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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Beat the stress: breeding for climate resilience in maize for the tropical rainfed environments	103
Biofortification and bioavailability of Zn, Fe and Se in wheat: present status and future prospects	96
Crop adaptation to climate change as a consequence of long-term breeding	95
Wheat root systems as a breeding target for climate resilience	88
Salt tolerance in rice: seedling and reproductive stage QTL mapping come of age	86
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	81
Breeding for drought and heat tolerance in wheat	79
Climate change will influence disease resistance breeding in wheat in Northwestern Europe	78
GWAS and WGCNA uncover hub genes controlling salt tolerance in maize (Zea mays L.) seedlings	64
Meta-QTLs, ortho-meta-QTLs and candidate genes for grain yield and associated traits in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)	63
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	61
Lr80: A new and widely effective source of leaf rust resistance of wheat for enhancing diversity of resistance among modern cultivars	61
Breeding for disease resistance in soybean: a global perspective	61
Sorghum breeding in the genomic era: opportunities and challenges	58
Nitrogen fixation in maize: breeding opportunities	53
Major flowering time genes of barley: allelic diversity, effects, and comparison with wheat	51
The Aegilops ventricosa 2NvS segment in bread wheat: cytology, genomics and breeding	50
Genetics and breeding for climate change in Orphan crops	48
Crop breeding for a changing climate: integrating phenomics and genomics with bioinformatics	44
Genetic control of root plasticity in response to salt stress in maize	44
Using wild relatives and related species to build climate resilience in Brassica crops	42
Classification of CRISPR/Cas system and its application in tomato breeding	42
Advances in application of genome editing in tomato and recent development of genome editing technology	41
Genome-wide association mapping of leaf rust and stripe rust resistance in wheat accessions using the 90K SNP array	39
QTL mapping for grain yield and three yield components in a population derived from two high-yielding spring wheat cultivars	38

Genomics and breeding innovations for enhancing genetic gain for climate resilience and nutrition traits	38
Opportunities and limits of controlled-environment plant phenotyping for climate response traits	37
Hotter, drier, CRISPR: the latest edit on climate change	36
Host plant resistance for fall armyworm management in maize: relevance, status and prospects in Africa and Asia	36
Omics resources and omics-enabled approaches for achieving high productivity and improved quality in pea (Pisum sativum L.)	36
Comparative selective signature analysis and high-resolution GWAS reveal a new candidate gene controlling seed weight in soybean	35
A recessive gene pepy-1 encoding Pelota confers resistance to begomovirus isolates of PepYLCIV and PepYLCAV in Capsicum annuum	34
Scaling up high-throughput phenotyping for abiotic stress selection in the field	34
Soybean genetic resources contributing to sustainable protein production	34