Yiping Qi

11.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
123 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Yiping Qi is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Plant Science and Insect Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yiping Qi has authored 123 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 108 papers in Molecular Biology, 85 papers in Plant Science and 18 papers in Insect Science. Recurrent topics in Yiping Qi's work include CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (98 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (47 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (33 papers). Yiping Qi is often cited by papers focused on CRISPR and Genetic Engineering (98 papers), Plant Virus Research Studies (47 papers) and Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (33 papers). Yiping Qi collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Maldives. Yiping Qi's co-authors include Yong Zhang, Aimee A. Malzahn, Simon Sretenovic, Levi G. Lowder, Yingxiao Zhang, Xuelian Zheng, Daniel F. Voytas, Xu Tang, Zhaohui Zhong and Fumiaki Katagiri and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Yiping Qi

117 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

A CRISPR/Cas9 Toolbox for Multiplexed Plant Genome Editing and Transcriptional Regulation

2015 501 citations Xu Tang, Xuelian Zheng et al. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY profile →
A CRISPR–Cpf1 system for efficient genome editing and transcriptional repression in plants

2017 447 citations Xu Tang, Tao Zhang et al. Nature Plants profile →
The emerging and uncultivated potential of CRISPR technology in plant science

2019 270 citations Yingxiao Zhang, Aimee A. Malzahn et al. Nature Plants profile →
Precise plant genome editing using base editors and prime editors

2021 226 citations Kutubuddin A. Molla, Simon Sretenovic et al. Nature Plants profile →
An efficient CRISPR–Cas12a promoter editing system for crop improvement

2023 96 citations Jianping Zhou, Guanqing Liu et al. Nature Plants profile →
CRISPR–Cas applications in agriculture and plant research

2025 25 citations Aytug Tuncel, Changtian Pan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yiping Qi United States	43	5.7k	4.6k	862	578	487	123	6.7k
Jin‐Long Qiu China	33	5.5k 1.0×	5.8k 1.3×	649 0.8×	686 1.2×	389 0.8×	57	8.0k
Shuangxia Jin China	45	4.2k 0.7×	3.6k 0.8×	538 0.6×	323 0.6×	486 1.0×	122	5.6k
Yinong Yang United States	38	4.4k 0.8×	6.2k 1.4×	859 1.0×	473 0.8×	371 0.8×	67	7.7k
Kabin Xie China	27	3.5k 0.6×	3.5k 0.8×	373 0.4×	372 0.6×	153 0.3×	59	4.8k
Fabien Nogué France	34	2.5k 0.5×	2.5k 0.5×	246 0.3×	217 0.4×	175 0.4×	123	3.5k
Frank F. White United States	53	3.8k 0.7×	9.3k 2.0×	553 0.6×	483 0.8×	722 1.5×	117	10.5k
S. Carl Falco United States	25	3.3k 0.6×	1.8k 0.4×	162 0.2×	490 0.8×	338 0.7×	35	3.9k
Diego Orzáez Spain	34	3.2k 0.6×	2.3k 0.5×	205 0.2×	261 0.5×	741 1.5×	86	4.2k
Syed Shan‐e‐Ali Zaidi Pakistan	23	1.1k 0.2×	1.8k 0.4×	485 0.6×	105 0.2×	121 0.2×	41	2.1k
Wendy Harwood United Kingdom	26	1.7k 0.3×	2.0k 0.4×	101 0.1×	244 0.4×	486 1.0×	83	2.5k

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Zebell, Sophia G., Carlos Martí‐Gómez, B. P. Fitzgerald, et al.. (2025). Cryptic variation fuels plant phenotypic change through hierarchical epistasis. Nature. 644(8078). 984–992. 1 indexed citations

Luo, Weifeng, Qing Ji, Alan L. Eggenberger, et al.. (2025). Enhancing biolistic plant transformation and genome editing with a flow guiding barrel. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5624–5624. 4 indexed citations

Cheng, Yanhao, et al.. (2025). A comprehensive all-in-one CRISPR toolbox for large-scale screens in plants. The Plant Cell. 37(4). 2 indexed citations

