Klaus-Dieter Scharf

Klaus-Dieter Scharf publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

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Klaus-Dieter Scharf 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 Klaus-Dieter Scharf sits on this spectrum.

Best Publications

• Complexity of the heat stress response in plants.

  Sachin Kotak;Jane Larkindale;Ung Lee;Pascal von Koskull-Döring

  1507
  Citations

• The plant heat stress transcription factor (Hsf) family: structure, function and evolution.

  Klaus-Dieter Scharf;Thomas Berberich;Ingo Ebersberger;Lutz Nover

  1146
  Citations

• Arabidopsis and the heat stress transcription factor world: how many heat stress transcription factors do we need?

  Unknown

  935
  Citations

• Heat stress response in plants: a complex game with chaperones and more than twenty heat stress transcription factors.

  Unknown

  703
  Citations

• The diversity of plant heat stress transcription factors

  Unknown

  680
  Citations

• In the complex family of heat stress transcription factors, HsfA1 has a unique role as master regulator of thermotolerance in tomato

  Unknown

  630
  Citations

• Crosstalk between Hsp90 and Hsp70 chaperones and heat stress transcription factors in tomato.

  Alexander Hahn;Daniela Bublak;Enrico Schleiff;Klaus-Dieter Scharf

  390
  Citations

• Cytoplasmic heat shock granules are formed from precursor particles and are associated with a specific set of mRNAs.

  Unknown

  358
  Citations

• The Tomato Hsf System: HsfA2 Needs Interaction with HsfA1 for Efficient Nuclear Import and May Be Localized in Cytoplasmic Heat Stress Granules

  Unknown

  342
  Citations

• The Hsf world: classification and properties of plant heat stress transcription factors

  Unknown

  287
  Citations

• Prospects of engineering thermotolerance in crops through modulation of heat stress transcription factor and heat shock protein networks.

  Sotirios Fragkostefanakis;Sascha Röth;Enrico Schleiff;Klaus-Dieter Scharf

  263
  Citations

• Synthesis, modification and structural binding of heat‐shock proteins in tomato cell cultures

  Unknown

  184
  Citations

• Developmental and heat stress-regulated expression of HsfA2 and small heat shock proteins in tomato anthers

  Filomena Giorno;Mieke Wolters-Arts;Stefania Grillo;Klaus-Dieter Scharf

  178
  Citations

• Role of Heat Stress Transcription Factor HsfA5 as Specific Repressor of HsfA4

  Unknown

  176
  Citations

• Plants contain a novel multi-member class of heat shock factors without transcriptional activator potential.

  Unknown

  148
  Citations

• Intracellular distribution and identification of the nuclear localization signals of two plant heat-stress transcription factors

  Unknown

  146
  Citations

• Promoter specificity and deletion analysis of three heat stress transcription factors of tomato

  Unknown

  130
  Citations

• Role of Hsp17.4-CII as Coregulator and Cytoplasmic Retention Factor of Tomato Heat Stress Transcription Factor HsfA2

  Unknown

  130
  Citations

• Heat stress promoters and transcription factors.

  Unknown

  117
  Citations

• The repressor and co‐activator HsfB1 regulates the major heat stress transcription factors in tomato

  Sotirios Fragkostefanakis;Stefan Simm;Asmaa El-Shershaby;Yangjie Hu

  93
  Citations