Wim Van den Ende

15.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
203 papers, 11.5k citations indexed

About

Wim Van den Ende is a scholar working on Plant Science, Nutrition and Dietetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wim Van den Ende has authored 203 papers receiving a total of 11.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 148 papers in Plant Science, 138 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics and 31 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wim Van den Ende's work include Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (134 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (95 papers) and Food composition and properties (32 papers). Wim Van den Ende is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (134 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (95 papers) and Food composition and properties (32 papers). Wim Van den Ende collaborates with scholars based in Belgium, United States and Germany. Wim Van den Ende's co-authors include André Van Laere, Ravi Valluru, Darin Peshev, Katrien Le Roy, Rudy Vergauwen, Willem Lammens, Łukasz Paweł Tarkowski, Filip Rolland, Ann Cuypers and A. Van Laere and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wim Van den Ende

200 papers receiving 11.2k 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 sugars are crucial players in the oxidative challenge during abiotic stress: extending the traditional concept

2013 657 citations Wim Van den Ende et al. Plant Cell & Environment profile →
Linking Autophagy to Abiotic and Biotic Stress Responses

2019 217 citations Wim Van den Ende et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wim Van den Ende Belgium	61	8.3k	4.8k	2.6k	1.0k	765	203	11.5k
Larry G. Butler United States	42	3.2k 0.4×	1.4k 0.3×	1.9k 0.7×	387 0.4×	313 0.4×	86	7.9k
Zohar Kerem Israel	37	2.9k 0.3×	638 0.1×	1.5k 0.6×	366 0.4×	374 0.5×	113	5.8k
Franci Štampar Slovenia	52	6.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.3×	2.1k 0.8×	228 0.2×	212 0.3×	263	9.2k
Monika Schreiner Germany	51	4.8k 0.6×	729 0.2×	3.8k 1.5×	185 0.2×	184 0.2×	205	7.8k
J. Christopher Young Canada	47	3.5k 0.4×	659 0.1×	1.8k 0.7×	362 0.4×	111 0.1×	109	7.0k
Ravindra N. Chibbar Canada	39	3.9k 0.5×	2.0k 0.4×	1.4k 0.5×	520 0.5×	45 0.1×	157	5.6k
Laura De Gara Italy	44	4.8k 0.6×	949 0.2×	2.6k 1.0×	193 0.2×	108 0.1×	180	7.1k
Jean-François Hausman Luxembourg	49	6.8k 0.8×	435 0.1×	3.5k 1.3×	254 0.3×	108 0.1×	173	9.8k
Manoj Prasad India	56	8.0k 1.0×	350 0.1×	4.0k 1.6×	243 0.2×	152 0.2×	222	10.0k
Sirpa Kärenlampi Finland	40	3.5k 0.4×	679 0.1×	2.0k 0.8×	340 0.3×	172 0.2×	115	6.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wim Van den Ende

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wim Van den Ende

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Velde, Sam Van de, Hans Carolus, Paul Vandecruys, et al.. (2025). Accumulation of Trehalose 6-Phosphate in Candidozyma auris results in Decreased Echinocandin Resistance and Tolerance. Nature Communications. 17(1). 311–311.

Porras-Domínguez, Jaime Ricardo, Abimael Cruz-Migoni, S.B. Carr, et al.. (2025). Understanding the Endo- and Exo-mechanisms Involved in the Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Levan and Inulin Polymers. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 73(16). 9946–9962.

Guo, Qinggang, et al.. (2024). Exploring Synergistic Effects of Levan and Levan‐MetabolizingBacillaceae in Promoting Growth and Enhancing Immunity of Tomato and Wheat. Physiologia Plantarum. 176(3). e14325–e14325. 5 indexed citations

Cuéllar‐Bermúdez, Sara P., Maarten A. Mees, Dries Vandamme, et al.. (2023). Isolation, purification, and metal-induced gelation of released polysaccharides from spent culture medium of Arthrospira. Algal Research. 70. 103010–103010. 6 indexed citations

Dang, Tuong Vi T., Sander Hulsmans, Jelle Van Leene, et al.. (2023). SnRK1 inhibits anthocyanin biosynthesis through both transcriptional regulation and direct phosphorylation and dissociation of the MYB / bHLH / TTG1 MBW complex. The Plant Journal. 115(5). 1193–1213. 30 indexed citations

