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Fungal Plant Pathogen Control

Fungal Plant Pathogen Control is a research topic within Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the evolution, mechanisms, and management of fungicide resistance in plant pathogens, with a particular emphasis on Botrytis cinerea. It covers topics such as molecular mechanisms of resistance, specific fungicide classes (e.g., strobilurins, succinate dehydrogenase inhibitors), and the challenges associated with managing resistance in agricultural settings.

  • Fungicide Resistance
  • Plant Pathogens
  • Evolution
  • Management
  • Molecular Mechanisms
  • Phenylamide Fungicides
  • Strobilurin Fungicides
  • Succinate Dehydrogenase Inhibitors
  • Qo Inhibitor Fungicides
  • Botrytis cinerea
Research works
15k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+21%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
46% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Fungal Plant Pathogen Control

Which countries lead Fungal Plant Pathogen Control research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (898 and 314 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 898 works
  2. 2 India 314 works
  3. 3 United States 290 works
  4. 4 Russia 79 works
  5. 5 Brazil 74 works
  6. 6 Egypt 61 works
  7. 7 Japan 59 works
  8. 8 Türkiye 57 works
  9. 9 Italy 56 works
  10. 10 France 55 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.

China: 46.2%India: 16.2%United States: 15.0%Russia: 4.0%6 others listed: 18.6%46%largest
China898 · 46.2%India314 · 16.2%United States290 · 15.0%Russia79 · 4.0%6 others listed361 · 18.6%

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

Which institutions lead Fungal Plant Pathogen Control research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Fungal Plant Pathogen Control research, followed by Guizhou University and Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 94 works
  2. 2 Guizhou UniversityChina 72 works
  3. 3 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 49 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 32 works
  5. 5 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 29 works
  6. 6 China Agricultural UniversityChina 26 works
  7. 7 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 22 works
  8. 8 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 20 works
  9. 9 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 20 works
  10. 10 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Fungal Plant Pathogen Control?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Fungal Plant Pathogen Control include Hagop M. Kantarjian and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 Hagop M. Kantarjian United States 273k citations
  2. 2 Kai You Wang China 224k 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 Fungal Plant Pathogen Control?

The most cited paper in Fungal Plant Pathogen Control is "Stability Parameters for Comparing Varieties 1" (Steve A. Eberhart, Wilbert A. Russell, 1966), with 3,697 citations. Next come "TOR, a Central Controller of Cell Growth" (1,934) and "Structural Mechanism for STI-571 Inhibition of Abelson Tyrosine Kinase" (1,799).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Stability Parameters for Comparing Varieties 1 Steve A. Eberhart, Wilbert A. Russell · Crop Science Open access 1966 3,697
2 TOR, a Central Controller of Cell Growth Tobias Schmelzle, Michael N. Hall · Cell Open access Oct 2000 1,934
3 Structural Mechanism for STI-571 Inhibition of Abelson Tyrosine Kinase Thomas Hellmut Schindler, William G. Bornmann, Patricia Pellicena et al. · Science 15 Sep 2000 1,799
4 Botrytis cinerea : the cause of grey mould disease Brian D. Williamson, Bettina Tudzynski, Paul Tudzynski et al. · Molecular Plant Pathology Open access 23 Jul 2007 1,738
5 The strobilurin fungicides Dave Bartlett, John M. Clough, Jeremy Godwin et al. · Pest Management Science 23 May 2002 1,719
All 101 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Fungal Plant Pathogen Control research done?

The largest centres of Fungal Plant Pathogen Control research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Guiyang (China), Nanjing (China) and Hangzhou (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Guiyang and Yangling.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 135 works
  2. 2 GuiyangChina 92 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 52 works
  4. 4 HangzhouChina 31 works
  5. 5 ShanghaiChina 30 works
  6. 6 TianjinChina 28 works
  7. 7 MoscowRussia 27 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 26 works
  9. 9 New DelhiIndia 24 works
  10. 10 YanglingChina 22 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GuiyangCN · 92.1 works26×
  2. YanglingCN · 22.0 works22×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Fungal Plant Pathogen Control than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Fungal Plant Pathogen Control?

Among universities, judged by research, Guizhou University, Nanjing Agricultural University and Northwest A&F University 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%20%40%mean 21.33%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guizhou UniversityNorthwest A&F Univer…Nanjing Agricultural…China Agricultural U…
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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
1Guizhou UniversityChina 92.832.0%59.6×72 +139.9%
2Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 77.822.5%32.4×29 +27.8%
3Northwest A&F UniversityChina 71.830.5%24.3×22 +33.4%
4China Agricultural UniversityChina 60.416.6%20.2×26 +25.2%
5Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 58.125.4%35.1×14 +243.8%
6Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 52.719.8%11.0×12 +127.3%
7Nankai UniversityChina 51.020.6%10.0×16 +5.2%
8East China University of Science and TechnologyChina 50.330.0%7.5×9 +46.0%
9Clemson UniversityUnited States 42.51.6%18.4×13 +57.8%
10Henan University of Science and TechnologyChina 42.414.3%14.1×9 +48.4%

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 Fungal Plant Pathogen Control, country by country

Is Fungal Plant Pathogen Control research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 21% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Fungal Plant Pathogen Control.

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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 Fungal Plant Pathogen Control as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0093% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Fungal Plant Pathogen Control0.012% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Fungal Plant Pathogen Control 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%Fungal Plant Pathogen Control10.6% 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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