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Papers

(The TQCC of Annual Review Plant Biology is 71. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Reproduction Multitasking: The Male Gametophyte	387
Development and Molecular Genetics ofMarchantia polymorpha	340
Phytochrome Signaling Networks	279
Long-Distance Transported RNAs: From Identity to Function	202
Stem Cells and Differentiation in Vascular Tissues	198
Environmental and Biological Drivers of Root Exudation	195
Histone Variants in the Specialization of Plant Chromatin	180
Advances and Opportunities in Single-Cell Transcriptomics for Plant Research	158
	142
Plant Proteome Dynamics	141
Epigenetic Regulation During Plant Development and the Capacity for Epigenetic Memory	141
Target of Rapamycin (TOR): A Master Regulator in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Responses	134
Recent Advances in the Physiology of Ion Channels in Plants	132
The Making of Plant Armor: The Periderm	126
Patterns and Processes of Diploidization in Land Plants	123
Enabling Lignin Valorization Through Integrated Advances in Plant Biology and Biorefining	122
Structure and Function of Auxin Transporters	118
The Plant Mediator Complex in the Initiation of Transcription by RNA Polymerase II	117
Monkeys at Rigged Typewriters: A Population and Network View of Plant Immune System Incompatibility	115
Plant Pan-Genomics Comes of Age	112
Chloroplast Proteostasis: Import, Sorting, Ubiquitination, and Proteolysis	106
Temperature Sensing in Plants	103
The Power and Perils of De Novo Domestication Using Genome Editing	101
Systems Biology of Streptophyte Cell Evolution	92
Salicylic Acid: Biosynthesis and Signaling	92

Message in a Bubble: Shuttling Small RNAs and Proteins Between Cells and Interacting Organisms Using Extracellular Vesicles	91
Cereal Endosperms: Development and Storage Product Accumulation	90
Green Revolution DELLA Proteins: Functional Analysis and Regulatory Mechanisms	89
RNA Structure: Function and Application in Plant Biology	85
Spatial Features and Functional Implications of Plant 3D Genome Organization	84
Conserving Evolutionary Potential: Combining Landscape Genomics with Established Methods to Inform Plant Conservation	81
Evolution and Functions of Plant U-Box Proteins: From Protein Quality Control to Signaling	80
Engineering of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism	77
Ingenious Male–Female Communication Ensures Successful Double Fertilization in Angiosperms	76
Phyllosphere Microbiome	75
Embryo–Endosperm Interactions	74
Time-Based Systems Biology Approaches to Capture and Model Dynamic Gene Regulatory Networks	71