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Plant Science and Agronomy
Korea
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
64
Citations
13582
World Ranking
995
National Ranking
8

Sang-Mo Kang 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 Sang-Mo Kang sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 221 publications — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Sang-Mo Kang 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 Sang-Mo Kang sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 85th percentile

85% 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

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

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Enzyme
  • Bacteria

Sang-Mo Kang mainly focuses on Botany, Abscisic acid, Shoot, Plant use of endophytic fungi in defense and Endophyte. His Botany study frequently draws connections between related disciplines such as Horticulture. Sang-Mo Kang has included themes like Salinity, Salicylic acid, Jasmonic acid, Abiotic stress and Auxin in his Abscisic acid study.

The Shoot study combines topics in areas such as Sclerotium and Helianthus annuus. His work deals with themes such as Plant disease resistance, Stem rot, Cultivar, Aspergillus terreus and Penicillium citrinum, which intersect with Plant use of endophytic fungi in defense. His Endophyte study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Oryza sativa and Bacteria.

His most cited work include:

  • Endophytic fungi produce gibberellins and indoleacetic acid and promotes host-plant growth during stress. (260 citations)
  • Endophytic fungal association via gibberellins and indole acetic acid can improve plant growth under abiotic stress: an example of Paecilomyces formosus LHL10 (196 citations)
  • Bacterial endophyte Sphingomonas sp. LK11 produces gibberellins and IAA and promotes tomato plant growth (176 citations)

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

His scientific interests lie mostly in Botany, Horticulture, Gibberellin, Abscisic acid and Shoot. As part of his studies on Botany, he often connects relevant subjects like Rhizobacteria. His Horticulture research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Paddy field and Weed.

His Gibberellin study which covers Phosphate that intersects with Phosphorus. He interconnects Proline, Food science, Salinity and Salicylic acid, Jasmonic acid in the investigation of issues within Abscisic acid. His Shoot research incorporates themes from Oryza sativa, Catalase, Biofertilizer and Crop.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (52.47%)
  • Horticulture (35.19%)
  • Gibberellin (30.25%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2018-2021)?

  • Abscisic acid (26.54%)
  • Horticulture (35.19%)
  • Food science (13.58%)

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

Sang-Mo Kang spends much of his time researching Abscisic acid, Horticulture, Food science, Rhizobacteria and Salicylic acid. His Abscisic acid research includes themes of Proline, Indole-3-acetic acid, Antioxidant, Gibberellic acid and Siderophore. His Horticulture study frequently draws connections to adjacent fields such as Salinity.

His work on Rhizobacteria is being expanded to include thematically relevant topics such as Shoot. His Shoot research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Phosphorus and Phosphate. He works mostly in the field of Plant growth, limiting it down to topics relating to Glutathione and, in certain cases, Botany.

Between 2018 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Indole-3-acetic-acid and ACC deaminase producing Leclercia adecarboxylata MO1 improves Solanum lycopersicum L. growth and salinity stress tolerance by endogenous secondary metabolites regulation (37 citations)
  • Alleviation of salt stress response in soybean plants with the endophytic bacterial isolate Curtobacterium sp . SAK1 (21 citations)
  • Isolation and Characterization of the High Silicate and Phosphate Solubilizing Novel Strain Enterobacter ludwigii GAK2 that Promotes Growth in Rice Plants (20 citations)

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

  • Botany
  • Enzyme
  • Bacteria

Abscisic acid, Gibberellic acid, Food science, Horticulture and Indole-3-acetic acid are his primary areas of study. He has researched Abscisic acid in several fields, including Antioxidant, Jasmonic acid, Enzyme, Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and Siderophore. The Antioxidant study combines topics in areas such as Salicylic acid, Chlorophyll and Plant physiology.

Gibberellin and Chlorophyll fluorescence are among the areas of Horticulture where the researcher is concentrating his efforts. His research in Gibberellin intersects with topics in Germination, Peroxidase, Oxidase test, Phosphate and Shoot. His work deals with themes such as Proline, Amino acid, Metabolomics and Bacteria, which intersect with Indole-3-acetic acid.

Best Publications

  • Endophytic fungi produce gibberellins and indoleacetic acid and promotes host-plant growth during stress.

    Muhammad Waqas;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Kamran;Muhammad Hamayun

  • Bacterial endophyte Sphingomonas sp. LK11 produces gibberellins and IAA and promotes tomato plant growth

    Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Waqas;Sang-Mo Kang;Ahmed Al-Harrasi

  • Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria reduce adverse effects of salinity and osmotic stress by regulating phytohormones and antioxidants in Cucumis sativus

    Sang-Mo Kang;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Waqas;Young-Hyun You

  • Gibberellin secreting rhizobacterium, Pseudomonas putida H-2-3 modulates the hormonal and stress physiology of soybean to improve the plant growth under saline and drought conditions.

