David Hodson

6.4k citations

58 papers · 3.8k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 29

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.5%
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance
Agronomy and Crop Science top 0.5%
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility

Papers in ⓘ

Plant Science 49
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology 35
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 13
- Genetics and Plant Breeding 12
- Plant Pathogens and Resistance 11
- Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food 6
Molecular Biology 16
- Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies 14

Co-authors: Julio Huerta‐Espino (6 shared papers)Ravi P. Singh (4 shared papers)Mogens S. Hovmøller (10 shared papers)P. K. Singh (3 shared papers)Sridhar Bhavani (5 shared papers)P. Njau (3 shared papers)Yue Jin (2 shared papers)Marianne Bänziger (3 shared papers)
Journals: Plant Disease (8 papers)Phytopathology (5 papers)Environmental Research Letters (3 papers)Annual Review of Phytopathology (3 papers)Scientific Reports (2 papers)
Partner nations: Mexico Ethiopia United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

David Hodson

52 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Disease Impact on Wheat Yield Potential and Prospects of Genetic Control 2016 · 326 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2016 Annual Review of Phytopathology
2015 Phytopathology
2011 Annual Review of Phytopathology
2008 Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment

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1	The Emergence of Ug99 Races of the Stem Rust Fungus is a Threat to World Wheat Production Annual Review of Phytopathology ·Ravi P. Singh, David Hodson, Julio Huerta‐Espino, Yue Jin, Sridhar Bhavani, P. Njau, S. A. Herrera-Foessel, P. K. Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Velu Govindan Hit paper breakdown →	2011	514
2	Climate change: Can wheat beat the heat? Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment ·Rodomiro Ortíz, K. D. Sayre, Bram Govaerts, Raj Kumar Gupta, G. V. Subbarao, Tomohiro Ban, David Hodson, John Dixon, Iván Ortiz‐Monasterio, Matthew Reynolds Hit paper breakdown →	2008	494
3	Disease Impact on Wheat Yield Potential and Prospects of Genetic Control Annual Review of Phytopathology ·Ravi P. Singh, P. K. Singh, Jessica Rutkoski, David Hodson, Xinyao He, Lise Nistrup Jørgensen, Mogens S. Hovmøller, Julio Huerta‐Espino Hit paper breakdown →	2016	326
4	Emergence and Spread of New Races of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus: Continued Threat to Food Security and Prospects of Genetic Control Phytopathology ·Ravi P. Singh, David Hodson, Yue Jin, Evans Lagudah, Michael Ayliffe, Sridhar Bhavani, Matthew N. Rouse, Z. A. Pretorius, Les J. Szabo, Julio Huerta‐Espino, Bhoja R. Basnet, Caixia Lan, Mogens S. Hovmøller Hit paper breakdown →	2015	315
5	Current status, likely migration and strategies to mitigate the threat to wheat production from rzace Ug99 (TTKS) of stem rust pathogen. CABI Reviews ·Rajender Singh, David Hodson, Yue Jin, Julio Huerta‐Espino, M. G. Kinyua, R. Wanyera, P. Njau, Richard W. Ward	2007	253
6	Breeding for improved abiotic stress tolerance in maize adapted to southern Africa Agricultural Water Management ·Marianne Bänziger, P.S. Setimela, David Hodson, B. Vivek	2005	209
7	Yellow Rust Epidemics Worldwide Were Caused by Pathogen Races from Divergent Genetic Lineages Frontiers in Plant Science ·Sajid Ali, Julián Rodríguez-Algaba, Tine Thach, Chris Khadgi Sørensen, Jens Grønbech Hansen, Poul Lassen, K. Nazari, David Hodson, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Mogens S. Hovmøller	2017	151
8	Assessing the vulnerability of traditional maize seed systems in Mexico to climate change Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·M.R. Bellon, David Hodson, Jon Hellin	2011	134
9	Root and Crown Rot Fungi Associated with Spring, Facultative, and Winter Wheat in Turkey Plant Disease ·Berna Tunalı, J. M. Nıcol, David Hodson, Zafer Uçkun, Orhan Büyük, Durmuş Erdurmuş, Hakan Hekimhan, Hüseyin Aktaş, M. Aydın Akbudak, Sefair BAĞCI	2008	106
10	Near- to long-term measures to stabilize global wheat supplies and food security Nature Food ·Alison R. Bentley, Jason Donovan, Kai Sonder, Frédéric Baudron, Janet M. Lewis, Rachel C. Voss, Pieter Rutsaert, Nigel Poole, Sophien Kamoun, Diane G. O. Saunders, David Hodson, David Hughes, Christine Negra, María Itria Ibba, Sieglinde S. Snapp, Tesfaye Shiferaw Sida, Moti Jaleta, Kindie Tesfaye, Inbal Becker‐Reshef, Bram Govaerts	2022	97
