Trends in Plant Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Plant Science is 20. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Pollution: Recipe for a Multifactorial Stress Combination Disaster446
How Plant Hormones Mediate Salt Stress Responses426
Stories of Salicylic Acid: A Plant Defense Hormone377
Microbiome-Mediated Stress Resistance in Plants345
Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age247
Phytocannabinoids: Origins and Biosynthesis195
The CBL–CIPK Calcium Signaling Network: Unified Paradigm from 20 Years of Discoveries180
Root exudates impact plant performance under abiotic stress155
Linking the Phyllosphere Microbiome to Plant Health144
Salicylic Acid Steers the Growth–Immunity Tradeoff136
Plant immune networks135
Digging Deeper for Agricultural Resources, the Value of Deep Rooting128
Hormesis: Highly Generalizable and Beyond Laboratory128
Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought128
Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges127
Potential Applications of Plant Biotechnology against SARS-CoV-2126
Connecting Chlorophyll Metabolism with Accumulation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus121
Transcriptional regulatory network of plant cold-stress responses120
Proline metabolism as regulatory hub108
Vertical Farming: Moving from Genetic to Environmental Modification106
Coumarin Communication Along the Microbiome–Root–Shoot Axis106
Phytomelatonin: An Emerging Regulator of Plant Biotic Stress Resistance102
Tightening the Phosphorus Cycle through Phosphorus-Efficient Crop Genotypes101
Soil carbon sequestration by root exudates100
The Many Models of Strigolactone Signaling95
Challenges and Opportunities in Machine-Augmented Plant Stress Phenotyping92
Nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide: an indispensable combination for plant functioning92
Nematodes as Drivers of Plant Performance in Natural Systems90
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi conducting the hyphosphere bacterial orchestra88
Priming crops for the future: rewiring stress memory87
Hide-and-Seek: Chitin-Triggered Plant Immunity and Fungal Counterstrategies87
Gossypium Genomics: Trends, Scope, and Utilization for Cotton Improvement86
Small Millets for Enduring Food Security Amidst Pandemics86
The Induced Resistance Lexicon: Do’s and Don’ts86
Recent Advances in Arabidopsis CLE Peptide Signaling86
Malate Circulation: Linking Chloroplast Metabolism to Mitochondrial ROS84
The Hidden Costs of Nighttime Warming on Yields84
Genetic Control of Glandular Trichome Development83
The Coumarins: Secondary Metabolites Playing a Primary Role in Plant Nutrition and Health82
Delivering Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management (IPPM)81
Endophytes: The Second Layer of Plant Defense81
Commercialization of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives81
Construct design for CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing in plants76
Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security76
Niche Perspectives on Plant–Pollinator Interactions75
Fine-Tuning Immunity: Players and Regulators for Plant NLRs75
Addressing Research Bottlenecks to Crop Productivity75
Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus: Impact, Challenges, and Management74
GORK Channel: A Master Switch of Plant Metabolism?73
PTI and ETI: convergent pathways with diverse elicitors72
Linking Plant Functional Ecology to Island Biogeography69
How roots and shoots communicate through stressful times68
Shade Avoidance: Expanding the Color and Hormone Palette67
Foliar Water Uptake in Trees: Negligible or Necessary?67
The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras67
Chloroplast Transition Metal Regulation for Efficient Photosynthesis65
Roadmap for Accelerated Domestication of an Emerging Perennial Grain Crop65
ERF Gene Clusters: Working Together to Regulate Metabolism65
Altering Plant Architecture to Improve Performance and Resistance64
Counting on Crossovers: Controlled Recombination for Plant Breeding64
Plant biodiversity promotes sustainable agriculture directly and via belowground effects64
Coordinating Sulfur Pools under Sulfate Deprivation62
Translation of Strigolactones from Plant Hormone to Agriculture: Achievements, Future Perspectives, and Challenges62
Legacies at work: plant–soil–microbiome interactions underpinning agricultural sustainability60
Age-Dependent Abiotic Stress Resilience in Plants60
Plastoquinone In and Beyond Photosynthesis59
Applications of hyperspectral imaging in plant phenotyping59
Domestication of Crop Metabolomes: Desired and Unintended Consequences58
