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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	215
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	143
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	115
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	112
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	110
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	104
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	91
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	90
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	82
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	78
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	78
Editorial Board	73
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	72
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	68
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	67
Editorial Board	65
Piecing the puzzle together: Analyses in plants at the single-cell resolution	60
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	59
Corrigendum to “NLR receptor subcellular localization and plant immune activation”[Curr Opin Plant Biol 90 (2026) 102855]	59
Beyond elongation: The multifaceted roles of gibberellins in symbiosis and root development	57
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	55
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	55
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	55
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	54
How cell edges shape plant morphogenesis	54

How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	54
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	54
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	53
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	52
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	52
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	51
Contents	51
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	50
Monoubiquitination of histone H2A and H2B: News and views	49
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	48
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	48
Contents	47
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	46
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	46
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	45
Contents	44
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	44
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	43
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	43
Systems-level understanding of plant immune networks through single-cell and spatial omics	43
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	42
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	41
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	40
Some assembly required: Modularity and programmability as keys to decoupling growth-defence trade-offs in plants	40
Architects of plant immunity: Structure-informed strategies for engineering plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors	40
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	39
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	38
Plant genome assembly and annotation	38
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	37
Malate synthesis in the chloroplasts of C3 plants	37
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	37
Connecting the dots in plant metabolism: Isotopic labeling and metabolic flux analysis	37
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	36
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	35
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	35
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	35
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	34
Editorial Board	34
Editorial Board	34
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	34
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	33
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	33
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	33
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	33
Editorial: Plant signaling and cell biology	33
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	33
Editorial Board	32
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	31
Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	31
Contents	31

Sabotage behind enemy lines: Bacterial hijacking of plant cellular functions	31
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	31
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	30
Histone variants: Distinct building blocks of the chromatin acting at the core	30
Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling	30
Multilayered regulatory control of compound leaf development	30
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	30
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	29
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	28
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	28
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	27
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	27
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	26
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	25
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	25
Contents	25
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	24
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	24
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	24
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	23
Deciphering plastid retrograde signals and their roles in plant development	23
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	23
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	23
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	23
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	23
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	23
Fortifying the frontier: cell wall modifications during plant immunity	22
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	22
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	21
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	21
Every step you take: How pathogens hijack host proteostasis from transcription, through translation, to degradation	21
Position and identity, two separable but inseparable processes in floral meristem patterning	20
Contents	20
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	20
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	20
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	19
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	19
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	19
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	19
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	18
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	18
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	18
Arabinogalactan proteins: Decoding the multifaceted roles in plant reproduction	18
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	18
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	18
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	18
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	18
Editorial Board	18
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	18
Bridging cells and stages: Plasmodesmata for the coordination of plant development	18
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	18