Ray Wü

9.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
122 papers, 7.5k citations indexed

About

Ray Wü is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ray Wü has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 7.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 103 papers in Molecular Biology, 45 papers in Plant Science and 23 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Ray Wü's work include DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (32 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (27 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (27 papers). Ray Wü is often cited by papers focused on DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (32 papers), RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms (27 papers) and Plant tissue culture and regeneration (27 papers). Ray Wü collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Ray Wü's co-authors include Jack W. Szostak, Ju‐Kon Kim, Robert Yang, R. Padmanabhan, David McElroy, Ernest Jay, Ajay Garg, Anil P. Ranwala, Thomas G. Owens and Yang Do Choi and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

Ray Wü

121 papers receiving 6.8k 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.

Trehalose accumulation in rice plants confers high tolerance levels to different abiotic stresses

2002 929 citations Ajay Garg, Ju‐Kon Kim et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Unequal crossing over in the ribosomal DNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

1980 363 citations Jack W. Szostak, Ray Wü Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ray Wü United States	45	5.2k	3.8k	958	836	724	122	7.5k
Kin‐ichiro Miura Japan	34	4.2k 0.8×	798 0.2×	870 0.9×	691 0.8×	898 1.2×	147	5.4k
Barbara A. Moffatt Canada	39	6.8k 1.3×	3.7k 1.0×	2.4k 2.5×	589 0.7×	1.3k 1.8×	70	10.3k
Hildburg Beier Germany	25	3.4k 0.6×	1.4k 0.4×	669 0.7×	487 0.6×	394 0.5×	51	5.4k
Shigeru Iida Japan	53	6.0k 1.1×	2.8k 0.7×	1.5k 1.5×	542 0.6×	777 1.1×	171	8.0k
Daniel Gallie United States	51	5.6k 1.1×	5.7k 1.5×	499 0.5×	696 0.8×	502 0.7×	136	9.2k
Wayne M. Barnes United States	30	3.6k 0.7×	869 0.2×	1.3k 1.4×	377 0.5×	744 1.0×	44	4.8k
Shennan Lu United States	11	3.8k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	631 0.7×	368 0.4×	825 1.1×	13	6.2k
Noreen R. Gonzales United States	14	4.3k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	640 0.7×	402 0.5×	867 1.2×	18	6.8k
Olof Emanuelsson Sweden	23	8.3k 1.6×	3.5k 0.9×	540 0.6×	421 0.5×	703 1.0×	33	10.8k
Jihyun F. Kim South Korea	42	3.0k 0.6×	2.3k 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	367 0.4×	884 1.2×	102	6.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ray Wü

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20 of 20 papers shown

Alshak, Mark N., et al.. (2018). Feasibility of a Mobile Health Application To Monitor Recovery and Patient-reported Outcomes after Robot-assisted Radical Prostatectomy. European Urology Oncology. 2(4). 425–428. 33 indexed citations

He, Chengkun, Zhihong Lin, David McElroy, & Ray Wü. (2009). Identification of a rice Actin2 gene regulatory region for high‐level expression of transgenes in monocots‡. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 7(3). 227–239. 46 indexed citations

Garg, Ajay, Ju‐Kon Kim, Thomas G. Owens, et al.. (2002). Trehalose accumulation in rice plants confers high tolerance levels to different abiotic stresses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(25). 15898–15903. 929 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Dan & Ray Wü. (1999). Protection of Megabase-Sized Chromosomal DNA from Breakage by DNase Activity in Plant Nuclei. BioTechniques. 26(2). 258–261. 6 indexed citations

Chang, Men-Chi, et al.. (1999). Molecular characterization of catalytic-subunit cDNA sequences encoding protein phosphatases 1 and 2A and study of their roles in the gibberellin-dependent Osamy-c expression in rice. Plant Molecular Biology. 39(1). 105–115. 20 indexed citations

Kim, Ju‐Kon, Ray Wü, Rebecca S. Boston, et al.. (1999). Molecular and genetic analysis of transgenic rice plants expressing the maize ribosome-inactivating protein b-32 gene and the herbicide resistance bar gene. Molecular Breeding. 5(2). 85–94. 33 indexed citations

Miranda, Joachim R. de, et al.. (1996). Sequence of Echinochloa hoja blanca tenuivirus RNA-3. Virus Genes. 13(1). 65–68. 10 indexed citations

Jain, Renuka, Sunita Jain, & Ray Wü. (1996). Stimulatory effect of water stress on plant regeneration in aromatic Indica rice varieties. Plant Cell Reports. 15(6). 449–454. 53 indexed citations

Goldman, Stanley, Yogesh Mawal, Isei Tanida, & Ray Wü. (1994). Studies of a gibberellin-dependent DNA-binding protein related to the expression of a rice α-amylase gene. Plant Science. 99(1). 75–88. 7 indexed citations

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Kim, Ju‐Kon, Jun Cao, & Ray Wü. (1992). Regulation and interaction of multiple protein factors with the proximal promoter regions of a rice high pl α-amylase gene. Molecular and General Genetics MGG. 232(3). 383–393. 41 indexed citations

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Lei, Ming & Ray Wü. (1991). A novel glycine-rich cell wall protein gene in rice. Plant Molecular Biology. 16(2). 187–198. 44 indexed citations

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Wang, Yichang, Theodore M. Klein, Michael Fromm, et al.. (1988). Transient expression of foreign genes in rice, wheat and soybean cells following particle bombardment. Plant Molecular Biology. 11(4). 433–439. 126 indexed citations

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Côté, Jean, et al.. (1986). Nucleotide sequence of the rice cytochrome ⨍ gene and the presence of sequence variation near this gene. Gene. 50(1-3). 271–278. 14 indexed citations

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Deng, Guoren & Ray Wü. (1981). An improved procedure for utilizing terminal transferase to add homopolymers to the 3′ termini of DNA. Nucleic Acids Research. 9(16). 4173–4188. 165 indexed citations

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Szostak, Jack W. & Ray Wü. (1980). Unequal crossing over in the ribosomal DNA of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Nature. 284(5755). 426–430. 363 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tu, Chen‐Pei D., Ernest Jay, Chander P. Bahl, & Ray Wü. (1976). A rellable mapping method for sequence determination of oligodeoxyribonucleotides by mobility shift analysis. Analytical Biochemistry. 74(1). 73–93. 77 indexed citations

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Bahl, Chander P., et al.. (1976). A general method for inserting specific DNA sequences into cloning vehicles. Gene. 1(1). 81–92. 87 indexed citations

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Wü, Ray, Robert A. Bambara, Ernest Jay, & Winston Salser. (1975). Recent Advances in DNA Sequence Analysi. PubMed. 2(4). 455–512. 20 indexed citations

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Ghangas, Gurdev S. & Ray Wü. (1974). Specific Hydrolysis of the Cohesive Ends of Bacteriophage λ-Deoxyribonucleic Acid by Micrococcus luteus Ultraviolet Exonuclease. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 249(23). 7550–7554. 2 indexed citations

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Ghangas, Gurdev S., Ernest Jay, Robert A. Bambara, & Ray Wü. (1973). Nucleotide sequence analysis of DNA. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 54(3). 998–1007. 14 indexed citations

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