Patrick Schäfer

6.8k citations

67 papers · 4.7k · 3 hit papers · h-index 32

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.5%
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
Cell Biology top 1%
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases

Papers in

Plant Science 49
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 35
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis 22
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions 12
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance 8
- Nematode management and characterization studies 7
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 6
Molecular Biology 20

Co-authors: Karl‐Heinz Kogel (22 shared papers)Frances D. Burton (1 shared paper)Ruth Eichmann (10 shared papers)Ralph Hückelhoven (8 shared papers)Michael Weiß (2 shared papers)Jafargholi Imani (7 shared papers)Helmut Baltruschat (2 shared papers)Luke Richards (3 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Plant Physiology (4 papers)Frontiers in Plant Science (4 papers)The Plant Journal (3 papers)The Plant Cell (3 papers)Journal of Experimental Botany (2 papers)
Partner nations: Germany United Kingdom United States

In The Last Decade

Patrick Schäfer

65 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Patrick Schäfer's Hit Papers

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Hormones as go‐betweens in plant microbiome assembly 2020 · 218 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.

2020 The Plant Journal
2016 Plant Molecular Biology
2008 New Phytologist

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1	Plant root-microbe communication in shaping root microbiomes Plant Molecular Biology ·Andrew Lareen, Frances D. Burton, Patrick Schäfer Hit paper breakdown →	2016	516
2	Salt tolerance of barley induced by the root endophytePiriformospora indicais associated with a strong increase in antioxidants New Phytologist ·Helmut Baltruschat, József Fodor, Borbála Dorottya Harrach, E. Niemczyk, B. Barna, Gábor Gullner, Anna Janeczko, Karl‐Heinz Kogel, Patrick Schäfer, Ildikó Schwarczinger, Alga Zuccaro, Andrzej Skoczowski Hit paper breakdown →	2008	475
3	The root endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica requires host cell death for proliferation during mutualistic symbiosis with barley Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sachin D. Deshmukh, Ralph Hückelhoven, Patrick Schäfer, Jafargholi Imani, Monica Sharma, Michael Weiß, Frank Waller, Karl‐Heinz Kogel	2006	352
4	Bipolaris sorokiniana , a cereal pathogen of global concern: cytological and molecular approaches towards better control‡ Molecular Plant Pathology ·Jagdish Kumar, Patrick Schäfer, Ralph Hückelhoven, Gregor Langen, Helmut Baltruschat, Elke Stein, Subramaniam Nagarajan, Karl‐Heinz Kogel	2002	302
5	Broad-Spectrum Suppression of Innate Immunity Is Required for Colonization of Arabidopsis Roots by the FungusPiriformospora indica PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Sophie Jacobs, Bernd Zechmann, Alexandra Molitor, Marco Trujillo, Elena Petutschnig, Volker Lipka, Karl‐Heinz Kogel, Patrick Schäfer	2011	262
6	Hormones as go‐betweens in plant microbiome assembly The Plant Journal ·Ruth Eichmann, Luke Richards, Patrick Schäfer Hit paper breakdown →	2020	218
7	Piriformospora indica —a mutualistic basidiomycete with an exceptionally large plant host range Molecular Plant Pathology ·Xiaoyu Qiang, Michael Weiß, Karl‐Heinz Kogel, Patrick Schäfer	2011	171
8	Manipulation of plant innate immunity and gibberellin as factor of compatibility in the mutualistic association of barley roots with Piriformospora indica The Plant Journal ·Patrick Schäfer, Stefanie Pfiffi, Lars M. Voll, Doreen Zajic, Peter M. Chandler, Frank Waller, Uwe Scholz, Jörn Pons‐Kühnemann, Sophia Sonnewald, Uwe Sonnewald, Karl‐Heinz Kogel	2009	169
9	Single-Cell Transcriptomics: A High-Resolution Avenue for Plant Functional Genomics Trends in Plant Science ·Charlotte Rich‐Griffin, Annika Stechemesser, J. T. Finch, Emma S. Lucas, Sascha Ott, Patrick Schäfer	2019	146
