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Hua Cai

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

Established · publishing since 2000Rising activity

Publications

144

Citations

4,017

Est. group size

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

27

Publishing since 2000

Research summary
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The publication record under this name spans highly disparate fields—including alfalfa (Medicago sativa) salt and alkali tolerance research, glass materials for radiation detection, obstetric care, oil spill data, and legal AI language models—suggesting the data may combine work from multiple researchers sharing the same name rather than a single coherent research program. Within the plant science subset, the work focuses on how alfalfa and soybean plants cope with salty or alkaline soil conditions at the molecular and physiological level, including genes that regulate ion balance, antioxidant activity, and photosynthesis. Prospective students should verify which specific publications and lab this profile corresponds to before drawing conclusions about research focus.

Plant salt and alkali stress toleranceGene family characterization in alfalfa (Medicago sativa)Ion homeostasis and antioxidant regulation in plantsPlant-microbe interactions and rhizosphere biology(Note: profile also includes unrelated materials science, medical, and AI publications)

Publication counts were relatively steady at low-to-moderate levels through 2017-2022, dropped to zero in 2023, then rose sharply to a large spike of 16 in 2025, indicating an irregular and recently accelerating pattern that may reflect merged records from different authors.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 5.4/year recently
2017: 4 publications172018: 1 publication182019: 3 publications192020: 5 publications202021: 5 publications212022: 6 publications22232024: 4 publications242025: 16 publications16252026: 1 publication26
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • Plant Physiology and Biochemistry×4
  • Frontiers in Plant Science×3
  • International Journal of Molecular Sciences×3
  • Agronomy×2
  • International Journal of Biological Macromolecules×2
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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