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Barbara Gravendeel

Barbara Gravendeel

D-Index & Metrics

Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
38
Citations
6123
World Ranking
4353
National Ranking
89

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
38
Citations
6028
World Ranking
6609
National Ranking
159

Barbara Gravendeel publication distribution in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbara Gravendeel sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 186 publications — 73rd percentile

73% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 467 publications or more.

Barbara Gravendeel D-index placement in Plant Science and Agronomy in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Plant Science and Agronomy scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Barbara Gravendeel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 38 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Barbara Gravendeel is affiliated with the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in the Netherlands. Their work primarily spans several fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Environmental Science. They focus on subfields such as Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Molecular Biology, Plant Science, Ecology, and Genetics.

Their research topics cover diverse aspects of biological and environmental studies, including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant and Fungal Species Descriptions
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

Barbara Gravendeel has contributed to multiple scholarly publications, with recent notable papers including:

  • "Antimicrobial Activity of Necklace Orchids is Phylogenetically Clustered and can be Predicted With a Biological Response Method," 2021, Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • "The effects of COVID-19 litter on animal life," 2021, Animal Biology
  • "Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships," 2021, American Journal of Botany
  • "The origin and speciation of orchids," 2024, New Phytologist
  • "DNA metabarcoding using nrITS2 provides highly qualitative and quantitative results for airborne pollen monitoring," 2021, The Science of The Total Environment

Gravendeel frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Hugo de Boer, Diego Bogarín, Ilia J. Leitch, Erik Smets, and Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar.

Their work has appeared repeatedly in specific publication venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Plants
  • PLoS ONE
  • Research Square (Research Square)

Barbara Gravendeel has also authored a book titled Molecular identification of plants: from sequence to species, published in 2021 by Pensoft Publishers.

Best Publications

  • Exploring genetic variation in the tomato (Solanum section Lycopersicon) clade by whole‐genome sequencing

    Saulo Aflitos;Elio Schijlen;Hans de Jong

  • Dating the origin of the Orchidaceae from a fossil orchid with its pollinator

    Santiago R. Ramírez;Barbara Gravendeel;Rodrigo B. Singer;Charles R. Marshall

  • Exploring genetic variation in the tomato (Solanum section Lycopersicon) clade by whole-genome sequencing

    Saulo A. Aflitos;Elio Schijlen;Richard Finkers;Sandra Smit

  • Evolution of endemism on a young tropical mountain.

    Vincent S F T Merckx;Vincent S F T Merckx;Kasper P Hendriks;Kevin K Beentjes;Constantijn B Mennes

  • Epiphytism and pollinator specialization: drivers for orchid diversity?

    Barbara Gravendeel;Ann Smithson;Ferry J. W. Slik;Andre Schuiteman

  • Advances in DNA metabarcoding for food and wildlife forensic species identification

    Martijn Staats;Alfred J. Arulandhu;Barbara Gravendeel;Arne Holst-Jensen

  • The Complete Chloroplast Genome of 17 Individuals of Pest Species Jacobaea vulgaris: SNPs, Microsatellites and Barcoding Markers for Population and Phylogenetic Studies

    Leonie Doorduin;Barbara Gravendeel;Youri Lammers;Yavuz Ariyurek

  • Collection and trade of wild-harvested orchids in Nepal

    Abishkar Subedi;Bimal Kunwar;Young Choi;Yuntao Dai

  • Herbarium genomics: plastome sequence assembly from a range of herbarium specimens using an Iterative Organelle Genome Assembly pipeline

    Freek T. Bakker;Di Lei;Jiaying Yu;Setareh Mohammadin

  • Antimicrobial Activity of Necklace Orchids is Phylogenetically Clustered and can be Predicted With a Biological Response Method.

