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Plant Science and Agronomy
Mexico
2025

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
63
Citations
14977
World Ranking
1030
National Ranking
11

Luc Dendooven 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 Luc Dendooven sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 285 publications — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luc Dendooven 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 Luc Dendooven sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Mexico Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Bacteria
  • Ecology
  • Botany

His primary scientific interests are in Agronomy, Tillage, No-till farming, Soil water and Crop residue. His Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Wastewater, Nutrient and Greenhouse gas. Luc Dendooven has included themes like Soil management, Crop rotation, Soil fertility and Soil quality in his Tillage study.

Luc Dendooven studied No-till farming and Minimum tillage that intersect with Mulch-till, Strip-till and Sustainable agriculture. His Soil water research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Environmental chemistry and Burkholderiales. His studies deal with areas such as Soil organic matter, Field experiment and Phaeozem as well as Crop residue.

His most cited work include:

  • Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration: Between Myth and Farmer Reality (332 citations)
  • Influence of tillage, residue management, and crop rotation on soil microbial biomass and catabolic diversity (245 citations)
  • Vermicompost as a soil supplement to improve growth, yield and fruit quality of tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum). (189 citations)

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

Luc Dendooven mostly deals with Agronomy, Soil water, Environmental chemistry, Botany and Soil salinity. His research in Agronomy intersects with topics in Crop residue, Soil fertility and Mineralization. Luc Dendooven combines subjects such as Organic matter, Nutrient and Water content with his study of Soil water.

His study looks at the relationship between Environmental chemistry and topics such as Soil contamination, which overlap with Sludge. His study on Botany also encompasses disciplines like

  • Horticulture and related Vermicompost,
  • Actinobacteria which connect with Firmicutes. His Tillage research includes themes of No-till farming, Conservation agriculture and Monoculture.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Agronomy (41.00%)
  • Soil water (27.97%)
  • Environmental chemistry (21.07%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Agronomy (41.00%)
  • Soil water (27.97%)
  • Environmental chemistry (21.07%)

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

His main research concerns Agronomy, Soil water, Environmental chemistry, Botany and Mineralization. He is interested in Tillage, which is a branch of Agronomy. His Tillage research incorporates elements of Crop residue and Conservation agriculture.

His Soil water research includes elements of Irrigation, Nitrogen, Bacteria, Water content and Ricinus. His work carried out in the field of Environmental chemistry brings together such families of science as Methane, Fertilizer, Alkali soil and Anthracene. His work deals with themes such as Nitrogen fixation, Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, Gammaproteobacteria and Soil salinity, which intersect with Botany.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • 16S metagenomics reveals changes in the soil bacterial community driven by soil organic C, N-fertilizer and tillage-crop residue management (45 citations)
  • Utilization of vinasses as soil amendment: consequences and perspectives. (37 citations)
  • Microbial community structure in aerobic and fluffy granules formed in a sequencing batch reactor supplied with 4-chlorophenol at different settling times (32 citations)

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

  • Bacteria
  • Ecology
  • Botany

Luc Dendooven mainly focuses on Agronomy, Soil water, Mineralization, Gemmatimonadetes and Tillage. His Agronomy research includes elements of Soil carbon, Soil fertility, Soil organic matter and Acidobacteria, Actinobacteria. Luc Dendooven focuses mostly in the field of Soil water, narrowing it down to topics relating to Anthracene and, in certain cases, Environmental chemistry, Pollution, Wastewater, Contamination and Phenanthrene.

His studies deal with areas such as Monoculture, Plough, Field capacity, Water content and Minimum tillage as well as Mineralization. His studies in Gemmatimonadetes integrate themes in fields like Soil Pollutants, Eisenia fetida, Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and Pasture. The Tillage study which covers Crop residue that intersects with Conservation agriculture.

Best Publications

  • A review of earthworm impact on soil function and ecosystem services

    Manuel Blouin;Mark.E. Hodson;E.A. Delgado;G. Baker

  • Conservation Agriculture and Soil Carbon Sequestration: Between Myth and Farmer Reality

    Bram Govaerts;N. Verhulst;A. Castellanos-Navarrete;Ken D. Sayre

  • Influence of tillage, residue management, and crop rotation on soil microbial biomass and catabolic diversity

    Bram Govaerts;Bram Govaerts;Monica Mezzalama;Yusuke Unno;Ken D. Sayre

  • Vermicompost as a soil supplement to improve growth, yield and fruit quality of tomato (Lycopersicum esculentum).

