OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plant Direct is 6. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Effects of drought and heat stresses during reproductive stage on pollen germination, yield, and leaf reflectance properties in maize (Zea mays L.)	36
BHLH IRIDOID SYNTHESIS 3 is a member of a bHLH gene cluster regulating terpenoid indole alkaloid biosynthesis in Catharanthus roseus	32
Copper deficiency alters shoot architecture and reduces fertility of both gynoecium and androecium in Arabidopsis thaliana	29
Maize brace roots provide stalk anchorage	29
Measuring the dynamic response of the thylakoid architecture in plant leaves by electron microscopy	28
RicemicroRNA171f/SCL6module enhances drought tolerance by regulation of flavonoid biosynthesis genes	26
PhyloGenes: An online phylogenetics and functional genomics resource for plant gene function inference	24
TOMATOMET: A metabolome database consists of 7118 accurate mass values detected in mature fruits of 25 tomato cultivars	23
The soybean (Glycine max L.) cytokinin oxidase/dehydrogenase multigene family; Identification of natural variations for altered cytokinin content and seed yield	22
Metabolic profiling reveals local and systemic responses of kiwifruit to Pseudomonas syringae pv. actinidiae	21
Diurnal metabolic regulation of isoflavones and soyasaponins in soybean roots	21
Delineating genetic regulation of cannabinoid biosynthesis during female flower development in Cannabis sativa	20
Grapevine rootstocks affect growth‐related scion phenotypes	19
CRISPR/Cas9‐mediated saturated mutagenesis of the cotton MIR482 family for dissecting the functionality of individual members in disease response	19
Prolonged phloem feeding by the spotted lanternfly, an invasive planthopper, alters resource allocation and inhibits gas exchange in grapevines	19
Rice aquaporin OsPIP2;2 is a water‐transporting facilitator in relevance to drought‐tolerant responses	19
Nodal root diameter and node number in maize (Zea mays L.) interact to influence plant growth under nitrogen stress	19
Ploidy influences wheat mesophyll cell geometry, packing and leaf function	19
Gene expression changes occurring at bolting time are associated with leaf senescence in Arabidopsis	18
Drought activates MYB41 orthologs and induces suberization of grapevine fine roots	18
GmDNJ1, a type‐I heat shock protein 40 (HSP40), is responsible for both Growth and heat tolerance in soybean	18
Heat‐responsive microRNAs and phased small interfering RNAs in reproductive development of flax	18
Catalase protects against nonenzymatic decarboxylations during photorespiration in Arabidopsis thaliana	17
Prickle morphogenesis in rose is coupled with secondary metabolite accumulation and governed by canonical MBW transcriptional complex	16
Cytokinin isopentenyladenine and its glucoside isopentenyladenine‐9G delay leaf senescence through activation of cytokinin‐associated genes	16

Chemical seed priming alleviates salinity stress and improves Sulla carnosa germination in the saline depression of Tunisia	16
Broadening the impact of plant science through innovative, integrative, and inclusive outreach	16
Seed priming with selenium: Effects on germination, seedling growth, biochemical attributes, and grain yield in rice growing under flooding conditions	15
Genetic manipulation of trehalose‐6‐phosphate synthase results in changes in the soluble sugar profile in transgenic sugarcane stems	15
Combining cross‐section images and modeling tools to create high‐resolution root system hydraulic atlases inZea mays	15
Metabolic changes in the developing sugarcane culm associated with high yield and early high sugar content	14
Drought specifically downregulates mineral nutrition: Plant ionomic content and associated gene expression	13
Genome features of common vetch (Vicia sativa) in natural habitats	13
A sorghum gigantea mutant attenuates florigen gene expression and delays flowering time	13
Genome‐wide profiling of miRNAs during seed development reveals their functional relevance in seed size/weight determination in chickpea	13
Electrophysiological study of Arabidopsis ABCB4 and PIN2 auxin transporters: Evidence of auxin activation and interaction enhancing auxin selectivity	13
OsJAZ11 regulates spikelet and seed development in rice	12
Crop modeling defines opportunities and challenges for drought escape, water capture, and yield increase using chilling‐tolerant sorghum	11
Silencing GhFAR3.1 reduces wax accumulation in cotton leaves and leads to increased susceptibility to drought stress	11
Effects of Trichoderma harzianum biofertilizer on growth, yield, and quality of Bupleurum chinense	11
Mask R‐CNN‐based feature extraction and three‐dimensional recognition of rice panicle CT images	11
Biodiversity of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plant roots and rhizosphere soil from different arid land environment of Qatar	11
Exploring PIF4's contribution to early flowering in plants under daily variable temperature and its tissue‐specific flowering gene network	10
Agronomic biofortification increases grain zinc concentration of maize grown under contrasting soil types in Malawi	10
Age‐dependent increase in α‐tocopherol and phytosterols in maize leaves exposed to elevated ozone pollution	10
Raman spectroscopy‐based diagnostics of water deficit and salinity stresses in two accessions of peanut	10
Lack of plastid‐encoded Ycf10, a homolog of the nuclear‐encoded DLDG1 and the cyanobacterial PxcA, enhances the induction of non‐photochemical quenching in tobacco	10
Genetic and genomic resources to study natural variation in Brassica rapa	10
Gender discrimination of Populus tomentosa barks by HPLC fingerprint combined with multivariate statistics	10
The Arabidopsis thaliana nucleotide sugar transporter GONST2 is a functional homolog of GONST1	9
Identification of new potential downstream transcriptional targets of the strigolactone pathway including glucosinolate biosynthesis	9
