Andrew D. B. Leakey

15.7k citations

100 papers · 9.0k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 44

Plant Science top 0.1%
- Plant responses to elevated CO2 57
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance 13
Global and Planetary Change top 0.5%
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics 41
Atmospheric Science top 1%
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols 33
Agronomy and Crop Science top 0.5%
- Bioenergy crop production and management 14
Soil Science top 1%
Genetics
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 9
Ecology
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture 8
Molecular Biology
- Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms 6

Co-authors: Elizabeth A. Ainsworth Stephen P. Long Donald R. Ort Alistair Rogers Carl J. Bernacchi J. Nösberger R. J. Cody Markelz Justin M. McGrath
Cited by: Plant Science Global and Planetary Change Atmospheric Science
Journals: Nature (1 paper)Science (1 paper)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom China

In The Last Decade

Andrew D. B. Leakey

98 papers receiving 8.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

2019 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2016 New Phytologist
2014 Nature
2009 Journal of Experimental Botany
2006 Science

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1	Constitutive down‐regulation of liguleless alleles in sorghum drives increased productivity and water use efficiency Plant Biotechnology Journal ·Nikhil S. Jaikumar,Truyen Quach,Zhengxiang Ge,Natalya Nersesian,Shirley Sato,Scott M. McCoy,Ming Guo,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Stephen P. Long,Tom Clemente	2025	1
2	Stomata in-sight: Integrating live confocal microscopy with leaf gas exchange and environmental control PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Joseph D Crawford,Dustin Mayfield‐Jones,Glenn Fried,Nicolas Hernandez,Andrew D. B. Leakey	2025	1
3	C₄ photosynthesis, trait spectra, and the fast‐efficient phenotype New Phytologist ·Russell K. Monson,Shuai Li,Elizabeth A. Ainsworth,Yuzhen Fan,John E. Hodge,Alan K. Knapp,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Danica Lombardozzi,Sasha C. Reed,Rowan F. Sage,Melinda D. Smith,Nicholas G. Smith,Christopher J. Still,Danielle A. Way	2025	2
4	Breaking the barrier of human-annotated training data for machine learning-aided plant research using aerial imagery PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Sebastián Varela,Xuying Zheng,Joyce Njuguna,Erik J. Sacks,Dylan Allen,Jeremy Ruhter,Andrew D. B. Leakey	2025	2
5	Drought does not mitigate reductions in soybean photosynthesis and yield caused by elevated ozone PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Duncan G Martin,Elise Kole Aspray,Shuai Li,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Elizabeth A. Ainsworth	2025	0
6	Stomata: custodians of leaf gaseous exchange Journal of Experimental Botany ·Tracy Lawson,Andrew D. B. Leakey	2024	8
7	Rapid and high-throughput determination of sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) biomass composition using near infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics Biomass and Bioenergy ·Md Wadud Ahmed,Carlos Esquerre,Kristen K. Eilts,Dylan Allen,Scott M. McCoy,Sebastián Varela,Vijay Singh,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Mohammed Kamruzzaman	2024	13
8	A guide to photosynthetic gas exchange measurements: Fundamental principles, best practice and potential pitfalls Plant Cell & Environment ·Florian A. Busch,Elizabeth A. Ainsworth,Anna Amtmann,Amanda P. Cavanagh,Steven M. Driever,John N. Ferguson,Johannes Kromdijk,Tracy Lawson,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Jack S. A. Matthews,Katherine Meacham‐Hensold,Richard L. Vath,Silvère Vialet‐Chabrand,Berkley J. Walker,Maria Papanatsiou	2024	42
9	Reducing stomatal density by expression of a synthetic epidermal patterning factor increases leaf intrinsic water use efficiency and reduces plant water use in a C4 crop Journal of Experimental Botany ·John N. Ferguson,Peter Schmuker,Anna Dmitrieva,Truyen Quach,Tieling Zhang,Zhengxiang Ge,Natalya Nersesian,Shirley Sato,Tom Clemente,Andrew D. B. Leakey	2024	20
10	Plasticity in stomatal behaviour across a gradient of water supply is consistent among field‐grown maize inbred lines with varying stomatal patterning Plant Cell & Environment ·Risheng Ding,Jiayang Xie,Dustin Mayfield‐Jones,Yanqun Zhang,Shaozhong Kang,Andrew D. B. Leakey	2022	9
