Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Article	Citations
Contents	603
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	133
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	126
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	124
Stories that can’t be told by SNPs; DNA methylation variation in plant populations	110
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	108
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	106
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	98
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	98
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	91
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	84
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	77
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	77
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	76
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	76
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	74
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	72
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	67
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	66
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	64
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	63
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	62
Editorial Board	61
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	58
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	57

How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	57
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	54
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	53
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	52
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	51
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	50
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	49
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	47
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	46
Contents	46
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	45
Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution	45
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	45
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	44
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	43
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	43
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	42
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	41
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	41
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	40
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	40
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	39
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses	39
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	38
Contents	37
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	37
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	37
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	36
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	36
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	36
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	36
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	36
Diverse regulatory mechanisms of StARkin domains in land plants and mammals	36
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	35
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	35
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	35
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	35
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	35
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	34
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	34
Editorial Board	34
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	34
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	34
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	33
Fe acquisition at the crossroad of calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling	33
Editorial Board	33
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	32
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	32
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	32
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	32

Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	31
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	31
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	31
Histone variants take center stage in shaping the epigenome	31
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	31
Editorial Board	30
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	30
Triticeae genome sequences reveal huge expansions of gene families implicated in fertility restoration	29
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	29
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Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	29
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	28
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	28
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	28
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	28
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	27
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	27
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	27
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	27
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	27
Plant chromatin, metabolism and development – an intricate crosstalk	27
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	27
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	27
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	26
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control	26
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	26
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	26
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	26
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	25
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	25
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	25
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	25
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	25
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	25
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	24
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	24
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Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	24
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	24
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	24
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors	24
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	24
Contents	23
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	23
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	23
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	23
Contents	23
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	23
Editorial Board	23
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	23
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	23
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	22
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	22
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	22
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	22
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	22
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants	22
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants	21
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	21
One factor, many systems: the floral homeotic protein AGAMOUS and its epigenetic regulatory mechanisms	21
Editorial Board	21
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	21
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	20
Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures	20
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape	20
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa	20
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches	19
Editorial Board	19
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions	19
Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system	19
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics	19
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening	19
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling	19
Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?	18
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts	18
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems	18
Designing a home for beneficial plant microbiomes	18
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense	18
All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration	17
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots	17

Growing a glue factory: Open questions in laticifer development	17
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants	17
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality	17
The initiation of RNA interference (RNAi) in plants	17
The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up	17
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root	17
Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation	17
Advances in functional proteomics to study plant-pathogen interactions	17
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity	16
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy	16
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves	16
Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity	16
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions	16
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	16
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae	15
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	15
Editorial Board	15
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution	15
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae	15
Editorial overview: Toward deciphering the molecular basis of plant phenotypic plasticity	15
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses	15
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants	15
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications	15
Contents	15
New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination	15
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface	14
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops	14
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites	14
Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses	14
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	14
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization	14
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants	13
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation	13
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground	13
The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins	13
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity	13
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	13
How chromatin senses plant hormones	13
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly	13
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications	12
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators	12
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue	12
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling	12
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	12
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms	12
Plant immunity: Good fences make good neighbors?	12
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	12
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example	12
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface	12
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Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways	11
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint	11
Bouncing back stronger: Diversity, structure, and molecular regulation of gelatinous fiber development	11
Synthetic biology approaches in regulation of targeted gene expression	11
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events	10
Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs	10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”	10
Establishing a regulatory blueprint for ovule number and function during plant development	10
At knifepoint: Appressoria-dependent turgor pressure of filamentous plant pathogens	10
Editorial overview: Spatial and temporal regulation of molecular and cell biological process across biological scales	10
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	10
Network biology to uncover functional and structural properties of the plant immune system	10
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development	9
Editorial Board	9
Transient expression systems to rewire plant carotenoid metabolism	9
A revival of effective ploidy: the asymmetry of parental roles in endosperm-based hybridization barriers	9
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models	9
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	9
Editorial Board	9
Climate change challenges plant breeding	9
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy	8
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity	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
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution	8
EDS1 signalling: At the nexus of intracellular and surface receptor immunity	8
The metabolic homeostaTOR: The balance of holding on or letting grow	8
Editorial Board	8
Intertwined evolution of plant epigenomes and genomes	8
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice	8
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways	8
Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells	8
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Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants	8
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides	8
Regulators regulated: Different layers of control for plasma membrane phosphoinositides in plants	8
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots	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	7
Hormonal and genetic control of pluripotency in bryophyte model systems	7
Editorial overview: Tapping into the secret life of small molecules: Addressing the “dark matter” of metabolomes	7
Engineering nitrogen and carbon fixation for next-generation plants	7
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants	7
Editorial Board	7