James Simmonds

6.7k citations

52 papers · 3.2k · 1 hit paper · h-index 30

Impact in

Plant Science top 0.5%
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Genetics and Plant Breeding
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations
- Plant nutrient uptake and metabolism
- Plant Genetic and Mutation Studies
Agronomy and Crop Science top 1%
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility

Papers in

Plant Science 51
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology 44
- Genetics and Plant Breeding 20
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics 7
- Chromosomal and Genetic Variations 4
- Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity 3
Agronomy and Crop Science 13
- Crop Yield and Soil Fertility 10
- Bioenergy crop production and management 5

Co-authors: Cristóbal Uauy (32 shared papers)John W Snape (17 shared papers)Lesley Fish (7 shared papers)Simon Griffiths (7 shared papers)Simon Orford (6 shared papers)Jemima F. Brinton (7 shared papers)Liz Sayers (3 shared papers)Michelle Leverington‐Waite (7 shared papers)
Journals: Journal of Experimental Botany (7 papers)Euphytica (7 papers)Molecular Breeding (4 papers)Theoretical and Applied Genetics (4 papers)PLANT PHYSIOLOGY (3 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Australia United States

In The Last Decade

James Simmonds

51 papers receiving 3.1k citations

James Simmonds's Hit Papers

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Uncovering hidden variation in polyploid wheat 2017 · 419 citations

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Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

