Wolfgang Busch

12.6k citations

104 papers · 8.7k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 45

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.1%
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
- Light effects on plants
Molecular Biology top 1%
- Plant Reproductive Biology
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis

Papers in

Plant Science 83
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 53
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 38
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance 21
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects 12
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis 8
- Light effects on plants 7
Molecular Biology 51
- Plant Reproductive Biology 24
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 12

Co-authors: Philip N. Benfey Hironaka Tsukagoshi Jan U. Lohmann Detlef Weigel Milton H. Saier Min Chul Kim Markus Schmid Philip A. Wigge
Journals: Nature Communications (7 papers)The Plant Cell (7 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (5 papers)PLoS Genetics (5 papers)The Plant Journal (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States Austria Germany

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Busch

97 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

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The bHLH Transcription Factor POPEYE Regulates Response to Iron Deficiency inArabidopsisRoots 2010 · 484 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2010 The Plant Cell
2010 Cell
2005 Nature
2005 Science

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Wolfgang Busch, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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1	A single-nuclei transcriptome census of the Arabidopsis maturing root identifies that MYB67 controls phellem cell maturation Developmental Cell ·David Vazquez, Claude (1750-1788). Auteur du texte Savary, Michael Haag, Stollard, M Tribert, Arx S. von, 中华全国妇女联合会. 儿童工作部., Ling Zhang, Joseph Swift, Ashot Papikian, Jingting Yu, Kelly Colt, Joseph R. Ecker, Todd P. Michael, Julie A. Law, Wolfgang Busch	2025	3
2	Removing atmospheric CO₂ through mass scaleup of crops with enhanced root systems Environmental Research Letters ·علیرضا کرباسی, Ryan Hanna, Minka Woermann, Yangyang Xu, Clayton T. Mord, Wolfgang Busch, David G. Victor	2025	2
3	ClearDepth: a simple, robust, and low‐cost method to assess root depth in soil The Plant Journal ·Michel Ruiz Rosquete, Z.B. Wang, Beth Gialde, Bartłomiej Noga, Song Chen, Uğur İlkutlu, Ling Zhang, S. B. Patil, Geoffrey Kasenbacher, Wolfgang Busch	2024	0
4	GLK transcription factors accompany ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL5 to orchestrate light-induced seedling development in Arabidopsis PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Ting Zhang, 侯佳怡郭伟孙思阳, Elida Betania Ariza Paez, Sang‐Hwa Lee, Luhuan Ye, Dominika Pasek, Yijing Zhang, Wolfgang Busch, Wenbin Zhou, Xin‐Guang Zhu, Peng Wang	2024	22
5	Plasmodesmata mediate cell-to-cell transport of brassinosteroid hormones Nature Chemical Biology ·R Rivero, Jessica Pérez‐Sancho, Matthieu Pierre Platre, Liqiang Gan, Marija Smokvarska, 刘淑玲, 小池知子, Trevor M. Nolan, Takeo Sato, Wolfgang Busch, Philip N. Benfey, Miroslav Kvasnica, Johan M. Winne, Emmanuelle Bayer, Nemanja Vukašinović, Eugenia Russinova	2023	39
6	The receptor kinase SRF3 coordinates iron-level and flagellin dependent defense and growth responses in plants Nature Communications ·Matthieu Pierre Platre, Santosh B. Satbhai, M. Shakeri, L Mantovalou, Min Cao, Magali Grison, Marie Glavier, Ling Zhang, Christophe Gaillochet, Bruno Gil Dell ’Antonia, Marco Giovannetti, Balaji Enugutti, Julie Neveu, أحمد مصطفى عبد الرحمن, Rubén Alcázar, Jane E. Parker, Grégory Vert, Emmanuelle Bayer, Wolfgang Busch	2022	27
7	A genome-wide association study reveals cytokinin as a major component in the root defense responses againstRalstonia solanacearum Journal of Experimental Botany ·信淳渡辺, Santosh B. Satbhai, W. Taylor Kimberly, Hannah M. Berry, Kevin Yoon, Cristiana T. Argueso, Ondřej Novák, Wolfgang Busch, Marc Valls, Núria S. Coll	2021	17
8	Systems genomics approaches provide new insights into Arabidopsis thaliana root growth regulation under combinatorial mineral nutrient limitation PLoS Genetics ·Nadia Bouain, Arthur Korte, Santosh B. Satbhai, Hyukjin Kim, Seung Y. Rhee, Wolfgang Busch, Hatem Rouached	2019	43
