OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Phytopathology is 36. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Investigation of the Effectiveness and Molecular Mechanisms of Thiamin Priming to Control Early Blight Disease in Potato	1452
Development, Validation, and Utility of Species-Specific Diagnostic Markers for Detection of Peronospora belbahrii	587
Fly Density Does Not Limit Ceratocystis fimbriata Transmission to Sweetpotato by Drosophila hydei, Revealed Through Molecular Diagnostics	501
Analysis of Rice Blast Fungus Genetic Diversity and Identification of a Novel Blast Resistance OsDRq12 Gene	431
How Do Growers Respond to Host Resistance? A Conditional Gaussian Bayesian Network for Causal Inference of Fungicide Cost Savings	397
Identification and Fine Mapping of Gummy Stem Blight Resistance Gene Gsb-7(t) in Melon	391
A Survey of Xylella fastidiosa in the U.S. State of Virginia Reveals Wide Distribution of Both Subspecies fastidiosa and multiplex in Grapevine	268
Whitefly-Mediated Transmission and Subsequent Acquisition of Highly Similar and Naturally Occurring Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus Variants	257
Progression of Xylella fastidiosa Infection in Grapevines Under Field Conditions	217
Erwinia amylovora Type III Secretion System Inhibitors Reduce Fire Blight Infection Under Field Conditions	202
A Brief Evaluation of a Copper Resistance Mobile Genetic Island in the Bacterial Leaf Spot Pathogen Xanthomonas euvesicatoria pv. perforans	193
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	180
Dopamine Enhances the Resistance of Apple to Valsa mali Infection	178
Building Accelerated Plant Breeding Pipelines: Screening to Evaluate Lima Bean Resistance to Root-Knot Nematode in Diverse Inbred Lines and Segregating Breeding Populations	176
Combination of Developmental Behaviors and Transcriptome Reveals Differential Response Mechanisms of Phytophthora sojae to Aspartic Acid and Glucose in Seed Exudates	158
Virion-Associated Nucleic Acid-Based Metagenomics: A Decade of Advances in Molecular Characterization of Plant Viruses	132
Endophyte Bacteria Enhanced DNA Methylation in the Karma Sequence of Eg DEF1 Gene Ramets, Preventing Abnor	99
Genotypic and Phenotypic Analyses Show Ralstonia solanacearum Cool Virulence Is a Quantitative Trait Not Restricted to “Race 3 Biovar 2”	93
Genome Sequence Data Reveal at Least Two Distinct Incursions of the Tropical Race 4 Variant of Fusarium Wilt into South America	75
Induction of Defense Responses and Protection of Almond Plants Against Xylella fastidiosa by Endotherapy with a Bifunctional Peptide	74
Molecular Insights into the Defense of Dioscorea opposita Cultivar Tiegun Callus Against Pathogenic and Endophytic Fungal Infection Through Transcriptome Analysis	71
Transmission of Areca Palm Velarivirus 1 by Mealybugs Causes Yellow Leaf Disease in Betel Palm (Areca catechu)	71
Selective Media for Isolation of Agrobacterium, Corynebacterium, Erwinia, Pseudomonas, and Xanthomonas	65
Antifungal Activity and Possible Mechanism of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FX2 Against the Postharvest Apple Ring Rot Pathogen	60
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	59

Noninvasive, Presymptomatic Detection of Potato Cyst Nematode Infection in Tomato Using Chlorophyll Fluorescence Analysis	55
The First Complete Genome Resource for the Plant-Pathogenic Fungus Exobasidium rhododendri	54
Postinfection Application of Fenhexamid at Lower Doses in Conjunction with Captan Slowed Fungicide Resistance Selection in Botrytis cinerea on Detached Grape Berries	51
Functional Characterization of Core and Unique Calcite-Dissolving Bacteria Communities from Peanut Fields	50
Transcriptional Activator UvXlnR Is Required for Conidiation and Pathogenicity of Rice False Smut Fungus Ustilaginoidea virens	46
Phenylpropanoids Following Wounding and Infection of Sweet Sorghum Lines Differing in Responses to Stalk Pathogens	45
Identifying and Controlling Anthracnose Caused by Colletotrichum Taxa of Welsh Onion in Sanxing, Taiwan	44
Host-Parasite Interaction in Flax Rust—Its Genetics and Other Implications	44
Clarifying the Functional Role of Serotonin in Meloidogyne graminicola Host Plant Parasitism by Immunolocalization and RNA Interference	39
The Potential Biocontrol Agent Paenibacillus polymyxa TP3 Produces Fusaricidin-Type Compounds Involved in the Antagonism Against Gray Mold Pathogen Botrytis cinerea	37
Research on a Method for Identification of Peanut Pests and Diseases Based on a Lightweight LSCDNet Model	37