Subfield · Plant Science
Most cited papers in Plant Science
What are the most cited papers in Plant Science?
The most cited paper in Plant Science is "A Revised Medium for Rapid Growth and Bio Assays with Tobacco Tissue Cultures" (Toshio Murashige, Folke Skoog, 1962), with 67,944 citations. Next come "MicroRNAs" (35,138) and "MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0" (28,894).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 5,419 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Revised Medium for Rapid Growth and Bio Assays with Tobacco Tissue Cultures Toshio Murashige, Folke Skoog · Physiologia Plantarum | Jul 1962 | 67,944 |
| 2 | MicroRNAs David P. Bartel · Cell | 2004 | 35,138 |
| 3 | MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) Software Version 4.0 Koichiro Tamura, Joel T. Dudley, M Nei et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 18 Apr 2007 | 28,894 |
| 4 | IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies Lam-Tung Nguyen, Heiko A. Schmidt, Arndt von Haeseler et al. · Molecular Biology and Evolution | 3 Nov 2014 | 28,418 |
| 5 | RSEM: accurate transcript quantification from RNA-Seq data with or without a reference genome Bo Li, Colin N. Dewey · BMC Bioinformatics | 4 Aug 2011 | 24,027 |
| 6 | Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana Steven John Clough, Andrew F. Bent · The Plant Journal | Dec 1998 | 22,756 |
| 7 | Rapid determination of free proline for water-stress studies Lynn S. Bates, R. P. Waldren, Iwan D. Teare · Plant and Soil | Aug 1973 | 21,112 |
| 8 | Free radicals in biology and medicine J. M. C. Gutteridge · General Pharmacology The Vascular System | 1991 | 17,218 |
| 9 | A Simple, Fast, and Accurate Algorithm to Estimate Large Phylogenies by Maximum Likelihood Stéphane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel · Systematic Biology | Oct 2003 | 17,109 |
| 10 | genalex 6: genetic analysis in Excel. Population genetic software for teaching and research Rod Peakall, Peter E. Smouse · Molecular Ecology Notes | 29 Sep 2005 | 16,827 |
| 11 | Graph-based genome alignment and genotyping with HISAT2 and HISAT-genotype Daehwan Kim, Joseph M. Paggi, Chanhee Park et al. · Nature Biotechnology | Aug 2019 | 16,558 |
| 12 | GENEPOP (Version 1.2): Population Genetics Software for Exact Tests and Ecumenicism Michel Raymond, François Rousset · Journal of Heredity | May 1995 | 15,620 |
| 13 | A comprehensive set of sequence analysis programs for the VAX John Devereux, Paul E. Haeberli, Oliver Smithies · Nucleic Acids Research | 1984 | 14,432 |
| 14 | TopHat2: accurate alignment of transcriptomes in the presence of insertions, deletions and gene fusions Daehwan Kim, Geo M. Pertea, Cole Trapnell et al. · Genome biology | 25 Apr 2013 | 13,857 |
| 15 | Mechanisms of Salinity Tolerance Rana Munns, Mark A. Tester · Annual Review of Plant Biology | 7 Feb 2008 | 13,850 |
| 16 | Estimates of the Regression Coefficient Based on Kendall's Tau Pranab Kumar Sen · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Dec 1968 | 13,754 |
| 17 | The plant immune system Jonathan D. G. Jones, Jeffery L. Dangl · Nature | Nov 2006 | 13,434 |
| 18 | DNA polymorphisms amplified by arbitrary primers are useful as genetic markers John Garnett Williams, Anne R. Kubelik, Kenneth J. Livak et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | 1990 | 13,158 |
| 19 | STRUCTURE HARVESTER: a website and program for visualizing STRUCTURE output and implementing the Evanno method Dent A. Earl, Bridgett M. vonHoldt · Conservation Genetics Resources | 12 Oct 2011 | 12,797 |
| 20 | Rapid isolation of high molecular weight plant DNA Michael G. Murray, William F. Thompson · Nucleic Acids Research | 1980 | 12,462 |
| 21 | Circos: An information aesthetic for comparative genomics Martin I. Krzywinski, Jacqueline E. Schein, İnanç Birol et al. · Genome Research | 18 Jun 2009 | 12,144 |
| 22 | Conserved Seed Pairing, Often Flanked by Adenosines, Indicates that Thousands of Human Genes are MicroRNA Targets Benjamin P. Lewis, Christopher B. Burge, David P. Bartel · Cell | 2005 | 12,048 |
| 23 | QUAST: quality assessment tool for genome assemblies Alexey A. Gurevich, Vladislav Saveliev, Nikolay Vyahhi et al. · Bioinformatics | 19 Feb 2013 | 11,980 |
| 24 | Red and photographic infrared linear combinations for monitoring vegetation Compton J. Tucker · Remote Sensing of Environment | May 1979 | 11,851 |
| 25 | Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant machinery in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants Sarvajeet Singh Gill, Narendra Tuteja · Plant Physiology and Biochemistry | 16 Sep 2010 | 11,846 |