Arraes, Fabrício Barbosa Monteiro, Isabela Tristan Lourenço‐Tessutti, Antônio Costa de Oliveira, et al.. (2024). CRISPR/Cas genome editing in soybean: challenges and new insights to overcome existing bottlenecks. Journal of Advanced Research. 73. 53–72. 9 indexed citations

Karmakar, Subhasis, Priya Das, Sagar Banerjee, et al.. (2024). Optimized protoplast isolation and transfection with a breakpoint: accelerating Cas9/sgRNA cleavage efficiency validation in monocot and dicot. aBIOTECH. 5(2). 151–168. 18 indexed citations

Liu, Shishi, Yao He, Tingting Fan, et al.. (2024). PAM‐relaxed and temperature‐tolerant CRISPR‐Mb3Cas12a single transcript unit systems for efficient singular and multiplexed genome editing in rice, maize, and tomato. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 23(1). 156–173. 5 indexed citations

Pan, Changtian, Gen Li, Anindya Bandyopadhyay, & Yiping Qi. (2023). Guide RNA library-based CRISPR screens in plants: opportunities and challenges. Current Opinion in Biotechnology. 79. 102883–102883. 13 indexed citations

Tuncel, Aytug, Changtian Pan, Thorben Sprink, et al.. (2023). Genome-edited foods. Nature Reviews Bioengineering. 1(11). 799–816. 31 indexed citations

Sretenovic, Simon, Yuechao Wu, Yanhao Cheng, et al.. (2023). Genome- and transcriptome-wide off-target analyses of a high-efficiency adenine base editor in tomato. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 193(1). 291–303. 11 indexed citations

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Wu, Yuechao, Qiurong Ren, Zhaohui Zhong, et al.. (2022). Genome‐wide analyses of PAM‐relaxed Cas9 genome editors reveal substantial off‐target effects by ABE8e in rice. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 20(9). 1670–1682. 40 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yanhao, et al.. (2022). Expanding the targeting scope of FokI‐dCas nuclease systems with SpRY and Mb2Cas12a. Biotechnology Journal. 17(7). e2100571–e2100571. 3 indexed citations

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Ramasamy, Manikandan, et al.. (2022). Applications of CRISPR/Cas13-Based RNA Editing in Plants. Cells. 11(17). 2665–2665. 41 indexed citations

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Liu, Degao, Changtian Pan, Ugrappa Nagalakshmi, et al.. (2022). Heritable base-editing in Arabidopsis using RNA viral vectors. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 189(4). 1920–1924. 30 indexed citations

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Pan, Changtian, Gen Li, Aimee A. Malzahn, et al.. (2022). Boosting plant genome editing with a versatile CRISPR-Combo system. Nature Plants. 8(5). 513–525. 111 indexed citations

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Varshney, Rajeev K., Rutwik Barmukh, Manish Roorkiwal, et al.. (2021). Breeding custom‐designed crops for improved drought adaptation. 6 indexed citations

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Curtin, Shaun J., Yiping Qi, Lázaro Eustáquio Pereira Peres, Alisdair R. Fernie, & Agustín Zsögön. (2021). Pathways to de novo domestication of crop wild relatives. PLANT PHYSIOLOGY. 188(4). 1746–1756. 35 indexed citations

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Ren, Qiurong, Simon Sretenovic, Shishi Liu, et al.. (2021). PAM-less plant genome editing using a CRISPR–SpRY toolbox. Nature Plants. 7(1). 25–33. 166 indexed citations

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Pan, Changtian, Kasey Markel, Aimee A. Malzahn, et al.. (2021). CRISPR–Act3.0 for highly efficient multiplexed gene activation in plants. Nature Plants. 7(7). 942–953. 141 indexed citations

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Varshney, Rajeev K., Rutwik Barmukh, Manish Roorkiwal, et al.. (2021). Breeding custom‐designed crops for improved drought adaptation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(3). e202100017–e202100017. 68 indexed citations

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Shi, Hua, Yiping Qi, Haozhen Nie, et al.. (2013). BR-SIGNALING KINASE1 Physically Associates with FLAGELLIN SENSING2 and Regulates Plant Innate Immunity in Arabidopsis . The Plant Cell. 25(3). 1143–1157. 204 indexed citations

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