Barbara Valent

18.9k citations

118 papers · 13.6k · 4 hit papers · h-index 60

Impact in

Cell Biology top 0.05%
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Plant Science top 0.05%
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Papers in

Plant Science 102
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 43
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food 31
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology 28
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 23
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions 9
- Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies 7
Cell Biology 58
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases 56

Co-authors: Forrest G. Chumley (22 shared papers)James A. Sweigard (13 shared papers)Leonard Farrall (13 shared papers)Richard J. Howard (6 shared papers)Peter Albersheim (10 shared papers)Martha C. Giraldo (7 shared papers)Yulin Jia (9 shared papers)Chang Hyun Khang (7 shared papers)
Journals: The Plant Cell (14 papers)Plant Disease (13 papers)Genetics (7 papers)Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions (7 papers)Phytopathology (6 papers)
Partner nations: United States Brazil United Kingdom

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Barbara Valent

115 papers receiving 13.2k citations

Barbara Valent's Hit Papers

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Filamentous plant pathogen effectors in action 2013 · 361 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2013 Nature Reviews Microbiology
2012 The Plant Cell
2000 The EMBO Journal
1976 PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

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1	Direct interaction of resistance gene and avirulence gene products confers rice blast resistance The EMBO Journal ·Yulin Jia, Sean A. McAdams, Gregory T. Bryan, Howard P. Hershey, Barbara Valent Hit paper breakdown →	2000	842
2	A Single Amino Acid Difference Distinguishes Resistant and Susceptible Alleles of the Rice Blast Resistance Gene Pi-ta The Plant Cell ·Gregory T. Bryan, Kunsheng Wu, Leonard Farrall, Yulin Jia, Howard P. Hershey, Sean A. McAdams, Kristina Faulk, Gail K. Donaldson, Renato Tarchini, Barbara Valent	2000	491
3	BREAKING AND ENTERING: Host Penetration by the Fungal Rice Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe grisea Annual Review of Microbiology ·Richard J. Howard, Barbara Valent	1996	489
4	Roles for Rice Membrane Dynamics and Plasmodesmata during Biotrophic Invasion by the Blast Fungus The Plant Cell ·Prasanna Kankanala, Kirk J. Czymmek, Barbara Valent	2007	443
5	The Magnaporthe oryzae Effector AvrPiz-t Targets the RING E3 Ubiquitin Ligase APIP6 to Suppress Pathogen-Associated Molecular Pattern–Triggered Immunity in Rice The Plant Cell ·Chan Ho Park, Songbiao Chen, Gautam Shirsekar, Bo Zhou, Chang Hyun Khang, Pattavipha Songkumarn, Ahmed J. Afzal, Yuese Ning, Ruyi Wang, Maria Bellizzi, Barbara Valent, Guo‐Liang Wang Hit paper breakdown →	2012	436
6	A Telomeric Avirulence Gene Determines Efficacy for the Rice Blast Resistance Gene Pi-ta The Plant Cell ·Marc J. Orbach, Leonard Farrall, James A. Sweigard, Forrest G. Chumley, Barbara Valent	2000	410
7	Improved Vectors for Selecting Resistance to Hygromycin Fungal Genetics Reports ·Anne Carroll, James A. Sweigard, Barbara Valent	1994	368
8	Filamentous plant pathogen effectors in action Nature Reviews Microbiology ·Martha C. Giraldo, Barbara Valent Hit paper breakdown →	2013	361
9	A Mechanism for Surface Attachment in Spores of a Plant Pathogenic Fungus Science ·John E. Hamer, Richard J. Howard, Forrest G. Chumley, Barbara Valent	1988	343
10	Translocation of Magnaporthe oryzae Effectors into Rice Cells and Their Subsequent Cell-to-Cell Movement The Plant Cell ·Chang Hyun Khang, Romain Berruyer, Martha C. Giraldo, Prasanna Kankanala, Sook-Young Park, Kirk J. Czymmek, Seogchan Kang, Barbara Valent	2010	338
11	Magnaporthe grisea genes for pathogenicity and virulence identified through a series of backcrosses. Genetics ·Barbara Valent, Leonard Farrall, Forrest G. Chumley	1991	326
12	Magnaporthe grisea Pth11p Is a Novel Plasma Membrane Protein That Mediates Appressorium Differentiation in Response to Inductive Substrate Cues The Plant Cell ·Todd M. DeZwaan, Anne Carroll, Barbara Valent, James A. Sweigard	1999	316
13	Host-Pathogen Interactions PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Arthur R. Ayers, Jürgen Ebel, Barbara Valent, Peter Albersheim Hit paper breakdown →	1976	306
14	Two distinct secretion systems facilitate tissue invasion by the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Nature Communications ·Martha C. Giraldo, Yasin Dagdas, Yogesh K. Gupta, Thomas A. Mentlak, Mihwa Yi, Ana Lilia Martínez-Rocha, Hiromasa Saitoh, Ryohei Terauchi, Nicholas J. Talbot, Barbara Valent	2013	303
15	MUTATIONS AFFECTING TY-MEDIATED EXPRESSION OF THE HIS4 GENE OF SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE Genetics ·Fred Winston, Deborah T. Chaleff, Barbara Valent, Gerald R. Fink	1984	303
16	Interaction Transcriptome Analysis Identifies Magnaporthe oryzae BAS1-4 as Biotrophy-Associated Secreted Proteins in Rice Blast Disease The Plant Cell ·Gloria Mosquera, Martha C. Giraldo, Chang Hyun Khang, Sean Coughlan, Barbara Valent	2009	294
17	Identification, cloning, and characterization of PWL2, a gene for host species specificity in the rice blast fungus. The Plant Cell ·James A. Sweigard, A. Carroll, Seogchan Kang, Leonard Farrall, Forrest G. Chumley, Barbara Valent	1995	287
18	Molecular Genetic Analysis of the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe Grisea Annual Review of Phytopathology ·Barbara Valent, Forrest G. Chumley	1991	263
19	Origins of Host-Specific Populations of the Blast Pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae in Crop Domestication With Subsequent Expansion of Pandemic Clones on Rice and Weeds of Rice Genetics ·Brett C. Couch, Isabelle Fudal, Marc‐Henri Lebrun, Didier Tharreau, Barbara Valent, Pham Van Kim, Jean‐Loup Nottéghem, Linda M. Kohn	2005	258
20	Purification and partial characterization of a beta-glucan fragment that elicits phytoalexin accumulation in soybean. Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Janice K. Sharp, Barbara Valent, Peter Albersheim	1984	226

About Barbara Valent

Barbara Valent is a scholar working on Plant Science, Cell Biology, Molecular Biology, Genetics and Pharmacology, having authored 118 papers that have together received 13.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (56 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (43 papers), Fungal and yeast genetics research (37 papers), Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food (31 papers), Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (28 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (23 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (9 papers) and Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cell Biology (5.2k citations), Plant Science (11.6k citations), Molecular Biology (6.7k citations), Pharmacology (1.1k citations) and Biotechnology (326 citations). Barbara Valent has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Brazil and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Forrest G. Chumley, James A. Sweigard, Leonard Farrall, Richard J. Howard, Peter Albersheim, Martha C. Giraldo, Yulin Jia, Chang Hyun Khang, Anne Carroll and Gregory T. Bryan. Their work appears in journals such as The Plant Cell, Plant Disease, Genetics, Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions and Phytopathology.

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