OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Theoretical and Applied Genetics is 34. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-06-01 to 2024-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Beat the stress: breeding for climate resilience in maize for the tropical rainfed environments	93
Enviromics in breeding: applications and perspectives on envirotypic-assisted selection	87
Biofortification and bioavailability of Zn, Fe and Se in wheat: present status and future prospects	87
Salt tolerance in rice: seedling and reproductive stage QTL mapping come of age	85
Crop adaptation to climate change as a consequence of long-term breeding	84
Characterization of Pm68, a new powdery mildew resistance gene on chromosome 2BS of Greek durum wheat TRI 1796	77
Breeding for drought and heat tolerance in wheat	76
Wheat root systems as a breeding target for climate resilience	75
Climate change will influence disease resistance breeding in wheat in Northwestern Europe	72
Large-scale integration of meta-QTL and genome-wide association study discovers the genomic regions and candidate genes for yield and yield-related traits in bread wheat	67
Meta-QTLs, ortho-meta-QTLs and candidate genes for grain yield and associated traits in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)	59
Improved Brassica oleracea JZS assembly reveals significant changing of LTR-RT dynamics in different morphotypes	57
Tackling G × E × M interactions to close on-farm yield-gaps: creating novel pathways for crop improvement by predicting contributions of genetics and management to crop productivity	56
Lr80: A new and widely effective source of leaf rust resistance of wheat for enhancing diversity of resistance among modern cultivars	56
GWAS and WGCNA uncover hub genes controlling salt tolerance in maize (Zea mays L.) seedlings	55
Sorghum breeding in the genomic era: opportunities and challenges	51
The Aegilops ventricosa 2NvS segment in bread wheat: cytology, genomics and breeding	48
Breeding for disease resistance in soybean: a global perspective	48
Major flowering time genes of barley: allelic diversity, effects, and comparison with wheat	47
Nitrogen fixation in maize: breeding opportunities	47
Overcoming polyploidy pitfalls: a user guide for effective SNP conversion into KASP markers in wheat	45
Genetics and breeding for climate change in Orphan crops	44
Crop breeding for a changing climate: integrating phenomics and genomics with bioinformatics	43
Maximizing efficiency of genomic selection in CIMMYT’s tropical maize breeding program	39
Genetic control of root plasticity in response to salt stress in maize	39

Using wild relatives and related species to build climate resilience in Brassica crops	37
Hotter, drier, CRISPR: the latest edit on climate change	37
Genetic mapping of Fusarium wilt resistance in a wild banana Musa acuminata ssp. malaccensis accession	36
Genome-wide association study identifies QTL for thousand grain weight in winter wheat under normal- and late-sown stressed environments	36
Advances in application of genome editing in tomato and recent development of genome editing technology	36
Genomics and breeding innovations for enhancing genetic gain for climate resilience and nutrition traits	36
Classification of CRISPR/Cas system and its application in tomato breeding	35
Comparative selective signature analysis and high-resolution GWAS reveal a new candidate gene controlling seed weight in soybean	34
Integration of genotypic, hyperspectral, and phenotypic data to improve biomass yield prediction in hybrid rye	34
QTL mapping for grain yield and three yield components in a population derived from two high-yielding spring wheat cultivars	34
Genome-wide association mapping of leaf rust and stripe rust resistance in wheat accessions using the 90K SNP array	34
A combination of linkage mapping and GWAS brings new elements on the genetic basis of yield-related traits in maize across multiple environments	34