OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Phytopathology is 29. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of Temperature and Moisture Duration on Pathogenic Life History Traits of Predominant Haplotypes of Fusarium circinatum on Pinus spp. in Spain	149
Molecular Insights into the Defense of Dioscorea opposita Cultivar Tiegun Callus Against Pathogenic and Endophytic Fungal Infection Through Transcriptome Analysis	98
Genotypic and Phenotypic Analyses Show Ralstonia solanacearum Cool Virulence Is a Quantitative Trait Not Restricted to “Race 3 Biovar 2”	93
Development, Validation, and Utility of Species-Specific Diagnostic Markers for Detection of Peronospora belbahrii	70
Combination of Developmental Behaviors and Transcriptome Reveals Differential Response Mechanisms of Phytophthora sojae to Aspartic Acid and Glucose in Seed Exudates	70
Antifungal Activity and Possible Mechanism of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FX2 Against the Postharvest Apple Ring Rot Pathogen	61
Transmission of Areca Palm Velarivirus 1 by Mealybugs Causes Yellow Leaf Disease in Betel Palm (Areca catechu)	56
Identification and Fine Mapping of Gummy Stem Blight Resistance Gene Gsb-7(t) in Melon	51
Investigation of the Effectiveness and Molecular Mechanisms of Thiamin Priming to Control Early Blight Disease in Potato	51
Bitter Rot of Apple in the Mid-Atlantic United States: Causal Species and Evaluation of the Impacts of Regional Weather Patterns and Cultivar Susceptibility	49
Reproducible Quantitative Trait Loci for Resistance to Soft Rot Caused by Dickeya dianthicola Derived from the Wild Potato Solanum microdontum (PI 458355) Are Located on Chromosomes 1, 3	47
The Leucine-Rich Repeat Receptor-Like Kinase Protein TaSERK1 Positively Regulates High-Temperature Seedling Plant Resistance to Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici by Interacting with Ta	45
Virion-Associated Nucleic Acid-Based Metagenomics: A Decade of Advances in Molecular Characterization of Plant Viruses	44
Overexpression of Solanum tuberosum Respiratory Burst Oxidase Homolog A (StRbohA) Promotes Potato Tolerance to Phytophthora infestans	41
Genome Sequence Data Reveal at Least Two Distinct Incursions of the Tropical Race 4 Variant of Fusarium Wilt into South America	37
Progression of Xylella fastidiosa Infection in Grapevines Under Field Conditions	36
Analysis of Rice Blast Fungus Genetic Diversity and Identification of a Novel Blast Resistance OsDRq12 Gene	35
Building Accelerated Plant Breeding Pipelines: Screening to Evaluate Lima Bean Resistance to Root-Knot Nematode in Diverse Inbred Lines and Segregating Breeding Populations	35
A Survey of Xylella fastidiosa in the U.S. State of Virginia Reveals Wide Distribution of Both Subspecies fastidiosa and multiplex in Grapevine	32
Dopamine Enhances the Resistance of Apple to Valsa mali Infection	32
Whitefly-Mediated Transmission and Subsequent Acquisition of Highly Similar and Naturally Occurring Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Variants	32
A Brief Evaluation of a Copper Resistance Mobile Genetic Island in the Bacterial Leaf Spot Pathogen Xanthomonas euvesicatoria pv. perforans	32
Scalable Early Detection of Grapevine Viral Infection with Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy	31
Induction of Defense Responses and Protection of Almond Plants Against Xylella fastidiosa by Endotherapy with a Bifunctional Peptide	31
Erratum: Novel Small Molecule Growth Inhibitors of Xanthomonas spp. Causing Bacterial Spot of Tomato	31

Identification and Molecular Marker Detection of Leaf Rust Resistance Genes in Wheat Lines from China: Development of an Efficient Software for Gene Postulation	31
Erwinia amylovora Type III Secretion System Inhibitors Reduce Fire Blight Infection Under Field Conditions	31
The First Complete Genome Resource for the Plant-Pathogenic Fungus Exobasidium rhododendri	30
Comparative Genomics of Barley-Infecting Xanthomonas translucens Shows Overall Genetic Similarity but Globally Distributed Virulence Factor Diversity	30
An Excised Leaf Assay to Measure Acquisition of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ by Psyllids Associated with Citrus Huanglongbing Disease	29