    Federico A. Gutiérrez-Miceli;Jorge Santiago-Borraz;Joaquín Adolfo Montes Molina;Camerino Carlos Nafate

  • Methanogenesis and Methanotrophy in Soil: A Review

    N. Serrano-Silva;Y. Sarria-Guzmán;L. Dendooven;M. Luna-Guido

  • Relative impacts of tillage, residue management and crop-rotation on soil bacterial communities in a semi-arid agroecosystem

    Yendi E. Navarro-Noya;Selene Gómez-Acata;Nina Montoya-Ciriaco;Aketzally Rojas-Valdez

  • Influence of permanent raised bed planting and residue management on physical and chemical soil quality in rain fed maize/wheat systems

    Bram Govaerts;Bram Govaerts;K.D Sayre;K Lichter;L Dendooven

  • Fourteen years of applying zero and conventional tillage, crop rotation and residue management systems and its effect on physical and chemical soil quality

    Mariela Fuentes;Bram Govaerts;Fernando De León;Claudia Hidalgo

  • Microbial communities to mitigate contamination of PAHs in soil—possibilities and challenges: a review

    F. Fernández-Luqueño;C. Valenzuela-Encinas;R. Marsch;C. Martínez-Suárez

  • Potential of earthworms to accelerate removal of organic contaminants from soil: a review.

    Jacobo Rodriguez-Campos;Luc Dendooven;Dioselina Alvarez-Bernal;Silvia Maribel Contreras-Ramos

  • Conservation agriculture as a sustainable option for the central Mexican highlands

    Bram Govaerts;Bram Govaerts;Ken D. Sayre;Bart Goudeseune;Pieter De Corte

  • Characteristics, and carbon and nitrogen dynamics in soil irrigated with wastewater for different lengths of time.

    E Ramirez-Fuentes;C Lucho-Constantino;E Escamilla-Silva;L Dendooven

  • Phylogenetic and multivariate analyses to determine the effects of different tillage and residue management practices on soil bacterial communities

    Javier A. Ceja-Navarro;Flor N. Rivera-Orduña;Leonardo Patiño-Zúñiga;Antón Vila-Sanjurjo

  • Aggregation and C and N contents of soil organic matter fractions in a permanent raised-bed planting system in the Highlands of Central Mexico

    Kelly Lichter;Bram Govaerts;Bram Govaerts;Johan Six;Ken D. Sayre

  • The impacts of inorganic nitrogen application on mineralization of 14C-labelled maize and glucose, and on priming effect in saline alkaline soil

    E. Conde;M. Cardenas;A. Ponce-Mendoza;M.L. Luna-Guido

  • Vermicomposting of biosolids with cow manure and oat straw

    S. M. Contreras-Ramos;E. M. Escamilla-Silva;L. Dendooven

  • Eisenia fetida increased removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from soil.

    Silvia M. Contreras-Ramos;Dioselina Álvarez-Bernal;Luc Dendooven

  • Global warming potential of agricultural systems with contrasting tillage and residue management in the central highlands of Mexico

    Luc Dendooven;Luc Dendooven;Leonardo Patiño-Zúñiga;Leonardo Patiño-Zúñiga;Nele Verhulst;Nele Verhulst;Marco Luna-Guido;Marco Luna-Guido

  • Dynamics of carbon and nitrogen in an extreme alkaline saline soil: A review

    Luc Dendooven;Rocio J. Alcántara-Hernández;Cesar Valenzuela-Encinas;Marco Luna-Guido

  • Emulsifying and foaming capacity and emulsion and foam stability of sesame protein concentrates

    Alicia Cano-Medina;Hugo Jiménez-Islas;Luc Dendooven;Rosalba Patiño Herrera

  • Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance fruit growth and quality of chile ancho (Capsicum annuum L. cv San Luis) plants exposed to drought.

    Hortencia G. Mena-Violante;Omar Ocampo-Jiménez;Luc Dendooven;Gerardo Martínez-Soto

  • Removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from soil amended with biosolid or vermicompost in the presence of earthworms (Eisenia fetida)

    Silvia M. Contreras-Ramos;Dioselina Álvarez-Bernal;Luc Dendooven

  • Optimization of gibberellic acid production by immobilized Gibberella fujikuroi mycelium in fluidized bioreactors.

    Escamilla Em;Dendooven L;Magaña Ip;Parra R

  • Conventionally Tilled and Permanent Raised Beds with Different Crop Residue Management: Effects on Soil C and N Dynamics

    Bram Govaerts;K.D Sayre;J.M Ceballos-Ramirez;M.L Luna-Guido

Frequent Co-Authors

Bram Govaerts
Bram Govaerts International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Nele Verhulst
Nele Verhulst International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Jozef Deckers
Jozef Deckers KU Leuven
Oswald Van Cleemput
Oswald Van Cleemput Ghent University
Bernard Vanlauwe
Bernard Vanlauwe International Institute of Tropical Agriculture
José Crossa
José Crossa International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Pascal Boeckx
Pascal Boeckx Ghent University
Gotthard Kunze
Gotthard Kunze Leibniz Association
Anthony Levasseur
Anthony Levasseur University of Montreal

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