Akshaya Kumar Biswal

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
23 papers, 889 citations indexed

About

Akshaya Kumar Biswal is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Akshaya Kumar Biswal has authored 23 papers receiving a total of 889 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Plant Science, 17 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Akshaya Kumar Biswal's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers), GABA and Rice Research (5 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (5 papers). Akshaya Kumar Biswal is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (7 papers), GABA and Rice Research (5 papers) and Plant Virus Research Studies (5 papers). Akshaya Kumar Biswal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Philippines and Mexico. Akshaya Kumar Biswal's co-authors include Xiaojia Yin, Anindya Bandyopadhyay, Caspar Chater, Robert A. Coe, Jacqueline Dionora, Julie E. Gray, Ajay Kohli, S. M. Balachandran, R. M. Sundaram and P. Rajendrakumar and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioinformatics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Akshaya Kumar Biswal

22 papers receiving 866 citations

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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.

Rice with reduced stomatal density conserves water and has improved drought tolerance under future climate conditions

2018 382 citations Robert S. Caine, Xiaojia Yin et al. New Phytologist profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Akshaya Kumar Biswal United States	10	707	369	128	114	66	23	889
Qingzhen Jiang United States	15	711 1.0×	380 1.0×	92 0.7×	31 0.3×	129 2.0×	21	830
Shui‐zhang Fei United States	13	500 0.7×	297 0.8×	55 0.4×	22 0.2×	88 1.3×	30	629
Hideki Takanashi Japan	16	665 0.9×	400 1.1×	180 1.4×	28 0.2×	76 1.2×	38	998
Marijke Steenackers Belgium	12	645 0.9×	333 0.9×	86 0.7×	129 1.1×	101 1.5×	21	948
Imtiyaz Khanday United States	11	755 1.1×	487 1.3×	118 0.9×	8 0.1×	47 0.7×	14	942
Sébastien Caron Canada	13	428 0.6×	517 1.4×	131 1.0×	47 0.4×	36 0.5×	25	778
Dongli Gao China	14	396 0.6×	221 0.6×	104 0.8×	44 0.4×	16 0.2×	26	548
Derek Drost United States	7	371 0.5×	343 0.9×	169 1.3×	38 0.3×	82 1.2×	7	652
Bala R. Thumma Australia	15	531 0.8×	314 0.9×	305 2.4×	65 0.6×	73 1.1×	19	883
Shihui Niu China	16	499 0.7×	460 1.2×	84 0.7×	43 0.4×	16 0.2×	56	710

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20 of 20 papers shown

Biswal, Akshaya Kumar, et al.. (2025). A Protocol for High-efficiency Transformation and Genome Editing in Elite Wheat Cultivars. PubMed. 2898. 307–320.

Biswal, Akshaya Kumar, et al.. (2025). Leaf Organogenesis Improves Recovery of Solid Polyploid Shoots from Chimeric Southern Highbush Blueberry. BioTech. 14(2). 48–48. 1 indexed citations

Biswal, Akshaya Kumar, Peggy Ozias‐Akins, & C. Corley Holbrook. (2024). Recent Technological Advancements for Identifying and Exploiting Novel Sources of Pest and Disease Resistance for Peanut Improvement. Agronomy. 14(12). 3071–3071. 5 indexed citations

Biswal, Akshaya Kumar, Camila P. Nicolli, Catalina Salgado‐Salazar, et al.. (2023). Development of a qPCR Assay for Species-Specific Detection of the Tar Spot Pathogen Phyllachora maydis. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(1). 61–71. 1 indexed citations

Biswal, Akshaya Kumar, et al.. (2023). An efficient transformation method for genome editing of elite bread wheat cultivars. Frontiers in Plant Science. 14. 1135047–1135047. 13 indexed citations

Bertolino, Lígia T., Robert S. Caine, Xiaojia Yin, et al.. (2022). Stomatal Development and Gene Expression in Rice Florets. Plant and Cell Physiology. 63(11). 1679–1694. 8 indexed citations

