Jan E. Leach

21.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
183 papers, 13.6k citations indexed

About

Jan E. Leach is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan E. Leach has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 13.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 162 papers in Plant Science, 36 papers in Molecular Biology and 26 papers in Cell Biology. Recurrent topics in Jan E. Leach's work include Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (97 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (91 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (46 papers). Jan E. Leach is often cited by papers focused on Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (97 papers), Plant Pathogenic Bacteria Studies (91 papers) and Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (46 papers). Jan E. Leach collaborates with scholars based in United States, Philippines and France. Jan E. Leach's co-authors include Pankaj Trivedi, Brajesh K. Singh, Susannah G. Tringe, Tongmin Sa, Hei Leung, Frank F. White, Lindsay R. Triplett, Jianfa Bai, Casiana M. Vera Cruz and Scot H. Hulbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jan E. Leach

182 papers receiving 13.1k 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.

Plant–microbiome interactions: from community assembly to plant health

2020 2.2k citations Pankaj Trivedi, Jan E. Leach et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward

2023 597 citations Brajesh K. Singh, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo et al. Nature Reviews Microbiology profile →
Research priorities for harnessing plant microbiomes in sustainable agriculture

2017 512 citations Jan E. Leach et al. profile →
Gene amplification confers glyphosate resistance in Amaranthus palmeri

2009 511 citations Jan E. Leach et al. profile →
Enabling sustainable agriculture through understanding and enhancement of microbiomes

2021 175 citations Pankaj Trivedi, Jan E. Leach et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Jan E. Leach	11.6k	3.5k	1.8k	935	896	183	13.6k
Linda S. Thomashow	8.4k 0.7×	4.1k 1.2×	1.7k 0.9×	1.1k 1.2×	760 0.8×	138	12.1k
David M. Weller	12.8k 1.1×	2.9k 0.8×	2.9k 1.6×	1.1k 1.2×	354 0.4×	139	14.7k
Choong‐Min Ryu	11.9k 1.0×	4.1k 1.2×	1.5k 0.9×	919 1.0×	295 0.3×	227	14.9k
Monica Höfte	11.5k 1.0×	3.3k 0.9×	2.6k 1.5×	640 0.7×	369 0.4×	318	14.9k
Manuel Talón	9.7k 0.8×	6.1k 1.7×	742 0.4×	660 0.7×	914 1.0×	157	13.5k
Rainer Borriss	7.3k 0.6×	4.7k 1.3×	1.1k 0.6×	1.2k 1.3×	675 0.8×	153	11.2k
Harsh P. Bais	10.0k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	685 0.4×	1.5k 1.6×	286 0.3×	125	13.8k
Christophe Clément	9.1k 0.8×	4.6k 1.3×	2.4k 1.4×	1.2k 1.3×	156 0.2×	175	12.8k
Christoph Keel	6.5k 0.6×	3.1k 0.9×	878 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	936 1.0×	129	8.8k
Venkatesan Sundaresan	11.7k 1.0×	8.2k 2.3×	687 0.4×	984 1.1×	717 0.8×	127	13.6k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan E. Leach

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20 of 20 papers shown

Lore, Jagjeet Singh, Dharminder Bhatia, Mandeep Singh Hunjan, et al.. (2025). Pathogen-Informed Strategies for Durable Resistance in Rice: Lessons from Bacterial Blight. Annual Review of Phytopathology. 63(1). 247–277. 1 indexed citations

Singh, Brajesh K., Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Eleonora Egidi, et al.. (2023). Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 21(10). 640–656. 597 indexed citations breakdown →

Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Abigail Thompson, Juntao Wang, et al.. (2022). Management‐induced shifts in rhizosphere bacterial communities contribute to the control of pathogen causing citrus greening disease. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 275–286. 8 indexed citations

Mosquera, Gloria, Jillian M. Lang, Jan E. Leach, et al.. (2021). Understanding the complexity of disease-climate interactions for rice bacterial panicle blight under tropical conditions. PLoS ONE. 16(5). e0252061–e0252061. 8 indexed citations