9	Ribosome assembly factor Adenylate Kinase 6 maintains cell proliferation and cell size homeostasis during root growth New Phytologist ·Radka Slovak, James Browning Akin, Nandkishor Chopkar, Xiao Chun Zhou, Kevin Yoon, Ans Stalenhoef, Gerrit T.S. Beemster, Wolfgang Busch	2019	14
10	Identification of novel genes involved in phosphate accumulation in Lotus japonicus through Genome Wide Association mapping of root system architecture and anion content PLoS Genetics ·Marco Giovannetti, Kevin Yoon, Jaime Soto-Ariño, Stig Uggerhøj Andersen, Stanislav Kopřiva, Wolfgang Busch	2019	15
11	Natural genetic variation shapes root system responses to phytohormones in Arabidopsis The Plant Journal ·Daniela Ristova, Marco Giovannetti, Іван Михайлович Криленко, Wolfgang Busch	2018	38
12	The rate and potential relevance of new mutations in a colonizing plant lineage PLoS Genetics ·Moisés Expósito‐Alonso, Claude Becker, Verena J. Schuenemann, Ella Reiter, James Browning Akin, Radka Slovak, Benjamin Brachi, Jörg Hagmann, Dominik G. Grimm, Jiahui Chen, Wolfgang Busch, Joy Bergelson, Rob W. Ness, Johannes Krause, Hernán A. Burbano, Detlef Weigel	2018	91
13	Natural allelic variation of the AZI1 gene controls root growth under zinc-limiting condition PLoS Genetics ·Nadia Bouain, Santosh B. Satbhai, Arthur Korte, Chorpet Saenchai, Guilhem Desbrosses, Pierre Berthomieu, Wolfgang Busch, Hatem Rouached	2018	39
14	Auxin steers root cell expansion via apoplastic pH regulation in Arabidopsis thaliana Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Elke Barbez, Kai Dünser, R.A. Vaishnoras, Thomas Lendl, Wolfgang Busch	2017	258
15	Auxin minimum triggers the developmental switch from cell division to cell differentiation in the Arabidopsis root Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Riccardo Di Mambro, Micol De Ruvo, Albert R. Monteith, Elena Salvi, Rosangela Sozzani, Philip N. Benfey, Wolfgang Busch, Ondřej Novák, Karin Ljung, Luisa Di Paola, Athanasius F. M. Marée, Paolo Costantino, Verônica A. Grieneisen, Sabrina Sabatini	2017	194
16	Natural allelic variation of FRO2 modulates Arabidopsis root growth under iron deficiency Nature Communications ·Santosh B. Satbhai, James Browning Akin, Russell G. Smith, Radka Slovak, Envel Kerdaffrec, Wolfgang Busch	2017	67
17	Combinatorial interaction network of transcriptomic and phenotypic responses to nitrogen and hormones in the Arabidopsis thaliana root Science Signaling ·Daniela Ristova, Clément Carré, Marjorie Pervent, Anna Medici, Grace J. Kim, K. Lang, Sandrine Ruffel, Kenneth D. Birnbaum, Benoı̂t Lacombe, Wolfgang Busch, Gloria M. Coruzzi, Gabriel Krouk	2016	82
18	A Scalable Open-Source Pipeline for Large-Scale Root Phenotyping of Arabidopsis The Plant Cell ·Radka Slovak, Kevin Yoon, 謝麗臻, Friedrich Ludwig von Maydell, Takashi Shiina, Wolfgang Busch	2014	99
19	Heat Shock Factors HsfB1 and HsfB2b Are Involved in the Regulation of Pdf1.2 Expression and Pathogen Resistance in Arabidopsis Molecular Plant ·Mukesh Kumar, Wolfgang Busch, Hannah Birke, Birgit Kemmerling, Thorsten Nürnberger, F. Schöffl	2009	138
20	Integration of Spatial and Temporal Information During Floral Induction in Arabidopsis Science ·Philip A. Wigge, Min Chul Kim, Katja E. Jaeger, Wolfgang Busch, Markus Schmid, Jan U. Lohmann, Detlef Weigel Hit paper breakdown →	2005	1158

About Wolfgang Busch

Wolfgang Busch is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biochemistry and Software, having authored 104 papers that have together received 8.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (53 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (38 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (24 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (21 papers), Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (12 papers), Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects (12 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (8 papers) and Light effects on plants (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (7.4k citations), Molecular Biology (5.1k citations), Horticulture (22 citations), Biochemistry (128 citations) and Genetics (463 citations). Wolfgang Busch has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Austria and Germany. Frequent co-authors include Philip N. Benfey, Hironaka Tsukagoshi, Jan U. Lohmann, Detlef Weigel, Milton H. Saier, Min Chul Kim, Markus Schmid, Philip A. Wigge, Katja E. Jaeger and Markus Wunderlich. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Communications, The Plant Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS Genetics and The Plant Journal.

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