Guus Bakkeren

Guus Bakkeren publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Guus Bakkeren D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Guus Bakkeren sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• T-DNA integration: a mode of illegitimate recombination in plants.

  R Mayerhofer;Z Koncz-Kalman;C Nawrath;G Bakkeren

  424
  Citations

• Host-induced gene silencing of wheat leaf rust fungus Puccinia triticina pathogenicity genes mediated by the Barley stripe mosaic virus

  Vinay Panwar;Brent McCallum;Guus Bakkeren

  224
  Citations

• Genome Comparison of Barley and Maize Smut Fungi Reveals Targeted Loss of RNA Silencing Components and Species-Specific Presence of Transposable Elements

  John D. Laurie;Shawkat Ali;Rob Linning;Gertrud Mannhaupt

  207
  Citations

• Linkage of mating-type loci distinguishes bipolar from tetrapolar mating in basidiomycetous smut fungi.

  Guus Bakkeren;James W. Kronstad

  189
  Citations

• Endogenous silencing of Puccinia triticina pathogenicity genes through in planta-expressed sequences leads to the suppression of rust diseases on wheat.

  Vinay Panwar;Brent McCallum;Guus Bakkeren

  160
  Citations

• Comparative Analysis Highlights Variable Genome Content of Wheat Rusts and Divergence of the Mating Loci.

  Christina A. Cuomo;Guus Bakkeren;Hala Badr Khalil;Vinay Panwar

  155
  Citations

• Sex in smut fungi: Structure, function and evolution of mating-type complexes.

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  153
  Citations

• Comparison of AFLP fingerprints and ITS sequences as phylogenetic markers in Ustilaginomycetes

  G. Bakkeren;J. W. Kronstad;C. A. Lévesque

  150
  Citations

• RNAi is a critical determinant of centromere evolution in closely related fungi.

  Vikas Yadav;Sheng Sun;R Blake Billmyre;Bhagya C Thimmappa

  142
  Citations

• The mating-type and pathogenicity locus of the fungus Ustilago hordei spans a 500-kb region

  Nancy Lee;Guus Bakkeren;Katherine Wong;John E. Sherwood

  135
  Citations

• A review of wheat leaf rust research and the development of resistant cultivars in Canada

  Brent D. McCallum;Colin W. Hiebert;Sylvie Cloutier;Guus Bakkeren

  121
  Citations

• Conservation of the b mating-type gene complex among bipolar and tetrapolar smut fungi.

  Guus Bakkeren;James W. Kronstad

  117
  Citations

• Hallmarks of RNA silencing are found in the smut fungus Ustilago hordei but not in its close relative Ustilago maydis.

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  99
  Citations

• Host-induced silencing of essential genes in Puccinia triticina through transgenic expression of RNAi sequences reduces severity of leaf rust infection in wheat.

  Vinay Panwar;Mark Jordan;Brent McCallum;Guus Bakkeren

  95
  Citations

• Mating factor linkage and genome evolution in basidiomycetous pathogens of cereals

  Guus Bakkeren;Guoqiao Jiang;René L. Warren;Yaron Butterfield

  90
  Citations

• Comparison of AFLP Fingerprints and ITS Sequences as Phylogenetic Markers in Ustilaginomycetes

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  90
  Citations

• The Transition from a Phytopathogenic Smut Ancestor to an Anamorphic Biocontrol Agent Deciphered by Comparative Whole-Genome Analysis

  François Lefebvre;David L. Joly;Caroline Labbé;Beate Teichmann

  79
  Citations

• Recovery of Agrobacterium tumefaciens T-DNA molecules from whole plants early after transfer

  Guus Bakkeren;Zdena Koukoliková-Nicola;Nigel Grimsley;Barbara Hohn

  78
  Citations

• Using transcription of six Puccinia triticina races to identify the effective secretome during infection of wheat.

  Myron Bruce;Kerri A. Neugebauer;David L. Joly;Pierre Migeon

  73
  Citations

• Generation of a wheat leaf rust, Puccinia triticina, EST database from stage-specific cDNA libraries

  Guanggan Hu;Rob Linning;Brent Mccallum;Travis Banks

  61
  Citations