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D-Index
44
Citations
8507
World Ranking
2994
National Ranking
744

Melissa G. Mitchum 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 Melissa G. Mitchum sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 137 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Melissa G. Mitchum 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 Melissa G. Mitchum sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • A soybean cyst nematode resistance gene points to a new mechanism of plant resistance to pathogens

    Shiming Liu;Pramod K. Kandoth;Samantha D. Warren;Greg Yeckel

  • Distinct and overlapping roles of two gibberellin 3-oxidases in Arabidopsis development.

    Melissa G. Mitchum;Shinjiro Yamaguchi;Atsushi Hanada;Ayuko Kuwahara

  • Nematode effector proteins: an emerging paradigm of parasitism

    Melissa G. Mitchum;Richard S. Hussey;Thomas J. Baum;Xiaohong Wang

  • How nematodes manipulate plant development pathways for infection.

    Godelieve Gheysen;Melissa G Mitchum

  • Parasitism proteins in nematode-plant interactions.

    Eric L Davis;Richard S Hussey;Melissa G Mitchum;Thomas J Baum

  • Developmental transcript profiling of cyst nematode feeding cells in soybean roots.

    Nagabhushana Ithal;Justin Recknor;Dan Nettleton;Tom Maier

  • Potential Sites of Bioactive Gibberellin Production during Reproductive Growth in Arabidopsis

    Jianhong Hu;Melissa G. Mitchum;Neel Barnaby;Belay T. Ayele

  • Cellulose Binding Protein from the Parasitic Nematode Heterodera schachtii Interacts with Arabidopsis Pectin Methylesterase: Cooperative Cell Wall Modification during Parasitism

    Tarek Hewezi;Peter Howe;Tom R. Maier;Richard S. Hussey

  • A parasitism gene from a plant-parasitic nematode with function similar to CLAVATA3/ESR (CLE) of Arabidopsis thaliana.

    Xiaohong Wang;Melissa G. Mitchum;Bingli Gao;Chunying Li

  • Parallel Genome-Wide Expression Profiling of Host and Pathogen During Soybean Cyst Nematode Infection of Soybean

    Nagabhushana Ithal;Justin Recknor;Dan Nettleton;Leonard Hearne

  • Arabidopsis Spermidine Synthase Is Targeted by an Effector Protein of the Cyst Nematode Heterodera schachtii

    Tarek Hewezi;Peter J. Howe;Tom R. Maier;Richard S. Hussey

  • Effective and specific in planta RNAi in cyst nematodes: expression interference of four parasitism genes reduces parasitic success

    Anoop S. Sindhu;Tom R. Maier;Melissa G. Mitchum;Richard S. Hussey

  • The Novel Cyst Nematode Effector Protein 19C07 Interacts with the Arabidopsis Auxin Influx Transporter LAX3 to Control Feeding Site Development

    Chris Lee;Demosthenis Chronis;Charlotte Kenning;Benjamin Peret

  • A parasitic nematode releases cytokinin that controls cell division and orchestrates feeding site formation in host plants

    Shahid Siddique;Zoran S. Radakovic;Carola M. De La Torre;Demosthenis Chronis

  • The Soybean Rhg1 Locus for Resistance to the Soybean Cyst Nematode Heterodera glycines Regulates the Expression of a Large Number of Stress- and Defense-Related Genes in Degenerating Feeding Cells

    Pramod Kaitheri Kandoth;Nagabhushana Ithal;Justin Recknor;Tom Maier

  • Nematode CLE signaling in Arabidopsis requires CLAVATA2 and CORYNE

    Amy Replogle;Jianying Wang;Andrea Bleckmann;Richard S. Hussey

  • Phytoparasitic Nematode Control of Plant Hormone Pathways.

    Godelieve Gheysen;Melissa G. Mitchum

  • Soybean Resistance to the Soybean Cyst Nematode Heterodera glycines: An Update.

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  • The soybean GmSNAP18 gene underlies two types of resistance to soybean cyst nematode

    Shiming Liu;Pramod K. Kandoth;Naoufal Lakhssassi;Jingwen Kang

  • Identification of potential host plant mimics of CLAVATA3/ESR (CLE)-like peptides from the plant-parasitic nematode Heterodera schachtii

    Jianying Wang;Amy Replogle;Richard Hussey;Thomas Baum

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. Baum
Thomas J. Baum Iowa State University
Eric L. Davis
Eric L. Davis North Carolina State University
Richard S. Hussey
Richard S. Hussey University of Georgia
Tarek Hewezi
Tarek Hewezi University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Henry T. Nguyen
Henry T. Nguyen University of Missouri
Khalid Meksem
Khalid Meksem Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Alemu Mengistu
Alemu Mengistu Agricultural Research Service
Dan Nettleton
Dan Nettleton Iowa State University
Abdelhafid Bendahmane
Abdelhafid Bendahmane University of Paris-Saclay
Silvia R. Cianzio
Silvia R. Cianzio Iowa State University

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