OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of New Phytologist is 19. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Host selection shapes crop microbiome assembly and network complexity	347
Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO₂	277
Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs	273
FungalRoot: global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations	217
The molecular–physiological functions of mineral macronutrients and their consequences for deficiency symptoms in plants	214
A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements	209
Systemic propagation of immunity in plants	195
Wax biosynthesis in response to danger: its regulation upon abiotic and biotic stress	178
Plant–microbiome interactions under a changing world: responses, consequences and perspectives	172
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance mineralisation of organic phosphorus by carrying bacteria along their extraradical hyphae	170
Root effects on soil organic carbon: a double‐edged sword	168
Evidence for the plant recruitment of beneficial microbes to suppress soil‐borne pathogens	168
The regulation of ethylene biosynthesis: a complex multilevel control circuitry	165
An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective	154
The impact of multifactorial stress combination on plant growth and survival	149
Lichens redefined as complex ecosystems	148
Rhizosphere control of soil nitrogen cycling: a key component of plant economic strategies	146
Biogeography of global drylands	145
Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity	143
Climate change alters plant–herbivore interactions	138
Plant small heat shock proteins – evolutionary and functional diversity	138
Linking root exudation to belowground economic traits for resource acquisition	130
Plant responses to multifactorial stress combination	129
Enabling sustainable agriculture through understanding and enhancement of microbiomes	126
Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems	125

Wound‐ and mechanostimulated electrical signals control hormone responses	124
Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	122
The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity	119
DNA methylation in plants: mechanisms and tools for targeted manipulation	116
The ABI4‐RbohD/VTC2 regulatory module promotes reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation to decrease seed germination under salinity stress	109
Foliar functional traits from imaging spectroscopy across biomes in eastern North America	109
Amylose in starch: towards an understanding of biosynthesis, structure and function	109
Pollination syndromes in the 21^st century: where do we stand and where may we go?	107
Components of leaf‐trait variation along environmental gradients	107
Repressors of anthocyanin biosynthesis	106
Root traits explain rhizosphere fungal community composition among temperate grassland plant species	104
Plant carbon allocation in a changing world – challenges and progress: introduction to a Virtual Issue on carbon allocation	103
Why trees grow at night	101
Root‐specific NF‐Y family transcription factor, PdNF‐YB21, positively regulates root growth and drought resistance by abscisic acid‐mediated indoylacetic acid transport in Populus	100
Root exudation as a major competitive fine‐root functional trait of 18 coexisting species in a subtropical forest	99
Integrative analyses of metabolome and genome‐wide transcriptome reveal the regulatory network governing flavor formation in kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis)	98
Phosphate‐solubilising microorganisms for improved crop productivity: a critical assessment	96
Abscisic acid promotes jasmonic acid biosynthesis via a ‘SAPK10‐bZIP72‐AOC’ pathway to synergistically inhibit seed germination in rice (Oryza sativa)	94
Water uptake depth is coordinated with leaf water potential, water‐use efficiency and drought vulnerability in karst vegetation	94
Plant nutrient‐acquisition strategies drive topsoil microbiome structure and function	94
Regulation of shoot branching in arabidopsis by trehalose 6‐phosphate	94
Fight hard or die trying: when plants face pathogens under heat stress	94
An explanation for the isotopic offset between soil and stem water in a temperate tree species	92
Turgor – a limiting factor for radial growth in mature conifers along an elevational gradient	92
Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves	92
A rare single nucleotide variant in Pm5e confers powdery mildew resistance in common wheat	91
Regulating the regulator: nitric oxide control of post‐translational modifications	91
A CNL protein in wild emmer wheat confers powdery mildew resistance	90
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	87
A new Cannabis genome assembly associates elevated cannabidiol (CBD) with hemp introgressed into marijuana	86
