Thomas K. Mitchell

6.5k citations

72 papers · 5.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 33

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Cell Biology top 0.5%
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases
Plant Science top 0.5%
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
- Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions

Papers in

Cell Biology 27
- Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases 27
Plant Science 44
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 22
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 18
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food 10

Co-authors: Ralph A. Dean (22 shared papers)Christopher B. Lawrence (7 shared papers)Jinnan Hu (8 shared papers)Yeonyee Oh (6 shared papers)Stephen Diener (5 shared papers)Jun Seop Jeong (1 shared paper)Douglas Brown (5 shared papers)MARK L. FARMAN (7 shared papers)
Journals: Phytopathology (6 papers)BMC Genomics (5 papers)Plant Disease (4 papers)Applied and Environmental Microbiology (4 papers)Fungal Genetics and Biology (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

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Thomas K. Mitchell

72 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Thomas K. Mitchell's Hit Papers

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The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea 2005 · 1.4k citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

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1	The genome sequence of the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea Nature ·Ralph A. Dean, Nicholas J. Talbot, Daniel J. Ebbole, MARK L. FARMAN, Thomas K. Mitchell, Marc J. Orbach, Michael R. Thon, Resham D. Kulkarni Hit paper breakdown →	2005	1368
2	Transcriptional Regulation of Biomass-degrading Enzymes in the Filamentous Fungus Trichoderma reesei Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Pamela K. Foreman, Doug Brown, Lydia Dankmeyer, Ralph A. Dean, Stephen Diener, Nigel Stuart Dunn-Coleman, Frits Goedegebuur, Thomas D. Houfek	2003	411
3	The cAMP-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit is required for appressorium formation and pathogenesis by the rice blast pathogen Magnaporthe grisea. The Plant Cell ·Thomas K. Mitchell, Ralph A. Dean	1995	316
4	Evolution of the wheat blast fungus through functional losses in a host specificity determinant Science ·Yoshihiro Inoue, Trinh Thi Phuong Vy, Kentaro Yoshida, Hokuto Asano, Chikako Mitsuoka, Soichiro Asuke, Vu Lan Anh, Christian Joseph R. Cumagun	2017	217
5	Cyclophilin 20-3 relays a 12-oxo-phytodienoic acid signal during stress responsive regulation of cellular redox homeostasis Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Sang‐Wook Park, Wei Li, Andrea Viehhauser, Bin He, Soonok Kim, Anders Nilsson, Mats X. Andersson, Joshua D. Kittle	2013	201
6	Gene Flow between Divergent Cereal- and Grass-Specific Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae mBio ·Pierre Gladieux, Bradford J. Condon, Sébastien Ravel, Darren M. Soanes, João Leodato Nunes Maciel, A. Nhani, Li Chen, Ryohei Terauchi	2018	185
7	Pollen proteolytic enzymes degrade tight junctions Respirology ·Sarah K. Runswick, Thomas K. Mitchell, P. J. Davies, Clive Robinson, David R. Garrod	2007	167
8	Transcriptome analysis reveals new insight into appressorium formation and function in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Genome biology ·Yeonyee Oh, Nicole M. Donofrio, Huaqin Helen Pan, Sean Coughlan, Douglas Brown, Shaowu Meng, Thomas K. Mitchell, Ralph A. Dean	2008	164
9	ChIP-seq and In Vivo Transcriptome Analyses of the Aspergillus fumigatus SREBP SrbA Reveals a New Regulator of the Fungal Hypoxia Response and Virulence PLoS Pathogens ·Dawoon Chung, Bridget M. Barker, Charles C. Carey, Brittney Merriman, Ernst R. Werner, Beatrix Elisabeth Lechner, Sourabh Dhingra, Chao Cheng	2014	155
