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Rajeev K. Varshney

Active 1990–2025

242
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Citations

Citations per year for Rajeev K. Varshney1963: 1 citations1965: 1 citations1970: 1 citations1984: 1 citations1999: 2 citations2000: 8 citations2001: 6 citations2002: 18 citations2003: 33 citations2004: 49 citations2005: 42 citations2006: 68 citations2007: 101 citations2008: 114 citations2009: 120 citations2010: 159 citations2011: 199 citations2012: 147 citations2013: 211 citations2014: 197 citations2015: 189 citations2016: 228 citations2017: 201 citations2018: 205 citations2019: 778 citations2020: 1,030 citations2021: 1,136 citations2022: 1,021 citations2023: 782 citations2024: 1,259 citations2025: 636 citations2026: 27 citations1964: no citations, so this year is not shown1966–1969: no citations, so these years are not shown1971–1983: no citations, so these years are not shown1985–1998: no citations, so these years are not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorChina: 2,168 citing papers, 20.5% of this breakdownUnited States: 1,425 citing papers, 13.5% of this breakdownIndia: 1,054 citing papers, 10% of this breakdownAustralia: 513 citing papers, 4.9% of this breakdownGermany: 429 citing papers, 4.1% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 374 citing papers, 3.5% of this breakdownFrance: 287 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownCanada: 257 citing papers, 2.4% of this breakdownMexico: 238 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownItaly: 228 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownSpain: 192 citing papers, 1.8% of this breakdownJapan: 180 citing papers, 1.7% of this breakdown
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Fields

  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences45.6%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology42.7%
  • Medicine4.1%
  • Environmental Science2.5%
  • Nursing1.7%
  • Chemistry0.5%
  • Other2.9%

Topics

  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals9.9%
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding5.6%
  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology4.1%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies4.1%
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock3.1%
  • Genetic diversity and population structure2.9%
  • Other70.3%

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  1. Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding: Methods, Models, and Perspectives

    Authors: José Crossa, Paulino Pérez‐Rodríguez, Jaime Cuevas, Osval A. Montesinos‐López, Diego Jarquín, Gustavo de los Campos, Juan Burgueño, Juan Manuel González‐Camacho, Sergio Pérez‐Elizalde, Yoseph Beyene, Susanne Dreisigacker, Ravi P. Singh, Xuecai Zhang, Manje Gowda, Manish Roorkiwal, Jessica Rutkoski, Rajeev K. Varshney - Trends in Plant Science 2017 cited by 1,793

  2. Smart breeding driven by big data, artificial intelligence, and integrated genomic-enviromic prediction

    Authors: Yunbi Xu, Xingping Zhang, Huihui Li, Hongjian Zheng, Jianan Zhang, Michael Olsen, Rajeev K. Varshney, B. M. Prasanna, Qian Qian - Molecular Plant 2022 cited by 330

  3. Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age

    Authors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Abhishek Bohra, Jianming Yu, Andreas Graner, Qifa Zhang, Mark E. Sorrells - Trends in Plant Science 2021 cited by 551

  4. Exploiting EST databases for the development and characterization of gene-derived SSR-markers in barley (Hordeum vulgare L.)

    Authors: Thomas Thiel, W. Michalek, Rajeev K. Varshney, Andreas Graner - Theoretical and Applied Genetics 2003 cited by 2,617

  5. Application of CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing for abiotic stress management in crop plants

    Authors: Manoj Kumar, Manas Ranjan Prusty, Manish K. Pandey, Prashant Kumar Singh, Abhishek Bohra, Baozhu Guo, Rajeev K. Varshney - Frontiers in Plant Science 2023 cited by 190

  6. Reap the crop wild relatives for breeding future crops

    Authors: Abhishek Bohra, Benjamin Kilian, Shoba Sivasankar, Mario Cáccamo, Chikelu Mba, Susan R. McCouch, Rajeev K. Varshney - Trends in biotechnology 2021 cited by 358

  7. Raffinose Family Oligosaccharides: Friend or Foe for Human and Plant Health?

    Authors: Dinakaran Elango, Karthika Rajendran, Liza Van der Laan, Sheelamary Sebastiar, Joscif Raigne, Naveen Arakkal Thaiparambil, Noureddine El Haddad, Bharath Raja, Wanyan Wang, Antonella Ferela, Kevin O. Chiteri, Mahendar Thudi, Rajeev K. Varshney, Surinder Chopra, Arti Singh, Asheesh K. Singh - Frontiers in Plant Science 2022 cited by 209

