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D-Index
69
Citations
20127
World Ranking
743
National Ranking
3

Hei Leung 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 Hei Leung sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 203 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hei Leung 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 Hei Leung sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% 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

  • 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

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

    Wensheng Wang;Ramil Mauleon;Zhiqiang Hu;Dmytro Chebotarov

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

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

  • 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  • 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

  • Plant–pathogen interactions: disease resistance in modern agriculture

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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Population structure of plant pathogenic fungi and bacteria

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

  • Rice Mutant Resources for Gene Discovery

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • MAGIC populations in crops: current status and future prospects

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

  • Relationship between virulence variation and DNA polymorphism in Puccinia striiformis

    Xianming Chen;R. F. Line;Hei Leung

  • Genetic analysis of virulence in the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea

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  • 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

  • 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

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

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

  • Mutant resources in rice for functional genomics of the grasses

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

  • Candidate Defense Genes as Predictors of Quantitative Blast Resistance in Rice

    Bin Liu;Shaohong Zhang;Xiaoyuan Zhu;Qiyun Yang

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan E. Leach
Jan E. Leach Colorado State University
Guo-Liang Wang
Guo-Liang Wang The Ohio State University
Rebecca J. Nelson
Rebecca J. Nelson Cornell University
Shoshi Kikuchi
Shoshi Kikuchi National Agriculture and Food Research Organization
Ian Mackay
Ian Mackay National Institute of Agricultural Botany
Valérie Verdier
Valérie Verdier Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Paul H. Goodwin
Paul H. Goodwin University of Guelph
Rakesh Singh
Rakesh Singh Indian Council of Agricultural Research
Rachid Serraj
Rachid Serraj Mohammed VI Polytechnic University
Wayne Powell
Wayne Powell Scotland's Rural College

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