Silin Zhong

14.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
79 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Silin Zhong is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Silin Zhong has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Plant Science, 57 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Silin Zhong's work include Plant Molecular Biology Research (38 papers), Plant Gene Expression Analysis (20 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (14 papers). Silin Zhong is often cited by papers focused on Plant Molecular Biology Research (38 papers), Plant Gene Expression Analysis (20 papers) and Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms (14 papers). Silin Zhong collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Silin Zhong's co-authors include Zhangjun Fei, Donald Grierson, James J. Giovannoni, Zhenguo Lin, Yi Zheng, Rupert G. Fray, Zsuzsanna Bódi, Jenny Xiang, Liu B and Hongying Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Silin Zhong

75 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Single-base resolution methylomes of tomato fruit development reveal epigenome modifications associated with ripening

2013 630 citations Silin Zhong, Zhangjun Fei et al. Nature Biotechnology profile →
Recent advances in ethylene research

2009 546 citations Silin Zhong, Donald Grierson et al. Journal of Experimental Botany profile →
MTA Is an Arabidopsis Messenger RNA Adenosine Methylase and Interacts with a Homolog of a Sex-Specific Splicing Factor

2008 523 citations Silin Zhong, Hongying Li et al. The Plant Cell profile →
Identification of factors required for m ⁶ A mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis reveals a role for the conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase HAKAI

2017 371 citations Kamil Růžička, Mi Zhang et al. New Phytologist profile →
The Epigenome and Transcriptional Dynamics of Fruit Ripening

2017 352 citations James J. Giovannoni, Silin Zhong et al. profile →
MYC2 Orchestrates a Hierarchical Transcriptional Cascade That Regulates Jasmonate-Mediated Plant Immunity in Tomato

2017 312 citations David T.W. Tzeng, Silin Zhong et al. The Plant Cell profile →
Genome encode analyses reveal the basis of convergent evolution of fleshy fruit ripening

2018 289 citations Yu Sheng, Yun-Ru Chen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Silin Zhong Hong Kong	40	4.8k	4.6k	498	396	358	79	6.9k
Peter Brodersen Denmark	29	4.9k 1.0×	3.8k 0.8×	280 0.6×	97 0.2×	596 1.7×	48	6.4k
Dabing Zhang China	58	8.9k 1.8×	8.2k 1.8×	120 0.2×	1.2k 3.0×	49 0.1×	215	10.8k
Xingliang Hou China	28	3.3k 0.7×	2.1k 0.5×	153 0.3×	86 0.2×	66 0.2×	51	3.9k
Catherine Bellini France	47	7.3k 1.5×	6.4k 1.4×	59 0.1×	217 0.5×	112 0.3×	90	9.1k
Maarten A. Jongsma Netherlands	42	2.6k 0.5×	3.8k 0.8×	75 0.2×	174 0.4×	98 0.3×	115	5.5k
Dominique Eeckhout Belgium	29	2.7k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	193 0.4×	85 0.2×	93 0.3×	55	4.2k
Tsuyoshi Nakagawa Japan	40	4.0k 0.8×	4.4k 1.0×	132 0.3×	98 0.2×	26 0.1×	105	6.3k
Junping Gao China	39	4.0k 0.8×	3.2k 0.7×	41 0.1×	160 0.4×	56 0.2×	164	5.0k
Ling-Jian Wang China	35	3.9k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	32 0.1×	139 0.4×	157 0.4×	70	6.0k
Shuangxia Jin China	45	3.6k 0.8×	4.2k 0.9×	33 0.1×	323 0.8×	45 0.1×	122	5.6k

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Sohail, Hamza, et al.. (2025). Epigenetic crop improvement: Integrating ENCODE strategies into horticultural breeding. Horticulture Research. 12(11). uhaf213–uhaf213.

Roeder, Adrienne, Andrew F. Bent, John T. Lovell, et al.. (2025). Lost in translation: What we have learned from attributes that do not translate from Arabidopsis to other plants. The Plant Cell. 37(5). 6 indexed citations

Zicola, Johan, Xiaoyu Tu, Rechien Bader, et al.. (2025). Vegetative to generative1 ( Vgt1 ) is an enhancer affecting flowering time and jasmonate signaling in maize by promoting the expression of Zea mays Related to APETALA 2.7. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 199(3).

