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Markus Puschenreiter

Markus Puschenreiter

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Plant Science and Agronomy
Austria
2025

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
52
Citations
9834
World Ranking
1916
National Ranking
11

Markus Puschenreiter 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 Markus Puschenreiter sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 156 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Markus Puschenreiter 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 Markus Puschenreiter sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Markus Puschenreiter is affiliated with BOKU University in Austria. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with a focus on Plant Science, Pollution, Soil Science, Geochemistry and Petrology, and Ecology.

Their scholarly work covers key topics including Heavy metals in environment, Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism, Aluminum toxicity and tolerance in plants and animals, Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics, and Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis.

They have published research in several prominent scientific journals, with frequent contributions to Plant and Soil, Frontiers in Microbiology, Environmental and Experimental Botany, Rhizosphere, and Pedosphere.

Recent publications highlight a diverse range of studies:

  • Comparative Genomics of Microbacterium Species to Reveal Diversity, Potential for Secondary Metabolites and Heavy Metal Resistance, 2020, Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Nettle, a Long-Known Fiber Plant with New Perspectives, 2022, Materials
  • Heavy metal contents, mobility and origin in agricultural topsoils of the Galápagos Islands, 2021, Chemosphere
  • Arsenic redox transformations and cycling in the rhizosphere of Pteris vittata and Pteris quadriaurita, 2020, Environmental and Experimental Botany
  • Root foraging and avoidance in hyperaccumulator and excluder plants: a rhizotron experiment, 2020, Plant and Soil

Markus Puschenreiter has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Jakob Santner, Walter W. Wenzel, Alice Tognacchini, Thomas Prohaska, and Rebecca Hood-Nowotny. These collaborations indicate a network of shared research interests within plant and soil sciences.

Best Publications

  • The role of plant-associated bacteria in the mobilization and phytoextraction of trace elements in contaminated soils

    Angela Sessitsch;Melanie Kuffner;Petra Kidd;Jaco Vangronsveld

  • Bacterial Communities Associated with Flowering Plants of the Ni Hyperaccumulator Thlaspi goesingense

    Rughia Idris;Radoslava Trifonova;Markus Puschenreiter;Walter W. Wenzel

  • Rhizosphere bacteria affect growth and metal uptake of heavy metal accumulating willows

    Melanie Kuffner;Markus Puschenreiter;Gerlinde Wieshammer;Markus Gorfer

  • Heavy metal accumulation in trees growing on contaminated sites in Central Europe.

    R. Unterbrunner;M. Puschenreiter;P. Sommer;G. Wieshammer

  • Rhizosphere characteristics of indigenously growing nickel hyperaccumulator and excluder plants on serpentine soil

    W.W Wenzel;M Bunkowski;M Puschenreiter;O Horak

  • Culturable bacteria from Zn- and Cd-accumulating Salix caprea with differential effects on plant growth and heavy metal availability

    M. Kuffner;S. De Maria;S. De Maria;M. Puschenreiter;K. Fallmann;K. Fallmann

  • Agronomic practices for improving gentle remediation of trace element-contaminated soils.

    Petra Kidd;Michel Mench;Vanessa Álvarez-López;Valérie Bert

  • Low-cost agricultural measures to reduce heavy metal transfer into the food chain - a review

    M. Puschenreiter;O. Horak;W. Friesl;W. Hartl

  • Developing principles of sustainability and stakeholder engagement for "gentle" remediation approaches: the European context

    Andrew Cundy;Richard Bardos;Andrew Church;M. Puschenreiter

  • Interactive effects of organic acids in the rhizosphere

    Eva Oburger;Eva Oburger;Guy J.D. Kirk;Walter W. Wenzel;Markus Puschenreiter

  • Phytoextraction of Cd and Zn from agricultural soils by Salix ssp. and intercropping of Salix caprea and Arabidopsis halleri

    Gerlinde Wieshammer;Reinhard Unterbrunner;Teresa Bañares García;Michael F. Zivkovic

  • Root exudation of phytosiderophores from soil‐grown wheat

    Eva Oburger;Barbara Gruber;Yvonne Schindlegger;Walter D. C. Schenkeveld

  • Root anatomy and element distribution vary between two Salix caprea isolates with different Cd accumulation capacities

    Marek Vaculík;Cornelia Konlechner;Ingrid Langer;Wolfram Adlassnig

  • Microbe and plant assisted-remediation of organic xenobiotics and its enhancement by genetically modified organisms and recombinant technology: A review.

    Imran Hussain;Gajender Aleti;Ravi Naidu;Markus Puschenreiter

  • Brownfields to green fields: Realising wider benefits from practical contaminant phytomanagement strategies

    A.B. Cundy;R.P. Bardos;Markus Puschenreiter;Michel Mench

  • Novel rhizobox design to assess rhizosphere characteristics at high spatial resolution

    Walter W. Wenzel;Gottfried Wieshammer;Walter J. Fitz;Markus Puschenreiter

  • Effect of nano zero-valent iron application on As, Cd, Pb, and Zn availability in the rhizosphere of metal(loid) contaminated soils.

    Martina Vítková;Markus Puschenreiter;Michael Komárek

  • Evaluation of a novel tool for sampling root exudates from soil-grown plants compared to conventional techniques

    Eva Oburger;Madeleine Dell‘mour;Stephan Hann;Gottfried Wieshammer

  • Assessment of Methods for Determining Bioavailability of Trace Elements in Soils: A Review

    Jurate Kumpiene;Laura Giagnoni;Bernd Marschner;Sã©bastien Denys

  • Phytoextraction of heavy metal contaminated soils with Thlaspi goesingense and Amaranthus hybridus: Rhizosphere manipulation using EDTA and ammonium sulfate

    Markus Puschenreiter;Gudrun Stöger;Enzo Lombi;Othmar Horak

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter W. Wenzel
Walter W. Wenzel BOKU University
Eva Oburger
Eva Oburger BOKU University
Stephan Hann
Stephan Hann BOKU University
Michel Mench
Michel Mench INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jaco Vangronsveld
Jaco Vangronsveld Hasselt University
Angela Sessitsch
Angela Sessitsch Austrian Institute of Technology
Andrew B. Cundy
Andrew B. Cundy National Oceanography Centre
Giancarlo Renella
Giancarlo Renella University of Padua
Gunda Koellensperger
Gunda Koellensperger University of Vienna
Gerhard Soja
Gerhard Soja Austrian Institute of Technology

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