| Penetration of the stigma and style elicits a novel transcriptome in pollen tubes, pointing to genes critical for growth in a pistil Y Qin, AR Leydon, A Manziello, R Pandey, D Mount, S Denic, B Vasic, ... PLoS Genetics 5 (8), e1000621, 2009 | 400 | 2009 |
| Arabidopsis HAP2 (GCS1) is a sperm-specific gene required for pollen tube guidance and fertilization K von Besser, AC Frank, MA Johnson, D Preuss Oxford University Press for The Company of Biologists Limited 133 (23), 4761 …, 2006 | 371 | 2006 |
| Arabidopsis hapless mutations define essential gametophytic functions MA Johnson, K von Besser, Q Zhou, E Smith, G Aux, D Patton, JZ Levin, ... Genetics 168 (2), 971-982, 2004 | 284 | 2004 |
| A fruitful journey: pollen tube navigation from germination to fertilization MA Johnson, JF Harper, R Palanivelu Annual review of plant biology 70 (1), 809-837, 2019 | 283 | 2019 |
| Pollen tubes lacking a pair of K+ transporters fail to target ovules in Arabidopsis Y Lu, S Chanroj, L Zulkifli, MA Johnson, N Uozumi, A Cheung, H Sze The Plant Cell 23 (1), 81-93, 2011 | 195 | 2011 |
| Plotting a course: multiple signals guide pollen tubes to their targets MA Johnson, D Preuss Developmental cell 2 (3), 273-281, 2002 | 176 | 2002 |
| Gamete fusion is required to block multiple pollen tubes from entering an Arabidopsis ovule KM Beale, AR Leydon, MA Johnson Current Biology 22 (12), 1090-1094, 2012 | 153 | 2012 |
| Three MYB transcription factors control pollen tube differentiation required for sperm release AR Leydon, KM Beale, K Woroniecka, E Castner, J Chen, C Horgan, ... Current Biology 23 (13), 1209-1214, 2013 | 125 | 2013 |
| Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals conserved programmes underpinning organogenesis and reproduction in land plants I Julca, C Ferrari, M Flores-Tornero, S Proost, AC Lindner, D Hackenberg, ... Nature Plants 7 (8), 1143-1159, 2021 | 113 | 2021 |
| Is HAP2-GCS1 an ancestral gamete fusogen? JL Wong, MA Johnson Trends in cell biology 20 (3), 134-141, 2010 | 113 | 2010 |
| AtPARN is an essential poly(A) ribonuclease in Arabidopsis Y Chiba, MA Johnson, P Lidder, JT Vogel, H van Erp, PJ Green Gene 328, 95-102, 2004 | 97 | 2004 |
| Mutants of Arabidopsis defective in a sequence-specific mRNA degradation pathway MA Johnson, MA Pérez-Amador, P Lidder, PJ Green Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97 (25), 13991-13996, 2000 | 73 | 2000 |
| Evolutionary diversification of the HAP2 membrane insertion motifs to drive gamete fusion across eukaryotes J Fedry, J Forcina, P Legrand, G Pehau-Arnaudet, A Haouz, M Johnson, ... PLoS Biology 16 (8), e2006357, 2018 | 71 | 2018 |
| New molecular phenotypes in the dst mutants of Arabidopsis revealed by DNA microarray analysis MA Pérez-Amador, P Lidder, MA Johnson, J Landgraf, E Wisman, ... The Plant Cell 13 (12), 2703-2717, 2001 | 69 | 2001 |
| HAP2 (GCS1)-dependent gamete fusion requires a positively charged carboxy-terminal domain JL Wong, AR Leydon, MA Johnson PLoS genetics 6 (3), e1000882, 2010 | 60 | 2010 |
| Extracellular guidance cues and intracellular signaling pathways that direct pollen tube growth MA Johnson, E Lord The pollen tube: a cellular and molecular perspective, 223-242, 2006 | 60 | 2006 |
| Pollen tube discharge completes the process of synergid degeneration that is initiated by pollen tube-synergid interaction in Arabidopsis AR Leydon, T Tsukamoto, D Dunatunga, Y Qin, MA Johnson, ... Plant physiology 169 (1), 485-496, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Expressing the diphtheria toxin A subunit from the HAP2 (GCS1) promoter blocks sperm maturation and produces single sperm-like cells capable of fertilization AC Frank, MA Johnson Plant Physiology 151 (3), 1390-1400, 2009 | 49 | 2009 |
| Speed dating, rejection, and finding the perfect mate: advice from flowering plants KM Beale, MA Johnson Current opinion in plant biology 16 (5), 590-597, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| The molecular dialog between flowering plant reproductive partners defined by SNP-informed RNA-sequencing AR Leydon, C Weinreb, E Venable, A Reinders, JM Ward, MA Johnson The Plant Cell 29 (5), 984-1006, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
Ravishankar PalaniveluProfessor, University of ArizonaVerified email at arizona.edu