Biswal, Akshaya Kumar, Amos Alakonya, Sarah Hearne, et al.. (2022). Maize Lethal Necrosis disease: review of molecular and genetic resistance mechanisms, socio-economic impacts, and mitigation strategies in sub-Saharan Africa. BMC Plant Biology. 22(1). 542–542. 8 indexed citations

Schuler, Mara, Xiaojia Yin, Thomas A. Hughes, et al.. (2020). Candidate regulators of Early Leaf Development in Maize Perturb Hormone Signalling and Secondary Cell Wall Formation When Constitutively Expressed in Rice. UNC Libraries. 1 indexed citations

Biswal, Akshaya Kumar, et al.. (2019). CRISPR mediated genome engineering to develop climate smart rice: Challenges and opportunities. Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology. 96. 100–106. 22 indexed citations

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Biswal, Akshaya Kumar, Evan W. McConnell, Emily G. Werth, et al.. (2019). The Nucleotide‐Dependent Interactome of Rice Heterotrimeric G‐Protein α ‐Subunit. PROTEOMICS. 19(9). 4 indexed citations

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Caine, Robert S., Xiaojia Yin, Jen Sloan, et al.. (2018). Rice with reduced stomatal density conserves water and has improved drought tolerance under future climate conditions. New Phytologist. 221(1). 371–384. 382 indexed citations breakdown →

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Bandyopadhyay, Anindya, Xiaojia Yin, Akshaya Kumar Biswal, Robert A. Coe, & W. Paul Quick. (2018). CRISPR-Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing of Rice Towards Better Grain Quality. Methods in molecular biology. 1892. 311–336. 4 indexed citations

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Yin, Xiaojia, Akshaya Kumar Biswal, Jacqueline Dionora, et al.. (2017). CRISPR-Cas9 and CRISPR-Cpf1 mediated targeting of a stomatal developmental gene EPFL9 in rice. Plant Cell Reports. 36(5). 745–757. 161 indexed citations

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Wang, Peng, Shanta Karki, Akshaya Kumar Biswal, et al.. (2017). Candidate regulators of Early Leaf Development in Maize Perturb Hormone Signalling and Secondary Cell Wall Formation When Constitutively Expressed in Rice. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 4535–4535. 17 indexed citations

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Biswal, Akshaya Kumar. (2013). An Absolute Index (Ab-index) to Measure a Researcher’s Useful Contributions and Productivity. PLoS ONE. 8(12). e84334–e84334. 28 indexed citations

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Biswal, Akshaya Kumar & Ajay Kohli. (2013). Cereal flag leaf adaptations for grain yield under drought: knowledge status and gaps. Molecular Breeding. 31(4). 749–766. 74 indexed citations

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Ramkumar, G., Akshaya Kumar Biswal, A. K. P. Sivaranjani, et al.. (2010). Identifying novel alleles of rice blast resistance genes Pikh and Pita through allele mining. 9 indexed citations

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Rajendrakumar, P., Akshaya Kumar Biswal, S. M. Balachandran, & R. M. Sundaram. (2008). In silicoAnalysis of Microsatellites in Organellar Genomes of Major Cereals for Understanding Their Phylogenetic Relationships. In Silico Biology. 8(2). 87–104. 21 indexed citations

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Rajendrakumar, P., Akshaya Kumar Biswal, S. M. Balachandran, et al.. (2007). A Mitochondrial Repeat Specific Marker for Distinguishing Wild Abortive Type Cytoplasmic Male Sterile Rice Lines from their Cognate Isogenic Maintainer Lines. Crop Science. 47(1). 207–211. 20 indexed citations

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Rajendrakumar, P., et al.. (2006). Simple sequence repeats in organellar genomes of rice: frequency and distribution in genic and intergenic regions. Bioinformatics. 23(1). 1–4. 95 indexed citations

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