Hequan Sun

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Hequan Sun is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hequan Sun has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Plant Science, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Hequan Sun's work include Plant Reproductive Biology (11 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (9 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers). Hequan Sun is often cited by papers focused on Plant Reproductive Biology (11 papers), Plant Molecular Biology Research (9 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (8 papers). Hequan Sun collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and Spain. Hequan Sun's co-authors include Korbinian Schneeberger, Wen‐Biao Jiao, Manish Goel, Mathieu Piednoël, Jia Ding, Bruno Hüettel, José Antonio Campoy, Kat Folz‐Donahue, Christian Kukat and Kristin S Krause and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and Nature Genetics.

In The Last Decade

Hequan Sun

23 papers receiving 1.3k 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.

SyRI: finding genomic rearrangements and local sequence differences from whole-genome assemblies

2019 496 citations Manish Goel, Hequan Sun et al. Genome biology profile →
Chromosome-scale and haplotype-resolved genome assembly of a tetraploid potato cultivar

2022 130 citations Hequan Sun, Wen‐Biao Jiao et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hequan Sun Germany	14	954	764	256	75	62	25	1.3k
Wen‐Biao Jiao Germany	12	1.1k 1.1×	873 1.1×	340 1.3×	176 2.3×	56 0.9×	24	1.5k
Thomas Rosleff Sörensen Germany	10	893 0.9×	625 0.8×	216 0.8×	72 1.0×	120 1.9×	11	1.2k
Thomas Kraft Sweden	18	1.3k 1.4×	596 0.8×	438 1.7×	93 1.2×	86 1.4×	27	1.6k
Robert Buels United States	12	800 0.8×	1.0k 1.4×	268 1.0×	59 0.8×	48 0.8×	18	1.6k
Laura Pascual Spain	19	1.0k 1.1×	382 0.5×	386 1.5×	44 0.6×	49 0.8×	43	1.3k
Eunyoung Chae Germany	20	1.4k 1.4×	664 0.9×	212 0.8×	120 1.6×	26 0.4×	33	1.6k
Jun Qin China	24	1.4k 1.4×	385 0.5×	160 0.6×	59 0.8×	37 0.6×	88	1.6k
Travis Banks Canada	14	1.3k 1.3×	779 1.0×	265 1.0×	47 0.6×	19 0.3×	19	1.5k
Toshi Foster New Zealand	19	997 1.0×	827 1.1×	121 0.5×	63 0.8×	27 0.4×	35	1.3k
Wen Yao China	21	1.6k 1.7×	767 1.0×	750 2.9×	51 0.7×	40 0.6×	55	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hequan Sun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sun, Hequan, Sergio Tusso, Craig Dent, et al.. (2025). The phased pan-genome of tetraploid European potato. Nature. 642(8067). 389–397. 7 indexed citations

Fu, Laiyi, et al.. (2025). Parallel Seeds: From Foundation Models to Foundation Intelligence for Agricultural Sustainability. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. 12(3). 481–484.

Lux, Thomas, José Antonio Campoy, Magdalena Marek, et al.. (2024). Meiotic recombination dynamics in plants with repeat-based holocentromeres shed light on the primary drivers of crossover patterning. Nature Plants. 10(3). 423–438. 20 indexed citations

Goel, Manish, José Antonio Campoy, Kristin S Krause, et al.. (2024). The vast majority of somatic mutations in plants are layer-specific. Genome biology. 25(1). 194–194. 10 indexed citations

Sun, Hequan, José Antonio Campoy, Kristin S Krause, et al.. (2024). The identification and analysis of meristematic mutations within the apple tree that developed the RubyMac sport mutation. BMC Plant Biology. 24(1). 912–912. 3 indexed citations

Fu, Laiyi, et al.. (2024). findGSEP: estimating genome size of polyploid species usingk-mer frequencies. Bioinformatics. 40(11).

Vayssières, Alice, Ulla Neumann, A. M. Lázaro, et al.. (2022). FLOWERING REPRESSOR AAA⁺ATPase 1 is a novel regulator of perennial flowering in Arabis alpina. New Phytologist. 236(2). 729–744. 11 indexed citations

Sun, Hequan, Wen‐Biao Jiao, Kristin S Krause, et al.. (2022). Chromosome-scale and haplotype-resolved genome assembly of a tetraploid potato cultivar. Nature Genetics. 54(3). 342–348. 130 indexed citations breakdown →

Wang, Xiujuan, Mengzhen Kang, Hequan Sun, Philippe De Reffye, & Fei‐Yue Wang. (2022). DeCASA in AgriVerse: Parallel Agriculture for Smart Villages in Metaverses. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica. 9(12). 2055–2062. 31 indexed citations

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Chopra, Divykriti, Andrea Schrader, Hequan Sun, et al.. (2021). Genetic and Molecular Analysis of Root Hair Development in Arabis alpina. Frontiers in Plant Science. 12. 767772–767772. 4 indexed citations

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Sang, Qing, Alice Pajoro, Hequan Sun, et al.. (2020). Mutagenesis of a Quintuple Mutant Impaired in Environmental Responses Reveals Roles for CHROMATIN REMODELING4 in the Arabidopsis Floral Transition. The Plant Cell. 32(5). 1479–1500. 19 indexed citations

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Hernando, Carlos Esteban, Andrés Romanowski, Hequan Sun, et al.. (2020). Bacterial Infection Disrupts Clock Gene Expression to Attenuate Immune Responses. Current Biology. 30(9). 1740–1747.e6. 23 indexed citations

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Campoy, José Antonio, Hequan Sun, Manish Goel, et al.. (2020). Gamete binning: chromosome-level and haplotype-resolved genome assembly enabled by high-throughput single-cell sequencing of gamete genomes. Genome biology. 21(1). 306–306. 48 indexed citations

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Sun, Hequan, Beth A. Rowan, Pádraic J. Flood, et al.. (2019). Linked-read sequencing of gametes allows efficient genome-wide analysis of meiotic recombination. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4310–4310. 40 indexed citations

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Kiefer, Christiane, Eva‐Maria Willing, Wen‐Biao Jiao, et al.. (2019). Interspecies association mapping links reduced CG to TG substitution rates to the loss of gene-body methylation. Nature Plants. 5(8). 846–855. 47 indexed citations

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Goel, Manish, Hequan Sun, Wen‐Biao Jiao, & Korbinian Schneeberger. (2019). SyRI: finding genomic rearrangements and local sequence differences from whole-genome assemblies. Genome biology. 20(1). 277–277. 496 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ibañez, Carla, Carolin Delker, Cristina Martínez, et al.. (2018). Brassinosteroids Dominate Hormonal Regulation of Plant Thermomorphogenesis via BZR1. Current Biology. 28(2). 303–310.e3. 157 indexed citations

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Sun, Hequan & Korbinian Schneeberger. (2015). SHOREmap v3.0: Fast and Accurate Identification of Causal Mutations from Forward Genetic Screens. Methods in molecular biology. 1284. 381–395. 37 indexed citations

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Sun, Hequan, et al.. (2014). Pst DC3000 induces pathogenesis-uncorrelated cytosolic Ca2+ rise in Arabidopsis leaves. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology. 61(3). 347–354. 1 indexed citations

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Siau, Anthony, Ximei Huang, Xue Yan Yam, et al.. (2014). Identification of a new export signal inPlasmodium yoelii: identification of a new exportome. Cellular Microbiology. 16(5). 673–686. 13 indexed citations

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