| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | A decimal code for the growth stages of cereals | Weed Research | 1974 | 8,263 |
| 2 | Plant drought stress: effects, mechanisms and management | Agronomy for Sustainable Development | 2009 | 2,511 |
| 3 | The Chemistry of Submerged Soils | Advances in Agronomy | 1972 | 2,137 |
| 4 | Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2004 | 1,859 |
| 5 | Effects of sample size on the performance of species distribution models | Diversity and Distributions | 2008 | 1,771 |
| 6 | Temperature increase reduces global yields of major crops in four independent estimates | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2017 | 1,708 |
| 7 | Marker-assisted selection: an approach for precision plant breeding in the twenty-first century | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2008 | 1,568 |
| 8 | Genetic diversity and disease control in rice | Nature | 2000 | 1,338 |
| 9 | Sub1A is an ethylene-response-factor-like gene that confers submergence tolerance to rice | Nature | 2006 | 1,332 |
| 10 | A mutant gibberellin-synthesis gene in rice | Nature | 2002 | 1,107 |
| 11 | Genomic variation in 3,010 diverse accessions of Asian cultivated rice | Nature | 2018 | 1,091 |
| 12 | Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding: Methods, Models, and Perspectives | Trends in Plant Science | 2017 | 1,004 |
| 13 | What it will take to Feed 5.0 Billion Rice consumers in 2030 | Plant Molecular Biology | 2005 | 970 |
| 14 | Origin, dispersal, cultivation and variation of rice | | 1997 | 845 |
| 15 | Green revolution: the way forward | Nature Reviews Genetics | 2001 | 804 |
| 16 | Role of ABA in integrating plant responses to drought and salt stresses | Field Crops Research | 2006 | 765 |
| 17 | A High-Density Rice Genetic Linkage Map with 2275 Markers Using a Single F2 Population | Genetics | 1998 | 723 |
| 18 | Rodent-borne diseases and their risks for public health | Critical Reviews in Microbiology | 2009 | 716 |
| 19 | Role of soil microorganisms in improving P nutrition of plants | Plant and Soil | 2002 | 681 |
| 20 | The protein kinase Pstol1 from traditional rice confers tolerance of phosphorus deficiency | Nature | 2012 | 662 |
| 21 | Isozymes and classification of Asian rice varieties | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1987 | 657 |
| 22 | Not just a grain of rice: the quest for quality | Trends in Plant Science | 2009 | 643 |
| 23 | Metaproteogenomic analysis of microbial communities in the phyllosphere and rhizosphere of rice | ISME Journal | 2012 | 635 |
| 24 | Progress in ideotype breeding to increase rice yield potential | Field Crops Research | 2008 | 630 |
| 25 | Species, ecotype and cultivar differences in spikelet fertility and harvest index of rice in response to high temperature stress | Field Crops Research | 2006 | 609 |
| 26 | Genomewide SNP variation reveals relationships among landraces and modern varieties of rice | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 581 |
| 27 | Current Status and Challenges of Rice Production in China | Plant Production Science | 2009 | 573 |
| 28 | Responses of Photosynthesis, Chlorophyll Fluorescence and ROS-Scavenging Systems to Salt Stress During Seedling and Reproductive Stages in Rice | Annals of Botany | 2007 | 565 |
| 29 | Yield Potential Trends of Tropical Rice since the Release of IR8 and the Challenge of Increasing Rice Yield Potential | Crop Science | 1999 | 553 |
| 30 | Start Codon Targeted (SCoT) Polymorphism: A Simple, Novel DNA Marker Technique for Generating Gene-Targeted Markers in Plants | Plant Molecular Biology Reporter | 2009 | 537 |
| 31 | Is proline accumulation per se correlated with stress tolerance or is proline homeostasis a more critical issue? | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2014 | 535 |
| 32 | Pyramiding of bacterial blight resistance genes in rice: marker-assisted selection using RFLP and PCR | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1997 | 532 |
| 33 | Weed Management in Direct‐Seeded Rice | Advances in Agronomy | 2007 | 497 |
| 34 | Direct Seeding of Rice | Advances in Agronomy | 2011 | 497 |
| 35 | Rice yields in tropical/subtropical Asia exhibit large but opposing sensitivities to minimum and maximum temperatures | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2010 | 495 |
| 36 | Effect of water-saving irrigation on rice yield and water use in typical lowland conditions in Asia | Agricultural Water Management | 2004 | 486 |
| 37 | Strategies for overcoming low agronomic nitrogen use efficiency in irrigated rice systems in China | Field Crops Research | 2006 | 484 |
| 38 | Aligning Conservation Priorities Across Taxa in Madagascar with High-Resolution Planning Tools | Science | 2008 | 484 |
| 39 | RFLP mapping of genes conferring complete and partial resistance to blast in a durably resistant rice cultivar. | Genetics | 1994 | 482 |
| 40 | Broad-spectrum resistance to bacterial blight in rice using genome editing | Nature Biotechnology | 2019 | 470 |
| 41 | Physiological and proteomic approaches to address heat tolerance during anthesis in rice (Oryza sativa L.) | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2010 | 468 |
| 42 | Yield and water use of irrigated tropical aerobic rice systems | Agricultural Water Management | 2005 | 465 |
| 43 | Feeding the future | Nature | 2013 | 464 |
| 44 | Opportunities for increased nitrogen-use efficiency from improved resource management in irrigated rice systems | Field Crops Research | 1998 | 458 |
| 45 | The origin, evolution, cultivation, dissemination, and diversification of Asian and African rices | Euphytica | 1976 | 457 |
| 46 | How extensive are yield declines in long-term rice–wheat experiments in Asia? | Field Crops Research | 2003 | 457 |
| 47 | Locating Pleistocene Refugia: Comparing Phylogeographic and Ecological Niche Model Predictions | PLoS ONE | 2007 | 444 |
| 48 | Rice and Water | Advances in Agronomy | 2007 | 442 |
| 49 | Thermal infrared imaging of crop canopies for the remote diagnosis and quantification of plant responses to water stress in the field | Functional Plant Biology | 2009 | 439 |
| 50 | Improving nitrogen fertilization in rice by sitespecific N management. A review | Agronomy for Sustainable Development | 2010 | 436 |
