| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Producing more grain with lower environmental costs | Nature | 2014 | 1,292 |
| 2 | Pursuing sustainable productivity with millions of smallholder farmers | Nature | 2018 | 747 |
| 3 | Melatonin mediates the regulation of ABA metabolism, free-radical scavenging, and stomatal behaviour in two Malus species under drought stress | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2015 | 371 |
| 4 | A Reevaluation of the Key Factors That Influence Tomato Fruit Softening and Integrity | Plant Physiology | 2007 | 328 |
| 5 | Wheat stripe (yellow) rust caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici | Molecular Plant Pathology | 2014 | 313 |
| 6 | Crop coefficient and ratio of transpiration to evapotranspiration of winter wheat and maize in a semi-humid region | Agricultural Water Management | 2003 | 303 |
| 7 | Effect of vegetation cover on soil erosion in a mountainous watershed | Catena | 2008 | 280 |
| 8 | Effect of power ultrasound pre-treatment on the physical and functional properties of reconstituted milk protein concentrate | Journal of Food Engineering | 2014 | 274 |
| 9 | An improved water-use efficiency for maize grown under regulated deficit irrigation | Field Crops Research | 2000 | 255 |
| 10 | Improving manure nutrient management towards sustainable agricultural intensification in China | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2015 | 244 |
| 11 | Nitrogen nutrition and water stress effects on leaf photosynthetic gas exchange and water use efficiency in winter wheat | Environmental and Experimental Botany | 2000 | 226 |
| 12 | Regional drought-induced reduction in the biomass carbon sink of Canada's boreal forests | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2012 | 225 |
| 13 | A 4-gigabase physical map unlocks the structure and evolution of the complex genome of Aegilops tauschii, the wheat D-genome progenitor | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 214 |
| 14 | Polyphenolic compounds and antioxidant properties of selected China wines | Food Chemistry | 2009 | 210 |
| 15 | Race Dynamics, Diversity, and Virulence Evolution in Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici, the Causal Agent of Wheat Stripe Rust in China from 2003 to 2007 | Plant Disease | 2009 | 205 |
| 16 | Effects of fertilization and other agronomic measures on nutritional quality of crops | Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture | 2008 | 193 |
| 17 | A water-soluble nucleolin aptamer-paclitaxel conjugate for tumor-specific targeting in ovarian cancer | Nature Communications | 2017 | 192 |
| 18 | miR396-targeted AtGRF transcription factors are required for coordination of cell division and differentiation during leaf development in Arabidopsis | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2011 | 176 |
| 19 | Drought evolution, severity and trends in mainland China over 1961–2013 | Science of the Total Environment | 2018 | 176 |
| 20 | A critical review on livestock manure biorefinery technologies: Sustainability, challenges, and future perspectives | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2021 | 176 |
| 21 | Genetic gains in grain yield, net photosynthesis and stomatal conductance achieved in Henan Province of China between 1981 and 2008 | Field Crops Research | 2011 | 165 |
| 22 | Comparative Toxicity of Essential Oils of Litsea pungens and Litsea cubeba and Blends of Their Major Constituents against the Cabbage Looper, Trichoplusia ni | Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry | 2009 | 163 |
| 23 | Rhizosphere Bacteria in Plant Growth Promotion, Biocontrol, and Bioremediation of Contaminated Sites: A Comprehensive Review of Effects and Mechanisms | International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 2021 | 149 |
| 24 | Similarity and difference of potential evapotranspiration and reference crop evapotranspiration – a review | Agricultural Water Management | 2020 | 147 |
| 25 | Cucumber ECERIFERUM1 (CsCER1), which influences the cuticle properties and drought tolerance of cucumber, plays a key role in VLC alkanes biosynthesis | Plant Molecular Biology | 2015 | 146 |
| 26 | Allelic variation of polyphenol oxidase (PPO) genes located on chromosomes 2A and 2D and development of functional markers for the PPO genes in common wheat | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2007 | 141 |
| 27 | Sap flow and sugar transport in plants | Reviews of Modern Physics | 2016 | 141 |
| 28 | The competing role of natural gas and oil as fossil fuel and the non-linear dynamics of resource curse in Russia | Resources Policy | 2021 | 139 |
| 29 | Controls of surface soil moisture spatial patterns and their temporal stability in a semi‐arid steppe | Hydrological Processes | 2010 | 135 |
| 30 | An ATP-binding cassette subfamily G full transporter is essential for the retention of leaf water in both wild barley and rice | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2011 | 134 |
| 31 | Interactions Between the Gut Microbiota and the Host Innate Immune Response Against Pathogens | Frontiers in Immunology | 2019 | 133 |
| 32 | N-fertilization has different effects on the growth, carbon and nitrogen physiology, and wood properties of slow- and fast-growing Populus species | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2012 | 131 |
| 33 | Nitrogen use efficiency in a wheat–corn cropping system from 15 years of manure and fertilizer applications | Field Crops Research | 2014 | 131 |
| 34 | Soil aggregation and soil aggregate stability regulate organic carbon and nitrogen storage in a red soil of southern China | Journal of Environmental Management | 2020 | 131 |
| 35 | Water use efficiency and sustainability of different long-term crop rotation systems in the Loess Plateau of China | Soil and Tillage Research | 2003 | 130 |
| 36 | The pervasive and multifaceted influence of biocrusts on water in the world's drylands | Global Change Biology | 2020 | 129 |
| 37 | Hydrogen Peroxide Acts Upstream of Nitric Oxide in the Heat Shock Pathway in Arabidopsis Seedlings | Plant Physiology | 2014 | 126 |
| 38 | Projections of drought characteristics in China based on a standardized precipitation and evapotranspiration index and multiple GCMs | Science of the Total Environment | 2020 | 126 |
| 39 | Soil water distribution, water use, and yield response to partial root zone drying under a shallow groundwater table condition in a pear orchard | Scientia Horticulturae | 2002 | 125 |
| 40 | Runoff and sediment loss responses to rainfall and land use in two agricultural catchments on the Loess Plateau of China | Hydrological Processes | 2001 | 123 |
| 41 | A yield-associated gene TaCWI, in wheat: its function, selection and evolution in global breeding revealed by haplotype analysis | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2015 | 122 |
| 42 | Site-directed mutagenesis of the hinge region of nisinZ and properties of nisinZ mutants | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2004 | 119 |
| 43 | Down-scale analysis for water scarcity in response to soil–water conservation on Loess Plateau of China | Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment | 2003 | 118 |
| 44 | Effects of lignin and surfactant on adsorption and hydrolysis of cellulases on cellulose | Biotechnology for Biofuels | 2016 | 116 |
| 45 | Leaching of microplastics by preferential flow in earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris) burrows | Environmental Chemistry | 2019 | 116 |
| 46 | QTL mapping of yield-related traits in the wheat germplasm 3228 | Euphytica | 2011 | 115 |
| 47 | Soil water dynamics and water use efficiency in spring maize (Zea mays L.) fields subjected to different water management practices on the Loess Plateau, China | Agricultural Water Management | 2010 | 113 |
| 48 | Net fluxes of ammonium and nitrate in association with H+ fluxes in fine roots of Populus popularis | Planta | 2013 | 112 |
| 49 | Screening for Anti-lipase Properties of 37 Traditional Chinese Medicinal Herbs | Journal of the Chinese Medical Association | 2010 | 110 |
| 50 | The introgression of chromosome 6P specifying for increased numbers of florets and kernels from Agropyron cristatum into wheat | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2006 | 108 |