2017 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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1	Uncovering hidden variation in polyploid wheat Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Ksenia V. Krasileva, Hans A. Vasquez-Gross, T. A. Howell, Paul C. E. Bailey, Francine Paraiso, Leah Clissold, James Simmonds, Ricardo Humberto Ramirez-Gonzalez, Xiaodong Wang, Philippa Borrill, Nigel Fosker, Sarah Ayling, Andrew L. Phillips, Cristóbal Uauy, Jorge Dubcovsky Hit paper breakdown →	2017	419
2	A Genetic Framework for Grain Size and Shape Variation in Wheat The Plant Cell ·Vasilis C. Gegas, Aida Nazari, Simon Griffiths, James Simmonds, Lesley Fish, Simon Orford, Liz Sayers, John H. Doonan, John W Snape	2010	360
3	Meta-QTL analysis of the genetic control of ear emergence in elite European winter wheat germplasm Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Simon Griffiths, James Simmonds, Michelle Leverington, Yingkun Wang, Lesley Fish, Liz Sayers, Leodie Alibert, Simon Orford, Luzie U. Wingen, Laurence Herry, Sébastien Faure, David A. Laurie, Lorelei J. Bilham, John W Snape	2009	249
4	A splice acceptor site mutation in TaGW2-A1 increases thousand grain weight in tetraploid and hexaploid wheat through wider and longer grains Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·James Simmonds, PETER R. SCOTT, Jemima F. Brinton, Teresa Carmen Mestre, Max Bush, Alicia del Blanco, Jorge Dubcovsky, Cristóbal Uauy	2016	158
5	Gene editing and mutagenesis reveal inter-cultivar differences and additivity in the contribution of TaGW2 homoeologues to grain size and weight in wheat Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Wei Wang, James Simmonds, Qianli Pan, Dwight Davidson, Fei He, Abdulhamit Battal, Alina R. Akhunova, Harold N. Trick, Cristóbal Uauy, Eduard Akhunov	2018	144
6	Identification and independent validation of a stable yield and thousand grain weight QTL on chromosome 6A of hexaploid wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) BMC Plant Biology ·James Simmonds, PETER R. SCOTT, Michelle Leverington‐Waite, Adrian S. Turner, Jemima F. Brinton, Viktor N. Korzun, John W Snape, Cristóbal Uauy	2014	126
7	Dissecting gene × environmental effects on wheat yields via QTL and physiological analysis Euphytica ·John W Snape, John Michael Foulkes, James Simmonds, Michelle Leverington, Lesley Fish, Yingkun Wang, Matteo Ciavarrella	2006	124
8	Meta-QTL analysis of the genetic control of crop height in elite European winter wheat germplasm Molecular Breeding ·Simon Griffiths, James Simmonds, Michelle Leverington, Yingkun Wang, Lesley Fish, Liz Sayers, Leodie Alibert, Simon Orford, Luzie U. Wingen, John W Snape	2010	114
9	Susceptibility to Fusarium head blight is associated with the Rht-D1b semi-dwarfing allele in wheat Theoretical and Applied Genetics ·Srinivasachary Srinivasachary, Nicolas Gosman, Andrew Steed, James Simmonds, Michelle Leverington‐Waite, Y. Wang, John W Snape, Paul W. Nicholson	2008	101
10	Increased pericarp cell length underlies a major quantitative trait locus for grain weight in hexaploid wheat New Phytologist ·Jemima F. Brinton, James Simmonds, Francesca Minter, Michelle Leverington‐Waite, John W Snape, Cristóbal Uauy	2017	97
11	Genetic Dissection of Grain Size and Grain Number Trade-Offs in CIMMYT Wheat Germplasm PLoS ONE ·Simon Griffiths, Luzie U. Wingen, Julian Pietragalla, Guillermo A. García, Ahmed Khairul Hasan, Daniel Julio Miralles, Daniel F. Calderini, Jignaben Bipinchandra Ankleshwaria, Michelle Leverington Waite, James Simmonds, John W Snape, Matthew Paul Reynolds	2015	84
12	A haplotype-led approach to increase the precision of wheat breeding Communications Biology ·Jemima F. Brinton, Ricardo Humberto Ramirez-Gonzalez, James Simmonds, Luzie U. Wingen, Simon Orford, Simon Griffiths, (unknown), Georg Haberer, M. Spannagl, Sean Walkowiak, Curtis Jerry Pozniak, Cristóbal Uauy	2020	81
13	Identification of Transcription Factors Regulating Senescence in Wheat through Gene Regulatory Network Modelling PLANT PHYSIOLOGY ·Philippa Borrill, Sophie A. Harrington, James Simmonds, Cristóbal Uauy	2019	79
14	The I nhibitor of wax 1 locus ( I w1) prevents formation of β‐ and OH ‐β‐diketones in wheat cuticular waxes and maps to a sub‐c M interval on chromosome arm 2 BS The Plant Journal ·Nikolai Maria Adamski, Maxwell S. Bush, James Simmonds, Adrian S. Turner, Sarah G. Mugford, Alan Jones, Kim Findlay, Nikolai Pedentchouk, Penny von Wettstein‐Knowles, Cristóbal Uauy	2013	78
15	Agricultural Selection of Wheat Has Been Shaped by Plant-Microbe Interactions Frontiers in Microbiology ·Andrzej Tkacz, Francesco Pini, Thomas R. Turner, Eloïne Bestion, James Simmonds, Phil Howell, Andy Greenland, Jitender Cheema, David Emms, Cristóbal Uauy, Philip Simon Poole	2020	62
16	Reduced height (Rht) and photoperiod insensitivity (Ppd) allele associations with establishment and early growth of wheat in contrasting production systems Euphytica ·M. Addisu, John W Snape, James Simmonds, Mike J. Gooding	2008	58
17	Identification of a major QTL controlling the content of B-type starch granules in Aegilops Journal of Experimental Botany ·Thomas P. Howard, Nur Ardiyana Rejab, Simon Griffiths, Fiona J. Leigh, Michelle Leverington‐Waite, James Simmonds, Cristóbal Uauy, Kay Trafford	2011	55
18	Validation of a 1DL earliness per se (eps) flowering QTL in bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) Molecular Breeding ·Meluleki Zikhali, Michelle Leverington‐Waite, Lesley Fish, James Simmonds, Simon Orford, Luzie U. Wingen, Richard Goram, Nick Gosman, Alison R. Bentley, Simon Griffiths	2014	53
19	The wheat Phs-A1 pre-harvest sprouting resistance locus delays the rate of seed dormancy loss and maps 0.3 cM distal to the PM19 genes in UK germplasm Journal of Experimental Botany ·Oluwaseyi Shorinola, Nicholas Bird, James Simmonds, Simon T. Berry, Tina Henriksson, PETER L. JACK, Peter Christian Werner, Tanja Gerjets, Duncan Scholefield, Barbora Balcárková, Miroslav Valárik, Michael John Holdsworth, John E. Flintham, Cristóbal Uauy	2016	51
20	A carbohydrate-binding protein, B-GRANULE CONTENT 1, influences starch granule size distribution in a dose-dependent manner in polyploid wheat Journal of Experimental Botany ·Tansy Chia, Marcella Chirico, Rob M. King, Ricardo Humberto Ramirez-Gonzalez, Benedetta Saccomanno, David Seung, James Simmonds, Martin Trick, Cristóbal Uauy, Tamara Verhoeven, Kay Trafford	2019	50

About James Simmonds

James Simmonds is a scholar working on Plant Science, Agronomy and Crop Science, Genetics, Molecular Biology and Nutrition and Dietetics, having authored 52 papers that have together received 3.2k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology (44 papers), Genetics and Plant Breeding (20 papers), Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals (18 papers), Crop Yield and Soil Fertility (10 papers), Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics (7 papers), Bioenergy crop production and management (5 papers), Chromosomal and Genetic Variations (4 papers) and Plant-Microbe Interactions and Immunity (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Plant Science (2.9k citations), Agronomy and Crop Science (660 citations), Genetics (1.1k citations), Nutrition and Dietetics (135 citations) and Cell Biology (114 citations). James Simmonds has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Australia and United States. Frequent co-authors include Cristóbal Uauy, John W Snape, Lesley Fish, Simon Griffiths, Simon Orford, Jemima F. Brinton, Liz Sayers, Michelle Leverington‐Waite, Luzie U. Wingen and Philippa Borrill. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Experimental Botany, Euphytica, Molecular Breeding, Theoretical and Applied Genetics and PLANT PHYSIOLOGY.

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