| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The role of conservation agriculture in sustainable agriculture | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2008 | 1,067 |
| 2 | Genome-wide comparative diversity uncovers multiple targets of selection for improvement in hexaploid wheat landraces and cultivars | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2013 | 1,065 |
| 3 | Wheat Yield Progress Associated with Higher Stomatal Conductance and Photosynthetic Rate, and Cooler Canopies | Crop Science | 1998 | 751 |
| 4 | The Emergence of Ug99 Races of the Stem Rust Fungus is a Threat to World Wheat Production | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2011 | 612 |
| 5 | Maize HapMap2 identifies extant variation from a genome in flux | Nature Genetics | 2012 | 577 |
| 6 | Detection of Virulence to Wheat Stem Rust Resistance Gene Sr31 in Puccinia graminis. f. sp. tritici in Uganda | Plant Disease | 2000 | 569 |
| 7 | Translating High-Throughput Phenotyping into Genetic Gain | Trends in Plant Science | 2018 | 525 |
| 8 | Raising yield potential of wheat. II. Increasing photosynthetic capacity and efficiency | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2011 | 511 |
| 9 | Heat and drought adaptive QTL in a wheat population designed to minimize confounding agronomic effects | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2010 | 484 |
| 10 | The importance of the anthesis-silking interval in breeding for drought tolerance in tropical maize | Field Crops Research | 1996 | 456 |
| 11 | Genome-wide association study for grain yield and related traits in an elite spring wheat population grown in temperate irrigated environments | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2015 | 400 |
| 12 | Enhancing the mineral and vitamin content of wheat and maize through plant breeding | Journal of Cereal Science | 2007 | 389 |
| 13 | Drought-adaptive traits derived from wheat wild relatives and landraces | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2006 | 388 |
| 14 | Yield Potential Progress in Short Bread Wheats in Northwest Mexico | Crop Science | 1997 | 366 |
| 15 | Exploiting genetic diversity from landraces in wheat breeding for adaptation to climate change | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2015 | 356 |
| 16 | Similar estimates of temperature impacts on global wheat yield by three independent methods | Nature Climate Change | 2016 | 352 |
| 17 | Genetic mapping of 66 new microsatellite (SSR) loci in bread wheat | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2002 | 339 |
| 18 | Uncertainties in predicting rice yield by current crop models under a wide range of climatic conditions | Global Change Biology | 2015 | 339 |
| 19 | Disease Impact on Wheat Yield Potential and Prospects of Genetic Control | Annual Review of Phytopathology | 2016 | 322 |
| 20 | Effects of conservation agriculture techniques on infiltration and soil water content in Zambia and Zimbabwe | Soil and Tillage Research | 2009 | 316 |
| 21 | Concentration and localization of zinc during seed development and germination in wheat | Physiologia Plantarum | 2006 | 314 |
| 22 | Identification of quantitative trait loci under drought conditions in tropical maize. 2. Yield components and marker-assisted selection strategies | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1997 | 303 |
| 23 | Triticum dicoccoides: An important genetic resource for increasing zinc and iron concentration in modern cultivated wheat | Soil Science and Plant Nutrition | 2004 | 298 |
| 24 | Additive Main Effects and Multiplicative Interaction Analysis of Two International Maize Cultivar Trials | Crop Science | 1990 | 297 |
| 25 | Rapid breeding and varietal replacement are critical to adaptation of cropping systems in the developing world to climate change | Global Food Security | 2017 | 287 |
| 26 | Zinc deficiency as a critical problem in wheat production in Central Anatolia | Plant and Soil | 1996 | 282 |
| 27 | The adult plant rust resistance loci Lr34/Yr18 and Lr46/Yr29 are important determinants of partial resistance to powdery mildew in bread wheat line Saar | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2008 | 280 |
| 28 | Marker-assisted selection to improve drought adaptation in maize: the backcross approach, perspectives, limitations, and alternatives | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2006 | 279 |
| 29 | Beyond conservation agriculture | Frontiers in Plant Science | 2015 | 269 |
| 30 | Stay-green in spring wheat can be determined by spectral reflectance measurements (normalized difference vegetation index) independently from phenology | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2012 | 255 |
| 31 | Genetic Gains in Grain Yield Through Genomic Selection in Eight Bi‐parental Maize Populations under Drought Stress | Crop Science | 2015 | 253 |
| 32 | Seven years of conservation agriculture in a rice–wheat rotation of Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia: Yield trends and economic profitability | Field Crops Research | 2014 | 252 |
| 33 | Metabolic and Phenotypic Responses of Greenhouse-Grown Maize Hybrids to Experimentally Controlled Drought Stress | Molecular Plant | 2012 | 251 |
| 34 | Lr68: a new gene conferring slow rusting resistance to leaf rust in wheat | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2012 | 248 |
| 35 | Identification of Drought, Heat, and Combined Drought and Heat Tolerant Donors in Maize | Crop Science | 2013 | 247 |
| 36 | Identification of quantitative trait loci under drought conditions in tropical maize. 1. Flowering parameters and the anthesis-silking interval | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1996 | 240 |
| 37 | SNP Genotyping: The KASP Assay | Methods in Molecular Biology | 2014 | 239 |
| 38 | Selection Improves Drought Tolerance in Tropical Maize Populations: I. Gains in Biomass, Grain Yield, and Harvest Index | Crop Science | 1999 | 237 |
| 39 | Population- and genome-specific patterns of linkage disequilibrium and SNP variation in spring and winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) | BMC Genomics | 2010 | 234 |
| 40 | Sink-limitation to yield and biomass: a summary of some investigations in spring wheat | Annals of Applied Biology | 2005 | 233 |
| 41 | Conservation Agriculture in mixed crop–livestock systems: Scoping crop residue trade-offs in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia | Field Crops Research | 2012 | 231 |
| 42 | Conservation of the genetic variation of Triticum tauschii (Coss.) Schmalh. (Aegilops squarrosa auct. non L.) in synthetic hexaploid wheats (T. turgidum L. s.lat. x T. tauschii; 2n=6x=42, AABBDD) and its potential utilization for wheat improvement | Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution | 1996 | 228 |
| 43 | Breeding for improved abiotic stress tolerance in maize adapted to southern Africa | Agricultural Water Management | 2006 | 226 |
| 44 | Phenotyping approaches for physiological breeding and gene discovery in wheat | Annals of Applied Biology | 2009 | 224 |
| 45 | New slow-rusting leaf rust and stripe rust resistance genes Lr67 and Yr46 in wheat are pleiotropic or closely linked | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2011 | 224 |
| 46 | Factors that transformed maize productivity in Ethiopia | Food Security | 2015 | 217 |
| 47 | Biofortification of wheat with zinc through zinc fertilization in seven countries | Plant and Soil | 2012 | 216 |
| 48 | The challenges of maintaining wheat productivity: pests, diseases, and potential epidemics | Euphytica | 2007 | 209 |
| 49 | Eight cycles of selection for drought tolerance in lowland tropical maize. II. Responses in reproductive behavior | Field Crops Research | 1993 | 205 |
| 50 | Causes for Silk Delay in a Lowland Tropical Maize Population | Crop Science | 1993 | 204 |
