Zhixi Tian

18.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
91 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Zhixi Tian is a scholar working on Plant Science, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhixi Tian has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Plant Science, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Zhixi Tian's work include Soybean genetics and cultivation (39 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (36 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (19 papers). Zhixi Tian is often cited by papers focused on Soybean genetics and cultivation (39 papers), Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis (36 papers) and Plant Molecular Biology Research (19 papers). Zhixi Tian collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Zhixi Tian's co-authors include Shulin Liu, Jianxin Ma, Yanting Shen, Jiayang Li, Bin Han, Jianchang Du, Zhengkui Zhou, Zheng Wang, Xuehui Huang and Feng Feng and has published in prestigious journals such as Cell, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Zhixi Tian

88 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Pan-Genome of Wild and Cultivated Soybeans

2020 564 citations Yucheng Liu, Yanting Shen et al. Cell profile →
Allelic diversities in rice starch biosynthesis lead to a diverse array of rice eating and cooking qualities

2009 446 citations Zhixi Tian, Jiayang Li et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Rational design of high-yield and superior-quality rice

2017 292 citations Zhixi Tian, Jiayang Li et al. Nature Plants profile →
Toward a “Green Revolution” for Soybean

2020 244 citations Shulin Liu, Zhixi Tian et al. profile →
Simultaneous changes in seed size, oil content and protein content driven by selection of SWEET homologues during soybean domestication

2020 208 citations Shoudong Wang, Shulin Liu et al. profile →
Soybean2035: A decadal vision for soybean functional genomics and breeding

2025 19 citations Zhixi Tian, Fanjiang Kong et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhixi Tian China	37	4.8k	1.8k	1.2k	396	264	91	5.6k
Hee‐Jong Koh South Korea	38	4.2k 0.9×	2.0k 1.1×	1.4k 1.3×	326 0.8×	150 0.6×	180	5.0k
Yuqing He China	33	4.1k 0.8×	1.1k 0.6×	2.2k 1.9×	463 1.2×	146 0.6×	119	4.6k
Tilak Raj Sharma India	45	5.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	1.2k 1.0×	267 0.7×	113 0.4×	209	6.2k
Xuehui Huang China	34	4.6k 1.0×	2.1k 1.2×	2.5k 2.2×	120 0.3×	201 0.8×	83	5.7k
A. K. Singh India	39	5.3k 1.1×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.6×	211 0.5×	218 0.8×	275	5.9k
Agnelo Furtado Australia	33	2.3k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	577 0.5×	191 0.5×	196 0.7×	125	3.4k
Mehanathan Muthamilarasan India	34	2.9k 0.6×	1.3k 0.7×	455 0.4×	220 0.6×	185 0.7×	91	3.6k
Torbert Rocheford United States	40	4.6k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	2.9k 2.5×	350 0.9×	668 2.5×	106	6.4k
Dali Zeng China	48	8.3k 1.7×	3.2k 1.8×	3.4k 2.9×	518 1.3×	367 1.4×	172	9.2k
Guojun Dong China	39	6.9k 1.4×	2.5k 1.4×	3.3k 2.8×	259 0.7×	292 1.1×	132	7.6k

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Wang, Yining, Fengxia Zhang, Hao Qin, et al.. (2025). A balance between glycitein and glyceollins governed by isoflavone 6-hydroxylase confers soybean resistance to Phytophthora sojae. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(50). e2525627122–e2525627122.

