Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Article	Citations
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	174
Contents	149
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	113
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	111
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	102
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	101
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	85
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	84
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	82
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	81
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	78
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	71
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	67
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	66
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	64
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	64
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	63
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	62
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	61
Editorial Board	60
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	59
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	58
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	58
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	58
Piecing the puzzle together: Analyses in plants at the single-cell resolution	55

The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	54
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	53
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	53
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	51
Monoubiquitination of histone H2A and H2B: News and views	51
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	51
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	50
Contents	50
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	48
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	48
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	48
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	45
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	45
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	44
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	44
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	43
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	43
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	42
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	42
Contents	42
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	41
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	40
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	40
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	40
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	40
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	39
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	39
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	38
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	38
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	38
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	38
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	37
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	37
Editorial Board	36
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	36
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	36
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	35
Editorial Board	35
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	34
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	34
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	34
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	34
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	33
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	33
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	32
Editorial Board	32
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	32
Contents	32
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	32
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	31

Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	31
Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling	31
Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	31
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	30
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	30
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	30
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	30
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	30
Triticeae genome sequences reveal huge expansions of gene families implicated in fertility restoration	29
Contents	29
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	29
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	29
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	29
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	29
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	28
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	28
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	27
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	26
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	26
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	26
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	26
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	26
Deciphering plastid retrograde signals and their roles in plant development	26
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	26
Fortifying the frontier: cell wall modifications during plant immunity	26
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	26
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	25
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	25
Contents	25
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	25
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	25
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	24
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	24
Position and identity, two separable but inseparable processes in floral meristem patterning	23
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	23
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	23
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	23
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	23
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	22
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	22
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	22
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	22
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	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
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions	20
Editorial Board	20
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	20
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	20
Arabinogalactan proteins: Decoding the multifaceted roles in plant reproduction	20
Editorial Board	20
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	20
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	20
From genes to epidemics: Genomic insights into bacterial plant pathogen emergence	19
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape	19
DNA methylation dynamics: patterns, regulation, and function	19
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	19
Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures	19
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants	19
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches	19
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics	19
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa	18
Editorial Board	18
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots	18
Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system	17
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling	17
All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration	17
Fine-scale 3D chromatin architectures and their regulatory mechanisms in plants	16
Interplay between Polycomb-group associated histone modifiers and accessory proteins in plant evolution	16
Sense and sensitivity - decoding calcium signalling across cellular, autocrine, paracrine and endocrine pathways in plant resilience	16
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense	16
Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation	16
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants	16
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts	15
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	15
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality	15
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae	15
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems	15
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root	15

The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up	15
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves	14
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity	14
Stomatal patterning and development in grasses	14
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy	14
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions	14
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution	13
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae	13
Editorial Board	13
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites	13
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses	13
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants	13
Contents	13
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications	13
Telomeres: The EPI-Ending	13
Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity	13
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground	13
Asymmetrical cell division in brown algae: How far can we take the paradigm?	12
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization	12
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	12
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops	12
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface	12
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	12
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	12
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms	11
Contents	11
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators	11
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity	11
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation	11
How chromatin senses plant hormones	11
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants	11
The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins	11
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly	11
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue	11
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example	10
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint	10
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling	10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”	10
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events	10
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	10
Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways	10
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications	10
Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs	10
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development	10
Transient expression systems to rewire plant carotenoid metabolism	10
Editorial overview: Spatial and temporal regulation of molecular and cell biological process across biological scales	10
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	10
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface	10
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	10
Climate change challenges plant breeding	10
Bouncing back stronger: Diversity, structure, and molecular regulation of gelatinous fiber development	10
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	10
Editorial Board	9
The metabolic homeostaTOR: The balance of holding on or letting grow	9
Complex of Proteins Associated with Set1 complexes and their increasing roles in crop improvement	9
Editorial Board	9
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice	9
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution	9
At knifepoint: Appressoria-dependent turgor pressure of filamentous plant pathogens	9
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots	9
Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones	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
Regulators regulated: Different layers of control for plasma membrane phosphoinositides in plants	8
Jasmonates and salicylic acid: Evolution of defense hormones in land plants	8
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models	8
Editorial Board	8
Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants	8
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants	8
Regulation of cytokinetic machinery in plants	8
Contents	8
Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells	8
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways	8
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity	8
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy	8
Engineering nitrogen and carbon fixation for next-generation plants	8
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	8
TIR domain-associated nucleotides with functions in plant immunity and beyond	8
Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation	8
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides	8
Long noncoding RNAs in plant chromatin 3D conformation dynamics	8
Control of resource allocation between primary and specialized metabolism in glandular trichomes	8
Epigenetic processes involved in the activation of the DNA damage response in plants: A link to stress memory	7
Biosynthesis of oxindole alkaloids: Recent advances and challenges	7
How do plants reprogramme the fate of differentiated cells?	7
Advancing designer crops for climate resilience through an integrated genomics approach	7
The versatile role of guard cell starch in speedy stomata: Beyond Arabidopsis	7
From stress to growth: Mechanical tissue interactions in developing organs	7
Contents	7
Studying plant vascular development using single-cell approaches	7
Dynamics of polycomb group marks in Arabidopsis	7
Celastrol: A century-long journey from the isolation to the biotechnological production and the development of an antiobesity drug	7
Spotlight on plant RNA-containing extracellular vesicles	7
Meiotic recombination and advances in quantitative trait locus mapping	7
Connecting the dots between cell surface- and intracellular-triggered immune pathways in plants	7