Abid Ullah

6.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
60 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

Abid Ullah is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Soil Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Abid Ullah has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Plant Science, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Soil Science. Recurrent topics in Abid Ullah's work include Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (19 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (13 papers) and Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects (10 papers). Abid Ullah is often cited by papers focused on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (19 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (13 papers) and Plant Micronutrient Interactions and Effects (10 papers). Abid Ullah collaborates with scholars based in China, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Abid Ullah's co-authors include Shah Fahad, Xiyan Yang, Heng Sun, Muhammad Farooq Hussain Munis, Xianlong Zhang, Aamir Hamid Khan, Muhammad Shaban, Adnan Akbar, Shah Saud and Saddam Hussain and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Journal of Hazardous Materials.

In The Last Decade

Abid Ullah

58 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Phytohormones and plant responses to salinity stress: a review

2014 506 citations Shah Fahad, Shah Saud et al. profile →
Phytoremediation of heavy metals assisted by plant growth promoting (PGP) bacteria: A review

2015 456 citations Abid Ullah, Heng Sun et al. profile →
Phytohormones enhanced drought tolerance in plants: a coping strategy

2018 315 citations Abid Ullah, Hakim Manghwar et al. Environmental Science and Pollution Research profile →
Drought coping strategies in cotton: increased crop per drop

2017 264 citations Abid Ullah, Heng Sun et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Abid Ullah China	29	2.9k	842	458	296	220	60	3.8k
Najeeb Ullah Pakistan	30	3.0k 1.0×	568 0.7×	847 1.8×	262 0.9×	245 1.1×	157	4.1k
Heba I. Mohamed Egypt	43	3.5k 1.2×	687 0.8×	322 0.7×	387 1.3×	428 1.9×	195	5.0k
Mohammad Golam Mostofa Bangladesh	42	4.4k 1.5×	941 1.1×	448 1.0×	180 0.6×	182 0.8×	114	5.3k
Zhi‐Bin Luo China	36	3.2k 1.1×	558 0.7×	816 1.8×	360 1.2×	215 1.0×	83	4.5k
Alok Kalra India	41	3.1k 1.1×	1.4k 1.6×	225 0.5×	398 1.3×	127 0.6×	177	4.9k
Yunhua Xiao China	32	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.5×	581 1.3×	290 1.0×	157 0.7×	108	4.6k
Saud Alamri Saudi Arabia	41	3.9k 1.3×	588 0.7×	620 1.4×	317 1.1×	668 3.0×	210	5.1k
Elena Maestri Italy	34	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.6×	704 1.5×	167 0.6×	296 1.3×	81	4.2k
Hafiz Naeem Asghar Pakistan	28	2.7k 0.9×	461 0.5×	823 1.8×	330 1.1×	158 0.7×	107	3.6k
Muhammad Abid Pakistan	34	1.9k 0.7×	411 0.5×	302 0.7×	701 2.4×	192 0.9×	170	3.9k

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Ramzan, Sidra, et al.. (2025). Advances in Molecular and Genomic Tools for Sustainable Fisheries Management, A Comprehensive Review. 10(10). 566–575.

Ullah, Abid, et al.. (2024). Biochar as a green strategy in alleviating Cd mobility in soil and uptake in plants: A step towards Cd-free food. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation. 190. 105787–105787. 15 indexed citations

Feng, Yuxi, et al.. (2023). Gaseous signaling molecule H2S as a multitasking signal molecule in ROS metabolism of Oryza sativa under thiocyanate (SCN−) pollution. Environmental Pollution. 340(Pt 2). 122816–122816. 8 indexed citations

Ullah, Abid, Yu-Juan Lin, Hua Zhang, & Xiao-Zhang Yu. (2023). Identification of the Key Genes Involved in Proline-Mediated Modification of Cell Wall Components in Rice Seedlings under Trivalent Chromium Exposure. Toxics. 12(1). 4–4. 9 indexed citations

Azeem, Muhammad Atif, Fawad Ali, Abid Ullah, et al.. (2023). Exploration of plant growth promoting traits and regulatory mechanisms of Bacillus anthracis PM21 in enhancing salt stress tolerance in maize. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(31). 77499–77516. 11 indexed citations

