 26(8). 861–867. 35 indexed citations

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Underwood, William. (2012). The Plant Cell Wall: A Dynamic Barrier Against Pathogen Invasion. Frontiers in Plant Science. 3. 85–85. 318 indexed citations

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Underwood, William, Serry Koh, & Shauna Somerville. (2011). Visualizing Cellular Dynamics in Plant–Microbe Interactions Using Fluorescent-Tagged Proteins. Methods in molecular biology. 712. 283–291. 4 indexed citations

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Underwood, William, Shuqun Zhang, & Sheng Yang He. (2007). The Pseudomonas syringae type III effector tyrosine phosphatase HopAO1 suppresses innate immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal. 52(4). 658–672. 75 indexed citations

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Melotto, Maeli, William Underwood, Jessica M. Koczan, Kinya Nomura, & Sheng Yang He. (2006). Plant Stomata Function in Innate Immunity against Bacterial Invasion. Cell. 126(5). 969–980. 1400 indexed citations breakdown →

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