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Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 49k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the mechanisms of plant immune response, including the role of root exudates, rhizosphere interactions with beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms, systemic acquired resistance, and the impact of plant growth-promoting bacteria. It delves into the signaling pathways, defense mechanisms, and hormonal modulation involved in plant immunity against microbial pathogens.

  • Plant Immunity
  • Rhizosphere Interactions
  • Microbial Pathogens
  • Pattern Recognition Receptors
  • Systemic Acquired Resistance
  • Plant Growth-Promoting Bacteria
  • Hormonal Modulation
  • Root Exudates
  • Pathogen Defense
  • Microbiome
Research works
49k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
4.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+30%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
50% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

Which countries lead Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (4.9k and 1.9k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 4.9k works
  2. 2 India 1.9k works
  3. 3 United States 1k works
  4. 4 Brazil 406 works
  5. 5 France 289 works
  6. 6 South Korea 289 works
  7. 7 Germany 282 works
  8. 8 Mexico 266 works
  9. 9 Spain 257 works
  10. 10 Japan 249 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: 49.9%India: 19.2%United States: 10.2%Brazil: 4.1%6 others listed: 16.5%50%largest
China4,932 · 49.9%India1,899 · 19.2%United States1,009 · 10.2%Brazil406 · 4.1%6 others listed1,633 · 16.5%

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

Which institutions lead Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Chinese Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 699 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 262 works
  3. 3 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 238 works
  4. 4 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 139 works
  5. 5 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 127 works
  6. 6 Guizhou UniversityChina 120 works
  7. 7 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 115 works
  8. 8 Northwest A&F UniversityChina 105 works
  9. 9 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 95 works
  10. 10 China Agricultural UniversityChina 94 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity include Eric S. Lander, Rob Knight and Peer Bork.

  1. 1 Eric S. Lander United States 524k citations
  2. 2 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
  3. 3 Peer Bork Germany 396k citations
  4. 4 Steven L. Salzberg United States 372k citations
  5. 5 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  6. 6 Heng Li United States 270k citations
  7. 7 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  8. 8 Didier Raoult France 232k citations
  9. 9 Michael Snyder United States 224k citations
  10. 10 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 Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity?

The most cited paper in Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity is "The plant immune system" (Jonathan D. G. Jones, Jeffery L. Dangl, 2006), with 13,434 citations. Next come "REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES: Metabolism, Oxidative Stress, and Signal Transduction" (11,793) and "Abiotic Stress Signaling and Responses in Plants" (6,028).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The plant immune system Jonathan D. G. Jones, Jeffery L. Dangl · Nature Open access Nov 2006 13,434
2 REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES: Metabolism, Oxidative Stress, and Signal Transduction Klaus Apel, Heribert Hirt · Annual Review of Plant Biology Review 29 Apr 2004 11,793
3 Abiotic Stress Signaling and Responses in Plants Jian‐Kang Zhu · Cell Open access Oct 2016 6,028
4 AN EVALUATION OF TECHNIQUES FOR MEASURING VESICULAR ARBUSCULAR MYCORRHIZAL INFECTION IN ROOTS Manuela Giovannetti, Barbara Mosse · New Phytologist Mar 1980 5,919
5 The rhizosphere microbiome and plant health Roeland L. Berendsen, Corné M. J. Pieterse, Peter A. H. M. Bakker · Trends in Plant Science ReviewOpen access 6 May 2012 5,533
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Where is Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity research done?

The largest centres of Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Nanjing (China), Kunming (China) and New Delhi (India). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Rishon LeZiyyon, Jinrongjie and Wushan.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 862 works
  2. 2 NanjingChina 283 works
  3. 3 KunmingChina 197 works
  4. 4 New DelhiIndia 191 works
  5. 5 HangzhouChina 163 works
  6. 6 GuiyangChina 159 works
  7. 7 GuangzhouChina 152 works
  8. 8 WuhanChina 149 works
  9. 9 LanzhouChina 122 works
  10. 10 ShanghaiChina 115 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Rishon LeZiyyonIL · 23.9 works39×
  2. JinrongjieCN · 40.5 works33×
  3. WushanCN · 22.2 works29×
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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity?

Among universities, judged by research, Nanjing Agricultural University, Western Sydney University and Guizhou 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 19.63%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Western Sydney Unive…Nanjing Agricultural…Guizhou UniversityNorthwest A&F Univer…
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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
1Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 68.016.2%29.5×139 +20.3%
2Western Sydney UniversityAustralia 66.337.8%3.3×11 +58.3%
3Guizhou UniversityChina 63.313.2%18.9×120 +201.5%
4Northwest A&F UniversityChina 62.012.3%22.0×105 +31.3%
5China Agricultural UniversityChina 62.013.8%13.9×94 +40.8%
6Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 60.713.7%19.1×78 +17.6%
7North-West UniversitySouth Africa 60.723.1%8.6×30 +5.0%
8King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 60.114.1%3.5×42 +130.0%
9Yeungnam UniversitySouth Korea 58.831.7%4.8×13 +55.3%
10University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 58.420.4%2.2×45 +36.3%

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 Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity, country by country

Is Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 30% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity.

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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-Microbe Interactions and Immunity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.052% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity0.057% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 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-Microbe Interactions and Immunity9.8% 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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