OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Plant Journal is 56. 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
Optical maps refine the bread wheat Triticum aestivum cv. Chinese Spring genome assembly	232
Signaling mechanisms in abscisic acid‐mediated stomatal closure	201
Developing climate‐resilient crops: improving plant tolerance to stress combination	200
Phytohormones in fruit development and maturation	188
Integration of reactive oxygen species and hormone signaling during abiotic stress	183
Multiple levels of crosstalk in hormone networks regulating plant defense	173
An extended root phenotype: the rhizosphere, its formation and impacts on plant fitness	150
Melatonin metabolism, signaling and possible roles in plants	127
Hormones as go‐betweens in plant microbiome assembly	115
Designing future crops: challenges and strategies for sustainable agriculture	113
Plant apocarotenoids: from retrograde signaling to interspecific communication	111
Strigolactone biosynthesis, transport and perception	106
N⁶‐Methyladenosine mRNA methylation is important for salt stress tolerance in Arabidopsis	99
Harnessing root architecture to address global challenges	97
Cytochrome P450 CYP81A10v7 in Lolium rigidum confers metabolic resistance to herbicides across at least five modes of action	94
Plant mitochondria – past, present and future	91
Caffeoylquinic acids: chemistry, biosynthesis, occurrence, analytical challenges, and bioactivity	87
Trends and applications in plant volatile sampling and analysis	84
A quantitative trait locus GW6 controls rice grain size and yield through the gibberellin pathway	82
A high activity zinc transporter OsZIP9 mediates zinc uptake in rice	81
Cytokinin biosynthesis and transport for systemic nitrogen signaling	80
ROS production and signalling in chloroplasts: cornerstones and evolving concepts	79
Mechanisms and functions of membrane lipid remodeling in plants	78
Concurrent activation of OsAMT1;2 and OsGOGAT1 in rice leads to enhanced nitrogen use efficiency under nitrogen limitation	75
Ethylene‐activated PpERF105 induces the expression of the repressor‐type R2R3‐MYB gene PpMYB140 to inhibit anthocyanin biosynthesis in red pear fruit	75

Nanoparticle‐mediated gene transformation strategies for plant genetic engineering	73
The brassinosteroid‐responsive xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase 19 (XTH19) and XTH23 genes are involved in lateral root development under salt stress in Arabidopsis	72
WRKY42 transcription factor positively regulates leaf senescence through modulating SA and ROS synthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana	71
Arabidopsis Raf‐like kinases act as positive regulators of subclass III SnRK2 in osmostress signaling	71
Cell wall‐derived mixed‐linked β‐1,3/1,4‐glucans trigger immune responses and disease resistance in plants	70
Sugarcane genome architecture decrypted with chromosome‐specific oligo probes	67
Improving oxidative stress resilience in plants	67
Transcriptional and epigenetic analysis reveals that NAC transcription factors regulate fruit flavor ester biosynthesis	66
Foliar water and solute absorption: an update	66
Light regulation of light‐harvesting antenna size substantially enhances photosynthetic efficiency and biomass yield in green algae^†	66
Highly efficient multiplex editing: one‐shot generation of 8× Nicotiana benthamiana and 12× Arabidopsis mutants	66
Integration of electric, calcium, reactive oxygen species and hydraulic signals during rapid systemic signaling in plants	65
Direct and indirect targets of the arabidopsis seed transcription factor ABSCISIC ACID INSENSITIVE3	65
Sl‐lncRNA15492 interacts with Sl‐miR482a and affects Solanum lycopersicum immunity against Phytophthora infestans	65
Heat stress response in the closest algal relatives of land plants reveals conserved stress signaling circuits	65
OsTTG1, a WD40 repeat gene, regulates anthocyanin biosynthesis in rice	64
A zinc finger protein BBX19 interacts with ABF3 to affect drought tolerance negatively in chrysanthemum	62
Oryza sativa Lysine‐Histidine‐type Transporter 1 functions in root uptake and root‐to‐shoot allocation of amino acids in rice	61
Potato CYCLING DOF FACTOR 1 and its lncRNA counterpart StFLORE link tuber development and drought response	61
Efficient Cas9 multiplex editing using unspaced sgRNA arrays engineering in a Potato virus X vector	60
Soybean BARCSoySNP6K: An assay for soybean genetics and breeding research	60
The emergence and evolution of intron‐poor and intronless genes in intron‐rich plant gene families	60
Bulk segregation analysis in the NGS era: a review of its teenage years	59
Enhancing crop diversity for food security in the face of climate uncertainty	59
What is going on with the hormonal control of flowering in plants?	57
An efficient Oligo‐FISH painting system for revealing chromosome rearrangements and polyploidization in Triticeae	57
The evolution of the phenylpropanoid pathway entailed pronounced radiations and divergences of enzyme families	57
An improved extraction method enables the comprehensive analysis of lipids, proteins, metabolites and phytohormones from a single sample of leaf tissue under water‐deficit stress	56
A chromosome‐scale reference genome of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) provides insights into disease resistance, cold tolerance and genome evolution in Citrus	56
Targeted gene disruption of ATP synthases 6‐1 and 6‐2 in the mitochondrial genome of Arabidopsis thaliana by mitoTALENs	56
Improved genome assembly and pan‐genome provide key insights into eggplant domestication and breeding	56