| 26 | REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES: Metabolism, Oxidative Stress, and Signal Transduction Klaus Apel, Heribert Hirt · Annual Review of Plant Biology | 29 Apr 2004 | 11,793 |
| 27 | The Human Genome Browser at UCSC W. James Kent, Charles W. Sugnet, Terrence S. Furey et al. · Genome Research | 16 May 2002 | 10,998 |
| 28 | Oxidative stress, antioxidants and stress tolerance Ron Mittler · Trends in Plant Science | Sep 2002 | 10,890 |
| 29 | Hydrogen Peroxide is Scavenged by Ascorbate-specific Peroxidase in Spinach Chloroplasts Yoshiyuki Nakano, Kozi Asada · Plant and Cell Physiology | Aug 1981 | 10,779 |
| 30 | Deviations from michaelis-menten behaviour of plant glutamate dehydrogenase with ammonium as variable substrate Edwin Pahlich, Chr. Gerlitz · Phytochemistry | 1980 | 10,703 |
| 31 | ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes ‐ application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts Monique Gardes, Thomas D. Bruns · Molecular Ecology | Apr 1993 | 10,561 |
| 32 | Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement Bruce J. Walker, Thomas Abeel, Terrance Shea et al. · PLoS ONE | 19 Nov 2014 | 10,505 |
| 33 | Essential oils: their antibacterial properties and potential applications in foods—a review Sara A. Burt · International Journal of Food Microbiology | 9 Jun 2004 | 10,472 |
| 34 | Development of a DTPA Soil Test for Zinc, Iron, Manganese, and Copper W. L. Lindsay, Wendell A. Norvell · Soil Science Society of America Journal | May 1978 | 10,001 |
| 35 | Comprehensive Mapping of Long-Range Interactions Reveals Folding Principles of the Human Genome Erez Lieberman-Aiden, Nynke L. van Berkum, Louise Williams et al. · Science | 8 Oct 2009 | 9,848 |
| 36 | Velvet: Algorithms for de novo short read assembly using de Bruijn graphs Daniel R. Zerbino, Ewan Birney · Genome Research | 18 Mar 2008 | 9,816 |
| 37 | Quantitative Monitoring of Gene Expression Patterns with a Complementary DNA Microarray Mark Schena, Dari Shalon, Ronald W. Davis et al. · Science | 20 Oct 1995 | 9,654 |
| 38 | Nutrient requirements of suspension cultures of soybean root cells O. L. Gamborg, R. A. Miller, Kunihiko Ojima · Experimental Cell Research | Apr 1968 | 9,513 |
| 39 | Unicycler: Resolving bacterial genome assemblies from short and long sequencing reads Ryan R. Wick, Louise M. Judd, Claire L. Gorrie et al. · PLoS Computational Biology | 8 Jun 2017 | 9,141 |
| 40 | A biochemical model of photosynthetic CO2 assimilation in leaves of C3 species Graham D. Farquhar, Susanne von Caemmerer, Joseph A. Berry · Planta | Jun 1980 | 9,134 |
| 41 | The Role of Superoxide Anion in the Autoxidation of Epinephrine and a Simple Assay for Superoxide Dismutase Hara Prasad Misra, Irwin Fridovich · Journal of Biological Chemistry | May 1972 | 9,109 |
| 42 | Plant Products as Antimicrobial Agents Marjorie Murphy Cowan · Clinical Microbiology Reviews | Oct 1999 | 9,046 |
| 43 | Analysis of Gene Diversity in Subdivided Populations Masatoshi Nei · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | Dec 1973 | 9,028 |
| 44 | Chlorophyll fluorescence—a practical guide Kate Maxwell, Giles N. Johnson · Journal of Experimental Botany | Apr 2000 | 8,881 |
| 45 | The relationship between the quantum yield of photosynthetic electron transport and quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence Bernard Genty, Jean‐Marie Briantais, Neil R. Baker · Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects | 1989 | 8,707 |
| 46 | PlantCARE, a database of plant cis-acting regulatory elements and a portal to tools for in silico analysis of promoter sequences Magali Lescot · Nucleic Acids Research | 2002 | 8,702 |
| 47 | MCScanX: a toolkit for detection and evolutionary analysis of gene synteny and collinearity Yupeng Wang, Haibao Tang, Jeremy D. DeBarry et al. · Nucleic Acids Research | 4 Jan 2012 | 8,668 |
| 48 | Improved procedures for clearing roots and staining parasitic and vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi for rapid assessment of infection Jean M. Phillips, David S. Hayman · Transactions of the British Mycological Society | Aug 1970 | 8,570 |
| 49 | TASSEL: software for association mapping of complex traits in diverse samples Peter J. Bradbury, Zhiwu S. Zhang, Dallas E. Kroon et al. · Bioinformatics | 22 Jun 2007 | 8,428 |
| 50 | OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics David Emms, Steven L. Kelly · Genome biology | 14 Nov 2019 | 8,364 |
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