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Cristobal Uauy publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cristobal Uauy sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 202 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Cristobal Uauy D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Cristobal Uauy sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 59th percentile

59% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Overview

Cristobal Uauy is affiliated with the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology. Their research focuses primarily on plant science, genetics, molecular biology, agronomy, crop science, nutrition, and dietetics.

The main topics addressed in their work include:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Crop Yield and Soil Fertility
  • Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity

Uauy's publications have appeared in a range of venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Among recent papers, notable works include:

  • "Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding," 2020, Nature
  • "Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement," 2021, Nature Biotechnology
  • "Diversity analysis of 80,000 wheat accessions reveals consequences and opportunities of selection footprints," 2020, Nature Communications
  • "The NLR-Annotator Tool Enables Annotation of the Intracellular Immune Receptor Repertoire," 2020, PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • "Wheat root systems as a breeding target for climate resilience," 2021, Theoretical and Applied Genetics

Frequent co-authors in Cristobal Uauy's research include:

  • James Simmonds
  • Ricardo H. Ramírez-González
  • Nikolai M. Adamski
  • Brande B. H. Wulff
  • Jesús Quiroz-Chávez

Best Publications

  • Shifting the limits in wheat research and breeding using a fully annotated reference genome

    Rudi Appels;Rudi Appels;Kellye Eversole;Nils Stein;Nils Stein

  • A NAC Gene Regulating Senescence Improves Grain Protein, Zinc, and Iron Content in Wheat

    Cristobal Uauy;Assaf Distelfeld;Tzion Fahima;Ann Blechl

  • Speed breeding is a powerful tool to accelerate crop research and breeding

    Amy Watson;Sreya Ghosh;Matthew J. Williams;William S. Cuddy

  • The transcriptional landscape of polyploid wheat

    R. H. Ramírez-González;P. Borrill;D. Lang;S. A. Harrington

  • Multiple wheat genomes reveal global variation in modern breeding.

    Sean Walkowiak;Sean Walkowiak;Liangliang Gao;Cecile Monat;Georg Haberer

  • A kinase-START gene confers temperature-dependent resistance to wheat stripe rust

    Daolin Fu;Cristobal Uauy;Assaf Distelfeld;Ann Blechl

  • Induction of targeted, heritable mutations in barley and Brassica oleracea using RNA-guided Cas9 nuclease

    Tom Lawrenson;Oluwaseyi Shorinola;Nicola Stacey;Chengdao Li

  • Uncovering hidden variation in polyploid wheat.

    Ksenia V. Krasileva;Ksenia V. Krasileva;Ksenia V. Krasileva;Hans A. Vasquez-Gross;Tyson Howell;Paul Bailey

  • Speed breeding in growth chambers and glasshouses for crop breeding and model plant research.

    Sreya Ghosh;Amy Watson;Oscar E. Gonzalez-Navarro;Ricardo H. Ramirez-Gonzalez

  • Genomic innovation for crop improvement

    Michael W. Bevan;Cristobal Uauy;Brande B. H. Wulff;Ji Zhou

  • An improved assembly and annotation of the allohexaploid wheat genome identifies complete families of agronomic genes and provides genomic evidence for chromosomal translocations

    Bernardo J. Clavijo;Luca Venturini;Christian Schudoma;Gonzalo Garcia Accinelli

  • Wheat (Triticum aestivum) NAM proteins regulate the translocation of iron, zinc, and nitrogen compounds from vegetative tissues to grain

    Brian M. Waters;Cristobal Uauy;Jorge Dubcovsky;Michael A. Grusak

  • expVIP: a Customizable RNA-seq Data Analysis and Visualization Platform

    Philippa Borrill;Ricardo Ramirez-Gonzalez;Cristobal Uauy

  • A modified TILLING approach to detect induced mutations in tetraploid and hexaploid wheat.

    Cristobal Uauy;Cristobal Uauy;Francine Paraiso;Pasqualina Colasuonno;Pasqualina Colasuonno;Robert K Tran

  • The high grain protein content gene Gpc-B1 accelerates senescence and has pleiotropic effects on protein content in wheat

    Cristobal Uauy;Juan Carlos Brevis;Jorge Dubcovsky

  • Combining SNP discovery from next-generation sequencing data with bulked segregant analysis (BSA) to fine-map genes in polyploid wheat

    Martin Trick;Nikolai Maria Adamski;Sarah G Mugford;Cong-Cong Jiang

  • High-temperature adult-plant (HTAP) stripe rust resistance gene Yr36 from Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides is closely linked to the grain protein content locus Gpc-B1.

    Cristobal Uauy;Juan Carlos Brevis;Xianming Chen;Imtiaz Khan

  • Discovery of Rare Mutations in Populations: TILLING by Sequencing

    Helen Tsai;Tyson Howell;Rebecca Nitcher;Victor Missirian

  • Wheat receptor-kinase-like protein Stb6 controls gene-for-gene resistance to fungal pathogen Zymoseptoria tritici.

    Cyrille Saintenac;Wing-Sham Lee;Florence Cambon;Jason J Rudd

  • Impact of transposable elements on genome structure and evolution in bread wheat.

    Thomas Wicker;Heidrun Gundlach;Manuel Spannagl;Cristobal Uauy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
James Simmonds
James Simmonds John Innes Centre
Assaf Distelfeld
Assaf Distelfeld University of Haifa
Brande B. H. Wulff
Brande B. H. Wulff King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ksenia V. Krasileva
Ksenia V. Krasileva University of California, Berkeley
Tzion Fahima
Tzion Fahima University of Haifa
Burkhard Steuernagel
Burkhard Steuernagel John Innes Centre
Paul Nicholson
Paul Nicholson John Innes Centre
Andrew L. Phillips
Andrew L. Phillips Rothamsted Research
Rudi Appels
Rudi Appels University of Melbourne

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