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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs	346
The molecular–physiological functions of mineral macronutrients and their consequences for deficiency symptoms in plants	263
A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements	250
Plant–microbiome interactions under a changing world: responses, consequences and perspectives	234
Evidence for the plant recruitment of beneficial microbes to suppress soil‐borne pathogens	221
Root effects on soil organic carbon: a double‐edged sword	218
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance mineralisation of organic phosphorus by carrying bacteria along their extraradical hyphae	207
An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective	203
Plant responses to multifactorial stress combination	184
The impact of multifactorial stress combination on plant growth and survival	180
Biogeography of global drylands	178
Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity	173
Linking root exudation to belowground economic traits for resource acquisition	170
Climate change alters plant–herbivore interactions	167
Enabling sustainable agriculture through understanding and enhancement of microbiomes	154
The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity	153
Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems	152
Repressors of anthocyanin biosynthesis	148
Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	147
Integrative analyses of metabolome and genome‐wide transcriptome reveal the regulatory network governing flavor formation in kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis)	129
Why trees grow at night	127
Fight hard or die trying: when plants face pathogens under heat stress	122
Water uptake depth is coordinated with leaf water potential, water‐use efficiency and drought vulnerability in karst vegetation	117
Regulation of shoot branching in arabidopsis by trehalose 6‐phosphate	113
Apple B‐box protein BBX37 regulates jasmonic acid mediated cold tolerance through the JAZ‐BBX37‐ICE1‐CBF pathway and undergoes MIEL1‐mediated ubiquitination and degradation	112

Heat stress response mechanisms in pollen development	108
Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves	108
Chloroplast development in green plant tissues: the interplay between light, hormone, and transcriptional regulation	107
Global negative effects of nutrient enrichment on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality	105
Impacts of global change on the phyllosphere microbiome	104
A new Cannabis genome assembly associates elevated cannabidiol (CBD) with hemp introgressed into marijuana	103
Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants	101
Overcoming the trade‐off between grain weight and number in wheat by the ectopic expression of expansin in developing seeds leads to increased yield potential	92
Molecular dissection of rice phytohormone signaling involved in resistance to a piercing‐sucking herbivore	92
Chloroplast immunity illuminated	90
Seed‐borne, endospheric and rhizospheric core microbiota as predictors of plant functional traits across rice cultivars are dominated by deterministic processes	88
A highly differentiated region of wheat chromosome 7AL encodes a Pm1a immune receptor that recognizes its corresponding AvrPm1a effector from Blumeria graminis	88
Transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation of heading date in rice	88
Mesophyll conductance: walls, membranes and spatial complexity	88
Coordinated resource allocation to plant growth–defense tradeoffs	87
Deciphering the role of specialist and generalist plant–microbial interactions as drivers of plant–soil feedback	86
WRKY33 interacts with WRKY12 protein to up‐regulate RAP2.2 during submergence induced hypoxia response in Arabidopsis thaliana	86
Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models	85
The seed germination spectrum of alpine plants: a global meta‐analysis	82
Polyploid phylogenetics	81
Seed microbiota revealed by a large‐scale meta‐analysis including 50 plant species	81
Host‐induced gene silencing – mechanisms and applications	81
Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die‐back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought	80
Recent advances in Cannabis sativa genomics research	80
The miR172/IDS1 signaling module confers salt tolerance through maintaining ROS homeostasis in cereal crops	80
Evidence for distinct isotopic compositions of sap and tissue water in tree stems: consequences for plant water source identification	80
Functional xylem characteristics associated with drought‐induced embolism in angiosperms	78
Linking xylem network failure with leaf tissue death	78
AaWRKY9 contributes to light‐ and jasmonate‐mediated to regulate the biosynthesis of artemisinin in Artemisia annua	77
On the expansion of biological functions of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	76
Temperature responses of photosynthesis and respiration in evergreen trees from boreal to tropical latitudes	76
Auxin response factors are keys to the many auxin doors	76
The thermal tolerance of photosynthetic tissues: a global systematic review and agenda for future research	75
Epigenetic regulation of thermomorphogenesis and heat stress tolerance	75
Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques	73
Bio‐organic soil amendment promotes the suppression of Ralstonia solanacearum by inducing changes in the functionality and composition of rhizosphere bacterial communities	73
Species divergence with gene flow and hybrid speciation on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	73
Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change	73
Crop diversity enriches arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in an intensive agricultural landscape	73
Pore constrictions in intervessel pit membranes provide a mechanistic explanation for xylem embolism resistance in angiosperms	73
SlWRKY35 positively regulates carotenoid biosynthesis by activating the MEP pathway in tomato fruit	72
Vertical decoupling of soil nutrients and water under climate warming reduces plant cumulative nutrient uptake, water‐use efficiency and productivity	71
SPX4 interacts with both PHR1 and PAP1 to regulate critical steps in phosphorus‐status‐dependent anthocyanin biosynthesis	71
Fine‐root functional trait responses to experimental warming: a global meta‐analysis	70
On tree longevity	70