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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
76
Citations
15101
World Ranking
521
National Ranking
14

Microbiology

D-Index
75
Citations
14918
World Ranking
1531
National Ranking
72

Molecular Biology

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John F. Bol publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where John F. Bol sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 190 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

John F. Bol 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 John F. Bol sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

John F. Bol is primarily affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. The affiliation indicates an academic environment where research and higher education are central to their professional activities.

The available data does not include recent papers authored by John F. Bol, leaving the specific contributions to academic literature unspecified for this profile.

There is no information regarding frequent co-authors, which suggests that details about collaborative research engagements are not documented here.

Information about frequent publication venues is not provided, so the journals, conferences, or other outlets commonly chosen for disseminating research are unknown.

No records of book publications or the publishers associated with such works are available for John F. Bol, which means contributions in monograph or edited volume formats are not noted.

The dataset does not specify main fields of study or subfields, thus the precise academic disciplines or specialized areas in which John F. Bol conducts research are not identified.

Similarly, there are no main topics of work listed, so the key subject matters or thematic focuses remain unspecified in the current data.

There is no information about awards won, indicating either the absence of such recognitions or that they were not reported in this data.

Best Publications

  • Plant Pathogenesis-Related Proteins Induced by Virus Infection

    J. F. Bol;H. J. M. Linthorst;B. J. C. Cornelissen

  • Ethylene-insensitive tobacco lacks nonhost resistance against soil-borne fungi

    Marga Knoester;Leendert C. van Loon;Joop van den Heuvel;Jacek Hennig

  • Differential induction of acquired resistance and PR gene expression in tobacco by virus infection, ethephon treatment, UV light and wounding.

    Frans Th. Brederode;Huub J. M. Linthorst;John F. Bol

  • Overproduction of salicylic acid in plants by bacterial transgenes enhances pathogen resistance

    Marianne C. Verberne;Rob Verpoorte;John F. Bol;Jesus Mercado-Blanco;Jesus Mercado-Blanco

  • A new class of tobacco chitinases homologous to bacterial exo-chitinases displays antifungal activity

    L.S. Melchers;M. Apotheker-de Groot;J.A. van der Knaap;A.P. Ponstein

  • A Novel WRKY transcription factor is required for induction of PR-1a gene expression by salicylic acid and bacterial elicitors.

    Marcel C. van Verk;Dimitri Pappaioannou;Lyda Neeleman;John F. Bol

  • A functional equivalence of top component a RNA and coat protein in the initiation of infection by alfalfa mosaic virus

    J.F. Bol;Lous Van Vloten-Doting;E.M.J. Jaspars

  • A tobacco mosaic virus-induced tobacco protein is homologous to the sweet-tasting protein thaumatin

    Ben J. C. Cornelissen;Rob A. M. Hooft van Huijsduijnen;John F. Bol

  • Identification of potyviruses using the polymerase chain reaction with degenerate primers.

    S. A. Langeveld;J. M. Dore;J. Memelink;A. F. L. M. Derks

  • The complete nucleotide sequence of potato virus X and its homologies at the amino acid level with various plus-stranded RNA viruses.

    Marianne J. Huisman;Huub J. M. Linthorst;John F. Bol;Ben J. C. Cornelissen

  • WRKY Transcription Factors Involved in Activation of SA Biosynthesis Genes

    Marcel C. van Verk;John F. Bol;Huub Jm M. Linthorst

  • A conformational switch at the 3′ end of a plant virus RNA regulates viral replication

    René C.L. Olsthoorn;Sander Mertens;Frans T. Brederode;John F. Bol

  • Molecular characterization of messenger RNAs for ‘pathogenesis‐related’ proteins 1a, 1b and 1c, induced by TMV infection of tobacco

    Ben J.C. Cornelissen;Rob A. M. Hooft van Huijsduijnen;Leendert C. Van Loon;John F. Bol

  • Structure of tobacco genes encoding pathogenesis-related proteins from the PR-1 group

    Ben J.C. Cornelissen;Jeannine Horowitz;Jan A.L. van Kan;Robert B. Goldberg

  • Analysis of gene families encoding acidic and basic beta-1,3-glucanases of tobacco.

    H. J. M. Linthorst;L. S. Melchers;A. Mayer;J. S. C. van Roekel

  • Constitutive expression of pathogenesis-related proteins PR-1, GRP, and PR-S in tobacco has no effect on virus infection.

    Huub J. M. Linthorst;Ralph L. J. Meuwissen;Serge Kauffmann;John F. Bol

  • Method for the extraction of the volatile compound salicylic acid from tobacco leaf material.

    Marianne C. Verberne;Nynke Brouwer;Federica Delbianco;Huub J. M. Linthorst

  • Expression of alfalfa mosaic virus and tobacco rattle virus coat protein genes in transgenic tobacco plants

    Cees M.P. Van Dun;John F. Bol;Lous Van Vloten-Doting

  • Silencing of a gene encoding a protein component of the oxygen-evolving complex of photosystem II enhances virus replication in plants.

    Truus E.M. Abbink;Jack R. Peart;Thera N.M. Mos;David C. Baulcombe

  • Alfalfa mosaic virus and ilarviruses: involvement of coat protein in multiple steps of the replication cycle.

    John F. Bol

  • Complete nucleotide sequence of alfalfa mosaic virus RNA 4.

    Frans Th. Brederode;Ellen C. Koper-Zwarthoff;John F. Bol

  • Early and late functions of alfalfa mosaic virus coat protein can be mutated separately.

    Edwin A.G. Van Der Vossen;Lyda Neeleman;John F. Bol

Frequent Co-Authors

Huub J. M. Linthorst
Huub J. M. Linthorst Leiden University
Ben J. C. Cornelissen
Ben J. C. Cornelissen University of Amsterdam
Robert Verpoorte
Robert Verpoorte Leiden University
L.C. van Loon
L.C. van Loon Utrecht University
David C. Baulcombe
David C. Baulcombe University of Cambridge
Johan Memelink
Johan Memelink Leiden University
Colin W. Ward
Colin W. Ward Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
Roger Hull
Roger Hull John Innes Centre
Amit Gal-On
Amit Gal-On Agricultural Research Organization
Roger N. Beachy
Roger N. Beachy Washington University in St. Louis

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