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D-Index
57
Citations
10291
World Ranking
1467
National Ranking
385

Melvin J. Oliver 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 Melvin J. Oliver sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 159 publications — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Melvin J. Oliver 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 Melvin J. Oliver sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 57 D-Index — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • DNA

His main research concerns Desiccation tolerance, Desiccation, Botany, Tortula ruralis and Moss. His Desiccation tolerance research includes themes of Trehalose and Biochemistry. Melvin J. Oliver interconnects Photosynthesis, Gametophyte, Gene and Transcriptome in the investigation of issues within Desiccation.

His work in the fields of Botany, such as Spore, Lichen and Plant physiology, intersects with other areas such as Cellular level and Protection system. He has included themes like Bryophyte, Messenger RNA, Gene expression and Protein biosynthesis in his Tortula ruralis study. He combines subjects such as Plant cell, Kingdom Plantae and Abscisic acid with his study of Moss.

His most cited work include:

  • The evolution of vegetative desiccation tolerance in land plants (334 citations)
  • Desiccation-tolerance in bryophytes: a review (290 citations)
  • Desiccation Tolerance in Bryophytes: A Reflection of the Primitive Strategy for Plant Survival in Dehydrating Habitats? (218 citations)

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

His primary scientific interests are in Botany, Desiccation tolerance, Desiccation, Tortula ruralis and Gene. As a member of one scientific family, Melvin J. Oliver mostly works in the field of Botany, focusing on Horticulture and, on occasion, Chinese spring and Sucrose. His Desiccation tolerance study is associated with Ecology.

His Desiccation research incorporates elements of Gametophyte, Transcriptome, Biochemistry, Dehydration and Cell biology. The concepts of his Tortula ruralis study are interwoven with issues in Complementary DNA, Expressed sequence tag, Ribosomal protein, Ribosomal RNA and Protein biosynthesis. His work carried out in the field of Gene brings together such families of science as Evolutionary biology and Resurrection plant.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (41.32%)
  • Desiccation tolerance (40.50%)
  • Desiccation (38.84%)

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

  • Desiccation tolerance (40.50%)
  • Gene (22.31%)
  • Desiccation (38.84%)

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

Melvin J. Oliver mainly investigates Desiccation tolerance, Gene, Desiccation, Cell biology and Evolutionary biology. His Desiccation tolerance research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Arabidopsis thaliana and Key genes. His study with Desiccation involves better knowledge in Botany.

His Sporobolus stapfianus study in the realm of Botany connects with subjects such as Nitrogen. Melvin J. Oliver has researched Cell biology in several fields, including Abscisic acid and Seedling. His Evolutionary biology study also includes

  • Phylogenetics, Physcomitrella and Gene family most often made with reference to Gene duplication,
  • Synteny, which have a strong connection to Comparative genomics.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • A footprint of desiccation tolerance in the genome of Xerophyta viscosa (72 citations)
  • The Physcomitrella patens gene atlas project: large-scale RNA-seq based expression data. (34 citations)
  • Sporobolus stapfianus: Insights into desiccation tolerance in the resurrection grasses from linking transcriptomics to metabolomics (32 citations)

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

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • DNA

His main research concerns Desiccation tolerance, Desiccation, Cell biology, Gene and Transcriptome. The Desiccation study combines topics in areas such as Dehydration, Cell damage and Metabolic Stress. His work focuses on many connections between Cell biology and other disciplines, such as Abscisic acid, that overlap with his field of interest in Gene expression profiling, Transcription factor, Real-time polymerase chain reaction, Shoot and Transcription.

His Transcriptome study combines topics in areas such as Phylogenetics, Genome and Botany, Drought tolerance. As a part of the same scientific family, Melvin J. Oliver mostly works in the field of Genome, focusing on Computational biology and, on occasion, Protonema and Physcomitrella patens. Melvin J. Oliver works on Botany which deals in particular with Seedling.

Best Publications

  • The evolution of vegetative desiccation tolerance in land plants

    Melvin J. Oliver;Zoltán Tuba;Brent D. Mishler

  • Desiccation-tolerance in bryophytes: a review

    Michael C. F. Proctor;Melvin J. Oliver;Andrew J. Wood;Peter Alpert

  • The 30-kilodalton gene product of tobacco mosaic virus potentiates virus movement.

    Carl M. Deom;Melvin J. Oliver;Roger N. Beachy

  • Desiccation Tolerance in Bryophytes: A Reflection of the Primitive Strategy for Plant Survival in Dehydrating Habitats?

