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D-Index
43
Citations
8020
World Ranking
3184
National Ranking
117

Xiaonan Xie 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 Xiaonan Xie sits on this spectrum.

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36 publications 467+

This scientist: 92 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Xiaonan Xie 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 Xiaonan Xie sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 109+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Botany
  • Gene
  • Enzyme

Xiaonan Xie mainly focuses on Strigolactone, Botany, Mutant, Orobanche and Nitrogen deficiency. His Strigolactone research includes themes of Rhizosphere, Shoot, Orobanchaceae and Physcomitrella patens. The Rhizosphere study combines topics in areas such as Plant hormone, Red Clover, Parasitic plant, Solanaceae and Glomeromycota.

His Botany research is mostly focused on the topic Germination. His Mutant study combines topics in areas such as Monooxygenase and Biosynthesis, Enzyme. His work deals with themes such as Striga hermonthica, Striga and Mycorrhiza, which intersect with Orobanche.

His most cited work include:

  • The Strigolactone Story (477 citations)
  • Nitrogen deficiency as well as phosphorus deficiency in sorghum promotes the production and exudation of 5-deoxystrigol, the host recognition signal for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and root parasites (276 citations)
  • Strigolactones, host recognition signals for root parasitic plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, from Fabaceae plants (215 citations)

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

His primary areas of investigation include Botany, Strigolactone, Germination, Orobanche and Biosynthesis. His research integrates issues of Rhizosphere and Chromatography in his study of Botany. The study incorporates disciplines such as Striga and Orobanchaceae in addition to Strigolactone.

In the field of Germination, his study on Parasitic Weeds overlaps with subjects such as Avena strigosa. His studies deal with areas such as Host, Parasitic plant and Sorgolactone as well as Orobanche. His Biosynthesis course of study focuses on Arabidopsis and Monooxygenase and Cytochrome P450.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Botany (70.13%)
  • Strigolactone (58.44%)
  • Germination (41.56%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2017-2021)?

  • Mutant (20.78%)
  • Biosynthesis (20.78%)
  • Rhizosphere (16.88%)

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

His primary areas of study are Mutant, Biosynthesis, Rhizosphere, Biochemistry and Strigolactone. His Mutant research is multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of Marchantia polymorpha and Cell biology. In his study, which falls under the umbrella issue of Rhizosphere, Phosphate, Plant hormone and Cytokinin is strongly linked to Shoot.

The concepts of his Strigolactone study are interwoven with issues in Striga hermonthica, Botany and Orobanche minor. His work on Solanum as part of general Botany study is frequently connected to Avena strigosa, therefore bridging the gap between diverse disciplines of science and establishing a new relationship between them. While the research belongs to areas of Orobanche minor, Xiaonan Xie spends his time largely on the problem of Hypha, intersecting his research to questions surrounding Germination.

Between 2017 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Conversion of carlactone to carlactonoic acid is a conserved function of MAX1 homologs in strigolactone biosynthesis (54 citations)
  • Which are the major players, canonical or non-canonical strigolactones? (52 citations)
  • Lotuslactone, a non-canonical strigolactone from Lotus japonicus. (15 citations)

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

  • Botany
  • Gene
  • Enzyme

Mutant, Rhizosphere, Arabidopsis, Biosynthesis and Germination are his primary areas of study. His studies in Mutant integrate themes in fields like Meristem and Cell biology. His research in Rhizosphere intersects with topics in Biochemistry and Shoot.

Germination is a subfield of Botany that Xiaonan Xie studies. His Botany study incorporates themes from Sunflower and Helianthus annuus. Xiaonan Xie has included themes like Lotus japonicus and Strigolactone in his Medicago truncatula study.

