2000-2019: twenty years of highly influential publications in plant immunity

Benjamin Petre (1) , Clémentine Louet (1) , Julie Lintz (1) , Sébastien Duplessis (1)

1 IAM - Interactions Arbres-Microorganismes

Molecular plant immunity is a dynamic research field that broadly addresses how plants interact with their associated organisms and defend themselves against pests and pathogens. Here, we aimed at providing readers with a snapshot of top-tiers molecular plant immunity research, by identifying and analyzing the 170 most highly-cited publications (aka Highly-Influential Publications in Plant Immunity; hereafter HIPPYs) published in this field between 2000 and 2019. Our analysis draws a broad analytical knowledge of the most influential scientific advances in the field, as well as the research community that made them. We notably show that HIPPYs are shared by a small, structured, and connected research community. The HIPPYs address coherent research questions using a handful of key model objects (i.e. organisms or molecules), and report findings and concepts that collectively shape our integrated understanding on the molecular interactions between plants and their associated organisms. Our 'HIP in' method is easily transposable to other large research areas, and may help early-career researchers to gain a broader knowledge of their field of interest.

Mots clés: plant defense; bibliometric pipeline; Web of Science; Arabidopsis thaliana; plant pathology; symbiont; microbe

Domaines: Biologie végétale

Benjamin Petre, Clémentine Louet, Julie Lintz, Sébastien Duplessis. 2000-2019: twenty years of highly influential publications in plant immunity. 2021. ⟨hal-03325099v2⟩