Ullah, Abid, Peng Tian, Hua Zhang, & Xiao-Zhang Yu. (2023). Exogenous thiocyanate inhibits sulfurtransferase pathway and induces β-cyanoalanine synthase pathway to enhance exogenous cyanide assimilation in rice plants. Chemosphere. 339. 139683–139683. 4 indexed citations

Ullah, Shariat, et al.. (2022). Phytoremediation of industrial effluents assisted by plant growth promoting bacteria. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 30(3). 5296–5311. 14 indexed citations

Li, Chang, et al.. (2021). Overexpression of an expansin-like gene, GhEXLB2 enhanced drought tolerance in cotton. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 162. 468–475. 28 indexed citations

Liao, Xiaofang, Aziz Khan, Xiangjun Kong, et al.. (2020). Comparative analysis of mitochondrial genome and expression variation between UG93A and UG93B reveals a candidate gene related to cytoplasmic male sterility in kenaf. Industrial Crops and Products. 152. 112502–112502. 7 indexed citations

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Ullah, Abid, Muhammad Tahir ul Qamar, Mohammad Nisar, et al.. (2020). Characterization of a novel cotton MYB gene, GhMYB108-like responsive to abiotic stresses. Molecular Biology Reports. 47(3). 1573–1581. 30 indexed citations

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Hayat, Kashif, Jochen Bundschuh, Farooq Jan, et al.. (2019). Combating soil salinity with combining saline agriculture and phytomanagement with salt-accumulating plants. Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology. 50(11). 1085–1115. 51 indexed citations

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Khan, Aziz, Jie Zheng, Daniel K. Y. Tan, et al.. (2019). Changes in Leaf Structural and Functional Characteristics when Changing Planting Density at Different Growth Stages Alters Cotton Lint Yield under a New Planting Model. Agronomy. 9(12). 859–859. 12 indexed citations

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Gulzar, Haseena, Hazrat Ali, Fayaz Ali, et al.. (2019). Medicinal plants and their traditional uses in Thana Village, District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7(1). 11–21. 17 indexed citations

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Danish, Subhan, Sidra Kiran, Shah Fahad, et al.. (2019). Alleviation of chromium toxicity in maize by Fe fortification and chromium tolerant ACC deaminase producing plant growth promoting rhizobacteria. Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety. 185. 109706–109706. 93 indexed citations

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Khan, Bilawal, Fazal Raziq, M. Bilal Faheem, et al.. (2019). Electronic and nanostructure engineering of bifunctional MoS2 towards exceptional visible-light photocatalytic CO2 reduction and pollutant degradation. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 381. 120972–120972. 113 indexed citations

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Ullah, Abid, Adnan Akbar, Qingqing Luo, et al.. (2018). Microbiome Diversity in Cotton Rhizosphere Under Normal and Drought Conditions. Microbial Ecology. 77(2). 429–439. 108 indexed citations

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Shaban, Muhammad, Muhammad Mahmood Ahmed, Heng Sun, Abid Ullah, & Longfu Zhu. (2018). Genome-wide identification of lipoxygenase gene family in cotton and functional characterization in response to abiotic stresses. BMC Genomics. 19(1). 599–599. 60 indexed citations

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Sun, Heng, Lin Chen, Jianying Li, et al.. (2017). The JASMONATE ZIM-Domain Gene Family Mediates JA Signaling and Stress Response in Cotton. Plant and Cell Physiology. 58(12). 2139–2154. 61 indexed citations

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Ullah, Abid, Amjad Hussain, Muhammad Shaban, et al.. (2017). Osmotin: A plant defense tool against biotic and abiotic stresses. Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 123. 149–159. 88 indexed citations

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Zhou, Bin, Lin Zhang, Abid Ullah, et al.. (2016). Identification of Multiple Stress Responsive Genes by Sequencing a Normalized cDNA Library from Sea-Land Cotton (Gossypium barbadense L.). PLoS ONE. 11(3). e0152927–e0152927. 33 indexed citations

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