Best Publications

  • The Strigolactone Story

    Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama;Koichi Yoneyama

  • Nitrogen deficiency as well as phosphorus deficiency in sorghum promotes the production and exudation of 5-deoxystrigol, the host recognition signal for arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and root parasites

    Kaori Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Dai Kusumoto;Hitoshi Sekimoto

  • How do nitrogen and phosphorus deficiencies affect strigolactone production and exudation

    Kaori Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Hyun Il Kim;Takaya Kisugi

  • Carlactone is converted to carlactonoic acid by MAX1 in Arabidopsis and its methyl ester can directly interact with AtD14 in vitro

    Satoko Abe;Aika Sado;Kai Tanaka;Takaya Kisugi

  • Strigolactones are involved in phosphate- and nitrate-deficiency-induced root development and auxin transport in rice

    Huwei Sun;Jinyuan Tao;Shangjun Liu;Shuangjie Huang

  • Strigolactones, host recognition signals for root parasitic plants and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, from Fabaceae plants

    Kaori Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Hitoshi Sekimoto;Yasutomo Takeuchi

  • Origin of strigolactones in the green lineage

    Pierre‐Marc Delaux;Pierre‐Marc Delaux;Xiaonan Xie;Ruth E. Timme;Virginie Puech‐Pages;Virginie Puech‐Pages

  • Strigolactones as germination stimulants for root parasitic plants.

    Koichi Yoneyama;Ayman A. Awad;Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama

  • Strigolactones regulate protonema branching and act as a quorum sensing-like signal in the moss Physcomitrella patens

    Hélène Proust;Beate Hoffmann;Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama

  • Strigolactones: structures and biological activities.

    Koichi Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama;Yasutomo Takeuchi

  • Confirming Stereochemical Structures of Strigolactones Produced by Rice and Tobacco

    Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama;Takaya Kisugi;Kenichi Uchida

  • An ancestral function of strigolactones as symbiotic rhizosphere signals

    Unknown

  • Conversion of carlactone to carlactonoic acid is a conserved function of MAX1 homologs in strigolactone biosynthesis

    Kaori Yoneyama;Kaori Yoneyama;Kaori Yoneyama;Narumi Mori;Tomoyasu Sato;Akiyoshi Yoda

  • 2'-epi-orobanchol and solanacol, two unique strigolactones, germination stimulants for root parasitic weeds, produced by tobacco.

    Xiaonan Xie;Dai Kusumoto;Yasutomo Takeuchi;Kaori Yoneyama

  • Which are the major players, canonical or non-canonical strigolactones?

    Koichi Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama;Kaori Yoneyama;Takaya Kisugi

  • Isolation and identification of alectrol as (+)-orobanchyl acetate, a germination stimulant for root parasitic plants.

    Xiaonan Xie;Kaori Yoneyama;Dai Kusumoto;Yoichi Yamada

  • Strigolactones are required for nitric oxide to induce root elongation in response to nitrogen and phosphate deficiencies in rice

    Huwei Sun;Huwei Sun;Yang Bi;Jinyuan Tao;Shuangjie Huang

  • Production of Strigolactones by Arabidopsis thaliana responsible for Orobanche aegyptiaca seed germination

    Yaakov Goldwasser;Kaori Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Koichi Yoneyama

  • Nitrogen and phosphorus fertilization negatively affects strigolactone production and exudation in sorghum

    Kaori Yoneyama;Xiaonan Xie;Takaya Kisugi;Takahito Nomura

  • Difference in Striga-susceptibility is reflected in strigolactone secretion profile, but not in compatibility and host preference in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in two maize cultivars

    Kaori Yoneyama;Ryota Arakawa;Keiko Ishimoto;Hyun Il Kim

  • Avenaol, a germination stimulant for root parasitic plants from Avena strigosa.

    Hyun Il Kim;Takaya Kisugi;Pichit Khetkam;Xiaonan Xie

Frequent Co-Authors

Koichi Yoneyama
Koichi Yoneyama Ehime University
Kaori Yoneyama
Kaori Yoneyama Ehime University
Takahito Nomura
Takahito Nomura Utsunomiya University
Yasutomo Takeuchi
Yasutomo Takeuchi Utsunomiya University
Takao Yokota
Takao Yokota Teikyo University
Shinjiro Yamaguchi
Shinjiro Yamaguchi Kyoto University
Guohua Xu
Guohua Xu Nanjing Agricultural University
Tadao Asami
Tadao Asami University of Tokyo
Yukihiro Sugimoto
Yukihiro Sugimoto Kobe University
Guillaume Bécard
Guillaume Bécard Paul Sabatier University

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