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Mitch Tuinstra

Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette

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Mid career · publishing since 2007
Genetics and Plant BreedingGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and AnimalsCrop Yield and Soil FertilityPlant Genetic and Mutation StudiesFood composition and properties

Publications

20

Citations

864

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

19

Publishing since 2007

Research summary
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Mitch Tuinstra works on plant genetics and breeding, with a focus on crops like sorghum and applying computational and imaging tools to study plant traits (a field known as plant phenotyping). His work also touches on data science approaches for problems spanning food, energy, and water systems, and on biofuel crop research. This research could interest students in crop science, genetics, or agricultural data analysis.

Plant genetics and breedingCrop trait measurement (phenotyping)Sorghum researchAgricultural data scienceBiofuel crop development

Publication output has been low and irregular over the last decade, with no more than a few papers per year and several years with none, averaging about 0.6 papers per year over the last five years.

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Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 0.6/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 2 publications182019: 1 publication19202021: 3 publications3212022: 1 publication22232024: 1 publication242025: 1 publication2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • G3 Genes Genomes Genetics×2
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)×2
  • Genetics×1
  • Frontiers in Genetics×1
  • Crop Science×1
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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