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52
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Taisheng Du 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 Taisheng Du sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 181 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Taisheng Du 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 Taisheng Du sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 52 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 109 D-Index or more.

Overview

Taisheng Du is affiliated with China Agricultural University in China and has a research focus primarily within Agricultural and Biological Sciences as well as Environmental Science. Their work encompasses multiple subfields including Plant Science, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's main topics of research involve Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Irrigation Practices and Water Management, Crop Yield and Soil Fertility, Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control, Plant Stress Responses and Tolerance, Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture, and Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement.

Taisheng Du has published extensively, with a significant number of papers appearing in several prominent journals. Frequent publication venues include Agricultural Water Management, Journal of Hydrology, SSRN Electronic Journal, Environmental and Experimental Botany, and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology.

Among recent notable papers are the following:

  • Diversifying crop rotation increases food production, reduces net greenhouse gas emissions and improves soil health (2024, Nature Communications)
  • Crop evapotranspiration prediction by considering dynamic change of crop coefficient and the precipitation effect in back-propagation neural network model (2021, Journal of Hydrology)
  • Mild water and salt stress improve water use efficiency by decreasing stomatal conductance via osmotic adjustment in field maize (2021, The Science of The Total Environment)
  • Effect of drip irrigation on wheat evapotranspiration, soil evaporation and transpiration in Northwest China (2020, Agricultural Water Management)
  • Influence of plastic film mulching and planting density on yield, leaf anatomy, and root characteristics of maize on the Loess Plateau (2020, The Crop Journal)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Taisheng Du include Shaozhong Kang, Risheng Ding, Ling Tong, Manoj K. Shukla, and Shichao Chen.

Best Publications

  • Improving agricultural water productivity to ensure food security in China under changing environment: From research to practice

    Shaozhong Kang;Xinmei Hao;Taisheng Du;Ling Tong

  • Crop coefficient and ratio of transpiration to evapotranspiration of winter wheat and maize in a semi-humid region

    Shaozhong Kang;Shaozhong Kang;Binjie Gu;Taisheng Du;Jianhua Zhang

  • Deficit irrigation and sustainable water-resource strategies in agriculture for China’s food security

    Taisheng Du;Shaozhong Kang;Jianhua Zhang;William J. Davies

  • Quantitative response of greenhouse tomato yield and quality to water deficit at different growth stages

    Jinliang Chen;Shaozhong Kang;Taisheng Du;Rangjian Qiu

  • An improved water use efficiency of cereals under temporal and spatial deficit irrigation in north China

    Taisheng Du;Shaozhong Kang;Jingsheng Sun;Xiying Zhang

  • Determination of comprehensive quality index for tomato and its response to different irrigation treatments

    Feng Wang;Shaozhong Kang;Taisheng Du;Fusheng Li

  • Water use efficiency and fruit quality of table grape under alternate partial root-zone drip irrigation

    Taisheng Du;Shaozhong Kang;Jianhua Zhang;Fusheng Li

  • Regulated deficit irrigation improved fruit quality and water use efficiency of pear-jujube trees

    Ningbo Cui;Taisheng Du;Shaozhong Kang;Fusheng Li;Fusheng Li

  • Partitioning evapotranspiration into soil evaporation and transpiration using a modified dual crop coefficient model in irrigated maize field with ground-mulching

    Risheng Ding;Shaozhong Kang;Yanqun Zhang;Xinmei Hao

  • Yield and physiological responses of cotton to partial root-zone irrigation in the oasis field of northwest China

    Taisheng Du;Shaozhong Kang;Shaozhong Kang;Jianhua Zhang;Fusheng Li

  • Assessing the response of yield and comprehensive fruit quality of tomato grown in greenhouse to deficit irrigation and nitrogen application strategies

    Chenxia Wang;Feng Gu;Jinliang Chen;Hui Yang

  • Improved water use efficiency and fruit quality of greenhouse crops under regulated deficit irrigation in northwest China

    Hui Yang;Taisheng Du;Rangjian Qiu;Rangjian Qiu;Jinliang Chen

  • The impacts of human activities on the water-land environment of the Shiyang River basin, an arid region in northwest China

    Shaozhong Kang;Xiaoling Su;Ling Tong;Peize Shi

  • Water use and yield responses of cotton to alternate partial root-zone drip irrigation in the arid area of north-west China

    Taisheng Du;Shaozhong Kang;Jianhua Zhang;Fusheng Li

  • The impacts of human activities on the water–land environment of the Shiyang River basin, an arid region in northwest China / Les impacts des activités humaines sur l’environnement pédo-hydrologique du bassin de la Rivière Shiyang, une région aride du nord-ouest de la Chine

    Shaozhong Kang;Xiaoling Su;Ling Tong;Peize Shi

  • Can the drip irrigation under film mulch reduce crop evapotranspiration and save water under the sufficient irrigation condition

    Shujing Qin;Sien Li;Shaozhong Kang;Taisheng Du

  • Comparison of dual crop coefficient method and Shuttleworth–Wallace model in evapotranspiration partitioning in a vineyard of northwest China

    Peng Zhao;Sien Li;Fusheng Li;Taisheng Du

  • Evaluation of six potential evapotranspiration models for estimating crop potential and actual evapotranspiration in arid regions

    Sien Li;Shaozhong Kang;Lu Zhang;Jianhua Zhang

  • Bio-conversion of photosynthetic bacteria from non-toxic wastewater to realize wastewater treatment and bioresource recovery: A review.

    Haifeng Lu;Guangming Zhang;Ziqiao Zheng;Fan Meng

  • Plastic mulch decreases available energy and evapotranspiration and improves yield and water use efficiency in an irrigated maize cropland

    Yaqiong Fan;Risheng Ding;Shaozhong Kang;Xinmei Hao

  • Response of evapotranspiration and yield to planting density of solar greenhouse grown tomato in northwest China

    Rangjian Qiu;Rangjian Qiu;Jinjuan Song;Taisheng Du;Shaozhong Kang

  • Modeling relations of tomato yield and fruit quality with water deficit at different growth stages under greenhouse condition

    Jinliang Chen;Shaozhong Kang;Taisheng Du;Ping Guo

  • A two-dimensional model of root water uptake for single apple trees and its verification with sap flow and soil water content measurements

    Daozhi Gong;Daozhi Gong;Shaozhong Kang;Lu Zhang;Taisheng Du

Frequent Co-Authors

Shaozhong Kang
Shaozhong Kang China Agricultural University
Sien Li
Sien Li China Agricultural University
Risheng Ding
Risheng Ding China Agricultural University
Fusheng Li
Fusheng Li Guangxi University
Jianhua Zhang
Jianhua Zhang Hong Kong Baptist University
Lu Zhang
Lu Zhang Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Lixin Wang
Lixin Wang Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
Xiangnan Li
Xiangnan Li Chinese Academy of Sciences
Laosheng Wu
Laosheng Wu University of California, Riverside
William J. Davies
William J. Davies Lancaster University

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