2026 Eric L. Davis: Molecular Biology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Molecular Biology	58	2083	1875	1034	917	101	12521

Overview

Eric L. Davis is affiliated with North Carolina State University in the United States. Their research spans primarily the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Medicine, with 24 and 23 publications respectively. Within these areas, Davis has contributed notably to subfields such as Plant Science, Artificial Intelligence, Transplantation, Surgery, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Davis's research topics cover various scientific and applied domains. These include nematode management and characterization studies, cassava research and cyanide, legume nitrogen-fixing symbiosis, transplantation methods and outcomes, organ donation and transplantation, organ and tissue transplantation research, and banana cultivation and research.

The body of work includes several recent papers, among which are:

Distribution of Meloidogyne enterolobii in Eastern North Carolina and Comparison of Four Isolates (2020), published in Plant Health Progress
Phytonematode peptide effectors exploit a host post-translational trafficking mechanism to the ER using a novel translocation signal (2020), published in New Phytologist
Modulation of Arabidopsis Flavonol Biosynthesis Genes by Cyst and Root-Knot Nematodes (2020), published in Plants
Screening Sweetpotato Genotypes for Resistance to a North Carolina Isolate of Meloidogyne enterolobii (2020), published in Plant Disease
Targeted suppression of soybean BAG6-induced cell death in yeast by soybean cyst nematode effectors (2020), published in Molecular Plant Pathology

Davis has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Juliet N. Barker, Andromachi Scaradavou, Warren Fingrut, Anne Archer, and Ioannis Politikos. These collaborations have contributed to a multidisciplinary approach within Davis's research agenda.

The scientist has published predominantly in the following venues:

Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
arXiv (Cornell University)
Molecular Plant Pathology
Nematology
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Best Publications

Genome sequence of the metazoan plant-parasitic nematode Meloidogyne incognita

Pierre Abad;Pierre Abad;Jérôme Gouzy;Jean-Marc Aury;Jean-Marc Aury;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno;Philippe Castagnone-Sereno

1506
Citations
Engineering broad root-knot resistance in transgenic plants by RNAi silencing of a conserved and essential root-knot nematode parasitism gene

Guozhong Huang;Rex Allen;Eric L. Davis;Thomas J. Baum

780
Citations
Endogenous cellulases in animals: Isolation of β-1,4-endoglucanase genes from two species of plant-parasitic cyst nematodes

G. Smant;J. P. W. G. Stokkermans;Yitang Yan;J. M. De Boer

661
Citations
Nematode Parasitism Genes

Eric L Davis;Richard S Hussey;Thomas J Baum;Jaap Bakker

415
Citations
Nematode effector proteins: an emerging paradigm of parasitism

Melissa G. Mitchum;Richard S. Hussey;Thomas J. Baum;Xiaohong Wang

403
Citations
Getting to the roots of parasitism by nematodes

Eric L. Davis;Richard S. Hussey;Thomas J. Baum

396
Citations
Parasitism proteins in nematode-plant interactions.

Eric L Davis;Richard S Hussey;Melissa G Mitchum;Thomas J Baum

356
Citations
The parasitome of the phytonematode Heterodera glycines.

Bingli Gao;R. Allen;Tom Maier;Eric L. Davis

351
Citations
A profile of putative parasitism genes expressed in the esophageal gland cells of the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita.

Guozhong Huang;Bingli Gao;Tom Maier;R. Allen

289
Citations
Cellulose Binding Protein from the Parasitic Nematode Heterodera schachtii Interacts with Arabidopsis Pectin Methylesterase: Cooperative Cell Wall Modification during Parasitism

Tarek Hewezi;Peter Howe;Tom R. Maier;Richard S. Hussey

288
Citations
A root-knot nematode secretory peptide functions as a ligand for a plant transcription factor.

Guozhong Huang;Ruihua Dong;Rex Allen;Eric L. Davis

284
Citations
A parasitism gene from a plant-parasitic nematode with function similar to CLAVATA3/ESR (CLE) of Arabidopsis thaliana.

Xiaohong Wang;Melissa G. Mitchum;Bingli Gao;Chunying Li

279
Citations
Arabidopsis Spermidine Synthase Is Targeted by an Effector Protein of the Cyst Nematode Heterodera schachtii

Tarek Hewezi;Peter J. Howe;Tom R. Maier;Richard S. Hussey

252
Citations
In-situ Hybridization to Messenger RNA in Heterodera glycines.

J.M. de Boer;Yitang Yan;G. Smant;E.L. Davis

233
Citations
Effective and specific in planta RNAi in cyst nematodes: expression interference of four parasitism genes reduces parasitic success

Anoop S. Sindhu;Tom R. Maier;Melissa G. Mitchum;Richard S. Hussey

228
Citations
Endo-β-1,4-Glucanase Expression in Compatible Plant–Nematode Interactions

Melissa Goellner;Xiaohong Wang;Eric L. Davis

210
Citations
The Novel Cyst Nematode Effector Protein 19C07 Interacts with the Arabidopsis Auxin Influx Transporter LAX3 to Control Feeding Site Development

Chris Lee;Demosthenis Chronis;Charlotte Kenning;Benjamin Peret

203
Citations
Signal peptide-selection of cDNA cloned directly from the esophageal gland cells of the soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines.

Xiaohong Wang;Rex Allen;Xiongfei Ding;Melissa Goellner

200
Citations
Expression of Arabidopsis pathogenesis‐related genes during nematode infection

Noureddine Hamamouch;Chunying Li;Pil Joon Seo;Chung-Mo Park

191
Citations
Genomic organization of four β-1,4-endoglucanase genes in plant-parasitic cyst nematodes and its evolutionary implications

Yitang Yan;Geert Smant;Jack Stokkermans;Ling Qin

177
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Baum Iowa State University

Richard S. Hussey University of Georgia

Melissa G. Mitchum University of Missouri

Tarek Hewezi University of Tennessee at Knoxville

Geert Smant Wageningen University & Research

Pierre Abad INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement

Aska Goverse Wageningen University & Research

Jean Weissenbach Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

Daniel J. Kliebenstein University of California, Davis

Olivier Jaillon University of Paris-Saclay

External Links

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