2026 Thomas Boller: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	96	193	182	5	5	199	52055

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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182

199

52055

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Switzerland Leader Award

Best Publications

A Renaissance of Elicitors: Perception of Microbe-Associated Molecular Patterns and Danger Signals by Pattern-Recognition Receptors

Thomas Boller;Georg Felix

4542
Citations
MAP kinase signalling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity

Tsuneaki Asai;Guillaume Tena;Joulia Plotnikova;Matthew R. Willmann

3352
Citations
Perception of the bacterial PAMP EF-Tu by the receptor EFR restricts Agrobacterium-mediated transformation.

Cyril Zipfel;Gernot Kunze;Delphine Chinchilla;Anne Caniard

2403
Citations
Plants have a sensitive perception system for the most conserved domain of bacterial flagellin

Unknown

2315
Citations
A flagellin-induced complex of the receptor FLS2 and BAK1 initiates plant defence

Delphine Chinchilla;Cyril Zipfel;Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Birgit Kemmerling

2236
Citations
Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception.

Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Silke Robatzek;Lionel Navarro;Edward J. Oakeley

2156
Citations
Plant chitinases are potent inhibitors of fungal growth

Unknown

1302
Citations
Innate immunity in plants : an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens

Thomas Boller;Sheng Yang He

1277
Citations
The N Terminus of Bacterial Elongation Factor Tu Elicits Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis Plants

Gernot Kunze;Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Karsten Niehaus

1187
Citations
The Arabidopsis Receptor Kinase FLS2 Binds flg22 and Determines the Specificity of Flagellin Perception

Delphine Chinchilla;Zsuzsa Bauer;Martin Regenass;Thomas Boller

1185
Citations
Ligand-induced endocytosis of the pattern recognition receptor FLS2 in Arabidopsis

Silke Robatzek;Delphine Chinchilla;Thomas Boller

1079
Citations
Impact of land use intensity on the species diversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in agroecosystems of Central Europe

Fritz Oehl;Ewald Sieverding;Kurt Ineichen;Paul Mäder

1066
Citations
DIFFERENT ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL FUNGAL SPECIES ARE POTENTIAL DETERMINANTS OF PLANT COMMUNITY STRUCTURE

Marcel G. A. van der Heijden;Thomas Boller;Andres Wiemken;Ian R. Sanders

1023
Citations
A single locus determines sensitivity to bacterial flagellin in Arabidopsis thaliana

Lourdes Gómez-Gómez;Georg Felix;Thomas Boller

930
Citations
CHEMOPERCEPTION OF MICROBIAL SIGNALS IN PLANT CELLS

Unknown

800
Citations
The Transcriptional Innate Immune Response to flg22. Interplay and Overlap with Avr Gene-Dependent Defense Responses and Bacterial Pathogenesis

Lionel Navarro;Cyril Zipfel;Owen Rowland;Ingo Keller

763
Citations
Hydrolytic enzymes in the central vacuole of plant cells.

Thomas Boller;Hans Kende

731
Citations
Flagellin perception: a paradigm for innate immunity

Unknown

706
Citations
Specific perception of subnanomolar concentrations of chitin fragments by tomato cells: induction of extracellular alkalinization, changes in protein phosphorylation, and establishment of a refractory state

Unknown

635
Citations
Rapid heteromerization and phosphorylation of ligand-activated plant transmembrane receptors and their associated kinase BAK1.

Birgit Schulze;Tobias Mentzel;Anna K. Jehle;Katharina Mueller

610
Citations