Global negative effects of nutrient enrichment on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality	84
Natural variation in the promoter of TGW2 determines grain width and weight in rice	84
Heat stress response mechanisms in pollen development	84
Enabling reusability of plant phenomic datasets with MIAPPE 1.1	83
The way back: recovery of trees from drought and its implication for acclimation	79
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	79
ABI5 modulates seed germination via feedback regulation of the expression of the PYR/PYL/RCAR ABA receptor genes	78
Champions of winter survival: cold acclimation and molecular regulation of cold hardiness in evergreen conifers	78
Chloroplast immunity illuminated	76
Impacts of global change on the phyllosphere microbiome	76
Fruit development and epigenetic modifications	75
Strong photoperiod sensitivity is controlled by cooperation and competition among Hd1, Ghd7 and DTH8 in rice heading	75
Trait‐based aerial dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	74
A highly differentiated region of wheat chromosome 7AL encodes a Pm1a immune receptor that recognizes its corresponding AvrPm1a effector from Blumeria graminis	74
Molecular dissection of rice phytohormone signaling involved in resistance to a piercing‐sucking herbivore	74
Regulatory network of fruit ripening: current understanding and future challenges	73
Chloroplast development in green plant tissues: the interplay between light, hormone, and transcriptional regulation	73
Seed‐borne, endospheric and rhizospheric core microbiota as predictors of plant functional traits across rice cultivars are dominated by deterministic processes	72
From one side to two sides: the effects of stomatal distribution on photosynthesis	72
Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants	71

Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die‐back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought	71
Ferroptosis contributes to developmental cell death in rice blast	71
Mesophyll conductance: walls, membranes and spatial complexity	71
Tip‐to‐base xylem conduit widening as an adaptation: causes, consequences, and empirical priorities	71
Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models	70
WRKY33 interacts with WRKY12 protein to up‐regulate RAP2.2 during submergence induced hypoxia response in Arabidopsis thaliana	70
The miR172/IDS1 signaling module confers salt tolerance through maintaining ROS homeostasis in cereal crops	70
Transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation of heading date in rice	69
A theoretical and empirical assessment of stomatal optimization modeling	69
Host‐induced gene silencing – mechanisms and applications	68
Transcriptional regulatory network of the light signaling pathways	68
The honeysuckle genome provides insight into the molecular mechanism of carotenoid metabolism underlying dynamic flower coloration	68
The seed germination spectrum of alpine plants: a global meta‐analysis	67
Heterosis of leaf and rhizosphere microbiomes in field‐grown maize	66
Recent advances in Cannabis sativa genomics research	66
Adaptive genetic variation to drought in a widely distributed conifer suggests a potential for increasing forest resilience in a drying climate	66
Evidence for distinct isotopic compositions of sap and tissue water in tree stems: consequences for plant water source identification	66
Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants	66
AaWRKY9 contributes to light‐ and jasmonate‐mediated to regulate the biosynthesis of artemisinin in Artemisia annua	65
Trehalose 6‐phosphate promotes seed filling by activating auxin biosynthesis	65
Polyploid phylogenetics	64
SPX4 interacts with both PHR1 and PAP1 to regulate critical steps in phosphorus‐status‐dependent anthocyanin biosynthesis	64
Coordinated resource allocation to plant growth–defense tradeoffs	63
The thermal tolerance of photosynthetic tissues: a global systematic review and agenda for future research	63
Deciphering the role of specialist and generalist plant–microbial interactions as drivers of plant–soil feedback	63
Combined high leaf hydraulic safety and efficiency provides drought tolerance in Caragana species adapted to low mean annual precipitation	62
Histone demethylase SlJMJ6 promotes fruit ripening by removing H3K27 methylation of ripening‐related genes in tomato	62
Linking xylem network failure with leaf tissue death	62
New paradigms in cell adaptation: decades of discoveries on the CrRLK1L receptor kinase signalling network	61
Two homologous LHY pairs negatively control soybean drought tolerance by repressing the abscisic acid responses	61
Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest	61
SeedGerm: a cost‐effective phenotyping platform for automated seed imaging and machine‐learning based phenotypic analysis of crop seed germination	61
On the expansion of biological functions of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	59
