Zachary B. Lippman

16.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
56 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

About

Zachary B. Lippman is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zachary B. Lippman has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Plant Science, 41 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Zachary B. Lippman's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (35 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (25 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (14 papers). Zachary B. Lippman is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (35 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (25 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (14 papers). Zachary B. Lippman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and South Korea. Zachary B. Lippman's co-authors include Dani Zamir, Rob Martienssen, Joyce Van Eck, Vincent Colot, Anne-Valérie Gendrel, Robert A. Martienssen, Zachary H. Lemmon, Daniel Rodríguez-Leal, Soon Ju Park and Yuval Eshed and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Zachary B. Lippman

51 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

Role of transposable elements in heterochromatin and epig... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2017 2004 2014 2019 250 500 750
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Role of transposable elements in heterochromatin and epigenetic control
    2004 901 citations Zachary B. Lippman, Anne-Valérie Gendrel et al. Nature profile →
  2. Engineering Quantitative Trait Variation for Crop Improvement by Genome Editing
    2017 767 citations Daniel Rodríguez-Leal, Zachary H. Lemmon et al. Cell profile →
  3. Vernalization requires epigenetic silencing of FLC by histone methylation
    2004 726 citations Zachary B. Lippman, Robert A. Martienssen et al. Nature profile →
  4. Efficient Gene Editing in Tomato in the First Generation Using the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR-Associated9 System
    2014 540 citations Christopher D. Brooks, Vladimir Nekrasov et al. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY profile →
  5. RaGOO: fast and accurate reference-guided scaffolding of draft genomes
    2019 399 citations Michael Alonge, Sebastian Soyk et al. profile →
  6. Automated assembly scaffolding using RagTag elevates a new tomato system for high-throughput genome editing
    2022 397 citations Michael Alonge, Sergey Aganezov et al. profile →
  7. Rapid improvement of domestication traits in an orphan crop by genome editing
    2018 339 citations Zachary H. Lemmon, Nathan T. Reem et al. Nature Plants profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Zachary B. Lippman United States 38 8.4k 7.1k 2.0k 384 360 56 10.4k
Ryohei Terauchi Japan 58 10.9k 1.3× 5.3k 0.8× 2.3k 1.2× 402 1.0× 539 1.5× 193 12.9k
Abdelhafid Bendahmane France 52 8.5k 1.0× 4.6k 0.7× 1.3k 0.6× 527 1.4× 698 1.9× 146 9.7k
Zuhua He China 53 9.2k 1.1× 4.1k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 593 1.5× 389 1.1× 116 10.4k
Nathan M. Springer United States 57 9.2k 1.1× 5.7k 0.8× 3.2k 1.6× 135 0.4× 294 0.8× 152 10.9k
Hui Guo China 27 4.3k 0.5× 4.0k 0.6× 1.0k 0.5× 278 0.7× 393 1.1× 80 7.0k
Ray Ming United States 48 7.0k 0.8× 4.9k 0.7× 2.6k 1.3× 312 0.8× 1.2k 3.3× 230 9.9k
Qi Xie China 65 14.1k 1.7× 9.3k 1.3× 756 0.4× 667 1.7× 544 1.5× 189 16.6k
Nevin D. Young United States 58 11.1k 1.3× 3.8k 0.5× 2.0k 1.0× 298 0.8× 584 1.6× 130 12.6k
Takuji Sasaki Japan 48 10.8k 1.3× 4.8k 0.7× 5.1k 2.6× 385 1.0× 279 0.8× 164 12.4k
Korbinian Schneeberger Germany 47 6.1k 0.7× 5.1k 0.7× 1.9k 0.9× 136 0.4× 532 1.5× 93 8.3k

