Hon‐Ming Lam

16.1k total citations · 7 hit papers
215 papers, 9.8k citations indexed

About

Hon‐Ming Lam is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hon‐Ming Lam has authored 215 papers receiving a total of 9.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 176 papers in Plant Science, 75 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Hon‐Ming Lam's work include Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (70 papers), Soybean genetics and cultivation (56 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (53 papers). Hon‐Ming Lam is often cited by papers focused on Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (70 papers), Soybean genetics and cultivation (56 papers) and Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (53 papers). Hon‐Ming Lam collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Hon‐Ming Lam's co-authors include Gloria M. Coruzzi, Man‐Wah Li, Yee‐Shan Ku, Guihua Shao, Karen T. Coschigano, Fuk‐Ling Wong, Igor C. Oliveira, Ming-Yan Cheung, Tsui‐Hung Phang and Samuel S. M. Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and Nucleic Acids Research.

In The Last Decade

Hon‐Ming Lam

208 papers receiving 9.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Resequencing of 31 wild and cultivated soybean genomes identifies patterns of genetic diversity and selection

2010 769 citations Hon‐Ming Lam, Fuk‐Ling Wong et al. profile →
THE MOLECULAR-GENETICS OF NITROGEN ASSIMILATION INTO AMINO ACIDS IN HIGHER PLANTS

1996 693 citations Hon‐Ming Lam et al. profile →
Plant Hormone Signaling Crosstalks between Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses

2018 391 citations Yee‐Shan Ku, Ming-Yan Cheung et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences profile →
Food supply and food safety issues in China

2013 333 citations Hon‐Ming Lam et al. profile →
Terpenes and Terpenoids in Plants: Interactions with Environment and Insects

2020 294 citations Chade Li, Hon‐Ming Lam et al. International Journal of Molecular Sciences profile →
Pectin: An overview of sources, extraction and applications in food products, biomedical, pharmaceutical and environmental issues

2023 129 citations Carolina A. Contador, Man‐Wah Li et al. profile →
PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE transcription factors enable arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis

2022 126 citations Debatosh Das, Michael Paries et al. Nature Communications profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Hon‐Ming Lam	7.4k	3.3k	611	570	516	215	9.8k
Jun Li	7.5k 1.0×	5.9k 1.8×	1.3k 2.1×	436 0.8×	386 0.7×	287	11.7k
Arie Altman	8.9k 1.2×	5.4k 1.6×	363 0.6×	486 0.9×	468 0.9×	155	11.5k
Sara I. Zandalinas	6.4k 0.9×	2.8k 0.9×	222 0.4×	338 0.6×	302 0.6×	71	8.3k
Nelson Marmiroli	3.6k 0.5×	2.5k 0.8×	705 1.2×	379 0.7×	763 1.5×	218	7.3k
Jim M. Dunwell	5.3k 0.7×	4.0k 1.2×	929 1.5×	348 0.6×	402 0.8×	179	8.0k
Nobuhiro Suzuki	12.1k 1.6×	6.4k 2.0×	324 0.5×	409 0.7×	447 0.9×	215	16.6k
Narendra Tuteja	12.3k 1.7×	5.4k 1.6×	255 0.4×	397 0.7×	489 0.9×	109	15.8k
Jan E. Leach	11.6k 1.6×	3.5k 1.1×	896 1.5×	404 0.7×	346 0.7×	183	13.6k
John E. Lunn	8.9k 1.2×	5.1k 1.6×	502 0.8×	317 0.6×	439 0.9×	177	11.6k
Brian Forde	9.1k 1.2×	3.3k 1.0×	298 0.5×	542 1.0×	351 0.7×	112	10.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hon‐Ming Lam

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Rehman, Hafiz Mamoon, et al.. (2025). A Repertoire of Major Genes From Crop Wild Relatives for Breeding Disease‐Resistant Wheat, Rice, Maize, Soybean and Cotton Crops. Plant Breeding. 1 indexed citations

Lam, Hon‐Ming, et al.. (2024). Nanopore direct RNA sequencing reveals N6-methyladenosine and polyadenylation landscapes on long non-coding RNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana. BMC Plant Biology. 24(1). 1126–1126. 5 indexed citations

