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Evans Lagudah 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 Evans Lagudah sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 200 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.

Evans Lagudah 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 Evans Lagudah 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.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

Evans Lagudah is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily concentrates on agricultural and biological sciences, with a significant focus on plant science. Their work also extends into the fields of molecular biology, genetics, agronomy and crop science, and environmental chemistry.

The scientist's research topics include wheat and barley genetics and pathology, plant disease resistance and genetics, plant-microbe interactions and immunity, yeasts and rust fungi studies, genetics and plant breeding, genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, and plant pathogens and resistance mechanisms.

Evans Lagudah has published frequently in several venues, including:

  • Nature Communications
  • Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Nature Biotechnology

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Evans Lagudah include:

  • Population genomic analysis of Aegilops tauschii identifies targets for bread wheat improvement (2021, Nature Biotechnology)
  • A five-transgene cassette confers broad-spectrum resistance to a fungal rust pathogen in wheat (2021, Nature Biotechnology)
  • A highly differentiated region of wheat chromosome 7AL encodes a Pm1a immune receptor that recognizes its corresponding AvrPm1a effector from Blumeria graminis (2020, New Phytologist)
  • Adult Plant Slow Rusting Genes Confer High Levels of Resistance to Rusts in Bread Wheat Cultivars From Mexico (2020, Frontiers in Plant Science)
  • A recombined Sr26 and Sr61 disease resistance gene stack in wheat encodes unrelated NLR genes (2021, Nature Communications)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Evans Lagudah consist of:

  • Peng Zhang
  • Brande B. H. Wulff
  • Sambasivam Periyannan
  • Burkhard Steuernagel
  • Dhara Bhatt

Evans Lagudah was awarded the title of Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 2017.

Best Publications

  • A Putative ABC Transporter Confers Durable Resistance to Multiple Fungal Pathogens in Wheat

    Simon G. Krattinger;Evans S. Lagudah;Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Ravi P. Singh

  • A recently evolved hexose transporter variant confers resistance to multiple pathogens in wheat.

    John W Moore;Sybil Herrera-Foessel;Caixia Lan;Wendelin Schnippenkoetter

  • Avenues for increasing salt tolerance of crops, and the role of physiologically based selection traits

    Rana Munns;Shazia Husain;Anna Rita Rivelli;Richard A. James

  • Molecular genetic characterization of the Lr34/Yr18 slow rusting resistance gene region in wheat.

    E. S. Lagudah;H. McFadden;R. P. Singh;J. Huerta-Espino

  • The past, present and future of breeding rust resistant wheat.

    Jeffrey G. Ellis;Evans S. Lagudah;Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Peter N. Dodds

  • Emergence and Spread of New Races of Wheat Stem Rust Fungus: Continued Threat to Food Security and Prospects of Genetic Control

    Ravi P. Singh;David P. Hodson;Yue Jin;Evans S. Lagudah

  • A Physical Map of the 1-Gigabase Bread Wheat Chromosome 3B

    Etienne Paux;Pierre Sourdille;Jérôme Salse;Cyrille Saintenac

  • Gene-specific markers for the wheat gene Lr34/Yr18/Pm38 which confers resistance to multiple fungal pathogens

    Evans S. Lagudah;Simon G. Krattinger;Sybil Herrera-Foessel;Ravi P. Singh

  • HKT1;5-Like Cation Transporters Linked to Na+ Exclusion Loci in Wheat, Nax2 and Kna1

    C.S. Byrt;J.D. Platten;W. Spielmeyer;R.A. James

  • The Gene Sr33, an Ortholog of Barley Mla Genes, Encodes Resistance to Wheat Stem Rust Race Ug99

    Sambasivam Periyannan;John Moore;Michael Ayliffe;Urmil Bansal

  • Rapid cloning of disease-resistance genes in plants using mutagenesis and sequence capture

    Burkhard Steuernagel;Burkhard Steuernagel;Sambasivam K Periyannan;Inmaculada Hernández-Pinzón;Kamil Witek

  • Lr68: a new gene conferring slow rusting resistance to leaf rust in wheat

    Sybil A. Herrera-Foessel;Ravi P. Singh;Julio Huerta-Espino;Garry M. Rosewarne

  • MOLECULAR-GENETIC MAPS FOR GROUP 1 CHROMOSOMES OF TRITICEAE SPECIES AND THEIR RELATION TO CHROMOSOMES IN RICE AND OAT

    Deynze Ae;Nelson Jc;Sorrells Me;McCouch

  • Resistance gene cloning from a wild crop relative by sequence capture and association genetics.

    Sanu Arora;Burkhard Steuernagel;Kumar Gaurav;Sutha Chandramohan

  • A Sodium Transporter (HKT7) Is a Candidate for Nax1, a Gene for Salt Tolerance in Durum Wheat

    Shaobai Huang;Wolfgang Spielmeyer;Evans S. Lagudah;Richard A. James

  • Powdery mildew resistance and Lr34/Yr18 genes for durable resistance to leaf and stripe rust cosegregate at a locus on the short arm of chromosome 7D of wheat

    W. Spielmeyer;R. A. McIntosh;J. Kolmer;E. S. Lagudah

  • New slow-rusting leaf rust and stripe rust resistance genes Lr67 and Yr46 in wheat are pleiotropic or closely linked

    Sybil A. Herrera-Foessel;Evans S. Lagudah;Julio Huerta-Espino;Matthew J. Hayden

  • Identification and mapping of molecular markers linked to rust resistance genes located on chromosome 1RS of rye using wheat-rye translocation lines

    R. Mago;W. Spielmeyer;G. J. Lawrence;E. S. Lagudah

  • A locus for sodium exclusion (Nax1), a trait for salt tolerance, mapped in durum wheat

    Megan P. Lindsay;Evans S. Lagudah;Ray A. Hare;Rana Munns

  • Trends in genetic and genome analyses in wheat: a review

    P. Langridge;E. S. Lagudah;T. A. Holton;R. Appels

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Spielmeyer
Wolfgang Spielmeyer Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Rudi Appels
Rudi Appels University of Melbourne
Harbans Bariana
Harbans Bariana Western Sydney University
Robert A. McIntosh
Robert A. McIntosh University of Sydney
Ravi P. Singh
Ravi P. Singh International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Julio Huerta-Espino
Julio Huerta-Espino International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Beat Keller
Beat Keller University of Zurich
Simon G. Krattinger
Simon G. Krattinger King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Brande B. H. Wulff
Brande B. H. Wulff King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Burkhard Steuernagel
Burkhard Steuernagel John Innes Centre

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