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Saudi Arabia
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
98
Citations
58986
World Ranking
173
National Ranking
2

Mark Tester 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 Mark Tester sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 276 publications — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Mark Tester 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 Mark Tester sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% 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

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Saudi Arabia Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Saudi Arabia Leader Award

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Genetics

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Botany, Salinity, Shoot, Arabidopsis and Biochemistry. His Botany study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Wheat grain, Biophysics and Salt Tolerant Plants. His Salinity study incorporates themes from Biotechnology, Plant Physiological Phenomena, Poaceae and Crop.

The concepts of his Plant Physiological Phenomena study are interwoven with issues in Cellular ion homeostasis, Ion homeostasis and Plant physiology. His research in Shoot intersects with topics in Arabidopsis thaliana, Water stress, Drought resistance, Plant development and Drought tolerance. His Arabidopsis research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Glutamate receptor, Symporter and Cell biology.

His most cited work include:

  • Mechanisms of salinity tolerance (6599 citations)
  • Na+ Tolerance and Na+ Transport in Higher Plants (2274 citations)
  • Breeding Technologies to Increase Crop Production in a Changing World (1309 citations)

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

His main research concerns Botany, Salinity, Shoot, Agronomy and Biophysics. His work focuses on many connections between Botany and other disciplines, such as Arabidopsis, that overlap with his field of interest in Cell biology. Mark Tester mostly deals with Soil salinity in his studies of Salinity.

Mark Tester has included themes like Nitrate transport and Poaceae, Hordeum vulgare in his Shoot study. His work deals with themes such as Osmotic shock and Nitrate, which intersect with Agronomy. His research integrates issues of Membrane, Biochemistry, Ion transporter and Patch clamp in his study of Biophysics.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (39.16%)
  • Salinity (36.71%)
  • Shoot (32.87%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Salinity (36.71%)
  • Agronomy (24.83%)
  • Horticulture (8.04%)

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

His primary areas of study are Salinity, Agronomy, Horticulture, Soil salinity and Crop. The study incorporates disciplines such as Cultivar, Quantitative trait locus, Crop yield, Shoot and Locus in addition to Salinity. His Locus research incorporates themes from Arabidopsis and Hordeum vulgare.

His studies in Agronomy integrate themes in fields like Salinity stress and Nested association mapping. Mark Tester interconnects Halophyte, Osmoprotectant and Osmotic shock in the investigation of issues within Soil salinity. His research on Phenotypic trait often connects related topics like Botany.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Breeding crops to feed 10 billion. (149 citations)
  • Energy costs of salt tolerance in crop plants (93 citations)
  • Speed breeding in growth chambers and glasshouses for crop breeding and model plant research. (88 citations)

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

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Genetics

Mark Tester mainly investigates Salinity, Agronomy, Cultivar, Crop yield and Shoot. Mark Tester performs multidisciplinary study on Salinity and Water flow in his works. His Crop, Plant density and Yield study in the realm of Agronomy connects with subjects such as Plant maintenance.

His Crop research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Brassica, Greenhouse and Brachypodium distachyon. His research in Cultivar focuses on subjects like Doubled haploidy, which are connected to Soil salinity. His Shoot research incorporates elements of Transport protein, Biophysics, Symporter and Ion transporter.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of salinity tolerance

    Rana Munns;Mark Tester

  • Na+ Tolerance and Na+ Transport in Higher Plants

    Mark Tester;Romola Davenport

  • Breeding Technologies to Increase Crop Production in a Changing World

    Mark Tester;Peter Langridge

  • Phenomics – technologies to relieve the phenotyping bottleneck

    Robert T. Furbank;Mark Tester

  • Salt resistant crop plants

    Stuart J. Roy;Sónia Negrão;Mark A. Tester

  • Evaluating physiological responses of plants to salinity stress

    Sónia Negrão;S. M. Schmöckel;Mark A. Tester

  • Breeding crops to feed 10 billion.

    Lee T Hickey;Amber N Hafeez;Hannah Robinson;Scott A Jackson

  • Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na + transporter gene

    Rana Munns;Richard A James;Bo Xu;Bo Xu;Bo Xu;Asmini Athman;Asmini Athman

  • Functional analysis of AtHKT1 in Arabidopsis shows that Na+ recirculation by the phloem is crucial for salt tolerance

    Pierre Berthomieu;Geneviève Conéjéro;Aurélie Nublat;William J. Brackenbury

  • The genome of Chenopodium quinoa

    David Erwin Jarvis;Yung Shwen Ho;Damien Lightfoot;Sandra M. Schmöckel

  • Chemical Priming of Plants Against Multiple Abiotic Stresses: Mission Possible?

    Andreas Savvides;Shawkat Ali;Mark A. Tester;Vasileios Fotopoulos

  • Shoot Na+ Exclusion and Increased Salinity Tolerance Engineered by Cell Type–Specific Alteration of Na+ Transport in Arabidopsis

    Inge S. Møller;Matthew Gilliham;Deepa Jha;Deepa Jha;Gwenda M. Mayo;Gwenda M. Mayo

  • Root plasma membrane transporters controlling K+/Na+ homeostasis in salt-stressed barley.

    Zhonghua Chen;Igor I. Pottosin;Tracey A. Cuin;Anja T. Fuglsang

  • The Na+ transporter AtHKT1;1 controls retrieval of Na+ from the xylem in Arabidopsis

    Romola Jane Davenport;Alicia Muñoz-Mayor;Deepa Jha;Pauline Adobea Essah

  • Quantifying the three main components of salinity tolerance in cereals.

    Karthika Rajendran;Mark Tester;Stuart J. Roy

  • Cell-type-specific calcium responses to drought, salt and cold in the Arabidopsis root

    Edward Kiegle;Catherine A. Moore;Jim Haseloff;Mark A. Tester

  • Boron-Toxicity Tolerance in Barley Arising from Efflux Transporter Amplification

    Tim Sutton;Ute Baumann;Julie Hayes;Nicholas C. Collins

  • Metabolic responses to salt stress of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) cultivars, Sahara and Clipper, which differ in salinity tolerance

    Widodo;John H. Patterson;Ed Newbigin;Mark Tester

  • Nonselective cation channels in plants.

    Vadim Demidchik;Romola J. Davenport;Mark Alfred Tester

  • HKT1;5-Like Cation Transporters Linked to Na+ Exclusion Loci in Wheat, Nax2 and Kna1

    C.S. Byrt;J.D. Platten;W. Spielmeyer;R.A. James

Frequent Co-Authors

Stuart J. Roy
Stuart J. Roy University of Adelaide
Bettina Berger
Bettina Berger University of Adelaide
Matthew Gilliham
Matthew Gilliham University of Adelaide
Ute Roessner
Ute Roessner University of Melbourne
Rana Munns
Rana Munns University of Western Australia
Peter Langridge
Peter Langridge University of Adelaide
Salim Al-Babili
Salim Al-Babili King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Antony Bacic
Antony Bacic La Trobe University
Stefan T. Arold
Stefan T. Arold King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Ute Baumann
Ute Baumann University of Adelaide

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