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Plant Science and Agronomy
Australia
2023

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
93
Citations
69457
World Ranking
222
National Ranking
21

Rana Munns 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 Rana Munns 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.

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

Rana Munns 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 Rana Munns sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 93 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

  • 2023 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in Australia Leader Award
  • 2014 - Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Genetics

Rana Munns mainly investigates Salinity, Botany, Agronomy, Poaceae and Soil salinity. Her study in Salinity is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Photosynthesis, Ecophysiology, Hordeum vulgare, Agriculture and Horticulture. Her research integrates issues of Osmotic shock and Osmoregulation in her study of Botany.

Her Agronomy research includes elements of Halophyte, Chlorophyll and Triticeae. Rana Munns usually deals with Poaceae and limits it to topics linked to Genetic variation and Transpiration and Plant breeding. Her Shoot study incorporates themes from Xylem and Triticum turgidum.

Her most cited work include:

  • Mechanisms of salinity tolerance (6599 citations)
  • Comparative physiology of salt and water stress (4384 citations)
  • Mechanisms of salt tolerance in nonhalophytes. (3468 citations)

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

Rana Munns focuses on Salinity, Botany, Agronomy, Horticulture and Shoot. She works in the field of Salinity, namely Soil salinity. Rana Munns has researched Botany in several fields, including Gene and Locus.

Rana Munns has included themes like Agriculture, Soil water and Plant physiology in her Agronomy study. The Horticulture study combines topics in areas such as Plant nutrition and Carbohydrate. Her Shoot research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Biophysics, Nutrient and Vacuole.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Salinity (61.85%)
  • Botany (47.98%)
  • Agronomy (35.84%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2009-2021)?

  • Salinity (61.85%)
  • Soil salinity (23.70%)
  • Botany (47.98%)

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

Rana Munns mostly deals with Salinity, Soil salinity, Botany, Agronomy and Horticulture. The study incorporates disciplines such as Photosynthesis, Stomatal conductance, Cultivar, Crop and Crop yield in addition to Salinity. She studies Shoot, a branch of Botany.

Her Shoot research includes themes of Biophysics, Xylem and Germination. Rana Munns interconnects Mediterranean climate and Nutrient in the investigation of issues within Agronomy. Her research investigates the connection between Horticulture and topics such as Chloroplast that intersect with problems in Ion homeostasis.

Between 2009 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na + transporter gene (456 citations)
  • Wheat grain yield on saline soils is improved by an ancestral Na + transporter gene (456 citations)
  • Salinity tolerance of crops – what is the cost? (416 citations)

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

  • Gene
  • Botany
  • Genetics

Salinity, Soil salinity, Botany, Ecology and Agronomy are her primary areas of study. In her research, Rana Munns performs multidisciplinary study on Salinity and Chloridometer. Her research in Soil salinity intersects with topics in Wheat grain, Osmotic shock, Horticulture, Osmosis and Salt Tolerant Plants.

Her Botany study combines topics in areas such as Carrier protein, Gene, Locus and Transporter gene. Her work deals with themes such as Shoot and Leaf blade, which intersect with Gene. Her Agronomy research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Agricultural land, Drainage and Stomatal conductance.

Best Publications

  • Mechanisms of salinity tolerance

    Rana Munns;Mark Tester

  • Comparative physiology of salt and water stress

    Rana Munns

  • Mechanisms of salt tolerance in nonhalophytes.

    H Greenway;Rana Munns

  • Genes and salt tolerance: bringing them together.

    Rana Munns

  • Approaches to increasing the salt tolerance of wheat and other cereals

    Rana Munns;Richard A. James;André Läuchli

  • Physiological processes limiting plant growth in saline soils: some dogmas and hypotheses

    Rana Munns

  • Whole-plant responses to salinity

    Rana Munns;A Termaat

  • Salinity tolerance of crops – what is the cost?

    Rana Munns;Rana Munns;Matthew Gilliham

  • Screening methods for salinity tolerance: a case study with tetraploid wheat

    Rana Munns;Richard A. James

  • 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

  • Sodium chloride toxicity and the cellular basis of salt tolerance in halophytes

    Timothy J. Flowers;Rana Munns;Timothy D. Colmer

  • Use of wild relatives to improve salt tolerance in wheat

    Timothy D. Colmer;Timothy J. Flowers;Rana Munns

  • Avenues for increasing salt tolerance of crops, and the role of physiologically based selection traits

    Rana Munns;Shazia Husain;Anna Rita Rivelli;Richard A. James

  • The significance of a two-phase growth response to salinity in wheat and barley

    Rana Munns;DP Schachtman;AG Condon

  • Using membrane transporters to improve crops for sustainable food production

    Julian I. Schroeder;Emmanuel Delhaize;Wolf B. Frommer;Mary Lou Guerinot

  • Soil water status affects the stomatal conductance of fully turgid wheat and sunflower leaves

    Thomas Gollan;John B. Passioura;Rana Munns

  • Major genes for Na+ exclusion, Nax1 and Nax2 (wheat HKT1;4 and HKT1;5), decrease Na+ accumulation in bread wheat leaves under saline and waterlogged conditions

    Richard A. James;Carol Blake;Caitlin S. Byrt;Rana Munns;Rana Munns

  • New phenotyping methods for screening wheat and barley for beneficial responses to water deficit

    Rana Munns;Richard A. James;Xavier R. R. Sirault;Robert T. Furbank

  • 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

  • Physiological Characterization of Two Genes for Na+ Exclusion in Durum Wheat, Nax1 and Nax2

    Richard A. James;Romola J. Davenport;Rana Munns

  • Control of Sodium Transport in Durum Wheat

    Romola Davenport;Richard A. James;Anna Zakrisson-Plogander;Mark Tester

  • Handbook of plant and crop stress: Mohammad Pessarakli (Editor). Marcel Dekker, Inc., New York, 1993. Hardback, IBSN 0-8247-8987-3, 720 pp., US$150.00

    Rana Munns

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard A. James
Richard A. James Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Timothy D. Colmer
Timothy D. Colmer University of Western Australia
John B. Passioura
John B. Passioura Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Wolfgang Spielmeyer
Wolfgang Spielmeyer Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Mark Tester
Mark Tester King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Matthew Gilliham
Matthew Gilliham University of Adelaide
Evans Lagudah
Evans Lagudah Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Timothy J. Flowers
Timothy J. Flowers University of Sussex
Sergey Shabala
Sergey Shabala University of Western Australia
Stephen D. Tyerman
Stephen D. Tyerman University of Adelaide

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