2026 Hei Leung: Plant Science and Agronomy Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Plant Science and Agronomy	69	743	3	203	20127

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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Research.com Recognitions

2005 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Hei Leung was affiliated with the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, contributing extensively to the field of agricultural science, particularly in rice research. Their work spanned key areas including agricultural and biological sciences, biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a special focus on plant science, genetics, and molecular biology.

Leung's research covered multiple important topics such as genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, rice cultivation and yield improvement, plant responses to water stress, genetics and plant breeding, plant disease resistance and genetics, GABA and rice research, and chromosomal and genetic variations.

Throughout their career, Leung published in various scientific venues, with frequent contributions to:

Scientific Reports
Plant Biotechnology Journal
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Scientific Data
Agronomy

Significant papers from Leung include:

A platinum standard pan-genome resource that represents the population structure of Asian rice, 2020, Scientific Data
Genome-wide association coupled gene to gene interaction studies unveil novel epistatic targets among major effect loci impacting rice grain chalkiness, 2020, Plant Biotechnology Journal
RNA-seq Reveals Differentially Expressed Genes between Two indica Inbred Rice Genotypes Associated with Drought-Yield QTLs, 2020, Agronomy
Accumulating candidate genes for broad-spectrum resistance to rice blast in a drought-tolerant rice cultivar, 2021, Scientific Reports
Genome wide association study of MAGIC population reveals a novel QTL for salinity and sodicity tolerance in rice, 2022, Physiology and Molecular Biology of Plants

Leung collaborated frequently with several other researchers, including:

Ramil Mauleon
Rakesh Kumar Singh
Nelzo C. Ereful
W. Powell
Ian Mackay

Best Publications

Genetic diversity and disease control in rice

Youyong Zhu;Hairu Chen;Jinghua Fan;Yunyue Wang

2186
Citations
Genomic variation in 3,010 diverse accessions of Asian cultivated rice

Wensheng Wang;Ramil Mauleon;Zhiqiang Hu;Dmytro Chebotarov

1653
Citations
Genomewide SNP variation reveals relationships among landraces and modern varieties of rice

Kenneth L. McNally;Kevin L. Childs;Regina Bohnert;Rebecca M. Davidson

723
Citations
Spotted leaf11 , a Negative Regulator of Plant Cell Death and Defense, Encodes a U-Box/Armadillo Repeat Protein Endowed with E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Activity

Li-Rong Zeng;Shaohong Qu;Alicia Bordeos;Chengwei Yang

562
Citations
Open access resources for genome-wide association mapping in rice.

Susan R. McCouch;Mark H. Wright;Chih-Wei Tung;Lyza G. Maron

502
Citations
Chemical- and irradiation-induced mutants of indica rice IR64 for forward and reverse genetics.

Jian-Li Wu;Chanjian Wu;Cailin Lei;Marietta Baraoidan

465
Citations
Pathogen fitness penalty as a predictor of durability of disease resistance genes.

Jan E. Leach;Casiana M. Vera Cruz;Jianfa Bai;Hei Leung

450
Citations
Multi-parent advanced generation inter-cross (MAGIC) populations in rice: progress and potential for genetics research and breeding

Nonoy Bandillo;Chitra Raghavan;Pauline Andrea Muyco;Ma Anna Lynn Sevilla

419
Citations
Plant–pathogen interactions: disease resistance in modern agriculture

Lesley A. Boyd;Christopher Ridout;Donal M. O'Sullivan;Jan E. Leach

382
Citations
Genome scanning for resistance-gene analogs in rice, barley, and wheat by high-resolution electrophoresis.

X. M. Chen;R. F. Line;H. Leung

359
Citations
Characterizing Rice Lesion Mimic Mutants and Identifying a Mutant with Broad-Spectrum Resistance to Rice Blast and Bacterial Blight

Zhongchao Yin;Jun Chen;Lirong Zeng;Meiling Goh

347
Citations
Transfer of bacterial blight and blast resistance from the tetraploid wild rice Oryza minuta to cultivated rice, Oryza sativa

A. Amante-Bordeos;L. A. Sitch;R. Nelson;R. D. Dalmacio

335
Citations
Population structure of plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria

H. Leung;R.J. Nelson;J.E. Leach

325
Citations
Rice Mutant Resources for Gene Discovery

Hirohiko Hirochika;Emmanuel Guiderdoni;Gynheung An;Yue-ie C. Hsing

318
Citations
Predicting durability of a disease resistance gene based on an assessment of the fitness loss and epidemiological consequences of avirulence gene mutation

Casiana M. Vera Cruz;Jianfa Bai;Isabelita Oña;Hei Leung

300
Citations
A Germin-Like Protein Gene Family Functions as a Complex Quantitative Trait Locus Conferring Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance in Rice

Patricia M. Manosalva;Rebecca M. Davidson;Bin Liu;Xiaoyuan Zhu

299
Citations
MAGIC populations in crops: current status and future prospects

B.E. Huang;K.L. Verbyla;A.P. Verbyla;C. Raghavan

294
Citations
Relationship between virulence variation and DNA polymorphism in Puccinia striiformis

Xianming Chen;R. F. Line;Hei Leung

289
Citations
Genetic analysis of virulence in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea

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268
Citations
Rice phenylalanine ammonia‑lyase gene OsPAL4 is associated with broad spectrum disease resistance

Bradley W. Tonnessen;Patricia Manosalva;Patricia Manosalva;Jillian M. Lang;Marietta Baraoidan

239
Citations
Candidate defense genes from rice, barley, and maize and their association with qualitative and quantitative resistance in rice.

J Ramalingam;C M Vera Cruz;K Kukreja;J M Chittoor

237
Citations
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Avirulence Genes Contribute Differently and Specifically to Pathogen Aggressiveness

Jianfa Bai;Seong-Ho Choi;Grisel Ponciano;Hei Leung

230
Citations
Mutant resources in rice for functional genomics of the grasses

Arjun Krishnan;Emmanuel Guiderdoni;Gynheung An;Yue-ie C. Hsing

221
Citations
Candidate Defense Genes as Predictors of Quantitative Blast Resistance in Rice

Bin Liu;Shaohong Zhang;Xiaoyuan Zhu;Qiyun Yang

216
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