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Olivier Voinnet

Biology

ETH Zurich

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About Olivier Voinnet at ETH Zurich (ETH)

Olivier Voinnet is a leading plant molecular biologist at ETH Zurich, renowned for his pioneering research on RNA silencing mechanisms in plants. Their recent contributions to the field are exemplified by influential works such as "The plant siRNA landscape", and "A pectin acetyl‐transferase facilitates secondary plasmodesmata formation and <scp>RNA</scp> silencing movement between plant cells".

Research Areas

RNA silencingplant molecular biologymobile small RNAsplant-virus interactionsplasmodesmatagene regulationepigeneticsArabidopsis
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Research Output

Total Citations35,616

Top 5% globally

Publications182

Active researcher

h-index82

Nobel-level impact

i10-index129

Broad impact

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