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103
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Plant Science and Agronomy

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101
Citations
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150
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51

Daniel F. Voytas 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 Daniel F. Voytas sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 228 publications — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Daniel F. Voytas 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 Daniel F. Voytas sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 101 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Daniel F. Voytas is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research predominantly lies within the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, and Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Key subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Plant Science, and Biotechnology.

They have contributed substantially to topics such as:

  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Plant Virus Research Studies
  • Plant tissue culture and regeneration
  • Transgenic Plants and Applications
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research

Frequent publication venues where Daniel F. Voytas has appeared include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • Nature Plants
  • Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • The Plant Journal

Their body of work involves collaboration with several recurring coauthors, such as:

  • Colby G. Starker
  • James C. Chamness
  • Jon P. Cody
  • Evan E. Ellison
  • Maria Elena Gamo

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Daniel F. Voytas include:

  • "Multiplexed heritable gene editing using RNA viruses and mobile single guide RNAs" (2020), published in Nature Plants
  • "Overcoming bottlenecks in plant gene editing" (2020), published in Current Opinion in Plant Biology
  • "Optimization of multiplexed CRISPR/Cas9 system for highly efficient genome editing in Setaria viridis" (2020), published in The Plant Journal
  • "Building customizable auto-luminescent luciferase-based reporters in plants" (2020), published in eLife
  • "Attaining the promise of plant gene editing at scale" (2021), published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Daniel F. Voytas has received recognition from scientific communities, including being named a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2019, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Targeting DNA Double-Strand Breaks with TAL Effector Nucleases

    Michelle Christian;Tomas Cermak;Erin L. Doyle;Clarice Schmidt

  • Efficient design and assembly of custom TALEN and other TAL effector-based constructs for DNA targeting

    Tomas Cermak;Erin L. Doyle;Michelle Christian;Li-Li Wang

  • RNA targeting with CRISPR-Cas13.

    Omar O. Abudayyeh;Jonathan S. Gootenberg;Patrick Essletzbichler;Shuo Han

  • TAL effectors: Customizable proteins for DNA targeting

    Adam J. Bogdanove;Daniel F. Voytas

  • In vivo genome editing using a high-efficiency TALEN system

    Victoria M. Bedell;Ying Wang;Jarryd M. Campbell;Tanya L. Poshusta

  • Rapid "open-source" engineering of customized zinc-finger nucleases for highly efficient gene modification.

    Morgan L. Maeder;Stacey Thibodeau-Beganny;Anna Osiak;David A. Wright

  • High-frequency modification of plant genes using engineered zinc-finger nucleases

    Jeffrey A. Townsend;David A. Wright;Ronnie J. Winfrey;Fengli Fu

  • Efficient TALEN-mediated gene knockout in livestock

    Daniel F. Carlson;Wenfang Tan;Simon G. Lillico;Dana Stverakova

  • De novo domestication of wild tomato using genome editing

    Agustin Zsögön;Tomáš Čermák;Emmanuel Rezende Naves;Marcela Morato Notini

  • Selection-free zinc-finger-nuclease engineering by context-dependent assembly (CoDA)

    Jeffry D. Sander;Elizabeth J. Dahlborg;Mathew J. Goodwin;Lindsay Cade

  • A CRISPR/Cas9 Toolbox for Multiplexed Plant Genome Editing and Transcriptional Regulation

    Levi G Lowder;Dengwei Zhang;Nicholas J Baltes;Joseph West Paul

  • A Multipurpose Toolkit to Enable Advanced Genome Engineering in Plants

    Tomáš Čermák;Shaun J. Curtin;Javier Gil-Humanes;Radim Čegan

  • Advancing Crop Transformation in the Era of Genome Editing

    Fredy Altpeter;Nathan M. Springer;Laura E. Bartley;Ann E. Blechl

  • High-frequency, precise modification of the tomato genome

    Tomáš Čermák;Nicholas J. Baltes;Radim Čegan;Yong Zhang

  • TAL Effector-Nucleotide Targeter (TALE-NT) 2.0: tools for TAL effector design and target prediction

    Erin L. Doyle;Nicholas J. Booher;Daniel S. Standage;Daniel F. Voytas

  • Transposable Elements and Genome Organization: A Comprehensive Survey of Retrotransposons Revealed by the Complete Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genome Sequence

    Jin M. Kim;Swathi Vanguri;Jef D. Boeke;Abram Gabriel

  • A CRISPR-Cpf1 system for efficient genome editing and transcriptional repression in plants.

    Xu Tang;Levi G. Lowder;Tao Zhang;Aimee A. Malzahn

  • Improved soybean oil quality by targeted mutagenesis of the fatty acid desaturase 2 gene family

    William Haun;Andrew Coffman;Benjamin M. Clasen;Zachary L. Demorest

  • Low-gluten, nontransgenic wheat engineered with CRISPR/Cas9.

    Susana Sánchez-León;Javier Gil-Humanes;Carmen V. Ozuna;María J. Giménez

  • DNA Replicons for Plant Genome Engineering

    Nicholas J. Baltes;Javier Gil-Humanes;Tomas Cermak;Paul A. Atkins

  • Unexpected failure rates for modular assembly of engineered zinc fingers

    Cherie L Ramirez;Jonathan E Foley;David A Wright;Felix Müller-Lerch

Frequent Co-Authors

J. Keith Joung
J. Keith Joung Harvard University
Yiping Qi
Yiping Qi East Carolina University
Adam J. Bogdanove
Adam J. Bogdanove Cornell University
Jakub Tolar
Jakub Tolar University of Minnesota
Robert M. Stupar
Robert M. Stupar University of Minnesota
Bruce R. Blazar
Bruce R. Blazar University of Minnesota
Jef D. Boeke
Jef D. Boeke New York University
Frederick M. Ausubel
Frederick M. Ausubel Harvard University
Zsuzsanna Izsvák
Zsuzsanna Izsvák Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

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