    Sang-Mo Kang;Ramalingam Radhakrishnan;Abdul Latif Khan;Min-Ji Kim

  • Endophytic fungal association via gibberellins and indole acetic acid can improve plant growth under abiotic stress: an example of Paecilomyces formosus LHL10

    Abdul Latif Khan;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Hamayun;Sang-Mo Kang;Yoon-Ha Kim

  • Inoculation of abscisic acid-producing endophytic bacteria enhances salinity stress tolerance in Oryza sativa

    Raheem Shahzad;Abdul Latif Khan;Saqib Bilal;Muhammad Waqas;Muhammad Waqas

  • Bacillus aryabhattai SRB02 tolerates oxidative and nitrosative stress and promotes the growth of soybean by modulating the production of phytohormones

    Yeon-Gyeong Park;Bong-Gyu Mun;Sang-Mo Kang;Adil Hussain;Adil Hussain

  • Seed-borne endophytic Bacillus amyloliquefaciens RWL-1 produces gibberellins and regulates endogenous phytohormones of Oryza sativa

    Raheem Shahzad;Muhammad Waqas;Abdul Latif Khan;Sajjad Asaf

  • Thermotolerance effect of plant growth-promoting Bacillus cereus SA1 on soybean during heat stress

    Muhammad Aaqil Khan;Sajjad Asaf;Abdul Latif Khan;Rahmatullah Jan

  • Indole-3-acetic-acid and ACC deaminase producing Leclercia adecarboxylata MO1 improves Solanum lycopersicum L. growth and salinity stress tolerance by endogenous secondary metabolites regulation

    Sang-Mo Kang;Raheem Shahzad;Saqib Bilal;Abdul Latif Khan

  • Gibberellin production and phosphate solubilization by newly isolated strain of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus and its effect on plant growth.

    Sang-Mo Kang;Gil-Jae Joo;Muhammad Hamayun;Chae-In Na

  • Exogenous melatonin induces drought stress tolerance by promoting plant growth and antioxidant defence system of soybean plants.

    Muhammad Imran;Abdul Latif Khan;Raheem Shahzad;Muhammad Aaqil Khan

  • Gibberellins producing endophytic Aspergillus fumigatus sp. LH02 influenced endogenous phytohormonal levels, isoflavonoids production and plant growth in salinity stress

    Abdul Latif Khan;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Hamayun;Yoon-Ha Kim;Sang-Mo Kang

  • Endophytic fungi promote plant growth and mitigate the adverse effects of stem rot: an example of Penicillium citrinum and Aspergillus terreus

    Muhammad Waqas;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Hamayun;Raheem Shahzad

  • Cladosporium sphaerospermum as a new plant growth-promoting endophyte from the roots of Glycine max (L.) Merr.

    Muhammad Hamayun;Sumera Afzal Khan;Nadeem Ahmad;Dong-Sheng Tang

  • Ameliorative symbiosis of endophyte (Penicillium funiculosum LHL06) under salt stress elevated plant growth of Glycine max L.

    Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Hamayun;Yoon-Ha Kim;Sang-Mo Kang

  • Pure culture of Metarhizium anisopliae LHL07 reprograms soybean to higher growth and mitigates salt stress

    Abdul Latif Khan;Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Hamayun;Sumera Afzal Khan;Sang-Mo Kang

  • Complete Chloroplast Genome of Nicotiana otophora and its Comparison with Related Species.

    Sajjad Asaf;Abdul L. Khan;Abdur R. Khan;Muhammad Waqas;Muhammad Waqas

  • Phosphate Solubilizing Bacillus megaterium mj1212 Regulates Endogenous Plant Carbohydrates and Amino Acids Contents to Promote Mustard Plant Growth

    Sang-Mo Kang;Ramalingam Radhakrishnan;Young-Hyun You;Gil-Jae Joo

  • Plant growth-promoting endophyte Sphingomonas sp. LK11 alleviates salinity stress in Solanum pimpinellifolium.

    Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Waqas;Muhammad Waqas;Sajjad Asaf;Muhammad Kamran

  • Salinity stress resistance offered by endophytic fungal interaction between Penicillium minioluteum LHL09 and glycine max. L.

    Abdul Latif Khan;Muhammad Hamayun;Nadeem Ahmad;Javid Hussain

Frequent Co-Authors

In-Jung Lee
In-Jung Lee Kyungpook National University
Abdul Latif Khan
Abdul Latif Khan University of Houston
Muhammad Hamayun
Muhammad Hamayun Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Sajjad Asaf
Sajjad Asaf University of Nizwa
Raheem Shahzad
Raheem Shahzad University of Haripur
Muhammad Aaqil Khan
Muhammad Aaqil Khan Henan University
Ramalingam Radhakrishnan
Ramalingam Radhakrishnan Jamal Mohamed College
Sumera Afzal Khan
Sumera Afzal Khan University of Peshawar
Anwar Hussain
Anwar Hussain Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan
Zabta Khan Shinwari
Zabta Khan Shinwari Quaid-i-Azam University

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