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Plant Science and Agronomy

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1181
National Ranking
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Luc Saulnier 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 Saulnier sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 156 publications — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luc Saulnier 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 Saulnier sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Luc Saulnier is affiliated with INRAE (Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement) in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Nursing and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with extensive contributions to subfields such as Nutrition and Dietetics, Food Science, Plant Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Molecular Biology.

The scientist's main topics of study focus on the composition and properties of food, biofuel production and bioconversion, microbial metabolites in food biotechnology, polysaccharides composition and applications, polysaccharides and plant cell walls, proteins in food systems, and spectroscopy and chemometric analyses.

Luc Saulnier has published frequently in multiple scientific journals. The venues with the highest number of publications include:

  • Carbohydrate Polymers
  • Food Chemistry
  • Journal of Cereal Science
  • Food Hydrocolloids
  • Plant Science

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Luc Saulnier cover various topics related to food science and biotechnology:

  • Enzymatic degradation of maize shoots: monitoring of chemical and physical changes reveals different saccharification behaviors, 2021, Biotechnology for Biofuels
  • How Does Starch Structure Impact Amylolysis? Review of Current Strategies for Starch Digestibility Study, 2022, Foods
  • Arabinoxylan content and grain tissue distribution are good predictors of the dietary fibre content and their nutritional properties in wheat products, 2020, Food Chemistry
  • Unravelling the relationships between wheat dough extensional properties, gluten network and water distribution, 2023, Food Hydrocolloids
  • Minor components and wheat quality: Perspectives on climate changes, 2020, Journal of Cereal Science

Luc Saulnier has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Kamal Kansou
  • Guy Della Valle
  • Sophie Le Gall
  • Loïc Foucat
  • Estelle Bonnin

Best Publications

  • Wheat arabinoxylans : Exploiting variation in amount and composition to develop enhanced varieties

    Luc Saulnier;Pierre-Etienne Sado;Gérard Branlard;Gilles Charmet

  • Ferulic acid and diferulic acids as components of sugar-beet pectins and maize bran heteroxylans.

    Luc Saulnier;Jean‐François Thibault

  • Isolation and partial characterization of feruloylated oligosaccharides from maize bran

    Luc Saulnier;Jacqueline Vigouroux;Jean-François Thibault

  • Cell wall polysaccharide interactions in maize bran

    Luc Saulnier;Cecile Marot;Elisabeth Chanliaud;Jean Francois Thibault

  • Interspecies Competition Impacts Targeted Manipulation of Human Gut Bacteria by Fiber-Derived Glycans.

    Michael L. Patnode;Zachary W. Beller;Nathan D. Han;Jiye Cheng

  • Isolation of homogeneous fractions from wheat water-soluble arabinoxylans. Influence of the structure on their macromolecular characteristics.

    G. Dervilly;L. Saulnier;P. Roger;J.-F. Thibault

  • The simultaneous repression of CCR and CAD, two enzymes of the lignin biosynthetic pathway, results in sterility and dwarfism in Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Johanne Thévenin;Brigitte Pollet;Bruno Letarnec;Luc Saulnier

  • Isolation and structural determination of two 5,5'-diferuloyl oligosaccharides indicate that maize heteroxylans are covalently cross-linked by oxidatively coupled ferulates

    Luc Saulnier;Marie Jeanne Crépeau;Marc Lahaye;Jean François Thibault

  • EFFECTS OF XYLANASE AND BETA-GLUCANASE ADDITION ON PERFORMANCE, NUTRIENT DIGESTIBILITY AND PHYSICO CHEMICAL CONDITIONS IN THE SMALL INTESTINE CONTENTS AND CAECAL MICROFLORA OF BROILER CHICKENS FED A WHEAT AND BARLEY BASED DIET

    Nejib Mathlouthi;Serge Mallet;Luc Saulnier;Bernard Quemener

  • Water-extractable arabinoxylan from pearled flours of wheat, barley, rye and triticale. Evidence for the presence of ferulic acid dimers and their involvement in gel formation

    G. Dervilly-Pinel;G. Dervilly-Pinel;L. Rimsten;L. Rimsten;L. Saulnier;L. Saulnier;R. Andersson;R. Andersson

  • FT-IR investigation of cell wall polysaccharides from cereal grains. Arabinoxylan infrared assignment.

    Paul Robert;Mélanie Marquis;Cécile Barron;Fabienne Guillon

  • Variability in grain extract viscosity and water-soluble arabinoxylan content in wheat

    L. Saulnier;N. Peneau;J.-F. Thibault

  • Alkaline extraction and characterisation of heteroxylans from maize bran

    E. Chanliaud;L. Saulnier;J.-F. Thibault

  • Effect of wheat dietary fibres on bread dough development and rheological properties

    M. Bonnand-Ducasse;G. Della Valle;J. Lefebvre;L. Saulnier

  • Structural variability of arabinoxylans from wheat flour. Comparison of water-extractable and xylanase-extractable arabinoxylans

    J.J. Ordaz-Ortiz;L. Saulnier

  • Down-Regulation of the CSLF6 Gene Results in Decreased (1,3;1,4)-β-d-Glucan in Endosperm of Wheat

    Csilla Nemeth;Jackie Freeman;Huw D. Jones;Caroline Sparks

  • Experimental evidence for a semi-flexible conformation for arabinoxylans.

    Gaud Dervilly-Pinel;Jean-François Thibault;Luc Saulnier

  • Structural studies of pectic substances from the pulp of grape berries

    Luc Saulnier;Jean-Marc Brillouet;Jean-Paul Joseleau

  • Cell wall deposition and metabolism in wheat grain

    Luc Saulnier;Fabienne Guillon;Anne-Laure Chateigner-Boutin

  • Relationships Between Mixograph Parameters and Indices of Wheat Grain Quality

    J.P. Martinant;Y. Nicolas;A. Bouguennec;Y. Popineau

  • Classification of Wheat Varieties Based on Structural Features of Arabinoxylans As Revealed by Endoxylanase Treatment of Flour and Grain

    José Juan Ordaz-Ortiz;Marie-Françoise Devaux;Luc Saulnier

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabienne Guillon
Fabienne Guillon INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Jean-François Thibault
Jean-François Thibault INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Alain Buléon
Alain Buléon INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Peter R. Shewry
Peter R. Shewry Rothamsted Research
Michael J. O’Donohue
Michael J. O’Donohue Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Gilles Charmet
Gilles Charmet INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Per Åman
Per Åman Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Catherine Lapierre
Catherine Lapierre University of Paris-Saclay
Rowan A. C. Mitchell
Rowan A. C. Mitchell Rothamsted Research

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