Daniel Rodríguez-Leal

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
13 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Daniel Rodríguez-Leal is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel Rodríguez-Leal has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Plant Science, 11 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics. Recurrent topics in Daniel Rodríguez-Leal's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (9 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (7 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (4 papers). Daniel Rodríguez-Leal is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (9 papers), Plant Reproductive Biology (7 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (4 papers). Daniel Rodríguez-Leal collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, United States and Israel. Daniel Rodríguez-Leal's co-authors include Zachary B. Lippman, Zachary H. Lemmon, Madelaine Bartlett, Jarrett Man, Jean‐Philippe Vielle‐Calzada, Joyce Van Eck, Kerry Swartwood, Justin Dalrymple, Nathan T. Reem and Sebastian Soyk and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Nature Genetics and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Daniel Rodríguez-Leal

13 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Engineering Quantitative Trait Variation for Crop Improve... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2018 250 500 750
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.

  1. Engineering Quantitative Trait Variation for Crop Improvement by Genome Editing
    2017 767 citations Daniel Rodríguez-Leal, Zachary H. Lemmon et al. Cell profile →
  2. Rapid improvement of domestication traits in an orphan crop by genome editing
    2018 339 citations Zachary H. Lemmon, Nathan T. Reem et al. Nature Plants profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel Rodríguez-Leal Mexico 11 1.4k 1.2k 285 121 91 13 1.7k
Huirong Gao United States 12 1.2k 0.9× 1.3k 1.1× 217 0.8× 150 1.2× 45 0.5× 16 1.7k
Madelaine Bartlett United States 22 2.0k 1.4× 1.7k 1.4× 430 1.5× 100 0.8× 289 3.2× 39 2.4k
Zachary H. Lemmon United States 10 1.6k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 459 1.6× 139 1.1× 46 0.5× 12 1.9k
Kangquan Yin China 18 1.2k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 116 0.4× 156 1.3× 52 0.6× 31 1.6k
Philip W. Becraft United States 26 2.6k 1.8× 1.9k 1.5× 460 1.6× 49 0.4× 107 1.2× 47 3.0k
Timothy Kelliher United States 13 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 158 0.6× 30 0.2× 131 1.4× 16 1.4k
Zhengyan Feng China 10 1.8k 1.2× 1.7k 1.4× 131 0.5× 277 2.3× 48 0.5× 10 2.3k
David M. Tricoli United States 17 1.3k 0.9× 1.2k 1.0× 103 0.4× 100 0.8× 36 0.4× 24 1.6k
Juan M. Debernardi United States 23 2.8k 2.0× 1.9k 1.6× 296 1.0× 42 0.3× 60 0.7× 36 3.1k
Kai Hua China 13 1.1k 0.7× 942 0.8× 212 0.7× 125 1.0× 19 0.2× 15 1.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Daniel Rodríguez-Leal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Daniel Rodríguez-Leal

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All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Wang, Xingang, et al.. (2021). Dissecting cis-regulatory control of quantitative trait variation in a plant stem cell circuit. Nature Plants. 7(4). 419–427. 94 indexed citations
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Hendelman, Anat, Sophia G. Zebell, Daniel Rodríguez-Leal, et al.. (2021). Conserved pleiotropy of an ancient plant homeobox gene uncovered by cis-regulatory dissection. Cell. 184(7). 1724–1739.e16. 145 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, Xu Cao, Choon‐Tak Kwon, et al.. (2019). Evolution of buffering in a genetic circuit controlling plant stem cell proliferation. Nature Genetics. 51(5). 786–792. 135 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, et al.. (2019). Whole-Mount Immunolocalization Procedure for Plant Female Meiocytes. Methods in molecular biology. 2061. 13–24. 5 indexed citations
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Lemmon, Zachary H., Nathan T. Reem, Justin Dalrymple, et al.. (2018). Rapid improvement of domestication traits in an orphan crop by genome editing. Nature Plants. 4(10). 766–770. 339 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, Zachary H. Lemmon, Jarrett Man, Madelaine Bartlett, & Zachary B. Lippman. (2017). Engineering Quantitative Trait Variation for Crop Improvement by Genome Editing. Cell. 171(2). 470–480.e8. 767 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, et al.. (2016). A Primary Sequence Analysis of the ARGONAUTE Protein Family in Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science. 7. 1347–1347. 23 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, et al.. (2016). A Multigenic Network of ARGONAUTE4 Clade Members Controls Early Megaspore Formation in Arabidopsis. Genetics. 204(3). 1045–1056. 59 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, et al.. (2015). Whole-mount immunolocalization to study female meiosis in Arabidopsis. Nature Protocols. 10(10). 1535–1542. 28 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel, et al.. (2015). Natural Variation in Epigenetic Pathways Affects the Specification of Female Gamete Precursors in Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 27(4). 1034–1045. 45 indexed citations
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Arteaga‐Vázquez, Mario A., Noé Durán‐Figueroa, Daniel Rodríguez-Leal, et al.. (2012). Transcriptional analysis of the Arabidopsis ovule by massively parallel signature sequencing. Journal of Experimental Botany. 63(10). 3829–3842. 26 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Leal, Daniel & Jean‐Philippe Vielle‐Calzada. (2012). Regulation of apomixis: learning from sexual experience. Current Opinion in Plant Biology. 15(5). 549–555. 38 indexed citations
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Vielle‐Calzada, Jean‐Philippe, et al.. (2012). Reproductive Versatility and the Epigenetic Control of Female Gametogenesis. Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 77(0). 17–21. 5 indexed citations

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