OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applications in Plant Sciences is 5. 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
Use of electrolyte leakage to assess floral damage after freezing	95
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A unified framework to investigate and interpret hybrid and allopolyploid biodiversity across biological scales	30
Making sense of complexity: Advances in bioinformatics for plant biology	30
Correction to Welcome to the big leaves: Best practices for improving genome annotation in non‐model plant genomes	25
mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual herbaria from openly available specimen images	24
Optimizing efficient PCR‐amplifiable DNA extraction from herbarium specimens	22
Astragalean819: An Astragalean clade‐specific bait set to resolve phylogenetic relationships in Astragalus	22
Building capacity in the conservation of exceptional plant species	21
Charting the course for new discoveries in polyploid lineages	20
Correction to “A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming”	18
A practical and easy‐to‐scale protocol for removing chlorophylls from leaf extracts	18
Conservation Action Tracker: A tool to identify and monitor conservation actions for tree species	18
The challenges of growing orchids from seeds for conservation: An assessment of asymbiotic techniques	15
Photographic analysis of field‐monitored fern gametophyte development and response to environmental stress	15
Supporting long‐term sustainability of ex situ collections using a pedigree‐based population management approach	14
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Data‐centric species distribution modeling: Impacts of modeler decisions in a case study of invasive European frog‐bit	14
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	13
Applying a modified metabarcoding approach for the sequencing of macrofungal specimens from fungarium collections	12
Enhancing plant morphological trait identification in herbarium collections through deep learning–based segmentation	11
Expression‐based machine learning models for predicting plant tissue identity	11
An automated pipeline for supervised classification of petal color from citizen science photographs	10
A machine learning algorithm for the automatic classification of Phytophthora infestans genotypes into clonal lineages	9

DNA release from plant tissue using focused ultrasound extraction (FUSE)	9
Protocol to control the invasive alga Avrainvillea lacerata in a shallow Hawaiian reef flat	9
The future of plant science: Applications at the intersection	9
Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the web: Utopia or reality?	9
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Modified CTAB protocols for high‐molecular‐weight DNA extractions from ferns	8
A novel combination of in vitro propagation and hydroponic culture for hybrid cacao (Theobroma cacao) plants	8
A low‐cost protocol for the optical method of vulnerability curves to calculate P₅₀	8
Just add water: A simple floral bud injection method for stable Agrobacterium ‐mediated transformation in two ecotypes of Mimulus	8
Issue Information	8
Review of the cellulose acetate peel method and the physical and digital curation of coal balls	8
Accelerating gametophytic growth in the model hornwort Anthoceros agrestis	8
Advances in analyzing and engineering plant metabolic diversity	8
Identifying cryptic fern gametophytes using DNA barcoding: A review	7
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Issue Information	7
Using marsh organs to test seed recruitment in tidal freshwater marshes	7
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Providing the missing links in fern life history: Insights from a phenological survey of the gametophyte stage	7
Infrared spectroscopy for ploidy estimation: An example in two species of Veronica using fresh and herbarium specimens	6
Analysis of plant metabolomics data using identification‐free approaches	6
Multiple Leaf Sample Extraction System (MuLES): A tool to improve automated morphometric leaf studies	6
Ethanol preservation and pretreatments facilitate quality DNA extractions in recalcitrant plant species	6
A protocol for the generation of Arachis hypogaea composite plants: A valuable tool for the functional study of mycorrhizal symbiosis	6
Hijacking a rapid and scalable metagenomic method reveals subgenome dynamics and evolution in polyploid plants	5
Issue Information	5
Applying interpretable machine learning to assess intraspecific trait divergence under landscape‐scale population differentiation	5
Optogenetic control of transgene expression in Marchantia polymorpha	5
Corrigendum	5
A dormant resource for genome size estimation in ferns: C‐value inference of the Ophioglossaceae using herbarium specimen spores	5
A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non‐proteogenic amino acids as a test case	5
Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text	5
An open‐source LED lamp for use with the LI‐6800 photosynthesis system	5
Selection on the gametophyte: Modeling alternation of generations in plants	5
Chromosome‐scale reference genome of Pectocarya recurvata, the species with the smallest reported genome size in Boraginaceae	5