Xiuying Kong

6.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
84 papers, 4.4k citations indexed

About

Xiuying Kong is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiuying Kong has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Plant Science, 37 papers in Molecular Biology and 17 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Xiuying Kong's work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (38 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (19 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (17 papers). Xiuying Kong is often cited by papers focused on Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (38 papers), Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance (19 papers) and Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (17 papers). Xiuying Kong collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xiuying Kong's co-authors include Jizeng Jia, Guangyao Zhao, John C. Lawrence, Chuan Xia, Bradley R. Sevetson, Lichao Zhang, Olin D. Anderson, Yong Gu, Xu Liu and Devin Coleman‐Derr and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Xiuying Kong

78 papers receiving 4.3k citations

Hit Papers

A recently evolved hexose transporter variant confers res... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300 400 500
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.

  1. A recently evolved hexose transporter variant confers resistance to multiple pathogens in wheat
    2015 500 citations Michael Ayliffe, Sambasivam Periyannan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Xiuying Kong China 36 3.5k 1.9k 650 246 111 84 4.4k
Caroline A. Sparks United Kingdom 24 1.4k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 173 0.3× 135 0.5× 88 0.8× 41 2.1k
Yan He China 27 1.5k 0.4× 1.5k 0.8× 353 0.5× 66 0.3× 114 1.0× 99 2.5k
Feng Tian China 17 1.9k 0.5× 1.8k 0.9× 176 0.3× 67 0.3× 82 0.7× 45 3.1k
Chaofu Lu China 29 2.0k 0.6× 1.9k 1.0× 561 0.9× 65 0.3× 71 0.6× 87 3.4k
Linda C. Enns United States 18 1.6k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 239 0.4× 36 0.1× 54 0.5× 24 2.1k
Guoying Wang China 36 3.2k 0.9× 1.8k 0.9× 1.1k 1.8× 268 1.1× 115 1.0× 139 4.6k
Dongwen Lv United States 28 961 0.3× 1.0k 0.5× 70 0.1× 94 0.4× 30 0.3× 50 2.0k
Qijun Chen China 26 1.5k 0.4× 1.8k 0.9× 164 0.3× 34 0.1× 40 0.4× 54 2.6k
Yuzhu Wang China 25 753 0.2× 942 0.5× 143 0.2× 48 0.2× 93 0.8× 105 1.8k
Tita Ritsema Netherlands 25 1.6k 0.5× 847 0.4× 94 0.1× 60 0.2× 161 1.5× 41 2.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiuying Kong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiuying Kong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiuying Kong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiuying Kong 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 Xiuying Kong. Xiuying Kong is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Du, Fei, Zihan Chang, Xiuying Kong, et al.. (2025). Functional conservation and divergence of the WOX gene family in regulating meristem activity: From Arabidopsis to crops. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 199(1).
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Yang, Ruizhen, Wenxi Chen, Xiuying Kong, et al.. (2024). Q negatively regulates wheat salt tolerance through directly repressing the expression of TaSOS1 and reactive oxygen species scavenging genes. The Plant Journal. 119(1). 478–489. 5 indexed citations
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Cui, Guoqing, et al.. (2023). GSK3 regulates VRN1 to control flowering time in wheat. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 65(7). 1605–1608. 5 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lichao, et al.. (2023). Two open reading frames of Rht-B1b acting as brake and throttle contributed to wheat Green Revolution. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 194(3). 1290–1293. 2 indexed citations
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Zhao, Lijuan, Liting Wang, Xingyan Liu, et al.. (2023). TabZIP60 is involved in the regulation of ABA synthesis-mediated salt tolerance through interacting with TaCDPK30 in wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Planta. 257(6). 107–107. 15 indexed citations
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Dong, Chunhao, Lichao Zhang, Qiang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Tiller Number1 encodes an ankyrin repeat protein that controls tillering in bread wheat. Nature Communications. 14(1). 836–836. 37 indexed citations
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Yang, Ruizhen, et al.. (2023). GSK3 phosphorylates and regulates the Green Revolution protein Rht-B1b to reduce plant height in wheat. The Plant Cell. 35(6). 1970–1983. 28 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lichao, et al.. (2023). A Glu209Lys substitution in DRG1/TaACT7, which disturbs F‐actin organization, reduces plant height and grain length in bread wheat. New Phytologist. 240(5). 1913–1929. 7 indexed citations
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Zhang, Qiang, Chuan Xia, Chunhao Dong, et al.. (2023). Identification of the early leaf senescence gene ELS3 in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.). Planta. 259(1). 5–5. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Yuehua, Chunhao Dong, Yuxin Yang, et al.. (2020). The bZIP transcription factor TabZIP15 improves salt stress tolerance in wheat. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 19(2). 209–211. 79 indexed citations
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Feng, Nan, Gaoyuan Song, Jiantao Guan, et al.. (2017). Transcriptome Profiling of Wheat Inflorescence Development from Spikelet Initiation to Floral Patterning Identified Stage-Specific Regulatory Genes. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 174(3). 1779–1794. 78 indexed citations
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Zhao, Guangyao, Cheng Zou, Kui Li, et al.. (2017). The Aegilops tauschii genome reveals multiple impacts of transposons. Nature Plants. 3(12). 946–955. 133 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lina, Lichao Zhang, Chuan Xia, et al.. (2016). The Novel Wheat Transcription Factor TaNAC47 Enhances Multiple Abiotic Stress Tolerances in Transgenic Plants. Frontiers in Plant Science. 6. 1174–1174. 91 indexed citations
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Periyannan, Sambasivam, John Moore, Michael Ayliffe, et al.. (2013). The Gene Sr33, an Ortholog of Barley Mla Genes, Encodes Resistance to Wheat Stem Rust Race Ug99. Science. 341(6147). 786–788. 266 indexed citations
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Zhang, Lichao, Guangyao Zhao, Chuan Xia, et al.. (2012). Overexpression of a wheat MYB transcription factor gene, TaMYB56-B, enhances tolerances to freezing and salt stresses in transgenic Arabidopsis. Gene. 505(1). 100–107. 39 indexed citations
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Breen, James, David S. Dunn, F. Békés, et al.. (2010). Wheat beta-expansin (EXPB11) genes: Identification of the expressed gene on chromosome 3BS carrying a pollen allergen domain. BMC Plant Biology. 10(1). 99–99. 13 indexed citations
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Anderson, Olin D., Yong Gu, Xiuying Kong, Gerard R. Lazo, & Jiajie Wu. (2009). The wheat ω-gliadin genes: structure and EST analysis. Functional & Integrative Genomics. 9(3). 397–410. 36 indexed citations
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Cenci, Alberto, Nathalie Chantret, Xiuying Kong, et al.. (2003). Construction and characterization of a half million clone BAC library of durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum). Theoretical and Applied Genetics. 107(5). 931–939. 110 indexed citations

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