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Plant Science and Agronomy
UK
2025

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Plant Science and Agronomy

D-Index
102
Citations
35664
World Ranking
147
National Ranking
17

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Plant Science and Agronomy in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 2011 - Martin and Ruth Massengale Lectureship, American Society of Agronomy

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Agriculture

Abscisic acid, Botany, Xylem, Agronomy and Shoot are his primary areas of study. The study incorporates disciplines such as Plant hormone, Soil water, Turgor pressure, Stomatal conductance and Water content in addition to Abscisic acid. William J. Davies has included themes like Biophysics and Rhizosphere in his Botany study.

His Xylem research includes themes of Helianthus annuus, Lycopersicon, Savia and Apoplast. His study in Shoot is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Phloem, Transpiration stream, Cytokinin and Crop. His Poaceae research focuses on Soil drying and how it connects with Soil compaction.

His most cited work include:

  • Root Signals and the Regulation of Growth and Development of Plants in Drying Soil (945 citations)
  • ABA‐based chemical signalling: the co‐ordination of responses to stress in plants (749 citations)
  • Drought, ozone, ABA and ethylene: new insights from cell to plant to community. (486 citations)

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

His primary areas of investigation include Botany, Abscisic acid, Agronomy, Xylem and Shoot. His work focuses on many connections between Botany and other disciplines, such as Horticulture, that overlap with his field of interest in Woody plant. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Plant hormone, Helianthus annuus, Poaceae, Cytokinin and Epidermis.

William J. Davies regularly ties together related areas like Soil water in his Agronomy studies. The concepts of his Xylem study are interwoven with issues in Apoplast, Savia and Stomatal conductance. His Shoot study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Transpiration stream and Soil drying.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (35.28%)
  • Abscisic acid (29.45%)
  • Agronomy (23.93%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2015-2021)?

  • Perception (10.74%)
  • Agronomy (23.93%)
  • Soundscape (8.59%)

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

William J. Davies focuses on Perception, Agronomy, Soundscape, Agriculture and Speech recognition. His Agronomy study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Pollution and Transpiration. He focuses mostly in the field of Transpiration, narrowing it down to topics relating to Water content and, in certain cases, Abscisic acid.

His Soil phosphorus research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Rhizosphere and Shoot. His study explores the link between Shoot and topics such as Signalling pathways that cross with problems in Horticulture. His DNS root zone course of study focuses on Arid and Botany.

Between 2015 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Ozone pollution will compromise efforts to increase global wheat production. (76 citations)
  • Increased soil phosphorus availability induced by faba bean root exudation stimulates root growth and phosphorus uptake in neighbouring maize (64 citations)
  • Phenotypic and genome-wide association analysis of spike ethylene in diverse wheat genotypes under heat stress. (48 citations)

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

  • Botany
  • Ecology
  • Agriculture

William J. Davies mainly investigates Agronomy, Food security, Irrigation, Botany and Agriculture. His work carried out in the field of Agronomy brings together such families of science as Rhizosphere, Nutrient and Xylem. In his work, Shoot is strongly intertwined with Root system, which is a subfield of Rhizosphere.

In his research, Abscisic acid is intimately related to Hormone, which falls under the overarching field of Shoot. His study focuses on the intersection of Xylem and fields such as Soil water with connections in the field of Transpiration. William J. Davies combines subjects such as SNP, Genetics, Genotyping and Horticulture with his study of Botany.

Best Publications

  • Root Signals and the Regulation of Growth and Development of Plants in Drying Soil

    W. J. Davies;Jianhua Zhang

  • ABA-based chemical signalling: the co-ordination of responses to stress in plants

    S. Wilkinson;William J. Davies

  • Drought, ozone, ABA and ethylene: new insights from cell to plant to community.

