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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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Environmental and Biological Drivers of Root Exudation	523
Stem Cells and Differentiation in Vascular Tissues	361
Long-Distance Transported RNAs: From Identity to Function	268
	193
Histone Variants in the Specialization of Plant Chromatin	187
Epigenetic Regulation During Plant Development and the Capacity for Epigenetic Memory	187
Target of Rapamycin (TOR): A Master Regulator in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses	186
Plant Proteome Dynamics	165
The Making of Plant Armor: The Periderm	155
Enabling Lignin Valorization Through Integrated Advances in Plant Biology and Biorefining	154
Structure and Function of Auxin Transporters	136
The Plant Mediator Complex in the Initiation of Transcription by RNA Polymerase II	129
Monkeys at Rigged Typewriters: A Population and Network View of Plant Immune System Incompatibility	114
Temperature Sensing in Plants	114
The Power and Perils of De Novo Domestication Using Genome Editing	108
Chloroplast Proteostasis: Import, Sorting, Ubiquitination, and Proteolysis	101
Systems Biology of Streptophyte Cell Evolution	85
Cereal Endosperms: Development and Storage Product Accumulation	84
Green Revolution DELLA Proteins: Functional Analysis and Regulatory Mechanisms	78
Spatial Features and Functional Implications of Plant 3D Genome Organization	73
Conserving Evolutionary Potential: Combining Landscape Genomics with Established Methods to Inform Plant Conservation	72
RNA Structure: Function and Application in Plant Biology	72
Evolution and Functions of Plant U-Box Proteins: From Protein Quality Control to Signaling	69
Embryo–Endosperm Interactions	66
Phyllosphere Microbiome	65

Ingenious Male–Female Communication Ensures Successful Double Fertilization in Angiosperms	65
Intercellular Communication in Shoot Meristems	61
Phytomelatonin: Biosynthesis, Signaling, and Functions	59
Lipid Droplets: Packing Hydrophobic Molecules Within the Aqueous Cytoplasm	55
Plant GATA Factors: Their Biology, Phylogeny, and Phylogenomics	52
Quantifying Plant Biology with Fluorescent Biosensors	51
Structural and Evolutionary Aspects of Plant Endocytosis	51
Where, When, and Why Do Plant Volatiles Mediate Ecological Signaling? The Answer Is Blowing in the Wind	50
When SWEETs Turn Tweens: Updates and Perspectives	49
Meeting in the Middle: Lessons and Opportunities from Studying C₃-C₄ Intermediates	48
Planting Genomes in the Wild: Arabidopsis from Genetics History to the Ecology and Evolutionary Genomics Era	47
Causes of Mutation Rate Variability in Plant Genomes	45
Plant Molecular Phenology and Climate Feedbacks Mediated by BVOCs	43
LAFL Factors in Seed Development and Phase Transitions	43
Phloem Loading and Unloading of Sucrose: What a Long, Strange Trip from Source to Sink	42
Into the Shadows and Back into Sunlight: Photosynthesis in Fluctuating Light	42
Improving Crop Nitrogen Use Efficiency Toward Sustainable Green Revolution	41
Metal Homeostasis in Land Plants: A Perpetual Balancing Act Beyond the Fulfilment of Metalloproteome Cofactor Demands	41
Spindle Assembly and Mitosis in Plants	39
Salt-Tolerant Crops: Time to Deliver	37
Proximity Labeling in Plants	34
The Diversity and Functions of Plant RNA Modifications: What We Know and Where We Go from Here	34
Using Synthetic Biology to Understand the Function of Plant Specialized Metabolites	34
Why Are Invasive Plants Successful?	32
Parental and Environmental Control of Seed Dormancy in Arabidopsis thaliana	32
Autophagy in Plant Health and Disease	32
Plant Peptide Ligands as Temporal and Spatial Regulators	32
Plant Hormone Transport and Localization: Signaling Molecules on the Move	32
Functions and Mechanisms of Histone Modifications in Plants	31
Leaf Vein Patterning	30
cis-Regulatory Elements in Plant Development, Adaptation, and Evolution	29
Alternative Splicing Dynamics in Plant Adaptive Responses to Stress	27