11	Stronger fertilization effects on aboveground versus belowground plant properties across nine U.S. grasslands Ecology ·Adrienne B. Keller,Christopher A. Walter,Dana M. Blumenthal,Elizabeth T. Borer,Scott L. Collins,Lang C. DeLancey,Philip A. Fay,Kirsten Hofmockel,Johannes M. H. Knops,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Melanie A. Mayes,Eric W. Seabloom,Sarah E. Hobbie	2022	39
12	Machine learning-enabled phenotyping for GWAS and TWAS of WUE traits in 869 field-grown sorghum accessions PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·John N. Ferguson,Samuel B. Fernandes,Brandon Monier,Nathan D. Miller,Dylan Allen,Anna Dmitrieva,Peter Schmuker,Roberto Lozano,Ravi Valluru,Edward S. Buckler,Michael A. Gore,Patrick J. Brown,Edgar P. Spalding,Andrew D. B. Leakey	2021	61
13	Correlation and co-localization of QTL for stomatal density, canopy temperature, and productivity with and without drought stress inSetaria Journal of Experimental Botany ·Parthiban Thathapalli Prakash,Darshi Banan,Rachel Paul,Maximilian J. Feldman,Dan Xie,Luke Freyfogle,Ivan Baxter,Andrew D. B. Leakey	2021	17
14	Soil carbon stocks in temperate grasslands differ strongly across sites but are insensitive to decade‐long fertilization Global Change Biology ·Adrienne B. Keller,Elizabeth T. Borer,Scott L. Collins,Lang C. DeLancey,Philip A. Fay,Kirsten Hofmockel,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Melanie A. Mayes,Eric W. Seabloom,Christopher A. Walter,Yong Wang,Qian Zhao,Sarah E. Hobbie	2021	58
15	Novel Bayesian Networks for Genomic Prediction of Developmental Traits in Biomass Sorghum G3 Genes Genomes Genetics ·J. Santos,Samuel B. Fernandes,Scott McCoy,Roberto Lozano,Patrick J. Brown,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Edward S. Buckler,Antônio Augusto Franco Garcia,Michael A. Gore	2019	30
16	Uncovering hidden genetic variation in photosynthesis of field‐grown maize under ozone pollution Global Change Biology ·Nicole E. Choquette,Funda Ogut,Timothy M. Wertin,Christopher M. Montes,Crystal A. Sorgini,Alison M. Morse,Patrick J. Brown,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Lauren M. McIntyre,Elizabeth A. Ainsworth	2019	33
17	Similar photosynthetic response to elevated carbon dioxide concentration in species with different phloem loading strategies Photosynthesis Research ·Kristen Bishop,Pauline Lemonnier,Jennifer C. Quebedeaux,Christopher M. Montes,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Elizabeth A. Ainsworth	2018	12
18	Elevated ozone reduces photosynthetic carbon gain by accelerating leaf senescence of inbred and hybrid maize in a genotype‐specific manner Plant Cell & Environment ·Craig R. Yendrek,Gorka Erice,Christopher M. Montes,Tiago Tomaz,Crystal A. Sorgini,Patrick J. Brown,Lauren M. McIntyre,Andrew D. B. Leakey,Elizabeth A. Ainsworth	2017	40
19	Genomic basis for stimulated respiration by plants growing under elevated carbon dioxide Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Andrew D. B. Leakey,Fangxiu Xu,Kelly M. Gillespie,Justin M. McGrath,Elizabeth A. Ainsworth,Donald R. Ort	2009	172
20	Food for Thought: Lower-Than-Expected Crop Yield Stimulation with Rising CO ₂ Concentrationsbreakdown → Science ·Stephen P. Long,Elizabeth A. Ainsworth,Andrew D. B. Leakey,J. Nösberger,Donald R. Ort	2006	1130

About Andrew D. B. Leakey

Andrew D. B. Leakey is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Plant Science and Atmospheric Science, having authored 100 papers that have together received 9.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant responses to elevated CO2 (57 papers), Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics (41 papers), Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols (33 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (14 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (13 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (9 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (8 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (6.8k citations), Global and Planetary Change (3.5k citations) and Atmospheric Science (2.3k citations). Andrew D. B. Leakey has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Frequent co-authors include Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Stephen P. Long, Donald R. Ort, Alistair Rogers, Carl J. Bernacchi, J. Nösberger, R. J. Cody Markelz, Justin M. McGrath, Frank G. Dohleman and Patrick B. Morgan. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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