Muhammad Uzair

1.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 915 citations indexed

About

Muhammad Uzair is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Agronomy and Crop Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Uzair has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 915 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 50 papers in Plant Science, 19 papers in Molecular Biology and 7 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Uzair's work include Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (14 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (12 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (10 papers). Muhammad Uzair is often cited by papers focused on Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement (14 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (12 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (10 papers). Muhammad Uzair collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia. Muhammad Uzair's co-authors include Muhammad Ramzan Khan, Muhammad Shahbaz Farooq, Muhammad Yousuf, Seung Hwan Yang, Sajid Fiaz, Madiha Habib, Yinlong Xu, Ali Raza, Syed Adeel Zafar and S. B. Patil and has published in prestigious journals such as PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Scientific Reports and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Uzair

60 papers receiving 896 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.

Uncovering the Research Gaps to Alleviate the Negative Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security: A Review

2022 147 citations Muhammad Shahbaz Farooq, Muhammad Uzair et al. profile →
Morpho-physiological and biochemical response of wheat to various treatments of silicon nano-particles under drought stress conditions

2023 79 citations Rashid Iqbal, Muhammad Uzair et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muhammad Uzair Pakistan	17	690	225	75	67	64	70	915
Muhammad Salman Mubarik Pakistan	15	745 1.1×	346 1.5×	38 0.5×	68 1.0×	43 0.7×	31	994
Mehtab Muhammad Aslam China	17	885 1.3×	271 1.2×	55 0.7×	53 0.8×	84 1.3×	48	1.1k
Yansu Li China	24	1.4k 2.0×	470 2.1×	28 0.4×	82 1.2×	57 0.9×	76	1.6k
Fiaz Ahmad Pakistan	15	812 1.2×	272 1.2×	55 0.7×	71 1.1×	64 1.0×	42	1.0k
Jianchao Liu China	17	828 1.2×	268 1.2×	53 0.7×	58 0.9×	157 2.5×	22	1.1k
Sadaruddin Chachar China	15	455 0.7×	298 1.3×	32 0.4×	42 0.6×	46 0.7×	49	710
Sangeeta Srivastava India	17	792 1.1×	243 1.1×	70 0.9×	38 0.6×	26 0.4×	62	958
Muhammad Mubashar Zafar Pakistan	19	802 1.2×	235 1.0×	116 1.5×	29 0.4×	66 1.0×	74	1.0k
Lili Sun China	23	1.5k 2.1×	580 2.6×	45 0.6×	51 0.8×	51 0.8×	46	1.7k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Muhammad Uzair

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Rehman, Nazia, Hanan Almahasheer, Sajid Fiaz, et al.. (2025). Transcriptome-based meta-analysis of drought stress regulatory genes in tomato. BMC Plant Biology. 25(1). 1347–1347.

Riaz, Aamir, Muhammad Uzair, Ali Raza, et al.. (2025). Enhancing the productivity and resilience of rice (Oryza sativa) under environmental stress conditions using clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) technology. Functional Plant Biology. 52(1). 4 indexed citations

Fiaz, Sajid, Muhammad Uzair, & Baohong Zhang. (2024). Modern Plant Breeding for Achieving Global Food Security. Physiologia Plantarum. 176(6). e70014–e70014. 2 indexed citations

Yuan, Wenbin, Hala Badr Khalil, Manzoor R. Khan, et al.. (2024). Understanding Botrytis cinerea infection and gray mold management: a review paper on deciphering the rose's thorn. Phytopathology Research. 6(1). 6 indexed citations

Rehman, Nazia, et al.. (2024). Genome editing for improvement of biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in cereals. Functional Plant Biology. 51(9). 3 indexed citations

Fozia, Fozia, et al.. (2024). Exogenous application of salicylic acid and NPK promotes tomato growth parameters, yield, and nutraceutical quality under cold stress. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca. 52(4). 13667–13667.

Khan, Tahir Ali, Dalal Sulaiman Alshaya, Pan Luo, et al.. (2024). Bacillus methylotrophicus influences on the virulence of Aeromonas hydrophila and probiotic applications in Ctenopharyngodon idella. Aquaculture Reports. 39. 102440–102440. 1 indexed citations

Uzair, Muhammad, Kotb A. Attia, Muhammad Shahbaz Farooq, et al.. (2023). Functional characterization of the IGT gene family in wheat reveals conservation and variation in root architecture under drought condition. Plant Stress. 10. 100217–100217. 3 indexed citations

Farooq, Muhammad Shahbaz, Muhammad Yousuf, Sajid Fiaz, et al.. (2023). Major challenges in widespread adaptation of aerobic rice system and potential opportunities for future sustainability. South African Journal of Botany. 159. 231–251. 8 indexed citations

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Shah, Zafar Ali, Riaz Ullah, Essam A. Ali, et al.. (2023). Ammonia Mediated Silver Nanoparticles Based Detection of Bisphenol A, an Endocrine Disruptor, in Water Samples after Vortex-Assisted Liquid–Liquid Microextraction. Chemosensors. 11(8). 434–434. 2 indexed citations

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Zaman, Gohar, Muhammad Uzair, Farman Ullah, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of Thieno[3,2‐d]pyrimidine Derivatives through Sequential S_NAr and Suzuki Reactions as Selective h‐NTPDase Inhibitors. ChemMedChem. 18(14). e202300165–e202300165. 5 indexed citations

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Uzair, Muhammad, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide identification and expression analysis of CRK gene family in chili pepper (Capsicum annuum L.) in response to Colletotrichum truncatum infection. The Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology. 98(2). 194–206. 8 indexed citations

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Naeem, Muhammad Kashif, Hussah I. M. AlGwaiz, Muhammad Uzair, et al.. (2022). Evaluation of Green Super Rice Lines for Agronomic and Physiological Traits under Salinity Stress. Plants. 11(11). 1461–1461. 5 indexed citations

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Uzair, Muhammad, S. B. Patil, Syed Adeel Zafar, et al.. (2022). Screening Direct Seeding-Related Traits by Using an Improved Mesocotyl Elongation Assay and Association between Seedling and Maturity Traits in Rice. Agronomy. 12(4). 975–975. 12 indexed citations

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Zafar, Syed Adeel, Muhammad Uzair, Umer Rashid, et al.. (2022). Agronomic and Physiological Indices for Reproductive Stage Heat Stress Tolerance in Green Super Rice. Agronomy. 12(8). 1907–1907. 7 indexed citations

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Uzair, Muhammad, et al.. (2022). Role of the type‐B authentic response regulator gene family in fragrant rice under alkaline salt stress. Physiologia Plantarum. 174(3). e13696–e13696. 27 indexed citations

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Patil, S. B., François Barbier, Jinfeng Zhao, et al.. (2021). Sucrose promotes D53 accumulation and tillering in rice. New Phytologist. 234(1). 122–136. 71 indexed citations

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Zafar, Syed Adeel, Muhammad Uzair, Muhammad Ramzan Khan, et al.. (2021). DPS1 regulates cuticle development and leaf senescence in rice. Food and Energy Security. 10(1). 22 indexed citations

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Uzair, Muhammad, Syed Adeel Zafar, S. B. Patil, et al.. (2021). Narrow Leaf21, encoding ribosomal protein RPS3A, controls leaf development in rice. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 186(1). 497–518. 44 indexed citations

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Patil, S. B., Syed Adeel Zafar, Muhammad Uzair, et al.. (2019). An Improved Mesocotyl Elongation Assay for the Rapid Identification and Characterization of Strigolactone-Related Rice Mutants. Agronomy. 9(4). 208–208. 4 indexed citations

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