Europe’s Farm to Fork Strategy and Its Commitment to Biotechnology and Organic Farming: Conflicting or Complementary Goals?58
LEDs Make It Resilient: Effects on Plant Growth and Defense58
Sustainable Cropping Requires Adaptation to a Heterogeneous Rhizosphere57
Calvin–Benson cycle regulation is getting complex55
Sugar and Nitrate Sensing: A Multi-Billion-Year Story55
Prospects for Carotenoid Biofortification Targeting Retention and Catabolism54
Belowground facilitation and trait matching: two or three to tango?54
Ca2+talyzing Initial Responses to Environmental Stresses54
Reuniting the Biogeochemistry of Algae for a Low-Carbon Circular Bioeconomy53
Cannabis Phytomolecule 'Entourage': From Domestication to Medical Use53
Parallel Transcriptional Regulation of Artemisinin and Flavonoid Biosynthesis52
Pre-mRNA alternative splicing as a modulator for heat stress response in plants52
Hydroxycinnamate Amides: Intriguing Conjugates of Plant Protective Metabolites52
Vacuole Biogenesis in Plants: How Many Vacuoles, How Many Models?51
X-ray computed tomography for 3D plant imaging51
Stomata-mediated interactions between plants, herbivores, and the environment50
Foxtail Millet: A New Model for C4 Plants49
Mineral nutrient signaling controls photosynthesis: focus on iron deficiency-induced chlorosis49
Advances in optical phenotyping of cereal crops49
Aromatic Amino Acids: A Complex Network Ripe for Future Exploration48
Polyamines: double agents in disease and plant immunity48
Hydraulic failure and tree mortality: from correlation to causation48
Killing softly: a roadmap of Botrytis cinerea pathogenicity48
How do plants sense volatiles sent by other plants?48
Insect frass and exuviae to promote plant growth and health48
Woody Plant Declines. What’s Wrong with the Microbiome?47
Fine-Tuning of RBOH-Mediated ROS Signaling in Plant Immunity47
Anthropogenic Seed Dispersal: Rethinking the Origins of Plant Domestication47
Looking for Root Hairs to Overcome Poor Soils46
Modulators or facilitators? Roles of lipids in plant root–microbe interactions46
Transgenic Poplar Designed for Biofuels46
How Plants Synthesize Pyrethrins: Safe and Biodegradable Insecticides45
High-throughput plant phenotyping: a role for metabolomics?45
Exploring environmental selection on genome size in angiosperms44
Beat the heat: plant- and microbe-mediated strategies for crop thermotolerance44
Breeding toward improved ecological plant–microbiome interactions44
Rhizospheric Plant–Microbe Interactions: miRNAs as a Key Mediator44
Emerging Connections between Small RNAs and Phytohormones44
Nuclear Dynamics in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi43
Towards Unraveling Macroecological Patterns in Rhizosphere Microbiomes43
Ties between Stress and Lipid Droplets Pre-date Seeds42
Chloroplasts are key players to cope with light and temperature stress41
PRC2 activity, recruitment, and silencing: a comparative perspective41
Glyphosate-Modulated Biosynthesis Driving Plant Defense and Species Interactions41
Plant metabolic gene clusters in the multi-omics era41
De-Domestication: An Extension of Crop Evolution40
Nitrogen Systemic Signaling: From Symbiotic Nodulation to Root Acquisition39
Bacterial volatile compound-based tools for crop management and quality39
Abscisic acid and its role in the modulation of plant growth, development, and yield stability39
Pathogen Effectors: Exploiting the Promiscuity of Plant Signaling Hubs38
Waxy Editing: Old Meets New37
The End of Botany37
Plant microbiota dysbiosis and the Anna Karenina Principle37
At the Crossroads of Survival and Death: The Reactive Oxygen Species–Ethylene–Sugar Triad and the Unfolded Protein Response35
Root-Apex Proton Fluxes at the Centre of Soil-Stress Acclimation35
The Emerging Role of GSNOR in Oxidative Stress Regulation35
Single-Cell Genomics and Epigenomics: Technologies and Applications in Plants35
Multifaceted Roles of Plant Autophagy in Lipid and Energy Metabolism35
Gaining Acceptance of Novel Plant Breeding Technologies34
Bending to auxin: fast acid growth for tropisms34
GRF-GIF Chimeras Boost Plant Regeneration34
Active and adaptive plasticity in a changing climate33
What Makes Bread and Durum Wheat Different?33
Complex cellular and molecular events determining fruit size33
Dark septate endophytes: mutualism from by-products?33
Plant Osmotic Stress Signaling: MAPKKKs Meet SnRK2s33
Does the GABA Shunt Regulate Cytosolic GABA?32
Ménage à Trois: Unraveling the Mechanisms Regulating Plant–Microbe–Arthropod Interactions32
GSK3s: nodes of multilayer regulation of plant development and stress responses32
Why and How to Dig into Plant Metabolite–Protein Interactions32
Making Sense of the Way Plants Sense Herbivores32
