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Plant Science and Agronomy
Korea
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
100
Citations
31925
World Ranking
160
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Korea Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Korea Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Enzyme
  • Gene

His scientific interests lie mostly in Botany, Abscisic acid, Shoot, Gibberellin and Plant use of endophytic fungi in defense. In-Jung Lee has researched Botany in several fields, including Salinity and Horticulture. His research in Abscisic acid intersects with topics in Salicylic acid, Jasmonic acid, Plant physiology, Abiotic stress and Abiotic component.

His Shoot research incorporates themes from Solanum, photoperiodism and Circadian rhythm. The concepts of his Gibberellin study are interwoven with issues in Mutant, Strain, Symbiosis, Developmental biology and Phosphate. His research integrates issues of Gibberella fujikuroi, Penicillium, Penicillium citrinum and Cultivar in his study of Plant use of endophytic fungi in defense.

His most cited work include:

  • Activation of Glucosidase via Stress-Induced Polymerization Rapidly Increases Active Pools of Abscisic Acid (476 citations)
  • Endophytic fungi produce gibberellins and indoleacetic acid and promotes host-plant growth during stress. (260 citations)
  • Endophytic fungal association via gibberellins and indole acetic acid can improve plant growth under abiotic stress: an example of Paecilomyces formosus LHL10 (196 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

In-Jung Lee mainly investigates Botany, Gibberellin, Horticulture, Abscisic acid and Shoot. His research brings together the fields of Endogeny and Botany. His Gibberellin study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Gibberellic acid, Cultivar, Strain, Plant physiology and Oryza sativa.

In-Jung Lee combines subjects such as Proline, Salinity, Rhizobacteria and Agronomy with his study of Horticulture. His studies in Abscisic acid integrate themes in fields like Food science, Catalase, Antioxidant and Salicylic acid, Jasmonic acid. His Plant use of endophytic fungi in defense research incorporates elements of Gibberella fujikuroi, Bioassay, Penicillium and Internal transcribed spacer.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (52.67%)
  • Gibberellin (31.07%)
  • Horticulture (31.07%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2019-2021)?

  • Abscisic acid (23.30%)
  • Horticulture (31.07%)
  • Salicylic acid (15.05%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

In-Jung Lee mostly deals with Abscisic acid, Horticulture, Salicylic acid, Antioxidant and Food science. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Indole-3-acetic acid, Catalase, Germination, Gibberellin and Abiotic stress. His Horticulture study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Proline, Salinity and Rhizobacteria.

Particularly relevant to Jasmonic acid is his body of work in Salicylic acid. His Drought tolerance study is associated with Botany. His Botany research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Sordariomycetes and Suaeda maritima.

Between 2019 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Silicon-mediated alleviation of combined salinity and cadmium stress in date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) by regulating physio-hormonal alteration. (19 citations)
  • Synergistic association of endophytic fungi enhances Glycine max L. resilience to combined abiotic stresses: Heavy metals, high temperature and drought stress (16 citations)
  • Melatonin: Awakening the Defense Mechanisms during Plant Oxidative Stress. (14 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Botany
  • Enzyme
  • Gene

Antioxidant, Abscisic acid, Salicylic acid, Superoxide dismutase and Food science are his primary areas of study. He works mostly in the field of Abscisic acid, limiting it down to topics relating to Catalase and, in certain cases, Lipid peroxidation, Jasmonic acid and Glutathione, as a part of the same area of interest. His research on Superoxide dismutase also deals with topics like

  • Chlorophyll fluorescence and related APX,
  • Heat shock protein which intersects with area such as Ascorbate Peroxidases and Cell biology,
  • Abiotic stress that intertwine with fields like Plant use of endophytic fungi in defense, Abiotic component, Drought tolerance, Glutathione peroxidase and Ascorbate glutathione cycle.

His work carried out in the field of Food science brings together such families of science as Gibberellin, Shoot, Silicate, Oryza sativa and Cadmium. His Gibberellin research integrates issues from Sugar, Inoculation, Salinity and Bacillus cereus. Plant physiology is a subfield of Botany that In-Jung Lee tackles.

Best Publications

  • Activation of Glucosidase via Stress-Induced Polymerization Rapidly Increases Active Pools of Abscisic Acid

    Kwang Hee Lee;Hai Lan Piao;Ho-Youn Kim;Sang Mi Choi

  • Endophytic fungi produce gibberellins and indoleacetic acid and promotes host-plant growth during stress.

    Muhammad Waqas;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Kamran;Muhammad Hamayun

  • Bacterial endophyte Sphingomonas sp. LK11 produces gibberellins and IAA and promotes tomato plant growth

    Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Waqas;Sang-Mo Kang;Ahmed Al-Harrasi

  • Silicon Regulates Antioxidant Activities of Crop Plants under Abiotic-Induced Oxidative Stress: A Review

    Yoon-Ha Kim;Yoon-Ha Kim;Abdul L. Khan;Muhammad Waqas;Muhammad Waqas;In-Jung Lee

  • Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria reduce adverse effects of salinity and osmotic stress by regulating phytohormones and antioxidants in Cucumis sativus

    Sang-Mo Kang;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Waqas;Young-Hyun You

  • Gibberellin secreting rhizobacterium, Pseudomonas putida H-2-3 modulates the hormonal and stress physiology of soybean to improve the plant growth under saline and drought conditions.

