Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Article	Citations
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	164
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	124
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	107
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	103
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	98
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	95
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	80
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	78
Contents	75
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	74
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	66
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	66
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	64
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	63
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	60
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	60
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	59
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	58
Editorial Board	57
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	56
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	56
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	56
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	53
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	52
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	52

The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	52
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	51
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	50
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	50
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	50
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	50
Contents	47
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	47
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	46
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	46
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	45
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	44
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	43
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	43
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	43
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	42
Contents	39
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	39
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	39
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	39
Diverse regulatory mechanisms of StARkin domains in land plants and mammals	38
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	38
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	37
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	37
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	37
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	37
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	37
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	37
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	36
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	36
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	35
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	35
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	35
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	34
Editorial Board	34
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	34
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	33
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	33
Editorial Board	33
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	32
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	31
Contents	31
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	31
Editorial Board	31
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	31
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	30
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	30
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	30
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	30
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	29

Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	29
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	29
Triticeae genome sequences reveal huge expansions of gene families implicated in fertility restoration	28
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	28
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	28
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	28
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	27
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	27
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	26
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	26
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	26
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	26
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	26
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	26
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	25
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	25
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	25
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	25
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	25
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	25
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	25
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	24
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	24
Contents	23
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	23
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	23
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	23
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	23
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	23
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	23
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	23
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	22
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	22
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	22
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	22
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	21
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	21
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	21
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	21
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	21
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	21
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	21
Editorial Board	21
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	20
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics	20
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	20
From genes to epidemics: Genomic insights into bacterial plant pathogen emergence	20
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions	20
Editorial Board	19
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Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures	19
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants	19
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape	19
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa	19
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches	19
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	19
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots	18
Growing a glue factory: Open questions in laticifer development	18
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality	18
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts	18
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems	18
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root	17
All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration	17
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense	17
Sense and sensitivity - decoding calcium signalling across cellular, autocrine, paracrine and endocrine pathways in plant resilience	17
The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up	17
Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation	17
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling	16
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves	16
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity	16
Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system	16
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	16
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae	16
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses	16
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants	16
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions	16
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae	16
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants	15
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy	15
Editorial Board	14

Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity	14
Contents	14
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution	14
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops	13
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications	13
Asymmetrical cell division in brown algae: How far can we take the paradigm?	13
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground	13
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	13
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	13
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface	13
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	13
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation	12
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example	12
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators	12
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites	12
Contents	12
How chromatin senses plant hormones	12
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms	12
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization	12
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity	12
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly	12
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants	11
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling	11
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications	11
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	11
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface	11
Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways	11
The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins	11
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint	11
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	11
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue	11
Editorial overview: Spatial and temporal regulation of molecular and cell biological process across biological scales	10
Bouncing back stronger: Diversity, structure, and molecular regulation of gelatinous fiber development	10
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	10
Contents	10
Transient expression systems to rewire plant carotenoid metabolism	10
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	10
Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs	10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”	10
At knifepoint: Appressoria-dependent turgor pressure of filamentous plant pathogens	10
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development	10
Editorial Board	9
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots	9
Regulators regulated: Different layers of control for plasma membrane phosphoinositides in plants	9
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events	9
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways	9
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution	9
Climate change challenges plant breeding	9
Editorial Board	9
Advancing root developmental research through single-cell technologies	8
Many different flowers make a bouquet: Lessons from specialized metabolite diversity in plant–pollinator interactions	8
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	8
Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation	8
Jasmonates and salicylic acid: Evolution of defense hormones in land plants	8
Contents	8
Fighting salt or enemies: shared perception and signaling strategies	8
Editorial Board	8
Control of resource allocation between primary and specialized metabolism in glandular trichomes	8
Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants	8
The metabolic homeostaTOR: The balance of holding on or letting grow	8
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice	8
Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones	8
TIR domain-associated nucleotides with functions in plant immunity and beyond	8
Regulation of cytokinetic machinery in plants	8
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy	8
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants	8
Engineering nitrogen and carbon fixation for next-generation plants	8
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models	8
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides	8
Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells	8
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity	8
Studying plant vascular development using single-cell approaches	7
Editorial Board	7
Dynamics of polycomb group marks in Arabidopsis	7
How do plants reprogramme the fate of differentiated cells?	7
Function of nuclear envelope proteins in plant growth and development	7
The versatile role of guard cell starch in speedy stomata: Beyond Arabidopsis	7
Connecting the dots between cell surface- and intracellular-triggered immune pathways in plants	7
Hormonal and genetic control of pluripotency in bryophyte model systems	7
Novel molecular insights into the machinery driving secondary cell wall synthesis and patterning	7
On the hidden temporal dynamics of plant adaptation	7
Are we there yet? Driving the road to evolutionary graph-pangenomics	7
New frontiers in the biosynthesis of psychoactive specialized metabolites	7
Celastrol: A century-long journey from the isolation to the biotechnological production and the development of an antiobesity drug	7
Contents	7
Editorial overview: Tapping into the secret life of small molecules: Addressing the “dark matter” of metabolomes	7
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Advancing designer crops for climate resilience through an integrated genomics approach	7
Root hairs vs. trichomes: Not everyone is straight!	7
From stress to growth: Mechanical tissue interactions in developing organs	7
Spotlight on plant RNA-containing extracellular vesicles	7