Plant growth: the What, the How, and the Why	59
Bio‐organic soil amendment promotes the suppression of Ralstonia solanacearum by inducing changes in the functionality and composition of rhizosphere bacterial communities	59
Pore constrictions in intervessel pit membranes provide a mechanistic explanation for xylem embolism resistance in angiosperms	59
An increase in xylem embolism resistance of grapevine leaves during the growing season is coordinated with stomatal regulation, turgor loss point and intervessel pit membranes	59
Fine‐root functional trait responses to experimental warming: a global meta‐analysis	58
Synergistic effects: a common theme in mixed‐species litter decomposition	58
Evolution of NLR resistance genes with noncanonical N‐terminal domains in wild tomato species	58
Seed microbiota revealed by a large‐scale meta‐analysis including 50 plant species	58
Crop diversity enriches arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in an intensive agricultural landscape	57
The Arabidopsis exocyst subunits EXO70B1 and EXO70B2 regulate FLS2 homeostasis at the plasma membrane	57
The reduction in leaf area precedes that in photosynthesis under potassium deficiency: the importance of leaf anatomy	57
Optimized metabarcoding with Pacific biosciences enables semi‐quantitative analysis of fungal communities	56
On tree longevity	56
Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change	56
Genetic architecture underlying light and temperature mediated flowering in Arabidopsis, rice, and temperate cereals	55
Home‐field advantage of litter decomposition: from the phyllosphere to the soil	55
A meta‐analysis of responses of C₃ plants to atmospheric CO₂: dose–response curves for 85 traits ranging from the molecular to the whole‐plant level	55
GmKIX8‐1 regulates organ size in soybean and is the causative gene for the major seed weight QTL qSw17‐1	55
Ustilago maydis effector Jsi1 interacts with Topless corepressor, hijacking plant jasmonate/ethylene signaling	55
Increasing rates of long‐term nitrogen deposition consistently increased litter decomposition in a semi‐arid grassland	55
Vertical decoupling of soil nutrients and water under climate warming reduces plant cumulative nutrient uptake, water‐use efficiency and productivity	55
Myb10‐D confers PHS‐3D resistance to pre‐harvest sprouting by regulating NCED in ABA biosynthesis pathway of wheat	55
Auxin response factors are keys to the many auxin doors	55
Epigenetic regulation of thermomorphogenesis and heat stress tolerance	54
MYBA and MYBPA transcription factors co‐regulate anthocyanin biosynthesis in blue‐coloured berries	54
Species divergence with gene flow and hybrid speciation on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	54
E2 conjugases UBC1 and UBC2 regulate MYB42‐mediated SOS pathway in response to salt stress in Arabidopsis	54
Rht24b, an ancient variation of TaGA2ox‐A9, reduces plant height without yield penalty in wheat	53
Replaying the evolutionary tape to investigate subgenome dominance in allopolyploid Brassica napus	53
Evolution of stomatal closure to optimize water‐use efficiency in response to dehydration in ferns and seed plants	53
A deep dive into the ancestral chromosome number and genome size of flowering plants	53
The effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species and taxonomic groups on stressed and unstressed plants: a global meta‐analysis	53
Climate and functional traits jointly mediate tree water‐use strategies	53
Determinants of legacy effects in pine trees – implications from an irrigation‐stop experiment	52
Hydraulically‐vulnerable trees survive on deep‐water access during droughts in a tropical forest	52
Altered plant carbon partitioning enhanced forest ecosystem carbon storage after 25 years of nitrogen additions	52
Heatwave breaks down the linearity between sun‐induced fluorescence and gross primary production	52
A mis‐regulated cyclic nucleotide‐gated channel mediates cytosolic calcium elevation and activates immunity in Arabidopsis	52
SlWRKY35 positively regulates carotenoid biosynthesis by activating the MEP pathway in tomato fruit	52
HEXOKINASE1 signalling promotes shoot branching and interacts with cytokinin and strigolactone pathways	52
Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers	52
The spatio‐temporal biosynthesis of floral flavonols is controlled by differential phylogenetic MYB regulators in Freesia hybrida	51
JMJ17–WRKY40 and HY5–ABI5 modules regulate the expression of ABA‐responsive genes in Arabidopsis	51
CDK8 is associated with RAP2.6 and SnRK2.6 and positively modulates abscisic acid signaling and drought response in Arabidopsis	51
Getting to the roots of aeroponic indoor farming	51
Functional xylem characteristics associated with drought‐induced embolism in angiosperms	51
Coumarin accumulation and trafficking in Arabidopsis thaliana: a complex and dynamic process	51

