OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant Journal is 50. 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
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Issue Information	249
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Independent regulation of strigolactones and blumenols during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis in rice	128
Leaf angle regulation toward a maize smart canopy	125
THIAMIN REQUIRING2 is involved in thiamin diphosphate biosynthesis and homeostasis	116
Diversification and evolution of serine/arginine‐rich splicing factors in plants	109
Functional genetics of rice PISTILLATA genes reveals new roles and target genes in flowering time, female fertility, and parthenocarpy	101
DNA methylation controls the expression of tanshinone synthesis genes and the tanshinone accumulation in Salvia miltiorrhiza and Salvia bowleyana	87
High temperature induces MdGATA15 to suppress anthocyanin accumulation in apple peels	86
Genomics reveal a complicated past and suggest a possible future for Nicotiana benthamiana	85
Jasmonate primes plant responses to extracellular ATP	85
A chromosome‐scale assembly of Brassica carinata (BBCC) accession HC20 containing resistance to multiple pathogens and an early generation assessment of introgressions into B. jun	85
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Loss of daylength sensitivity by splice site mutation in Cannabis pseudo‐response regulator	72
Differential regulation of calcium‐activated plant kinases in Arabidopsis thaliana	72
Protein interaction mapping reveals widespread targeting of development‐related host transcription factors by phytoplasma effectors	71
Subgenome‐dominant expression and alternative splicing in response to Sclerotinia infection in polyploid Brassica napus and progenitors	69
Distinct composition and amplification dynamics of transposable elements in sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.)	69
Cell wall remodeling confers plant architecture with distinct wall structure in Nelumbo nucifera	65
Alternative splicing of CsJAZ1 negatively regulates flavan‐3‐ol biosynthesis in tea plants	65
Thecellulose synthase‐like F3(CslF3) gene mediates cell wall polysaccharide synthesis and affects root growth and differentiation in barley	64
Characterization of an α‐ketoglutarate‐dependent oxygenase involved in converting 2‐(2‐phenylethyl)chromones into 2‐styrylchromones in agarwood	64
Translation Co‐factor PABP ‐interacting protein 11 moonlights as a transcriptional activator to modulate callose synthesis gene expression	64

Protein stability governed by α1–2 helices in Pvr4 is essential for localization and cell death	63
Profiling of RNA editing events in plant organellar transcriptomes with high‐throughput sequencing	63
Roots on steroids – how progestogens and androgens influence root morphology of angiosperms	62
Genetic effects on chromatin accessibility reveal the molecular mechanisms of complex traits in maize	61
Isocitrate lyase promotes Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici susceptibility in wheat (Triticum aestivum) by suppressing accumulation of glyoxylate cycle intermediates	61
Genetic mapping and transcriptome profiling of a chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) mutant identifies a novel locus (CaEl) regulating organ size and early vigor	61
Cytonuclear interplay in auto‐ and allopolyploids: a multifaceted perspective from the Festuca‐Lolium complex	61
Tasselyzer, a machine learning method to quantify maize anther exertion, based on PlantCV	60
ANTHRACNOSE RESISTANCE GENE2 confers fungal resistance in sorghum	60
LIKE HETEROCHROMATIN PROTEIN 1 (LHP1) partially inhibits the transcriptional activation of FT by MYB73 and regulates flowering in Arabidopsis	59
PDR9 allelic variation and MYB63 modulate nutrient‐dependent coumarin homeostasis in Arabidopsis	59
Identification of candidate genes in cotton associated with specific seed traits and their initial functional characterization in Arabidopsis	58
The DnaJ1 heat shock protein interacts with the flavanone 3‐hydroxylase‐like protein F3HL to synergistically enhance drought tolerance by scavenging reactive oxygen species in tomato	57
Integrated multi‐omics analyses provide new insights into genomic variation landscape and regulatory network candidate genes associated with walnut endocarp	56
Conquering new grounds: plant organellar C‐to‐U RNA editing factors can be functional in the plant cytosol	56
Poly(A) polymerase 1 contributes to competence acquisition of pollen tubes growing through the style inArabidopsis thaliana	56
Untargeted metabolomic analyses reveal the diversity and plasticity of the specialized metabolome in seeds of different Camelina sativa genotypes	55
Metabolic priming in G6PDH isoenzyme‐replaced tobacco lines improves stress tolerance and seed yields via altering assimilate partitioning	55
Phylogeny and disparate selection signatures suggest two genetically independent domestication events in pea (Pisum L.)	55
CEPR1 regulates Arabidopsis thaliana root architecture by modulating auxin production via NIT1	55
Cotton GhNAC4 promotes drought tolerance by regulating secondary cell wall biosynthesis and ribosomal protein homeostasis	54
Genetic dissection of ear‐related trait divergence between maize and teosinte	54
Raffinose positively regulates maize drought tolerance by reducing leaf transpiration	53
Integrated analyses of metabolome, leaf anatomy, epigenome, and transcriptome under different light intensities reveal dynamic regulation of histone modifications on the high light adaptation in	53
Regulation as key to fulfilling the promises of agricultural genomics: Going beyond bottlenecks in plant gene technology development	52
Studying ER‐membrane contact sites in plants using the optogenetic approach: Taking the LiMETER as an example	50
Regulation of vacuole fusion in stomata by dephosphorylation of the HOPS subunit VPS39	50
GIGANTEA accelerates wheat heading time through gene interactions converging on FLOWERING LOCUS T1	50
The chromosome‐scale assembly of the Salvia rosmarinus genome provides insight into carnosic acid biosynthesis	50
AFL1 is a phosphoinositide phosphate‐ and actin‐binding protein	50