OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant Cell and Environment is 42. 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 exudates drive soil‐microbe‐nutrient feedbacks in response to plant growth	190
Plant heat stress: Concepts directing future research	174
Light acts as a stressor and influences abiotic and biotic stress responses in plants	146
Limits to post‐fire vegetation recovery under climate change	120
Hot topic: Thermosensing in plants	119
Transpiration increases under high‐temperature stress: Potential mechanisms, trade‐offs and prospects for crop resilience in a warming world	95
Dividing the pie: A quantitative review on plant density responses	87
Isoprene and β‐caryophyllene confer plant resistance via different plant internal signalling pathways	84
Overexpression of both Rubisco and Rubisco activase rescues rice photosynthesis and biomass under heat stress	79
High night temperature effects on wheat and rice: Current status and way forward	70
Root dynamic growth strategies in response to salinity	69
Root hydraulic phenotypes impacting water uptake in drying soils	68
Indole primes defence signalling and increases herbivore resistance in tea plants	66
The power of seaweeds as plant biostimulants to boost crop production under abiotic stress	65
Leaf water potential measurements using the pressure chamber: Synthetic testing of assumptions towards best practices for precision and accuracy	60
Red and blue light treatments of ripening bilberry fruits reveal differences in signalling through abscisic acid‐regulated anthocyanin biosynthesis	57
Long noncoding RNA lncRNA354 functions as a competing endogenous RNA of miR160b to regulate ARF genes in response to salt stress in upland cotton	56
Friends, neighbours and enemies: an overview of the communal and social biology of plants	54
Cell wall modification by the xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase XTH19 influences freezing tolerance after cold and sub‐zero acclimation	54
Detect thy family: Mechanisms, ecology and agricultural aspects of kin recognition in plants	53
The rice heavy‐metal transporter OsNRAMP1 regulates disease resistance by modulating ROS homoeostasis	52
Root angle in maize influences nitrogen capture and is regulated by calcineurin B‐like protein (CBL)‐interacting serine/threonine‐protein kinase 15 (ZmCIPK15)	52
FIT and bHLH Ib transcription factors modulate iron and copper crosstalk in Arabidopsis	52
Responses of leaf respiration to heatwaves	50
Leaf heat tolerance of 147 tropical forest species varies with elevation and leaf functional traits, but not with phylogeny	50

The role of roots and rhizosphere in providing tolerance to toxic metals and metalloids	48
Stomatal closure of tomato under drought is driven by an increase in soil–root hydraulic resistance	48
Future roots for future soils	47
Social networking in crop plants: Wired and wireless cross‐plant communications	47
No gas source, no problem: Proximity to pre‐existing embolism and segmentation affect embolism spreading in angiosperm xylem by gas diffusion	46
A clock regulatory module is required for salt tolerance and control of heading date in rice	46
Relative water content consistently predicts drought mortality risk in seedling populations with different morphology, physiology and times to death	46
Genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying root architecture and function under heat stress—A hidden story	45
Callose metabolism and the regulation of cell walls and plasmodesmata during plant mutualistic and pathogenic interactions	44
Rice shaker potassium channel OsAKT2 positively regulates salt tolerance and grain yield by mediating K⁺ redistribution	44
Molecular hydrogen–induced salinity tolerance requires melatonin signalling inArabidopsis thaliana	43
Occurrence and distribution of micro/nanoplastics in soils and their phytotoxic effects: A review	43
A poplar B‐box protein PtrBBX23 modulates the accumulation of anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins in response to high light	42
ZmERF21 directly regulates hormone signaling and stress‐responsive gene expression to influence drought tolerance in maize seedlings	42
STAYGREEN‐mediated chlorophyll a catabolism is critical for photosystem stability during heat‐induced leaf senescence in perennial ryegrass	42
Seeking the “point of no return” in the sequence of events leading to mortality of mature trees	42
Knockout of the lignin pathway gene BnF5H decreases the S/G lignin compositional ratio and improves Sclerotinia sclerotiorum resistance in Brassica napus	42
The integration of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and calcium signalling in abiotic stress responses	42