OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Plant Science is 61. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Pollution: Recipe for a Multifactorial Stress Combination Disaster	564
How Plant Hormones Mediate Salt Stress Responses	508
Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age	284
Phytocannabinoids: Origins and Biosynthesis	229
Root exudates impact plant performance under abiotic stress	207
Plant immune networks	183
Transcriptional regulatory network of plant cold-stress responses	168
Proline metabolism as regulatory hub	164
Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges	158
Connecting Chlorophyll Metabolism with Accumulation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus	152
Soil carbon sequestration by root exudates	141
Hormesis: Highly Generalizable and Beyond Laboratory	138
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi conducting the hyphosphere bacterial orchestra	126
Coumarin Communication Along the Microbiome–Root–Shoot Axis	126
Priming crops for the future: rewiring stress memory	123
Tightening the Phosphorus Cycle through Phosphorus-Efficient Crop Genotypes	122
Challenges and Opportunities in Machine-Augmented Plant Stress Phenotyping	120
Phytomelatonin: An Emerging Regulator of Plant Biotic Stress Resistance	116
Nematodes as Drivers of Plant Performance in Natural Systems	109
Nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide: an indispensable combination for plant functioning	107
Killing softly: a roadmap of Botrytis cinerea pathogenicity	106
The Induced Resistance Lexicon: Do’s and Don’ts	105
Recent Advances in Arabidopsis CLE Peptide Signaling	102
Small Millets for Enduring Food Security Amidst Pandemics	97
Commercialization of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives	96

PTI and ETI: convergent pathways with diverse elicitors	94
The Coumarins: Secondary Metabolites Playing a Primary Role in Plant Nutrition and Health	93
Legacies at work: plant–soil–microbiome interactions underpinning agricultural sustainability	89
Construct design for CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing in plants	89
The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras	88
Applications of hyperspectral imaging in plant phenotyping	87
Shade Avoidance: Expanding the Color and Hormone Palette	86
Plant biodiversity promotes sustainable agriculture directly and via belowground effects	85
Addressing Research Bottlenecks to Crop Productivity	82
How roots and shoots communicate through stressful times	78
Translation of Strigolactones from Plant Hormone to Agriculture: Achievements, Future Perspectives, and Challenges	76
Altering Plant Architecture to Improve Performance and Resistance	76
ERF Gene Clusters: Working Together to Regulate Metabolism	75
Age-Dependent Abiotic Stress Resilience in Plants	74
LEDs Make It Resilient: Effects on Plant Growth and Defense	70
Stomata-mediated interactions between plants, herbivores, and the environment	70
Sustainable Cropping Requires Adaptation to a Heterogeneous Rhizosphere	69
Pre-mRNA alternative splicing as a modulator for heat stress response in plants	69
Europe’s Farm to Fork Strategy and Its Commitment to Biotechnology and Organic Farming: Conflicting or Complementary Goals?	68
Coordinating Sulfur Pools under Sulfate Deprivation	67
Mineral nutrient signaling controls photosynthesis: focus on iron deficiency-induced chlorosis	66
Plastoquinone In and Beyond Photosynthesis	66
X-ray computed tomography for 3D plant imaging	66
Advances in optical phenotyping of cereal crops	65
Domestication of Crop Metabolomes: Desired and Unintended Consequences	65
Plant metabolic gene clusters in the multi-omics era	65
Calvin–Benson cycle regulation is getting complex	65
Hydroxycinnamate Amides: Intriguing Conjugates of Plant Protective Metabolites	64
Insect frass and exuviae to promote plant growth and health	64
Belowground facilitation and trait matching: two or three to tango?	64
Ca2+talyzing Initial Responses to Environmental Stresses	64
Foxtail Millet: A New Model for C4 Plants	63
Modulators or facilitators? Roles of lipids in plant root–microbe interactions	62
Sugar and Nitrate Sensing: A Multi-Billion-Year Story	62
Cannabis Phytomolecule 'Entourage': From Domestication to Medical Use	62
Polyamines: double agents in disease and plant immunity	62
Hydraulic failure and tree mortality: from correlation to causation	61