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Plant Science and Agronomy
USA
2026

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Plant Science and Agronomy

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92
Citations
28562
World Ranking
251
National Ranking
91

Ecology and Evolution

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92
Citations
28297
World Ranking
429
National Ranking
158

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United States Leader Award
  • 2018 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Susanne S. Renner is affiliated with Washington University in St. Louis in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology.

Their main subfields of study include:

  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Molecular Biology
  • Plant Science
  • Genetics
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Renner's work focuses on several key topics, including:

  • Plant and animal studies
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Plant Diversity and Evolution
  • Plant Reproductive Biology
  • Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
  • Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies

Among recent publications, notable papers include:

  • Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees (2020) published in Science
  • Integrated global assessment of the natural forest carbon potential (2023) published in Nature
  • Late-spring frost risk between 1959 and 2017 decreased in North America but increased in Europe and Asia (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • iTaxoTools 0.1: Kickstarting a specimen-based software toolkit for taxonomists (2021) published in Megataxa
  • The Evolution of Mutualistic Dependence (2020) published in Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Frequent collaborators of Renner include:

  • Constantin M. Zohner
  • Guillaume Chomicki
  • Thomas W. Crowther
  • Oscar A. Pérez-Escobar
  • Lidong Mo

Renner regularly publishes in venues such as:

  • Taxon
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Science
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Molecular Biology and Evolution

In 2018, Susanne S. Renner was recognized as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Best Publications

  • Dioecy and its correlates in the flowering plants

    Susanne S. Renner;Susanne S. Renner;Robert E. Ricklefs;Robert E. Ricklefs

  • The relative and absolute frequencies of angiosperm sexual systems: Dioecy, monoecy, gynodioecy, and an updated online database

    Susanne S. Renner

  • Climate Change and Phenological Mismatch in Trophic Interactions Among Plants, Insects, and Vertebrates

    Susanne S. Renner;Constantin M. Zohner

  • Phylogeny and Historical Biogeography of Lauraceae: Evidence from the Chloroplast and Nuclear Genomes

    Andre S Chanderbali;Henk Van Der Werff;Susanne S Renner

  • A genomic variation map provides insights into the genetic basis of cucumber domestication and diversity

    Jianjian Qi;Xin Liu;Di Shen;Han Miao

  • Sex Chromosomes in Land Plants

    Ray Ming;Abdelhafid Bendahmane;Abdelhafid Bendahmane;Susanne S. Renner

  • Cucumber (Cucumis sativus) and melon (C. melo) have numerous wild relatives in Asia and Australia, and the sister species of melon is from Australia

    Patrizia Sebastian;Hanno Schaefer;Ian R. H. Telford;Susanne S. Renner

  • Phylogeny and classification of the Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae

    Susanne S. Renner

  • Plant Dispersal across the Tropical Atlantic by Wind and Sea Currents

    Susanne S. Renner

  • Molecular phylogenetics of Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae: implications for character evolution.

    G. Clausing;S. S. Renner

  • Phylogenetic relationships in the order Cucurbitales and a new classification of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae)

    Hanno Schaefer;Susanne S. Renner

  • Gourds afloat: a dated phylogeny reveals an Asian origin of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae) and numerous oversea dispersal events.

    Hanno Schaefer;Christoph Heibl;Susanne S Renner

  • Increased growing-season productivity drives earlier autumn leaf senescence in temperate trees.

    Deborah Zani;Thomas W. Crowther;Lidong Mo;Susanne S. Renner

  • A survey of reproductive biology in neotropical Melastomataceae and Memecylaceae

    Susanne S. Renner

  • Mechanisms of Functional and Physical Genome Reduction in Photosynthetic and Nonphotosynthetic Parasitic Plants of the Broomrape Family

    Susann Wicke;Kai F. Müller;Claude W. de Pamphilis;Dietmar Quandt

  • Photoperiodic induction of synchronous flowering near the Equator

    Rolf Borchert;Susanne S. Renner;Zoraida Calle;Diego Navarrete

  • Relaxed molecular clocks for dating historical plant dispersal events.

    Susanne S. Renner

  • Distribution of living Cupressaceae reflects the breakup of Pangea.

    Kangshan Mao;Richard I. Milne;Libing Zhang;Libing Zhang;Yanling Peng

  • Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae): Cucumber (C. sativus) belongs in an Asian/Australian clade far from melon (C. melo)

    Susanne S Renner;Hanno Schaefer;Alexander Kocyan

  • Historical biogeography of Melastomataceae: the roles of Tertiary migration and long-distance dispersal.

    S. S. Renner;G. Clausing;K. Meyer

  • Pollination Ecology ‐ A Practical Approach

    Susanne S. Renner

  • Diversity and evolutionary biology of tropical flowers: by Peter K. Endress Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Tropical Biology Series, 1994. £55.00 hbk (xiv + 511 pages) ISBN 0 521 420881

    Susanne S. Renner

Frequent Co-Authors

Hanno Schaefer
Hanno Schaefer Technical University of Munich
Robert E. Ricklefs
Robert E. Ricklefs University of Missouri–St. Louis
Guido W. Grimm
Guido W. Grimm University of Vienna
Stefan Abrahamczyk
Stefan Abrahamczyk University of Bonn
Thomas W. Crowther
Thomas W. Crowther King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Jens-Christian Svenning
Jens-Christian Svenning Aarhus University
Abdelhafid Bendahmane
Abdelhafid Bendahmane University of Paris-Saclay
Gerald M. Schneeweiss
Gerald M. Schneeweiss University of Vienna
Jörg Fuchs
Jörg Fuchs Leibniz Association

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