Nikhil S. Jaikumar

975 total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 773 citations indexed

About

Nikhil S. Jaikumar is a scholar working on Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nikhil S. Jaikumar has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 773 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Plant Science, 4 papers in Agronomy and Crop Science and 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nikhil S. Jaikumar's work include Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (4 papers), Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (3 papers) and Bioenergy crop production and management (3 papers). Nikhil S. Jaikumar is often cited by papers focused on Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (4 papers), Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (3 papers) and Bioenergy crop production and management (3 papers). Nikhil S. Jaikumar collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Nikhil S. Jaikumar's co-authors include Lawren Sack, Peter D. Cowan, N. Michèle Holbrook, Sieglinde S. Snapp, Thomas D. Sharkey, Stephen S. Jones, Kevin Murphy, Samuel B. Fernandes, Patrick J. Brown and Carl J. Bernacchi and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Experimental Botany, Plant Cell & Environment and American Journal of Botany.

In The Last Decade

Nikhil S. Jaikumar

8 papers receiving 757 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.

The ‘hydrology’ of leaves: co‐ordination of structure and function in temperate woody species

2003 643 citations Lawren Sack, Peter D. Cowan et al. Plant Cell & Environment profile →

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Kristen Frole United States

Michael Rawls United States

Gianfranco Minotta Italy

Egbert Beuker Finland

Francine J. Bigras Canada

Madeline R. Carins‐Murphy Australia

Tomasz P. Wyka Poland

Ingmar Tulva Estonia

Angelika Portsmuth Estonia

Tingfa Dong China

Kristen Frole United States

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411 ×0.8

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402 ×0.9

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252 ×1.0

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208 ×1.3

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107 ×0.7

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nikhil S. Jaikumar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nikhil S. Jaikumar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nikhil S. Jaikumar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Nikhil S. Jaikumar. Nikhil S. Jaikumar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Jaikumar, Nikhil S., Truyen Quach, Zhengxiang Ge, et al.. (2025). Constitutive down‐regulation of liguleless alleles in sorghum drives increased productivity and water use efficiency. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 23(8). 3401–3413. 1 indexed citations

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Jaikumar, Nikhil S., Samuel B. Fernandes, Andrew D. B. Leakey, et al.. (2021). Can improved canopy light transmission ameliorate loss of photosynthetic efficiency in the shade? An investigation of natural variation inSorghum bicolor. Journal of Experimental Botany. 72(13). 4965–4980. 25 indexed citations

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Jaikumar, Nikhil S., et al.. (2020). Nucleic acid damage and DNA repair are affected by freezing stress in annual wheat (Triticum aestivum) and by plant age and freezing in its perennial relative (Thinopyrum intermedium). American Journal of Botany. 107(12). 1693–1709. 8 indexed citations

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Jaikumar, Nikhil S., Sieglinde S. Snapp, & Thomas D. Sharkey. (2016). OlderThinopyrum intermedium(Poaceae) plants exhibit superior photosynthetic tolerance to cold stress and greater increases in two photosynthetic enzymes under freezing stress compared with young plants. Journal of Experimental Botany. 67(15). 4743–4753. 25 indexed citations

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Jaikumar, Nikhil S., Sieglinde S. Snapp, & Thomas D. Sharkey. (2013). Life history and resource acquisition: Photosynthetic traits in selected accessions of three perennial cereal species compared with annual wheat and rye. American Journal of Botany. 100(12). 2468–2477. 19 indexed citations

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Jaikumar, Nikhil S., Sieglinde S. Snapp, James A. Flore, & Wayne H. Loescher. (2013). Photosynthetic Responses in Annual Rye, Perennial Wheat, and Perennial Rye Subjected to Modest Source:Sink Ratio Changes. Crop Science. 54(1). 274–283. 10 indexed citations

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Jaikumar, Nikhil S.. (2012). Perennial cereal crops for the cold temperate zone: agronomy, physiology, sink regulation and disease resistance.

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Jaikumar, Nikhil S., Sieglinde S. Snapp, Kevin Murphy, & Stephen S. Jones. (2012). Agronomic Assessment of Perennial Wheat and Perennial Rye as Cereal Crops. Agronomy Journal. 104(6). 1716–1726. 42 indexed citations

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Sack, Lawren, Peter D. Cowan, Nikhil S. Jaikumar, & N. Michèle Holbrook. (2003). The ‘hydrology’ of leaves: co‐ordination of structure and function in temperate woody species. Plant Cell & Environment. 26(8). 1343–1356. 643 indexed citations breakdown →

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