OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applications in Plant Sciences is 4. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
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Correction to Welcome to the big leaves: Best practices for improving genome annotation in non‐model plant genomes	29
A unified framework to investigate and interpret hybrid and allopolyploid biodiversity across biological scales	27
Use of electrolyte leakage to assess floral damage after freezing	25
Optimizing efficient PCR‐amplifiable DNA extraction from herbarium specimens	24
mvh: An R tool to assemble and organize virtual herbaria from openly available specimen images	22
Making sense of complexity: Advances in bioinformatics for plant biology	21
The challenges of growing orchids from seeds for conservation: An assessment of asymbiotic techniques	20
Supporting long‐term sustainability of ex situ collections using a pedigree‐based population management approach	20
Building capacity in the conservation of exceptional plant species	18
A practical and easy‐to‐scale protocol for removing chlorophylls from leaf extracts	18
Correction to “A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming”	17
Conservation Action Tracker: A tool to identify and monitor conservation actions for tree species	16
Photographic analysis of field‐monitored fern gametophyte development and response to environmental stress	14
Charting the course for new discoveries in polyploid lineages	14
Data‐centric species distribution modeling: Impacts of modeler decisions in a case study of invasive European frog‐bit	14
An automated pipeline for supervised classification of petal color from citizen science photographs	13
Acknowledgment of Reviewers	12
Expression‐based machine learning models for predicting plant tissue identity	11
Applying a modified metabarcoding approach for the sequencing of macrofungal specimens from fungarium collections	11
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Enhancing plant morphological trait identification in herbarium collections through deep learning–based segmentation	10
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Protocol to control the invasive alga Avrainvillea lacerata in a shallow Hawaiian reef flat	9

The future of plant science: Applications at the intersection	8
Issue Information	8
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Accelerating gametophytic growth in the model hornwort Anthoceros agrestis	8
Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the web: Utopia or reality?	8
A machine learning algorithm for the automatic classification of Phytophthora infestans genotypes into clonal lineages	8
Informed cover measurement: Guidelines and error for point‐intercept approaches	7
Advances in analyzing and engineering plant metabolic diversity	7
Issue Information	7
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Modified CTAB protocols for high‐molecular‐weight DNA extractions from ferns	7
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Review of the cellulose acetate peel method and the physical and digital curation of coal balls	7
A low‐cost protocol for the optical method of vulnerability curves to calculate P₅₀	7
DNA release from plant tissue using focused ultrasound extraction (FUSE)	7
A novel combination of in vitro propagation and hydroponic culture for hybrid cacao (Theobroma cacao) plants	7
Providing the missing links in fern life history: Insights from a phenological survey of the gametophyte stage	7
Using marsh organs to test seed recruitment in tidal freshwater marshes	7
Multiple Leaf Sample Extraction System (MuLES): A tool to improve automated morphometric leaf studies	6
Identifying cryptic fern gametophytes using DNA barcoding: A review	6
A protocol for the generation of Arachis hypogaea composite plants: A valuable tool for the functional study of mycorrhizal symbiosis	6
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Analysis of plant metabolomics data using identification‐free approaches	6
Infrared spectroscopy for ploidy estimation: An example in two species of Veronica using fresh and herbarium specimens	6
Hijacking a rapid and scalable metagenomic method reveals subgenome dynamics and evolution in polyploid plants	5
Corrigendum	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
Issue Information	5
Ethanol preservation and pretreatments facilitate quality DNA extractions in recalcitrant plant species	5
Using large language models to extract plant functional traits from unstructured text	5
A dormant resource for genome size estimation in ferns: C‐value inference of the Ophioglossaceae using herbarium specimen spores	5
An open‐source LED lamp for use with the LI‐6800 photosynthesis system	5
Optogenetic control of transgene expression in Marchantia polymorpha	4
InDelGT: An integrated pipeline for extracting indel genotypes for genetic mapping in a hybrid population using next‐generation sequencing data	4
expowo: An R package for mining global plant diversity and distribution data	4
Issue Information	4
PhyloHerb: A high‐throughput phylogenomic pipeline for processing genome skimming data	4
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A new spin on chemotaxonomy: Using non‐proteogenic amino acids as a test case	4
DNA assays for genetic discrimination of threePhragmites australissubspecies in the United States	4
Using disposable food packaging materials as printing, embedding, and sectioning media in the plant anatomy lab	4
The Computer‐Assisted Sequence Annotation (CASA) workflow for enzyme discovery	4
A field‐capable rapid plant DNA extraction protocol using microneedle patches for botanical surveying and monitoring	4
Applying interpretable machine learning to assess intraspecific trait divergence under landscape‐scale population differentiation	4
Choices on sampling, sequencing, and analyzing DNA influence the estimation of community composition of plant fungal symbionts	4
A comparison of freezer‐stored DNA and herbarium tissue samples for chloroplast assembly and genome skimming	4
Correction to GOgetter: A pipeline for summarizing and visualizing GO slim annotations for plant genetic data	4
What is the “modified” CTAB protocol? Characterizing modifications to the CTAB DNA extraction protocol	4

FieldPrism: A system for creating snapshot vouchers from field images using photogrammetric markers and QR codes