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2026
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2024

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
155
Citations
126562
World Ranking
13
National Ranking
1

Genetics

D-Index
154
Citations
125367
World Ranking
118
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Genetics and Molecular Biology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Genetics in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2015 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2003 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Jonathan D. G. Jones is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily falls within the field of Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with a distinct focus on Plant Science. Subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology, and Biotechnology.

The main topics covered by their work are:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms

Jonathan D. G. Jones's research has been published notably in several venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • New Phytologist
  • Nature Communications
  • Nature Plants

Frequent coauthors of Jonathan D. G. Jones include:

  • Pingtao Ding
  • Bruno Pok Man Ngou
  • Kamil Witek
  • Heekyung Ahn
  • Xiao Lin

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Jonathan D. G. Jones encompass:

  • "The plant immune system: From discovery to deployment," 2024, Cell
  • "Mutual potentiation of plant immunity by cell-surface and intracellular receptors," 2021, Nature
  • "Thirty years of resistance: Zig-zag through the plant immune system," 2022, The Plant Cell
  • "Plant immune networks," 2021, Trends in Plant Science
  • "The NLR-Annotator Tool Enables Annotation of the Intracellular Immune Receptor Repertoire," 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Jonathan D. G. Jones has received several recognitions, including:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2003
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2015

Best Publications

  • The plant immune system

    Jonathan D. G. Jones;Jeffery L. Dangl

  • Plant pathogens and integrated defence responses to infection.

    Jeffery L. Dangl;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • Role of plant hormones in plant defence responses.

    Rajendra Bari;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES PRODUCED BY NADPH OXIDASE REGULATE PLANT CELL GROWTH

    Julia Foreman;Vadim Demidchik;John H. F. Bothwell;Panagiota Mylona

  • Resistance gene-dependent plant defense responses.

    Kim E. Hammond-Kosack;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • Perception of the bacterial PAMP EF-Tu by the receptor EFR restricts Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.

    Cyril Zipfel;Gernot Kunze;Delphine Chinchilla;Anne Caniard

  • A flagellin-induced complex of the receptor FLS2 and BAK1 initiates plant defence

    Delphine Chinchilla;Cyril Zipfel;Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Birgit Kemmerling

  • A Plant miRNA Contributes to Antibacterial Resistance by Repressing Auxin Signaling

    Lionel Navarro;Patrice Dunoyer;Florence Jay;Benedict Arnold

  • Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception.

    Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Silke Robatzek;Lionel Navarro;Edward J. Oakeley

  • Hormone Crosstalk in Plant Disease and Defense: More Than Just JASMONATE-SALICYLATE Antagonism

    Alexandre Robert-Seilaniantz;Murray Grant;Jonathan D G Jones

  • Genome-wide association study of 107 phenotypes in Arabidopsis thaliana inbred lines

    Susanna Atwell;Yu S. Huang;Bjarni J. Vilhjálmsson;Glenda Willems

  • Reactive Oxygen Species Signaling in Response to Pathogens

    Miguel Angel Torres;Jonathan D.G. Jones;Jeffery L. Dangl

  • Arabidopsis gp91phox homologues AtrbohD and AtrbohF are required for accumulation of reactive oxygen intermediates in the plant defense response

    Miguel Angel Torres;Jeffery L. Dangl;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • NADPH oxidase AtrbohD and AtrbohF genes function in ROS‐dependent ABA signaling in Arabidopsis

    June M. Kwak;Izumi C. Mori;Zhen-Ming Pei;Nathalie Leonhardt

  • Genome sequence and analysis of the Irish potato famine pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

    Brian J Haas;Sophien Kamoun;Sophien Kamoun;Michael C Zody;Michael C Zody;Rays H Y Jiang;Rays H Y Jiang

  • Plant Disease Resistance Genes

    Kim E. Hammond-Kosack;Jonathan D. G. Jones

  • Isolation of the tomato Cf-9 gene for resistance to Cladosporium fulvum by transposon tagging

    David A. Jones;Colwyn M. Thomas;Kim E. Hammond-Kosack;Peter J. Balint-Kurti

  • Molecular genetics of plant disease resistance

    Brian J. Staskawicz;Frederick M. Ausubel;Barbara J. Baker;Jeffrey G. Ellis

  • Targeted mutagenesis in the model plant Nicotiana benthamiana using Cas9 RNA-guided endonuclease

    Vladimir Nekrasov;Brian Staskawicz;Detlef Weigel;Jonathan D G Jones

  • AtrbohF are required for accumulation of reactive oxygen intermediates in the plant defense response

    Miguel Angel Torres;Jeffery L. Dangl;Jonathan D. G. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Kim E. Hammond-Kosack
Kim E. Hammond-Kosack Rothamsted Research
David A. Jones
David A. Jones Australian National University
Brande B. H. Wulff
Brande B. H. Wulff King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Sophien Kamoun
Sophien Kamoun University of East Anglia
David J. Studholme
David J. Studholme University of Exeter
Cyril Zipfel
Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich
Jane E. Parker
Jane E. Parker Max Planck Society
Jeffery L. Dangl
Jeffery L. Dangl University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Eric B. Holub
Eric B. Holub University of Warwick
Burkhard Steuernagel
Burkhard Steuernagel John Innes Centre

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