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Plant Science and Agronomy
USA
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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116
Citations
52883
World Ranking
77
National Ranking
25

Genetics

D-Index
116
Citations
50834
World Ranking
445
National Ranking
228

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
  • 2003 - Fellow of the American Society of Agronomy (ASA)
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Mark E. Sorrells is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has a research focus spanning agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work primarily involves the study of plant science, genetics, and agronomy and crop science, with additional emphasis on molecular biology and nutrition and dietetics.

Their main research topics cover a range of areas including:

  • Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
  • Genetics and Plant Breeding
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Bioenergy crop production and management
  • Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
  • Seed Germination and Physiology

They have published extensively in prominent venues such as:

  • Crop Science
  • The Plant Genome
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Theoretical and Applied Genetics
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics

Frequent collaborators in their research include Kevin P. Smith, Lucía Gutiérrez, Jean-Luc Jannink, Michael A. Gore, and Haixiao Hu.

Among recent papers, key contributions include:

  • "Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age" (2021), Trends in Plant Science
  • "Exceptional subgenome stability and functional divergence in the allotetraploid Ethiopian cereal teff" (2020), Nature Communications
  • "Counting on Crossovers: Controlled Recombination for Plant Breeding" (2020), Trends in Plant Science
  • "Genomic variants affecting homoeologous gene expression dosage contribute to agronomic trait variation in allopolyploid wheat" (2022), Nature Communications
  • "Wheat ATIs: Characteristics and Role in Human Disease" (2021), Frontiers in Nutrition

The scientist has been recognized with fellowships from established bodies, including the American Society of Agronomy (ASA) in 2003 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Genic microsatellite markers in plants: features and applications

    Rajeev K. Varshney;Andreas Graner;Mark E. Sorrells

  • Optimizing parental selection for genetic linkage maps

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

  • Development of High-Density Genetic Maps for Barley and Wheat Using a Novel Two-Enzyme Genotyping-by-Sequencing Approach

    Jesse A. Poland;Jesse A. Poland;Patrick J. Brown;Mark E. Sorrells;Jean Luc Jannink;Jean Luc Jannink

  • Genomic Selection for Crop Improvement

    Elliot L. Heffner;Mark E. Sorrells;Jean-Luc Jannink

  • Association Mapping of Kernel Size and Milling Quality in Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Cultivars

    Flavio Breseghello;Mark E Sorrells

  • 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

  • Abundance, variability and chromosomal location of microsatellites in wheat.

    Marion S. Röder;Jens Plaschke;Susanne U. König;Andreas Börner

  • Data mining for simple sequence repeats in expressed sequence tags from barley, maize, rice, sorghum and wheat.

    Ramesh V. Kantety;Mauricio La Rota;David E. Matthews;Mark E. Sorrells

  • A molecular, isozyme and morphological map of the barley (Hordeum vulgare) genome.

    A. Kleinhofs;A. Kilian;M. A. Saghai Maroof;R. M. Biyashev

  • Genomics-assisted breeding for crop improvement

    Rajeev K. Varshney;Rajeev K. Varshney;Andreas Graner;Mark E. Sorrells

  • Genomic Selection in Wheat Breeding using Genotyping-by-Sequencing

    Jesse A. Poland;Jeffrey Endelman;Julie Dawson;Jessica Rutkoski

  • Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding: A Comparison of Models

    Nicolas Heslot;Nicolas Heslot;Hsiao-Pei Yang;Mark E. Sorrells;Jean-Luc Jannink

  • DNA Markers in Plant Improvement

    Andrew H. Paterson;Steven D. Tanksley;Mark E. Sorrells

  • Plant Breeding with Genomic Selection: Gain per Unit Time and Cost

    Elliot L. Heffner;Aaron J. Lorenz;Jean Luc Jannink;Mark E. Sorrells

  • Phytochemicals and antioxidant activity of milled fractions of different wheat varieties.

    Kafui Kwami Adom;Mark E Sorrells;Rui Hai Liu

  • Isolation of EST-derived microsatellite markers for genotyping the A and B genomes of wheat.

    I. Eujayl;M. E. Sorrells;M. Baum;P. Wolters

  • Genomic Selection in Plant Breeding. Knowledge and Prospects.

    Aaron J. Lorenz;Shiaoman Chao;Franco G. Asoro;Elliot L. Heffner

  • 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

  • Quantitative trait locus effects and environmental interaction in a sample of North American barley germ plasm.

    P M Hayes;B H Liu;S J Knapp;F Chen

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Luc Jannink
Jean-Luc Jannink Agricultural Research Service
Shiaoman Chao
Shiaoman Chao Agricultural Research Service
James A. Anderson
James A. Anderson University of Minnesota
Jesse Poland
Jesse Poland King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jorge Dubcovsky
Jorge Dubcovsky University of California, Davis
Gary C. Bergstrom
Gary C. Bergstrom Cornell University
Steven D. Tanksley
Steven D. Tanksley Cornell University
Ravi P. Singh
Ravi P. Singh International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
Bikram S. Gill
Bikram S. Gill Kansas State University
Calvin O. Qualset
Calvin O. Qualset University of California, Davis

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