10	Automated methods for cell type annotation on scRNA-seq data Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal ·Giovanni Pasquini, Jesús Eduardo Rojo Arias, Patrick Schäfer, Volker Busskamp	2021	145
11	Detection and identification of bacteria intimately associated with fungi of the orderSebacinales Cellular Microbiology ·Monica Sharma, Michael Schmid, Michael Rothballer, Gerd Hause, Alga Zuccaro, Jafargholi Imani, Peter Kämpfer, Eugen Domann, Patrick Schäfer, Anton Hartmann, Karl‐Heinz Kogel	2008	142
12	Mitochondrial Protein Quality Control by the Proteasome Involves Ubiquitination and the Protease Omi Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Susanne Radke, Harish Chander, Patrick Schäfer, Gregor Meiß, Rejko Krüger, Jörg B. Schulz, Doris Germain	2008	140
13	Challenges and Approaches in Microbiome Research: From Fundamental to Applied Frontiers in Plant Science ·Chrysi Sergaki, Beatriz Lagunas, Ian D. E. A. Lidbury, Miriam L. Gifford, Patrick Schäfer	2018	135
14	The Mutualistic Fungus Piriformospora indica Colonizes Arabidopsis Roots by Inducing an Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress–Triggered Caspase-Dependent Cell Death The Plant Cell ·Xiaoyu Qiang, Bernd Zechmann, Marco U. Reitz, Karl‐Heinz Kogel, Patrick Schäfer	2012	126
15	Systemic and local modulation of plant responses by Piriformospora indica and related Sebacinales species Journal of Plant Physiology ·Frank Waller, Krishnendu Mukherjee, Sachin D. Deshmukh, Beate Achatz, Monica Sharma, Patrick Schäfer, Karl‐Heinz Kogel	2007	108
16	Transcriptome and metabolome profiling of field-grown transgenic barley lack induced differences but show cultivar-specific variances Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Karl‐Heinz Kogel, Lars M. Voll, Patrick Schäfer, Carin Jansen, Yongchun Wu, Gregor Langen, Jafargholi Imani, Jörg Hofmann, Alfred Schmiedl, Sophia Sonnewald, Diter von Wettstein, Robert Cook, Uwe Sonnewald	2010	105
17	Structural and Functional Characterization of Mitochondrial EndoG, a Sugar Non-specific Nuclease which Plays an Important Role During Apoptosis Journal of Molecular Biology ·Patrick Schäfer, Sebastian Scholz, Oleg Gimadutdinow, Iwona A. Cymerman, Janusz M. Bujnicki, A. Ruiz‐Carrillo, Alfred Pingoud, Gregor Meiß	2004	87
18	Ethylene Supports Colonization of Plant Roots by the Mutualistic Fungus Piriformospora indica PLoS ONE ·Behnam Khatabi, Alexandra Molitor, Christian Lindermayr, Stefanie Pfiffi, Jörg Durner, Diter von Wettstein, Karl‐Heinz Kogel, Patrick Schäfer	2012	83
19	Correlative NAD(P)H‐FLIM and oxygen sensing‐PLIM for metabolic mapping Journal of Biophotonics ·Sviatlana Kalinina, Jasmin Breymayer, Patrick Schäfer, Enrico Calzia, Vladislav I. Shcheslavskiy, Wolfgang Becker, Angelika Rück	2016	66
20	The endoplasmic reticulum in plant immunity and cell death Frontiers in Plant Science ·Ruth Eichmann, Patrick Schäfer	2012	63

About Patrick Schäfer

Patrick Schäfer is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics and Bioengineering, having authored 67 papers that have together received 4.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (35 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (22 papers), Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions (12 papers), Plant Parasitism and Resistance (8 papers), Nematode management and characterization studies (7 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (6 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (6 papers) and Analytical Chemistry and Sensors (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (3.6k citations), Cell Biology (999 citations), Molecular Biology (1.4k citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (386 citations) and Soil Science (146 citations). Patrick Schäfer has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Frequent co-authors include Karl‐Heinz Kogel, Frances D. Burton, Ruth Eichmann, Ralph Hückelhoven, Michael Weiß, Jafargholi Imani, Helmut Baltruschat, Luke Richards, Frank Waller and Monica Sharma. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Plant Physiology, Frontiers in Plant Science, The Plant Journal, The Plant Cell and Journal of Experimental Botany.

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