Haroon Butt

3.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Haroon Butt is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Haroon Butt has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 15 papers in Plant Science and 3 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Haroon Butt's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Haroon Butt is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (11 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (8 papers) and RNA Research and Splicing (8 papers). Haroon Butt collaborates with scholars based in Saudi Arabia, United States and Austria. Haroon Butt's co-authors include Magdy M. Mahfouz, Rashid Aman, Zahir Ali, Ahmed Mahas, Fatimah Aljedaani, Shou‐Wei Ding, Muhammad Zuhaib Khan, Khalid Sedeek, Gundra Sivakrishna Rao and Ayman Eid and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Plant Journal and Journal of Experimental Botany.

In The Last Decade

Haroon Butt

24 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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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.

RNA virus interference via CRISPR/Cas13a system in plants

2018 394 citations Rashid Aman, Zahir Ali et al. Genome biology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Haroon Butt Saudi Arabia	17	1.2k	933	185	86	80	24	1.4k
Yanfei Mao China	17	2.0k 1.6×	1.8k 1.9×	309 1.7×	162 1.9×	127 1.6×	29	2.4k
Muhammad Zuhaib Khan Pakistan	14	615 0.5×	518 0.6×	155 0.8×	60 0.7×	53 0.7×	21	813
Kai Hua China	13	942 0.8×	1.1k 1.1×	125 0.7×	212 2.5×	73 0.9×	15	1.4k
Takayuki Arazoe Japan	10	1.8k 1.5×	662 0.7×	315 1.7×	346 4.0×	147 1.8×	25	1.9k
Zixu Zhu China	6	1.4k 1.2×	656 0.7×	153 0.8×	307 3.6×	140 1.8×	7	1.5k
Minhee Jung South Korea	7	971 0.8×	495 0.5×	189 1.0×	121 1.4×	110 1.4×	10	1.1k
Qiurong Ren China	12	1.5k 1.2×	952 1.0×	270 1.5×	139 1.6×	162 2.0×	20	1.6k
Aimee A. Malzahn United States	13	1.9k 1.6×	1.4k 1.5×	343 1.9×	170 2.0×	180 2.3×	17	2.1k
Yanjun He China	17	734 0.6×	881 0.9×	74 0.4×	48 0.6×	20 0.3×	26	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Haroon Butt

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20 of 20 papers shown

Butt, Haroon, et al.. (2024). Synthetic directed evolution for targeted engineering of plant traits. Frontiers in Plant Science. 15. 1449579–1449579. 2 indexed citations

Atia, Mohamed A. M., Wenjun Jiang, Khalid Sedeek, Haroon Butt, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2024). Crop bioengineering via gene editing: reshaping the future of agriculture. Plant Cell Reports. 43(4). 98–98. 15 indexed citations

Sedeek, Khalid, Andrea Zuccolo, Alice Fornasiero, et al.. (2023). Multi-omics resources for targeted agronomic improvement of pigmented rice. Nature Food. 4(5). 366–371. 23 indexed citations

Butt, Haroon, et al.. (2023). SCR106 splicing factor modulates abiotic stress responses by maintaining RNA splicing in rice. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75(3). 802–818. 8 indexed citations

Butt, Haroon, et al.. (2022). Synthetic evolution of herbicide resistance using a T7 RNAP–based random DNA base editor. Life Science Alliance. 5(12). e202201538–e202201538. 18 indexed citations

Butt, Haroon, Jérémie Bazin, Sahar A. Alshareef, et al.. (2021). Overlapping roles of spliceosomal components SF3B1 and PHF5A in rice splicing regulation. Communications Biology. 4(1). 529–529. 16 indexed citations

Ali, Zahir, Ashwag Shami, Khalid Sedeek, et al.. (2020). Fusion of the Cas9 endonuclease and the VirD2 relaxase facilitates homology-directed repair for precise genome engineering in rice. Communications Biology. 3(1). 44–44. 83 indexed citations

Morton, Mitchell J. L., Nadia Al‐Tamimi, Haroon Butt, Anireddy S. N. Reddy, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2019). Serine/Arginine-rich protein family of splicing regulators: New approaches to study splice isoform functions. Plant Science. 283. 127–134. 30 indexed citations

Butt, Haroon, Syed Shan‐e‐Ali Zaidi, Norhan Hassan, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2019). CRISPR-Based Directed Evolution for Crop Improvement. Trends in biotechnology. 38(3). 236–240. 31 indexed citations

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Butt, Haroon, Ayman Eid, Afaque A. Momin, et al.. (2019). CRISPR directed evolution of the spliceosome for resistance to splicing inhibitors. Genome biology. 20(1). 73–73. 96 indexed citations

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Butt, Haroon, Agnieszka Piatek, Lixin Li, Anireddy S. N. Reddy, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2019). Multiplex CRISPR Mutagenesis of the Serine/Arginine-Rich (SR) Gene Family in Rice. Genes. 10(8). 596–596. 22 indexed citations

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Aman, Rashid, Ahmed Mahas, Haroon Butt, et al.. (2018). Engineering RNA Virus Interference via the CRISPR/Cas13 Machinery in Arabidopsis. Viruses. 10(12). 732–732. 69 indexed citations

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Aman, Rashid, Zahir Ali, Haroon Butt, et al.. (2018). RNA virus interference via CRISPR/Cas13a system in plants. Genome biology. 19(1). 1–1. 394 indexed citations breakdown →

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Butt, Haroon, Muhammad Jamil, Jian You Wang, Salim Al‐Babili, & Magdy M. Mahfouz. (2018). Engineering plant architecture via CRISPR/Cas9-mediated alteration of strigolactone biosynthesis. BMC Plant Biology. 18(1). 174–174. 95 indexed citations

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Butt, Haroon, Ayman Eid, Zahir Ali, et al.. (2017). Efficient CRISPR/Cas9-Mediated Genome Editing Using a Chimeric Single-Guide RNA Molecule. Frontiers in Plant Science. 8. 1441–1441. 88 indexed citations

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Alshareef, Sahar A., Yu Ling, Haroon Butt, et al.. (2017). Herboxidiene triggers splicing repression and abiotic stress responses in plants. BMC Genomics. 18(1). 260–260. 33 indexed citations

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Ling, Yu, Sahar A. Alshareef, Haroon Butt, et al.. (2016). Pre‐mRNA splicing repression triggers abiotic stress signaling in plants. The Plant Journal. 89(2). 291–309. 73 indexed citations

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Butt, Haroon, et al.. (2014). Expression analysis of Arabidopsis XH/XS-domain proteins indicates overlapping and distinct functions for members of this gene family. Journal of Experimental Botany. 65(4). 1217–1227. 11 indexed citations

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Retzer, Katarzyna, Haroon Butt, Barbara Korbei, & Christian Luschnig. (2013). The far side of auxin signaling: fundamental cellular activities and their contribution to a defined growth response in plants. PROTOPLASMA. 251(4). 731–746. 11 indexed citations

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Moulinier‐Anzola, Jeanette, Tobias Sieberer, Haroon Butt, et al.. (2010). Putative Arabidopsis Transcriptional Adaptor Protein (PROPORZ1) is required to modulate histone acetylation in response to auxin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107(22). 10308–10313. 99 indexed citations

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