Nigel G. Halford

18.2k citations
264 papers · 15.0k · 5 hit papers · h-index 61

Impact in

  • Plant Science top 0.05%
    • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
    • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
    • Plant Molecular Biology Research
    • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
    • Phytase and its Applications
    • Plant Pathogens and Resistance
  • Gastroenterology top 0.5%

Papers in

  • Plant Science 185
    • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism 46
    • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology 39
    • Plant Pathogens and Resistance 30
    • Phytase and its Applications 28
  • Food Science 75
    • Potato Plant Research 69
Co-authors
Peter R. Shewry (54 shared papers)Arthur S. Tatham (27 shared papers)Tanya Y. Curtis (28 shared papers)David Grahame Hardie (9 shared papers)S. J. Hey (9 shared papers)Donald S. Mottram (21 shared papers)Nira Muttucumaru (23 shared papers)Martin A. J. Parry (20 shared papers)
Journals
Journal of Experimental Botany (14 papers)Plant Molecular Biology (12 papers)Journal of Cereal Science (11 papers)Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (11 papers)Annals of Applied Biology (10 papers)
Partner nations
United KingdomChinaFrance

In The Last Decade

Nigel G. Halford

256 papers receiving 14.4k citations

Nigel G. Halford's Hit Papers

Food security: the challenge of increasing wheat yield and the importance of not compromising food safety 2014 · 341 citations
3410+11+22Years since publication2505007501000
What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

  1. 2014 Annals of Applied Biology
  2. 2006 Annals of Applied Biology
  3. 2003 PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  4. 2002 Journal of Experimental Botany
  5. 1992 Journal of Cereal Science