Plant carbohydrate depletion impairs water relations and spreads via ectomycorrhizal networks	51
Rapid responses of root traits and productivity to phosphorus and cation additions in a tropical lowland forest in Amazonia	51
A receptor‐like protein from Nicotiana benthamiana mediates VmE02 PAMP‐triggered immunity	51
Temperature responses of photosynthesis and respiration in evergreen trees from boreal to tropical latitudes	51
Root phosphatase activity aligns with the collaboration gradient of the root economics space	51
The JA‐responsive MYC2‐BADH‐like transcriptional regulatory module in Poncirus trifoliata contributes to cold tolerance by modulation of glycine betaine biosynthesis	50
Accounting for mesophyll conductance substantially improves ¹³C‐based estimates of intrinsic water‐use efficiency	50
Several geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase isoforms supply metabolic substrates for carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato	50
Impact of microclimatic conditions and resource availability on spring and autumn phenology of temperate tree seedlings	50
Differences in grapevine rootstock sensitivity and recovery from drought are linked to fine root cortical lacunae and root tip function	50
Changes in soil fungal community composition depend on functional group and forest disturbance type	50
The MdMYB16/MdMYB1‐miR7125‐MdCCR module regulates the homeostasis between anthocyanin and lignin biosynthesis during light induction in apple	50
Fol‐milR1, a pathogenicity factor of Fusarium oxysporum, confers tomato wilt disease resistance by impairing host immune responses	50
Coordination of stem and leaf traits define different strategies to regulate water loss and tolerance ranges to aridity	49
The hornworts: morphology, evolution and development	49
Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector PITG20303 targets a potato MKK1 protein to suppress plant immunity	49
PdGNC confers drought tolerance by mediating stomatal closure resulting from NO and H₂O₂ production via the direct regulation of PdHXK1 expression in Populus	49
Weak tradeoff between xylem hydraulic efficiency and safety: climatic seasonality matters	49
Chilled to be forced: the best dose to wake up buds from winter dormancy	48
New insights into the functions of carbon–calcium inclusions in plants	48
PR1‐mediated defence via C‐terminal peptide release is targeted by a fungal pathogen effector	48
The plant protein NbP3IP directs degradation of Rice stripe virus p3 silencing suppressor protein to limit virus infection through interaction with the autophagy‐related protein NbATG8	48
Root trait–microbial relationships across tundra plant species	48
Linking drought‐induced xylem embolism resistance to wood anatomical traits in Neotropical trees	48
Imaging canopy temperature: shedding (thermal) light on ecosystem processes	48
Far‐red radiation stimulates dry mass partitioning to fruits by increasing fruit sink strength in tomato	48
Metabolomics‐driven gene mining and genetic improvement of tolerance to salt‐induced osmotic stress in maize	47
Functional analysis of auxin receptor OsTIR1/OsAFB family members in rice grain yield, tillering, plant height, root system, germination, and auxinic herbicide resistance	47
Kiwifruit MYBS1‐like and GBF3 transcription factors influence l‐ascorbic acid biosynthesis by activating transcription of GDP‐L‐galactose phosphorylase 3	47
Rooting depth as a key woody functional trait in savannas	47
The other side of droughts: wet extremes and topography as buffers of negative drought effects in an Amazonian forest	47
Devastating intimacy: the cell biology of plant–Phytophthora interactions	47
Humidity and high temperature are important for predicting fungal disease outbreaks worldwide	47
Maternal effects shape the seed mycobiome in Quercus petraea	47
Patterns and mechanisms of spatial variation in tropical forest productivity, woody residence time, and biomass	47
Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques	47
Key root traits of Poaceae for adaptation to soil water gradients	47
The role of root community attributes in predicting soil fungal and bacterial community patterns	47
Fungal endophytes can eliminate the plant growth–defence trade‐off	46
Recombination suppression and evolutionary strata around mating‐type loci in fungi: documenting patterns and understanding evolutionary and mechanistic causes	46
A phytobacterial TIR domain effector manipulates NAD⁺ to promote virulence	46
Evolutionary biology of lichen symbioses	46
Functional classification of plant long noncoding RNAs: a transcript is known by the company it keeps	46
Sniffing fungi – phenotyping of volatile chemical diversity in Trichoderma species	45
Plant sizes and shapes above and belowground and their interactions with climate	45
Heat‐induced changes in the abundance of wheat Rubisco activase isoforms	45
