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2024

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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129
Citations
58720
World Ranking
42
National Ranking
6

Genetics

D-Index
128
Citations
58382
World Ranking
277
National Ranking
52

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
  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2011 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Sophien Kamoun is affiliated with the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with particular emphasis on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Immunology, Cell Biology, and Biotechnology.

Their scientific contributions cover a range of topics within plant biology, including:

  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
  • Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Fungal and yeast genetics research

Sophien Kamoun's recent publications include:

  • RefPlantNLR is a comprehensive collection of experimentally validated plant disease resistance proteins from the NLR family, 2021, PLoS Biology
  • Parasitic modulation of host development by ubiquitin-independent protein degradation, 2021, Cell
  • NLR immune receptor-nanobody fusions confer plant disease resistance, 2023, Science
  • Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security, 2022, Nature Food
  • Plant pathogens convergently evolved to counteract redundant nodes of an NLR immune receptor network, 2021, PLoS Biology

They frequently collaborate with the following co-authors:

  • Joe Win
  • Jiorgos Kourelis
  • Adeline Harant
  • Thorsten Langner
  • Mauricio P. Contreras

Their work appears frequently in various academic publication venues, including:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLoS Biology
  • The Plant Cell
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Sophien Kamoun's contributions to science have been recognized by several honors:

  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2018
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013
  • Member of Academia Europaea, 2011

Best Publications

  • Sequence-Based Species Delimitation for the DNA Taxonomy of Undescribed Insects

    Joan Pons;Joan Pons;Timothy G. Barraclough;Timothy G. Barraclough;Jesus Gomez-Zurita;Jesus Gomez-Zurita;Anabela Cardoso;Anabela Cardoso

  • 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

  • QTL-seq: rapid mapping of quantitative trait loci in rice by whole genome resequencing of DNA from two bulked populations.

    Hiroki Takagi;Akira Abe;Kentaro Yoshida;Shunichi Kosugi

  • Genome sequencing reveals agronomically important loci in rice using MutMap

    Akira Abe;Shunichi Kosugi;Kentaro Yoshida;Satoshi Natsume

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

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

  • Phytophthora Genome Sequences Uncover Evolutionary Origins and Mechanisms of Pathogenesis

    Brett M. Tyler;Sucheta Tripathy;Xuemin Zhang;Paramvir Dehal;Paramvir Dehal

  • The Top 10 oomycete pathogens in molecular plant pathology

    Sophien Kamoun;Oliver Furzer;Jonathan D. G. Jones;Howard S. Judelson

  • A Catalogue of the Effector Secretome of Plant Pathogenic Oomycetes

    Sophien Kamoun

  • From Guard to Decoy: A New Model for Perception of Plant Pathogen Effectors

    Renier A.L. van der Hoorn;Sophien Kamoun

  • Emerging concepts in effector biology of plant-associated organisms.

    S. A. Hogenhout;R. A. L. Van der Hoorn;R. Terauchi;S. Kamoun

  • Genome evolution in filamentous plant pathogens: why bigger can be better

    Sylvain Raffaele;Sophien Kamoun

  • Rapid generation of a transgene-free powdery mildew resistant tomato by genome deletion

    Vladimir Nekrasov;Vladimir Nekrasov;Congmao Wang;Joe Win;Christa Lanz

  • Plant genome editing made easy: targeted mutagenesis in model and crop plants using the CRISPR/Cas system

    Khaoula Belhaj;Angela Chaparro-Garcia;Sophien Kamoun;Vladimir Nekrasov

  • Editing plant genomes with CRISPR/Cas9.

    Khaoula Belhaj;Angela Chaparro-Garcia;Sophien Kamoun;Nicola J Patron

  • The two-speed genomes of filamentous pathogens: Waltz with plants

    Suomeng Dong;Sylvain Raffaele;Sophien Kamoun

  • An ancestral oomycete locus contains late blight avirulence gene Avr3a, encoding a protein that is recognized in the host cytoplasm

    Miles R. Armstrong;Stephen C. Whisson;Leighton Pritchard;Leighton Pritchard;Jorunn I. B. Bos

  • A genomic variation map provides insights into the genetic basis of cucumber domestication and diversity

    Jianjian Qi;Xin Liu;Di Shen;Han Miao

  • Phytophthora infestans effector AVR3a is essential for virulence and manipulates plant immunity by stabilizing host E3 ligase CMPG1.

    Jorunn I. B. Bos;Miles R. Armstrong;Eleanor M. Gilroy;Petra C. Boevink

  • Signatures of adaptation to obligate biotrophy in the Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis genome

    Laura Baxter;Sucheta Tripathy;Naveed Ishaque;Nico Boot

  • Association Genetics Reveals Three Novel Avirulence Genes from the Rice Blast Fungal Pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae

    Kentaro Yoshida;Hiromasa Saitoh;Shizuko Fujisawa;Hiroyuki Kanzaki

  • Differential Recognition of Highly Divergent Downy Mildew Avirulence Gene Alleles by RPP1 Resistance Genes from Two Arabidopsis Lines

    Anne P. Rehmany;Anna Gordon;Laura E. Rose;Rebecca L. Allen

Frequent Co-Authors

Joe Win
Joe Win University of East Anglia
Tolga O. Bozkurt
Tolga O. Bozkurt Imperial College London
Ryohei Terauchi
Ryohei Terauchi Kyoto University
Francine Govers
Francine Govers Wageningen University & Research
Mark J. Banfield
Mark J. Banfield John Innes Centre
Kentaro Yoshida
Kentaro Yoshida Kobe University
Liliana M. Cano
Liliana M. Cano University of Florida
Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers
Vivianne G. A. A. Vleeshouwers Wageningen University & Research
Sebastian Schornack
Sebastian Schornack University of Cambridge
Hiromasa Saitoh
Hiromasa Saitoh Rice University

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