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James A. Anderson publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James A. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 219 publications — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

James A. Anderson D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where James A. Anderson sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 57th percentile

57% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2007 - Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA)
  • 2006 - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA)
  • 1998 - Young Crop Scientist Award, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

James A. Anderson is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily lies within Agricultural and Biological Sciences, focusing on subfields such as Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Genetics, Environmental Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Turfgrass Adaptation and Management
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Mycotoxins in Agriculture and Food
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Anderson include:

  • Identification and stacking of crucial traits required for the domestication of pennycress (2020), published in Nature Food
  • 'MN-Clearwater', the first food-grade intermediate wheatgrass (Kernza perennial grain) cultivar (2020), published in Journal of Plant Registrations
  • Chromosome-level Thlaspi arvense genome provides new tools for translational research and for a newly domesticated cash cover crop of the cooler climates (2022), published in Plant Biotechnology Journal
  • Enhancing Crop Domestication Through Genomic Selection, a Case Study of Intermediate Wheatgrass (2020), published in Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Breeding Intermediate Wheatgrass for Grain Production (2022), published in Plant Breeding Reviews

Frequent publication venues for Anderson include:

  • The Plant Genome
  • Crop Science
  • Journal of Plant Registrations
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Transmathematica

Collaboration appears to be an important aspect of their research, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Prabin Bajgain
  • Emily Conley
  • Lee R. DeHaan
  • Matthew N. Rouse
  • Karl D. Glover

Over the course of their career, Anderson has received several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the Crop Science Society of America (CSSA) in 2007
  • Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) in 2006
  • Young Crop Scientist Award, American Society of Agronomy in 1998

Best Publications

  • Optimizing parental selection for genetic linkage maps

    James A Anderson;G. A. Churchill;J. E. Autrique;S. D. Tanksley

  • Genome-wide comparative diversity uncovers multiple targets of selection for improvement in hexaploid wheat landraces and cultivars.

    Colin R. Cavanagh;Shiaoman Chao;Shichen Wang;Bevan Emma Huang

  • Introducing the CTA concept

    B. S. Acharya;M. Actis;T. Aghajani;G. Agnetta

  • DNA markers for Fusarium head blight resistance QTLs in two wheat populations

    J. A. Anderson;R. W. Stack;S. Liu;B. L. Waldron

  • Search for invisible decays of Higgs bosons in the vector boson fusion and associated ZH production modes

    S. Chatrchyan;V. Khachatryan;A. M. Sirunyan;A. Tumasyan

  • Construction of a restriction fragment length polymorphism map for barley (Hordeum vulgare)

    M. Heun;A. E. Kennedy;J. A. Anderson;N. L. V. Lapitan

  • Homoeologous relationships of rice, wheat and maize chromosomes.

    S. Ahn;J. A. Anderson;M. E. Sorrells;S. D. Tanksley

  • An evidence-based analysis of the effect of busulfan, hydroxyurea, interferon, and allogeneic bone marrow transplantation in treating the chronic phase of chronic myeloid leukemia: Developed for the American Society of Hematology

    Richard T. Silver;Steven H. Woolf;Rüdiger Hehlmann;Frederick R. Appelbaum

  • Molecular mapping of wheat: major genes and rearrangements in homoeologous groups 4, 5, and 7.

    J. C. Nelson;M. E. Sorrells;A. E. Van Deynze;Yun Hai Lu

  • RFLP mapping of QTL for fusarium head blight resistance in wheat

    B. L. Waldron;B. Moreno-Sevilla;J. A. Anderson;R. W. Stack

  • Comparative DNA Sequence Analysis of Wheat and Rice Genomes

    Mark E. Sorrells;Mauricio La Rota;Catherine E. Bermudez-Kandianis;Robert A. Greene

  • A chromosome bin map of 16,000 expressed sequence tag loci and distribution of genes among the three genomes of polyploid wheat.

    L. L. Qi;B. Echalier;S. Chao;S. Chao;G. R. Lazo

  • Linkage of RFLP markers to an aluminum tolerance gene in wheat

    C. R. Riede;J. A. Anderson

  • Volume I. Introduction to DUNE

    B. Abi;R. Acciarri;M. A. Acero;G. Adamov

  • The Organization and Rate of Evolution of Wheat Genomes Are Correlated With Recombination Rates Along Chromosome Arms

    Eduard D. Akhunov;Andrew W. Goodyear;Shu Geng;Li-Li Qi

  • RFLP Analysis of Genomic Regions Associated with Resistance to Preharvest Sprouting in Wheat

    James A. Anderson;Mark E. Sorrells;Steven D. Tanksley

  • Wheat Fhb1 encodes a chimeric lectin with agglutinin domains and a pore-forming toxin-like domain conferring resistance to Fusarium head blight

    Nidhi Rawat;Michael O Pumphrey;Sixin Liu;Xiaofei Zhang

  • Quantitative Trait Loci Associated with Kernel Traits in a Soft × Hard Wheat Cross

    Kim Garland Campbell;Christine J. Bergman;Daisy G. Gualberto;James A. Anderson

  • Megabase Level Sequencing Reveals Contrasted Organization and Evolution Patterns of the Wheat Gene and Transposable Element Spaces

    Frédéric Choulet;Thomas Wicker;Camille Rustenholz;Etienne Paux

  • Development of a chromosomal arm map for wheat based on RFLP markers.

    J. A. Anderson;Y. Ogihara;M. E. Sorrells;S. D. Tanksley

Frequent Co-Authors

Shiaoman Chao
Shiaoman Chao Agricultural Research Service
Mark E. Sorrells
Mark E. Sorrells Cornell University
Yue Jin
Yue Jin US Department of Agriculture
James Kolmer
James Kolmer Agricultural Research Service
Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
Matthew N. Rouse
Matthew N. Rouse US Department of Agriculture
Bikram S. Gill
Bikram S. Gill Kansas State University
Eduard Akhunov
Eduard Akhunov Kansas State University
Gerard R. Lazo
Gerard R. Lazo Agricultural Research Service
Olin D. Anderson
Olin D. Anderson United States Department of Agriculture

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