Trends in Plant Science

Papers
(The median citation count of Trends in Plant Science is 5. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
How Plant Hormones Mediate Salt Stress Responses403
Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Pollution: Recipe for a Multifactorial Stress Combination Disaster388
Stories of Salicylic Acid: A Plant Defense Hormone354
Microbiome-Mediated Stress Resistance in Plants330
Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age224
Phytocannabinoids: Origins and Biosynthesis181
The CBL–CIPK Calcium Signaling Network: Unified Paradigm from 20 Years of Discoveries171
Super-Pangenome by Integrating the Wild Side of a Species for Accelerated Crop Improvement168
Linking the Phyllosphere Microbiome to Plant Health135
Salicylic Acid Steers the Growth–Immunity Tradeoff129
Root exudates impact plant performance under abiotic stress126
Potential Applications of Plant Biotechnology against SARS-CoV-2125
Hormesis: Highly Generalizable and Beyond Laboratory125
Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought122
Digging Deeper for Agricultural Resources, the Value of Deep Rooting119
Single-Cell Transcriptomics: A High-Resolution Avenue for Plant Functional Genomics119
Plant immune networks115
Connecting Chlorophyll Metabolism with Accumulation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus115
Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges111
Transcriptional regulatory network of plant cold-stress responses101
Vertical Farming: Moving from Genetic to Environmental Modification100
Tightening the Phosphorus Cycle through Phosphorus-Efficient Crop Genotypes99
Alternative Biome States in Terrestrial Ecosystems99
Phytomelatonin: An Emerging Regulator of Plant Biotic Stress Resistance98
Proline metabolism as regulatory hub97
Coumarin Communication Along the Microbiome–Root–Shoot Axis97
The Many Models of Strigolactone Signaling90
Nematodes as Drivers of Plant Performance in Natural Systems85
Hide-and-Seek: Chitin-Triggered Plant Immunity and Fungal Counterstrategies84
Challenges and Opportunities in Machine-Augmented Plant Stress Phenotyping83
Malate Circulation: Linking Chloroplast Metabolism to Mitochondrial ROS82
Nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide: an indispensable combination for plant functioning82
Recent Advances in Arabidopsis CLE Peptide Signaling81
Soil carbon sequestration by root exudates80
Allelopathic Plants: Models for Studying Plant–Interkingdom Interactions79
The Hidden Costs of Nighttime Warming on Yields79
Gossypium Genomics: Trends, Scope, and Utilization for Cotton Improvement78
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi conducting the hyphosphere bacterial orchestra78
The Induced Resistance Lexicon: Do’s and Don’ts78
Small Millets for Enduring Food Security Amidst Pandemics77
Endophytes: The Second Layer of Plant Defense77
Genetic Control of Glandular Trichome Development77
Delivering Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management (IPPM)76
Commercialization of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives75
The Coumarins: Secondary Metabolites Playing a Primary Role in Plant Nutrition and Health75
Priming crops for the future: rewiring stress memory75
Fine-Tuning Immunity: Players and Regulators for Plant NLRs74
Addressing Research Bottlenecks to Crop Productivity73
Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus: Impact, Challenges, and Management72
Niche Perspectives on Plant–Pollinator Interactions72
Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security71
Construct design for CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing in plants70
GORK Channel: A Master Switch of Plant Metabolism?70
PTI and ETI: convergent pathways with diverse elicitors66
Shade Avoidance: Expanding the Color and Hormone Palette64
Revisiting the Role of Master Regulators in Tomato Ripening64
Foliar Water Uptake in Trees: Negligible or Necessary?63
Roadmap for Accelerated Domestication of an Emerging Perennial Grain Crop63
Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography63
Counting on Crossovers: Controlled Recombination for Plant Breeding62
Altering Plant Architecture to Improve Performance and Resistance62
