Nils Stein

37.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
216 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

About

Nils Stein is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nils Stein has authored 216 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 205 papers in Plant Science, 69 papers in Molecular Biology and 61 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Nils Stein's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (134 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (86 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (63 papers). Nils Stein is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (134 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (86 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (63 papers). Nils Stein collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Nils Stein's co-authors include Andreas Graner, Beat Keller, Martin Mascher, Thomas Wicker, Uwe Scholz, Rajeev K. Varshney, Axel Himmelbach, Robbie Waugh, Peter Langridge and Catherine Feuillet and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Cell and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Nils Stein

207 papers receiving 11.0k 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.

Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene

2007 434 citations Takao Komatsuda, Mohammad Pourkheirandish et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Natural variation in a homolog of Antirrhinum CENTRORADIALIS contributed to spring growth habit and environmental adaptation in cultivated barley

2012 356 citations Nils Stein, Micha Bayer et al. Nature Genetics profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nils Stein	10.1k	3.8k	3.3k	780	446	216	11.3k
Nevin D. Young	11.1k 1.1×	3.8k 1.0×	2.0k 0.6×	588 0.8×	584 1.3×	130	12.6k
Peter J. Bradbury	11.3k 1.1×	2.6k 0.7×	7.8k 2.3×	1.1k 1.4×	389 0.9×	53	13.7k
Timothy J. Close	11.8k 1.2×	5.4k 1.4×	2.1k 0.6×	646 0.8×	527 1.2×	171	14.1k
Scott A. Jackson	8.1k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	1.9k 0.6×	363 0.5×	470 1.1×	146	9.1k
Michael D. McMullen	10.5k 1.0×	3.7k 1.0×	7.6k 2.3×	1.0k 1.3×	284 0.6×	106	13.2k
M. A. Saghai Maroof	10.6k 1.0×	2.8k 0.7×	4.2k 1.3×	499 0.6×	739 1.7×	119	12.1k
Jacqueline Batley	7.6k 0.7×	4.3k 1.1×	2.8k 0.8×	250 0.3×	441 1.0×	300	9.8k
Terry Casstevens	6.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	4.1k 1.2×	586 0.8×	332 0.7×	10	7.5k
Shawn M. Kaeppler	8.2k 0.8×	3.6k 0.9×	2.5k 0.8×	1.6k 2.1×	269 0.6×	162	9.8k
Steven J. Knapp	9.2k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	3.3k 1.0×	563 0.7×	850 1.9×	214	10.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nils Stein

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Bao, Zhigui, Qianqian Kong, Ludivine Lassois, et al.. (2025). Genome analyses and breeding of polyploid crops. Nature Plants. 11(9). 1714–1728. 1 indexed citations

Hansson, Mats, Helmy M. Youssef, Shakhira Zakhrabekova, et al.. (2024). A guide to barley mutants. Hereditas. 161(1). 11–11. 5 indexed citations

Mascher, Martin, Nils Stein, Murukarthick Jayakodi, et al.. (2024). Capitalizing on genebank core collections for rare and novel disease resistance loci to enhance barley resilience. Journal of Experimental Botany. 75(18). 5940–5954. 3 indexed citations

Maurer, Andreas, Ricardo Fabiano Hettwer Giehl, Shuangshuang Zhao, et al.. (2024). Dynamic Phytomeric Growth Contributes to Local Adaptation in Barley. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 41(2). 4 indexed citations

Milner, Sara G., Riccardo Bovina, Brian S. Atkinson, et al.. (2024). The auxin efflux carrier PIN1a regulates vascular patterning in cereal roots. New Phytologist. 244(1). 104–115. 5 indexed citations

Rabanus‐Wallace, M. Timothy & Nils Stein. (2023). Accurate, automated taxonomic assignment of genebank accessions: a new method demonstrated using high-throughput marker data from 10,000 Capsicum spp. accessions. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 136(10). 208–208.

Schreiber, Miriam, et al.. (2023). Major chromosome 5H haplotype switch structures the European two-rowed spring barley germplasm of the past 190 years. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 136(8). 174–174. 3 indexed citations

Rutten, Twan, Shuangshuang Zhao, Göetz Hensel, et al.. (2023). A molecular framework for grain number determination in barley. Science Advances. 9(9). eadd0324–eadd0324. 21 indexed citations

Kale, Sandip M., Albert W. Schulthess, Sudharsan Padmarasu, et al.. (2022). A catalogue of resistance gene homologs and a chromosome‐scale reference sequence support resistance gene mapping in winter wheat. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 20(9). 1730–1742. 31 indexed citations

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Navrátilová, Pavla, Helena Toegelová, Zuzana Tulpová, et al.. (2022). Prospects of telomere‐to‐telomere assembly in barley: Analysis of sequence gaps in the MorexV3 reference genome. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 20(7). 1373–1386. 48 indexed citations

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König, Patrick, Sebastian Beier, Martin Mascher, et al.. (2022). DivBrowse—interactive visualization and exploratory data analysis of variant call matrices. GigaScience. 12. 4 indexed citations

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Coulter, Max, Juan Carlos Entizne, Wenbin Guo, et al.. (2022). BaRTv2 : a highly resolved barley reference transcriptome for accurate transcript‐specific RNA ‐seq quantification. The Plant Journal. 111(4). 1183–1202. 26 indexed citations

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Avni, Raz, Thomas Lux, Anna Minz‐Dub, et al.. (2022). Genome sequences of three Aegilops species of the section Sitopsis reveal phylogenetic relationships and provide resources for wheat improvement. The Plant Journal. 110(1). 179–192. 52 indexed citations

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Barchi, Lorenzo, M. Timothy Rabanus‐Wallace, Jaime Prohens, et al.. (2021). Improved genome assembly and pan‐genome provide key insights into eggplant domestication and breeding. The Plant Journal. 107(2). 579–596. 72 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yusheng, Yong Jiang, Nils Stein, et al.. (2021). Genomic prediction models trained with historical records enable populating the German ex situ genebank bio-digital resource center of barley (Hordeum sp.) with information on resistances to soilborne barley mosaic viruses. Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 134(7). 2181–2196. 11 indexed citations

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Schreiber, Miriam, Martin Mascher, Jonathan Wright, et al.. (2020). A Genome Assembly of the Barley ‘Transformation Reference’ Cultivar Golden Promise. G3 Genes Genomes Genetics. 10(6). 1823–1827. 53 indexed citations

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Hensel, Göetz, Martin Mascher, Michael Melzer, et al.. (2019). Leaf Variegation and Impaired Chloroplast Development Caused by a Truncated CCT Domain Gene in albostrians Barley. The Plant Cell. 31(7). 1430–1445. 48 indexed citations

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Mascher, Martin, Mona Schreiber, Uwe Scholz, et al.. (2019). Genebank genomics bridges the gap between the conservation of crop diversity and plant breeding. Nature Genetics. 51(7). 1076–1081. 151 indexed citations

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Mayer, Klaus, Stefan Taudien, Mihaela Martis, et al.. (2009). Gene Content and Virtual Gene Order of Barley Chromosome 1H . PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 151(2). 496–505. 111 indexed citations

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Komatsuda, Takao, Mohammad Pourkheirandish, Congfen He, et al.. (2007). Six-rowed barley originated from a mutation in a homeodomain-leucine zipper I-class homeobox gene. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(4). 1424–1429. 434 indexed citations breakdown →

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