Contador, Carolina A., et al.. (2024). Contextualized Metabolic Modelling Revealed Factors Affecting Isoflavone Accumulation in Soybean Seeds. Plant Cell & Environment. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Yunjia, Yee‐Shan Ku, Sau‐Shan Cheng, et al.. (2024). Challenges to rhizobial adaptability in a changing climate: Genetic engineering solutions for stress tolerance. Microbiological Research. 288. 127886–127886. 10 indexed citations

Matsumoto, Yuki, Claire Chung, Sachiko Isobe, et al.. (2024). Chromosome-scale assembly with improved annotation provides insights into breed-wide genomic structure and diversity in domestic cats. Journal of Advanced Research. 75. 863–874. 2 indexed citations

Xie, Yichun, et al.. (2023). Current technical advancements in plant epitranscriptomic studies. The Plant Genome. 16(4). e20316–e20316. 3 indexed citations

Aslam, Mehtab Muhammad, Felix Fritschi, Di Zhang, et al.. (2023). Overexpression of LaGRAS enhances phosphorus acquisition via increased root growth of phosphorus‐deficient white lupin. Physiologia Plantarum. 175(4). e13962–e13962. 4 indexed citations

Xiao, Zhixia, Qianwen Wang, Man‐Wah Li, et al.. (2022). Wildsoydb DataHub: a platform for accessing soybean multiomic datasets across multiple reference genomes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 190(4). 2099–2102. 8 indexed citations

Ku, Yee‐Shan, et al.. (2022). The Tiny Companion Matters: The Important Role of Protons in Active Transports in Plants. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(5). 2824–2824. 10 indexed citations

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Das, Debatosh, Michael Paries, Karen Hobecker, et al.. (2022). PHOSPHATE STARVATION RESPONSE transcription factors enable arbuscular mycorrhiza symbiosis. Nature Communications. 13(1). 477–477. 126 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Sau‐Shan, Yee‐Shan Ku, Ming-Yan Cheung, & Hon‐Ming Lam. (2022). AtGAP1 Promotes the Resistance to Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 by Regulating Cell-Wall Thickness and Stomatal Aperture in Arabidopsis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 23(14). 7540–7540. 6 indexed citations

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Liu, Shuo, Naheeda Begum, Tingting An, et al.. (2021). Characterization of Root System Architecture Traits in Diverse Soybean Genotypes Using a Semi-Hydroponic System. Plants. 10(12). 2781–2781. 30 indexed citations

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Ku, Yee‐Shan, Wai‐Shing Yung, Sau‐Shan Cheng, et al.. (2021). MATE-Type Proteins Are Responsible for Isoflavone Transportation and Accumulation in Soybean Seeds. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 22(21). 12017–12017. 18 indexed citations

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Bayer, Philipp E., Babu Valliyodan, Haifei Hu, et al.. (2021). Sequencing the USDA core soybean collection reveals gene loss during domestication and breeding. The Plant Genome. 15(1). e20109–e20109. 67 indexed citations

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Contador, Carolina A., et al.. (2020). Metabolic Analyses of Nitrogen Fixation in the Soybean Microsymbiont Sinorhizobium fredii Using Constraint-Based Modeling. mSystems. 5(1). 18 indexed citations

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Nawaz, Muhammad Amjad, Xiao Lin, Ting‐Fung Chan, et al.. (2020). Korean Wild Soybeans (Glycine soja Sieb & Zucc.): Geographic Distribution and Germplasm Conservation. Agronomy. 10(2). 214–214. 23 indexed citations

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Li, Man‐Wah, Zhili Wang, Bingjun Jiang, et al.. (2019). Impacts of genomic research on soybean improvement in East Asia. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 133(5). 1655–1678. 45 indexed citations

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Anjam, Muhammad Shahzad, et al.. (2018). Signal Transduction in Plant–Nematode Interactions. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19(6). 1648–1648. 44 indexed citations

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Li, Chade, Annette Y. P. Wong, Shuang Wang, et al.. (2018). miRNA-Mediated Interactions in and between Plants and Insects. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 19(10). 3239–3239. 22 indexed citations

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Jiao, Jian, Meng Ni, Biliang Zhang, et al.. (2018). Coordinated regulation of core and accessory genes in the multipartite genome of Sinorhizobium fredii. PLoS Genetics. 14(5). e1007428–e1007428. 33 indexed citations

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