Wang, Li, Hilal Betül Kaya, Ning Zhang, et al.. (2021). Spelling Changes and Fluorescent Tagging With Prime Editing Vectors for Plants. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 617553–617553. 41 indexed citations

Pérez‐Quintero, Álvaro L., Jillian M. Lang, Adrien Rieux, et al.. (2020). Genomic Acquisitions in Emerging Populations of Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum Infecting Corn in the United States and Argentina. Phytopathology. 110(6). 1161–1173. 15 indexed citations

Coutinho, Teresa A., et al.. (2020). Current Understanding of the History, Global Spread, Ecology, Evolution, and Management of the Corn Bacterial Leaf Streak Pathogen, Xanthomonas vasicola pv. vasculorum. Phytopathology. 110(6). 1124–1131. 20 indexed citations

Koebnik, Ralf, Claude Bragard, Christine Chang, et al.. (2020). The Complete Genome Sequence of Xanthomonas theicola, the Causal Agent of Canker on Tea Plants, Reveals Novel Secretion Systems in Clade-1 Xanthomonads. Phytopathology. 111(4). 611–616. 14 indexed citations

Klessig, Daniel F., Murli Manohar, Aline Koch, et al.. (2019). Nematode ascaroside enhances resistance in a broad spectrum of plant–pathogen systems. Journal of Phytopathology. 167(5). 265–272. 25 indexed citations

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Cohen, Stephen P., Jillian M. Lang, Janet Ziegle, et al.. (2019). High-Quality Genome Resource of Xanthomonas hyacinthi Generated via Long-Read Sequencing. Plant Disease. 104(4). 1011–1012. 6 indexed citations

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Román-Reyna, Verónica, Céline Pesce, Christine Chang, et al.. (2019). Genome Resource of Barley Bacterial Blight and Leaf Streak Pathogen Xanthomonas translucens pv. translucens strain UPB886. Plant Disease. 104(1). 13–15. 5 indexed citations

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Wang, Limin, et al.. (2019). Biomass Production and Soil Carbon Analysis of Switchgrass under Rainfed or Minimal Irrigation in a Semiarid Environment. Agronomy Journal. 111(4). 1704–1711. 1 indexed citations

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Wonni, Issa, Sara C. D. Carpenter, Yanhua Yu, et al.. (2018). Functional analysis of African Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae TALomes reveals a new susceptibility gene in bacterial leaf blight of rice. PLoS Pathogens. 14(6). e1007092–e1007092. 66 indexed citations

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Broeckling, Corey D., Jay S. Kirkwood, John J. Long, et al.. (2017). The effector AvrRxo1 phosphorylates NAD in planta. PLoS Pathogens. 13(6). e1006442–e1006442. 37 indexed citations

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Wonni, Issa, B. G. Cottyn, S. Sarra, et al.. (2013). Analysis of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzicola Population in Mali and Burkina Faso Reveals a High Level of Genetic and Pathogenic Diversity. Phytopathology. 104(5). 520–531. 32 indexed citations

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Hamilton, John P., Eric C Neeno-Eckwall, Bishwo N. Adhikari, et al.. (2011). The Comprehensive Phytopathogen Genomics Resource: a web-based resource for data-mining plant pathogen genomes. Database. 2011(0). bar053–bar053. 25 indexed citations

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Wu, Jianyu, Noboru Sugiyama, I. Oña, et al.. (2005). Association of candidate defense genes with quantitative resistance to rice blast and in silico analysis of their characteristics.. 479–482. 1 indexed citations

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Tsuyumu, Shinji, et al.. (2005). Genomic and genetic analysis of plant parasitism and defense. 24 indexed citations

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Bai, Jianfa, Jianchang Ning, J. Ramalingam, et al.. (2002). Diversity in Nucleotide Binding Site–Leucine-Rich Repeat Genes in Cereals. Genome Research. 12(12). 1871–1884. 261 indexed citations

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Young, Simon A., et al.. (1995). Phospholipase D activity and location in rice during interactions with Xanthomonas oryzae pv oryzae. Phytopathology. 85(10). 1161. 1 indexed citations

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