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Plant Science and Agronomy
Germany
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
139
Citations
68256
World Ranking
29
National Ranking
5

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Germany Leader Award
  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2013 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
  • 2013 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Enzyme

Ian T. Baldwin focuses on Botany, Nicotiana attenuata, Herbivore, Manduca sexta and Ecology. His Botany research includes themes of Jasmonic acid and Nicotiana, Nicotiana sylvestris, Solanaceae. Ian T. Baldwin has included themes like Flor, Jasmonate, Protease, Transformation and Pollinator in his Nicotiana attenuata study.

The Herbivore study combines topics in areas such as Plant defense against herbivory, Insect and Predation. His work carried out in the field of Manduca sexta brings together such families of science as Biochemistry, Gene and Cell biology. The concepts of his Ecology study are interwoven with issues in Evolutionary biology and Variation.

His most cited work include:

  • Induced responses to herbivory (2189 citations)
  • Defensive function of herbivore-induced plant volatile emissions in nature. (1617 citations)
  • Plant responses to insect herbivory: The emerging molecular analysis (1167 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Botany, Nicotiana attenuata, Manduca sexta, Jasmonic acid and Herbivore. His research investigates the connection between Botany and topics such as Nicotine that intersect with issues in Nicotiana sylvestris. His studies in Nicotiana attenuata integrate themes in fields like Plant defense against herbivory and Jasmonate.

Manduca and Sphingidae are the core of his Manduca sexta study. His Jasmonic acid study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Methyl jasmonate and Arabidopsis. His Herbivore research is under the purview of Ecology.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (47.69%)
  • Nicotiana attenuata (40.63%)
  • Manduca sexta (22.05%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Nicotiana attenuata (40.63%)
  • Botany (47.69%)
  • Types of tobacco (10.09%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Ian T. Baldwin mostly deals with Nicotiana attenuata, Botany, Types of tobacco, Herbivore and Gene. The various areas that Ian T. Baldwin examines in his Nicotiana attenuata study include Jasmonate, Manduca sexta, Cell biology, Attenuata and Pollinator. As a part of the same scientific study, Ian T. Baldwin usually deals with the Manduca sexta, concentrating on Biochemistry and frequently concerns with Autotoxicity.

His Botany research incorporates themes from Parasitic plant and Colonization. His research integrates issues of Shade avoidance and Function in his study of Types of tobacco. His Herbivore research includes themes of Regulator and Native plant.

Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Wild tobacco genomes reveal the evolution of nicotine biosynthesis (86 citations)
  • Large-scale gene losses underlie the genome evolution of parasitic plant Cuscuta australis (53 citations)
  • Herbivory-induced jasmonates constrain plant sugar accumulation and growth by antagonizing gibberellin signaling and not by promoting secondary metabolite production. (38 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Enzyme

His main research concerns Botany, Nicotiana attenuata, Herbivore, Manduca sexta and Types of tobacco. His Botany research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Plant disease resistance, Nutrient and Parasitic plant. His Nicotiana attenuata research incorporates elements of Jasmonate, Pollination, Pollinator, Cell biology and Manduca.

His work carried out in the field of Herbivore brings together such families of science as Jasmonic acid, Pesticide and Tupiocoris. His work investigates the relationship between Manduca sexta and topics such as Gene that intersect with problems in Effector. He combines subjects such as Stereochemistry and Small molecule with his study of Types of tobacco.

Best Publications

  • Induced Responses to Herbivory

    Richard Karban;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Defensive function of herbivore-induced plant volatile emissions in nature.

