Bruce A. McDonald

Bruce A. McDonald 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 Bruce A. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

Bruce A. McDonald 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 Bruce A. McDonald sits on this spectrum.

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