OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Experimental Botany is 44. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Auxin/cytokinin antagonism in shoot development: from moss to seed plants	139
Molecular mechanisms affected by boron deficiency in root and shoot meristems of plants	115
Correction	109
When rain collides with plants—patterns and forces of drop impact and how leaves respond to them	109
Correction to: Challenges and advances towards the rational design of microalgal synthetic promoters in Chlamydomonas reinhardti	95
Searching for nitroxyl modulators in Arabidopsis thaliana: a new paradigm of redox signaling in plants	92
Advances in plant photobiology: let’s light it up once again	82
Kifunensine-sensitive ADP-ribosylation factor A1E G69R mutant reveals coordination of protein glycosylation and vesicle transport pathways	80
No free entry: stomatal state as decision maker in defining stress response strategies	79
On the origin of fatty acid biosynthesis in Archaeplastida	77
Unveiling shared genetic regulators of plant architectural and biomass yield traits in sorghum	77
Correction to: Analysis of the PEBP gene family and identification of a novel FT orthologue in sugarcane	76
Potential unrecognized redox-active atypical thioredoxins in eukaryote photosynthetic organisms	76
Shaping the root system: the interplay between miRNA regulatory hubs and phytohormones	71
To bind or not to bind: how AUXIN RESPONSE FACTORs select their target genes	68
Multiomics analysis of kernel development in response to short-term heat stress at the grain formation stage in waxy maize	68
The GpIA7 effector from the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida targets potato EBP1 and interferes with the plant cell cycle	62
Phosphate starvation: response mechanisms and solutions	61
Heterosis goes underground	61
Defective kernel 66 encodes a GTPase essential for kernel development in maize	59
The protein modifier SUMO is critical for integrity of the Arabidopsis shoot apex at warm ambient temperatures	58
Antagonism between SUMO1/2 and SUMO3 regulates SUMO conjugate levels and fine-tunes immunity	58
Out of Africa: characterizing the natural variation in dynamic photosynthetic traits in a diverse population of African rice (Oryza glaberrima)	57
Polyamines mediate the inhibitory effect of drought stress on nitrogen reallocation and utilization to regulate grain number in wheat	56
Cotton phloem loads from the apoplast using a single member of its nine-member sucrose transporter gene family	55

Sucrose phosphate synthase 8 is required for the remobilization of carbon reserves in rice stems during grain filling	54
Dynamics and thermal sensitivity of rRNA maturation paths in plants	54
Roles of acyl-CoA-binding proteins in plant reproduction	53
Machine learning for image-based multi-omics analysis of leaf veins	52
Reactive oxygen species homeostasis and circadian rhythms in plants	51
Targeted metabolite profiling as a top-down approach to uncover interspecies diversity and identify key conserved operational features in the Calvin–Benson cycle	48
Detailed characterization of the UMAMIT proteins provides insight into their evolution, amino acid transport properties, and role in the plant	47
Breeding effects on canopy light attenuation in maize: a retrospective and prospective analysis	47
Oligogalactolipid production during cold challenge is conserved in early diverging lineages	47
Induced mutations in SlE8 and SlACO1 control tomato fruit maturation and shelf-life	47
Unraveling plant–microbe interactions: can integrated omics approaches offer concrete answers?	46
Plant epigenomics for extenuation of abiotic stresses: challenges and future perspectives	46
Natural variation in stomatal dynamics drives divergence in heat stress tolerance and contributes to seasonal intrinsic water-use efficiency in Vitis vinifera (subsp. sativa and sylve	46
Hair interacts with SlZFP8-like to regulate the initiation and elongation of trichomes by modulating SlZFP6 expression in tomato	45
A tomato receptor-like cytoplasmic kinase, SlZRK1, acts as a negative regulator in wound-induced jasmonic acid accumulation and insect resistance	45
Bridging pathways: SBP15 regulates GOBLET in modulating tomato axillary bud outgrowth	45
Analysis of the PEBP gene family and identification of a novelFLOWERING LOCUS Torthologue in sugarcane	44
Suppression of NLR-mediated plant immune detection by bacterial pathogens	44
Transcriptome-wide association study coupled with eQTL analysis reveals the genetic connection between gene expression and flowering time in Arabidopsis	44