Malcolm A. O’Neill

13.9k citations

105 papers · 10.9k · 3 hit papers · h-index 49

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Plant Science top 0.05%
- Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects
Food Science top 0.1%
- Polysaccharides Composition and Applications

Papers in

Plant Science 96
- Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls 89
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 29
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 14
Molecular Biology 35
- Plant Reproductive Biology 17

Co-authors: Alan G. Darvill (35 shared papers)Peter Albersheim (29 shared papers)Debra Mohnen (5 shared papers)Brent Ridley (2 shared papers)Robert R. Selvendran (15 shared papers)Tadashi Ishii (5 shared papers)William S. York (23 shared papers)Patrice Pellerin (10 shared papers)
Journals: Carbohydrate Research (23 papers)PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (8 papers)Journal of Biological Chemistry (8 papers)Glycobiology (5 papers)The Plant Cell (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States France China

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Malcolm A. O’Neill

105 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Malcolm A. O’Neill's Hit Papers

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RHAMNOGALACTURONAN II: Structure and Function of a Borate Cross-Linked Cell Wall Pectic Polysaccharide 2004 · 779 citations

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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.

2004 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2001 Science
2001 Phytochemistry

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1	Pectins: structure, biosynthesis, and oligogalacturonide-related signaling Phytochemistry ·Brent Ridley, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Debra Mohnen Hit paper breakdown →	2001	1586
2	RHAMNOGALACTURONAN II: Structure and Function of a Borate Cross-Linked Cell Wall Pectic Polysaccharide Annual Review of Plant Biology ·Malcolm A. O’Neill, Tadashi Ishii, Peter Albersheim, Alan G. Darvill Hit paper breakdown →	2004	779
3	Requirement of Borate Cross-Linking of Cell Wall Rhamnogalacturonan II for Arabidopsis Growth Science ·Malcolm A. O’Neill, Stefan Eberhard, Peter Albersheim, Alan G. Darvill Hit paper breakdown →	2001	557
4	Rhamnogalacturonan-II, a Pectic Polysaccharide in the Walls of Growing Plant Cell, Forms a Dimer That Is Covalently Cross-linked by a Borate Ester Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Malcolm A. O’Neill, Dennis Warrenfeltz, Keith Kates, Patrice Pellerin, Thierry Doco, Alan G. Darvill, Peter Albersheim	1996	466
5	The Pore Size of Non-Graminaceous Plant Cell Walls Is Rapidly Decreased by Borate Ester Cross-Linking of the Pectic Polysaccharide Rhamnogalacturonan II PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Axel Fleischer, Malcolm A. O’Neill, R. Ehwald	1999	447
6	The Pectic Polysaccharides of Primary Cell Walls Malcolm A. O’Neill, Peter Albersheim, Alan G. Darvill	1990	385
7	Arabidopsis irregular xylem8 and irregular xylem9 : Implications for the Complexity of Glucuronoxylan Biosynthesis The Plant Cell ·María J. Peña, Ruiqin Zhong, Gongke Zhou, Elizabeth Richardson, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Alan G. Darvill, William S. York, Zheng‐Hua Ye	2007	378
8	A Reevaluation of the Key Factors That Influence Tomato Fruit Softening and Integrity PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Montserrat Saladié, Antonio J. Matas, ‎Tal Isaacson, Matthew A. Jenks, S. Mark Goodwin, Karl J. Niklas, (unknown), John M. Labavitch, Kenneth A. Shackel, Alisdair R. Fernie, Anna Lytovchenko, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Christopher B. Watkins, Jocelyn K. C. Rose	2007	342
9	Isolation and Analysis of Cell Walls from Plant Material Methods of biochemical analysis ·Robert R. Selvendran, Malcolm A. O’Neill	1987	275
10	Structure of the acidic extracellular gelling polysaccharide produced by Pseudomonas elodea Carbohydrate Research ·Malcolm A. O’Neill, Robert R. Selvendran, Victor J. Morris	1983	268
