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Plant Science and Agronomy
Switzerland
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
96
Citations
52055
World Ranking
193
National Ranking
5

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

  • MAP kinase signalling cascade in Arabidopsis innate immunity

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

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

    Cyril Zipfel;Gernot Kunze;Delphine Chinchilla;Anne Caniard

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

    Unknown

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

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

  • Bacterial disease resistance in Arabidopsis through flagellin perception.

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

  • Plant chitinases are potent inhibitors of fungal growth

    Unknown

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

    Thomas Boller;Sheng Yang He

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

    Gernot Kunze;Cyril Zipfel;Silke Robatzek;Karsten Niehaus

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

    Delphine Chinchilla;Zsuzsa Bauer;Martin Regenass;Thomas Boller

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

    Silke Robatzek;Delphine Chinchilla;Thomas Boller

  • 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

  • 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

  • A single locus determines sensitivity to bacterial flagellin in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Lourdes Gómez-Gómez;Georg Felix;Thomas Boller

  • CHEMOPERCEPTION OF MICROBIAL SIGNALS IN PLANT CELLS

    Unknown

  • 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

  • Hydrolytic enzymes in the central vacuole of plant cells.

    Thomas Boller;Hans Kende

  • Flagellin perception: a paradigm for innate immunity

    Unknown

  • 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

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

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Georg Felix
Georg Felix University of Tübingen
Silke Robatzek
Silke Robatzek Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jonathan D. G. Jones
Jonathan D. G. Jones University of East Anglia
Cyril Zipfel
Cyril Zipfel University of Zurich
William J. Broughton
William J. Broughton University of Geneva
Jen Sheen
Jen Sheen Harvard University
Andres Wiemken
Andres Wiemken University of Basel
Horst Vierheilig
Horst Vierheilig Spanish National Research Council
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Felix Mauch
Felix Mauch Technical University of Munich

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