Chloroplast Transition Metal Regulation for Efficient Photosynthesis61
ERF Gene Clusters: Working Together to Regulate Metabolism61
Coordinating Sulfur Pools under Sulfate Deprivation60
How roots and shoots communicate through stressful times60
The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras58
Plastoquinone In and Beyond Photosynthesis57
Europe’s Farm to Fork Strategy and Its Commitment to Biotechnology and Organic Farming: Conflicting or Complementary Goals?57
Translation of Strigolactones from Plant Hormone to Agriculture: Achievements, Future Perspectives, and Challenges56
LEDs Make It Resilient: Effects on Plant Growth and Defense56
Age-Dependent Abiotic Stress Resilience in Plants55
Applications of hyperspectral imaging in plant phenotyping54
Domestication of Crop Metabolomes: Desired and Unintended Consequences54
Prospects for Carotenoid Biofortification Targeting Retention and Catabolism53
Plant biodiversity promotes sustainable agriculture directly and via belowground effects53
Sustainable Cropping Requires Adaptation to a Heterogeneous Rhizosphere53
Sugar and Nitrate Sensing: A Multi-Billion-Year Story52
Ca2+talyzing Initial Responses to Environmental Stresses52
Cannabis Phytomolecule 'Entourage': From Domestication to Medical Use52
Legacies at work: plant–soil–microbiome interactions underpinning agricultural sustainability52
Hydroxycinnamate Amides: Intriguing Conjugates of Plant Protective Metabolites50
Belowground facilitation and trait matching: two or three to tango?50
Calvin–Benson cycle regulation is getting complex49
Parallel Transcriptional Regulation of Artemisinin and Flavonoid Biosynthesis49
Vacuole Biogenesis in Plants: How Many Vacuoles, How Many Models?49
Reuniting the Biogeochemistry of Algae for a Low-Carbon Circular Bioeconomy49
The Modular Control of Cereal Endosperm Development48
Advances in optical phenotyping of cereal crops48
X-ray computed tomography for 3D plant imaging46
Pre-mRNA alternative splicing as a modulator for heat stress response in plants46
Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication44
Transgenic Poplar Designed for Biofuels44
Emerging Connections between Small RNAs and Phytohormones43
Stomata-mediated interactions between plants, herbivores, and the environment43
Mineral nutrient signaling controls photosynthesis: focus on iron deficiency-induced chlorosis43
Fine-Tuning of RBOH-Mediated ROS Signaling in Plant Immunity43
Polyamines: double agents in disease and plant immunity43
How Plants Synthesize Pyrethrins: Safe and Biodegradable Insecticides42
Towards Unraveling Macroecological Patterns in Rhizosphere Microbiomes42
Woody Plant Declines. What’s Wrong with the Microbiome?42
Foxtail Millet: A New Model for C4 Plants42
Killing softly: a roadmap of Botrytis cinerea pathogenicity41
Exploring environmental selection on genome size in angiosperms41
Aromatic Amino Acids: A Complex Network Ripe for Future Exploration41
Applying the Solanaceae Strategies to Strawberry Crop Improvement41
A Model for Nitrogen Fixation in Cereal Crops41
Looking for Root Hairs to Overcome Poor Soils41
How do plants sense volatiles sent by other plants?41
Ties between Stress and Lipid Droplets Pre-date Seeds41
Beat the heat: plant- and microbe-mediated strategies for crop thermotolerance40
Nuclear Dynamics in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi40
Glyphosate-Modulated Biosynthesis Driving Plant Defense and Species Interactions40
Insect frass and exuviae to promote plant growth and health40
Rhizospheric Plant–Microbe Interactions: miRNAs as a Key Mediator40
Hydraulic failure and tree mortality: from correlation to causation38
The End of Botany37
Plant metabolic gene clusters in the multi-omics era37
PRC2 activity, recruitment, and silencing: a comparative perspective37
Bacterial volatile compound-based tools for crop management and quality37
Nanovehicles for Plant Modifications towards Pest- and Disease-Resistance Traits37
De-Domestication: An Extension of Crop Evolution37
High-throughput plant phenotyping: a role for metabolomics?37
Waxy Editing: Old Meets New36
Breeding toward improved ecological plant–microbiome interactions36
Eating Away at ROS to Regulate Stomatal Opening35
Nitrogen Systemic Signaling: From Symbiotic Nodulation to Root Acquisition35
