OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Plant Biology 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
PTI-ETI crosstalk: an integrative view of plant immunity	469
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	99
EDS1 signalling: At the nexus of intracellular and surface receptor immunity	95
Transport mechanisms of plant hormones	89
Epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress memory: maintaining the good things while they last	87
Metabolic regulation of systemic acquired resistance	85
Regulation of Flowering Time: When and Where?	82
Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?	76
The initiation of RNA interference (RNAi) in plants	74
De novo domestication of wild species to create crops with increased resilience and nutritional value	70
Untapping the potential of plant mycobiomes for applications in agriculture	70
Improving rice salt tolerance by precision breeding in a new era	68
A new era for plant science: spatial single-cell transcriptomics	62
Nitrogen and Phosphorus interactions in plants: from agronomic to physiological and molecular insights	59
Factors affecting plant responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhiza	57
Plant secondary metabolites altering root microbiome composition and function	56
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening	56
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	55
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	55
Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses	55
Mobile signals in systemic acquired resistance	55
Histone variants take center stage in shaping the epigenome	54
CRISPR/dCas-mediated transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in plants	54
Need for speed: manipulating plant growth to accelerate breeding cycles	53
Developmental regulation of stolon and rhizome	53

Jasmonate: A hormone of primary importance for plant metabolism	52
New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination	51
Mediator subunit MED25: at the nexus of jasmonate signaling	49
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	47
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	47
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	47
How do plants transduce wound signals to induce tissue repair and organ regeneration?	45
MIXTAs and phytohormones orchestrate cotton fiber development	45
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	45
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	44
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	43
Flavonols modulate plant development, signaling, and stress responses	43
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	42
WOX going on: CLE peptides in plant development	41
Crops of the future: building a climate-resilient plant immune system	40
Phytohormone signaling mechanisms and genetic methods for their modulation and detection	40
Climate change challenges plant breeding	39
Designing a home for beneficial plant microbiomes	39
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	38
More than a Catharanthus plant: A multicellular and pluri-organelle alkaloid-producing factory	38
The important contribution of transposable elements to phenotypic variation and evolution	37
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	37
Virus-induced plant genome editing	37
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	36
Nanoparticles for protein delivery in planta	36
Reactive oxygen species function as signaling molecules in controlling plant development and hormonal responses	36
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	35
To move or not to move: roles and specificity of plant RNA mobility	34
One factor, many systems: the floral homeotic protein AGAMOUS and its epigenetic regulatory mechanisms	33
Building and breaking of a barrier: Suberin plasticity and function in the endodermis	33
Plant–nematode interactions	32
Towards targeted starch modification in plants	31
To be a male or a female flower, a question of ethylene in cucurbits	31
Determinants of endophytic and pathogenic lifestyle in root colonizing fungi	30
The ETS-ETI cycle: evolutionary processes and metapopulation dynamics driving the diversification of pathogen effectors and host immune factors	30
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	30
Unlocking the mechanisms behind the formation of interlocking pavement cells	30
Network biology to uncover functional and structural properties of the plant immune system	29
Epigenetics in plant organismic interactions	29
Engineering plant microbiomes by integrating eco-evolutionary principles into current strategies	29
Structure and mechanism of histone methylation dynamics in Arabidopsis	28
Extrachromosomal circular DNA: A neglected nucleic acid molecule in plants	27
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	27
Stromules, functional extensions of plastids within the plant cell	27
How to win a tug-of-war: the adaptive evolution of Phytophthora effectors	27
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	27
A revival of effective ploidy: the asymmetry of parental roles in endosperm-based hybridization barriers	27
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	26
Plant immunity: Good fences make good neighbors?	26
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	26

Robustness and the generalist niche of polyploid species: Genome shock or gradual evolution?	26
Phosphorylation control of PIN auxin transporters	26
Engineering pest tolerance through plant-mediated RNA interference	26
Auxin canalization: From speculative models toward molecular players	26
Jumpstarting evolution: How transposition can facilitate adaptation to rapid environmental changes	26
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	25
Bloom and bust: understanding the nature and regulation of the end of flowering	25
More than growth: Phytohormone-regulated transcription factors controlling plant immunity, plant development and plant architecture	25
Coding of plant immune signals by surface receptors	25
Single-cell analysis of cis-regulatory elements	25
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	25
Leguminous nodule symbiosis involves recruitment of factors contributing to lateral root development	25
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	25
Plant zygote development: recent insights and applications to clonal seeds	24
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	24
The roles of the IGT gene family in plant architecture: past, present, and future	24
Plant chromatin, metabolism and development – an intricate crosstalk	24
Regulation of cellulose synthesis via exocytosis and endocytosis	24
Arabidopsis primary root growth: let it grow, can't hold it back anymore!	23
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses	23
Spotlight on plant RNA-containing extracellular vesicles	23
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	23
Pathogenic strategies and immune mechanisms to necrotrophs: Differences and similarities to biotrophs and hemibiotrophs	23
Structural and functional insight into the nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport receptors in plant stress signaling	23
The emerging role of the nitrate and peptide transporter family: NPF in plant specialized metabolism	23
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	23
Current status and future perspectives on the evolution of cis-regulatory elements in plants	22
Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones	22
Mechanical control of plant morphogenesis: concepts and progress	22
Getting to the root of grafting-induced traits	22
Compounds from rhizosphere microbes that promote plant growth	22
Connecting primary and specialized metabolism: Amino acid conjugation of phytohormones by GRETCHEN HAGEN 3 (GH3) acyl acid amido synthetases	22
Biomolecular condensates in photosynthesis and metabolism	22
Mechanisms in plant–microbiome interactions: lessons from model systems	22
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	22
Morphology made for movement: formation of diverse stomatal guard cells	22
Signaling by plant glutamate receptor-like channels: What else!	22
Synthetic biology approaches in regulation of targeted gene expression	22
Engineering plant disease resistance against biotrophic pathogens	22
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	22
How to resist parasitic plants: pre- and post-attachment strategies	21
Inter-organismal phytohormone networks in plant-microbe interactions	21
Organelles-nucleus-plasmodesmata signaling (ONPS): an update on its roles in plant physiology, metabolism and stress responses	21
One hundred years into the study of ecotypes, new advances are being made through large-scale field experiments in perennial plant systems	21
Chromatin regulation in plant hormone and plant stress responses	20
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	20
Cotton architecture: examining the roles of SINGLE FLOWER TRUSS and SELF-PRUNING in regulating growth habits of a woody perennial crop	20
Emerging principles in the design of bioengineered made-to-order plant immune receptors	20
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	20
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors	20
Stories that can’t be told by SNPs; DNA methylation variation in plant populations	20
Epigenetics and plant reproduction: Multiple steps for responsibly handling succession	20
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	20
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	20