OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Plant is 68. 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
Temperature regulation of CLAVATA3 arabinosylation	3645
From plastids to the cytosol: Redefining boundaries for provitamin A biofortification in plants	418
Breaking the interspecific reproductive barriers in Brassicaceae	369
Structural basis of RLP activation by a pathogen glycoside hydrolase	346
Antagonistic regulation of systemin signaling acts on ligands and receptors	318
Long-read sequencing (method of the year 2022): The way forward for plant omics research	316
CRISPR-Cas-based plant genome engineering goes viral	310
Plant triterpenoid saponins function as susceptibility factors to promote the pathogenicity of Botrytis cinerea	263
A new oxidative pathway of nitric oxide production from oximes in plants	208
Identification and biosynthesis of plant papanridins, a group of novel oligomeric flavonoids	191
Temperature-dependent regulation of seed dormancy	186
SCOOP10 and SCOOP12 peptides act through MIK2 receptor-like kinase to antagonistically regulate Arabidopsis leaf senescence	183
Chloroplast immunity: A cornerstone of plant defense	150
Mitigating growth-stress tradeoffs via elevated TOR signaling in rice	148
An endophytic fungus interacts with the defensin-like protein OsCAL1 to regulate cadmium allocation in rice	141
Rice Gene Index: A comprehensive pan-genome database for comparative and functional genomics of Asian rice	140
Alternative splicing of OsNPR3 promoted by the bacterial TAL effectors-targeted splicing regulator OsRBP11 antagonizes OsNPR1 function and enhances disease susceptibility in rice	136
UFL1-mediated UFMylation stabilizes ABI5 to strengthen ABA-dependent seed dormancy in Arabidopsis	129
Exploring the oasis of plant genomes: From genetic variations to function and beyond	127
A solo-LTR insertion in the CreTPS3a promoter enhances γ-terpinene biosynthesis and affects consumer preference for tangerine-like aroma in citrus fruits	126
Structural insights into the functions of Raf1 and Bsd2 in hexadecameric Rubisco assembly	126
Warm temperature activates the TCP15-HDA4 module to suppress shoot branching by promoting auxin biosynthesis and signaling in tomato	125
Efficient and multiplex gene upregulation in plants through CRISPR-Cas-mediated knockin of enhancers	124
Vacuolar H+-ATPase and BZR1 form a feedback loop to regulate the homeostasis of BR signaling in Arabidopsis	124
Genomic insights into the genetic basis of cotton breeding in China	123

Structural variation (SV)-based pan-genome and GWAS reveal the impacts of SVs on the speciation and diversification of allotetraploid cottons	120
Plant viruses hijack and stabilize host ubiquitin-specific protease 14 to prevent viral protein degradation for efficient infection	120
A telomere-to-telomere gap-free assembly of soybean genome	119
Woody plant cell walls: Fundamentals and utilization	116
Activation of multilayered plant immunity through spatiotemporal expression of Botrytis cinerea BcCrh1-derived dual epitopes	114
How ignoring market-informed crop varietal development fuels food price volatility	111
The CropGPT project: Call for a global, coordinated effort in precision design breeding driven by AI using biological big data	110
A new class of receptors for plant G-proteins	108
Mirids secrete a TOPLESS targeting protein to enhance JA-mediated defense and gossypol accumulation for antagonizing cotton bollworms on cotton plants	108
SIZ1-mediated SUMOylation of CPSF100 promotes plant thermomorphogenesis by controlling alternative polyadenylation	106
Mitophagy: From the dark into the spotlight	106
The SlbZIP30-SlbZIP51 module safeguards photosynthesis under chilling stress by coordinating nuclear transcriptional activation and chloroplast protein stabilization in tomato	104
Global wild rice germplasm resources conservation alliance: World Wild-Rice Wiring	102
Regulating arbuscular mycorrhizal permissiveness	101
PEP7 acts as a peptide ligand for the receptor kinase SIRK1 to regulate aquaporin-mediated water influx and lateral root growth	97
Molecular Mimicry Enables Engineering of NLR Immune Receptors with Multi-Recognition	97
Plant and animal positive-sense single-stranded RNA viruses encode small proteins important for viral infection in their negative-sense strand	95
Wheat adaptation to environmental stresses under climate change: Molecular basis and genetic improvement	94
A mortise–tenon joint system facilitates precise targeted DNA insertion and replacement in rice	94
TBtools-II: A “one for all, all for one” bioinformatics platform for biological big-data mining	93
Salicylic acid inhibits gibberellin signaling through receptor interactions	93
Duet between stress granules and glutathionylation regulates cytosolic redox state to maintain proteostasis in Arabidopsis	90
GRP7 phase separation as an interpreter of temperature cues	89
Haplotype-based phylogenetic analysis and population genomics uncover the origin and domestication of sweetpotato	88
Potatome: Harnessing natural variation of potatoes	85
Phase separation of the redox sensor RCD1 mediates differential ROS signals to regulate plant growth and stress responses	80
Plant-specific casein kinases phosphorylate and stabilize SMXL6/7/8 to suppress strigolactone signaling and promote shoot branching	79
Domestication-related changes at PvMYB26 reduce pod shattering in common bean and shed light on the origins of agriculture in the Americas	79
Coordinated regulation of RNA metabolism and silencing by ABA signaling in plant abiotic stress responses	78
Reconstruction of ancestral plant genomes for inter-crop translational research	78
Heat-induced methylglyoxal impairs plant thermotolerance by repressing cpHSC70-1-mediated chloroplast protein import via post-translational modification	76
Making connections with cell surface auxin signaling	75
Too SHY 2 repress	75
Synergizing genome editing and artificial intelligence for predictive crop design	74
Structure under stress: Conserved RNA structure in plant-environment interactions	74
Manipulation of photosensory and circadian signaling restricts phenotypic plasticity in response to changing environmental conditions in Arabidopsis	74
An epic war between an oomycete pathogen and plants	74
Super graph-based pan-genome: Bringing rice functional genomic study into a new dawn	73
The dual-targeted transcription factor BAI1 orchestrates nuclear and plastid gene transcription in land plants	72
Dephosphorylation and polyubiquitination of the histone variant H2AX act coordinately to terminate DNA damage signaling in Arabidopsis	71
Receptor-like protein kinases in plants: Post-translational regulation and functional effects	71
Extracellular vesicles in plants	69
On the evolution and genetic diversity of the bread wheat D genome	68