OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 18. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	192
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	143
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	129
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	128
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	107
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	105
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	102
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	99
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	97
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	87
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	84
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	76
Beyond elongation: The multifaceted roles of gibberellins in symbiosis and root development	74
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	72
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	68
Editorial Board	66
Piecing the puzzle together: Analyses in plants at the single-cell resolution	64
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	64
Corrigendum to “NLR receptor subcellular localization and plant immune activation”[Curr Opin Plant Biol 90 (2026) 102855]	62
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	62
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	62
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	61
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	60
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	59
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	59

Monoubiquitination of histone H2A and H2B: News and views	57
Contents	53
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	52
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	51
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	51
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	50
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	50
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	50
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	49
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	48
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	48
Contents	47
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	47
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	46
Plant genome assembly and annotation	45
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	45
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	45
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	45
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	45
Architects of plant immunity: Structure-informed strategies for engineering plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors	43
Some assembly required: Modularity and programmability as keys to decoupling growth-defence trade-offs in plants	43
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	42
Systems-level understanding of plant immune networks through single-cell and spatial omics	41
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	41
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	41
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	41
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	41
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	40
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	40
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	40
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	38
Editorial Board	38
Editorial Board	37
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	37
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	37
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	37
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	36
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	36
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	36
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	36
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	36
Editorial Board	35
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	34
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	34
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	34
Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	33
Contents	32
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	32
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	32
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	32

Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	32
Histone variants: Distinct building blocks of the chromatin acting at the core	31
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	31
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	31
Multilayered regulatory control of compound leaf development	31
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	31
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	30
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	30
Deciphering plastid retrograde signals and their roles in plant development	30
Sabotage behind enemy lines: Bacterial hijacking of plant cellular functions	30
Contents	30
Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling	30
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	29
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	28
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	28
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	28
Fortifying the frontier: cell wall modifications during plant immunity	28
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	27
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	27
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	26
Every step you take: How pathogens hijack host proteostasis from transcription, through translation, to degradation	25
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	25
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	25
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	24
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	24
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	24
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	23
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	23
Contents	23
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	23
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	22
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	22
Position and identity, two separable but inseparable processes in floral meristem patterning	22
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	22
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	22
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	21
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	21
Editorial Board	20
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	20
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	20
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	20
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	20
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	20
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	19
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	19
Editorial Board	18
Bridging cells and stages: Plasmodesmata for the coordination of plant development	18
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants	18
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions	18
Arabinogalactan proteins: Decoding the multifaceted roles in plant reproduction	18
From genes to epidemics: Genomic insights into bacterial plant pathogen emergence	18
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape	18
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	18
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics	18