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Harbans Bariana 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 Harbans Bariana sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 166 publications — 65th percentile

65% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Harbans Bariana 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 Harbans Bariana sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 59 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Harbans Bariana is affiliated with Western Sydney University in Australia and focuses on research within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work extensively covers Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Agronomy and Crop Science, reflecting a broad engagement with plant genetics and breeding.

Bariana's research primarily addresses topics such as Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology, Genetics and Plant Breeding, Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics, Yeasts and Rust Fungi Studies, Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals, Bioenergy Crop Production and Management, and Genetic and Environmental Crop Studies.

They have published in several academic venues with multiple contributions in Theoretical and Applied Genetics, followed by publications in Agronomy, Genes, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Plants.

Recent publications include the following:

  • Discovery of the New Leaf Rust Resistance Gene Lr82 in Wheat: Molecular Mapping and Marker Development, 2022, Genes
  • Harnessing landrace diversity empowers wheat breeding, 2024, Nature
  • Lr80: A new and widely effective source of leaf rust resistance of wheat for enhancing diversity of resistance among modern cultivars, 2021, Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • Genome-wide association reveals a complex architecture for rust resistance in 2300 worldwide bread wheat accessions screened under various Australian conditions, 2020, Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • Fine Mapping of Lr49 Using 90K SNP Chip Array and Flow-Sorted Chromosome Sequencing in Wheat, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science

Bariana frequently collaborates with several co-authors, including Urmil Bansal, Kerrie Forrest, Matthew Hayden, Naeela Qureshi, and Hanif Miah, with collaboration counts ranging from eight to forty publications.

Best Publications

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

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

  • 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

  • Cytogenetic studies in wheat. XV. Location of rust resistance genes in VPM1 and their genetic linkage with other disease resistance genes in chromosome 2A.

    H. S. Bariana;R. A. McIntosh

  • 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

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

    Sanu Arora;Burkhard Steuernagel;Kumar Gaurav;Sutha Chandramohan

  • 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

  • Cloning of the wheat Yr15 resistance gene sheds light on the plant tandem kinase-pseudokinase family

    Valentina Klymiuk;Elitsur Yaniv;Lin Huang;Lin Huang;Dina Raats;Dina Raats

  • Development of PCR markers for the selection of wheat stem rust resistance genes Sr24 and Sr26 in diverse wheat germplasm

    R. Mago;H. S. Bariana;I. S. Dundas;W. Spielmeyer

  • Implementation of markers in Australian wheat breeding

    Howard A Eagles;Harbans S Bariana;Francis C Ogbonnaya;Greg J Rebetzke

  • Analysis of the Lr34/Yr18 Rust Resistance Region in Wheat Germplasm

    James A. Kolmer;Ravi P. Singh;David F. Garvin;Libby Viccars

  • A haplotype map of allohexaploid wheat reveals distinct patterns of selection on homoeologous genomes

    Katherine W Jordan;Shichen Wang;Yanni Lun;Laura-Jayne Gardiner

  • The wheat Sr50 gene reveals rich diversity at a cereal disease resistance locus.

    Rohit Mago;Peng Zhang;Sonia Vautrin;Hana Šimková

  • High-resolution mapping and mutation analysis separate the rust resistance genes Sr31, Lr26 and Yr9 on the short arm of rye chromosome 1.

    R. Mago;H. Miah;G.J. Lawrence;C.R. Wellings

  • Mapping of durable adult plant and seedling resistances to stripe rust and stem rust diseases in wheat

    H. S. Bariana;M. J. Hayden;N. U. Ahmed;J. A. Bell

  • The use of cell culture for subchromosomal introgressions of barley yellow dwarf virus resistance from Thinopyrum intermedium to wheat

    P. M. Banks;P. J. Larkin;H. S. Bariana;E. S. Lagudah

  • Breeding triple rust resistant wheat cultivars for Australia using conventional and marker-assisted selection technologies

    H. S. Bariana;G. N. Brown;U. K. Bansal;H. Miah

  • Accumulation of protein subunits and their polymers in developing grains of hexaploid wheats

    Ram B. Gupta;Stefania Masci;Domenico Lafiandra;Harbans S. Bariana

  • QTL mapping of multiple foliar disease and root-lesion nematode resistances in wheat

    R. S. Zwart;R. S. Zwart;J. P. Thompson;A. W. Milgate;U. K. Bansal

  • Validation of molecular markers for wheat breeding

    P. J. Sharp;S. Johnston;G. Brown;R. A. McIntosh

  • Genetic mapping and marker development for resistance of wheat against the root lesion nematode Pratylenchus neglectus

    Dimanthi V Jayatilake;Elise J Tucker;Elise J Tucker;Harbans Bariana;Haydn Kuchel

Frequent Co-Authors

Urmil Bansal
Urmil Bansal University of Sydney
Matthew J. Hayden
Matthew J. Hayden La Trobe University
Evans Lagudah
Evans Lagudah Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Robert F. Park
Robert F. Park University of Sydney
Robert A. McIntosh
Robert A. McIntosh University of Sydney
Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
Richard Trethowan
Richard Trethowan University of Sydney
Wolfgang Spielmeyer
Wolfgang Spielmeyer Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
James Kolmer
James Kolmer Agricultural Research Service
Philip J. Larkin
Philip J. Larkin Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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