Root-Apex Proton Fluxes at the Centre of Soil-Stress Acclimation35
Abscisic acid and its role in the modulation of plant growth, development, and yield stability35
Single-Cell Genomics and Epigenomics: Technologies and Applications in Plants34
Unraveling the Linkage between Retrograde Signaling and RNA Metabolism in Plants34
Chloroplasts are key players to cope with light and temperature stress34
Multifaceted Roles of Plant Autophagy in Lipid and Energy Metabolism34
Modulators or facilitators? Roles of lipids in plant root–microbe interactions34
Plant Osmotic Stress Signaling: MAPKKKs Meet SnRK2s33
Gaining Acceptance of Novel Plant Breeding Technologies33
Light Emission in Betalains: From Fluorescent Flowers to Biotechnological Applications33
The Emerging Role of GSNOR in Oxidative Stress Regulation33
Pathogen Effectors: Exploiting the Promiscuity of Plant Signaling Hubs32
At the Crossroads of Survival and Death: The Reactive Oxygen Species–Ethylene–Sugar Triad and the Unfolded Protein Response32
Bending to auxin: fast acid growth for tropisms31
Peptide Signaling during Plant Reproduction31
What Makes Bread and Durum Wheat Different?31
Does the GABA Shunt Regulate Cytosolic GABA?30
GRF-GIF Chimeras Boost Plant Regeneration30
Phage Cocktail Therapy: Multiple Ways to Suppress Pathogenicity30
GSK3s: nodes of multilayer regulation of plant development and stress responses30
Why and How to Dig into Plant Metabolite–Protein Interactions30
A G(enomic)P(ositioning)S(ystem) for Plant RNAPII Transcription30
Centrality of BAGs in Plant PCD, Stress Responses, and Host Defense30
Active and adaptive plasticity in a changing climate30
Plant microbiota dysbiosis and the Anna Karenina Principle30
Making Sense of the Way Plants Sense Herbivores30
Susceptibility reversed: modified plant susceptibility genes for resistance to bacteria30
Ménage à Trois: Unraveling the Mechanisms Regulating Plant–Microbe–Arthropod Interactions29
Consciousness Facilitates Plant Behavior28
Coordination of Phospholipid-Based Signaling and Membrane Trafficking in Plant Immunity28
Prime Editing: Game Changer for Modifying Plant Genomes28
Dark septate endophytes: mutualism from by-products?28
A gift from parent to offspring: transgenerational hormesis28
Silicon mobilisation by root-released carboxylates27
The decline of plant mineral nutrition under rising CO2: physiological and molecular aspects of a bad deal26
NO source in higher plants: present and future of an unresolved question26
Modeling Ambitions Outpace Observations of Forest Carbon Allocation26
Do Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases Aid in Plant Pathogenesis and Herbivory?26
Plant Defense Networks against Insect-Borne Pathogens25
Complex cellular and molecular events determining fruit size25
Crafting a blueprint for single-cell RNA sequencing25
The risk of transmitting antibiotic resistance through endophytic bacteria25
Mass Spectrometry Untangles Plant Membrane Protein Signaling Networks25
Evolution-Driven Versatility of N Terminal Acetylation in Photoautotrophs25
Transcriptional regulatory network of high-value active ingredients in medicinal plants25
Molecular evolution and functional modification of plant miRNAs with CRISPR24
Synergistic and antagonistic pleiotropy of STOP1 in stress tolerance24
Microalgal nanocellulose – opportunities for a circular bioeconomy24
All Traits Are Functional: An Evolutionary Viewpoint24
Ecological Interactions, Environmental Gradients, and Gene Flow in Local Adaptation24
Incorporating clonality into the plant ecology research agenda23
Stomata in a state of emergency: H2O2 is the target locked23
Lineage-Specific Genes and Cryptic Sex: Parallels and Differences between Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Fungal Pathogens23
How to Grow a Tree: Plant Voltage-Dependent Cation Channels in the Spotlight of Evolution23
Root cell types as an interface for biotic interactions23
CBF-phyB-PIF Module Links Light and Low Temperature Signaling22
Cell–cell signaling during the Brassicaceae self-incompatibility response22
Real-Time Volatilomics: A Novel Approach for Analyzing Biological Samples22
Microalgae strain improvement strategies: random mutagenesis and adaptive laboratory evolution22