Ngan, H.W., Tao Zhu, Wenqiang Li, et al.. (2025). Genetic effects on chromatin accessibility reveal the molecular mechanisms of complex traits in maize. The Plant Journal. 123(4). e70437–e70437.

Tu, Xiaoyu, Haidong Yan, Xuan Zhang, et al.. (2024). Investigating the cis- regulatory basis of C ₃ and C ₄ photosynthesis in grasses at single-cell resolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(40). e2402781121–e2402781121. 8 indexed citations

Dai, Xiuru, Xiaoyu Tu, Baijuan Du, et al.. (2021). Chromatin and regulatory differentiation between bundle sheath and mesophyll cells in maize. The Plant Journal. 109(3). 675–692. 21 indexed citations

Chen, Yun-Ru, et al.. (2021). Missing Nurse Bees—Early Transcriptomic Switch From Nurse Bee to Forager Induced by Sublethal Imidacloprid. Frontiers in Genetics. 12. 665927–665927. 8 indexed citations

Chen, Yun‐Ru, David T.W. Tzeng, Avalon C. S. Owens, et al.. (2021). Effects of artificial light at night (ALAN) on gene expression of Aquatica ficta firefly larvae. Environmental Pollution. 281. 116944–116944. 14 indexed citations

Tu, Xiaoyu, Maria Katherine Mejía‐Guerra, José A. Valdes Franco, et al.. (2020). Reconstructing the maize leaf regulatory network using ChIP-seq data of 104 transcription factors. Nature Communications. 11(1). 5089–5089. 138 indexed citations

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Qu, Zhe, Ho Yin Yip, Wenyan Nong, et al.. (2020). Micro-RNA Clusters Integrate Evolutionary Constraints on Expression and Target Affinities: The miR-6/5/4/286/3/309 Cluster in Drosophila. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 37(10). 2955–2965. 2 indexed citations

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Dong, Pengfei, et al.. (2020). Plant and animal chromatin three-dimensional organization: similar structures but different functions. Journal of Experimental Botany. 71(17). 5119–5128. 30 indexed citations

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Dong, Pengfei, Xiaoyu Tu, Haoxuan Li, et al.. (2019). Tissue‐specific Hi‐C analyses of rice, foxtail millet and maize suggest non‐canonical function of plant chromatin domains. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 62(2). 201–217. 53 indexed citations

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Ding, Haidong, Jie He, Yuan Wu, et al.. (2018). The Tomato Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase SlMPK1 Is as a Negative Regulator of the High-Temperature Stress Response. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 177(2). 633–651. 78 indexed citations

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Růžička, Kamil, Mi Zhang, Ana Campilho, et al.. (2017). Identification of factors required for m ⁶ A mRNA methylation in Arabidopsis reveals a role for the conserved E3 ubiquitin ligase HAKAI. New Phytologist. 215(1). 157–172. 371 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chen, Yun‐Ru, Yu Sheng, & Silin Zhong. (2017). Profiling DNA Methylation Using Bisulfite Sequencing (BS-Seq). Methods in molecular biology. 1675. 31–43. 14 indexed citations

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Lu, Pengjun, Chunyan Wang, Tingting Yin, et al.. (2017). Cytological and molecular characterization of carotenoid accumulation in normal and high-lycopene mutant oranges. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 761–761. 30 indexed citations

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Shinozaki, Yoshihito, Mikiko Kojima, Hitoshi Sakakibara, et al.. (2015). Ethylene suppresses tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) fruit set through modification of gibberellin metabolism. The Plant Journal. 83(2). 237–251. 127 indexed citations

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Zhong, Silin, Zhangjun Fei, Yun-Ru Chen, et al.. (2013). Single-base resolution methylomes of tomato fruit development reveal epigenome modifications associated with ripening. Nature Biotechnology. 31(2). 154–159. 630 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Ming, et al.. (2013). Wheat TaWRKY10-1 is involved in biological responses to the salinity and osmostresses in transgenic Arabidopsis plants. Australian Journal of Crop Science. 7(6). 723–729. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hang, Tongfei Lai, Qin Cheng, et al.. (2012). Virus-induced gene complementation reveals a transcription factor network in modulation of tomato fruit ripening. Scientific Reports. 2(1). 836–836. 31 indexed citations

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