OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applications in Plant Sciences is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
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A unified framework to investigate and interpret hybrid and allopolyploid biodiversity across biological scales	43
Astragalean819: An Astragalean clade‐specific bait set to resolve phylogenetic relationships in Astragalus	35
Use of electrolyte leakage to assess floral damage after freezing	34
Making sense of complexity: Advances in bioinformatics for plant biology	33
Optimizing efficient PCR‐amplifiable DNA extraction from herbarium specimens	31
Correction to Welcome to the big leaves: Best practices for improving genome annotation in non‐model plant genomes	28
mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual herbaria from openly available specimen images	28
A practical and easy‐to‐scale protocol for removing chlorophylls from leaf extracts	25
The challenges of growing orchids from seeds for conservation: An assessment of asymbiotic techniques	25
Conservation Action Tracker: A tool to identify and monitor conservation actions for tree species	24
Charting the course for new discoveries in polyploid lineages	24
Correction to “A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming”	18
Building capacity in the conservation of exceptional plant species	18
Supporting long‐term sustainability of ex situ collections using a pedigree‐based population management approach	17
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Expression‐based machine learning models for predicting plant tissue identity	15
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	15
Experimental methods for wind tunnel studies of seed dispersal by wind	14
Data‐centric species distribution modeling: Impacts of modeler decisions in a case study of invasive European frog‐bit	13
Enhancing plant morphological trait identification in herbarium collections through deep learning–based segmentation	12
Protocol to control the invasive alga Avrainvillea lacerata in a shallow Hawaiian reef flat	11
An automated pipeline for supervised classification of petal color from citizen science photographs	11
Applying a modified metabarcoding approach for the sequencing of macrofungal specimens from fungarium collections	11

SkelPy: A graphic user interface–based approach for skeletonizing fungal networks	11
Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the web: Utopia or reality?	10
A machine learning algorithm for the automatic classification of Phytophthora infestans genotypes into clonal lineages	10
Semi‐automated assessment for NatureServe subnational conservation status ranks for state floras	10
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Issue Information	9
Modified CTAB protocols for high‐molecular‐weight DNA extractions from ferns	9
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DNA release from plant tissue using focused ultrasound extraction (FUSE)	9
Advances in analyzing and engineering plant metabolic diversity	9
Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation in two ecotypes of Mimulus	9
Review of the cellulose acetate peel method and the physical and digital curation of coal balls	8
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A novel combination of in vitro propagation and hydroponic culture for hybrid cacao (Theobroma cacao) plants	8
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Using marsh organs to test seed recruitment in tidal freshwater marshes	8
Ethanol preservation and pretreatments facilitate quality DNA extractions in recalcitrant plant species	8
A low‐cost protocol for the optical method of vulnerability curves to calculate P₅₀	8
Are they two seeds in a pod? Comparing seed rain recovery in grasslands using artificial grass carpets versus sticky traps	8
Analysis of plant metabolomics data using identification‐free approaches	7
Hijacking a rapid and scalable metagenomic method reveals subgenome dynamics and evolution in polyploid plants	7
Infrared spectroscopy for ploidy estimation: An example in two species of Veronica using fresh and herbarium specimens	7
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Multiple Leaf Sample Extraction System (MuLES): A tool to improve automated morphometric leaf studies	7
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal: A review of study methods	7
PlantSAM: An object detection‐driven segmentation pipeline for herbarium specimens	6
Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text	6
InDelGT: An integrated pipeline for extracting indel genotypes for genetic mapping in a hybrid population using next‐generation sequencing data	6
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Chromosome‐scale reference genome of Pectocarya recurvata , the species with the smallest reported genome size in Boraginaceae	6
DNA assays for genetic discrimination of three Phragmites australis subspecies in the United States	6
A simple and affordable protocol to assess censer seed dispersal: First confirmation of the mechanism in the genus Solanum	6
An open‐source LED lamp for use with the LI‐6800 photosynthesis system	6
expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data	6
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non‐proteogenic amino acids as a test case	6
BAD2matrix: Phylogenomic matrix concatenation, indel coding, and more	5
A two‐photon fluorescence micro‐spectroscopy method for chemotaxonomic characterization of fossil resins	5
Issue Information	5
Optogenetic control of transgene expression in Marchantia polymorpha	5
Applying interpretable machine learning to assess intraspecific trait divergence under landscape‐scale population differentiation	5
PhyloHerb: A high‐throughput phylogenomic pipeline for processing genome skimming data	5
Whole‐genomic DNA amplifications from individually isolated sweet sorghum microspores	5
