OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant Science is 39. 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
Review: Climate change impacts on food security- focus on perennial cropping systems and nutritional value	144
An overview of plant-based natural biostimulants for sustainable horticulture with a particular focus on moringa leaf extracts	136
Breeder friendly phenotyping	134
Advances in biosynthesis, regulation, and metabolic engineering of plant specialized terpenoids	122
Sucrose signaling in higher plants	117
Hydrogen sulfide: Roles in plant abiotic stress response and crosstalk with other signals	83
CRISPR/Cas9 targeted mutagenesis of SlLBD40, a lateral organ boundaries domain transcription factor, enhances drought tolerance in tomato	82
MYB4 transcription factor, a member of R2R3-subfamily of MYB domain protein, regulates cadmium tolerance via enhanced protection against oxidative damage and increases expression of PCS1 and MT1C in A	80
A review of starch, a unique biopolymer – Structure, metabolism and in planta modifications	79
Specialized phenolic compounds in seeds: structures, functions, and regulations	60
Investigating potato late blight physiological differences across potato cultivars with spectroscopy and machine learning	57
Unfinished story of polyamines: Role of conjugation, transport and light-related regulation in the polyamine metabolism in plants	56
The rin, nor and Cnr spontaneous mutations inhibit tomato fruit ripening in additive and epistatic manners	55
The MdHY5-MdWRKY41-MdMYB transcription factor cascade regulates the anthocyanin and proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in red-fleshed apple	55
Melatonin promotes carotenoid biosynthesis in an ethylene-dependent manner in tomato fruits	54
Jasmonic acid promotes leaf senescence through MYC2-mediated repression of CATALASE2 expression in Arabidopsis	54
Advances and challenges in medicinal plant breeding	54
OsIAA20, an Aux/IAA protein, mediates abiotic stress tolerance in rice through an ABA pathway	53
Successes and insights of an industry biotech program to enhance maize agronomic traits	52
The impact of stress combination on reproductive processes in crops	51
A Paeonia ostii caffeoyl-CoA O-methyltransferase confers drought stress tolerance by promoting lignin synthesis and ROS scavenging	51
A cotton NAC transcription factor GhirNAC2 plays positive roles in drought tolerance via regulating ABA biosynthesis	50
Revisiting the ORCA gene cluster that regulates terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus	50
Analysis of N6-methyladenosine reveals a new important mechanism regulating the salt tolerance of sweet sorghum	50
Programmed cell death (PCD) control in plants: New insights from the Arabidopsis thaliana deathosome	48

Melatonin antagonizes ABA action to promote seed germination by regulating Ca2+ efflux and H2O2 accumulation	48
Review: Metabolomics as a prediction tool for plants performance under environmental stress	45
A detailed landscape of CRISPR-Cas-mediated plant disease and pest management	44
MicroRNA858 negatively regulates anthocyanin biosynthesis by repressing AaMYBC1 expression in kiwifruit (Actinidia arguta)	44
Expansin gene TaEXPA2 positively regulates drought tolerance in transgenic wheat (Triticum aestivum L.)	43
Stress memory of physiological, biochemical and metabolomic responses in two different rice genotypes under drought stress: The scale matters	42
Molecular components associated with the regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis	42
Gibberellin recovers seed germination in rice with impaired brassinosteroid signalling	41
Review: The effects of hormones and environmental factors on anthocyanin biosynthesis in apple	41
Tomato BZR/BES transcription factor SlBZR1 positively regulates BR signaling and salt stress tolerance in tomato and Arabidopsis	41
Functional characterization of SmMYB86, a negative regulator of anthocyanin biosynthesis in eggplant (Solanum melongena L.)	40
MdWRKY30, a group IIa WRKY gene from apple, confers tolerance to salinity and osmotic stresses in transgenic apple callus and Arabidopsis seedlings	40
Rhamnose in plants - from biosynthesis to diverse functions	39
A wheat R2R3 MYB gene TaMpc1-D4 negatively regulates drought tolerance in transgenic Arabidopsis and wheat	39
The tonoplast-localized transporter OsABCC9 is involved in cadmium tolerance and accumulation in rice	39