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Theo van der Lee publication distribution in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Molecular Biology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Theo van der Lee sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 564+

This scientist: 132 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 564 publications or more.

Theo van der Lee D-index placement in Molecular Biology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Molecular Biology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Theo van der Lee sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 145+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 145 D-Index or more.

Overview

Theo van der Lee is affiliated with Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these domains, the scientist has produced significant work related to Plant Science, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Ecology, and the subfield of Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their main topics of study include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases, Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, and Plant Pathogens and Resistance.

Selected recent publications illustrate the range of their research:

  • No to Neocosmospora: Phylogenomic and Practical Reasons for Continued Inclusion of the Fusarium solani Species Complex in the Genus Fusarium, 2020, mSphere
  • PanTools v3: functional annotation, classification and phylogenomics, 2022, Bioinformatics
  • The Pectobacterium pangenome, with a focus on Pectobacterium brasiliense, shows a robust core and extensive exchange of genes from a shared gene pool, 2021, BMC Genomics
  • Fusarium graminearum Species Complex: A Bibliographic Analysis and Web-Accessible Database for Global Mapping of Species and Trichothecene Toxin Chemotypes, 2021, Phytopathology
  • Presence of the Weakly Pathogenic Fusarium poae in the Fusarium Head Blight Disease Complex Hampers Biocontrol and Chemical Control of the Virulent Fusarium graminearum Pathogen, 2021, Frontiers in Plant Science

Theo van der Lee frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Noted coauthors include:

  • Cees Waalwijk
  • Sandra Smit
  • Balázs Brankovics
  • Anne D. van Diepeningen
  • Eef M. Jonkheer

Their work has appeared in a variety of scientific journals with multiple publications in certain key venues. Frequent publication forums are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Molecular Plant Pathology
  • Plant Disease
  • Frontiers in Microbiology

The research output of Theo van der Lee reveals a focus on understanding plant pathogens, fungal diseases, and their impact on agriculture, with additional attention to genomic approaches and plant immunity mechanisms. This profile reflects a multidisciplinary approach combining molecular biology techniques with ecological and evolutionary perspectives.

Best Publications

  • The Barley Mlo Gene: A Novel Control Element of Plant Pathogen Resistance

    Rainer Büschges;Karin Hollricher;Ralph Panstruga;Guus Simons

  • Finished Genome of the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola Reveals Dispensome Structure, Chromosome Plasticity, and Stealth Pathogenesis

    Stephen B. Goodwin;Sarrah Ben M'Barek;Braham Dhillon;Alexander H J Wittenberg

  • Dissection of the fusarium I2 gene cluster in tomato reveals six homologs and one active gene copy.

    Guus Simons;John Groenendijk;Jelle Wijbrandi;Martin Reijans

  • Major changes in Fusarium spp. in wheat in the Netherlands

    Cees Waalwijk;Pieter Kastelein;Ineke de Vries;Zoltan Kerényi

  • A two-locus DNA sequence database for typing plant and human pathogens within the Fusarium oxysporum species complex

    Kerry O'Donnell;Cécile Gueidan;Stacy Sink;Peter R. Johnston

  • A gapless genome sequence of the fungus Botrytis cinerea

    Jan A. L. Van Kan;Joost H. M. Stassen;Andreas Mosbach;Theo A. J. Van Der Lee

  • The genetic basis for 3-ADON and 15-ADON trichothecene chemotypes in Fusarium.

    Nancy J. Alexander;Susan P. McCormick;Cees Waalwijk;Theo van der Lee

  • Population analysis of the Fusarium graminearum species complex from wheat in China show a shift to more aggressive isolates.

    Hao Zhang;Theo Van der Lee;Cees Waalwijk;Wanquan Chen

  • AFLP Linkage Map of the Oomycete Phytophthora infestans

    Theo Van der Lee;Ijfke De Witte;André Drenth;Carlos Alfonso

  • Phylogenomic Analysis of a 55.1-kb 19-Gene Dataset Resolves a Monophyletic Fusarium that Includes the Fusarium solani Species Complex.

    David M. Geiser;Abdullah M. S. Al-Hatmi;Takayuki Aoki;Tsutomu Arie

  • Efficient multiplex simple sequence repeat genotyping of the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans.

    Ying Li;David E.L. Cooke;Evert Jacobsen;Theo van der Lee

  • Validation of the high-throughput marker technology DArT using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana

    Alexander H. J. Wittenberg;Theo van der Lee;Cyril Cayla;Andrzej Kilian

  • New broad-spectrum resistance to septoria tritici blotch derived from synthetic hexaploid wheat

    S. Mahmod Tabib Ghaffary;Justin D. Faris;Timothy L. Friesen;Richard G. F. Visser

  • Phytophthora infestans isolates lacking class I ipiO variants are virulent on Rpi-blb1 potato.

    Nicolas Champouret;Klaas Bouwmeester;Hendrik Rietman;Theo van der Lee

  • Meiosis drives extraordinary genome plasticity in the haploid fungal plant pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola.

    Alexander H. J. Wittenberg;Theo A. J. van der Lee;Sarrah Ben M'Barek;Sarah B. Ware

  • Stress and sexual reproduction affect the dynamics of the wheat pathogen effector AvrStb6 and strobilurin resistance.

    Gerrit H J Kema;Amir Mirzadi Gohari;Amir Mirzadi Gohari;Lamia Aouini;Hesham A Y Gibriel

  • AFLP-based fine mapping of the Mlo gene to a 30-kb DNA segment of the barley genome

    G Simons;T Van der Lee;P Diergaarde;R van Daelen

  • Birth, death and horizontal transfer of the fumonisin biosynthetic gene cluster during the evolutionary diversification of Fusarium

    Robert H. Proctor;François Van Hove;Antonia Susca;Gaetano Stea

  • Mapping of avirulence genes in Phytophthora infestans with amplified fragment length polymorphism markers selected by bulked segregant analysis.

    T van der Lee;A Robold;A Testa;J W van 't Klooster

  • Genetic analysis of resistance to septoria tritici blotch in the French winter wheat cultivars Balance and Apache

    Seyed Mahmod Tabib Ghaffary;Olivier Robert;Valerie Laurent;Philippe Lonnet

Frequent Co-Authors

Cees Waalwijk
Cees Waalwijk Wageningen University & Research
Gert H. J. Kema
Gert H. J. Kema Wageningen University & Research
Pierre J. G. M. de Wit
Pierre J. G. M. de Wit Wageningen University & Research
Rahim Mehrabi
Rahim Mehrabi Isfahan University of Technology
Richard G. F. Visser
Richard G. F. Visser Wageningen University & Research
Antonio Moretti
Antonio Moretti National Research Council (CNR)
Stephen B. Goodwin
Stephen B. Goodwin Purdue University West Lafayette
G. Sybren de Hoog
G. Sybren de Hoog Radboud University
Robert H. Proctor
Robert H. Proctor United States Department of Agriculture
Kris Audenaert
Kris Audenaert Ghent University

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