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Barbara Hohn publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbara Hohn sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 167 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Barbara Hohn D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbara Hohn sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 79 D-Index — 63rd percentile

63% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 1988 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Barbara Hohn is affiliated with the Friedrich Miescher Institute in Switzerland. The scientist's recent published work includes the following paper:

  • Retraction Note: Cre/lox system to develop selectable marker free transgenic tobacco plants conferring resistance against sap sucking homopteran insect (2025, Plant Cell Reports)

Barbara Hohn has collaborated with several coauthors across their publications. These frequent collaborators include:

  • H. C. Sharma
  • Anindya Sarkar
  • Hossain Ali Mondal
  • David Schuermann
  • Bidyut Kumar Sarmah

The primary venue for publishing the scientist's work is Plant Cell Reports.

Barbara Hohn has been recognized with multiple awards:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2008
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 1988

Best Publications

  • Top 10 plant viruses in molecular plant pathology

    Karen Beth G. Scholthof;Scott Adkins;Henryk Czosnek;Peter Palukaitis

  • A small cosmid for efficient cloning of large DNA fragments.

    Barbara Hohn;John Collins

  • Direct gene transfer to plants.

    Jerzy Paszkowski;Raymond D. Shillito;Michael Saul;Václáv Mandák

  • Transgeneration memory of stress in plants

    Jean Molinier;Gerhard Ries;Cyril Zipfel;Cyril Zipfel;Barbara Hohn

  • Recruitment of the INO80 Complex by H2A Phosphorylation Links ATP-Dependent Chromatin Remodeling with DNA Double-Strand Break Repair

    Haico van Attikum;Olivier Fritsch;Barbara Hohn;Susan M. Gasser

  • Agrobacterium -mediated delivery of infectious maize streak virus into maize plants

    Nigel Grimsley;Thomas Hohn;Jeffrey W. Davies;Barbara Hohn

  • Filamentous bacterial viruses.

    D A Marvin;B Hohn

  • Elevated UV-B radiation reduces genome stability in plants

    Gerhard Ries;Werner Heller;Holger Puchta;Heinrich Sandermann

  • Two different but related mechanisms are used in plants for the repair of genomic double-strand breaks by homologous recombination

    Holger Puchta;Bernard Dujon;Barbara Hohn

  • Cosmids: a type of plasmid gene-cloning vector that is packageable in vitro in bacteriophage lambda heads.

    John Collins;Barbara Hohn

  • “Agroinfection,” an alternative route for viral infection of plants by using the Ti plasmid

    Nigel Grimsley;Barbara Hohn;Thomas Hohn;Richard Walden

  • Packaging recombinant DNA molecules into bacteriophage particles in vitro.

    Barbara Hohn;Kenneth Murray

  • Homologous recombination in plant cells is enhanced by in vivo induction of double strand breaks into DNA by a site-specific endonuclease

    Holger Puchta;Bernard Dujon;Barbara Hohn

  • Isolation and characterization of the host protein groE involved in bacteriophage lambda assembly.

    Thomas Hohn;Barbara Hohn;Andreas Engel;Michel Wurtz

  • Pathogen-induced systemic plant signal triggers DNA rearrangements

    Igor Kovalchuk;Olga Kovalchuk;Véronique Kalck;Vitaly Boyko

  • Pathogen stress increases somatic recombination frequency in Arabidopsis.

    Jan M. Lucht;Brigitte Mauch-Mani;Henry-York Steiner;Jean-Pierre Metraux

  • Integration of complete transferred DNA units is dependent on the activity of virulence E2 protein of Agrobacterium tumefaciens

    L Rossi;B Hohn;B Tinland

  • The Agrobacterium tumefaciens virulence D2 protein is responsible for precise integration of T-DNA into the plant genome.

    B. Tinland;F. Schoumacher;V. Gloeckler;A.M. Bravo-Angel

  • The T-DNA-linked VirD2 protein contains two distinct functional nuclear localization signals.

    Bruno Tinland;Zdena Koukolikova-Nicola;Michael N. Hall;Barbara Hohn

  • A complete set of overlapping cosmid clones of M-ABA virus derived from nasopharyngeal carcinoma and its similarity to other Epstein-Barr virus isolates

    Axel Polack;Gabriele Hartl;Ursula Zimber;Ulrich Karl Freese

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Hohn
Thomas Hohn University of Basel
Holger Puchta
Holger Puchta Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Igor Kovalchuk
Igor Kovalchuk University of Lethbridge
Olga Kovalchuk
Olga Kovalchuk University of Lethbridge
Wen-Hui Shen
Wen-Hui Shen Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Ingo Potrykus
Ingo Potrykus ETH Zurich
Jerzy Paszkowski
Jerzy Paszkowski University of Cambridge
Ryuzo Yanagimachi
Ryuzo Yanagimachi University of Hawaii at Manoa
Avraham A. Levy
Avraham A. Levy Weizmann Institute of Science
Bernard Dujon
Bernard Dujon Institut Pasteur

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