Simon Griffiths

11.4k citations

134 papers · 7.6k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Agronomy and Crop Science top 0.1%
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
Plant Science top 0.1%
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Molecular Biology Research
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations

Papers in ⓘ

Plant Science 110
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology 99
- Genetics and Plant Breeding 63
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 10
Genetics 48
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals 46

Co-authors: D. A. Laurie (8 shared papers)J. W. Snape (14 shared papers)J. Foulkes (18 shared papers)Gustavo A. Slafer (20 shared papers)Simon Orford (29 shared papers)Matthew Reynolds (11 shared papers)Luzie U. Wingen (31 shared papers)Roy P. Dunford (4 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Experimental Botany (13 papers)Field Crops Research (8 papers)Plant Biotechnology Journal (6 papers)Theoretical and Applied Genetics (6 papers)Plants (5 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Spain Mexico

In The Last Decade

Simon Griffiths

127 papers receiving 7.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Achieving yield gains in wheat 2012 · 463 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2012 Plant Cell & Environment
2010 Journal of Experimental Botany
2007 Theoretical and Applied Genetics

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1	A Pseudo-Response Regulator is misexpressed in the photoperiod insensitive Ppd-D1a mutant of wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·James Beales, Adrian Turner, Simon Griffiths, J. W. Snape, D. A. Laurie Hit paper breakdown →	2007	636
2	Raising yield potential of wheat. III. Optimizing partitioning to grain while maintaining lodging resistance Journal of Experimental Botany ·J. Foulkes, Gustavo A. Slafer, William J. Davies, Peter Berry, R. Sylvester‐Bradley, Pierre Martre, Daniel F. Calderini, Simon Griffiths, Matthew Reynolds Hit paper breakdown →	2010	476
3	Achieving yield gains in wheat Plant Cell & Environment ·Matthew Reynolds, J. Foulkes, Robert T. Furbank, Simon Griffiths, Julie King, Erik H. Murchie, M. A. J. Parry, Gustavo A. Slafer Hit paper breakdown →	2012	463
4	The Evolution of CONSTANS-Like Gene Families in Barley, Rice, and Arabidopsis PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Simon Griffiths, Roy P. Dunford, George Coupland, D. A. Laurie	2003	426
5	Molecular characterization of Ph1 as a major chromosome pairing locus in polyploid wheat Nature ·Simon Griffiths, Rebecca Sharp, Tracie Foote, Isabelle Bertin, Michael K. Wanous, Steve Reader, Isabelle Colas, Graham Moore	2006	376
6	A Genetic Framework for Grain Size and Shape Variation in Wheat The Plant Cell ·Vasilis C. Gegas, Aida Nazari, Simon Griffiths, James Simmonds, Lesley Fish, Simon Orford, Liz Sayers, John H. Doonan, J. W. Snape	2010	343
7	High‐density SNP genotyping array for hexaploid wheat and its secondary and tertiary gene pool Plant Biotechnology Journal ·Mark Winfield, Alexandra M. Allen, Amanda Burridge, Gary Barker, Harriet R. Benbow, Paul A. Wilkinson, Jane A. Coghill, Christy Waterfall, Alessandro Davassi, Geoff Scopes, Ali Pirani, Teresa Webster, Fiona Brew, Claire Bloor, Julie King, Claire West, Simon Griffiths, I. P. King, Alison R. Bentley, Keith J. Edwards	2015	283
8	Identification of traits to improve the nitrogen-use efficiency of wheat genotypes Field Crops Research ·Oorbessy Gaju, Vincent Allard, Pierre Martre, J. W. Snape, Emmanuel Heumez, J. LeGouis, Delphine Moreau, Matthieu Bogard, Simon Griffiths, Simon Orford, Stella Hubbart, J. Foulkes	2011	245
9	Meta-QTL analysis of the genetic control of ear emergence in elite European winter wheat germplasm Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Simon Griffiths, James Simmonds, Michelle Leverington, Yingkun Wang, Lesley Fish, Liz Sayers, Leodie Alibert, Simon Orford, Luzie U. Wingen, Laurence Herry, Sébastien Faure, D. A. Laurie, Lorelei Bilham, J. W. Snape	2009	232
10	Phenotyping pipeline reveals major seedling root growth QTL in hexaploid wheat Journal of Experimental Botany ·Jonathan A. Atkinson, Luzie U. Wingen, Marcus Griffiths, Michael P. Pound, Oorbessy Gaju, J. Foulkes, Jacques Le Gouis, Simon Griffiths, Malcolm J. Bennett, Julie King, Darren M. Wells	2015	166
