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D-Index
43
Citations
7028
World Ranking
3229
National Ranking
812

Paxton Payton 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 Paxton Payton sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 124 publications — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paxton Payton 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 Paxton Payton sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • Transcriptome and selected metabolite analyses reveal multiple points of ethylene control during tomato fruit development.

    Rob Alba;Paxton Payton;Zhanjun Fei;Ryan McQuinn

  • Rhizobacterial volatile emissions regulate auxin homeostasis and cell expansion in Arabidopsis.

    Huiming Zhang;Mi-Seong Kim;Venkat Krishnamachari;Paxton Payton

  • Expression of an Arabidopsis vacuolar H+-pyrophosphatase gene (AVP1) in cotton improves drought- and salt tolerance and increases fibre yield in the field conditions.

    Vijaya Pasapula;Guoxin Shen;Sundaram Kuppu;Julio Paez-Valencia

  • ESTs, cDNA microarrays, and gene expression profiling: tools for dissecting plant physiology and development.

    Rob Alba;Zhangjun Fei;Paxton Payton;Yang Liu

  • Regulated expression of an isopentenyltransferase gene (IPT) in peanut significantly improves drought tolerance and increases yield under field conditions.

    Hua Qin;Qiang Gu;Junling Zhang;Li Sun

  • Use of genomics tools to isolate key ripening genes and analyse fruit maturation in tomato

    Shanna Moore;Julia Vrebalov;Paxton Payton;Jim Giovannoni

  • 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

  • A global assembly of cotton ESTs.

    Joshua A. Udall;Jordan M. Swanson;Karl Haller;Ryan A. Rapp

  • Protecting cotton photosynthesis during moderate chilling at high light intensity by increasing chloroplastic antioxidant enzyme activity

    Paxton Payton;Robert Webb;Dmytro Kornyeyev;Randy Allen

  • Physiology and proteomics of the water‐deficit stress response in three contrasting peanut genotypes

    Kameswara Rao Kottapalli;Randeep Rakwal;Randeep Rakwal;Junko Shibato;Gloria Burow

  • Developmental and gene expression analyses of a cotton naked seed mutant.

    Jinsuk J. Lee;Osama S. S. Hassan;Wenxilang Gao;Wenxilang Gao;Ning E. Wei

  • Water-deficit inducible expression of a cytokinin biosynthetic gene IPT improves drought tolerance in cotton.

    Sundaram Kuppu;Neelam Mishra;Rongbin Hu;Li Sun

  • Related to ABA‐Insensitive3(ABI3)/Viviparous1 and AtABI5 transcription factor coexpression in cotton enhances drought stress adaptation

    Amandeep Mittal;Srinivas S. L. Gampala;Glen L. Ritchie;Paxton Payton

  • Utilization of tomato microarrays for comparative gene expression analysis in the Solanaceae

    Shanna Moore;Paxton Payton;Mark Wright;Steven Tanksley

  • Overexpression of the Rice SUMO E3 Ligase Gene OsSIZ1 in Cotton Enhances Drought and Heat Tolerance, and Substantially Improves Fiber Yields in the Field under Reduced Irrigation and Rainfed Conditions.

    Neelam Mishra;Li Sun;Xunlu Zhu;Jennifer Smith

  • Over-expression of chloroplast-targeted Mn superoxide dismutase in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L., cv. Coker 312) does not alter the reduction of photosynthesis after short exposures to low temperature and high light intensity

    Paxton Payton;Randy D. Allen;Norma Trolinder;A. Scott Holaday

  • Expression of an Arabidopsis sodium/proton antiporter gene (AtNHX1) in peanut to improve salt tolerance

    Manoj Banjara;Longfu Zhu;Guoxin Shen;Paxton Payton

  • Ectopic expression of two AREB/ABF orthologs increases drought tolerance in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum).

    Tyson C. C. Kerr;Haggag Abdel‐Mageed;Haggag Abdel‐Mageed;Lorenzo Aleman;Joohyun Lee

  • Elevated chloroplastic glutathione reductase activities decrease chilling-induced photoinhibition by increasing rates of photochemistry, but not thermal energy dissipation, in transgenic cotton

    Dmytro Kornyeyev;Barry A Logan;Paxton R Payton;Randy D Allen

  • Utilizing intraspecific variation in phenotypic plasticity to bolster agricultural and forest productivity under climate change

    Michael J. Aspinwall;Michael E. Loik;Victor Resco De Dios;Mark G. Tjoelker

  • Co-overexpression of AVP1 and AtNHX1 in Cotton Further Improves Drought and Salt Tolerance in Transgenic Cotton Plants

    Guoxin Shen;Jia Wei;Xiaoyun Qiu;Rongbin Hu

  • Using Leaf Gas Exchange to Quantify Drought in Cotton Irrigated Based on Canopy Temperature Measurements

    J. T. Baker;D. C. Gitz;P. Payton;D. F. Wanjura

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark D. Burow
Mark D. Burow Texas A&M University
David T. Tissue
David T. Tissue Western Sydney University
Randy D. Allen
Randy D. Allen Oklahoma State University
Guoxin Shen
Guoxin Shen Texas Tech University
Michael P. Bange
Michael P. Bange Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
John J. Burke
John J. Burke Agricultural Research Service
James J. Giovannoni
James J. Giovannoni Boyce Thompson Institute
Zhanguo Xin
Zhanguo Xin US Department of Agriculture
Melvin J. Oliver
Melvin J. Oliver University of Missouri
Randeep Rakwal
Randeep Rakwal University of Tsukuba

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