Peers

Nigel G. Halford
Comparison fields: 5 of 151
  • Plant Science 11.1k
  • Gastroenterology 926
  • Food Science 3.0k
  • Nutrition and Dietetics 2.0k
  • Biotechnology 811
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1
Cereal seed storage proteins: structures, properties and role in grain utilization
Journal of Experimental Botany ·Peter R. Shewry, Nigel G. Halford
Hit paper breakdown →		20021174
2
The Arabidopsis CDPK-SnRK Superfamily of Protein Kinases
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Estelle M. Hrabak, Catherine W. M. Chan, Michael Gribskov, Jeffrey F. Harper, Jung Ho Choi, Nigel G. Halford, Jörg Kudla, Sheng Luan
Hit paper breakdown →		2003868
3
High molecular weight subunits of wheat glutenin
Journal of Cereal Science ·Peter R. Shewry, Nigel G. Halford, Arthur S. Tatham
Hit paper breakdown →		1992649
4
Asparagine in plants
Annals of Applied Biology ·Peter John Lea, Ladaslav Sodek, Martin A. J. Parry, Peter R. Shewry, Nigel G. Halford
Hit paper breakdown →		2006565
5
The structure and properties of gluten: an elastic protein from wheat grain
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences ·P. R. Shewry, Nigel G. Halford, P. S. Belton, Arthur S. Tatham
2002471
6
Food security: the challenge of increasing wheat yield and the importance of not compromising food safety
Annals of Applied Biology ·Tanya Y. Curtis, Nigel G. Halford
Hit paper breakdown →		2014341
7
SNF1-related protein kinases: global regulators of carbon metabolism in plants?
Plant Molecular Biology ·Nigel G. Halford, David Grahame Hardie
1998309
8
Snf1-related protein kinases (SnRKs) act within an intricate network that links metabolic and stress signalling in plants
Biochemical Journal ·Nigel G. Halford, S. J. Hey
2009293
9
Changes in Protein Secondary Structure during Gluten Deformation Studied by Dynamic Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Biomacromolecules ·Nikolaus Wellner, E. N. Clare Mills, Geoff J. Brownsey, Reginald H. Wilson, Neil Andrew Brown, J. Freeman, Nigel G. Halford, Peter R. Shewry
2004268
10
Genetics of Wheat Gluten Proteins
Advances in genetics ·Peter R. Shewry, Nigel G. Halford, D. Lafiandra
2003263
11
Kafirin structure and functionality
Journal of Cereal Science ·P.S. Belton, Ivonne Delgadillo, Nigel G. Halford, P. R. Shewry
2006261
12
Two SNF1-Related Protein Kinases from Spinach Leaf Phosphorylate and Inactivate 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl-Coenzyme A Reductase, Nitrate Reductase, and Sucrose Phosphate Synthase in Vitro1
PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Christopher Sugden, Paul G. Donaghy, Nigel G. Halford, David Grahame Hardie
1999257
13
The high molecular weight subunits of wheat glutenin and their role in determining wheat processing properties
Advances in food and nutrition research ·Peter R. Shewry, Nigel G. Halford, Arthur S. Tatham, Yves Popineau, D. Lafiandra, Peter Belton
2003252
14
Nucleotide sequences of the two high-molecular-weight glutenin genes from the D-genome of a hexaploid bread wheat,Triticum aestivumL. cv Cheyenne
Nucleic Acids Research ·Olin D. Anderson, Frank C. Greene, Ryan E. Yip, Nigel G. Halford, Peter R. Shewry, J.-M. Malpica-Romero
1989228
15
Metabolic signalling and carbon partitioning: role of Snf1-related (SnRK1) protein kinase
Journal of Experimental Botany ·Nigel G. Halford, S. J. Hey, Deveraj Jhurreea, Sophie Laurie, Rowan S. McKibbin, Matthew J. Paul, Yiwen Zhang
2002214
16
Analysis of HMW glutenin subunits encoded by chromosome 1A of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) indicates quantitative effects on grain quality
Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Nigel G. Halford, Jacqueline Field, Helen J. Blair, Peter E. Urwin, Kelly E. Moore, Laurian S. Robert, Robert G. Thompson, Richard Bailey Flavell
1992201
17
The nucleotide sequence of a HMW glutenin subunit gene located on chromosome 1A of wheat (Triticum aestivumL.)
Nucleic Acids Research ·J. Forde, J-M. Malpica, Nigel G. Halford, Peter R. Shewry, Olin D. Anderson, Frank C. Greene, Ben J. Miflin
1985200
18
Antisense expression of a sucrose non‐fermenting‐1‐related protein kinase sequence in potato results in decreased expression of sucrose synthase in tubers and loss of sucrose‐inducibility of sucrose synthase transcripts in leaves
The Plant Journal ·Patrick C. Purcell, Alison M. Smith, Nigel G. Halford
1998194
19
Evidence that SNF1‐related kinase and hexokinase are involved in separate sugar‐signalling pathways modulating post‐translational redox activation of ADP‐glucose pyrophosphorylase in potato tubers
The Plant Journal ·Axel Tiessen, Katrin Prescha, Anja Branscheid, Natalia Palacios‐Rojas, Rowan S. McKibbin, Nigel G. Halford, Peter Geigenberger
2003194
20
Complementation of snf1, a mutation affecting global regulation of carbon metabolism in yeast, by a plant protein kinase cDNA.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alison Louise Alderson, Paolo A. Sabelli, John R. Dickinson, Deborah Cole, Mark A. Richardson, Martin Ernst Kreis, P. R. Shewry, Nigel G. Halford
1991186

About Nigel G. Halford

Nigel G. Halford is a scholar working on Plant Science, Food Science, Biotechnology, Agronomy and Crop Science and Molecular Biology, having authored 264 papers that have together received 15.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Potato Plant Research (69 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (46 papers), Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (39 papers), Plant Pathogens and Resistance (30 papers), Transgenic Plants and Applications (30 papers), Phytase and its Applications (28 papers), Plant tissue culture and regeneration (27 papers) and Fungal and yeast genetics research (19 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (11.1k citations), Gastroenterology (926 citations), Food Science (3.0k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (2.0k citations) and Biotechnology (811 citations). Nigel G. Halford has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and France. Frequent co-authors include Peter R. Shewry, Arthur S. Tatham, Tanya Y. Curtis, David Grahame Hardie, S. J. Hey, Donald S. Mottram, Nira Muttucumaru, Martin A. J. Parry, Stephen J. Powers and J. Stephen Elmore. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Experimental Botany, Plant Molecular Biology, Journal of Cereal Science, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and Annals of Applied Biology.

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