2026 Bruce A. McDonald: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	92	253	237	8	8	293	25748

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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293

25748

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Switzerland Leader Award

Best Publications

PATHOGEN POPULATION GENETICS, EVOLUTIONARY POTENTIAL, AND DURABLE RESISTANCE

Bruce A. McDonald;Celeste C. Linde

2619
Citations
Emergence of a new disease as a result of interspecific virulence gene transfer.

Timothy L Friesen;Eva H Stukenbrock;Zhaohui Liu;Steven Meinhardt

855
Citations
Gene Flow in Plant Pathosystems

J. M. Mcdermott;B. A. Mcdonald

825
Citations
The Origins of Plant Pathogens in Agro-Ecosystems

Eva H. Stukenbrock;Bruce A. McDonald

709
Citations
The population genetics of plant pathogens and breeding strategies for durable resistance

Bruce A. McDonald;Celeste Linde

681
Citations
The population genetics of fungi: tools and techniques.

Bruce A. McDonald

608
Citations
Emergence of wheat blast in Bangladesh was caused by a South American lineage of Magnaporthe oryzae.

M. Tofazzal Islam;Daniel Croll;Pierre Gladieux;Darren M. Soanes

478
Citations
The global genetic structure of the wheat pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola is characterized by high nuclear diversity, low mitochondrial diversity, regular recombination, and gene flow

Jiasui Zhan;Ronald E. Pettway;Bruce A. McDonald

418
Citations
Rapid emergence of pathogens in agro-ecosystems: global threats to agricultural sustainability and food security.

Bruce A. McDonald;Eva H. Stukenbrock

375
Citations
Population Structure of Mycosphaerella graminicola: From Lesions to Continents.

C. C. Linde;J. Zhan;B. A. McDonald

355
Citations
Origin and Domestication of the Fungal Wheat Pathogen Mycosphaerella graminicola via Sympatric Speciation

Eva H. Stukenbrock;Søren Banke;Mohammad Javan-Nikkhah;Bruce A. McDonald

326
Citations
Population Genetics of Plant Pathogenic FungiElectrophoretic markers give unprecedented precision to analyses of genetic structure of populations

Bruce A. McDonald;Joseph M. McDermott

313
Citations
Dothideomycete-Plant Interactions Illuminated by Genome Sequencing and EST Analysis of the Wheat Pathogen Stagonospora nodorum

James K. Hane;Rohan G.T. Lowe;Peter S. Solomon;Kar-Chun Tan

302
Citations
The accessory genome as a cradle for adaptive evolution in pathogens.

Daniel Croll;Bruce A. McDonald

291
Citations
An Analysis of the Durability of Resistance to Plant Viruses

Fernando García-Arenal;Bruce A. McDonald

288
Citations
The cysteine rich necrotrophic effector SnTox1 produced by Stagonospora nodorum triggers susceptibility of wheat lines harboring Snn1.

Zhaohui Liu;Zengcui Zhang;Justin D. Faris;Richard P. Oliver

283
Citations
Sexual Reproduction Plays a Major Role in the Genetic Structure of Populations of the Fungus Mycosphaerella graminicola

Ruey-Shyang Chen;Bruce A. McDonald

276
Citations
A small secreted protein in Zymoseptoria tritici is responsible for avirulence on wheat cultivars carrying the Stb6 resistance gene.

Ziming Zhong;Thierry C. Marcel;Fanny E. Hartmann;Xin Ma

255
Citations
QoI resistance emerged independently at least 4 times in European populations of Mycosphaerella graminicola

Stefano F. F. Torriani;Patrick C. Brunner;Bruce A. Mcdonald;Helge Sierotzki

248
Citations
Population Genetics of Plant Pathogenic Fungi

Bruce A. McDonald;Joseph M. McDermott

245
Citations