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All Works

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Zebell, Sophia G., Carlos Martí‐Gómez, B. P. Fitzgerald, et al.. (2025). Cryptic variation fuels plant phenotypic change through hierarchical epistasis. Nature. 644(8078). 984–992. 1 indexed citations
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Lanctot, Amy, et al.. (2025). Antagonizing cis- regulatory elements of a conserved flowering gene mediate developmental robustness. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(8). e2421990122–e2421990122. 5 indexed citations
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Fitzgerald, B. P., Gina M. Robitaille, Srividya Ramakrishnan, et al.. (2025). Engineering compact Physalis peruviana (goldenberry) to promote its potential as a global crop. Plants People Planet.
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He, Jia, Joyce Van Eck, & Zachary B. Lippman. (2024). Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 81. 102595–102595.
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Lippman, Zachary B., et al.. (2024). Engineering the future of Physalis grisea: A focus on agricultural challenges, model species status, and applied improvements. Plants People Planet. 6(6). 1249–1260. 3 indexed citations
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Hendelman, Anat, et al.. (2023). Idiosyncratic and dose-dependent epistasis drives variation in tomato fruit size. Science. 382(6668). 315–320. 27 indexed citations
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Kwon, Choon‐Tak, Lingli Tang, Xingang Wang, et al.. (2022). Dynamic evolution of small signalling peptide compensation in plant stem cell control. Nature Plants. 8(4). 346–355. 39 indexed citations
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He, Jia, Michael Alonge, Srividya Ramakrishnan, et al.. (2022). Establishing Physalis as a Solanaceae model system enables genetic reevaluation of the inflated calyx syndrome. The Plant Cell. 35(1). 351–368. 17 indexed citations
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Hendelman, Anat, Sophia G. Zebell, Daniel Rodríguez-Leal, et al.. (2021). Conserved pleiotropy of an ancient plant homeobox gene uncovered by cis-regulatory dissection. Cell. 184(7). 1724–1739.e16. 145 indexed citations
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Wang, Xingang, et al.. (2021). Dissecting cis-regulatory control of quantitative trait variation in a plant stem cell circuit. Nature Plants. 7(4). 419–427. 94 indexed citations
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Ranallo-Benavidez, T. Rhyker, Zachary H. Lemmon, Sebastian Soyk, et al.. (2021). Optimized sample selection for cost-efficient long-read population sequencing. Genome Research. 31(5). 910–918. 7 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, Xu Cao, Choon‐Tak Kwon, et al.. (2019). Evolution of buffering in a genetic circuit controlling plant stem cell proliferation. Nature Genetics. 51(5). 786–792. 135 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, Zachary H. Lemmon, Jarrett Man, Madelaine Bartlett, & Zachary B. Lippman. (2017). Engineering Quantitative Trait Variation for Crop Improvement by Genome Editing. Cell. 171(2). 470–480.e8. 767 indexed citations breakdown →
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Brooks, Christopher D., Vladimir Nekrasov, Zachary B. Lippman, & Joyce Van Eck. (2014). Efficient Gene Editing in Tomato in the First Generation Using the Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR-Associated9 System. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 166(3). 1292–1297. 540 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lippman, Zachary B., et al.. (2010). The flowering gene SINGLE FLOWER TRUSS drives heterosis for yield in tomato. Nature Genetics. 42(5). 459–463. 399 indexed citations
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Lippman, Zachary B., Oded Cohen, John Paul Alvarez, et al.. (2008). The Making of a Compound Inflorescence in Tomato and Related Nightshades. PLoS Biology. 6(11). e288–e288. 192 indexed citations
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Semel, Yaniv, J. Nissenbaum, Naama Menda, et al.. (2006). Overdominant quantitative trait loci for yield and fitness in tomato. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103(35). 12981–12986. 216 indexed citations
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Gendrel, Anne-Valérie, et al.. (2002). Dependence of Heterochromatic Histone H3 Methylation Patterns on the Arabidopsis Gene DDM1. Science. 297(5588). 1871–1873. 356 indexed citations
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Knaap, Esther van der, Zachary B. Lippman, & S. D. Tanksley. (2002). Extremely elongated tomato fruit controlled by four quantitative trait loci with epistatic interactions. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 104(2). 241–247. 53 indexed citations

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