Rita H. Mumm

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Rita H. Mumm is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Rita H. Mumm has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Plant Science, 17 papers in Genetics and 6 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Rita H. Mumm's work include Genetics and Plant Breeding (14 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (13 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (6 papers). Rita H. Mumm is often cited by papers focused on Genetics and Plant Breeding (14 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (13 papers) and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock (6 papers). Rita H. Mumm collaborates with scholars based in United States, Kenya and South Africa. Rita H. Mumm's co-authors include Stephen P. Moose, J. W. Dudley, Xiaochun Sun, Kent D. Rausch, Edward S. Buckler, Jeffrey Ross‐Ibarra, Jinliang Yang, Katherine E. Guill, Michael D. McMullen and Sofiane Mezmouk and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Genetics, PLoS ONE and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

In The Last Decade

Rita H. Mumm

31 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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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.

Molecular Plant Breeding as the Foundation for 21st Century Crop Improvement

2008 503 citations Stephen P. Moose, Rita H. Mumm PLANT PHYSIOLOGY profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rita H. Mumm United States	17	1.0k	513	312	175	82	32	1.3k
Tileye Feyissa Ethiopia	18	872 0.8×	366 0.7×	372 1.2×	221 1.3×	115 1.4×	127	1.2k
Shailendra Sharma India	20	1.4k 1.4×	476 0.9×	362 1.2×	192 1.1×	90 1.1×	71	1.7k
C T Hash India	16	1.1k 1.1×	706 1.4×	276 0.9×	417 2.4×	75 0.9×	43	1.4k
Asfaliza Ramli Malaysia	12	1.1k 1.0×	219 0.4×	315 1.0×	102 0.6×	83 1.0×	28	1.3k
Romesh Kumar Salgotra India	17	1.1k 1.1×	325 0.6×	370 1.2×	69 0.4×	81 1.0×	96	1.4k
Benjamin Wittkop Germany	22	946 0.9×	340 0.7×	644 2.1×	168 1.0×	59 0.7×	44	1.3k
Elena Benavente Spain	19	1.0k 1.0×	261 0.5×	227 0.7×	143 0.8×	63 0.8×	46	1.2k
Mulatu Geleta Sweden	24	1.2k 1.2×	519 1.0×	312 1.0×	285 1.6×	150 1.8×	92	1.6k
Aluízio Borém Brazil	24	1.5k 1.5×	362 0.7×	238 0.8×	262 1.5×	54 0.7×	130	1.8k
Ndiaga Cissé Senegal	28	2.1k 2.0×	248 0.5×	348 1.1×	341 1.9×	82 1.0×	81	2.3k

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Amombo, Erick, et al.. (2025). Enhancing Crop Nutrition in Arid and Semiarid Regions of Africa Through Genome Editing Using CRISPR /Cas. Food and Energy Security. 14(3). 1 indexed citations

Gerrano, Abe Shegro, et al.. (2022). Expression of Nutritional Traits in Vegetable Cowpea Grown under Various South African Agro-Ecological Conditions. Plants. 11(11). 1422–1422. 3 indexed citations

Riggins, Chance W. & Rita H. Mumm. (2021). Amaranths. Current Biology. 31(13). R834–R835. 4 indexed citations

Mumm, Rita H. & Eric Yirenkyi Danquah. (2020). The African Plant Breeders of Tomorrow. African Journal of Food Agriculture Nutrition and Development. 19(5). 15116–15120.

Jamnadass, Ramni, Rita H. Mumm, Iago Hale, et al.. (2020). Enhancing African orphan crops with genomics. Nature Genetics. 52(4). 356–360. 57 indexed citations

Okello, David Kalule, et al.. (2020). Past, Present and Future Perspectives on Groundnut Breeding in Burkina Faso. Agronomy. 10(5). 704–704. 10 indexed citations

Kandhola, Gurshagan, et al.. (2018). High-throughput, Microscale Protocol for the Analysis of Processing Parameters and Nutritional Qualities in Maize (<em>Zea mays</em> L.). Journal of Visualized Experiments. 1 indexed citations

Sogbohossou, Dêêdi E. O., Enoch G. Achigan‐Dako, Patrick Maundu, et al.. (2018). A roadmap for breeding orphan leafy vegetable species: a case study of Gynandropsis gynandra (Cleomaceae). Horticulture Research. 5(1). 2–2. 52 indexed citations

Yang, Jinliang, Sofiane Mezmouk, Andy Baumgarten, et al.. (2017). Incomplete dominance of deleterious alleles contributes substantially to trait variation and heterosis in maize. PLoS Genetics. 13(9). e1007019–e1007019. 121 indexed citations

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Baenziger, P. Stephen, et al.. (2017). Plant breeding and genetics: a paper in the series on The Need for Agricultural Innovation to Sustainably Feed the World by 2050.. 1 indexed citations

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Mumm, Rita H., et al.. (2017). Concentration of Beneficial Phytochemicals in Harvested Grain of U.S. Yellow Dent Maize (Zea mays L.) Germplasm. Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. 65(38). 8311–8318. 11 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaochun & Rita H. Mumm. (2016). Method to represent the distribution of QTL additive and dominance effects associated with quantitative traits in computer simulation. BMC Bioinformatics. 17(1). 73–73. 8 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaochun & Rita H. Mumm. (2015). Optimized breeding strategies for multiple trait integration: III. Parameters for success in version testing. Molecular Breeding. 35(10). 201–201. 6 indexed citations

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Mumm, Rita H., Peter Goldsmith, Kent D. Rausch, & Hans H Stein. (2014). Land usage attributed to corn ethanol production in the United States: sensitivity to technological advances in corn grain yield, ethanol conversion, and co-product utilization. Biotechnology for Biofuels. 7(1). 61–61. 44 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaochun, et al.. (2013). Optimized breeding strategies for multiple trait integration: II. Process efficiency in event pyramiding and trait fixation. Molecular Breeding. 33(1). 105–115. 21 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaochun, et al.. (2013). Optimized breeding strategies for multiple trait integration: I. Minimizing linkage drag in single event introgression. Molecular Breeding. 33(1). 89–104. 39 indexed citations

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Sun, Xiaochun, Ping Ma, & Rita H. Mumm. (2012). Nonparametric Method for Genomics-Based Prediction of Performance of Quantitative Traits Involving Epistasis in Plant Breeding. PLoS ONE. 7(11). e50604–e50604. 15 indexed citations

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Carbonero, Christine Hayot, et al.. (2012). Improving in vivo maize doubled haploid production efficiency through early detection of false positives. Plant Breeding. 131(3). 399–401. 28 indexed citations

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Moose, Stephen P. & Rita H. Mumm. (2008). Molecular Plant Breeding as the Foundation for 21st Century Crop Improvement. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 147(3). 969–977. 503 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mumm, Rita H., Lawrence J. Hubert, & J. W. Dudley. (1994). A Classification of 148 U.S. Maize Inbreds: II. Validation of Cluster Analysis Based on RFLPs. Crop Science. 34(4). 852–865. 18 indexed citations

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