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Steven P. Briggs 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 Steven P. Briggs sits on this spectrum.

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45 publications 703+

This scientist: 161 publications — 35th percentile

35% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steven P. Briggs 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 Steven P. Briggs sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 160+

This scientist: 69 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Steven P. Briggs is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego, United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these disciplines, their work is concentrated on Plant Science, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Biotechnology, and Pharmacology.

The scientist's research topics cover a broad range of areas within plant biology and molecular studies. Key topics include:

  • Plant Molecular Biology Research
  • Photosynthetic Processes and Mechanisms
  • Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance
  • Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
  • Plant biochemistry and biosynthesis
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Plant Gene Expression Analysis

Steven P. Briggs has contributed to several scientific papers, notably:

  • Genetic elucidation of interconnected antibiotic pathways mediating maize innate immunity, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Meta Gene Regulatory Networks in Maize Highlight Functionally Relevant Regulatory Interactions, 2020, The Plant Cell
  • Dynamic regulation of Pep-induced immunity through post-translational control of defence transcript splicing, 2020, Nature Plants
  • Nitrate triggered phosphoproteome changes and a PIN2 phosphosite modulating root system architecture, 2021, EMBO Reports
  • Plant height heterosis is quantitatively associated with expression levels of plastid ribosomal proteins, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Their frequent coauthors include Zhouxin Shen, Eric A. Schmelz, Elly Poretsky, Yezhang Ding, and Philipp Weckwerth.

The publication venues where Steven P. Briggs most commonly appears are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Plants
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The Plant Cell
  • Science Advances

Best Publications

  • A draft sequence of the rice genome (Oryza sativa L. ssp indica)

    Stephen A. Goff;Darrell Ricke;Tien-Hung Lan;Gernot Presting

  • Reductase activity encoded by the HM1 disease resistance gene in maize

    Gurmukh S. Johal;Steven P. Briggs

  • Rice phosphate transporters include an evolutionarily divergent gene specifically activated in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis

    Uta Paszkowski;Scott Kroken;Christophe Roux;Steven P. Briggs

  • Analysis of a chemical plant defense mechanism in grasses

    Monika Frey;Paul Chomet;Erich Glawischnig;Cornelia Stettner

  • Shotgun identification of protein modifications from protein complexes and lens tissue

    Michael J. MacCoss;W. Hayes McDonald;Anita Saraf;Rovshan Sadygov

  • Loss of an MDR Transporter in Compact Stalks of Maize br2 and Sorghum dw3 Mutants

    Dilbag S. Multani;Steven P. Briggs;Mark A. Chamberlin;Joshua J. Blakeslee

  • Cloning and characterization of the maize An1 gene.

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

  • Processing and Subcellular Trafficking of ER-Tethered EIN2 Control Response to Ethylene Gas

    Hong Qiao;Zhouxin Shen;Shao Shan Carol Huang;Robert J. Schmitz

  • Integration of omic networks in a developmental atlas of maize.

    Justin W. Walley;Justin W. Walley;Ryan C. Sartor;Zhouxin Shen;Robert J. Schmitz

  • Comparative transcriptomics of rice reveals an ancient pattern of response to microbial colonization

    Sonia Güimil;Hur-Song Chang;Tong Zhu;Ane Sesma

  • RF1 knockout allows ribosomal incorporation of unnatural amino acids at multiple sites

    David B F Johnson;Jianfeng Xu;Zhouxin Shen;Jeffrey K Takimoto

  • Diversification of C-Function Activity in Maize Flower Development

    Montaña Mena;Barbara A. Ambrose;Robert B. Meeley;Steven P. Briggs

  • A novel suppressor of cell death in plants encoded by the Lls1 gene of maize.

    John Gray;Pam S Close;Steven P Briggs;Gurmukh S Johal

  • Discovery and revision of Arabidopsis genes by proteogenomics.

    Natalie E. Castellana;Samuel H. Payne;Zhouxin Shen;Mario Stanke

  • Direct identification of the Meloidogyne incognita secretome reveals proteins with host cell reprogramming potential.

    Stéphane Bellafiore;Zhouxin Shen;Marie-Noelle Rosso;Pierre Abad

  • A Porphyrin Pathway Impairment Is Responsible for the Phenotype of a Dominant Disease Lesion Mimic Mutant of Maize

    Gongshe Hu;Nasser Yalpani;Steven P. Briggs;Gurmukh S. Johal

  • Clustering Millions of Tandem Mass Spectra

    Ari M. Frank;Nuno Bandeira;Zhouxin Shen;Stephen Tanner

  • ELYS is a dual nucleoporin/kinetochore protein required for nuclear pore assembly and proper cell division

    Beth A. Rasala;Arturo V. Orjalo;Zhouxin Shen;Steven Briggs

  • Robust Expression and Secretion of Xylanase1 in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii by Fusion to a Selection Gene and Processing with the FMDV 2A Peptide

    Beth A. Rasala;Philip A. Lee;Zhouxin Shen;Steven P. Briggs

  • Plant elicitor peptides are conserved signals regulating direct and indirect antiherbivore defense

    Alisa Huffaker;Gregory Pearce;Nathalie Veyrat;Matthias Erb

Frequent Co-Authors

Zhouxin Shen
Zhouxin Shen University of California, San Diego
Jane Glazebrook
Jane Glazebrook University of Minnesota
Thomas J. Kipps
Thomas J. Kipps University of California, San Diego
Tong Zhu
Tong Zhu Research Triangle Park Foundation
Fumiaki Katagiri
Fumiaki Katagiri University of Minnesota
Robert B. Meeley
Robert B. Meeley Pioneer Hi-Bred
Richard A. Firtel
Richard A. Firtel University of California, San Diego
Laura Z. Rassenti
Laura Z. Rassenti University of California, San Diego
Joseph R. Ecker
Joseph R. Ecker Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Nicholas J. Provart
Nicholas J. Provart University of Toronto

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