    André Kessler;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Plant responses to insect herbivory: The emerging molecular analysis

    André Kessler;Ian T. Baldwin

  • The evolutionary context for herbivore-induced plant volatiles: beyond the "cry-for-help"

    Marcel Dicke;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Volatile Signaling in Plant-Plant Interactions: "Talking Trees" in the Genomics Era

    Ian T. Baldwin;Rayko Halitschke;Anja Paschold;Caroline C. von Dahl

  • New Insights into Plant Responses to the Attack from Insect Herbivores

    Jianqiang Wu;Ian Thomas Baldwin

  • Jasmonate-induced responses are costly but benefit plants under attack in native populations

    Ian T. Baldwin

  • Rapid Changes in Tree Leaf Chemistry Induced by Damage: Evidence for Communication Between Plants

    Ian T. Baldwin;Jack C. Schultz

  • Fitness costs of induced resistance: emerging experimental support for a slippery concept.

    Martin Heil;Ian T Baldwin

  • A knock-out mutation in allene oxide synthase results in male sterility and defective wound signal transduction in Arabidopsis due to a block in jasmonic acid biosynthesis.

    Joon Hyun Park;Rayko Halitschke;Ho Bang Kim;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Silencing the Jasmonate Cascade: Induced Plant Defenses and Insect Populations

    André Kessler;Rayko Halitschke;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Nicotine's defensive function in nature.

    Anke Steppuhn;Klaus Gase;Bernd Krock;Rayko Halitschke

  • Oak Leaf Quality Declines in Response to Defoliation by Gypsy Moth Larvae

    Jack C. Schultz;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Communication between plants : induced resistance in wild tobacco plants following clipping of neighboring sagebrush

    R. Karban;I. T. Baldwin;K. J. Baxter;G. Laue

  • Molecular interactions between the specialist herbivore Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) and its natural host Nicotiana attenuata. III. Fatty acid-amino acid conjugates in herbivore oral secretions are necessary and sufficient for herbivore-specific plant responses

    Rayko Halitschke;Ursula Schittko;Georg Pohnert;Wilhelm Boland

  • Field experiments with transformed plants reveal the sense of floral scents

    Danny Kessler;Klaus Gase;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Herbivory Rapidly Activates MAPK Signaling in Attacked and Unattacked Leaf Regions but Not between Leaves of Nicotiana attenuata

    Jianqiang Wu;Christian Hettenhausen;Stefan Meldau;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Molecular Interactions between the Specialist Herbivore Manduca sexta (Lepidoptera, Sphingidae) and Its Natural Host Nicotiana attenuata. VII. Changes in the Plant's Proteome

    Ashok P. Giri;Hendrik Wünsche;Sirsha Mitra;Jorge A. Zavala

  • Nectar secretion requires sucrose phosphate synthases and the sugar transporter SWEET9

    I. Winnie Lin;I. Winnie Lin;Davide Sosso;Davide Sosso;Li Qing Chen;Klaus Gase

  • Quantification, correlations and manipulations of wound-induced changes in jasmonic acid and nicotine in Nicotiana sylvestris

    Ian T. Baldwin;Zong-Ping Zhang;Neda Diab;Thomas E. Ohnmeiss

  • Why does herbivore attack reconfigure primary metabolism

    Jens Schwachtje;Ian T. Baldwin

  • Native root-associated bacteria rescue a plant from a sudden-wilt disease that emerged during continuous cropping

    Rakesh Santhanam;Van Thi Luu;Arne Weinhold;Jay Keche Goldberg

  • Pectin methylesterase NaPME1 contributes to the emission of methanol during insect herbivory and to the elicitation of defence responses in Nicotiana attenuata

    Evelyn Körner;Caroline C. von Dahl;Gustavo Bonaventure;Ian T. Baldwin

Frequent Co-Authors

Rinaldo Bellomo
Rinaldo Bellomo Monash University
Jianqiang Wu
Jianqiang Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Matthias Erb
Matthias Erb University of Bern
André Kessler
André Kessler Cornell University
Jack C. Schultz
Jack C. Schultz University of Toledo
Aleš Svatoš
Aleš Svatoš Max Planck Society
Claudio Ronco
Claudio Ronco University of Padua
Chung-Mo Park
Chung-Mo Park Seoul National University
Ashok P. Giri
Ashok P. Giri National Chemical Laboratory
Jorge A. Zavala
Jorge A. Zavala University of Buenos Aires

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