    Melvin J. Oliver;Jeff Velten;Brent D. Mishler

  • High-throughput DNA extraction method suitable for PCR.

    Zhanguo Xin;Jeff P Velten;Melvin J Oliver;John J Burke

  • Drying without dying.

    P. Alpert;M. J. Oliver;M. Black;H. W. Pritchard

  • Desiccation Tolerance: Avoiding Cellular Damage During Drying and Rehydration.

    Melvin J. Oliver;Melvin J. Oliver;Jill Margaret Farrant;Henk Hilhorst;Sagadevan Mundree

  • A Sister Group Contrast Using Untargeted Global Metabolomic Analysis Delineates the Biochemical Regulation Underlying Desiccation Tolerance in Sporobolus stapfianus

    Melvin J. Oliver;Lining Guo;Danny C. Alexander;John A. Ryals

  • The evolution of desiccation tolerance in angiosperm plants: a rare yet common phenomenon

    Donald F Gaff;Melvin Oliver

  • “To dryness and beyond” – Preparation for the dried state and rehydration in vegetative desiccation-tolerant plants

    Melvin J. Oliver;Patrick O'Mahony;Andrew J. Wood

  • The rehydration transcriptome of the desiccation-tolerant bryophyte Tortula ruralis: transcript classification and analysis

    Melvin J Oliver;Scot E Dowd;Joaquin Zaragoza;Steven A Mauget

  • The resurrection genome of Boea hygrometrica: A blueprint for survival of dehydration

    Lihong Xiao;Ge Yang;Liechi Zhang;Xinhua Yang

  • Influence of Protoplasmic Water Loss on the Control of Protein Synthesis in the Desiccation-Tolerant Moss Tortula ruralis : Ramifications for a Repair-Based Mechanism of Desiccation Tolerance

    Melvin J. Oliver

  • Bryophytes as experimental models for the study of environmental stress tolerance: Tortula ruralis and desiccation-tolerance in mosses

    Melvin J. Oliver;Jeff Velten;Andrew J. Wood

  • Desiccation tolerance in vegetative plant cells

    Melvin J. Oliver

  • Metabolomic Profiling in Selaginella lepidophylla at Various Hydration States Provides New Insights into the Mechanistic Basis of Desiccation Tolerance

    Abou Yobi;Bernard W.M. Wone;Wenxin Xu;Danny C. Alexander

  • Windows .NET Network Distributed Basic Local Alignment Search Toolkit (W.ND-BLAST)

    Scot E Dowd;Joaquin Zaragoza;Javier R Rodriguez;Melvin J Oliver

  • Desiccation Tolerance in Vegetative Plant Tissues and Seeds: Protein Synthesis in Relation to Desiccation and a Potential Role for Protection and Repair Mechanisms

    J. D. Bewley;M. J. Oliver

  • Comparative metabolic profiling between desiccation-sensitive and desiccation-tolerant species of Selaginella reveals insights into the resurrection trait.

    Abou Yobi;Bernard W. M. Wone;Wenxin Xu;Danny C. Alexander

  • Regulation of Plant Gene Expression

    R. B. Goldberg

  • Desiccation‐Tolerance of Plant Tissues: A Mechanistic Overview

    Melvin J. Oliver;J. Derek Bewley

  • In Vitro Analysis of Cotton Pollen Germination

    John J. Burke;Jeff Velten;Melvin J. Oliver

  • Comparative measures of desiccation-tolerance in the Tortula ruralis complex. I: Variation in damage control and repair

    Melvin J. Oliver;Brent D. Mishler;Jerry E. Quisenberry

  • A footprint of desiccation tolerance in the genome of Xerophyta viscosa

    Maria-Cecília Costa;Mariana Artur;Julio Maia;Eef Jonkheer

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Burke
John J. Burke Agricultural Research Service
Brent D. Mishler
Brent D. Mishler University of California, Berkeley
Jianhua Zhang
Jianhua Zhang Hong Kong Baptist University
John C. Cushman
John C. Cushman University of Nevada Reno
Paxton Payton
Paxton Payton Agricultural Research Service
Robert E. Sharp
Robert E. Sharp University of Missouri
Jill M. Farrant
Jill M. Farrant University of Cape Town
Scot E. Dowd
Scot E. Dowd MR DNA (Molecular Research LP)
C. Neal Stewart
C. Neal Stewart University of Tennessee at Knoxville
J. Derek Bewley
J. Derek Bewley University of Guelph

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