Dhirendra Kumar

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Dhirendra Kumar is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Food Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Dhirendra Kumar has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Plant Science, 13 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Food Science. Recurrent topics in Dhirendra Kumar's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (11 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (5 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (4 papers). Dhirendra Kumar is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (11 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (5 papers) and Plant Parasitism and Resistance (4 papers). Dhirendra Kumar collaborates with scholars based in United States, India and Italy. Dhirendra Kumar's co-authors include Daniel F. Klessig, Sang‐Wook Park, Evans Kaimoyo, Stephen Mosher, Diwaker Tripathi, G. Raikhy, Shuqun Zhang, Duroy A. Navarre, Dominique Pontier and Pradeep Kachroo and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Dhirendra Kumar

39 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Methyl Salicylate Is a Critical Mobile Signal for Plant Systemic Acquired Resistance

2007 747 citations Dhirendra Kumar, Daniel F. Klessig et al. profile →
Nitric oxide and salicylic acid signaling in plant defense

2000 556 citations Daniel F. Klessig, Dhirendra Kumar et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Dhirendra Kumar United States	17	2.6k	1.0k	319	210	177	43	3.1k
Vered Tzin Israel	25	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.5×	626 2.0×	125 0.6×	236 1.3×	48	3.0k
Markus Krischke Germany	28	2.0k 0.8×	1.8k 1.7×	279 0.9×	117 0.6×	325 1.8×	64	3.3k
Gábor Gullner Hungary	22	2.1k 0.8×	775 0.7×	145 0.5×	260 1.2×	151 0.9×	73	2.5k
Benoît Poinssot France	26	3.9k 1.5×	1.2k 1.1×	353 1.1×	636 3.0×	250 1.4×	41	4.4k
Nasser Yalpani United States	26	2.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.4×	275 0.9×	295 1.4×	136 0.8×	36	3.4k
Kirstin Feussner Germany	33	2.8k 1.1×	1.9k 1.8×	205 0.6×	405 1.9×	215 1.2×	60	3.9k
Erich Glawischnig Germany	32	3.1k 1.2×	2.4k 2.3×	349 1.1×	138 0.7×	207 1.2×	74	4.2k
Xinhua Ding China	28	2.6k 1.0×	1.2k 1.1×	127 0.4×	261 1.2×	84 0.5×	97	3.1k
Cornelia Göbel Germany	37	3.0k 1.2×	1.9k 1.8×	673 2.1×	270 1.3×	317 1.8×	55	4.2k
Guy Kiddle United Kingdom	28	2.6k 1.0×	2.1k 2.0×	182 0.6×	71 0.3×	133 0.8×	47	3.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Dhirendra Kumar

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Dhirendra Kumar

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Kumar, Dhirendra, et al.. (2025). Classification of tomato leaf disease using Transductive Long Short-Term Memory with an attention mechanism. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1467811–1467811. 3 indexed citations

Kumar, Dhirendra, et al.. (2024). Harnessing the Power of Microflora Diversity: Exploring Alternative Solutions to Phosphorus Scarcity in the Soil-Plant System. 5(1). 52–67.

Kumar, Dhirendra, et al.. (2020). Costs and returns of wheat production of different categories of farmers in Udham Singh Nagar district of Uttarakhand. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 9. 277–282.

Rana, Kiran, et al.. (2019). Livelihood opportunities through agriculture and allied field in the mid-hills of Uttarakhand. Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry. 8. 81–86. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Dhirendra, et al.. (2016). Effect of FYM, NPK and Algal fertilizers on the Growth and Biomass of Vetiver Grass [Vetiveria zizanioides L.Nass]. International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (IJEAS). 3(3). 257695. 2 indexed citations

Kumar, Dhirendra. (2015). Synthetic Gene Complementation to Determine Off-Target Silencing. Methods in molecular biology. 1287. 281–293. 1 indexed citations

Kumar, Dhirendra. (2014). Salicylic acid signaling in disease resistance. Plant Science. 228. 127–134. 229 indexed citations

Kumar, Suman, Ashok Kumar, R. K. Agarwal, & Dhirendra Kumar. (2012). Studies on the molecular heterogeneity and antimicrobial susceptibility of thermophilic Campylobacter isolates from diverse sources. International Journal of Infectious Diseases. 16. e455–e455. 1 indexed citations

Israr, Mohd, et al.. (2010). Interactive effects of lead, copper, nickel and zinc on growth, metal uptake and antioxidative metabolism of Sesbania drummondii. Journal of Hazardous Materials. 186(2-3). 1520–1526. 136 indexed citations

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Tripathi, Diwaker, Yulin Jiang, & Dhirendra Kumar. (2010). SABP2, a methyl salicylate esterase is required for the systemic acquired resistance induced by acibenzolar‐S‐methyl in plants. FEBS Letters. 584(15). 3458–3463. 74 indexed citations

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Kumar, Dhirendra & Daniel F. Klessig. (2008). The search for the salicylic acid receptor led to discovery of the SAR signal receptor. Plant Signaling & Behavior. 3(9). 691–692. 13 indexed citations

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Vlot, A. Corina, Po‐Pu Liu, Robin K. Cameron, et al.. (2008). Identification of likely orthologs of tobacco salicylic acid‐binding protein 2 and their role in systemic acquired resistance in Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal. 56(3). 445–456. 171 indexed citations

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Kumar, Dhirendra, Claes Gustafsson, & Daniel F. Klessig. (2006). Validation of RNAi silencing specificity using synthetic genes: salicylic acid‐binding protein 2 is required for innate immunity in plants. The Plant Journal. 45(5). 863–868. 55 indexed citations

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Forouhar, F., Yang Yue, Dhirendra Kumar, et al.. (2005). Structural and biochemical studies identify tobacco SABP2 as a methyl salicylate esterase and implicate it in plant innate immunity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102(5). 1773–1778. 232 indexed citations

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Henry, Amelia, et al.. (2005). Compound growth rate of area, production and productivity of pulses (moth bean, cowpea, and mung bean) in arid districts of Rajasthan.. JOURNAL OF CURRENT GLAUCOMA PRACTICE. 6(2). 50–53. 2 indexed citations

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Menke, Frank L.H., Hong-Gu Kang, Zhixiang Chen, et al.. (2005). Tobacco Transcription Factor WRKY1 Is Phosphorylated by the MAP Kinase SIPK and Mediates HR-Like Cell Death in Tobacco. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 18(10). 1027–1034. 140 indexed citations

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Kumar, Dhirendra & Daniel F. Klessig. (2003). High-affinity salicylic acid-binding protein 2 is required for plant innate immunity and has salicylic acid-stimulated lipase activity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(26). 16101–16106. 223 indexed citations

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Kumar, Dhirendra, et al.. (2003). Radiation induced high yielding determinate mutant in cowpea.. 30–33. 1 indexed citations

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Kumar, Dhirendra & Daniel F. Klessig. (2000). Differential Induction of Tobacco MAP Kinases by the Defense Signals Nitric Oxide, Salicylic Acid, Ethylene, and Jasmonic Acid. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 13(3). 347–351. 156 indexed citations

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Reddy, Malireddy K., Nirupam Roy Choudhury, Dhirendra Kumar, Sunil Kumar Mukherjee, & Κ. Κ. Tewari. (1994). Characterisation and mode of in vitro replication of pea chloroplast OriA sequences. European Journal of Biochemistry. 220(3). 933–941. 14 indexed citations

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