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Plant Pathogens and Resistance

Plant Pathogens and Resistance is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 26k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on genomic and epidemiological studies of Phytophthora pathogens, particularly their impact on potato crops, forest ecosystems, and ornamental plants. The research covers topics such as genome sequencing, late blight resistance, disease epidemiology, genetic diversity, and phylogenetic analysis of these destructive plant pathogens.

  • Phytophthora
  • genome sequencing
  • late blight resistance
  • potato
  • oomycetes
  • disease epidemiology
  • plant pathogens
  • genetic diversity
  • forest ecosystems
  • phylogenetic analysis
Research works
26k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.0%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+5%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant Pathogens and Resistance

Which countries lead Plant Pathogens and Resistance research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (669 and 527 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 669 works
  2. 2 United States 527 works
  3. 3 India 433 works
  4. 4 Russia 125 works
  5. 5 Brazil 118 works
  6. 6 Germany 102 works
  7. 7 United Kingdom 100 works
  8. 8 Japan 89 works
  9. 9 Italy 86 works
  10. 10 Canada 83 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: 28.7%United States: 22.6%India: 18.6%Russia: 5.4%6 others listed: 24.8%29%largest
China669 · 28.7%United States527 · 22.6%India433 · 18.6%Russia125 · 5.4%6 others listed578 · 24.8%

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

Which institutions lead Plant Pathogens and Resistance research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant Pathogens and Resistance 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 112 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 103 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 69 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 44 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 35 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 29 works
  7. 7 Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 27 works
  8. 8 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 24 works
  9. 9 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 23 works
  10. 10 University of FloridaUnited States 22 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant Pathogens and Resistance?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant Pathogens and Resistance include Jun Wang, Koichiro Tamura and Carlo La Vecchia.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Koichiro Tamura Japan 268k citations
  3. 3 Carlo La Vecchia Italy 258k citations
  4. 4 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  5. 5 Dennis W. Dickson United States 237k citations
  6. 6 Elisabete Weiderpass France 221k citations
  7. 7 David Tilman United States 209k citations
  8. 8 Michael R. Stratton United Kingdom 203k 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 Pathogens and Resistance?

The most cited paper in Plant Pathogens and Resistance is "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., 1984), with 5,235 citations. Next come "Identification of markers linked to disease-resistance genes by bulked segregant analysis: a rapid method to detect markers in specific genomic regions by using segregating populations." (4,670) and "The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution" (3,442).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 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
2 Identification of markers linked to disease-resistance genes by bulked segregant analysis: a rapid method to detect markers in specific genomic regions by using segregating populations. Richard W. Michelmore, Ilan Paran, Rick Kesseli · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access Nov 1991 4,670
3 The tomato genome sequence provides insights into fleshy fruit evolution Hideki Hirakawa et al. · Nature Open access271 authors May 2012 3,442
4 Poppr : an R package for genetic analysis of populations with clonal, partially clonal, and/or sexual reproduction Zhian N. Kamvar, Javier Felipe Tabima, Niklaus J. Grünwald · PeerJ Open access 4 Mar 2014 3,276
5 Analysis of Acrylamide, a Carcinogen Formed in Heated Foodstuffs Eden Tareke, Per Rydberg, Patrik G. Karlsson et al. · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 17 Jul 2002 2,217
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Where is Plant Pathogens and Resistance research done?

The largest centres of Plant Pathogens and Resistance research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Washington D.C. (United States), Nanjing (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Shimla and Wageningen.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 136 works
  2. 2 Washington D.C.United States 50 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 43 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 41 works
  5. 5 KunmingChina 35 works
  6. 6 New DelhiIndia 34 works
  7. 7 WageningenNetherlands 29 works
  8. 8 GuiyangChina 25 works
  9. 9 OttawaCanada 24 works
  10. 10 ShimlaIndia 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ShimlaIN · 23.7 works52×
  2. WageningenNL · 29.5 works20×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

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Where is the best place to study Plant Pathogens and Resistance?

Among universities, judged by research, Wageningen University & Research, Nanjing Agricultural University and Huazhong 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 16.64%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Huazhong Agricultura…Gansu Agricultural U…Nanjing Agricultural…Wageningen Universit…
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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
1Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 78.314.8%22.7×27 -7.8%
2Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 72.221.4%18.4×23 +9.4%
3Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 67.532.6%9.2×10 +36.9%
4Gansu Agricultural UniversityChina 64.629.4%26.6×13 +193.2%
5Northwest A&F UniversityChina 54.314.5%11.0×14 +16.0%
6Swedish University of Agricultural SciencesSweden 53.511.1%31.1×16 -36.6%
7Yunnan Agricultural UniversityChina 52.818.6%39.2×14 +593.7%
8Punjab Agricultural UniversityIndia 46.65.6%34.3×18 +82.5%
9Guizhou UniversityChina 45.78.7%8.5×14 +231.7%
10North Carolina State UniversityUnited States 45.29.7%9.9×18 -30.1%

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 Pathogens and Resistance, country by country

Is Plant Pathogens and Resistance research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021. The fastest-growing topics are Plant Pathogens and Resistance.

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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 Pathogens and Resistance as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%0.060%Plant Pathogens and Resistance0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant Pathogens and Resistance 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 Pathogens and Resistance10.2% 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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