Kun Wu

6.7k citations

68 papers · 4.7k · 7 hit papers · h-index 26

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.2%
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- GABA and Rice Research
- Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
Genetics top 1%
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Papers in

Plant Science 50
- Plant Molecular Biology Research 20
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 13
- Sesame and Sesamin Research 8
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement 7
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 7
- Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis 7
- Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms 6
Molecular Biology 19

Co-authors: Xiangdong Fu (29 shared papers)Qian Liu (14 shared papers)Shaokui Wang (3 shared papers)Shan Li (6 shared papers)Jianqing Zhang (4 shared papers)Qian Qian (5 shared papers)Shuansuo Wang (6 shared papers)Yafeng Ye (14 shared papers)
Journals: Nature Genetics (4 papers)Molecular Breeding (3 papers)Rice (3 papers)Plant Science (2 papers)Journal of genetics and genomics (2 papers)
Partner nations: China United States United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Kun Wu

66 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Kun Wu's Hit Papers

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Improving Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency Toward Sustainable Green Revolution 2022 · 148 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2022 Annual Review of Plant Biology
2020 Science
2018 Nature
2018 Nature Communications
2015 Nature Genetics
2014 Nature Genetics
2012 Nature Genetics

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1	Control of grain size, shape and quality by OsSPL16 in rice Nature Genetics ·Shaokui Wang, Kun Wu, Qingbo Yuan, Xueying Liu, Zhengbin Liu, Xiaoyan Lin, Ruizhen Zeng, Haitao Zhu, Guojun Dong, Qian Qian, (unknown), Xiangdong Fu Hit paper breakdown →	2012	907
2	The OsSPL16-GW7 regulatory module determines grain shape and simultaneously improves rice yield and grain quality Nature Genetics ·Shaokui Wang, Shan Li, Qian Liu, Kun Wu, Jianqing Zhang, Shuansuo Wang, Yi Wang, Xiangbin Chen, Yi Zhang, Caixia Gao, Feng Wang, Haixiang Huang, Xiangdong Fu Hit paper breakdown →	2015	543
3	Modulating plant growth–metabolism coordination for sustainable agriculture Nature ·Shan Li, Yonghang Tian, Kun Wu, Yafeng Ye, Jianping Yu, Jianqing Zhang, Qian Liu, Mengyun Hu, Hui Li, Yi‐Ping Tong, Nicholas P. Harberd, Xiangdong Fu Hit paper breakdown →	2018	505
4	Heterotrimeric G proteins regulate nitrogen-use efficiency in rice Nature Genetics ·Hongying Sun, Qian Qian, Kun Wu, Jijing Luo, Shuansuo Wang, Chengwei Zhang, Yanfei Ma, Qian Liu, Xianzhong Huang, Qingbo Yuan, Ruixi Han, Meng Zhao, Guojun Dong, Longbiao Guo, Xudong Zhu, Zhiheng Gou, Wen Wang, Yuejin Wu, Hong‐Xuan Lin, Xiangdong Fu Hit paper breakdown →	2014	338
5	Enhanced sustainable green revolution yield via nitrogen-responsive chromatin modulation in rice Science ·Kun Wu, Shuansuo Wang, Wenzhen Song, Jianqing Zhang, Yun Wang, Qian Liu, Jianping Yu, Yafeng Ye, Shan Li, Jianfeng Chen, Ying Zhao, Jing Wang, Xiaokang Wu, Meiyue Wang, Yijing Zhang, Binmei Liu, Yuejin Wu, Nicholas P. Harberd, Xiangdong Fu Hit paper breakdown →	2020	330
6	G-protein βγ subunits determine grain size through interaction with MADS-domain transcription factors in rice Nature Communications ·Qian Liu, Ruixi Han, Kun Wu, Jianqing Zhang, Yafeng Ye, Shuansuo Wang, Jianfeng Chen, Ya‐Jun Pan, Qi Li, Xiaopeng Xu, Jiawu Zhou, Dayun Tao, Yuejin Wu, Xiangdong Fu Hit paper breakdown →	2018	263
7	A Gibberellin-Mediated DELLA-NAC Signaling Cascade Regulates Cellulose Synthesis in Rice The Plant Cell ·Debao Huang, Shaogan Wang, Baocai Zhang, Keke Shang‐Guan, Yanyun Shi, Dongmei Zhang, Xiangling Liu, Kun Wu, Zuopeng Xu, Xiangdong Fu, Yihua Zhou	2015	234
8	Introgression of a quantitative trait locus for yield from Glycine soja into commercial soybean cultivars Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Vergel Concibido, B L Vallee, P. Mclaird, (unknown), J. N. Meyer, L. Hummel, Jiali Yang, Kun Wu, Xavier Delannay	2003	150
