OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Annual Review Plant Biology is 27. 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
Salt Tolerance Mechanisms of Plants	981
Phosphorus Acquisition and Utilization in Plants	199
Salicylic Acid: Biosynthesis and Signaling	196
Guard Cell Metabolism and Stomatal Function	174
Evolution of Plant Hormone Response Pathways	157
Desiccation Tolerance: Avoiding Cellular Damage During Drying and Rehydration	148
Mechanisms of Cryptochrome-Mediated Photoresponses in Plants	142
The Role of Trehalose 6-Phosphate (Tre6P) in Plant Metabolism and Development	140
Origin and Diversity of Plant Receptor-Like Kinases	133
Phytochrome Signaling Networks	133
Rapid Auxin-Mediated Cell Expansion	129
Dynamic Construction, Perception, and Remodeling of Plant Cell Walls	127
Exploiting Broad-Spectrum Disease Resistance in Crops: From Molecular Dissection to Breeding	125
Climate Change Risks to Global Forest Health: Emergence of Unexpected Events of Elevated Tree Mortality Worldwide	117
Recent Advances and Future Perspectives in Cotton Research	117
Evolution of Plant NLRs: From Natural History to Precise Modifications	107
Phenotyping: New Windows into the Plant for Breeders	101
Advances and Opportunities in Single-Cell Transcriptomics for Plant Research	100
Functions of Anionic Lipids in Plants	98
Prospects for Engineering Biophysical CO₂Concentrating Mechanisms into Land Plants to Enhance Yields	97
Starch: A Flexible, Adaptable Carbon Store Coupled to Plant Growth	97
The Genomics ofCannabisand Its Close Relatives	90
Dissipation of Light Energy Absorbed in Excess: The Molecular Mechanisms	89
Regulation and Evolution of C₄Photosynthesis	85
Exploring Uncharted Territories of Plant Specialized Metabolism in the Postgenomic Era	85

Message in a Bubble: Shuttling Small RNAs and Proteins Between Cells and Interacting Organisms Using Extracellular Vesicles	84
Long Noncoding RNAs in Plants	83
Tuber and Tuberous Root Development	77
Natural Variation in Crops: Realized Understanding, Continuing Promise	75
The Costs and Benefits of Plant–Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Interactions	74
Patterns and Processes of Diploidization in Land Plants	74
Perception and Signaling of Ultraviolet-B Radiation in Plants	70
Into the Shadows and Back into Sunlight: Photosynthesis in Fluctuating Light	67
Improving Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency Toward Sustainable Green Revolution	65
Regulation of the Plant Cell Cycle in Response to Hormones and the Environment	62
Development and Molecular Genetics of Marchantia polymorpha	62
Adaptable and Multifunctional Ion-Conducting Aquaporins	59
Next-Generation Mass Spectrometry Metabolomics Revives the Functional Analysis of Plant Metabolic Diversity	59
Plant Pan-Genomics Comes of Age	58
A Comparative Overview of the Intracellular Guardians of Plants and Animals: NLRs in Innate Immunity and Beyond	57
Redox Homeostasis and Signaling in a Higher-CO₂World	57
Reproduction Multitasking: The Male Gametophyte	55
The Small GTPase Superfamily in Plants: A Conserved Regulatory Module with Novel Functions	54
Biological Phase Separation and Biomolecular Condensates in Plants	53
Mycorrhizal Symbiosis in Plant Growth and Stress Adaptation: From Genes to Ecosystems	52
Cell Wall Signaling in Plant Development and Defense	52
Phloem Loading and Unloading of Sucrose: What a Long, Strange Trip from Source to Sink	51
H⁺-ATPases in Plant Growth and Stress Responses	48
Evolutionary History of Plant Metabolism	47
Reproductive Multitasking: The Female Gametophyte	47
Genetic Engineering and Editing of Plants: An Analysis of New and Persisting Questions	41
Sequencing and Analyzing the Transcriptomes of a Thousand Species Across the Tree of Life for Green Plants	41
Solving the Puzzle of Shape Regulation in Plant Epidermal Pavement Cells	38
VIGS Goes Viral: How VIGS Transforms Our Understanding of Plant Science	38
Developmental Mechanisms of Fleshy Fruit Diversity in Rosaceae	37
Molecular Mechanisms of Pollination Biology	36
Cereal Endosperms: Development and Storage Product Accumulation	36
Pollen-Pistil Interactions as Reproductive Barriers	35
Embryo–Endosperm Interactions	35
Comparative Embryogenesis in Angiosperms: Activation and Patterning of Embryonic Cell Lineages	34
cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Development, Adaptation, and Evolution	33
Recent Advances in the Physiology of Ion Channels in Plants	33
The Making of Plant Armor: The Periderm	31
Plant GATA Factors: Their Biology, Phylogeny, and Phylogenomics	30
Plant Small RNAs: Their Biogenesis, Regulatory Roles, and Functions	30
On the Origin of Carnivory: Molecular Physiology and Evolution of Plants on an Animal Diet	30
Ancient Plant Genomics in Archaeology, Herbaria, and the Environment	29
When SWEETs Turn Tweens: Updates and Perspectives	29
Modeling Plant Metabolism: From Network Reconstruction to Mechanistic Models	27
Parental and Environmental Control of Seed Dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana	27
Extension of Plant Phenotypes by the Foliar Microbiome	27