OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 21. 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.)

Article	Citations
PTI-ETI crosstalk: an integrative view of plant immunity	374
Climate change and the need for agricultural adaptation	193
More is better: the diversity of terpene metabolism in plants	157
Conservation and diversification of flavonoid metabolism in the plant kingdom	138
Building near-complete plant genomes	134
5Gs for crop genetic improvement	133
Cutin and suberin: assembly and origins of specialized lipidic cell wall scaffolds	124
Diversity of anthocyanin and proanthocyanin biosynthesis in land plants	117
SnRK1 and trehalose 6-phosphate – two ancient pathways converge to regulate plant metabolism and growth	109
Deep learning for plant genomics and crop improvement	108
ABA-mediated modulation of elevated CO2 on stomatal response to drought	99
Plant pangenomics: approaches, applications and advancements	82
EDS1 signalling: At the nexus of intracellular and surface receptor immunity	82
One subgenome to rule them all: underlying mechanisms of subgenome dominance	78
Plant genes hijacked by necrotrophic fungal pathogens	78
Apoplastic effector proteins of plant-associated fungi and oomycetes	76
Transport mechanisms of plant hormones	73
Metabolic regulation of systemic acquired resistance	70
Epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress memory: maintaining the good things while they last	70
Overcoming bottlenecks in plant gene editing	70
Plant NLRs get by with a little help from their friends	70
Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?	67
Regulation of Flowering Time: When and Where?	66
Improving rice salt tolerance by precision breeding in a new era	64
De novo domestication of wild species to create crops with increased resilience and nutritional value	64

CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing of banana for disease resistance	63
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	62
The initiation of RNA interference (RNAi) in plants	62
High temperature-induced plant disease susceptibility: more than the sum of its parts	59
Innovations in plant genetics adapting agriculture to climate change	55
Untapping the potential of plant mycobiomes for applications in agriculture	55
Old Town Roads: routes of auxin biosynthesis across kingdoms	54
A new era for plant science: spatial single-cell transcriptomics	52
Pathways to sex determination in plants: how many roads lead to Rome?	51
Factors affecting plant responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhiza	50
CRISPR/dCas-mediated transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in plants	49
The rise and fall of genes: origins and functions of plant pathogen pangenomes	49
Endoreplication — a means to an end in cell growth and stress response	49
New avenues for increasing yield and stability in C3 cereals: exploring ear photosynthesis	49
Nitrogen and Phosphorus interactions in plants: from agronomic to physiological and molecular insights	48
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	48
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening	48
Evolution of virulence in rust fungi — multiple solutions to one problem	47
Towards understanding the hierarchical nitrogen signalling network in plants	47
Gene and genome duplications in the evolution of chemodiversity: perspectives from studies of Lamiaceae	44
The case for improving crop carbon sink strength or plasticity for a CO2-rich future	44
Identification and evolution of gene regulatory networks: insights from comparative studies in plants	43
Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses	43
Histone variants take center stage in shaping the epigenome	43
Plant secondary metabolites altering root microbiome composition and function	43
Multifaceted functions of post-translational enzyme modifications in the control of plant glycolysis	43
Need for speed: manipulating plant growth to accelerate breeding cycles	43
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	42
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	42
Plant unusual fatty acids: learning from the less common	41
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	40
Mobile signals in systemic acquired resistance	40
Developmental regulation of stolon and rhizome	39
MIXTAs and phytohormones orchestrate cotton fiber development	39
Ento(o)mics: the intersection of ‘omic’ approaches to decipher plant defense against sap-sucking insect pests	39
Tripartite mutualisms as models for understanding plant–microbial interactions	39
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	39
Mediator subunit MED25: at the nexus of jasmonate signaling	39
New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination	38
The current revolution in transposable element biology enabled by long reads	38
Oil crops for the future	38
Exploring the application of wild species for crop improvement in a changing climate	38
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	37
How do plants transduce wound signals to induce tissue repair and organ regeneration?	36
Jasmonate: A hormone of primary importance for plant metabolism	35
Crops of the future: building a climate-resilient plant immune system	35
Designing a home for beneficial plant microbiomes	33
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	33
The important contribution of transposable elements to phenotypic variation and evolution	33
Symbiotic bacteria of plant-associated fungi: friends or foes?	33

Virus-induced plant genome editing	33
One factor, many systems: the floral homeotic protein AGAMOUS and its epigenetic regulatory mechanisms	32
Phytohormone signaling mechanisms and genetic methods for their modulation and detection	31
To move or not to move: roles and specificity of plant RNA mobility	31
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	31
Towards a functional understanding of the plant metabolome	31
Evolutionary innovations in starch metabolism	30
WOX going on: CLE peptides in plant development	30
Nanoparticles for protein delivery in planta	30
Evolutionary insights into plant breeding	30
Resistosome and inflammasome: platforms mediating innate immunity	30
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	29
More than a Catharanthus plant: A multicellular and pluri-organelle alkaloid-producing factory	29
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	29
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	27
The promise of single-cell genomics in plants	27
Contrasted evolutionary trajectories of plant transcription factors	26
Building and breaking of a barrier: Suberin plasticity and function in the endodermis	26
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	26
‘Hijacking’ core metabolism: a new panache for the evolution of steroidal glycoalkaloids structural diversity	26
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	26
Flavonols modulate plant development, signaling, and stress responses	26
Network biology to uncover functional and structural properties of the plant immune system	26
Chromatin domains in space and their functional implications	26
The ETS-ETI cycle: evolutionary processes and metapopulation dynamics driving the diversification of pathogen effectors and host immune factors	26
Host-specialized transcriptome of plant-associated organisms	26
Climate change challenges plant breeding	25
The evolving landscape of cell surface pattern recognition across plant immune networks	25
Plant–nematode interactions	25
Epigenetics in plant organismic interactions	25
Unlocking the mechanisms behind the formation of interlocking pavement cells	25
We aren’t good at picking candidate genes, and it’s slowing us down	24
Towards targeted starch modification in plants	24
A revival of effective ploidy: the asymmetry of parental roles in endosperm-based hybridization barriers	24
Recent advances on the plant manipulation by geminiviruses	24
Engineering pest tolerance through plant-mediated RNA interference	23
Leguminous nodule symbiosis involves recruitment of factors contributing to lateral root development	23
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	23
RNA-directed DNA Methylation and sexual reproduction: expanding beyond the seed	23
Determinants of endophytic and pathogenic lifestyle in root colonizing fungi	23
Structural and functional insight into the nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport receptors in plant stress signaling	23
Adaptation to novel environments during crop diversification	22
Computational approaches to unravel the pathways and evolution of specialized metabolism	22
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	22
Stromules, functional extensions of plastids within the plant cell	22
Reactive oxygen species function as signaling molecules in controlling plant development and hormonal responses	22
Plant zygote development: recent insights and applications to clonal seeds	22
How to win a tug-of-war: the adaptive evolution of Phytophthora effectors	22
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	21
To be a male or a female flower, a question of ethylene in cucurbits	21
Single-cell analysis of cis-regulatory elements	21
The roles of the IGT gene family in plant architecture: past, present, and future	21
Phosphorylation control of PIN auxin transporters	21
Robustness and the generalist niche of polyploid species: Genome shock or gradual evolution?	21
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	21
Jumpstarting evolution: How transposition can facilitate adaptation to rapid environmental changes	21
Skirmish or war: the emergence of agricultural plant pathogens	21