Dejun Han

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Dejun Han is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Dejun Han has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Plant Science, 27 papers in Genetics and 19 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Dejun Han's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (62 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (34 papers) and Genetics and Plant Breeding (30 papers). Dejun Han is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (62 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (34 papers) and Genetics and Plant Breeding (30 papers). Dejun Han collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Mexico. Dejun Han's co-authors include Zhensheng Kang, Jianhui Wu, Qingdong Zeng, Qilin Wang, Jingmei Mu, Xianming Chen, Shengjie Liu, Shizhou Yu, Lili Huang and Xiaojie Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, Nature Genetics and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Dejun Han

81 papers receiving 1.8k 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.

Host genotype-specific rhizosphere fungus enhances drought resistance in wheat

2024 41 citations Hong Yue, Xuming Sun et al. Microbiome profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dejun Han China	29	1.7k	498	462	189	99	93	1.9k
Aizhong Cao China	27	1.9k 1.1×	202 0.4×	334 0.7×	74 0.4×	198 2.0×	69	2.0k
Song Lim Kim South Korea	17	1.2k 0.7×	496 1.0×	513 1.1×	39 0.2×	70 0.7×	35	1.3k
Sunish K. Sehgal United States	23	1.7k 1.0×	500 1.0×	329 0.7×	229 1.2×	121 1.2×	66	1.8k
Dawei Xin China	21	1.3k 0.7×	209 0.4×	251 0.5×	105 0.6×	26 0.3×	97	1.4k
Philomin Juliana Mexico	23	1.4k 0.8×	909 1.8×	119 0.3×	167 0.9×	60 0.6×	56	1.6k
Joshua N. Cobb Philippines	12	1.2k 0.7×	636 1.3×	150 0.3×	92 0.5×	40 0.4×	19	1.4k
Alain Ghesquière France	32	2.4k 1.4×	700 1.4×	728 1.6×	59 0.3×	82 0.8×	64	2.6k
Soraya C. M. Leal‐Bertioli Brazil	27	2.4k 1.4×	278 0.6×	748 1.6×	110 0.6×	27 0.3×	81	2.6k
Meng Huang United States	8	1.4k 0.8×	878 1.8×	234 0.5×	188 1.0×	60 0.6×	19	1.7k
Sophie Bouchet France	19	926 0.5×	773 1.6×	244 0.5×	291 1.5×	20 0.2×	29	1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Dejun Han

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dejun Han

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Dejun Han. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Dejun Han based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Dejun Han. Dejun Han is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wang, Xiaoming, Peng Zhao, James Simmonds, et al.. (2025). Population transcriptome and phenotype analyses reveal that Rht-D1b contributed a larger seedling root to modern bread wheat. The Plant Cell. 37(11).

Liu, J. P., et al.. (2025). Genome-wide identification of TGA transcription factors in wheat and the TaTGA13 negatively modulates stripe rust resistance. Plant Science. 362. 112758–112758.

Feng, Yi, et al.. (2025). Functional characterization of TaNAC6-3B: A key regulator of drought tolerance in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Plant Physiology and Biochemistry. 229(Pt C). 110578–110578. 1 indexed citations

Yue, Hong, Xuming Sun, Tingting Wang, et al.. (2024). Host genotype-specific rhizosphere fungus enhances drought resistance in wheat. Microbiome. 12(1). 44–44. 41 indexed citations breakdown →

Ma, Jianhui, Yize Wang, Shuya Li, et al.. (2024). Genome-wide association study revealed the reason for the decrease in grain iron concentration during wheat breeding process in China. Field Crops Research. 309. 109326–109326. 3 indexed citations

Wang, Meng, Jie Cheng, Jianhui Wu, et al.. (2024). Variation in TaSPL6-D confers salinity tolerance in bread wheat by activating TaHKT1;5-D while preserving yield-related traits. Nature Genetics. 56(6). 1257–1269. 27 indexed citations

Han, Dejun, et al.. (2024). Evaluation of stress tolerance and physiological response of cold-type wheat under heat stress. ACTA AGRONOMICA SINICA. 51(4). 1118–1130.

Yu, Rui, Xiaofeng Cao, Jia Liu, et al.. (2024). Using UAV-Based Temporal Spectral Indices to Dissect Changes in the Stay-Green Trait in Wheat. Plant Phenomics. 6. 171–171. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Liangqi, Hao Chen, Yuqi Wang, et al.. (2024). Genome-wide QTL mapping for agronomic traits in the winter wheat cultivar Pindong 34 based on 90K SNP array. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1369440–1369440.

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Zhang, Xue, Lei Li, Rui Yu, et al.. (2023). Core root-associated prokaryotic community and its relationship to host traits across wheat varieties. Journal of Experimental Botany. 74(8). 2740–2753. 7 indexed citations

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Huang, Shuo, Yibo Zhang, Hui Ren, et al.. (2023). High density mapping of wheat stripe rust resistance gene QYrXN3517-1BL using QTL mapping, BSE-Seq and candidate gene analysis. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 136(3). 39–39. 9 indexed citations

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Zhu, Zhanwang, Dejun Han, Jianhui Wu, et al.. (2023). Molecular characterization and validation of adult-plant stripe rust resistance gene Yr86 in Chinese wheat cultivar Zhongmai 895. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 136(6). 142–142. 48 indexed citations

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Ren, Xiaojun, Hao Yang, Ting Zhang, et al.. (2022). CRISPR-Cas12a-Based Diagnostics of Wheat Fungal Diseases. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 70(23). 7240–7247. 34 indexed citations

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Zhou, Xinli, et al.. (2022). Genome-Wide QTL Mapping for Stripe Rust Resistance in Winter Wheat Pindong 34 Using a 90K SNP Array. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 932762–932762. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hanbing, Jing Han, Jianhui Wu, et al.. (2021). Identification of genetic locus with resistance to take-all in the wheat-Psathyrostachys huashanica Keng introgression line H148. Journal of Integrative Agriculture. 20(12). 3101–3113. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xudong, et al.. (2020). Wheat Stripe Rust Grading by Deep Learning With Attention Mechanism and Images From Mobile Devices. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 558126–558126. 91 indexed citations

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Shi, Shandang, Daojie Sun, Dejun Han, et al.. (2020). Identification of New Sources of Resistance to Crown Rot and Fusarium Head Blight in Wheat. Plant Disease. 104(7). 1979–1985. 28 indexed citations

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Yuan, Fengping, Qingdong Zeng, Jianhui Wu, et al.. (2018). QTL Mapping and Validation of Adult Plant Resistance to Stripe Rust in Chinese Wheat Landrace Humai 15. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9. 968–968. 48 indexed citations

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Mu, Jingmei, Shuo Huang, Shengjie Liu, et al.. (2018). Genetic architecture of wheat stripe rust resistance revealed by combining QTL mapping using SNP-based genetic maps and bulked segregant analysis. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 132(2). 443–455. 30 indexed citations

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Wang, Xiaojie, Chunlei Tang, Lin Deng, et al.. (2009). Characterization of a pathogenesis-related thaumatin-like protein geneTaPR5from wheat induced by stripe rust fungus. Physiologia Plantarum. 139(1). 27–38. 78 indexed citations

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