| The meaning of Darwin's “abominable mystery” WE Friedman American Journal of Botany 96 (1), 5-21, 2009 | 279 | 2009 |
| The evolution of plant development WE Friedman, RC Moore, MD Purugganan American Journal of Botany 91 (10), 1726-1741, 2004 | 198 | 2004 |
| Identification of diploid endosperm in an early angiosperm lineage JH Williams, WE Friedman Nature 415 (6871), 522-526, 2002 | 173 | 2002 |
| Expression of the cell cycle in sperm of Arabidopsis: implications for understanding patterns of gametogenesis and fertilization in plants and other eukaryotes WE Friedman Development 126 (5), 1065-1075, 1999 | 159 | 1999 |
| Shootlessness, velamentous roots, and the pre‐eminence of Orchidaceae in the epiphytic biotope DH Benzing, WE Friedman, G Peterson, A Renfrow American Journal of Botany 70 (1), 121-133, 1983 | 158 | 1983 |
| Double fertilization in Ephedra, a nonflowering seed plant: its bearing on the origin of angiosperms WE Friedman Science 247 (4945), 951-954, 1990 | 146 | 1990 |
| A laccase‐like phenoloxidase is correlated with lignin biosynthesis in Zinnia elegans stem tissues L Liu, JFD Dean, WE Friedman, KEL Eriksson The Plant Journal 6 (2), 213-224, 1994 | 145 | 1994 |
| The evolution of double fertilization and endosperm: an” historical” perspective WE Friedman Sexual Plant Reproduction 11, 6-16, 1998 | 136 | 1998 |
| Roots of Sobralia macrantha (Orchidaceae): structure and function of the velamen‐exodermis complex DH Benzing, DW Ott, WE Friedman American Journal of Botany 69 (4), 608-614, 1982 | 135 | 1982 |
| Physcomitrella Cyclin-Dependent Kinase A Links Cell Cycle Reactivation to Other Cellular Changes during Reprogramming of Leaf Cells M Ishikawa, T Murata, Y Sato, T Nishiyama, Y Hiwatashi, A Imai, M Kimura, ... The Plant Cell 23 (8), 2924-2938, 2011 | 129 | 2011 |
| Arbuscular mycorrhizal associations in Lycopodiaceae JL Winther, WE Friedman New Phytologist 177 (3), 790-801, 2008 | 123 | 2008 |
| Evolution of endosperm developmental patterns among basal flowering plants SK Floyd, WE Friedman International Journal of Plant Sciences 161 (S6), S57-S81, 2000 | 119 | 2000 |
| The origin and early evolution of tracheids in vascular plants: integration of palaeobotanical and neobotanical data WE Friedman, ME Cook Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B …, 2000 | 112 | 2000 |
| Evidence of a pre-angiosperm origin of endosperm: implications for the evolution of flowering plants WE Friedman Science 255 (5042), 336-339, 1992 | 111 | 1992 |
| Spatial structuring of bacterial communities within individual Ginkgo biloba trees JW Leff, P Del Tredici, WE Friedman, N Fierer Environmental microbiology 17 (7), 2352-2361, 2015 | 110 | 2015 |
| Developmental selection within the angiosperm style: using gamete DNA to visualize interspecific pollen competition JH Williams Jr, WE Friedman, ML Arnold Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96 (16), 9201-9206, 1999 | 110 | 1999 |
| The evolution of embryogeny in seed plants and the developmental origin and early history of endosperm WE Friedman American Journal of Botany 81 (11), 1468-1486, 1994 | 109 | 1994 |
| Embryological evidence for developmental lability during early angiosperm evolution WE Friedman Nature 441 (7091), 337-340, 2006 | 105 | 2006 |
| Growth and development of the male gametophyte of Ginkgo biloba within the ovule (in vivo) WE Friedman American Journal of Botany 74 (12), 1797-1815, 1987 | 103 | 1987 |
| Perspective: the origin of flowering plants and their reproductive biology–a tale of two phylogenies WE Friedman, SK Floyd Evolution 55 (2), 217-231, 2001 | 101 | 2001 |
