Gérard Duc

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Gérard Duc is a scholar working on Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gérard Duc has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 85 papers in Plant Science, 24 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science and 8 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Gérard Duc's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (61 papers), Agricultural pest management studies (35 papers) and Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies (35 papers). Gérard Duc is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (61 papers), Agricultural pest management studies (35 papers) and Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies (35 papers). Gérard Duc collaborates with scholars based in France, Morocco and United Kingdom. Gérard Duc's co-authors include Etienne‐Pascal Journet, Pascal Marget, Muriel Sagan, Katell Crépon, Dominique Morandi, Julia Frugoli, Elise Schnabel, Fernanda de Carvalho‐Niebel, Paolo Arese and Corinne Peyronnet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Gérard Duc

99 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

A Putative Ca ²⁺ and Calmodulin-Dependent Protein Kinase Required for Bacterial and Fungal Symbioses

2004 533 citations Gérard Duc, Etienne‐Pascal Journet et al. profile →
Why are grain-legumes rarely present in cropping systems despite their environmental and nutritional benefits? Analyzing lock-in in the French agrifood system

2016 218 citations Gérard Duc, Anne-Sophie Voisin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gérard Duc France	37	5.2k	1.6k	508	439	204	100	5.7k
D. L. McNeil New Zealand	32	2.9k 0.6×	615 0.4×	552 1.1×	444 1.0×	245 1.2×	124	3.7k
Gebisa Ejeta United States	36	3.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	588 1.2×	636 1.4×	211 1.0×	107	4.0k
Douglas R. Cook United States	39	5.5k 1.1×	1.0k 0.6×	883 1.7×	425 1.0×	78 0.4×	82	6.0k
W. Erskine Syria	37	3.6k 0.7×	788 0.5×	381 0.8×	811 1.8×	159 0.8×	216	4.2k
Shiv Kumar India	32	3.3k 0.6×	448 0.3×	410 0.8×	457 1.0×	209 1.0×	202	3.7k
Pooran M. Gaur India	51	7.9k 1.5×	805 0.5×	602 1.2×	1.1k 2.4×	334 1.6×	187	8.4k
J. R. Caradus New Zealand	28	2.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.8×	568 1.1×	696 1.6×	88 0.4×	142	3.5k
Roberto Papa Italy	44	4.4k 0.8×	600 0.4×	779 1.5×	355 0.8×	312 1.5×	118	5.1k
Ramakrishnan M. Nair India	34	3.1k 0.6×	434 0.3×	478 0.9×	263 0.6×	212 1.0×	121	3.7k
Gyanendra Pratap Singh India	34	3.3k 0.6×	791 0.5×	547 1.1×	164 0.4×	108 0.5×	320	3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gérard Duc

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Desgroux, Aurore, Henri Miteul, Grégoire Aubert, et al.. (2018). Comparative Genome-Wide-Association Mapping Identifies Common Loci Controlling Root System Architecture and Resistance to Aphanomyces euteiches in Pea. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 2195–2195. 36 indexed citations

Lessire, Michel, Valentina Gallo, Maurizio Prato, et al.. (2016). Effects of faba beans with different concentrations of vicine and convicine on egg production, egg quality and red blood cells in laying hens. animal. 11(8). 1270–1278. 27 indexed citations

Burstin, Judith, Mathieu Siol, Françoise Jacquin, et al.. (2015). Genetic diversity and trait genomic prediction in a pea diversity panel. BMC Genomics. 16(1). 105–105. 80 indexed citations

Bourion, Virginie, Françoise Jacquin, Grégoire Aubert, et al.. (2014). Unexpectedly low nitrogen acquisition and absence of root architecture adaptation to nitrate supply in a Medicago truncatula highly branched root mutant. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65(9). 2365–2380. 21 indexed citations

Laffont, Carole, Jiangqi Wen, Kirankumar S. Mysore, et al.. (2014). Local and Systemic Regulation of Plant Root System Architecture and Symbiotic Nodulation by a Receptor-Like Kinase. PLoS Genetics. 10(12). e1004891–e1004891. 98 indexed citations