    Sally Wilkinson;William J Davies

  • Improving water use in crop production

    J.I.L Morison;N.R Baker;P.M Mullineaux;W.J Davies

  • Improving crop productivity and resource use efficiency to ensure food security and environmental quality in China

    Mingsheng Fan;Jianbo Shen;Lixing Yuan;Rongfeng Jiang

  • Raising yield potential of wheat. III. Optimizing partitioning to grain while maintaining lodging resistance

    M. John Foulkes;Gustavo A. Slafer;William J. Davies;Pete. M. Berry

  • Stomatal control by chemical signalling and the exploitation of this mechanism to increase water use efficiency in agriculture

    William J. Davies;Sally Wilkinson;Brian Loveys

  • Integration of hydraulic and chemical signalling in the control of stomatal conductance and water status of droughted plants

    F. Tardieu;W. J. Davies

  • Root to Shoot Communication in Maize Plants of the Effects of Soil Drying

    P. G. Blackman;W. J. Davies

  • Solute regulation and growth by roots and shoots of water-stressed maize plants.

    R. E. Sharp;W. J. Davies

  • Abscisic acid produced in dehydrating roots may enable the plant to measure the water status of the soil

    Jianhua Zhang;W. J. Davies

  • A Positive Root-sourced Signal as an Indicator of Soil Drying in Apple, Malus x domestica Borkh.

    D J G Gowing;W J Davies;H G Jones

  • Changes in the concentration of ABA in xylem sap as a function of changing soil water status can account for changes in leaf conductance and growth

    Jianhua Zhang;W. J. Davies

  • Plant species and nitrogen effects on soil biological properties of temperate upland grasslands

    R. D. Bardgett;J. L. Mawdsley;S. Edwards;P. J. Hobbs

  • Rhizosphere bacteria containing 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylate deaminase increase yield of plants grown in drying soil via both local and systemic hormone signalling

    Andrey A. Belimov;Ian C. Dodd;Nikos Hontzeas;Julian C. Theobald

  • Control of Stomatal Behaviour by Abscisic Acid which Apparently Originates in the Roots

    Jianhua Zhang;U. Schurr;W. J. Davies

  • Long-distance ABA Signaling and Its Relation to Other Signaling Pathways in the Detection of Soil Drying and the Mediation of the Plant’s Response to Drought

    William J. Davies;Guzel Kudoyarova;Wolfram Hartung

  • Xylem Sap pH Increase: A Drought Signal Received at the Apoplastic Face of the Guard Cell That Involves the Suppression of Saturable Abscisic Acid Uptake by the Epidermal Symplast

    S. Wilkinson;W. J. Davies

  • Assessing shifts in microbial community structure across a range of grasslands of differing management intensity using CLPP, PLFA and community DNA techniques

    S.J Grayston;C.D Campbell;R.D Bardgett;J.L Mawdsley

  • How Do Chemical Signals Work in Plants that Grow in Drying Soil

    W. J. Davies;F. Tardieu;C. L. Trejo

  • Plant hormone interactions: innovative targets for crop breeding and management

    Sally Wilkinson;Guzel R. Kudoyarova;Dmitry S. Veselov;Tatyana N. Arkhipova

  • Root Growth and Water Uptake by Maize Plants in Drying Soil

    R. E. Sharp;W. J. Davies

  • Abscisic acid : physiology and biochemistry

    W. J. Davies;Hamlyn G. Jones

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian C. Dodd
Ian C. Dodd Lancaster University
Jianhua Zhang
Jianhua Zhang Hong Kong Baptist University
Gail Taylor
Gail Taylor University College London
Gina Mills
Gina Mills University of Gothenburg
Christopher J. Plack
Christopher J. Plack Lancaster University
Jianbo Shen
Jianbo Shen China Agricultural University
Fusuo Zhang
Fusuo Zhang China Agricultural University
François Tardieu
François Tardieu INRAE : Institut national de recherche pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement
Wolfram Hartung
Wolfram Hartung University of Würzburg
Matthew P. Reynolds
Matthew P. Reynolds International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center

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