ScienceWatch.com, a division of Thomsen Reuters Publishing, tracks trends and performance in research publications globally. Each month, a Special Topic is covered, providing citation analyses and commentary for selected scientific research areas that have experienced notable recent advances or are of special current interest. For May, 2008, the Special Topic was Mycotoxins. The citation analysis featured the top 20 most-cited papers from the past 10 years. ISU authors Gary Munkvold (Plant Pathology, Seed Science Center), Rick Hellmich (USDA, Entomology), and Larry Rice (USDA-NVSL) were recognized at #12 on the list with their 1999 paper, "Comparison of fumonisin concentrations in kernels of transgenic Bt maize hybrids and nontransgenic hybrids" (Plant Disease 83:130), the first paper describing the mycotoxin-reducing capacity of transgenic insect resistance. Their documentation of this benefit in Iowa has since been confirmed by other researchers in dozens of states and numerous
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