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Plant Science and Agronomy
Hungary
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
39
Citations
11542
World Ranking
4035
National Ranking
9

Research.com Recognitions

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

Best Publications

  • Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Keith A. Seifert;Sabine Huhndorf;Vincent Robert

  • Finding needles in haystacks: Linking scientific names, reference specimens and molecular data for Fungi

    Conrad L. Schoch;Barbara Robbertse;Vincent Robert;Duong Vu

  • The dark side is not fastidious--dark septate endophytic fungi of native and invasive plants of semiarid sandy areas.

    Dániel G. Knapp;Alexandra Pintye;Alexandra Pintye;Gábor M. Kovács

  • Fungal planet description sheets: 868–950

    P.W. Crous;A.J. Carnegie;M.J. Wingfield;R. Sharma

  • Dark septate endophytic pleosporalean genera from semiarid areas.

    Dániel G. Knapp;M. Gábor Kovács;Erik Zajta;J.Z. Groenewald

  • Comparative genomics provides insights into the lifestyle and reveals functional heterogeneity of dark septate endophytic fungi.

    Dániel G. Knapp;Julianna B. Németh;Kerrie Barry;Matthieu Hainaut;Matthieu Hainaut

  • Kocuria palustris sp. nov. and Kocuria rhizophila sp. nov., isolated from the rhizoplane of the narrow-leaved cattail (Typha angustifolia)

    Gabor Kovács;Jutta Burghardt;Silke Pradella;Peter Schumann

  • Latent homology and convergent regulatory evolution underlies the repeated emergence of yeasts

    László G. Nagy;Robin A. Ohm;Gábor M. Kovács;Gábor M. Kovács;Dimitrios Floudas

  • Re-Mind the Gap! Insertion – Deletion Data Reveal Neglected Phylogenetic Potential of the Nuclear Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) of Fungi

    László G. Nagy;László G. Nagy;Sándor Kocsubé;Zoltán Csanádi;Gábor M. Kovács;Gábor M. Kovács

  • Where is the unseen fungal diversity hidden? A study of Mortierella reveals a large contribution of reference collections to the identification of fungal environmental sequences.

    László G. Nagy;Tamás Petkovits;Gábor M. Kovács;Gábor M. Kovács;Kerstin Voigt

  • Two new genera, Dominikia and Kamienskia, and D. disticha sp. nov. in Glomeromycota.

    Janusz Błaszkowski;Gerard Chwat;Anna Góralska;Przemysław Ryszka

  • Six new Phytophthora species from ITS Clade 7a including two sexually functional heterothallic hybrid species detected in natural ecosystems in Taiwan.

    T. Jung;M.H. Jung;B. Scanu;D. Seress

  • Schineria larvae gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the 1st and 2nd larval stages of Wohlfahrtia magnifica (Diptera: Sarcophagidae).

    Erika Toth;Gabor Kovacs;Peter Schumann;Attila L. Kovacs

  • Mycorrhizae and other root-associated fungal structures of the plants of a sandy grassland on the Great Hungarian Plain

    Gábor M. Kovács;Csaba Szigetvári

  • Diversity of Alkaliphilic and Alkalitolerant Bacteria Cultivated from Decomposing Reed Rhizomes in a Hungarian Soda Lake

    A. Borsodi;A. Micsinai;Anna Rusznyák;Péter Vladár

  • The arbuscular mycorrhizal Paraglomus majewskii sp. nov. represents a distinct basal lineage in Glomeromycota

    Janusz Błaszkowski;Gábor M. Kovács;Bence K. Gáspár;Tímea K. Balázs

  • Ampelomyces mycoparasites from apple powdery mildew identified as a distinct group based on single-stranded conformation polymorphism analysis of the rDNA ITS region

    Orsolya Szentiványi;Levente Kiss;John C. Russell;John C. Russell;Gábor M. Kovács

  • Comparative genomics reveals unique wood-decay strategies and fruiting body development in the Schizophyllaceae

    Éva Almási;Neha Sahu;Krisztina Krizsán;Balázs Bálint

  • Impact of dark septate endophytes on tomato growth and nutrient uptake

    Wael Yakti;Wael Yakti;Gábor M. Kovács;Pál Vági;Pál Vági;Philipp Franken

  • Pannonibacter phragmitetus gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel alkalitolerant bacterium isolated from decomposing reed rhizomes in a Hungarian soda lake.

    Andrea K. Borsodi;Adrienn Micsinai;Gábor Kovács;Erika Tóth

  • Molecular study of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonizing the sporophyte of the eusporangiate rattlesnake fern ( Botrychium virginianum , Ophioglossaceae)

    Gábor M. Kovács;Tímea Balázs;Zsolt Pénzes;Zsolt Pénzes

  • The diversity of Terfezia desert truffles: new species and a highly variable species complex with intrasporocarpic nrDNA ITS heterogeneity.

    Gabor M. Kovacs;Tímea Balázs;Francisco de Diego Calonge;María P. Martín

  • Morphological-anatomical characterization and molecular identification of Tomentella stuposa ectomycorrhizae and related anatomotypes.

    Erzsébet Jakucs;G. M. Kovács;R. Agerer;C. Romsics

  • Considerations and consequences of allowing DNA sequence data as types of fungal taxa

    Juan Carlos Zamora;Måns Svensson;Roland Kirschner;Ibai Olariaga

  • Interspecific metabolic diversity of root-colonizing endophytic fungi revealed by enzyme activity tests

    Dániel G. Knapp;Gábor M. Kovács

  • Variation in the nrDNA ITS sequences of some powdery mildew species: do routine molecular identification procedures hide valuable information?

    Gábor M. Kovács;Gábor M. Kovács;Tünde Jankovics;Levente Kiss

  • Root-Colonizing Endophytic Fungi of the Dominant Grass Stipa krylovii From a Mongolian Steppe Grassland.

    Dániel G. Knapp;Ildikó Imrefi;Enkhtuul Boldpurev;Sándor Csíkos

  • Imaia, a new truffle genus to accommodate Terfezia gigantea

    Gábor M. Kovács;James M. Trappe;Abdulmagid M. Alsheikh;Károly Bóka

Frequent Co-Authors

Levente Kiss
Levente Kiss University of Southern Queensland
Klára Hernádi
Klára Hernádi University of Szeged
James M. Trappe
James M. Trappe Oregon State University
Bernard Henrissat
Bernard Henrissat Technical University of Denmark
Philipp Franken
Philipp Franken Friedrich Schiller University Jena
María P. Martín
María P. Martín Spanish National Research Council
Igor V. Grigoriev
Igor V. Grigoriev Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Teun Boekhout
Teun Boekhout University of Amsterdam
Xiangming Xu
Xiangming Xu East Malling Research (United Kingdom)
Pedro W. Crous
Pedro W. Crous Utrecht University

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