| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Effects of Artificial Selection on the Maize Genome | Science | 2005 | 742 |
| 2 | Root growth maintenance during water deficits: physiology to functional genomics | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2004 | 529 |
| 3 | Soil Organic Matter Turnover in Long‐term Field Experiments as Revealed by Carbon‐13 Natural Abundance | Soil Science Society of America Journal | 1988 | 453 |
| 4 | ABA, ethylene and the control of shoot and root growth under water stress | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2002 | 414 |
| 5 | Interaction with ethylene: changing views on the role of abscisic acid in root and shoot growth responses to water stress | Plant, Cell and Environment | 2002 | 373 |
| 6 | Increased Endogenous Abscisic Acid Maintains Primary Root Growth and Inhibits Shoot Growth of Maize Seedlings at Low Water Potentials | Plant Physiology | 1990 | 370 |
| 7 | A Chromosome Bin Map of 16,000 Expressed Sequence Tag Loci and Distribution of Genes Among the Three Genomes of Polyploid Wheat | Genetics | 2004 | 369 |
| 8 | Citrate, Malate, and Succinate Concentration in Exudates from P-Sufficient and P-Stressed Medicago sativa L. Seedlings | Plant Physiology | 1987 | 327 |
| 9 | Growth of the Maize Primary Root at Low Water Potentials | Plant Physiology | 1991 | 316 |
| 10 | Peroxidase Activity in the Leaf Elongation Zone of Tall Fescue | Plant Physiology | 1992 | 308 |
| 11 | Relating apparent electrical conductivity to soil properties across the north-central USA | Computers and Electronics in Agriculture | 2005 | 288 |
| 12 | HVA1, a LEA gene from barley confers dehydration tolerance in transgenic rice (Oryza sativa L.) via cell membrane protection | Plant Science | 2004 | 283 |
| 13 | Endogenous ABA maintains shoot growth in tomato independently of effects on plant water balance: evidence for an interaction with ethylene | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2000 | 279 |
| 14 | Glutathione peroxidase genes in Arabidopsis are ubiquitous and regulated by abiotic stresses through diverse signaling pathways | Plant Journal | 2003 | 277 |
| 15 | A Novel Suppressor of Cell Death in Plants Encoded by the Lls1 Gene of Maize | Cell | 1997 | 268 |
| 16 | Development of a core RFLP map in maize using an immortalized F2 population. | Genetics | 1993 | 268 |
| 17 | A Porphyrin Pathway Impairment Is Responsible for the Phenotype of a Dominant Disease Lesion Mimic Mutant of Maize | Plant Cell | 1998 | 257 |
| 18 | New Secale cereale (rye) DNA derivatives for the detection of rye chromosome segments in wheat | Genome | 1990 | 252 |
| 19 | Host Plant Resistance Genes for Fusarium Head Blight: Sources, Mechanisms, and Utility in Conventional Breeding Systems | Crop Science | 2001 | 245 |
| 20 | Indole-3-Acetic Acid Biosynthesis in the Mutant Maize orange pericarp, a Tryptophan Auxotroph | Science | 1991 | 240 |
| 21 | Giemsa C-Banding and the Evolution of Wheat | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1974 | 239 |
| 22 | Translocations and modifications of chromosomes in triticale � wheat hybrids | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1983 | 227 |
| 23 | Characterization of FRO1, a Pea Ferric-Chelate Reductase Involved in Root Iron Acquisition | Plant Physiology | 2002 | 224 |
| 24 | A Maize Map Standard With Sequenced Core Markers, Grass Genome Reference Points and 932 Expressed Sequence Tagged Sites (ESTs) in a 1736-Locus Map | Genetics | 1999 | 219 |
| 25 | Arabidopsis as a Genetic Tool | Annual Review of Genetics | 1975 | 206 |
| 26 | Elongation of the Grass Leaf and its Relationship to the Phyllochron | Crop Science | 1995 | 202 |
| 27 | Molecular and functional diversity of maize | Current Opinion in Plant Biology | 2006 | 201 |
| 28 | Activation of a Stress-Responsive Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade Induces the Biosynthesis of Ethylene in Plants | Plant Cell | 2003 | 200 |
| 29 | Winter Legume Effects on Soil Properties and Nitrogen Fertilizer Requirements | Soil Science Society of America Journal | 1989 | 198 |
| 30 | Spatial Distribution of Turgor and Root Growth at Low Water Potentials | Plant Physiology | 1991 | 192 |
| 31 | Genetic mapping of soybean cyst nematode race-3 resistance loci in the soybean PI 437.654 | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1995 | 189 |
| 32 | Non-hydraulic signals from maize roots in drying soil: inhibition of leaf elongation but not stomatal conductance | Planta | 1989 | 184 |
| 33 | DEFECTIVE KERNEL MUTANTS OF MAIZE. I. GENETIC AND LETHALITY STUDIES | Genetics | 1980 | 181 |
| 34 | Effects of Nitrogen on Mesophyll Cell Division and Epidermal Cell Elongation in Tall Fescue Leaf Blades | Plant Physiology | 1989 | 177 |
| 35 | Nitrogen Use within the Growing Leaf Blade of Tall Fescue | Plant Physiology | 1994 | 170 |
| 36 | Maintenance of shoot growth by endogenous ABA: genetic assessment of the involvement of ethylene suppression | Journal of Experimental Botany | 2003 | 170 |
| 37 | Genome evolution of allopolyploids: a process of cytological and genetic diploidization | Cytogenetic and Genome Research | 2005 | 169 |
| 38 | Disease lesion mimics of maize: A model for cell death in plants | BioEssays | 1995 | 166 |
| 39 | ’Forrest’ resistance to the soybean cyst nematode is bigenic: saturation mapping of the Rhg1and Rhg4 loci | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 2001 | 156 |
| 40 | Modification of Expansin Transcript Levels in the Maize Primary Root at Low Water Potentials | Plant Physiology | 2001 | 156 |
| 41 | Comparative growth of six Amaranthus species in Missouri | Weed Science | 2003 | 154 |
| 42 | Particle-Size Analysis by a Modified Pipette Procedure | Soil Science Society of America Journal | 1990 | 150 |
| 43 | Evolution of Anthocyanin Biosynthesis in Maize Kernels: The Role of Regulatory and Enzymatic Loci | Genetics | 1996 | 144 |
| 44 | Post-harvest residue input to cropland | Plant and Soil | 1986 | 139 |
| 45 | A Reassessment of the Course of Evolution of Wheat | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1972 | 137 |
| 46 | The Giemsa C-Banded Karyotype of Rye | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1974 | 137 |
| 47 | High-Resolution Crossover Maps for Each Bivalent of Zea mays Using Recombination Nodules | Genetics | 2003 | 136 |
| 48 | Root Growth Inhibition in Boron-Deficient or Aluminum-Stressed Squash May Be a Result of Impaired Ascorbate Metabolism | Plant Physiology | 1996 | 134 |
| 49 | Engineering Soybean for Enhanced Sulfur Amino Acid Content | Crop Science | 2005 | 134 |
| 50 | Theory and application of half-sib matings in forage grass breeding | Theoretical and Applied Genetics | 1983 | 132 |
