OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Phytologist is 70. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A tail of two horses? Guard cell abscisic acid and carbon dioxide signalling in the Equisetum ferns	390
Ontogenetic trajectories as the target of selection	389
Plant PI4P is required for bacteria to translocate type‐3 effectors	294
Modelling analysis confirms the role of NPQ saturation for the divergence of the GPP–SIF relationship during heatwave	276
Shining a new light on the classical concepts of carbon‐isotope dendrochronology	252
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Issue Information	183
Editing of upstream regulatory elements advances plant gene silencing	178
Corrigendum to: Decadal soil warming decreased vascular plant above and belowground production in a subarctic grassland by inducing nitrogen limitation	160
Island colonization in flowering plants is determined by the interplay of breeding system, lifespan, floral symmetry, and arrival opportunity	149
A consumer‐oriented approach to define breeding targets for molecular breeding	144
Time‐integrated δ²H in n‐alkanes and carbohydrates from boreal needles reveal intra‐annual physiological and environmental signals	141
Drought and life‐history strategies in Heliophila (Brassicaceae)	137
Red light shines a path forward on leaf minimum conductance	129
Deciphering the synergistic and redundant roles of CG and non‐CG DNA methylation in plant development and transposable element silencing	125
DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE 5 regulates polar tip growth of tobacco pollen tubes	125
An endogenous basis for synchronisation characteristics of the circadian rhythm in proliferating Lemna minor plants	124
The rice OsERF101 transcription factor regulates the NLR Xa1‐mediated immunity induced by perception of TAL effectors	123
Tracking tree demography and forest dynamics at scale using remote sensing	117
Phosphorus limitation of early growth differs between nitrogen‐fixing and nonfixing dry tropical forest tree species	116
Phosphatidylinositol 4‐phosphate: a key determinant of plasma membrane identity and function in plants	115
The genomic secrets of invasive plants	114
A competition‐attenuation mechanism modulates thermoresponsive growth at warm temperatures in plants	113
Chemical biology to dissect molecular mechanisms underlying plant circadian clocks	111
A novel HD‐Zip I/C2H2‐ZFP/WD‐repeat complex regulates the size of spine base in cucumber	111

Greenbeards in plants?	109
Tracing phosphorus from soil through mycorrhizal fungi to plants	104
A reactive oxygen species Ca²⁺ signalling pathway identified from a chemical screen for modifiers of sugar‐activated circadian gene expression	102
A genetically encoded biosensor reveals spatiotemporal variation in cellular phosphate content in Brachypodium distachyon mycorrhizal roots	102
The ETI‐dependent receptor‐like kinase 1 positively regulates effector‐triggered immunity by stabilizing NLR‐required for cell death 4 in Nicotiana benthamiana	100
A 23‐million‐year record of morphological evolution within Neotropical grass pollen	100
Elevated CO₂ mediates ectomycorrhizal fungi species‐specific decreases of native soil carbon and causes negative priming under low nutrients	100
Stereochemical insights into sarpagan and akuammiline alkaloid biosynthesis	98
Exploring optimal stomatal control under alternative hypotheses for the regulation of plant sources and sinks	96
All roads lead to Rome: alternative biosynthetic routes in plant specialised metabolism	94
Global maps and factors driving forest foliar elemental composition: the importance of evolutionary history	94
Biomolecular condensation programs floral transition to orchestrate flowering time and inflorescence architecture	93
Hypoxia response protein HRM1 modulates the activity of mitochondrial electron transport chain in Arabidopsis under hypoxic stress	91
Do grasses have meristemoids?	91
Piecing together the eophytes – a new group of ancient plants containing cryptospores	89
Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among bacteria, ectomycorrhizal fungi, and land trees	89
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Methane emission from stems of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) offsets as much as half of methane oxidation in soil	88
World‐wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands	86
Wood nutrients: Underexplored traits with functional and biogeochemical consequences	86
HalALMT1 mediates malate efflux in the cortex of mature cluster rootlets of Hakea laurina, occurring naturally in severely phosphorus‐impoverished soil	86
SHORT‐ROOT and SCARECROW homologs regulate patterning of diverse cell types within and between species	85
Discovery of a second‐site nia2 mutation in the background of multiple ArabidopsisPIF‐related mutants containing the pif3‐3 allele	85
Mechanisms of UV‐B light‐induced photoreceptor UVR8 nuclear localization dynamics	84
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Mycorrhizal associations modify tree diversity−productivity relationships across experimental tree plantations	84
Light‐dependent activation of HY5 promotes mycorrhizal symbiosis in tomato by systemically regulating strigolactone biosynthesis	83
The good, the bad, and the phosphate: regulation of beneficial and detrimental plant–microbe interactions by the plant phosphate status	83
Plant‐to‐plant defence induction in cotton is mediated by delayed release of volatiles upon herbivory	81
The SnRK2.2‐ZmHsf28‐JAZ14/17 module regulates drought tolerance in maize	81
Breeding for delayed bolting decelerated the circadian clock in cultivated lettuce	80
Hydraulic conductivity‐induced systematic parameter variation in a widely used thermal dissipation sap‐flow technique	79
Social and biological innovations are essential to deliver transformative forest biotechnologies	79
Temporally disjunct herbaceous species differ in leaf embolism resistance	78
A newly evolved chimeric lysin motif receptor‐like kinase in Medicago truncatula spp. tricycla R108 extends its Rhizobia symbiotic partnership	76
ArabidopsisPROTODERMAL FACTOR2 binds lysophosphatidylcholines and transcriptionally regulates phospholipid metabolism	76
Warming triggers stomatal opening by enhancement of photosynthesis and ensuing guard cell CO₂ sensing, whereas higher temperatures induce a photosynthesis‐uncoupled response	74
Plant hydraulic modelling of leaf and canopy fuel moisture content reveals increasing vulnerability of a Mediterranean forest to wildfires under extreme drought	73
Haplotype‐resolved genome assembly provides insights into the evolution of S‐locus supergene in distylous Nymphoides indica	73
Xylella fastidiosa’s relationships: the bacterium, the host plants, and the plant microbiome	72
The Magnaporthe oryzae effector MoBys1 suppresses rice immunity by targeting OsCAD2 to manipulate host jasmonate and lignin metabolism	72
The RXLR effector PpE18 of Phytophthora parasitica is a virulence factor and suppresses peroxisome membrane‐associated ascorbate peroxidase NbAPX3‐1‐mediated pl	71
Carbon allocation to root exudates is maintained in mature temperate tree species under drought	71
Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers	71
A perspective on cross‐kingdom RNA interference in mutualistic symbioses	71
Impacts of climate timescale on the stability of trait–environment relationships	70
Complex climate‐mediated effects of urbanization on plant reproductive phenology and frost risk	70
Exploring the importance of aromatic plants' extrafloral volatiles for pollinator attraction	70