OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Crop Journal is 34. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
META-R: A software to analyze data from multi-environment plant breeding trials	166
Synergistic and antagonistic interactions between potassium and magnesium in higher plants	118
The impact of high-temperature stress on rice: Challenges and solutions	106
Abscisic acid and jasmonic acid are involved in drought priming-induced tolerance to drought in wheat	103
Salt tolerance in rice: Physiological responses and molecular mechanisms	96
High-throughput phenotyping: Breaking through the bottleneck in future crop breeding	96
Molecular mechanisms of salinity tolerance in rice	94
Generation of seed lipoxygenase-free soybean using CRISPR-Cas9	72
Base editing in plants: Current status and challenges	71
Recent advances in nano-enabled agriculture for improving plant performance	70
Waterlogging stress in cotton: Damage, adaptability, alleviation strategies, and mechanisms	67
Mechanisms of cadmium phytoremediation and detoxification in plants	67
Deep placement of nitrogen fertilizer increases rice yield and nitrogen use efficiency with fewer greenhouse gas emissions in a mechanical direct-seeded cropping system	59
Genomic selection: A breakthrough technology in rice breeding	54
Precise base editing of non-allelic acetolactate synthase genes confers sulfonylurea herbicide resistance in maize	53
Targeted mutagenesis of amino acid transporter genes for rice quality improvement using the CRISPR/Cas9 system	52
Integration of meta-QTL discovery with omics: Towards a molecular breeding platform for improving wheat resistance to Fusarium head blight	52
Long-term straw incorporation increases rice yield stability under high fertilization level conditions in the rice–wheat system	47
How rice organs are colored: The genetic basis of anthocyanin biosynthesis in rice	46
Harness the power of genomic selection and the potential of germplasm in crop breeding for global food security in the era with rapid climate change	44
Function, transport, and regulation of amino acids: What is missing in rice?	43
Influence of plastic film mulching and planting density on yield, leaf anatomy, and root characteristics of maize on the Loess Plateau	43
Profiling of seed fatty acid composition in 1025 Chinese soybean accessions from diverse ecoregions	42
High nitrogen application rate and planting density reduce wheat grain yield by reducing filling rate of inferior grain in middle spikelets	42
The essential roles of sugar metabolism for pollen development and male fertility in plants	40

OsABA8ox2, an ABA catabolic gene, suppresses root elongation of rice seedlings and contributes to drought response	40
Far-red light: A regulator of plant morphology and photosynthetic capacity	40
Haplotype variations in QTL for salt tolerance in Chinese wheat accessions identified by marker-based and pedigree-based kinship analyses	37
Creating a novel herbicide-tolerance OsALS allele using CRISPR/Cas9-mediated gene editing	37
Genome-wide association mapping for grain shape and color traits in Ethiopian durum wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. durum)	37
Exploration of rice yield potential: Decoding agronomic and physiological traits	35
Roles of miR319-regulated TCPs in plant development and response to abiotic stress	35
Conversion of a normal maize hybrid into a waxy version using in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 targeted mutation activity	35
Evaluation of a deep-learning model for multispectral remote sensing of land use and crop classification	34
Quantifying the effects of short-term heat stress at booting stage on nonstructural carbohydrates remobilization in rice	34