Xinxiu Cheng

734 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 482 citations indexed

About

Xinxiu Cheng is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xinxiu Cheng has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 482 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Plant Science, 1 paper in Molecular Biology and 1 paper in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Xinxiu Cheng's work include Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (5 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (3 papers) and Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (3 papers). Xinxiu Cheng is often cited by papers focused on Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (5 papers), Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism (3 papers) and Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (3 papers). Xinxiu Cheng collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Estonia. Xinxiu Cheng's co-authors include Hude Mao, Zhensheng Kang, Shumin Li, Fangming Mei, Zhongxue Wang, Nan Chen, Linying Du, Fangfang Li, Bin Chen and Li Ding and has published in prestigious journals such as The Plant Cell, Frontiers in Plant Science and Molecular Plant.

In The Last Decade

Xinxiu Cheng

7 papers receiving 468 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.

Variation in cis-regulation of a NAC transcription factor contributes to drought tolerance in wheat

2021 154 citations Hude Mao, Shumin Li et al. Molecular Plant profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Xinxiu Cheng China	6	445	170	62	53	8	7	482
Fangming Mei China	9	486 1.1×	202 1.2×	64 1.0×	56 1.1×	8 1.0×	9	529
Zhanliang Shi China	8	329 0.7×	73 0.4×	51 0.8×	62 1.2×	7 0.9×	11	351
Kohei Mishina Japan	10	255 0.6×	88 0.5×	31 0.5×	48 0.9×	3 0.4×	23	277
Yiyong Ma China	11	294 0.7×	153 0.9×	32 0.5×	47 0.9×	5 0.6×	36	329
Ruth Heinz Argentina	6	356 0.8×	125 0.7×	27 0.4×	27 0.5×	11 1.4×	6	380
Alicja Macko‐Podgórni Poland	11	236 0.5×	135 0.8×	24 0.4×	42 0.8×	4 0.5×	24	292
Zhigang Yin China	7	580 1.3×	187 1.1×	24 0.4×	139 2.6×	5 0.6×	7	610
Yunlu Shi China	7	315 0.7×	160 0.9×	30 0.5×	54 1.0×	8 1.0×	13	382
Narasimha Rao Nizampatnam India	6	334 0.8×	170 1.0×	56 0.9×	10 0.2×	5 0.6×	9	373

Countries citing papers authored by Xinxiu Cheng

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xinxiu Cheng

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xinxiu Cheng

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xinxiu Cheng. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xinxiu Cheng based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Xinxiu Cheng. Xinxiu Cheng is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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7 of 7 papers shown

1.

Wang, Kang, Tiantian Wang, Xinxiu Cheng, et al.. (2025). Association mapping and candidate gene identification for drought tolerance in sorghum. Frontiers in Plant Science. 16. 1629615–1629615. 1 indexed citations

2.

Du, Linying, Shumin Li, Li Ding, et al.. (2022). Genome-wide analysis of trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatases (TPP) gene family in wheat indicates their roles in plant development and stress response. BMC Plant Biology. 22(1). 120–120. 31 indexed citations

3.

Mei, Fangming, Bin Chen, Linying Du, et al.. (2022). A gain-of-function allele of a DREB transcription factor gene ameliorates drought tolerance in wheat. The Plant Cell. 34(11). 4472–4494. 82 indexed citations

4.

Mao, Hude, Shumin Li, Bin Chen, et al.. (2021). Variation in cis-regulation of a NAC transcription factor contributes to drought tolerance in wheat. Molecular Plant. 15(2). 276–292. 154 indexed citations breakdown →

5.

Mao, Hude, Chao Jian, Xinxiu Cheng, et al.. (2021). The wheat ABA receptor gene TaPYL1‐1B contributes to drought tolerance and grain yield by increasing water‐use efficiency. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 20(5). 846–861. 98 indexed citations

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Li, Shumin, Nan Chen, Fangfang Li, et al.. (2020). Characterization of wheat homeodomain-leucine zipper family genes and functional analysis of TaHDZ5-6A in drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis. BMC Plant Biology. 20(1). 50–50. 30 indexed citations

7.

Mao, Hude, Shumin Li, Zhongxue Wang, et al.. (2019). Regulatory changes in TaSNAC8‐6A are associated with drought tolerance in wheat seedlings. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 18(4). 1078–1092. 86 indexed citations

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