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Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 35k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the genetics, epidemiology, and pathogenic mechanisms of plant pathogens such as Plasmodiophora brassicae, Rhizoctonia solani, and Streptomyces species. It includes research on clubroot disease, sheath blight resistance, genetic mapping, host-pathogen interactions, quantitative trait loci, and transcriptome analysis.

  • Plasmodiophora brassicae
  • Rhizoctonia solani
  • Streptomyces species
  • Clubroot disease
  • Sheath blight resistance
  • Genetic mapping
  • Pathogenicity mechanisms
  • Host-pathogen interaction
  • Quantitative trait loci
  • Transcriptome analysis
Research works
35k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
3.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+1%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
43% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics

Which countries lead Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.5k and 659 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.5k works
  2. 2 India 659 works
  3. 3 United States 563 works
  4. 4 Japan 143 works
  5. 5 South Korea 120 works
  6. 6 Canada 116 works
  7. 7 Brazil 99 works
  8. 8 Germany 97 works
  9. 9 Russia 96 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 96 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: 42.8%India: 19.0%United States: 16.2%Japan: 4.1%6 others listed: 17.9%43%largest
China1,488 · 42.8%India659 · 19.0%United States563 · 16.2%Japan143 · 4.1%6 others listed623 · 17.9%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and United States Department of Agriculture.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 272 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 168 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 77 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 54 works
  5. 5 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 48 works
  6. 6 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 42 works
  7. 7 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 38 works
  8. 8 Guizhou UniversityChina 38 works
  9. 9 Agriculture and Agri-Food CanadaCanada 36 works
  10. 10 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 34 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics include Eric S. Lander, Rob Knight and Richard M. Durbin.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Richard M. Durbin United Kingdom 410k citations
  4. 4 Mark J. Daly United States 403k citations
  5. 5 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  6. 6 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  7. 7 Elaine R. Mardis United States 346k citations
  8. 8 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  9. 9 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  10. 10 Huanming Yang China 246k 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 Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics?

The most cited paper in Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics is "MicroRNAs" (David P. Bartel, 2004), with 35,138 citations. Next come "A plant DNA minipreparation: Version II" (7,616) and "Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species" (6,033).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 MicroRNAs David P. Bartel · Cell Open access 2004 35,138
2 A plant DNA minipreparation: Version II Stephen L. Dellaporta, Jonathan M. D. Wood, James B Hicks · Plant Molecular Biology Reporter Sep 1983 7,616
3 Rapid genetic identification and mapping of enzymatically amplified ribosomal DNA from several Cryptococcus species Rytas J. Vilgalys, Micah Hester · Journal of Bacteriology Open access Aug 1990 6,033
4 Ribosomal DNA spacer-length polymorphisms in barley: mendelian inheritance, chromosomal location, and population dynamics. M. A. Saghai Maroof, K. M. Soliman, Richard A. Jorgensen et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Dec 1984 5,235
5 The Top 10 fungal pathogens in molecular plant pathology Ralph A. Dean, Jan A. L. van Kan, Z. A. Pretorius et al. · Molecular Plant Pathology Open access 4 Apr 2012 4,822
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Where is Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research done?

The largest centres of Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Nanjing (China) and Wuhan (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ya'an.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 287 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 83 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 65 works
  4. 4 WuhanChina 62 works
  5. 5 KunmingChina 58 works
  6. 6 GuiyangChina 54 works
  7. 7 HangzhouChina 48 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C.United States 47 works
  9. 9 GuangzhouChina 44 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 40 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ya'anCN · 32.8 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics?

Among universities, judged by research, Guizhou University, Northwest A&F University and Nanjing Agricultural University score highest, combining citation 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%30%mean 19.71%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Guizhou UniversityNorthwest A&F Univer…China Agricultural U…Nanjing Agricultural…
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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.

Citation 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 88.823.8%17.7×38 +151.6%
2Northwest A&F UniversityChina 82.022.5%21.3×34 +24.7%
3Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 81.919.5%23.8×38 +13.9%
4China Agricultural UniversityChina 80.219.8%14.4×33 +26.7%
5Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 74.918.1%23.2×32 -1.7%
6Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 65.816.4%10.8×16 -26.3%
7Zhejiang UniversityChina 65.026.1%1.4×16 +28.4%
8Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 62.320.6%21.0×15 +144.6%
9Henan Agricultural UniversityChina 59.120.5%22.9×16 +45.2%
10Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 56.59.8%28.5×33 +1.8%

Universities only. The score blends citation 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 Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, country by country

Is Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 1% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Disease Resistance and 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 Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

still counting0.025%0.050%0.075%Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics0.018% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant Disease Resistance and 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%Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics10.2% 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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