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Felice Cervone

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
65
Citations
14020
World Ranking
9223
National Ranking
254

Felice Cervone publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 183 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Felice Cervone 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 Felice Cervone sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 65 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Felice Cervone is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy and has contributed extensively to the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a particular focus on Plant Science. Their work includes research in Molecular Biology, Insect Science, Biotechnology, and even intersects with Sociology and Political Science. The principal topics of their research encompass polysaccharides and plant cell walls, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, plant pathogenic bacteria studies, plant parasitism and resistance, plant stress responses and tolerance, cassava research and cyanide, and plant responses to water stress.

Their publication record includes articles in several journals, with frequent appearances in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory). Other venues where their work has appeared include Frontiers in Plant Science, Science, Essays in Biochemistry, and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

Selected recent papers by Felice Cervone include:

  • Dampening the DAMPs: How Plants Maintain the Homeostasis of Cell Wall Molecular Patterns and Avoid Hyper-Immunity, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science
  • A plant mechanism of hijacking pathogen virulence factors to trigger innate immunity, 2024, Science
  • Plant immunity by damage-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs), 2022, Essays in Biochemistry
  • Berberine bridge enzyme-like oxidases of cellodextrins and mixed-linked β-glucans control seed coat formation, 2023, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • The intracellular ROS accumulation in elicitor-induced immunity requires the multiple organelle-targeted Arabidopsis NPK1-related protein kinases, 2020, Plant Cell & Environment

Felice Cervone has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Giulia De Lorenzo
  • Daniela Pontiggia
  • Manuel Benedetti
  • Sara Costantini
  • Moira Giovannoni

Felice Cervone was recognized in 2015 as a Member of the Academia Europaea. This award reflects engagement with the wider scientific community beyond their individual research contributions.

Best Publications

  • A domain swap approach reveals a role of the plant wall-associated kinase 1 (WAK1) as a receptor of oligogalacturonides

    Alexandre Brutus;Francesca Sicilia;Alberto Macone;Felice Cervone

  • Oligogalacturonides: plant damage-associated molecular patterns and regulators of growth and development

    Simone Ferrari;Daniel Valentin Savatin;Francesca Sicilia;Giovanna Gramegna

  • THE ROLE OF POLYGALACTURONASE-INHIBITING PROTEINS (PGIPS) IN DEFENSE AGAINST PATHOGENIC FUNGI

    Giulia De Lorenzo;Renato D'Ovidio;Felice Cervone

  • Plant cell wall dynamics and wall-related susceptibility in plant–pathogen interactions

    Daniela Bellincampi;Felice Cervone;Vincenzo Lionetti

  • Overexpression of Pectin Methylesterase Inhibitors in Arabidopsis Restricts Fungal Infection by Botrytis cinerea

    Vincenzo Lionetti;Alessandro Raiola;Laura Camardella;Alfonso Giovane

  • Host-Pathogen Interactions: XXXIII. A Plant Protein Converts a Fungal Pathogenesis Factor into an Elicitor of Plant Defense Responses

    Felice Cervone;Michael G. Hahn;Giulia De Lorenzo;Alan Darvill

  • Tandemly duplicated Arabidopsis genes that encode polygalacturonase-inhibiting proteins are regulated coordinately by different signal transduction pathways in response to fungal infection

    Simone Ferrari;Donatella Vairo;Frederick M. Ausubel;Felice Cervone

  • Extracellular H2O2 Induced by Oligogalacturonides Is Not Involved in the Inhibition of the Auxin-Regulated rolB Gene Expression in Tobacco Leaf Explants

    Daniela Bellincampi;Nunzio Dipierro;Giovanni Salvi;Felice Cervone

  • Wounding in the plant tissue: the defense of a dangerous passage.

    Daniel V. Savatin;Giovanna Gramegna;Vanessa Modesti;Felice Cervone

  • Methyl esterification of pectin plays a role during plant-pathogen interactions and affects plant resistance to diseases.

    Vincenzo Lionetti;Felice Cervone;Daniela Bellincampi

  • The crystal structure of polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein (PGIP), a leucine-rich repeat protein involved in plant defense.

    A. Di Matteo;L. Federici;B. Mattei;G. Salvi

  • Endopolygalacturonase is not required for pathogenicity of Cochliobolus carbonum on maize.

    John S. Scott-Craig;Daniel G. Panaccione;Felice Cervone;Jonathan D. Walton

  • Cloning and characterization of the gene encoding the endopolygalacturonase-inhibiting protein (PGIP) of Phaseolus vulgaris L

    Patrick Toubart;Angiola Desiderio;Giovanni Salvi;Felice Cervone

  • Structural Basis for the Interaction between Pectin Methylesterase and a Specific Inhibitor Protein

    Adele Di Matteo;Alfonso Giovane;Alessandro Raiola;Laura Camardella

  • Engineering the cell wall by reducing de-methyl-esterified homogalacturonan improves saccharification of plant tissues for bioconversion

    Vincenzo Lionetti;Fedra Francocci;Simone Ferrari;Chiara Volpi

  • The specificity of polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein (PGIP): A single amino acid substitution in the solvent-exposed β-strand/β-turn region of the leucine-rich repeats (LRRs) confers a new recognition capability

    F. Leckie;B. Mattei;Cristina Capodicasa;A. Hemmings

  • Plant neurobiology: no brain, no gain?

    Amedeo Alpi;Nikolaus Amrhein;Adam Bertl;Michael R. Blatt

  • Plant immunity triggered by engineered in vivo release of oligogalacturonides, damage-associated molecular patterns

    Manuel Benedetti;Daniela Pontiggia;Sara Raggi;Zhenyu Cheng

  • Polygalacturonase inhibiting proteins: players in plant innate immunity?

    Luca Federici;Adele Di Matteo;Juan Fernandez-Recio;Demetrius Tsernoglou

  • Structural requirements of endopolygalacturonase for the interaction with PGIP (polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein).

    L. Federici;C. Caprari;B. Mattei;C. Savino

Frequent Co-Authors

Giulia De Lorenzo
Giulia De Lorenzo Sapienza University of Rome
Daniela Bellincampi
Daniela Bellincampi Sapienza University of Rome
Alan G. Darvill
Alan G. Darvill University of Georgia
Peter Albersheim
Peter Albersheim University of Georgia
Renato D'Ovidio
Renato D'Ovidio Tuscia University
Francesco Favaron
Francesco Favaron University of Padua
Michael G. Hahn
Michael G. Hahn University of Georgia
Juan Fernández-Recio
Juan Fernández-Recio Spanish National Research Council
Maria Maddalena Altamura
Maria Maddalena Altamura Sapienza University of Rome
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University

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Jonathan D. Walton

Michigan State University

Publications: 22

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Debra Mohnen

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Publications: 22

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Pamela C. Ronald

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Cyril Zipfel

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