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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. 27.3% 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%
9.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
27.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2013–17 → 2018–22
+10%
the tick is no change

Which countries lead Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.4k and 608 works in 2022–2025).

By volume, 2022–2025

  1. 1 China 1.4k works
  2. 2 India 608 works
  3. 3 United States 508 works
  4. 4 Japan 133 works
  5. 5 South Korea 114 works
  6. 6 Canada 105 works
  7. 7 Brazil 93 works
  8. 8 Russia 91 works
  9. 9 France 90 works
  10. 10 Germany 89 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: 43.0%India: 18.9%United States: 15.8%Japan: 4.1%6 others listed: 18.1%43%largest
China1,383 · 43.0%India608 · 18.9%United States508 · 15.8%Japan133 · 4.1%6 others listed582 · 18.1%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research?

By volume in 2022–2025, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research, followed by Nanjing Agricultural University and Northwest A&F University.

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

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics include Kevin D. Hyde.

  1. 1 Kevin D. Hyde Thailand 4.8k citations

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

Where is Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research done?

The largest centres of Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research in 2022–2025 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, 2022–2025

  1. 1 Beijing China 273 works
  2. 2 New Delhi India 79 works
  3. 3 Nanjing China 61 works
  4. 4 Wuhan China 59 works
  5. 5 Kunming China 54 works
  6. 6 Guiyang China 48 works
  7. 7 Hangzhou China 43 works
  8. 8 Washington D.C. United States 43 works
  9. 9 Guangzhou China 41 works
  10. 10 Shanghai China 38 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Ya'anCN · 32.6 works26×
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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, Northwest A&F University, Guizhou University and China Agricultural 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 42.03%fractional works in this node (log) →share in the world top 10% →Northwest A&F University: 34, 45.5%Guizhou University: 33, 47.2%China Agricultural University: 30, 46.7%Nanjing Agricultural University: 36, 40.2%Huazhong Agricultural University: 30, 37.3%Wageningen University & Research: 14, 40.7%Sichuan Agricultural University: 32, 33.4%Yunnan Agricultural University: 17, 46.7%Henan Agricultural University: 15, 42.6%Anhui Agricultural University: 14, 40.0%Guizhou UniversityChina Agricultural U…Northwest A&F Univer…Nanjing Agricultural…
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One dot per university in the table below. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 75.645.5%19.7×34 -11.9%
2 Guizhou UniversityChina 74.747.2%14.8×33 -26.4%
3 China Agricultural UniversityChina 74.046.7%12.4×30 -28.3%
4 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 72.040.2%21.3×36 -21.5%
5 Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 68.337.3%20.4×30 -21.2%
6 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 66.740.7%9.2×14 -5.2%
7 Sichuan Agricultural UniversityChina 65.833.4%26.9×32 -3.8%
8 Yunnan Agricultural UniversityChina 64.346.7%36.5×17 -62.1%
9 Henan Agricultural UniversityChina 62.642.6%21.7×15 -24.9%
10 Anhui Agricultural UniversityChina 59.040.0%18.1×14 -18.4%

Universities only. Score blends excellence (30%), specialisation (25%), size (20%), growth (15%) and international reach (10%), 2015–2022; growth compares 2010–14 with 2015–19.

Is Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics research growing?

Output in 2018–2022 was 10% higher than in 2013–2017, 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.

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.