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Plant tissue culture and regeneration

Plant tissue culture and regeneration is a research topic within Molecular Biology. Science Explorer counts 64k 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 elicitor signal transduction pathways, genetic engineering techniques, and biotechnological approaches used to enhance the production of plant secondary metabolites. It covers topics such as Agrobacterium-mediated transformation, somatic embryogenesis, hairy root culture, and the biosynthesis of specific metabolites like terpenoid indole alkaloids.

  • Plant Secondary Metabolites
  • Agrobacterium-Mediated Transformation
  • Elicitation
  • Somatic Embryogenesis
  • Hairy Root Culture
  • Terpenoid Indole Alkaloids
  • Genetic Engineering
  • Biotechnology
  • Tissue Culture
  • Gene Expression
Research works
64k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
6.3k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+14%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
30% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Plant tissue culture and regeneration

Which countries lead Plant tissue culture and regeneration research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (1.9k and 1.7k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 1.9k works
  2. 2 India 1.7k works
  3. 3 United States 635 works
  4. 4 Brazil 539 works
  5. 5 Indonesia 417 works
  6. 6 Türkiye 282 works
  7. 7 Russia 264 works
  8. 8 Mexico 238 works
  9. 9 Iran 219 works
  10. 10 South Korea 211 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: 29.7%India: 26.4%United States: 9.9%Brazil: 8.4%6 others listed: 25.5%30%largest
China1,898 · 29.7%India1,683 · 26.4%United States635 · 9.9%Brazil539 · 8.4%6 others listed1,631 · 25.5%

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

Which institutions lead Plant tissue culture and regeneration research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Plant tissue culture and regeneration research, followed by Indian Council of Agricultural Research and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of Agricultural SciencesChina 234 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 199 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 107 works
  4. 4 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 100 works
  5. 5 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 60 works
  6. 6 Ministry of Agriculture and Rural AffairsChina 54 works
  7. 7 Tamil Nadu Agricultural UniversityIndia 49 works
  8. 8 Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 41 works
  9. 9 Universidade Federal de LavrasBrazil 38 works
  10. 10 Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 37 works

Who are the leading researchers in Plant tissue culture and regeneration?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Plant tissue culture and regeneration include Jun Wang, Huanming Yang and David Botstein.

  1. 1 Jun Wang China 340k citations
  2. 2 Huanming Yang China 246k citations
  3. 3 David Botstein United States 221k 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 tissue culture and regeneration?

The most cited paper in Plant tissue culture and regeneration is "A Revised Medium for Rapid Growth and Bio Assays with Tobacco Tissue Cultures" (Toshio Murashige, Folke Skoog, 1962), with 67,944 citations. Next come "Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana" (22,756) and "Rapid isolation of high molecular weight plant DNA" (12,462).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A Revised Medium for Rapid Growth and Bio Assays with Tobacco Tissue Cultures Toshio Murashige, Folke Skoog · Physiologia Plantarum Jul 1962 67,944
2 Floral dip: a simplified method for Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana Steven John Clough, Andrew F. Bent · The Plant Journal Open access Dec 1998 22,756
3 Rapid isolation of high molecular weight plant DNA Michael G. Murray, William F. Thompson · Nucleic Acids Research Open access 1980 12,462
4 Nutrient requirements of suspension cultures of soybean root cells O. L. Gamborg, R. A. Miller, Kunihiko Ojima · Experimental Cell Research Apr 1968 9,513
5 Arabidopsis mesophyll protoplasts: a versatile cell system for transient gene expression analysis Sang-Dong Yoo, Young-Hee Cho, Jen Sheen · Nature Protocols 21 Jun 2007 5,307
All 100 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Plant tissue culture and regeneration research done?

The largest centres of Plant tissue culture and regeneration research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New Delhi (India), Nanjing (China) and Moscow (Russia). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Montecillo.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 373 works
  2. 2 New DelhiIndia 160 works
  3. 3 NanjingChina 108 works
  4. 4 MoscowRussia 107 works
  5. 5 TehranIran 91 works
  6. 6 CoimbatoreIndia 76 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 71 works
  8. 8 GuangzhouChina 69 works
  9. 9 KunmingChina 67 works
  10. 10 HangzhouChina 65 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. MontecilloMX · 24.9 works33×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Plant tissue culture and regeneration than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Plant tissue culture and regeneration?

Among universities, judged by research, Huazhong Agricultural University, Nanjing Agricultural University and China 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 20.57%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →China Agricultural U…Huazhong Agricultura…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.

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
1Huazhong Agricultural UniversityChina 78.223.7%11.5×31 +27.9%
2Nanjing Agricultural UniversityChina 78.021.8%13.1×41 +56.7%
3China Agricultural UniversityChina 76.827.2%6.9×31 +27.7%
4Wageningen University & ResearchNetherlands 71.219.5%5.5×16 +45.5%
5King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia 70.617.0%3.2×25 +78.7%
6Ghent UniversityBelgium 69.115.2%3.1×20 +9.4%
7Sanya UniversityChina 66.725.9%13.8×14 -
8Nanjing Forestry UniversityChina 64.913.4%10.1×37 +224.5%
9University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 64.323.7%1.4×19 +47.3%
10Guizhou UniversityChina 61.918.3%6.6×28 +381.4%

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 tissue culture and regeneration, country by country

Is Plant tissue culture and regeneration research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 14% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Plant tissue culture and regeneration.

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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 tissue culture and regeneration as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.041% in 2024.

still counting0.050%0.10%0.15%Plant tissue culture and regeneration0.040% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Plant tissue culture and regeneration 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 tissue culture and regeneration10.1% 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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