11	International Agricultural Research Tackling the Effects of Global and Climate Changes on Plant Diseases in the Developing World Plant Disease ·Serge Savary, Andrew Nelson, Adam Sparks, Laetitia Willocquet, E. Duveiller, George Mahuku, Greg Forbes, Karen A. Garrett, David Hodson, Jon Padgham, S. Pande, Mamta Sharma, Jonathan Yuen, Annika Djurle	2011	82
12	Quantifying airborne dispersal routes of pathogens over continents to safeguard global wheat supply Nature Plants ·Marcel Meyer, James A. Cox, Matthew D. Hitchings, Laura Burgin, Matthew Hort, David Hodson, Christopher A. Gilligan	2017	78
13	Right-Sizing Stem-Rust Research Science ·Philip G. Pardey, Jason M. Beddow, Darren J. Kriticos, Terrance M. Hurley, Robert Park, E. Duveiller, R. W. Sutherst, J. J. Burdon, David Hodson	2013	78
14	Kenyan Isolates of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici from 2008 to 2014: Virulence to SrTmp in the Ug99 Race Group and Implications for Breeding Programs Phytopathology ·Maria Newcomb, Pablo D. Olivera, Matthew N. Rouse, Les J. Szabo, J. W. Johnson, Sam Gale, Douglas G. Luster, R. Wanyera, Godwin Macharia, Sridhar Bhavani, David Hodson, Mehran Patpour, Mogens S. Hovmøller, T. G. Fetch, Yue Jin	2016	71
15	Maize lethal necrosis (MLN): Efforts toward containing the spread and impact of a devastating transboundary disease in sub-Saharan Africa Virus Research ·Prasanna Boddupalli, L. M. Suresh, Francis Mwatuni, Yoseph Beyene, Dan Makumbi, Manje Gowda, M. Olsen, David Hodson, Mosisa Worku, Mónica Mezzalama, Terence Molnar, Kanwarpal S. Dhugga, Anne Wangai, Lilian Gichuru, Samuel Angwenyi, Yoseph Alemayehu, Jens Grønbech Hansen, Poul Lassen	2020	67
16	Targeting agricultural research to benefit poor farmers: Relating poverty mapping to maize environments in Mexico Food Policy ·M.R. Bellon, David Hodson, David Bergvinson, David L. Beck, Eduardo Martínez Romero, Yinha Montoya	2005	61
17	An early warning system to predict and mitigate wheat rust diseases in Ethiopia Environmental Research Letters ·Clare Allen-Sader, William P. Thurston, Marcel Meyer, Elias Nure, Netsanet Bacha, Yoseph Alemayehu, Richard O. J. H. Stutt, Daniel Šafka, Andrew P. Craig, Eshetu Derso, Laura Burgin, Sarah Millington, Matthew Hort, David Hodson, Christopher A. Gilligan	2019	53
18	Emergence of Virulence to SrTmp in the Ug99 Race Group of Wheat Stem Rust, Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici, in Africa Plant Disease ·Mehran Patpour, Mogens S. Hovmøller, Annemarie Fejer Justesen, Maria Newcomb, Pablo D. Olivera, Yue Jin, Les J. Szabo, David Hodson, A. Shahin, R. Wanyera, Innocent Habarurema, S. Wobibi	2015	51
19	Breeding for improved drought tolerance in maize adapted to southern Africa Marianne Bänziger, P.S. Setimela, David Hodson, B. Vivek	2004	48
20	Environmental classification of maize-testing sites in the SADC region and its implication for collaborative maize breeding strategies in the subcontinent Euphytica ·P.S. Setimela, Z. Chitalu, J. Jonazi, A. Mambo, David Hodson, Marianne Bänziger	2005	48

About David Hodson

David Hodson is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Agronomy and Crop Science, Genetics and Ecology, having authored 58 papers that have together received 3.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (35 papers), Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies (14 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (13 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (12 papers), Plant Pathogens and Resistance (11 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (10 papers), Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (7 papers) and Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (3.2k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (705 citations), General Agricultural and Biological Sciences (288 citations), Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics (438 citations) and Genetics (598 citations). David Hodson has collaborated with scholars based in Mexico, Ethiopia and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Julio Huerta‐Espino, Ravi P. Singh, Mogens S. Hovmøller, P. K. Singh, Sridhar Bhavani, P. Njau, Yue Jin, Marianne Bänziger, P.S. Setimela and B. Vivek. Their work appears in journals such as Plant Disease, Phytopathology, Environmental Research Letters, Annual Review of Phytopathology and Scientific Reports.

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