Correction to GOgetter: A pipeline for summarizing and visualizing GO slim annotations for plant genetic data	5
The Computer‐Assisted Sequence Annotation (CASA) workflow for enzyme discovery	5
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FieldPrism: A system for creating snapshot vouchers from field images using photogrammetric markers and QR codes	5
Unlocking fruit dimensions: Quantification of functional traits driving plant–frugivore interactions	5
A field‐capable rapid plant DNA extraction protocol using microneedle patches for botanical surveying and monitoring	5
Using disposable food packaging materials as printing, embedding, and sectioning media in the plant anatomy lab	5

A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming	5
What is the “modified” CTAB protocol? Characterizing modifications to the CTAB DNA extraction protocol	5
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Improving computer vision for plant pathology through advanced training techniques	4
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Ancient DNA extraction methods for herbarium specimens: When is it worth the effort?	4
Optimizing the lysis step in CTAB DNA extractions of silica‐dried and herbarium leaf tissues	4
Evaluation of floral volatile patterns in the genus Narcissus using gas chromatography–coupled ion mobility spectrometry	4
infinitylists: A Shiny application and R package for rapid generation of place‐based species checklists	4
Procrustean pseudo‐landmark methods in Python to measure massive quantities of leaf shape data	4
Embryo excision in Compositae, with implications for combating biodiversity loss	4
Orchid fruit and root movement analyzed using 2D photographs and a bioinformatics pipeline for processing sequential 3D scans	4
Balancing read length and sequencing depth: Optimizing Nanopore long‐read sequencing for monocots with an emphasis on the Liliales	4
From phylogenomics to breeding: Can universal target capture probes be used in the development of SNP markers for kinship analysis?	4
Issue Information	4
Stable isotope mixing models demonstrate the role of an invasive plant in wetland songbird food webs	4
florabr: An R package to explore and spatialize species distribution using Flora e Funga do Brasil	4
A simple and cost‐effective method for studying anoxia tolerance in plants	4
Expanded application to plant reproductive tissues of a branched DNA probe‐based in situ hybridization method	4
Variant calling in polyploids for population and quantitative genetics	4
Novel method for the quantification of rosette area from images of Arabidopsis seedlings grown on agar plates	4
Testing protocols to optimize DNA extraction from tough leaf tissue: A case study in Encephalartos	3
Rapid character scoring and tabulation of large leaf‐image libraries using Adobe Bridge	3
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Efficient homology‐based annotation of transposable elements using minimizers	3
Computer vision species identification of lichens and bryophytes from biocrusts in Australian drylands	3
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Developing Asparagaceae1726: An Asparagaceae‐specific probe set targeting 1726 loci for Hyb‐Seq and phylogenomics in the family	3
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Geographic And Taxonomic Occurrence R‐based Scrubbing (gatoRs): An R package and workflow for processing biodiversity data	3
The sensitivity of reconstructed carbon dioxide concentrations to stomatal preparation methods using a leaf gas exchange model	3
Using photogrammetry to create virtual permanent plots in rare and threatened plant communities	3
Compositae‐ParaLoss‐1272: A complementary sunflower‐specific probe set reduces paralogs in phylogenomic analyses of complex systems	3
Correction to “Conservation applications of niche modeling: Native and naturalized ferns may compete for limited Hawaiian dryland habitat”	3
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Acclimation and hardening of a slow‐growing woody species emblematic to western North America from in vitro plantlets	3
The impact of extraction method and pollen concentration on community composition for pollen metabarcoding	3
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A comparison of methods for excluding light from stems to evaluate stem photosynthesis	3
Ensemble automated approaches for producing high‐quality herbarium digital records	2
Looking to the past to inform the future: What eDNA from herbarium specimens can tell us about plant–animal interactions	2
RootBot: High‐throughput root stress phenotyping robot	2
nQuack: An R package for predicting ploidal level from sequence data using site‐based heterozygosity	2
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Carbon balance: A technique to assess comparative photosynthetic physiology in poikilohydric plants	2
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A target enrichment probe set for resolving phylogenetic relationships in the coffee family, Rubiaceae	2
Calceolariaceae809: A bait set for targeted sequencing of nuclear loci	2
hybpiper‐nf and paragone‐nf: Containerization and additional options for target capture assembly and paralog resolution	2
Tailoring convolutional neural networks for custom botanical data	2
A comprehensive illustrated protocol for clearing, mounting, and imaging leaf venation networks	2
An assessment of methods to combine evolutionary history and conservation: A case study in the Brazilian campo rupestre	2
Truly the best of both worlds: Merging lineage‐specific and universal probe kits to maximize phylogenomic inference	2
An artificial neural network–based deep learning model to predict combined stress impact and interaction in plants	2
Raspberry Pi–powered temperature monitoring of growth chamber microclimates	2
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Creation of a Pseudotsuga menziesii nucellus cell suspension culture system to produce proteins involved in reproduction	2