9	Improving Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency Toward Sustainable Green Revolution Annual Review of Plant Biology ·Qian Liu, Kun Wu, Wenzhen Song, Nan Zhong, Yunzhe Wu, Xiangdong Fu Hit paper breakdown →	2022	148
10	Non-canonical regulation of SPL transcription factors by a human OTUB1-like deubiquitinase defines a new plant type rice associated with higher grain yield Cell Research ·Shuansuo Wang, Kun Wu, Qian Qian, Qian Liu, Qi Li, Ya‐Jun Pan, Yafeng Ye, Xueying Liu, Jing Wang, Jianqing Zhang, Shan Li, Yuejin Wu, Xiangdong Fu	2017	117
11	Natural allelic variation in a modulator of auxin homeostasis improves grain yield and nitrogen use efficiency in rice The Plant Cell ·Siyu Zhang, Limei Zhu, Chengbo Shen, Zhe Ji, Haipeng Zhang, Tao Zhang, Yu Li, Jianping Yu, Ning Yang, Yubing He, Yanan Tian, Kun Wu, Juyou Wu, Nicholas P. Harberd, Yunde Zhao, Xiangdong Fu, Shaokui Wang, Shan Li	2020	92
12	The RING E3 ligase CLG1 targets GS3 for degradation via the endosome pathway to determine grain size in rice Molecular Plant ·Wensi Yang, Kun Wu, Bo Wang, Huanhuan Liu, Siyi Guo, Xiaoyu Guo, Wei Luo, Shengyuan Sun, Yidan Ouyang, Xiangdong Fu, Kang Chong, Qifa Zhang, Yunyuan Xu	2021	82
13	New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination Current Opinion in Plant Biology ·Kun Wu, Hao Xu, Xiuhua Gao, Xiangdong Fu	2021	80
14	High-density genetic map construction and QTLs analysis of grain yield-related traits in Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) based on RAD-Seq techonology BMC Plant Biology ·Kun Wu, Hongyan Liu, Minmin Yang, Ye Tao, Huihui Ma, Wenxiong Wu, Yang Zuo, Yingzhong Zhao	2014	77
15	Genetic analysis and molecular characterization of Chinese sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) cultivars using Insertion-Deletion (InDel) and Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers BMC Genetics ·Kun Wu, Minmin Yang, Hongyan Liu, Ye Tao, Mei Ju, Yingzhong Zhao	2014	77
16	CEF1/OsMYB103L is involved in GA-mediated regulation of secondary wall biosynthesis in rice Plant Molecular Biology ·Yafeng Ye, Binmei Liu, Meng Zhao, Kun Wu, Weimin Cheng, Xiangbin Chen, Qian Liu, Zan Liu, Xiangdong Fu, Yuejin Wu	2015	58
17	OsSND2, a NAC family transcription factor, is involved in secondary cell wall biosynthesis through regulating MYBs expression in rice Rice ·Yafeng Ye, Kun Wu, Jianfeng Chen, Qian Liu, Yuejin Wu, Binmei Liu, Xiangdong Fu	2018	57
18	Nitrogen signaling and use efficiency in plants: what's new? Current Opinion in Plant Biology ·Qian Liu, Xiangbin Chen, Kun Wu, Xiangdong Fu	2015	50
19	Host-Associated Quantitative Abundance Profiling Reveals the Microbial Load Variation of Root Microbiome Plant Communications ·Xiaoxuan Guo, Xiaoning Zhang, Yuan Qin, Yongxin Liu, Jingying Zhang, Na Zhang, Kun Wu, Baoyuan Qu, Zishan He, Xin Wang, Xinjian Zhang, Stéphane Hacquard, Xiangdong Fu, Yang Bai	2019	48
20	Structural characterization and evaluation the elicitors activity of polysaccharides from Chrysanthemum indicum Carbohydrate Polymers ·Qianwen Xiong, Guofu Luo, Fang Zheng, Kun Wu, Huining Yang, Lei Chen, Wei Tian	2021	47

About Kun Wu

Kun Wu is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Ecology and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 68 papers that have together received 4.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (20 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (13 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (11 papers), Sesame and Sesamin Research (8 papers), Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (7 papers), Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (7 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (7 papers) and Plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (4.1k citations), Genetics (1.7k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (277 citations), Molecular Biology (1.2k citations) and Horticulture (11 citations). Kun Wu has collaborated with scholars based in China, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Xiangdong Fu, Qian Liu, Shaokui Wang, Shan Li, Jianqing Zhang, Qian Qian, Shuansuo Wang, Yafeng Ye, Qingbo Yuan and Guojun Dong. Their work appears in journals such as Nature Genetics, Molecular Breeding, Rice, Plant Science and Journal of genetics and genomics.

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