    Richa Kusuma Wati;Richa Kusuma Wati;Esmée F. de Graaf;Diego Bogarín;Diego Bogarín;Reinout Heijungs;Reinout Heijungs

  • The ecological implications of a Yakutian mammoth’s last meal

    Bas van Geel;Andre Aptroot;Claudia Baittinger;Hilary H. Birks

  • Molecular phylogeny of Coelogyne (Epidendroideae; Orchidaceae) based on plastid RFLPS, matK, and nuclear ribosomal ITS sequences: evidence for polyphyly

    Barbara Gravendeel;Mark W. Chase;Ed F. de Vogel;Marco C. Roos

  • Tackling speciose genera: species composition and phylogenetic position of Senecio sect. Jacobaea (Asteraceae) based onplastid and nrDNA sequences

    Pieter B. Pelser;Barbara Gravendeel;Ruud van der Meijden

  • Phylogeny reconstruction in the gap between too little and too much divergence: the closest relatives of Senecio jacobaea (Asteraceae) according to DNA sequences and AFLPs.

    Pieter B Pelser;Barbara Gravendeel;Ruud van der Meijden

  • Identifying clades in Asian Annonaceae: monophyletic genera in the polyphyletic Miliuseae

    Johan B. Mols;Barbara Gravendeel;Lars W. Chatrou;Michael D. Pirie

  • The effects of COVID-19 litter on animal life

    Auke-Florian Hiemstra;Auke-Florian Hiemstra;Liselotte Rambonnet;Barbara Gravendeel;Barbara Gravendeel;Menno Schilthuizen;Menno Schilthuizen

  • Potential phylogenetic utility of the nuclear FLORICAULA/LEAFY second intron: comparison with three chloroplast DNA regions in Amorphophallus (Araceae)

    G.B.J Grob;B Gravendeel;M.C.M Eurlings

  • A Target Capture-Based Method to Estimate Ploidy From Herbarium Specimens.

    Juan Viruel;María Conejero;Oriane Hidalgo;Oriane Hidalgo;Lisa Pokorny

  • Mycological evidence of coprophagy from the feces of an Alaskan Late Glacial mammoth

    Bas van Geel;R. Dale Guthrie;Jens G. Altmann;Peter Broekens

  • Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield novel insights into orchid relationships.

    Oscar Alejandro Pérez‐Escobar;Steven Dodsworth;Diego Bogarín;Sidonie Bellot

  • The origin and speciation of orchids.

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  • Molecular phylogeny of Aerides (Orchidaceae) based on one nuclear and two plastid markers: a step forward in understanding the evolution of the Aeridinae.

    Alexander Kocyan;Ed F. de Vogel;Elena Conti;Barbara Gravendeel

  • Wild orchid tuber collection in Iran: a wake-up call for conservation

    Abdolbaset Ghorbani;Barbara Gravendeel;Farzaneh Naghibi;Hugo de Boer;Hugo de Boer;Hugo de Boer

  • TrnL-trnF sequence data imply paraphyly of Aquilaria and Gyrinops (Thymelaeaceae) and provide new perspectives for agarwood identification

    M. C. M. Eurlings;B. Gravendeel

  • The Contribution of DNA Metabarcoding to Fungal Conservation: Diversity Assessment, Habitat Partitioning and Mapping Red-Listed Fungi in Protected Coastal Salix repens Communities in the Netherlands

    József Geml;József Geml;Barbara Gravendeel;Barbara Gravendeel;Barbara Gravendeel;Kristiaan J. van der Gaag;Manon Neilen

Frequent Co-Authors

Hugo J. de Boer
Hugo J. de Boer University of Oslo
Erik Smets
Erik Smets Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Tinde van Andel
Tinde van Andel Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Frederic Lens
Frederic Lens Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Ilia J. Leitch
Ilia J. Leitch Royal Botanic Gardens
Menno Schilthuizen
Menno Schilthuizen Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Mark W. Chase
Mark W. Chase Royal Botanic Gardens
Reinout Heijungs
Reinout Heijungs Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Freek T. Bakker
Freek T. Bakker Wageningen University & Research
Alexandre Antonelli
Alexandre Antonelli University of Gothenburg

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