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86
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2960
National Ranking
220

Anne Osbourn publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Biology and Biochemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anne Osbourn sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 239 publications — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,028 publications or more.

Anne Osbourn D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Biology and Biochemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anne Osbourn sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 80 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 183 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 317 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 504 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 718 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 900 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 1,026 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 1,150 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,236 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 1,253 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 1,163 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 1,131 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 1,032 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 897 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 814 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 715 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 709 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 596 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 512 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 473 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 412 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 373 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 358 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 285 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 273 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 227 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 208 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 193 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 153 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 157 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 148 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 120 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 113 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 100 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 86 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 67 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 72 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 73 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 64 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 53 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 60 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 54 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 43 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 38 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 49 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 26 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 18 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 23 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 32 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 32 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 27 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 19 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 22 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 12 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 16 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 14 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 10 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 13 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 10 scientists 158–159 D-Index: 7 scientists 160–161 D-Index: 9 scientists 162–163 D-Index: 13 scientists 164–165 D-Index: 4 scientists 166 D-Index: 4 scientists 167+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 167+

This scientist: 86 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 167 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2019 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Anne Osbourn is affiliated with the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant emphasis on molecular biology, plant science, biotechnology, biochemistry, and pharmacology as subfields.

The main topics explored in their work include plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, natural product bioactivities and synthesis, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, phytochemical compounds biological activities, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, plant gene expression analysis, and microbial natural products and biosynthesis.

Among the prominent publication venues for Anne Osbourn's work are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Chemical Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Plants

Frequent co-authors include:

  • James Reed
  • Charlotte Owen
  • Michael J. Stephenson
  • Guy Polturak
  • Rajesh Chandra Misra

Notable recent papers published by Anne Osbourn with their year and venue are:

  • Root-secreted bitter triterpene modulates the rhizosphere microbiota to improve plant fitness, 2022, Nature Plants
  • Elucidation of the pathway for biosynthesis of saponin adjuvants from the soapbark tree, 2023, Science
  • Active and repressed biosynthetic gene clusters have spatially distinct chromosome states, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Complex scaffold remodeling in plant triterpene biosynthesis, 2023, Science
  • The emerging role of biosynthetic gene clusters in plant defense and plant interactions, 2021, PLoS Pathogens

Anne Osbourn has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, an award received in 2019.

Best Publications

  • Preformed Antimicrobial Compounds and Plant Defense against Fungal Attack.

    Anne E. Osbourn

  • Minimum Information about a Biosynthetic Gene cluster.

    Marnix H. Medema;Marnix H. Medema;Renzo Kottmann;Pelin Yilmaz;Matthew Cummings

  • Fungal Resistance to Plant Antibiotics as a Mechanism of Pathogenesis

    John P. Morrissey;Anne E. Osbourn

  • MYB Transcription Factors as Regulators of Phenylpropanoid Metabolism in Plants

    Jingying Liu;Anne Osbourn;Pengda Ma;Pengda Ma

  • Triterpene Biosynthesis in Plants

    Ramesha Thimmappa;Katrin Geisler;Thomas Louveau;Paul O'Maille

  • Biosynthesis of triterpenoid saponins in plants.

    Kosmas Haralampidis;Miranda Trojanowska;Anne E Osbourn

  • Compromised disease resistance in saponin-deficient plants

    K. Papadopoulou;R. E. Melton;M. Leggett;M. J. Daniels

  • A specialized metabolic network selectively modulates Arabidopsis root microbiota.

    Ancheng C. Huang;Ting Jiang;Yong Xin Liu;Yue Chen Bai

  • Metabolic and functional diversity of saponins, biosynthetic intermediates and semi-synthetic derivatives.

    Tessa Moses;Kalliope K. Papadopoulou;Anne Osbourn

  • Advances in Molecular Genetics of Plant-Microbe Interactions

    Michael J. Daniels;J. Allan Downie;Anne E. Osbourn

  • Comparative metatranscriptomics reveals kingdom level changes in the rhizosphere microbiome of plants

    Thomas R Turner;Karunakaran Ramakrishnan;John Walshaw;Darren Heavens

  • Speed breeding in growth chambers and glasshouses for crop breeding and model plant research.

    Sreya Ghosh;Amy Watson;Oscar E. Gonzalez-Navarro;Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez

  • Saponins and plant defence — a soap story

    Anne Osbourn

  • Metabolic Diversification—Independent Assembly of Operon-Like Gene Clusters in Different Plants

    Ben Field;Anne E. Osbourn

  • The rice leaf blast pathogen undergoes developmental processes typical of root-infecting fungi

    Ane Sesma;Anne E. Osbourn

  • Comparative transcriptomics of rice reveals an ancient pattern of response to microbial colonization

    Sonia Güimil;Hur-Song Chang;Tong Zhu;Ane Sesma

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions: Chemical Diversity in Plant Defense

    Paweł Bednarek;Anne Osbourn

  • A gene cluster for secondary metabolism in oat: Implications for the evolution of metabolic diversity in plants

    X. Qi;S. Bakht;J. Michael Leggett;C. Maxwell

  • Host range of a plant pathogenic fungus determined by a saponin detoxifying enzyme

    P Bowyer;B R Clarke;P Lunness;M J Daniels

  • Secondary metabolic gene clusters: evolutionary toolkits for chemical innovation

    Anne Osbourn

Frequent Co-Authors

Marnix H. Medema
Marnix H. Medema Wageningen University & Research
Xiaoquan Qi
Xiaoquan Qi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Michael J. Daniels
Michael J. Daniels Norwich Research Park
Stephen H. Gillespie
Stephen H. Gillespie University of St Andrews
Geoffrey L. Smith
Geoffrey L. Smith University of Oxford
Andrew D. Bond
Andrew D. Bond University of Cambridge
Dean J. Tantillo
Dean J. Tantillo University of California, Davis
Paul Bowyer
Paul Bowyer University of Manchester
Robert A. Field
Robert A. Field University of Manchester
Alain Goossens
Alain Goossens Ghent University

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