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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
67
Citations
19472
World Ranking
8105
National Ranking
624

John W. Mansfield publication distribution in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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47 publications 1,028+

This scientist: 210 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John W. Mansfield D-index placement in Biology and Biochemistry in 2026

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 59th percentile

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Overview

John W. Mansfield is a researcher affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their work primarily focuses on the interactions between plants and microbial pathogens, with a substantial concentration on bacterial pathogens and their mechanisms of infection.

The main fields of study for Mansfield include Agricultural and Biological Sciences, as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their subfields of study span Plant Science, Cell Biology, Artificial Intelligence, and Ecology. Mansfield's research covers a range of topics such as Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Plant Virus Research Studies, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Natural Language Processing Techniques, and Speech Recognition and Synthesis.

Significant frequent coauthors in Mansfield's body of work include:

  • Michelle T. Hulin
  • Robert W. Jackson
  • Richard J. Harrison
  • Andrea Vadillo-Dieguez
  • Ziyue Zeng

Mansfield has published in several scientific journals, with frequent publication venues being:

  • Plant Pathology
  • Phytopathology
  • New Phytologist
  • Molecular Plant Pathology
  • Journal of Microbiological Methods

Their recent papers highlight topics related to bacterial pathogenicity, host resistance, and genomic approaches to studying plant pathogens. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Effector Identification in Plant Pathogens" (2023, Phytopathology)
  • "Cherry picking by pseudomonads: After a century of research on canker, genomics provides insights into the evolution of pathogenicity towards stone fruits" (2020, Plant Pathology)
  • "Genomic and functional analysis of phage-mediated horizontal gene transfer in Pseudomonas syringae on the plant surface" (2022, New Phytologist)
  • "Identifying resistance in wild and ornamental cherry towards bacterial canker caused by Pseudomonas syringae" (2021, Plant Pathology)
  • "Genetic dissection of the tissue-specific roles of type III effectors and phytotoxins in the pathogenicity of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae to cherry" (2024, Molecular Plant Pathology)

This body of work reflects an in-depth interest in the molecular mechanisms that enable bacterial pathogens to infect plants, as well as the genetic basis of plant resistance towards such pathogens. Mansfield's research also intersects with the study of bacteriophages and horizontal gene transfer as factors in pathogen evolution and virulence.

Best Publications

  • Top 10 plant pathogenic bacteria in molecular plant pathology

    John Mansfield;Stephane Genin;Shimpei Magori;Vitaly Citovsky

  • Two Classes of Plant Antibiotics: Phytoalexins versus "Phytoanticipins"

    Hans D. VanEtten;John W. Mansfield;John A. Bailey;Edward E. Farmer

  • Localization of hydrogen peroxide accumulation during the hypersensitive reaction of lettuce cells to Pseudomonas syringae pv phaseolicola

    Charles S. Bestwick;Ian R. Brown;Mark H. R. Bennett;John W. Mansfield

  • Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato hijacks the Arabidopsis abscisic acid signalling pathway to cause disease

    Marta de Torres-Zabala;Marta de Torres-Zabala;William Truman;William Truman;Mark H Bennett;Guillaume Lafforgue

  • Plant Pattern-Recognition Receptor FLS2 Is Directed for Degradation by the Bacterial Ubiquitin Ligase AvrPtoB

    Vera Göhre;Thomas Spallek;Heidrun Häweker;Sophia Mersmann

  • The RPM1 plant disease resistance gene facilitates a rapid and sustained increase in cytosolic calcium that is necessary for the oxidative burst and hypersensitive cell death

    Murray Grant;Ian Brown;Sally Adams;Marc Knight

  • Cell Wall Damage-Induced Lignin Biosynthesis Is Regulated by a Reactive Oxygen Species- and Jasmonic Acid-Dependent Process in Arabidopsis

    Lucinda Denness;Joseph Francis McKenna;Cecile Segonzac;Alexandra Wormit

  • Whole-Genome Sequence Analysis of Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola 1448A Reveals Divergence among Pathovars in Genes Involved in Virulence and Transposition

    Vinita Joardar;Magdalen Lindeberg;Robert W. Jackson;Jeremy Selengut

  • Localized Changes in Peroxidase Activity Accompany Hydrogen Peroxide Generation during the Development of a Nonhost Hypersensitive Reaction in Lettuce

    Charles S. Bestwick;Ian R. Brown;John W. Mansfield

  • A genome-wide functional investigation into the roles of receptor-like proteins in Arabidopsis

    Guodong Wang;Ursula Ellendorff;Ben Kemp;John W. Mansfield

  • Cell wall alterations and localized accumulation of feruloyl-3-methoxytyramine in onion epidermis at sites of attempted penetration by Botrytis allii are associated with actin polarisation, peroxidase activity and suppression of flavonoid biosynthesis

    Sarah R. McLusky;Sarah R. McLusky;Mark H. Bennett;Mark H. Bennett;Michael H. Beale;Mervyn J. Lewis

  • Chloroplasts play a central role in plant defence and are targeted by pathogen effectors

    Marta de Torres Zabala;George Littlejohn;Siddharth Jayaraman;David Studholme

  • Identification of a pathogenicity island, which contains genes for virulence and avirulence, on a large native plasmid in the bean pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pathovar phaseolicola.

    Robert W. Jackson;Evangelos Athanassopoulos;George Tsiamis;John W. Mansfield

  • A rapid and robust method for simultaneously measuring changes in the phytohormones ABA, JA and SA in plants following biotic and abiotic stress

    Silvia Forcat;Mark H Bennett;John W Mansfield;Murray R Grant

  • Localization of components of the oxidative cross-linking of glycoproteins and of callose synthesis in papillae formed during the interaction between non-pathogenic strains ofXanthomonas campestris andFrench bean mesophyll cells

    Ian Brown;Jonathan Trethowan;Maria Kerry;John Mansfield

  • Cultivar‐specific avirulence and virulence functions assigned to avrPphF in Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola, the cause of bean halo‐blight disease

    George Tsiamis;John W. Mansfield;Ruth Hockenhull;Robert W. Jackson

  • HrpZ Psph from the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola binds to lipid bilayers and forms an ion-conducting pore in vitro

    Justin Lee;Birgit Klüsener;George Tsiamis;Conrad Stevens

  • Modifications to the Arabidopsis Defense Proteome Occur Prior to Significant Transcriptional Change in Response to Inoculation with Pseudomonas syringae

    Alexandra M.E. Jones;Vincent Thomas;Mark H. Bennett;John Mansfield

  • Hrp Mutant of Pseudomonas syringae pv phaseolicola Induces Cell Wall Alterations but Not Membrane Damage Leading to the Hypersensitive Reaction in Lettuce.

    Charles S. Bestwick;Mark H. Bennett;John W. Mansfield

  • Enzymes regulating the accumulation of active oxygen species during the hypersensitive reaction of bean to Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola

    A L Adam;Charles Bestwick;B Barna;J W Mansfield

Frequent Co-Authors

Murray Grant
Murray Grant University of Warwick
Richard J. Harrison
Richard J. Harrison University of Cambridge
Michael H. Beale
Michael H. Beale Rothamsted Research
Eric B. Holub
Eric B. Holub University of Warwick
Nickolas J. Panopoulos
Nickolas J. Panopoulos University of Crete
Alexandra M. E. Jones
Alexandra M. E. Jones University of Warwick
Ulla Bonas
Ulla Bonas Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Silke Robatzek
Silke Robatzek Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Alan Collmer
Alan Collmer Cornell University
Jeffery L. Dangl
Jeffery L. Dangl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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