Root vacuolar sequestration and suberization are prominent responses of Pistacia spp. rootstocks during salinity stress	9
Seed priming mitigates high salinity impact on germination of bread wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) by improving carbohydrate and protein mobilization	9
Which factor explains the life‐history of Xanthium strumarium L., an aggressive alien invasive plant species, along its altitudinal gradient?	9
Allelopathy as an evolutionary game	9
The genome of the endangered Macadamia jansenii displays little diversity but represents an important genetic resource for plant breeding	9
Concerted increases of FAE1 expression level and substrate availability improve and singularize the production of very‐long‐chain fatty acids in Arabidopsis seeds	9
Fake news blues: A GUS staining protocol to reduce false‐negative data	8
Rapid analysis of strigolactone receptor activity in a Nicotiana benthamiana dwarf14 mutant	8
microRNA390 modulates Nicotiana attenuata's tolerance response to Manduca sexta herbivory	8
PALE‐GREEN LEAF 1, a rice cpSRP54 protein, is essential for the assembly of the PSI‐LHCI supercomplex	8
Origin and evolution of a gibberellin‐deactivating enzyme GAMT	8
Development of mPing‐based activation tags for crop insertional mutagenesis	8
The identification of conserved sequence features of co‐translationally decayed mRNAs and upstream open reading frames in angiosperm transcriptomes	8
Keeping time in the dark: Potato diel and circadian rhythmic gene expression reveals tissue‐specific circadian clocks	8
Chlamydomonas ATX1 is essential for Cu distribution to multiple cupro‐enzymes and maintenance of biomass in conditions demanding cupro‐enzyme‐dependent metabolic pathways	8
Modeling multiple phenotypes in wheat using data‐driven genomic exploratory factor analysis and Bayesian network learning	8
Phytosphingosine induces systemic acquired resistance through activation of sphingosine kinase	8
A mutant allele of the flowering promoting factor 1 gene at the tomato BRACHYTIC locus reduces plant height with high quality fruit	8
The gs3 allele from a large‐grain rice cultivar, Akita 63, increases yield and improves nitrogen‐use efficiency	8
A consensus on the Aquaporin Gene Family in the Allotetraploid Plant, Nicotiana tabacum	7
Sesamum indicum Oleosin L improves oil packaging in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves	7
Water stress assessment on grapevines by using classification and regression trees	7
Phenotypic and transcriptomic analysis reveals early stress responses in transgenic rice expressing Arabidopsis DREB1a	7
Chromosome 3A harbors several pleiotropic and stable drought‐responsive alleles for photosynthetic efficiency selected through wheat breeding	7

SNP discovery in proso millet (Panicum miliaceum L.) using low‐pass genome sequencing	7
The Arabidopsis INNER NO OUTER (INO) gene acts exclusively and quantitatively in regulation of ovule outer integument development	7
NAC domain transcription factors VNI2 and ATAF2 form protein complexes and regulate leaf senescence	7
Heat stress changes mineral nutrient concentrations inChenopodium quinoaseed	7
Belowground and aboveground herbivory differentially affect the transcriptome in roots and shoots of maize	7
Genotypic differences in response of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) to lime‐induced iron chlorosis	7
Multilocation proteins in organelle communication: Based on protein–protein interactions	7
Plant growth promotion by the interaction of a novel synthetic small molecule with GA‐DELLA function	6
MCO1 and MCO3, two putative ascorbate oxidases with ferroxidase activity, new candidates for the regulation of apoplastic iron excess in Arabidopsis	6
Genome‐wide association studies identify putative pleiotropic locus mediating drought tolerance in sorghum	6
Glycerolipid profile differences between perennial and annual stem zones in the perennial model plant Arabis alpina	6
The Arabidopsis gene co‐expression network	6
The commitment of barley microspores into embryogenesis correlates with miRNA‐directed regulation of members of the SPL, GRF and HD‐ZIPIII transcription factor families	6
Solanum galapagense‐derived purple tomato fruit color is conferred by novel alleles of the anthocyanin fruit and atroviolacium loci	6
Removing systemic barriers to equity, diversity, and inclusion: Report of the 2019 Plant Science Research Network workshop “Inclusivity in the Plant Sciences”	6
Phenotypic effects of changes in the FTVTxK region of an Arabidopsis secondary wall cellulose synthase compared with results from analogous mutations in other isoforms	6
Sorghum root epigenetic landscape during limiting phosphorus conditions	6
Asian corn borer damage is affected by rind penetration strength of corn stalks in a spatiotemporally dependent manner	6
slim shady is a novel allele of PHYTOCHROME B present in the T‐DNA line SALK_015201	6
AtSWEET11 and AtSWEET12 transporters function in tandem to modulate sugar flux in plants	6
Automated imaging of duckweed growth and development	6
Evaluation of pathways to the C‐glycosyl isoflavone puerarin in roots of kudzu (Pueraria montana lobata)	6
Impact of nicotine pathway downregulation on polyamine biosynthesis and leaf ripening in tobacco	6
Proteomic analysis of metabolic pathways supports chloroplast–mitochondria cross‐talk in a Cu‐limited diatom	6
Identification of a xyloglucan beta‐xylopyranosyltransferase from Vaccinium corymbosum	6
The Arabidopsis T‐DNA mutant SALK_008491 carries a 14‐kb deletion on chromosome 3 that provides rare insights into the plant response to dynamic light stress	6
Whole‐genome DNA methylation patterns of Oryza sativa (L.) and Oryza glumaepatula (Steud) genotypes associated with aluminum response	6
Temporal and environmental factors interact with rootstock genotype to shape leaf elemental composition in grafted grapevines	6
Proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in the developing wheat seed coat investigated by chemical and RNA‐Seq analysis	6