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Plant Science and Agronomy
USA
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
110
Citations
98654
World Ranking
91
National Ranking
29

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  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award

Overview

Ron Mittler is a researcher primarily affiliated with the University of Missouri in the United States. Their academic work spans several interconnected fields including Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a focus on Plant Science and Molecular Biology as dominant subfields.

Their research addresses multiple main topics such as:

  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant responses to water stress
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Plant responses to elevated CO2
  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Plant Parasitism and Resistance

Mittler has published extensively in a range of journals. Their most frequent publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
  • The Plant Journal
  • Trends in Plant Science
  • New Phytologist

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Reactive oxygen species signalling in plant stress responses," 2022, published in Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology
  • "Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Pollution: Recipe for a Multifactorial Stress Combination Disaster," 2021, Trends in Plant Science
  • "Developing climate-resilient crops: improving plant tolerance to stress combination," 2021, The Plant Journal
  • "Meta-analysis of drought and heat stress combination impact on crop yield and yield components," 2020, Physiologia Plantarum
  • "Systemic signaling during abiotic stress combination in plants," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Mittler frequently collaborates with a group of co-authors, notably including:

  • Sara I. Zandalinas
  • Yosef Fichman
  • Felix Fritschi
  • María Ángeles Peláez-Vico
  • Ranjita Sinha

Best Publications

  • Oxidative stress, antioxidants and stress tolerance

    Ron Mittler

  • Reactive oxygen gene network of plants

    Ron Mittler;Sandy Vanderauwera;Martin Gollery;Frank Van Breusegem

  • Reactive oxygen species homeostasis and signalling during drought and salinity stresses

    Gad Miller;Nobuhiro Suzuki;Sultan Ciftci-Yilmaz;Ron Mittler;Ron Mittler

  • Abiotic stress, the field environment and stress combination

    Ron Mittler

  • ROS Are Good.

    Ron Mittler

  • Signals from Chloroplasts Converge to Regulate Nuclear Gene Expression

    Shai Koussevitzky;Ajit Nott;Todd C. Mockler;Fangxin Hong

  • ROS signaling: the new wave?

    Ron Mittler;Ron Mittler;Sandy Vanderauwera;Nobuhiro Suzuki;Gad Miller

  • Reactive oxygen species, abiotic stress and stress combination.

    Feroza K. Choudhury;Rosa M. Rivero;Eduardo Blumwald;Ron Mittler

  • Reactive oxygen species signalling in plant stress responses

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  • Abiotic and biotic stress combinations

    Nobuhiro Suzuki;Rosa M. Rivero;Vladimir Shulaev;Eduardo Blumwald

  • ROS as key players in plant stress signalling

    Aaron Baxter;Ron Mittler;Nobuhiro Suzuki

  • When Defense Pathways Collide. The Response of Arabidopsis to a Combination of Drought and Heat Stress

    Ludmila Rizhsky;Hongjian Liang;Joel Shuman;Vladimir Shulaev

  • ROS and redox signalling in the response of plants to abiotic stress

    Nobuhiro Suzuki;Shai Koussevitzky;Ron Mittler;Ron Mittler;Gad Miller

  • Reactive oxygen species and temperature stresses: A delicate balance between signaling and destruction

    Nobuhiro Suzuki;Ron Mittler

  • The genome of woodland strawberry ( Fragaria vesca )

    Vladimir Shulaev;Daniel J. Sargent;Ross N. Crowhurst;Todd C. Mockler

  • Genetic Engineering for Modern Agriculture: Challenges and Perspectives

    Ron Mittler;Eduardo Blumwald

  • The plant NADPH oxidase RBOHD mediates rapid systemic signaling in response to diverse stimuli.

    Gad Miller;Karen A. Schlauch;Rachel Tam;Diego F. Cortes

  • The Combined Effect of Drought Stress and Heat Shock on Gene Expression in Tobacco

    Ludmila Rizhsky;Hongjian Liang;Ron Mittler

  • How do plants feel the heat

    Ron Mittler;Andrija Finka;Pierre Goloubinoff

  • Reactive oxygen signaling and abiotic stress.

    Gad Miller;Vladimir Shulaev;Ron Mittler;Ron Mittler

  • Cytosolic ascorbate peroxidase 1 is a central component of the reactive oxygen gene network of Arabidopsis.

    Sholpan Davletova;Ludmila Rizhsky;Hongjian Liang;Zong Shengqiang

Frequent Co-Authors

Vladimir Shulaev
Vladimir Shulaev University of North Texas
Sara I. Zandalinas
Sara I. Zandalinas Jaume I University
José N. Onuchic
José N. Onuchic Rice University
Eric Lam
Eric Lam Sun Yat-sen University
Jeffrey F. Harper
Jeffrey F. Harper University of Nevada Reno
John C. Cushman
John C. Cushman University of Nevada Reno
Eduardo Blumwald
Eduardo Blumwald University of California, Davis
Rosa M. Rivero
Rosa M. Rivero Spanish National Research Council
Aaron Kaplan
Aaron Kaplan Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Shimon Rachmilevitch
Shimon Rachmilevitch Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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