  8. The genome sequence of segmental allotetraploid peanut Arachis hypogaea

    Authors: David J. Bertioli, Jerry Jenkins, Josh Clevenger, Olga Dudchenko, Dongying Gao, Guillermo Seijo, Soraya C. M. Leal‐Bertioli, Longhui Ren, Andrew Farmer, Manish K. Pandey, Sergio Sebastián Samoluk, Brian Abernathy, Gaurav Agarwal, Carolina Ballén‐Taborda, Connor Cameron, Jacqueline Campbell, Carolina Chavarro, Annapurna Chitikineni, Ye Chu, Sudhansu Dash, Moaïne El Baidouri, Baozhu Guo, Wei Huang, Kyung Do Kim, Walid Korani, Sophie Lanciano, Christopher Lui, Marie Mirouze, Márcio de Carvalho Moretzsohn, Melanie Pham, Jin Hee Shin, Kenta Shirasawa, Senjuti Sinharoy, Avinash Sreedasyam, Nathan T. Weeks, Xinyou Zhang, Zheng Zheng, Ziqi Sun, Lutz Froenicke, Erez Lieberman Aiden, Richard W. Michelmore, Rajeev K. Varshney, C. Corley Holbrook, Ethalinda K. S. Cannon, Brian E. Scheffler, Jane Grimwood, Peggy Ozias‐Akins, Steven B. Cannon, Scott A. Jackson, Jeremy Schmutz - Nature Genetics 2019 cited by 824

  9. The genome of cultivated peanut provides insight into legume karyotypes, polyploid evolution and crop domestication

    Authors: Weijian Zhuang, Hua Chen, Meng Yang, Jianping Wang, Manish K. Pandey, Chong Zhang, Wen‐Chi Chang, Liangsheng Zhang, Xingtan Zhang, Ronghua Tang, Vanika Garg, Xingjun Wang, Haibao Tang, Chi-Nga Chow, Jinpeng Wang, Ye Deng, Depeng Wang, Aamir W. Khan, Qiang Yang, Tiecheng Cai, Prasad Bajaj, Kangcheng Wu, Baozhu Guo, Xinyou Zhang, Jingjing Li, Fan Liang, Jiang Hu, Boshou Liao, Shengyi Liu, Annapurna Chitikineni, Hansong Yan, Yixiong Zheng, Shihua Shan, Qinzheng Liu, Dongyang Xie, Zhenyi Wang, Shahid Ali Khan, Niaz Ali, Chuanzhi Zhao, Xinguo Li, Ziliang Luo, Shubiao Zhang, Ruirong Zhuang, Ze Peng, Shuaiyin Wang, Gandeka Mamadou, Yuhui Zhuang, Zifan Zhao, Weichang Yu, Faqian Xiong, Weipeng Quan, Mei Yuan, Yu Li, Huasong Zou, Han Xia, Li Zha, Junpeng Fan, Jigao Yu, Wenping Xie, Jiaqing Yuan, Kun Chen, Shanshan Zhao, Wen‐Ting Chu, Yuting Chen, Pengchuan Sun, Fanbo Meng, Tao Zhuo, Yuhao Zhao, Chunjuan Li, Guohao He, Yongli Zhao, Congcong Wang, Polavarapu B. KaviKishor, Rong‐Long Pan, Andrew H. Paterson, Xiyin Wang, Ray Ming, Rajeev K. Varshney - Nature Genetics 2019 cited by 792

  10. Super-Pangenome by Integrating the Wild Side of a Species for Accelerated Crop Improvement

    Authors: Aamir W. Khan, Vanika Garg, Manish Roorkiwal, Agnieszka A. Golicz, David Edwards, Rajeev K. Varshney - Trends in Plant Science 2019 cited by 336

