Jörg Degenhardt

Jörg Degenhardt publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Jörg Degenhardt 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 Jörg Degenhardt sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Recruitment of entomopathogenic nematodes by insect-damaged maize roots

  Sergio Rasmann;Tobias G. Köllner;Jörg Degenhardt;Ivan Hiltpold

  1486
  Citations

• Monoterpene and sesquiterpene synthases and the origin of terpene skeletal diversity in plants.

  Jörg Degenhardt;Tobias G. Köllner;Jonathan Gershenzon

  1274
  Citations

• The products of a single maize sesquiterpene synthase form a volatile defense signal that attracts natural enemies of maize herbivores

  Christiane Schnee;Tobias G. Köllner;Matthias Held;Ted C. J. Turlings

  682
  Citations

• A Maize (E)-β-Caryophyllene Synthase Implicated in Indirect Defense Responses against Herbivores Is Not Expressed in Most American Maize Varieties

  Tobias G. Köllner;Matthias Held;Claudia Lenk;Ivan Hiltpold

  510
  Citations

• Restoring a maize root signal that attracts insect-killing nematodes to control a major pest

  Jörg Degenhardt;Ivan Hiltpold;Tobias G. Köllner;Monika Frey

  404
  Citations

• Attracting friends to feast on foes: engineering terpene emission to make crop plants more attractive to herbivore enemies

  Jörg Degenhardt;Jonathan Gershenzon;Ian T Baldwin;André Kessler

  362
  Citations

• Aluminum Resistance in the Arabidopsis Mutant alr-104 Is Caused by an Aluminum-Induced Increase in Rhizosphere pH

  Jörg Degenhardt;Paul B. Larsen;Stephen H. Howell;Leon V. Kochian

  352
  Citations

• The Variability of Sesquiterpenes Emitted from Two Zea mays Cultivars Is Controlled by Allelic Variation of Two Terpene Synthase Genes Encoding Stereoselective Multiple Product Enzymes

  Tobias G. Köllner;Christiane Schnee;Jonathan Gershenzon;Jörg Degenhardt

  340
  Citations

• Aluminum-Resistant Arabidopsis Mutants That Exhibit Altered Patterns of Aluminum Accumulation and Organic Acid Release from Roots

  Paul B. Larsen;Jörg Degenhardt;Chin-Yin Tai;Laura M. Stenzler

  305
  Citations

• Rational Conversion of Substrate and Product Specificity in a Salvia Monoterpene Synthase: Structural Insights into the Evolution of Terpene Synthase Function

  Sotirios C. Kampranis;Daphne Ioannidis;Daphne Ioannidis;Alan Purvis;Walid Mahrez

  273
  Citations

• The maize gene terpene synthase 1 encodes a sesquiterpene synthase catalyzing the formation of (E)-beta-farnesene, (E)-nerolidol, and (E,E)-farnesol after herbivore damage.

  Christiane Schnee;Tobias G. Köllner;Jonathan Gershenzon;Jörg Degenhardt

  267
  Citations

• Molecular and genomic basis of volatile-mediated indirect defense against insects in rice

  Joshua S. Yuan;Tobias G. Köllner;Greg Wiggins;Jerome Grant

  217
  Citations

• The underestimated role of roots in defense against leaf attackers

  Matthias Erb;Claudia Lenk;Jörg Degenhardt;Ted C.J. Turlings

  211
  Citations

• Terpene synthases of oregano ( Origanum vulgare L.) and their roles in the pathway and regulation of terpene biosynthesis

  Christoph Crocoll;Julia Asbach;Johannes Novak;Jonathan Gershenzon

  210
  Citations

• Dynamic Maize Responses to Aphid Feeding Are Revealed by a Time Series of Transcriptomic and Metabolomic Assays

  Vered Tzin;Noe Fernandez-Pozo;Annett Richter;Eric A. Schmelz

  183
  Citations

• Interactions between Arthropod-Induced Aboveground and Belowground Defenses in Plants

  Matthias Erb;Jurriaan Ton;Jörg Degenhardt;Ted C.J. Turlings

  180
  Citations

• The biosynthesis of thymol, carvacrol, and thymohydroquinone in Lamiaceae proceeds via cytochrome P450s and a short-chain dehydrogenase

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  174
  Citations

• The Eucalyptus terpene synthase gene family

  Carsten Kulheim;Amanda Padovan;Charles Hefer;Sandra T. Krause

  170
  Citations

• The sesquiterpene hydrocarbons of maize (Zea mays) form five groups with distinct developmental and organ-specific distributions

  Tobias G. Köllner;Christiane Schnee;Jonathan Gershenzon;Jörg Degenhardt

  157
  Citations

• The emerging importance of microbial volatile organic compounds

  Birgit Piechulla;Jörg Degenhardt

  129
  Citations