    Sang-Mo Kang;Ramalingam Radhakrishnan;Abdul Latif Khan;Min-Ji Kim

  • Silicon mitigates heavy metal stress by regulating P-type heavy metal ATPases, Oryza sativa low silicon genes, and endogenous phytohormones.

    Yoon-Ha Kim;Abdul Latif Khan;Duk-Hwan Kim;Seung-Yeol Lee

  • Endophytic fungal association via gibberellins and indole acetic acid can improve plant growth under abiotic stress: an example of Paecilomyces formosus LHL10

    Abdul Latif Khan;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Hamayun;Sang-Mo Kang;Yoon-Ha Kim

  • Plant growth promotion and Penicillium citrinum

    Sumera Afzal Khan;Sumera Afzal Khan;Muhammad Hamayun;Hyeokjun Yoon;Ho-Youn Kim

  • Inoculation of abscisic acid-producing endophytic bacteria enhances salinity stress tolerance in Oryza sativa

    Raheem Shahzad;Abdul Latif Khan;Saqib Bilal;Muhammad Waqas;Muhammad Waqas

  • Bacillus aryabhattai SRB02 tolerates oxidative and nitrosative stress and promotes the growth of soybean by modulating the production of phytohormones

    Yeon-Gyeong Park;Bong-Gyu Mun;Sang-Mo Kang;Adil Hussain;Adil Hussain

  • Endophytic fungi: resource for gibberellins and crop abiotic stress resistance

    Abdul Latif Khan;Javid Hussain;Ahmed Al-Harrasi;Ahmed Al-Rawahi

  • Methyl jasmonate alleviated salinity stress in soybean

    Ji Young Yoon;Muhammad Hamayun;Su-Kyung Lee;In-Jung Lee

  • Seed-borne endophytic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens RWL-1 produces gibberellins and regulates endogenous phytohormones of Oryza sativa

    Raheem Shahzad;Muhammad Waqas;Abdul Latif Khan;Sajjad Asaf

  • Indole acetic acid and ACC deaminase from endophytic bacteria improves the growth of Solanum lycopersicum

    Abdul Latif Khan;Boshra Ahmed Halo;Ali Elyassi;Sajid Ali;Sajid Ali

  • Methyl Jasmonate Reduces Grain Yield by Mediating Stress Signals to Alter Spikelet Development in Rice

    Eun Hye Kim;Youn Shic Kim;Su-Hyun Park;Yeon Jong Koo

  • What Is There in Seeds? Vertically Transmitted Endophytic Resources for Sustainable Improvement in Plant Growth

    Raheem Shahzad;Abdul L. Khan;Saqib Bilal;Sajjad Asaf

  • Comparative proteomic study of arsenic‐induced differentially expressed proteins in rice roots reveals glutathione plays a central role during As stress

    Nagib Ahsan;Dong-Gi Lee;Iftekhar Alam;Pil Joo Kim

  • Silicon Application to Rice Root Zone Influenced the Phytohormonal and Antioxidant Responses Under Salinity Stress

    Yoon Ha Kim;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Waqas;Jae Kyoung Shim

  • Thermotolerance effect of plant growth-promoting Bacillus cereus SA1 on soybean during heat stress

    Muhammad Aaqil Khan;Sajjad Asaf;Abdul Latif Khan;Rahmatullah Jan

  • Indole-3-acetic-acid and ACC deaminase producing Leclercia adecarboxylata MO1 improves Solanum lycopersicum L. growth and salinity stress tolerance by endogenous secondary metabolites regulation

    Sang-Mo Kang;Raheem Shahzad;Saqib Bilal;Abdul Latif Khan

  • Plant growth promoting endophytic fungi Asprgillus fumigatus TS1 and Fusarium proliferatum BRL1 produce gibberellins and regulates plant endogenous hormones

    Lubna Bilal;Sajjad Asaf;Muhammad Hamayun;Humaira Gul

  • Gibberellin production and phosphate solubilization by newly isolated strain of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and its effect on plant growth.

    Sang-Mo Kang;Gil-Jae Joo;Muhammad Hamayun;Chae-In Na

  • Gibberellins-producing rhizobacteria increase endogenous gibberellins content and promote growth of red peppers

    Gil-Jae Joo;Young-Mog Kim;Jung-Tae Kim;In-Koo Rhee

Frequent Co-Authors

Abdul Latif Khan
Abdul Latif Khan University of Houston
Sang-Mo Kang
Sang-Mo Kang Kyungpook National University
Muhammad Hamayun
Muhammad Hamayun Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Sajjad Asaf
Sajjad Asaf University of Nizwa
Raheem Shahzad
Raheem Shahzad University of Haripur
Sumera Afzal Khan
Sumera Afzal Khan University of Peshawar
Muhammad Aaqil Khan
Muhammad Aaqil Khan Henan University
Ramalingam Radhakrishnan
Ramalingam Radhakrishnan Jamal Mohamed College
Anwar Hussain
Anwar Hussain Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Zabta Khan Shinwari
Zabta Khan Shinwari Quaid-i-Azam University

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