Promoting Ethically Responsible Use of Agricultural Biotechnology22
Weeds: Against the Rules?22
Deep inside the epigenetic memories of stressed plants22
m6A Editing: New Tool to Improve Crop Quality?22
Breeding Next-Generation Naturally Colored Cotton21
Time Will Tell: Intercellular Communication in the Plant Clock21
Building soil sustainability from root–soil interface traits21
Plant defense strategies against attack by multiple herbivores21
Origins of strigolactone and karrikin signaling in plants21
A ménage à trois: salicylic acid, growth inhibition, and immunity21
Resistance genes on the verge of plant–virus interaction21
Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation21
Does Gene Expression Noise Play a Functional Role in Plants?21
Parsimonious Use of Pesticide-Treated Seeds: An Integrated Pest Management Framework20
New Evidence of Thermally Constrained Plant Cell Wall Lignification20
Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolases: An Expanded Capacity for Chemical Communication?20
Machine learning bridges omics sciences and plant breeding20
Botanical Monography in the Anthropocene20
Revisiting plant salt tolerance: novel components of the SOS pathway20
Phyllotaxis from a Single Apical Cell20
Noncoding but Coding: Pri-miRNA into the Action20
Weed-induced crop yield loss: a new paradigm and new challenges20
Adaptive Growth: Shaping Auxin-Mediated Root System Architecture20
A rulebook for peptide control of legume–microbe endosymbioses19
Brachypodium: 20 years as a grass biology model system; the way forward?19
Achieving Plant Genome Editing While Bypassing Tissue Culture19
Making sense of the natural antisense transcript puzzle19
Pectin Drives Cell Wall Morphogenesis without Turgor Pressure19
CRISPR-TSKO: A Tool for Tissue-Specific Genome Editing in Plants19
Mechanisms of lysigenous aerenchyma formation under abiotic stress19
Dynamic epigenetic modifications in plant sugar signal transduction18
Promoting Model Systems of Microbiota–Medicinal Plant Interactions18
Anatomics: High-throughput phenotyping of plant anatomy18
Emerging Trends in Metalloid-Dependent Signaling in Plants18
Enzymes as Parts in Need of Replacement – and How to Extend Their Working Life18
Calcium signaling in plant immunity: a spatiotemporally controlled symphony17
Physiology and the (Neuro)biology of Plant Behavior: A Farewell to Arms17
The origin and early evolution of plants17
Zn2+-Dependent Histone Deacetylases in Plants: Structure and Evolution17
Shining a light on NAD- and NADP-based metabolism in plants17
Take-All Disease: New Insights into an Important Wheat Root Pathogen17
Tropical Trees as Time Capsules of Anthropogenic Activity17
JA Shakes Hands with ABA to Delay Seed Germination17
Mutagenesis and genome editing in crop improvement: perspectives for the global regulatory landscape17
Into the weeds: new insights in plant stress17
Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits17
Ecology and functional potential of phyllosphere yeasts16
Exploring New Blue Carbon Plants for Sustainable Ecosystems16
Ecosystem services of cover crops: a research roadmap16
Charting plant gene functions in the multi-omics and single-cell era16
Emerging Plant Thermosensors: From RNA to Protein16
Opening Doors for Cytokinin Trafficking at the ER Membrane16
Functions of WRKYs in plant growth and development16
Seeking Crops with Balanced Parts for the Ideal Whole16
CRISPR/Cas-mediated plant genome editing: outstanding challenges a decade after implementation16
Circular biomanufacturing through harvesting solar energy and CO216
Synthesis and Function of Complex Sphingolipid Glycosylation16
Reply to Trewavas et al. and Calvo and Trewavas15
What can mechanistic models tell us about guard cells, photosynthesis, and water use efficiency?15
MicroRNAs: emerging regulators in horticultural crops15
Silica nanoparticles: the rising star in plant disease protection15
Genome-wide association studies in plant pathosystems: success or failure?15
Spatiotemporal limitations in plant biology research15
Physiological functions of malate shuttles in plants and algae15
Alternative Routes to Improving Photosynthesis in Field Crops15
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