10	Identification and Characterization of In planta–Expressed Secreted Effector Proteins fromMagnaporthe oryzaeThat Induce Cell Death in Rice Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions ·Songbiao Chen, Pattavipha Songkumarn, R C Venu, Malali Gowda, Maria del Rosario Bellizzi, Jinnan Hu, Wende Liu, Daniel J. Ebbole	2012	123
11	TheMagnaporthe griseasnodprot1 homolog, MSP1, is required for virulence FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Jun Seop Jeong, Thomas K. Mitchell, Ralph A. Dean	2007	118
12	Diverse and tissue-enriched small RNAs in the plant pathogenic fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae BMC Genomics ·Cristiano Caixeta Nunes, Malali Gowda, Joshua K. Sailsbery, Minfeng Xue, Feng Chen, Douglas Brown, Yeonyee Oh, Thomas K. Mitchell	2011	100
13	Identification of novel virulence factors associated with signal transduction pathways in Alternaria brassicicola Molecular Microbiology ·Yangrae Cho, Kwang‐Hyung Kim, Mauricio La Rota, Derrick C. Scott, Graciela Santopietro, Meagan Callihan, Thomas K. Mitchell, Christopher B. Lawrence	2009	95
14	The role of transposable element clusters in genome evolution and loss of synteny in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe oryzae Genome biology ·Michael R. Thon, Huaqin Helen Pan, Stephen Diener, John A. Papalas, Audrey Taro, Thomas K. Mitchell, Ralph A Dean	2006	83
15	Genomic characterization of the conditionally dispensable chromosome in Alternaria arborescens provides evidence for horizontal gene transfer BMC Genomics ·Jinnan Hu, Chenxi Chen, Tobin L. Peever, Ha X. Dang, Christopher B. Lawrence, Thomas K. Mitchell	2012	79
16	At Death's Door: Alternaria Pathogenicity Mechanisms The Plant Pathology Journal ·Christopher B. Lawrence, Thomas K. Mitchell, Kelly D. Craven, Yangrae Cho, Robert A. Cramer, Kwang‐Hyung Kim	2008	76
17	Development of a high throughput transformation system for insertional mutagenesis in Magnaporthe oryzae Fungal Genetics and Biology ·Sara L. Tucker, Natalia Galadima, Yan Meng, Gayatri Patel, Lei Li, Nicole M. Donofrio, Anna Floyd, Shelly J. Nolin	2007	68
18	MoSfl1 Is Important for Virulence and Heat Tolerance in Magnaporthe oryzae PLoS ONE ·Guotian Li, Xiaoying Zhou, Lingan Kong, Yuling Wang, Haifeng Zhang, Heng Zhu, Thomas K. Mitchell, Ralph A. Dean	2011	62
19	Combining ChIP-chip and Expression Profiling to Model the MoCRZ1 Mediated Circuit for Ca2+/Calcineurin Signaling in the Rice Blast Fungus PLoS Pathogens ·Soonok Kim, Jinnan Hu, Yeonyee Oh, Jongsun Park, Jinhee Choi, Yong‐Hwan Lee, Ralph A. Dean, Thomas K. Mitchell	2010	60
20	The Fus3/Kss1 MAP kinase homolog Amk1 regulates the expression of genes encoding hydrolytic enzymes in Alternaria brassicicola Fungal Genetics and Biology ·Yangrae Cho, Robert A. Cramer, Kwang‐Hyung Kim, Josh T. Davis, Thomas K. Mitchell, P. J. Figuli, Barry M. Pryor, Emily Lemasters	2007	59

About Thomas K. Mitchell

Thomas K. Mitchell is a scholar working on Cell Biology, Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Pharmacology and Environmental Chemistry, having authored 72 papers that have together received 5.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Fungal and yeast genetics research (29 papers), Plant Pathogens and Fungal Diseases (27 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (22 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (18 papers), Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food (10 papers), Turfgrass Adaptation and Management (6 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (4 papers) and Fungal Plant Pathogen Control (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Cell Biology (1.6k citations), Plant Science (3.5k citations), Molecular Biology (2.7k citations), Pharmacology (605 citations) and Biotechnology (257 citations). Thomas K. Mitchell has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Ralph A. Dean, Christopher B. Lawrence, Jinnan Hu, Yeonyee Oh, Stephen Diener, Jun Seop Jeong, Douglas Brown, MARK L. FARMAN, Doug Brown and Kelly D. Craven. Their work appears in journals such as Phytopathology, BMC Genomics, Plant Disease, Applied and Environmental Microbiology and Fungal Genetics and Biology.

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