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Giles E. D. Oldroyd

D-Index & Metrics

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
88
Citations
32043
World Ranking
2673
National Ranking
189

Giles E. D. Oldroyd publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 158 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Giles E. D. Oldroyd 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 Giles E. D. Oldroyd sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 88 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% 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

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)
  • Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO)

Overview

Giles E. D. Oldroyd is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. The primary focus of their research lies within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a significant number of publications in the subfields of Plant Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's work covers several main topics, including:

  • Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Nematode management and characterization studies
  • Plant and animal studies

Several frequent co-authors have collaborated with Giles E. D. Oldroyd, among them are Katharina Schiessl, Tak Lee, Feng Feng, Jiangqi Wen, and Sébastien Fort. These collaborations have contributed to a body of work published across various scientific venues.

The research has appeared most often in these publication venues:

  • Current Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • New Phytologist

Some recent papers include:

  • A plant's diet, surviving in a variable nutrient environment (2020, Science)
  • The calcium-permeable channel OSCA1.3 regulates plant stomatal immunity (2020, Nature)
  • An ancestral signalling pathway is conserved in intracellular symbioses-forming plant lineages (2020, Nature Plants)
  • Lipid exchanges drove the evolution of mutualism during plant terrestrialization (2021, Science)
  • The negative regulator SMAX1 controls mycorrhizal symbiosis and strigolactone biosynthesis in rice (2020, Nature Communications)

Giles E. D. Oldroyd has been recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, since 2020, and is also a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).

Best Publications

  • Speak, friend, and enter: signalling systems that promote beneficial symbiotic associations in plants.

    Giles E. D. Oldroyd

  • The Medicago genome provides insight into the evolution of rhizobial symbioses

    Nevin D Young;Frédéric Debellé;Frédéric Debellé;Giles E D Oldroyd;Rene Geurts

  • The Rules of Engagement in the Legume-Rhizobial Symbiosis

    Giles E.D. Oldroyd;Jeremy D. Murray;Philip S. Poole;J. Allan Downie

  • Genetic strategies for improving crop yields

    Julia Bailey-Serres;Julia Bailey-Serres;Jane E. Parker;Elizabeth A. Ainsworth;Giles E. D. Oldroyd

  • Coordinating nodule morphogenesis with rhizobial infection in legumes.

    Giles E D Oldroyd;J Allan Downie

  • Plant signalling in symbiosis and immunity

    Cyril Zipfel;Giles E. D. Oldroyd

  • Tomato Prf Is a Member of the Leucine-Rich Repeat Class of Plant Disease Resistance Genes and Lies Embedded within the Pto Kinase Gene Cluster

    John M. Salmeron;John M. Salmeron;Giles E.D. Oldroyd;Caius M.T. Rommens;Steven R. Scofield

  • Fatty acids in arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are synthesized by the host plant

    Leonie H. Luginbuehl;Guillaume N. Menard;Smita Kurup;Harrie Van Erp

  • Medicago truncatula DMI1 Required for Bacterial and Fungal Symbioses in Legumes

    Jean Michel Ané;Jean Michel Ané;György B. Kiss;György B. Kiss;Brendan K. Riely;R. Varma Penmetsa

  • Nodulation signaling in legumes requires NSP2, a member of the GRAS family of transcriptional regulators.

    Péter Kaló;Cynthia Gleason;Anne Edwards;John Marsh

  • Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation and the Challenges to Its Extension to Nonlegumes

    Florence Mus;Matthew B. Crook;Kevin Garcia;Amaya Garcia Costas

  • A Ca2+/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase required for symbiotic nodule development: Gene identification by transcript-based cloning

    Raka M. Mitra;Cynthia A. Gleason;Anne Edwards;James Hadfield

  • Medicago truncatula NIN is essential for rhizobial-independent nodule organogenesis induced by autoactive calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase.

    John F. Marsh;Alexandra Rakocevic;Raka M. Mitra;Lysiane Brocard

  • Nodulation independent of rhizobia induced by a calcium-activated kinase lacking autoinhibition

    Cynthia Gleason;Shubho Chaudhuri;Tianbao Yang;Alfonso Muñoz

  • Calcium, kinases and nodulation signalling in legumes

    Giles E. D. Oldroyd;J. Allan Downie

  • The NFP locus of Medicago truncatula controls an early step of Nod factor signal transduction upstream of a rapid calcium flux and root hair deformation

    Besma Ben Amor;Sidney L. Shaw;Giles E. D. Oldroyd;Fabienne Maillet

  • GRAS Proteins Form a DNA Binding Complex to Induce Gene Expression during Nodulation Signaling in Medicago truncatula

    Sibylle Hirsch;Jiyoung Kim;Alfonso Muñoz;Alfonso Muñoz;Anne B. Heckmann;Anne B. Heckmann

  • An ERF Transcription Factor in Medicago truncatula That Is Essential for Nod Factor Signal Transduction

    Patrick H. Middleton;Júlia Jakab;R. Varma Penmetsa;Colby G. Starker

  • A Common Signaling Process that Promotes Mycorrhizal and Oomycete Colonization of Plants

    Ertao Wang;Sebastian Schornack;John F. Marsh;Enrico Gobbato

  • Ethylene inhibits the Nod factor signal transduction pathway of Medicago truncatula.

    Giles E. D. Oldroyd;Eric M. Engstrom;Sharon R. Long

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Allan Downie
J. Allan Downie John Innes Centre
Sharon R. Long
Sharon R. Long Stanford University
Jeremy D. Murray
Jeremy D. Murray John Innes Centre
Jiangqi Wen
Jiangqi Wen Oklahoma State University
Kirankumar S. Mysore
Kirankumar S. Mysore Oklahoma State University
Jean Dénarié
Jean Dénarié INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-Michel Ané
Jean-Michel Ané University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael K. Udvardi
Michael K. Udvardi Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jens Stougaard
Jens Stougaard Aarhus University
Douglas R. Cook
Douglas R. Cook University of California, Davis

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