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Plant Science and Agronomy

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55
Citations
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World Ranking
1575
National Ranking
421

Genetics

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54
Citations
21877
World Ranking
3615
National Ranking
1566

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Jianxin Ma is affiliated with Purdue University West Lafayette in the United States. Their research spans several interconnected fields, primarily in Agricultural and Biological Sciences with significant contributions to Materials Science.

The scientist's main research areas include Plant Science, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Polymers and Plastics. They focus on topics such as Soybean genetics and cultivation, Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications, Legume Nitrogen Fixing Symbiosis, Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection, Chromosomal and Genetic Variations, Covalent Organic Framework Applications, and Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and Applications.

Jianxin Ma has co-authored numerous publications, often collaborating with colleagues such as Chancelor B. Clark, Xiuli Wang, Weidong Wang, Xutong Wang, and Na Xu-with twelve, ten, ten, nine, and nine joint publications respectively.

Their work is frequently published in several key venues, including Nature Plants, Inorganic Chemistry, Theoretical and Applied Genetics, arXiv (Cornell University), and The Cambridge Structural Database. Nature Plants features prominently with six publications connected to their research.

Some of the recent papers authored by Jianxin Ma or collaborators include:

  • A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C4 model system, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Sustainability and innovation of bamboo winding composite pipe products, 2021, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Phylogenomics of the genus Glycine sheds light on polyploid evolution and life-strategy transition, 2022, Nature Plants
  • A Stable 3D Zn-Coordination Polymer Sensor Based on Dual Luminescent Ligands for Efficient Detection of Multiple Analytes under Acid or Alkaline Environment, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Unidirectional movement of small RNAs from shoots to roots in interspecific heterografts, 2021, Nature Plants

Recognition for their scientific contributions includes being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Genome sequence of the palaeopolyploid soybean

    Jeremy Schmutz;Steven B. Cannon;Jessica Schlueter;Jessica Schlueter;Jianxin Ma

  • Early allopolyploid evolution in the post-Neolithic Brassica napus oilseed genome

    Boulos Chalhoub;Shengyi Liu;Isobel A.P. Parkin

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    John P. Vogel;David F. Garvin;Todd C. Mockler;Jeremy Schmutz

  • The Brassica oleracea genome reveals the asymmetrical evolution of polyploid genomes

    Shengyi Liu;Yumei Liu;Xinhua Yang;Chaobo Tong

  • Rapid recent growth and divergence of rice nuclear genomes

    Jianxin Ma;Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

  • Mechanisms of recent genome size variation in flowering plants.

    Jeffrey L. Bennetzen;Jianxin Ma;Katrien M. Devos

  • De novo assembly of soybean wild relatives for pan-genome analysis of diversity and agronomic traits

    Ying-hui Li;Guangyu Zhou;Jianxin Ma;Wenkai Jiang

  • Analyses of LTR-Retrotransposon Structures Reveal Recent and Rapid Genomic DNA Loss in Rice

    Jianxin Ma;Katrien M. Devos;Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

  • Close split of sorghum and maize genome progenitors

    Zuzana Swigonová;Jinsheng Lai;Jianxin Ma;Wusirika Ramakrishna

  • Artificial selection for determinate growth habit in soybean

    Zhixi Tian;Xiaobo Wang;Rian Lee;Yinghui Li

  • Whole-genome sequencing and intensive analysis of the undomesticated soybean (Glycine soja Sieb. and Zucc.) genome

    Moon Young Kim;Sunghoon Lee;Kyujung Van;Tae-Hyung Kim

  • The genome sequence of the most widely cultivated cacao type and its use to identify candidate genes regulating pod color

    Juan C Motamayor;Keithanne Mockaitis;Jeremy Schmutz;Niina Haiminen

  • Rhizobial tRNA-derived small RNAs are signal molecules regulating plant nodulation

    Bo Ren;Xutong Wang;Jingbo Duan;Jianxin Ma

  • Molecular footprints of domestication and improvement in soybean revealed by whole genome re-sequencing

    Ying hui Li;Shan cen Zhao;Jian xin Ma;Dong Li

  • Molecular mapping and detection of the yellow rust resistance gene Yr26 in wheat transferred from Triticum turgidum L. using microsatellite markers

    Jianxin Ma;Ronghua Zhou;Yushen Dong;Lanfen Wang

  • Do genetic recombination and gene density shape the pattern of DNA elimination in rice long terminal repeat retrotransposons

    Zhixi Tian;Carene Rizzon;Jianchang Du;Liucun Zhu

  • Evolutionary conservation, diversity and specificity of LTR-retrotransposons in flowering plants: insights from genome-wide analysis and multi-specific comparison.

    Jianchang Du;Zhixi Tian;Christian S. Hans;Howard M. Laten

  • Consistent over-estimation of gene number in complex plant genomes.

    Jeffrey L Bennetzen;Craig Coleman;Renyi Liu;Jianxin Ma

  • Gene Loss and Movement in the Maize Genome

    Jinsheng Lai;Jianxin Ma;Jianxin Ma;Zuzana Swigonová;Wusirika Ramakrishna;Wusirika Ramakrishna

  • A mini foxtail millet with an Arabidopsis-like life cycle as a C 4 model system

    Zhirong Yang;Zhirong Yang;Haoshan Zhang;Xukai Li;Huimin Shen

  • The genetic colinearity of rice and other cereals on the basis of genomic sequence analysis.

    Jeffrey L Bennetzen;Jianxin Ma

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
Jeffrey L. Bennetzen University of Georgia
Zhixi Tian
Zhixi Tian Chinese Academy of Sciences
Scott A. Jackson
Scott A. Jackson University of Georgia
Rod A. Wing
Rod A. Wing University of Arizona
Joachim Messing
Joachim Messing Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Wusirika Ramakrishna
Wusirika Ramakrishna Central University of Punjab
Steven B. Cannon
Steven B. Cannon Agricultural Research Service
Jeremy Schmutz
Jeremy Schmutz Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Randall L. Nelson
Randall L. Nelson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Yeisoo Yu
Yeisoo Yu University of Arizona

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