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Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases

Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases is a research topic within Plant Science. Science Explorer counts 6.4k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the study of powdery mildew fungi, their genetic analysis, resistance mechanisms, epidemiology, molecular phylogeny, host-pathogen interactions, and ontogenic resistance. The research covers various plant species affected by powdery mildews, with a particular emphasis on grapevine.

  • Powdery Mildews
  • Fungi
  • Plant Pathogens
  • Genetic Analysis
  • Resistance Mechanisms
  • Epidemiology
  • Molecular Phylogeny
  • Host-Pathogen Interactions
  • Ontogenic Resistance
  • Grapevine
Research works
6.4k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
644
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+19%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
32% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases

Which countries lead Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases research?

By volume, China and the United States publish the most (278 and 170 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 278 works
  2. 2 United States 170 works
  3. 3 India 166 works
  4. 4 Russia 59 works
  5. 5 Italy 38 works
  6. 6 South Korea 35 works
  7. 7 Germany 32 works
  8. 8 Ukraine 28 works
  9. 9 Brazil 27 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 27 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: 32.4%United States: 19.8%India: 19.3%Russia: 6.9%6 others listed: 21.6%32%largest
China278 · 32.4%United States170 · 19.8%India166 · 19.3%Russia59 · 6.9%6 others listed186 · 21.6%

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

Which institutions lead Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences publishes the most Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases 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 33 works
  2. 2 Indian Council of Agricultural ResearchIndia 28 works
  3. 3 United States Department of AgricultureUnited States 19 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 14 works
  5. 5 Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'EnvironnementFrance 12 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 12 works
  7. 7 Royal Botanic Gardens, KewUnited Kingdom 10 works
  8. 8 Guizhou UniversityChina 8 works
  9. 9 University of FloridaUnited States 8 works
  10. 10 Beijing Forestry UniversityChina 7 works

Who are the leading researchers in Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases include Mohammad Ali Sahraian.

  1. 1 Mohammad Ali Sahraian Iran 112k 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 Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases?

The most cited paper in Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases is "Early detection and classification of plant diseases with Support Vector Machines based on hyperspectral reflectance" (Till Rumpf, Anne‐Katrin Mahlein, Ulrike Steiner et al., 2010), with 983 citations. Next come "Genome Expansion and Gene Loss in Powdery Mildew Fungi Reveal Tradeoffs in Extreme Parasitism" (862) and "Diaporthe: a genus of endophytic, saprobic and plant pathogenic fungi" (656).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Early detection and classification of plant diseases with Support Vector Machines based on hyperspectral reflectance Till Rumpf, Anne‐Katrin Mahlein, Ulrike Steiner et al. · Computers and Electronics in Agriculture 22 Aug 2010 983
2 Genome Expansion and Gene Loss in Powdery Mildew Fungi Reveal Tradeoffs in Extreme Parasitism Pietro D. Spanu et al. · Science Open access 9 Dec 2010 862
3 Diaporthe: a genus of endophytic, saprobic and plant pathogenic fungi Renata Rodrigues Gomes, Chirlei Glienke, S.I.R. Videira et al. · Persoonia - Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi Open access 6 Apr 2013 656
4 Onions: A Source of Unique Dietary Flavonoids Rune Slimestad, Torgils Fossen, Ingunn M. Vågen · Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 13 Nov 2007 625
5 Conserved requirement for a plant host cell protein in powdery mildew pathogenesis Chiara Consonni, M. Humphry, H. Andreas Hartmann et al. · Nature Genetics Open access 28 May 2006 553
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Where is Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases research done?

The largest centres of Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Moscow (Russia), Guiyang (China) and London (United Kingdom).

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 55 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 21 works
  3. 3 GuiyangChina 20 works
  4. 4 LondonUnited Kingdom 14 works
  5. 5 KyivUkraine 13 works
  6. 6 Washington D.C.United States 12 works
  7. 7 BengaluruIndia 12 works
  8. 8 GizaEgypt 12 works
  9. 9 NanjingChina 11 works
  10. 10 CorvallisUnited States 11 works
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Where is the best place to study Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases?

Among universities, judged by research, Guizhou 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.

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 10.07.6%15.3×8 +467.9%

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 Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases, country by country

Is Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 19% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases.

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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 Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0043% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%0.015%Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases0.0055% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Powdery Mildew Fungal Diseases 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.

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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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