Jing, Runchun, M. R. Knox, Petr Smýkal, et al.. (2012). Genetic diversity in European Pisum germplasm collections. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 125(2). 367–380. 36 indexed citations

Jeudy, Christian, Sandrine Ruffel, Pascal Tillard, et al.. (2009). Adaptation of Medicago truncatula to nitrogen limitation is modulated via local and systemic nodule developmental responses. New Phytologist. 185(3). 817–828. 104 indexed citations

Morandi, Dominique, Christine Le Signor, Vivienne Gianinazzi-Pearson, & Gérard Duc. (2009). A Medicago truncatula mutant hyper-responsive to mycorrhiza and defective for nodulation. Mycorrhiza. 19(6). 435–441. 16 indexed citations

Porceddu, Andrea, Francesco Panara, Ornella Calderini, et al.. (2008). An Italian functional genomic resource for Medicago truncatula. BMC Research Notes. 1(1). 129–129. 21 indexed citations

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Edwards, Anne, Anne B. Heckmann, Faridoon K. Yousafzai, Gérard Duc, & J. Allan Downie. (2007). Structural Implications of Mutations in the Pea SYM8 Symbiosis Gene, the DMI1 Ortholog, Encoding a Predicted Ion Channel. Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions. 20(10). 1183–1191. 34 indexed citations

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Bourion, Virginie, Gisèle Laguerre, Géraldine Depret, et al.. (2007). Genetic Variability in Nodulation and Root Growth Affects Nitrogen Fixation and Accumulation in Pea. Annals of Botany. 100(3). 589–598. 52 indexed citations

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Gabriel, Irène, M. Lessire, H. Juin, et al.. (2007). Variation in seed protein digestion of different pea (Pisum sativum L.) genotypes by cecectomized broiler chickens: 1. Endogenous amino acid losses, true digestibility and in vitro hydrolysis of proteins. Livestock Science. 113(2-3). 251–261. 21 indexed citations

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Gutiérrez, Natalia, C. M. Ávila, Gérard Duc, et al.. (2006). CAPs markers to assist selection for low vicine and convicine contents in faba bean (Vicia faba L.). Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 114(1). 59–66. 70 indexed citations

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Schnabel, Elise, Etienne‐Pascal Journet, Fernanda de Carvalho‐Niebel, Gérard Duc, & Julia Frugoli. (2005). The Medicago truncatula SUNN Gene Encodes a CLV1-like Leucine-rich Repeat Receptor Kinase that Regulates Nodule Number and Root Length. Plant Molecular Biology. 58(6). 809–822. 335 indexed citations

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Métayer, J. P., F. Skiba, Isabelle Bouvarel, et al.. (2003). 2003 Spring meeting of the WPSA French Branch. British Poultry Science. 44(5). 814–815. 7 indexed citations

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Page, David C., Grégoire Aubert, Gérard Duc, Tracey Welham, & Claire Domoney. (2002). Combinatorial variation in coding and promoter sequences of genes at the Tri locus in Pisum sativum accounts for variation in trypsin inhibitor activity in seeds. Molecular Genetics and Genomics. 267(3). 359–369. 28 indexed citations

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Duc, Gérard, Pascal Marget, Robert Esnault, J. Le Guen, & Denis Bastianelli. (1999). Genetic variability for feeding value of faba bean seeds (Vicia faba): Comparative chemical composition of isogenics involving zero-tannin and zero-vicine genes. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 5 indexed citations

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Sagan, Muriel, et al.. (1993). Specificity of the Rhizobium—legume symbiosis obtained after mutagenesis in pea (Pisum sativum L.). New Phytologist. 125(4). 757–761. 20 indexed citations

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Duc, Gérard, et al.. (1993). Specificity of Rhizobium-legume symbiosis obtained after mutagenesis in pea (Pisum sativum L.). HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 2 indexed citations

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Boutry, Marc, et al.. (1983). Mitochondrial plasmid-like molecules in fertile and male sterileVicia faba L. Plant Molecular Biology. 2(6). 305–309. 16 indexed citations

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