The making of suberin	44
OsPIN9, an auxin efflux carrier, is required for the regulation of rice tiller bud outgrowth by ammonium	44
Global patterns of biomass allocation in woody species with different tolerances of shade and drought: evidence for multiple strategies	44
Vitellogenin from planthopper oral secretion acts as a novel effector to impair plant defenses	44
PIN‐mediated polar auxin transport regulations in plant tropic responses	44
Arabidopsis thaliana transcription factors MYB28 and MYB29 shape ammonium stress responses by regulating Fe homeostasis	44
Pollen analysis using multispectral imaging flow cytometry and deep learning	44
Genome‐wide DNA hypomethylation shapes nematode pattern‐triggered immunity in plants	44
Growing pains: addressing the pitfalls of plant extracellular vesicle research	44
Understanding and predicting forest mortality in the western United States using long‐term forest inventory data and modeled hydraulic damage	44
Epigenetics: a catalyst of plant immunity against pathogens	44
Functional specificity, diversity, and redundancy of Arabidopsis JAZ family repressors in jasmonate and COI1‐regulated growth, development, and defense	43
GDSL lipase occluded stomatal pore 1 is required for wax biosynthesis and stomatal cuticular ledge formation	43
Vulnerability and hydraulic segmentations at the stem–leaf transition: coordination across Neotropical trees	43
Aridity drives coordinated trait shifts but not decreased trait variance across the geographic range of eight Australian trees	43
The impact of invertebrate decomposers on plants and soil	43
TRICHOME AND ARTEMISININ REGULATOR 2 positively regulates trichome development and artemisinin biosynthesis in Artemisia annua	43
Gene regulatory network and its constituent transcription factors that control nitrogen‐deficiency responses in rice	42
CAM photosynthesis: the acid test	42
Wood density predicts mortality threshold for diverse trees	42
Diversity and origin of carotenoid biosynthesis: its history of coevolution towards plant photosynthesis	42
Role of a vacuolar iron transporter OsVIT2 in the distribution of iron to rice grains	42
Sucrose promotes D53 accumulation and tillering in rice	42
A rice single cell transcriptomic atlas defines the developmental trajectories of rice floret and inflorescence meristems	41
Biogeography and phylogeny of masting: do global patterns fit functional hypotheses?	41
An HD‐ZIP‐MYB complex regulates glandular secretory trichome initiation in Artemisia annua	41
Prioritizing host phenotype to understand microbiome heritability in plants	41
Lack of hydraulic recovery as a cause of post‐drought foliage reduction and canopy decline in European beech	41
HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN8 mediates jasmonate‐triggered trichome elongation in tomato	41
Orobanchaceae parasite–host interactions	41
Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought	41
Role of H1 and DNA methylation in selective regulation of transposable elements during heat stress	41
Towards the flower economics spectrum	41
FRIZZY PANICLE defines a regulatory hub for simultaneously controlling spikelet formation and awn elongation in bread wheat	41
In vitro evidence of root colonization suggests ecological versatility in the genus Mycena	41
A plant RNA virus activates selective autophagy in a UPR‐dependent manner to promote virus infection	41
Linking root structure to functionality: the impact of root system architecture on citrate‐enhanced phosphate uptake	41
Growth–defense trade‐offs and yield loss in plants with engineered cell walls	41
Root‐knot nematodes induce gall formation by recruiting developmental pathways of post‐embryonic organogenesis and regeneration to promote transient pluripotency	40
The Arabidopsis leucine‐rich repeat receptor‐like kinase MIK2 is a crucial component of early immune responses to a fungal‐derived elicitor	40
PHOTO‐SENSITIVE LEAF ROLLING 1 encodes a polygalacturonase that modifies cell wall structure and drought tolerance in rice	40
Plant phosphorus‐use and ‐acquisition strategies in Amazonia	40
Targeted CRISPR‐Cas9‐based gene knockouts in the model brown alga Ectocarpus	40
Contribution of soil algae to the global carbon cycle	40
Dual roles of the serine/arginine‐rich splicing factor SR45a in promoting and interacting with nuclear cap‐binding complex to modulate the salt‐stress response in Arabidopsis	40
ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR 115 integrates jasmonate and cytokinin signaling machineries to repress adventitious rooting in Arabidopsis	40
An increasing number of countries regulate genome editing in crops	40
miR319a/TCP module and DELLA protein regulate trichome initiation synergistically and improve insect defenses in Populus tomentosa	40
Unveiling spatial metabolome of Paeonia suffruticosa and Paeonia lactiflora roots using MALDI MS imaging	40