  11. Pearl millet genome sequence provides a resource to improve agronomic traits in arid environments

    Authors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Chengcheng Shi, Mahendar Thudi, Cédric Mariac, Jason G. Wallace, Peng Qi, He Zhang, Yusheng Zhao, Xiyin Wang, Abhishek Rathore, Rakesh K. Srivastava, Annapurna Chitikineni, Guangyi Fan, Prasad Bajaj, Somashekhar Punnuri, Saurabh Gupta, Hao Wang, Yong Jiang, Marie Couderc, Mohan A. V. S. K. Katta, Dev Paudel, K. D. Mungra, Wenbin Chen, Karen R. Harris‐Shultz, Vanika Garg, Neetin Desai, Dadakhalandar Doddamani, Ndjido Ardo Kane, Joann A. Conner, Arindam Ghatak, Palak Chaturvedi, Sabarinath Subramaniam, O. P. Yadav, Cécile Berthouly‐Salazar, Hamidou Falalou, Jianping Wang, Xinming Liang, Jérémy Clotault, Hari D. Upadhyaya, Philippe Cubry, Bénédicte Rhoné, Mame Codou Guèye, Ramanjulu Sunkar, Christian Dupuy, Francesca Sparvoli, Shifeng Cheng, R S Mahala, Bharat Singh, R. S. Yadav, Eric Lyons, Swapan K. Datta, C. Tom Hash, Katrien M. Devos, Edward S. Buckler, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Andrew H. Paterson, Peggy Ozias‐Akins, Stefania Grando, Jun Wang, Trilochan Mohapatra, Wolfram Weckwerth, Jochen C. Reif, Xin Liu, Yves Vigouroux, Xun Xu - Nature Biotechnology 2017 cited by 544

  12. Enhancing climate change resilience in agricultural crops

    Authors: Yoselin Benitez‐Alfonso, Beth K Soanes, Sibongile Zimba, Besiana Sinanaj, Liam German, Vinay Sharma, Abhishek Bohra, Anastasia Kolesnikova, Jessica Dunn, Azahara C. Martín, Muhammad Khashi u Rahman, Zaki Saati‐Santamaría, Paula García‐Fraile, Evander Alves Ferreira, Leidivan Almeida Frazão, Wallace A. Cowling, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Manish K. Pandey, Muhammad Farooq, Rajeev K. Varshney, Mark A. Chapman, Christine Boesch, Agata Daszkowska‐Golec, Christine H. Foyer - Current Biology 2023 cited by 203

  13. Drought or/and Heat-Stress Effects on Seed Filling in Food Crops: Impacts on Functional Biochemistry, Seed Yields, and Nutritional Quality

    Authors: Akanksha Sehgal, Kumari Sita, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Rakesh Kumar, Sailaja Bhogireddy, Rajeev K. Varshney, Bindumadhava HanumanthaRao, Ramakrishnan M. Nair, P. V. Vara Prasad, Harsh Nayyar - Frontiers in Plant Science 2018 cited by 669

  14. Crop Breeding Chips and Genotyping Platforms: Progress, Challenges, and Perspectives

    Authors: Awais Rasheed, Yuanfeng Hao, Xianchun Xia, Awais Khan, Yunbi Xu, Rajeev K. Varshney, Zhonghu He - Molecular Plant 2017 cited by 554

  15. High-Throughput Estimation of Crop Traits: A Review of Ground and Aerial Phenotyping Platforms

    Authors: Xiuliang Jin, Pablo J. Zarco‐Tejada, Urs Schmidhalter, Matthew Reynolds, Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Rajeev K. Varshney, Tao Yang, Chengwei Nie, Zhenhai Li, Bo Ming, Yonggui Xiao, Yongdun Xie, Shaokun Li - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine 2020 cited by 275

  16. Genomics-assisted breeding for crop improvement

    Authors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Andreas Graner, Mark E. Sorrells - Trends in Plant Science 2005 cited by 750

  17. Fast-forward breeding for a food-secure world

    Authors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Abhishek Bohra, Manish Roorkiwal, Rutwik Barmukh, Wallace A. Cowling, Annapurna Chitikineni, Hon‐Ming Lam, Lee T. Hickey, Janine Croser, Philipp E. Bayer, David Edwards, José Crossa, Wolfram Weckwerth, A. Harvey Millar, Arvind Kumar, Michael Bevan, Kadambot H. M. Siddique - Trends in Genetics 2021 cited by 174

  18. 5Gs for crop genetic improvement

    Authors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Pallavi Sinha, Vikas Kumar Singh, Arvind Kumar, Qifa Zhang, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen - Current Opinion in Plant Biology 2020 cited by 248

