World's Best Scientists 2026 revealed!

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
39
Citations
6299
World Ranking
4120
National Ranking
60

Best Publications

  • Biological Control of Chestnut Blight in Europe

    Ursula Heiniger;Daniel Rigling

  • Cryphonectria parasitica, the causal agent of chestnut blight: invasion history, population biology and disease control

    Daniel Rigling;Simone Prospero

  • Widespread Phytophthora infestations in European nurseries put forest, semi-natural and horticultural ecosystems at high risk of Phytophthora diseases

    T. Jung;L. Orlikowski;B. Henricot;P. Abad-Campos

  • Tree-life history prior to death: two fungal root pathogens affect tree-ring growth differently

    Paolo Cherubini;Giovanni Fontana;Daniel Rigling;Matthias Dobbertin

  • Genome expansion and lineage-specific genetic innovations in the forest pathogenic fungi Armillaria

    György Sipos;Arun N. Prasanna;Mathias C. Walter;Eoin O’Connor

  • Reduction of laccase activity in dsRNA-containing hypovirulent strains of Cryphonectria (Endothia) parasitica.

    D. Rigling;U. Heiniger;H. R. Hohl

  • Population Structure and Disease Development of Cryphonectria parasitica in European Chestnut Forests in the Presence of Natural Hypovirulence

    Martin Bissegger;Daniel Rigling;Ursula Heiniger

  • Genetic variation of Cryphonectria hypoviruses (CHV1) in Europe, assessed using restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) markers

    C. Allemann;P. Hoegger;U. Heiniger;D. Rigling

  • Strategies of attack and defence in woody plant-Phytophthora interactions

    W. Oßwald;F. Fleischmann;D. Rigling;A. C. Coelho

  • Temperature-dependent genotype-by-genotype interaction between a pathogenic fungus and its hyperparasitic virus.

    Sarah Franziska Bryner;Daniel Rigling

  • Comparison of vegetative compatibility types in Italian and Swiss subpopulations of Cryphonectria parasitica

    P. Cortesi;D. Rigling;U. Heiniger

  • Dominance of natural over released biological control agents of the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica in south-eastern France is associated with fitness-related traits

    Cécile Robin;Stefan Lanz;Alain Soutrenon;Daniel Rigling

  • Saprophytic Activity and Sporulation of Cryphonectria parasitica on Dead Chestnut Wood in Forests with Naturally Established Hypovirulence

    S. Prospero;M. Conedera;U. Heiniger;D. Rigling

  • Regulation of laccase biosynthesis in the plant-pathogenic fungus Cryphonectria parasitica by double-stranded RNA.

    D Rigling;N K Van Alfen

  • Extra- and Intracellular Laccases of the Chestnut Blight Fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica.

    Daniel Rigling;Neal K. Van Alfen

  • Sequence variation and evolution of Cryphonectria hypovirus 1 (CHV-1) in Europe.

    Davide Gobbin;Patrik J. Hoegger;Ursula Heiniger;D. Rigling

  • Population History and Pathways of Spread of the Plant Pathogen Phytophthora plurivora

    Corine N. Schoebel;Jane Stewart;Jane Stewart;Niklaus J. Gruenwald;Niklaus J. Gruenwald;Daniel Rigling

  • Tree mortality in an unmanaged mountain pine (Pinus mugo var. uncinata) stand in the Swiss National Park impacted by root rot fungi

    M Dobbertin;A Baltensweiler;D Rigling

  • Genetic structure of newly established populations of Cryphonectria parasitica.

    Patrik J. Hoegger;Daniel Rigling;Ottmar Holdenrieder;Ursula Heiniger

  • A new extracellular laccase of Cryphonectria parasitica is revealed by deletion of Lac1

    D. H. Kim;D. Rigling;L. Zhang;N. K. Van Alfen

  • Comparison of the virulence of Armillaria cepistipes and Armillaria ostoyae on four Norway spruce provenances

    S. Prospero;O. Holdenrieder;D. Rigling

  • Chestnut blight fungus in Croatia: diversity of vegetative compatibility types, mating types and genetic variability of associated Cryphonectria hypovirus 1

    L. Krstin;S. Novak-Agbaba;D. Rigling;M. Krajačić

  • Cryphonectria parasitica in Portugal: diversity of vegetative compatibility types, mating types, and occurrence of hypovirulence

    H. Bragança;S. Simões;N. Onofre;R. Tenreiro

  • Genetic population structure of three Armillaria species at the landscape scale: a case study from Swiss Pinus mugo forests

    Muriel Bendel;Felix Kienast;Daniel Rigling

Frequent Co-Authors

Simone Prospero
Simone Prospero Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Matthias Dobbertin
Matthias Dobbertin Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Cécile Robin
Cécile Robin University of Rennes
Felix Kienast
Felix Kienast Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research
Ulrich Güldener
Ulrich Güldener Technical University of Munich
Nobuhiro Suzuki
Nobuhiro Suzuki Okayama University
Thomas Jung
Thomas Jung Mendel University Brno
Michael G. Milgroom
Michael G. Milgroom Cornell University
Kerrie Barry
Kerrie Barry United States Department of Energy

If you think any of the details on this page are incorrect, let us know.

Report an issue

We appreciate your kind effort to assist us to improve this page, it would be helpful providing us with as much detail as possible in the text box below:

Best Scientists Citing Daniel Rigling

Trending Scientists