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Phytobiomes Journal
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Phytobiomes Journal

Published by: American Phytopathological Society

https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/journal/pbiomes

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Plant Science and Agronomy 122 58 58 16
Microbiology 243 11 15 6
Ecology and Evolution 390 22 26 10

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 135
Documents by Best Scientists*: 113
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 3
SCIMAGO H-index: 32
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.841
Impact Factor: 2.6

Top Publications

  • Disease-Induced Microbial Shifts in Citrus Indicate Microbiome-Derived Responses to Huanglongbing Across the Disease Severity Spectrum

    Nichole A. Ginnan;Tyler Dang;Sohrab Bodaghi;Paul M. Ruegger

    (2020)
    100 Citations
  • Heritability and Functional Importance of the Setaria viridis Bacterial Seed Microbiome

    Carolina Escobar Rodríguez;Livio Antonielli;Birgit Mitter;Friederike Trognitz

    (2020)
    88 Citations
  • Plant–Microbe Interactions: From Genes to Ecosystems Using Populus as a Model System

    Melissa A. Cregger;Dana L. Carper;Stephan Christel;Mitchel J. Doktycz

    (2021)
    37 Citations
  • Seasonal Dynamics of Core Fungi in the Switchgrass Phyllosphere, and Co-Occurrence with Leaf Bacteria

    Alan W. Bowsher;Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci;Gian Maria Niccolò Benucci;Gregory Bonito;Gregory Bonito;Ashley Shade

    (2021)
    36 Citations
  • Root Endophytes of Coffee (Coffea arabica): Variation Across Climatic Gradients and Relationships with Functional Traits

    Roberta Fulthorpe;Adam R. Martin;Marney E. Isaac

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Datamining, Genetic Diversity Analyses, and Phylogeographic Reconstructions Redefine the Worldwide Evolutionary History of Grapevine Pinot gris virus and Grapevine berry inner necrosis virus

    Jean-Michel Hily;Nils Poulicard;Thierry Candresse;Emmanuelle Vigne

    (2020)
    35 Citations
  • Environment has a Stronger Effect than Host Plant Genotype in Shaping Spring Brassica napus Seed Microbiomes

    Zayda P. Morales Moreira;Bobbi L. Helgason;James J. Germida

    (2021)
    32 Citations
  • Impacts of Soil Microbiome Variations on Root Colonization by Fungi and Bacteria and on the Metabolome of Populus tremula × alba

    L. Mangeot-Peter;T. J. Tschaplinski;N. L. Engle;C. Veneault-Fourrey

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • Endophytic microbiome variation among single plant seeds

    Ari Fina Bintarti;Abby Sulesky-Grieb;Nejc Stopnišek;Ashley Shade

    (2021)
    30 Citations

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