11	Oligosaccharins—oligosaccharides that regulate growth, development and defence responses in plants Glycobiology ·Alan Darvill, Christopher Augur, Carl Bergmann, Russell W. Carlson, Jong‐Joo Cheong, Stefan Eberhard, Michael G. Hahn, Veng-Meng Ló, Victòria Marfà, Bernd Meyer, Debra Mohnen, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Mark D. Spiro, Herman van Halbeek, William S. York, Peter Albersheim	1992	264
12	Plant Nucleotide Sugar Formation, Interconversion, and Salvage by Sugar Recycling* Annual Review of Plant Biology ·Maor Bar‐Peled, Malcolm A. O’Neill	2011	233
13	The charophycean green algae provide insights into the early origins of plant cell walls The Plant Journal ·Iben Sørensen, Filomena Pettolino, Antony Bacic, John Ralph, Fachuang Lu, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Zhangzhun Fei, Jocelyn K. C. Rose, David S. Domozych, William G. T. Willats	2011	210
14	Structural characterization of red wine rhamnogalacturonan II Carbohydrate Research ·Patrice Pellerin, Thierry Doco, Stéphane Vida, Pascale Williams, Jean-Marc Brillouet, Malcolm A. O’Neill	1996	199
15	Occurrence of the Primary Cell Wall Polysaccharide Rhamnogalacturonan II in Pteridophytes, Lycophytes, and Bryophytes. Implications for the Evolution of Vascular Plants PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Toshiro Matsunaga, Tadashi Ishii, Sadamu Matsumoto, Masanobu Higuchi, Alan G. Darvill, Peter Albersheim, Malcolm A. O’Neill	2004	197
16	An hypothesis: The same six polysaccharides are components of the primary cell walls of all higher plants Progress in biotechnology ·Peter Albersheim, Alan G. Darvill, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Henk A. Schols, A.G.J. Voragen	1996	174
17	The Plant Cell Wall Polysaccharide Rhamnogalacturonan II Self-assembles into a Covalently Cross-linked Dimer Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Tadashi Ishii, Toshiro Matsunaga, Patrice Pellerin, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Alan G. Darvill, Peter Albersheim	1999	162
18	4- O -methylation of glucuronic acid in Arabidopsis glucuronoxylan is catalyzed by a domain of unknown function family 579 protein Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Breeanna R. Urbanowicz, María J. Peña, Supriya Ratnaparkhe, Utku Avcı, Jason Backe, Heather F. Steet, Marcus Foston, Hongjia Li, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Alan G. Darvill, Charles E. Wyman, Harry J. Gilbert, William S. York	2012	156
19	The irregular xylem9 Mutant is Deficient in Xylan Xylosyltransferase Activity Plant and Cell Physiology ·C. Lee, Malcolm A. O’Neill, Yoichi Tsumuraya, Alan G. Darvill, Zheng‐Hua Ye	2007	137
20	Moss and liverwort xyloglucans contain galacturonic acid and are structurally distinct from the xyloglucans synthesized by hornworts and vascular plants* Glycobiology ·María J. Peña, Alan G. Darvill, Stefan Eberhard, William S. York, Malcolm A. O’Neill	2008	132

About Malcolm A. O’Neill

Malcolm A. O’Neill is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Food Science, Nutrition and Dietetics and Organic Chemistry, having authored 105 papers that have together received 10.9k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Polysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls (89 papers), Polysaccharides Composition and Applications (31 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (29 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (17 papers), Microbial Metabolites in Food Biotechnology (15 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (14 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (13 papers) and Biofuel production and bioconversion (13 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (8.8k citations), Food Science (2.8k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (1.4k citations), Biotechnology (680 citations) and Biomaterials (792 citations). Malcolm A. O’Neill has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and China. Frequent co-authors include Alan G. Darvill, Peter Albersheim, Debra Mohnen, Brent Ridley, Robert R. Selvendran, Tadashi Ishii, William S. York, Patrice Pellerin, Stefan Eberhard and María J. Peña. Their work appears in journals such as Carbohydrate Research, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Journal of Biological Chemistry, Glycobiology and The Plant Cell.

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