11	Anthesis date mainly explained correlations between post-anthesis leaf senescence, grain yield, and grain protein concentration in a winter wheat population segregating for flowering time QTLs Journal of Experimental Botany ·Matthieu Bogard, Matthieu Jourdan, Vincent Allard, Pierre Martre, Marie Reine Perretant, Catherine Ravel, Emmanuel Heumez, Simon Orford, J. W. Snape, Simon Griffiths, Oorbessy Gaju, J. Foulkes, Jacques Le Gouis	2011	165
12	Leaf photosynthesis and associations with grain yield, biomass and nitrogen-use efficiency in landraces, synthetic-derived lines and cultivars in wheat Field Crops Research ·Oorbessy Gaju, Jayalath DeSilva, Pedro Carvalho, Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Simon Griffiths, Andrew J. Greenland, J. Foulkes	2016	141
13	Molecular characterization of transforming plasmid rearrangements in transgenic rice reveals a recombination hotspot in the CaMV 35S promoter and confirms the predominance of microhomology mediated recombination The Plant Journal ·Ajay Kohli, Simon Griffiths, Natalia Palacios‐Rojas, Richard M. Twyman, Philippe Vain, D. A. Laurie, Paul Christou	1999	130
14	Meta-QTL analysis of the genetic control of crop height in elite European winter wheat germplasm Molecular Breeding ·Simon Griffiths, James Simmonds, Michelle Leverington, Yingkun Wang, Lesley Fish, Liz Sayers, Leodie Alibert, Simon Orford, Luzie U. Wingen, J. W. Snape	2010	109
15	Exploiting genetic variation in nitrogen use efficiency for cereal crop improvement Current Opinion in Plant Biology ·Malcolm J. Hawkesford, Simon Griffiths	2019	108
16	Isolation of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus from mummichog, stickleback, striped bass and brown trout in eastern Canada Journal of Fish Diseases ·Nellie Gagné, AM MacKinnon, Linda Boston, Brian W. Souter, M. Cook-Versloot, Simon Griffiths, G. Olivier	2007	99
17	Discovery and development of exome‐based, co‐dominant single nucleotide polymorphism markers in hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Plant Biotechnology Journal ·Alexandra M. Allen, Gary Barker, Paul A. Wilkinson, Amanda Burridge, Mark Winfield, Jane A. Coghill, Cristóbal Uauy, Simon Griffiths, Peter Jack, Simon Berry, P. Werner, J. Melichar, Jane McDougall, Rhian Gwilliam, Phil Robinson, Keith J. Edwards	2012	99
18	Mutant Alleles of Photoperiod-1 in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) That Confer a Late Flowering Phenotype in Long Days PLoS ONE ·Lindsay M. Shaw, A. S. Turner, Laurence Herry, Simon Griffiths, D. A. Laurie	2013	93
19	Detailed Dissection of the Chromosomal Region Containing the Ph1 Locus in Wheat Triticum aestivum: With Deletion Mutants and Expression Profiling Annals of Botany ·Nadia Al-Kaff, Emilie Knight, Isabelle Bertin, Tracie Foote, N. Hart, Simon Griffiths, Graham Moore	2007	85
20	Genetic Dissection of Grain Size and Grain Number Trade-Offs in CIMMYT Wheat Germplasm PLoS ONE ·Simon Griffiths, Luzie U. Wingen, Julian Pietragalla, Guillermo A. García, Ahmed Khairul Hasan, Daniel J. Miralles, Daniel F. Calderini, Jignaben Bipinchandra Ankleshwaria, Michelle Leverington Waite, James Simmonds, J. W. Snape, Matthew Reynolds	2015	82

About Simon Griffiths

Simon Griffiths is a scholar working on Plant Science, Genetics, Agronomy and Crop Science, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics and Geometry and Topology, having authored 134 papers that have together received 7.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (99 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (63 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (46 papers), Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (38 papers), Limits and Structures in Graph Theory (13 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (10 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (10 papers) and Advanced Graph Theory Research (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Agronomy and Crop Science (2.5k citations), Plant Science (6.8k citations), Genetics (2.2k citations), Soil Science (283 citations) and Molecular Biology (1.2k citations). Simon Griffiths has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Mexico. Frequent co-authors include D. A. Laurie, J. W. Snape, J. Foulkes, Gustavo A. Slafer, Simon Orford, Matthew Reynolds, Luzie U. Wingen, Roy P. Dunford, Adrian Turner and James Beales. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Experimental Botany, Field Crops Research, Plant Biotechnology Journal, Theoretical and Applied Genetics and Plants.

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