Luca Comai

24.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
179 papers, 17.6k citations indexed

About

Luca Comai is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Comai has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 17.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 166 papers in Plant Science, 127 papers in Molecular Biology and 30 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Luca Comai's work include Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (93 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (55 papers) and Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies (39 papers). Luca Comai is often cited by papers focused on Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (93 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (55 papers) and Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies (39 papers). Luca Comai collaborates with scholars based in United States, Thailand and Japan. Luca Comai's co-authors include Steven Henikoff, Elizabeth A. Greene, Bradley J. Till, Isabelle Henry, Claire M. McCallum, Andreas Madlung, Brian P. Dilkes, Anand P. Tyagi, Brian Watson and Steven H. Reynolds and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Luca Comai

173 papers receiving 16.9k 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.

The advantages and disadvantages of being polyploid

2005 1.7k citations Luca Comai profile →
Understanding mechanisms of novel gene expression in polyploids

2003 711 citations T. C. Osborn, Luca Comai et al. profile →
TargetingInducedLocalLesionsIN Genomes (TILLING) for Plant Functional Genomics

2000 553 citations Luca Comai et al. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Comai United States	68	14.9k	11.2k	2.9k	1.3k	789	179	17.6k
Gynheung An South Korea	96	22.3k 1.5×	15.7k 1.4×	3.5k 1.2×	1000 0.8×	1.7k 2.1×	376	26.8k
Caroline Dean United Kingdom	87	21.7k 1.5×	18.9k 1.7×	2.7k 0.9×	1.0k 0.8×	565 0.7×	234	26.6k
Stephen L. Dellaporta United States	38	9.2k 0.6×	6.5k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	833 0.6×	1.1k 1.4×	68	12.3k
Richard M. Amasino United States	83	22.0k 1.5×	17.5k 1.6×	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k 0.9×	573 0.7×	165	24.5k
Hirohiko Hirochika Japan	76	15.2k 1.0×	9.5k 0.8×	1.9k 0.7×	529 0.4×	676 0.9×	179	17.7k
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen United States	79	18.7k 1.3×	12.1k 1.1×	4.7k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	347 0.4×	221	23.1k
William F. Thompson United States	49	13.3k 0.9×	10.3k 0.9×	3.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	1.4k 1.8×	169	18.1k
Richard A. Jorgensen United States	34	8.3k 0.6×	7.0k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	693 0.5×	867 1.1×	65	11.9k
Keith J. Edwards United Kingdom	53	11.5k 0.8×	5.6k 0.5×	4.1k 1.4×	859 0.7×	458 0.6×	133	14.7k
Steven J. Rothstein Canada	69	10.6k 0.7×	7.3k 0.7×	1.1k 0.4×	796 0.6×	587 0.7×	164	14.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Comai

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Buaboocha, Teerapong, et al.. (2025). Effects of Salt Stress at the Booting Stage of Grain Development on Physiological Responses, Starch Properties, and Starch-Related Gene Expression in Rice (Oryza sativa L.). Plants. 14(6). 885–885.

Tonosaki, Kaoru, Daichi Susaki, A. Ono, et al.. (2024). Multilayered epigenetic control of persistent and stage-specific imprinted genes in rice endosperm. Nature Plants. 10(8). 1231–1245. 5 indexed citations

Lieberman, Meric, et al.. (2024). A k-mer-based bulked segregant analysis approach to map seed traits in unphased heterozygous potato genomes. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 14(4). 1 indexed citations

Comai, Luca, et al.. (2023). Genome-Wide Association Study of Starch Properties in Local Thai Rice. Plants. 12(18). 3290–3290. 7 indexed citations

Pochon, Gaëtan, Isabelle Henry, Chao Yang, et al.. (2022). The Arabidopsis Hop1 homolog ASY1 mediates cross-over assurance and interference. PNAS Nexus. 2(3). pgac302–pgac302. 13 indexed citations

Comai, Luca, et al.. (2022). Chromoanagenesis in the asy1 meiotic mutant of Arabidopsis. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 13(2). 3 indexed citations

Buaboocha, Teerapong, et al.. (2022). Salt stress responses and SNP‐based phylogenetic analysis of Thai rice cultivars. The Plant Genome. 15(1). e20189–e20189. 9 indexed citations

Comai, Luca, et al.. (2021). LD-CNV: rapid and simple discovery of chromosomal translocations using linkage disequilibrium between copy number variable loci. Genetics. 219(3). 4 indexed citations

Henry, Isabelle, et al.. (2021). Rare instances of haploid inducer DNA in potato dihaploids and ploidy-dependent genome instability. The Plant Cell. 33(7). 2149–2163. 11 indexed citations

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Tonosaki, Kaoru, A. Ono, Shingo Sakamoto, et al.. (2020). Mutation of the imprinted geneOsEMF2ainduces autonomous endosperm development and delayed cellularization in rice. The Plant Cell. 33(1). 85–103. 32 indexed citations

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Ishii, Takayoshi, Shamoni Maheshwari, Fernanda de Oliveira Bustamante, et al.. (2020). Unequal contribution of two paralogous CENH3 variants in cowpea centromere function. Communications Biology. 3(1). 775–775. 19 indexed citations

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Tan, Ek Han, et al.. (2019). Genomic Outcomes of Haploid Induction Crosses in Potato ( Solanum tuberosum L.). Genetics. 214(2). 369–380. 13 indexed citations

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Kuppu, Sundaram, et al.. (2019). Regeneration of Solanum tuberosum Plants from Protoplasts Induces Widespread Genome Instability. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 180(1). 78–86. 91 indexed citations

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Maheshwari, Shamoni, Takayoshi Ishii, C. Titus Brown, Andreas Houben, & Luca Comai. (2017). Centromere location in Arabidopsis is unaltered by extreme divergence in CENH3 protein sequence. Genome Research. 27(3). 471–478. 53 indexed citations

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Akagi, Takashi, Isabelle Henry, Takashi Kawai, Luca Comai, & Ryutaro Tao. (2016). Epigenetic Regulation of the Sex Determination Gene MeGI in Polyploid Persimmon. The Plant Cell. 28(12). 2905–2915. 77 indexed citations

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Tan, Ek Han, Isabelle Henry, Maruthachalam Ravi, et al.. (2015). Catastrophic chromosomal restructuring during genome elimination in plants. eLife. 4. 95 indexed citations

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Henry, Isabelle, Brian P. Dilkes, Anand P. Tyagi, et al.. (2014). The BOY NAMED SUE Quantitative Trait Locus Confers Increased Meiotic Stability to an Adapted Natural Allopolyploid of Arabidopsis. The Plant Cell. 26(1). 181–194. 69 indexed citations

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Henry, Isabelle, Brian P. Dilkes, Eric S. Miller, Diana Burkart‐Waco, & Luca Comai. (2010). Phenotypic Consequences of Aneuploidy in Arabidopsis thaliana. Genetics. 186(4). 1231–1245. 87 indexed citations

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Wang, Jianlin, Lu Tian, Hongmei Jiang, et al.. (2005). Genomewide Nonadditive Gene Regulation in Arabidopsis Allotetraploids. Genetics. 172(1). 507–517. 471 indexed citations

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Ditt, Renata Fava, Eugene W. Nester, & Luca Comai. (2001). Plant gene expression response to Agrobacterium tumefaciens. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98(19). 10954–10959. 155 indexed citations

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