Hailiang Mao

1.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
10 papers, 895 citations indexed

About

Hailiang Mao is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hailiang Mao has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 895 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Plant Science, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Hailiang Mao's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (4 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (4 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (3 papers). Hailiang Mao is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (4 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (4 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (3 papers). Hailiang Mao collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Sweden. Hailiang Mao's co-authors include Xianghua Li, Qifa Zhang, Jinghua Xiao, Yidan Ouyang, Jihua Ding, Qing Lu, Pingbo Zhang, Caiguo Xu, Jialing Yao and Lei Wang and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and The Plant Cell.

In The Last Decade

Hailiang Mao

10 papers receiving 885 citations

Hit Papers

A long noncoding RNA regulates photoperiod-sensitive male... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2018 100 200 300 400
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. A long noncoding RNA regulates photoperiod-sensitive male sterility, an essential component of hybrid rice
    2012 498 citations Jihua Ding, Qing Lu et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
  2. A G-protein pathway determines grain size in rice
    2018 257 citations Shengyuan Sun, Lei Wang et al. Nature Communications profile →

Peers

Hailiang Mao
Gary J. Muehlbauer United States
Katherine Petsch United States
Shengben Li United States
Peng Shuai China
Lihuang Zhu China
Dengyun Zhu China
Chao Shen China
Szymon Świeżewski Poland
Sharon K. Marr United States
Meng-Qi Lei China
Gary J. Muehlbauer United States
Hailiang Mao
Citations per year, relative to Hailiang Mao Hailiang Mao (= 1×) peers Gary J. Muehlbauer

Countries citing papers authored by Hailiang Mao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hailiang Mao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hailiang Mao. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hailiang Mao. The network helps show where Hailiang Mao may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hailiang Mao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hailiang Mao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hailiang Mao 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 Hailiang Mao. Hailiang Mao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Li, Wanying, Ke Wang, Handong Su, et al.. (2025). Modulation of an evolutionarily conserved epigenetic regulon controlling abscisic acid catabolism enhances drought tolerance in wheat. New Phytologist. 247(4). 1777–1789. 1 indexed citations
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Chen, Hao, et al.. (2024). Wheat ESCRT-III protein TaSAL1 regulates male gametophyte transmission and controls tillering and heading date. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75(8). 2372–2384. 1 indexed citations
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He, Chao, Heping Zhang, Xintong Xu, et al.. (2024). Dynamic atlas of histone modifications and gene regulatory networks in endosperm of bread wheat. Nature Communications. 15(1). 9572–9572. 8 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lihua, Chao He, Yuting Lai, et al.. (2023). Asymmetric gene expression and cell-type-specific regulatory networks in the root of bread wheat revealed by single-cell multiomics analysis. Genome biology. 24(1). 65–65. 53 indexed citations
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Zhu, Anting, Hongbo Liu, D. F. Li, et al.. (2023). Chemical-tag-based semi-annotated metabolomics facilitates gene identification and specialized metabolic pathway elucidation in wheat. The Plant Cell. 36(3). 540–558. 9 indexed citations
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Ding, Wentao, Yiqian Chen, Wei Chen, et al.. (2023). Centromere Plasticity With Evolutionary Conservation and Divergence Uncovered by Wheat 10+ Genomes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40(8). 13 indexed citations
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Sun, Shengyuan, Lei Wang, Hailiang Mao, et al.. (2018). A G-protein pathway determines grain size in rice. Nature Communications. 9(1). 851–851. 257 indexed citations breakdown →
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Mao, Hailiang, Bibek Aryal, Tobias Langenecker, et al.. (2017). Arabidopsis BTB/POZ protein-dependent PENETRATION3 trafficking and disease susceptibility. Nature Plants. 3(11). 854–858. 10 indexed citations
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Mao, Hailiang, Moritaka Nakamura, Corrado Viotti, & Markus Grebe. (2016). A Framework for Lateral Membrane Trafficking and Polar Tethering of the PEN3 ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 172(4). 2245–2260. 45 indexed citations
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Ding, Jihua, Qing Lu, Yidan Ouyang, et al.. (2012). A long noncoding RNA regulates photoperiod-sensitive male sterility, an essential component of hybrid rice. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(7). 2654–2659. 498 indexed citations breakdown →

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