Liu, Shulin, Shoudong Wang, Chao Fang, et al.. (2025). Genomic atlas of 8,105 accessions reveals stepwise domestication, global dissemination, and improvement trajectories in soybean. Cell. 188(23). 6519–6535.e15. 3 indexed citations

Duan, Zongbiao, Guoan Zhou, Xudong Wang, et al.. (2025). Unlocking soybean potential: genetic resources and omics for breeding. Journal of genetics and genomics. 52(11). 1337–1346. 2 indexed citations

Yuan, Yaqin, Yanting Shen, Yuannian Jiao, et al.. (2024). Duplication and sub‐functionalization of flavonoid biosynthesis genes plays important role in Leguminosae root nodule symbiosis evolution. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 66(10). 2191–2207. 10 indexed citations

Li, Yang, et al.. (2024). The MADS‐box transcription factor GmFULc promotes GmZTL4 gene transcription to modulate maturity in soybean. Journal of Integrative Plant Biology. 66(8). 1603–1619. 7 indexed citations

Ma, Chao, Jinhui Wang, Xiaoxia Wu, et al.. (2024). The type III effector NopL interacts with GmREM1a and GmNFR5 to promote symbiosis in soybean. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5852–5852. 8 indexed citations

Liu, Tengfei, Yaqin Yuan, Shu-Lin Liu, et al.. (2024). Loss of Lateral suppressor gene is associated with evolution of root nodule symbiosis in Leguminosae. Genome biology. 25(1). 250–250. 1 indexed citations

Ni, Lingbin, Yucheng Liu, Xin Ma, et al.. (2023). Pan-3D genome analysis reveals structural and functional differentiation of soybean genomes. Genome biology. 24(1). 12–12. 27 indexed citations

Liu, Yucheng & Zhixi Tian. (2023). Temperature driven antagonistic fate determination by two bHLH transcription factors: dormancy or germination. Science China Life Sciences. 66(5). 1208–1209.

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Sun, Yifei, Chengyuan Tao, Xuhui Deng, et al.. (2023). Rhizosphere Microbiota Promotes the Growth of Soybeans in a Saline–Alkali Environment under Plastic Film Mulching. Plants. 12(9). 1889–1889. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhifang, Xia Yang, Zhi Liu, et al.. (2023). Natural allelic diversities of GmPrx16 confer drought tolerance in soybean. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 22(3). 535–537. 15 indexed citations

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Duan, Zongbiao, Zhifang Zhang, Shan Liang, et al.. (2022). Natural allelic variation ofGmST05controlling seed size and quality in soybean. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 20(9). 1807–1818. 96 indexed citations

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Ma, Xin, Lei Fan, Zhifang Zhang, et al.. (2022). Global dissection of the recombination landscape in soybean using a high‐density 600K SoySNP array. Plant Biotechnology Journal. 21(3). 606–620. 9 indexed citations

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Imran, Muhammad, Tengfei Liu, Zheng Wang, et al.. (2022). Evolutionary conservation of nested MIR159 structural microRNA genes and their promoter characterization in Arabidopsis thaliana. Frontiers in Plant Science. 13. 948751–948751. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Shulin, Kaixin Zhang, Zhixi Tian, et al.. (2020). Linkage Analysis and Multi-Locus Genome-Wide Association Studies Identify QTNs Controlling Soybean Plant Height. Frontiers in Plant Science. 11. 9–9. 26 indexed citations

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Liu, Wei, Lei Chen, Shilai Zhang, et al.. (2019). Decrease of gene expression diversity during domestication of animals and plants. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 19(1). 19–19. 35 indexed citations

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Zhang, Kaixin, Shulin Liu, Wenbin Li, et al.. (2018). Identification of QTNs Controlling Seed Protein Content in Soybean Using Multi-Locus Genome-Wide Association Studies. Frontiers in Plant Science. 9. 1690–1690. 31 indexed citations

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Zhang, Dajian, Lianjun Sun, Shuai Li, et al.. (2017). Elevation of soybean seed oil content through selection for seed coat shininess. Nature Plants. 4(1). 30–35. 57 indexed citations

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Ping, Jieqing, Yunfeng Liu, Lianjun Sun, et al.. (2014). Dt2Is a Gain-of-Function MADS-Domain Factor Gene That Specifies Semideterminacy in Soybean . The Plant Cell. 26(7). 2831–2842. 140 indexed citations

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Feng, Jinong, et al.. (2011). Polymorphisms of three new microsatellite sites of the dystrophin gene. Genetics and Molecular Research. 10(2). 744–751. 2 indexed citations

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