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Patrick S. Schnable

Patrick S. Schnable

D-Index & Metrics

Genetics

D-Index
91
Citations
32709
World Ranking
1029
National Ranking
502

Patrick S. Schnable publication distribution in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Genetics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick S. Schnable sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 290 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 703 publications or more.

Patrick S. Schnable D-index placement in Genetics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Genetics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Patrick S. Schnable sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 77th percentile

77% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 160 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Patrick S. Schnable is affiliated with Iowa State University in the United States. Their research spans several areas within agricultural and biological sciences as well as biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. The primary subfields of their work include plant science, genetics, agronomy and crop science, ecology, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects such as genetic mapping and diversity in plants and animals, genetics and plant breeding, crop yield and soil fertility, remote sensing in agriculture, genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock, wheat and barley genetics and pathology, and smart agriculture and artificial intelligence.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Patrick S. Schnable include:

  • An integrated framework reinstating the environmental dimension for GWAS and genomic selection in crops, 2021, Molecular Plant
  • The importance of dominance and genotype-by-environment interactions on grain yield variation in a large-scale public cooperative maize experiment, 2021, G3 Genes Genomes Genetics
  • Utility of Climatic Information via Combining Ability Models to Improve Genomic Prediction for Yield Within the Genomes to Fields Maize Project, 2021, Frontiers in Genetics
  • Chromosome-level genome assembly of a regenerable maize inbred line A188, 2021, Genome Biology
  • Multi-trait Genomic Selection Methods for Crop Improvement, 2020, Genetics

Patrick S. Schnable collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, James C. Schnable, Talukder Z. Jubery, David Ertl, and Aaron Kusmec.

The scientist's publications are often found in venues such as bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), PLANT PHYSIOLOGY, Crop Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, and arXiv (Cornell University).

In 2010, Patrick S. Schnable was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • The B73 Maize Genome: Complexity, Diversity, and Dynamics

    Patrick S. Schnable;Doreen Ware;Robert S. Fulton;Joshua C. Stein

  • Genome sequencing and analysis of the model grass Brachypodium distachyon

    John P. Vogel;David F. Garvin;Todd C. Mockler;Jeremy Schmutz

  • The molecular basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration

    Patrick S Schnable;Roger P Wise

  • Cloning and characterization of the maize An1 gene.

    Robert J. Bensen;Gurmukh S. Johal;Virginia C. Crane;John T. Tossberg

  • Maize Inbreds Exhibit High Levels of Copy Number Variation (CNV) and Presence/Absence Variation (PAV) in Genome Content

    Nathan M. Springer;Kai Ying;Yan-Yan Fu;Tieming Ji

  • Laser-Capture Microdissection, a Tool for the Global Analysis of Gene Expression in Specific Plant Cell Types: Identification of Genes Expressed Differentially in Epidermal Cells or Vascular Tissues of Maize

    Mikio Nakazono;Mikio Nakazono;Fang Qiu;Lisa A. Borsuk;Patrick S. Schnable

  • Genome-wide patterns of genetic variation among elite maize inbred lines

    Jinsheng Lai;Ruiqiang Li;Xun Xu;Weiwei Jin

  • SNP discovery via 454 transcriptome sequencing

    W. Brad Barbazuk;Scott J. Emrich;Hsin D. Chen;L i Li

  • The rf2 nuclear restorer gene of male-sterile T-cytoplasm maize.

    Xiangqin Cui;Roger P. Wise;Patrick S. Schnable

  • Genome-wide discovery and characterization of maize long non-coding RNAs

    Lin Li;Steven R. Eichten;Rena Shimizu;Katherine Petsch

  • Parallel domestication of the Shattering1 genes in cereals

    Zhongwei Lin;Xianran Li;Laura M. Shannon;Cheng Ting Yeh

  • Progress Toward Understanding Heterosis in Crop Plants

    Patrick S. Schnable;Nathan M. Springer

  • All possible modes of gene action are observed in a global comparison of gene expression in a maize F1 hybrid and its inbred parents

    Ruth A. Swanson-Wagner;Yi Jia;Rhonda DeCook;Lisa A. Borsuk

  • Gene discovery and annotation using LCM-454 transcriptome sequencing

    Scott J. Emrich;W. Brad Barbazuk;Li Li;Patrick S. Schnable

  • Extensive intraspecific gene order and gene structural variations between Mo17 and other maize genomes.

    Silong Sun;Yingsi Zhou;Jian Chen;Junpeng Shi

  • Gene mapping via bulked segregant RNA-Seq (BSR-Seq).

    Sanzhen Liu;Cheng-Ting Yeh;Ho Man Tang;Dan Nettleton

  • ALLMAPS: robust scaffold ordering based on multiple maps

    Haibao Tang;Haibao Tang;Xingtan Zhang;Chenyong Miao;Jisen Zhang

  • Mitochondrial Aldehyde Dehydrogenase Activity Is Required for Male Fertility in Maize

    Feng Liu;Xiangqin Cui;Harry T. Horner;Henry Weiner

  • The ALDH gene superfamily of Arabidopsis

    Hans-Hubert Kirch;Dorothea Bartels;Yanling Wei;Patrick S. Schnable

  • Crop genome sequencing: lessons and rationales

    Catherine Feuillet;Jan E. Leach;Jane Rogers;Patrick S. Schnable

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Nettleton
Dan Nettleton Iowa State University
Michael J. Scanlon
Michael J. Scanlon Cornell University
Nathan M. Springer
Nathan M. Springer University of Minnesota
Basil J. Nikolau
Basil J. Nikolau Iowa State University
Marja C.P. Timmermans
Marja C.P. Timmermans University of Tübingen
Jianming Yu
Jianming Yu Iowa State University
Srinivas Aluru
Srinivas Aluru Georgia Institute of Technology
Frank Hochholdinger
Frank Hochholdinger University of Bonn
Gary J. Muehlbauer
Gary J. Muehlbauer University of Minnesota
Shawn M. Kaeppler
Shawn M. Kaeppler University of Wisconsin–Madison

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