Saeys, Wouter, et al.. (2023). Far-Red Light Mediated Carbohydrate Concentration Changes in Leaves of Sweet Basil, a Stachyose Translocating Plant. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 24(9). 8378–8378. 11 indexed citations

Rensburg, Henry Christopher Janse van, et al.. (2021). Sweet Modifications Modulate Plant Development. Biomolecules. 11(5). 756–756. 22 indexed citations

Ceusters, Johan, Natalia Hurtado-Castano, Louisa V. Dever, et al.. (2021). Phosphorolytic degradation of leaf starch via plastidic α-glucan phosphorylase leads to optimized plant growth and water use efficiency over the diel phases of Crassulacean acid metabolism. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(12). 4419–4434. 12 indexed citations

Porras-Domínguez, Jaime Ricardo, et al.. (2021). A novel chicory fructanase can degrade common microbial fructan product profiles and displays positive cooperativity. Journal of Experimental Botany. 73(5). 1602–1622. 12 indexed citations

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AbdElgawad, Hamada, Viktoriya Avramova, Geert Baggerman, et al.. (2020). Starch biosynthesis contributes to the maintenance of photosynthesis and leaf growth under drought stress in maize. Plant Cell & Environment. 43(9). 2254–2271. 65 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingjuan, Yingquan Zhang, Zitong Yu, et al.. (2020). Diurnal Changes in Water Soluble Carbohydrate Components in Leaves and Sucrose Associated TaSUT1 Gene Expression during Grain Development in Wheat. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 21(21). 8276–8276. 9 indexed citations

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Ende, Wim Van den, et al.. (2020). Influence of Environmental Factors Light, CO2, Temperature, and Relative Humidity on Stomatal Opening and Development: A Review. Agronomy. 10(12). 1975–1975. 167 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jingjuan, Yulong Xu, Rudy Vergauwen, et al.. (2015). A wheat1-FEH w3variant underlies enzyme activity for stem WSC remobilization to grain under drought. Murdoch Research Repository (Murdoch University). 1 indexed citations

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Roy, Katrien Le, Rudy Vergauwen, Shuguang Yuan, et al.. (2013). Understanding the Role of Defective Invertases in Plants: Tobacco Nin88 Fails to Degrade Sucrose . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 161(4). 1670–1681. 53 indexed citations

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Li, Xiang & Wim Van den Ende. (2013). Trafficking of Plant Vacuolar Invertases: From a Membrane-Anchored to a Soluble Status. Understanding Sorting Information in Their Complex N-Terminal Motifs. Plant and Cell Physiology. 54(8). 1263–1277. 15 indexed citations

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Yuan, Shuguang, Katrien Le Roy, Tom Venken, et al.. (2012). pKa Modulation of the Acid/Base Catalyst within GH32 and GH68: A Role in Substrate/Inhibitor Specificity?. PLoS ONE. 7(5). e37453–e37453. 19 indexed citations

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Hothorn, Michael, Wim Van den Ende, Willem Lammens, Vladimir Rybin, & Klaus Scheffzek. (2010). Structural insights into the pH-controlled targeting of plant cell-wall invertase by a specific inhibitor protein. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(40). 17427–17432. 83 indexed citations

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Gebruers, Kurt, et al.. (2009). Post-translational processing of β-d-xylanases and changes in extractability of arabinoxylans during wheat germination. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 48(2-3). 90–97. 27 indexed citations

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Verhaest, Maureen, et al.. (2004). The X-ray diffraction structure of a glycosyl hydrolase family 32 protein: 1-fructan exohydrolase IIa ofCichorium intybus. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 60(a1). s133–s133. 22 indexed citations

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Ende, Wim Van den, An Michiels, Joke De Roover, Peter Verhaert, & André Van Laere. (2000). Cloning and functional analysis of chicory root fructan1‐exohydrolase I (1‐FEH I): a vacuolar enzyme derivedfrom a cell‐wall invertase ancestor? Mass fingerprint of the 1‐FEH I enzyme. The Plant Journal. 24(4). 447–456. 22 indexed citations

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