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Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics

Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 8.6k research works in it since 1950. 10.2% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the genetic diversity, breeding, and nutritional properties of okra (Abelmoschus esculentus). It covers topics such as genetic variability, antioxidant properties, phenotypic diversity, path analysis, combining ability, and heterosis in okra. The papers also discuss the nutritional quality and potential health benefits of okra.

  • Okra Genetics
  • Breeding
  • Genetic Variability
  • Antioxidant Properties
  • Nutritional Quality
  • Phenotypic Diversity
  • Abelmoschus esculentus
  • Path Analysis
  • Combining Ability
  • Heterosis
Research works
8.6k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
882
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.2%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+32%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
India
59% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics

Which countries lead Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics research?

By volume, India and Nigeria publish the most (1.3k and 161 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 India 1.3k works
  2. 2 Nigeria 161 works
  3. 3 Indonesia 121 works
  4. 4 Egypt 113 works
  5. 5 Bangladesh 95 works
  6. 6 Pakistan 95 works
  7. 7 United States 92 works
  8. 8 China 70 works
  9. 9 Iraq 63 works
  10. 10 Nepal 54 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

India: 59.4%Nigeria: 7.6%Indonesia: 5.7%Egypt: 5.3%6 others listed: 22.0%59%largest
India1,261 · 59.4%Nigeria161 · 7.6%Indonesia121 · 5.7%Egypt113 · 5.3%6 others listed468 · 22.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Indian Council of Agricultural Research publishes the most Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics research, followed by Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 177 works
  2. 2 Sam Higginbottom Institute of AgricultureIndia 60 works
  3. 3 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 49 works
  4. 4 Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 44 works
  5. 5 Agricultural Research CenterEgypt 31 works
  6. 6 Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural UniversityIndia 27 works
  7. 7 Agriculture and Forestry UniversityNepal 25 works
  8. 8 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ghatkhed AmravatiIndia 24 works
  9. 9 Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 24 works
  10. 10 Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and ForestryIndia 23 works

Who are the leading researchers in Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics include Alisdair Robert Fernie, Antonio Hugo Bezerra Colombo and Ramaswamy Govindan.

  1. 1 Alisdair Robert Fernie Germany 121k citations
  2. 2 Antonio Hugo Bezerra Colombo Italy 116k citations
  3. 3 Ramaswamy Govindan United States 111k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics?

The most cited paper in Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics is "THE THEORY AND ANALYSIS OF DIALLEL CROSSES" (B I Hayman, 1954), with 1,398 citations. Next come "Comparison of Metabolizable Energy and Productive Energy Determinations with Growing Chicks" (1,211) and "Mendelian factors underlying quantitative traits in tomato: comparison across species, generations, and environments." (911).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 THE THEORY AND ANALYSIS OF DIALLEL CROSSES B I Hayman · Genetics Nov 1954 1,398
2 Comparison of Metabolizable Energy and Productive Energy Determinations with Growing Chicks Fredric W. Hill, Damann L. Anderson · Journal of Nutrition Apr 1958 1,211
3 Mendelian factors underlying quantitative traits in tomato: comparison across species, generations, and environments. Andrew H. Paterson, Smith Damon, John D. Hewitt et al. · Genetics Open access 1991 911
4 Path Models with Latent Variables: The NIPALS Approach Herman Wold · Elsevier eBooks Book chapter 1975 806
5 Statistical Analysis of Yield Trials by AMMI and GGE Hugh G. Gauch · Crop Science 18 May 2006 725
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics research done?

The largest centres of Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics research in 2022-now are Allahabad (India), New Delhi (India), Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Coimbatore (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Krishnanagar and Faizabad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 AllahabadIndia 66 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 65 works
  3. 3 DhakaBangladesh 60 works
  4. 4 CoimbatoreIndia 58 works
  5. 5 LudhianaIndia 48 works
  6. 6 GizaEgypt 47 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 45 works
  8. 8 VaranasiIndia 35 works
  9. 9 HyderabadIndia 33 works
  10. 10 SrinagarIndia 27 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. KrishnanagarIN · 20.2 works171×
  2. FaizabadIN · 21.7 works170×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics?

Among universities, judged by research, Punjab Agricultural University, University of Agriculture Faisalabad and Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

0%10%20%mean 9.27%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Dr. Yashwant Singh P…Punjab Agricultural …University of Agricu…Agriculture and Fore…
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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 81.212.2%118.4×44 +66.9%
2University of Agriculture FaisalabadPakistan 79.011.7%43.0×17 +61.4%
3Dr. Yashwant Singh Parmar University of Horticulture and ForestryIndia 77.916.0%184.8×23 +29.2%
4Agriculture and Forestry UniversityNepal 71.87.1%160.8×25 +97.7%
5Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural ResearchEthiopia 67.49.4%86.7×24 +38.3%
6Lovely Professional UniversityIndia 64.08.6%15.9×18 +336.7%
7Gazipur Agricultural UniversityBangladesh 58.710.9%115.8×9 +2.7%
8Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 58.17.8%7.9×14 +93.0%
9Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 57.64.7%93.0×49 +0.6%
10Chaudhary Charan Singh Haryana Agricultural UniversityIndia 56.14.3%127.5×27 +43.9%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics, country by country

Is Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 32% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2024. The fastest-growing topics are Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.013% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Agricultural Practices and Plant Genetics11.4% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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