  19. The genome sequences of Arachis duranensis and Arachis ipaensis, the diploid ancestors of cultivated peanut

    Authors: David J. Bertioli, Steven B. Cannon, Lutz Froenicke, Guodong Huang, Andrew Farmer, Ethalinda K. S. Cannon, Xin Liu, Dongying Gao, Josh Clevenger, Sudhansu Dash, Longhui Ren, Márcio de Carvalho Moretzsohn, Kenta Shirasawa, Wei Huang, Bruna Vidigal, Brian Abernathy, Ye Chu, Chad E. Niederhuth, Pooja Umale, Ana Cláudia Guerra Araújo, Alexander Kozik, Kyung Do Kim, Mark D. Burow, Rajeev K. Varshney, Xingjun Wang, Xinyou Zhang, Noelle A. Barkley, Patrí­cia Messenberg Guimarães, Sachiko Isobe, Baozhu Guo, Boshou Liao, H. T. Stalker, Robert J. Schmitz, Brian E. Scheffler, Soraya C. M. Leal‐Bertioli, Xun Xu, Scott A. Jackson, Richard W. Michelmore, Peggy Ozias‐Akins - Nature Genetics 2016 cited by 1,059

  20. A chickpea genetic variation map based on the sequencing of 3,366 genomes

    Authors: Rajeev K. Varshney, Manish Roorkiwal, Shuai Sun, Prasad Bajaj, Annapurna Chitikineni, Mahendar Thudi, Narendra Pratap Singh, Xiao Du, Hari D. Upadhyaya, Aamir W. Khan, Yue Wang, Vanika Garg, Guangyi Fan, Wallace A. Cowling, José Crossa, Laurent Gentzbittel, Kai P. Voss‐Fels, Vinod Kumar Valluri, Pallavi Sinha, Vikas Kumar Singh, Cécile Ben, Abhishek Rathore, Punna Ramu, Muneendra Kumar Singh, Bunyamin Tar’an, C. Bharadwaj, Mohammad Yasin, Motisagar S. Pithia, Servejeet Singh, Khela Ram Soren, Himabindu Kudapa, Diego Jarquín, Philippe Cubry, Lee T. Hickey, G. P. Dixit, Anne‐Céline Thuillet, Aladdin Hamwieh, Shiv Kumar, Amit Deokar, S. K. Chaturvedi, Aleena Francis, Réka Howard, Debasis Chattopadhyay, David Edwards, Eric Lyons, Yves Vigouroux, Ben J. Hayes, Eric von Wettberg, Swapan K. Datta, Huanming Yang, Henry T. Nguyen, Jian Wang, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Trilochan Mohapatra, Jeffrey L. Bennetzen, Xun Xu, Xin Liu - Nature 2021 cited by 248

  21. Genome-edited foods

    Authors: Aytug Tuncel, Changtian Pan, Thorben Sprink, Ralf Wilhelm, Rodolphe Barrangou, Li Li, Patrick M. Shih, Rajeev K. Varshney, Leena Tripathi, Joyce Van Eck, Kranthi K. Mandadi, Yiping Qi - Nature Reviews Bioengineering 2023 cited by 55

  22. Developing drought‐smart, ready‐to‐grow future crops

    Authors: Ali Raza, Muhammad Salman Mubarik, Rahat Sharif, Madiha Habib, Warda Jabeen, Chong Zhang, Hua Chen, Zhong‐Hua Chen, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Weijian Zhuang, Rajeev K. Varshney - The Plant Genome 2022 cited by 222

  23. Multi-parent populations in crops: a toolbox integrating genomics and genetic mapping with breeding

    Authors: Michael Scott, Olufunmilayo Ladejobi, Samer Mohamed Amer, Alison R. Bentley, Jay M. Biernaskie, Scott A. Boden, Matthew D. Clark, Matteo Dell’Acqua, Laura E. Dixon, Carla Valeria Filippi, Nick Fradgley, Keith A. Gardner, Ian Mackay, Donal M. O’Sullivan, Lawrence Percival‐Alwyn, Manish Roorkiwal, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Mahendar Thudi, Rajeev K. Varshney, Luca Venturini, Alex Whan, James Cockram, Richard Mott - Heredity 2020 cited by 259

  24. Smart reprograming of plants against salinity stress using modern biotechnological tools

    Authors: Ali Raza, Javaria Tabassum, Ali Fakhar, Rahat Sharif, Hua Chen, Chong Zhang, Luo Ju, Vasileios Fotopoulos, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Rakesh Kumar Singh, Weijian Zhuang, Rajeev K. Varshney - Critical Reviews in Biotechnology 2022 cited by 244