Peptide Signaling during Plant Reproduction32
NO source in higher plants: present and future of an unresolved question32
The decline of plant mineral nutrition under rising CO2: physiological and molecular aspects of a bad deal31
Susceptibility reversed: modified plant susceptibility genes for resistance to bacteria31
Centrality of BAGs in Plant PCD, Stress Responses, and Host Defense31
Transcriptional regulatory network of high-value active ingredients in medicinal plants31
Coordination of Phospholipid-Based Signaling and Membrane Trafficking in Plant Immunity30
A G(enomic)P(ositioning)S(ystem) for Plant RNAPII Transcription30
Phage Cocktail Therapy: Multiple Ways to Suppress Pathogenicity30
Prime Editing: Game Changer for Modifying Plant Genomes29
Plant Defense Networks against Insect-Borne Pathogens28
All Traits Are Functional: An Evolutionary Viewpoint28
Stomata in a state of emergency: H2O2 is the target locked28
Silicon mobilisation by root-released carboxylates28
Mass Spectrometry Untangles Plant Membrane Protein Signaling Networks28
Modeling Ambitions Outpace Observations of Forest Carbon Allocation28
Synergistic and antagonistic pleiotropy of STOP1 in stress tolerance28
A gift from parent to offspring: transgenerational hormesis28
Machine learning bridges omics sciences and plant breeding27
Weed-induced crop yield loss: a new paradigm and new challenges27
Do Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases Aid in Plant Pathogenesis and Herbivory?26
Deep inside the epigenetic memories of stressed plants26
Ecological Interactions, Environmental Gradients, and Gene Flow in Local Adaptation26
Evolution-Driven Versatility of N Terminal Acetylation in Photoautotrophs26
Lineage-Specific Genes and Cryptic Sex: Parallels and Differences between Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Fungal Pathogens26
The risk of transmitting antibiotic resistance through endophytic bacteria25
Crafting a blueprint for single-cell RNA sequencing25
Microalgal nanocellulose – opportunities for a circular bioeconomy25
Root cell types as an interface for biotic interactions25
Plant defense strategies against attack by multiple herbivores24
Incorporating clonality into the plant ecology research agenda24
Molecular evolution and functional modification of plant miRNAs with CRISPR24
Cell–cell signaling during the Brassicaceae self-incompatibility response24
Breeding Next-Generation Naturally Colored Cotton24
Microalgae strain improvement strategies: random mutagenesis and adaptive laboratory evolution24
Building soil sustainability from root–soil interface traits24
Resistance genes on the verge of plant–virus interaction24
CRISPR/Cas-mediated plant genome editing: outstanding challenges a decade after implementation24
Promoting Ethically Responsible Use of Agricultural Biotechnology24
Weeds: Against the Rules?24
How to Grow a Tree: Plant Voltage-Dependent Cation Channels in the Spotlight of Evolution23
Origins of strigolactone and karrikin signaling in plants23
Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation23
m6A Editing: New Tool to Improve Crop Quality?23
Revisiting plant salt tolerance: novel components of the SOS pathway23
Brachypodium: 20 years as a grass biology model system; the way forward?22
Does Gene Expression Noise Play a Functional Role in Plants?22
Mechanisms of lysigenous aerenchyma formation under abiotic stress22
Functions of WRKYs in plant growth and development22
CBF-phyB-PIF Module Links Light and Low Temperature Signaling22
Dynamic epigenetic modifications in plant sugar signal transduction22
A ménage à trois: salicylic acid, growth inhibition, and immunity22
The role of ethylene in plant temperature stress response21
Fuels for ROS signaling in plant immunity21
Botanical Monography in the Anthropocene21
Time Will Tell: Intercellular Communication in the Plant Clock21
Charting plant gene functions in the multi-omics and single-cell era21
Noncoding but Coding: Pri-miRNA into the Action21
Emerging Trends in Metalloid-Dependent Signaling in Plants21
Phyllotaxis from a Single Apical Cell21
A rulebook for peptide control of legume–microbe endosymbioses21
New Evidence of Thermally Constrained Plant Cell Wall Lignification21
Parsimonious Use of Pesticide-Treated Seeds: An Integrated Pest Management Framework20
Noninvasive imaging technologies in plant phenotyping20
The origin and early evolution of plants20
Calcium signaling in plant immunity: a spatiotemporally controlled symphony20
Take-All Disease: New Insights into an Important Wheat Root Pathogen20
Achieving Plant Genome Editing While Bypassing Tissue Culture20
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