OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plants People Planet is 8. 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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Evaluating the determinants of deforestation and approaches to reforestation by cocoa farmers in Côte d'Ivoire	49
Prescribed burning effectively maintains threatened species in semi‐natural grasslands on lava flows	48
The long road to a sustainable banana trade	47
Exploiting genetic variation from unadapted germplasm—An example from improvement of sorghum in Ethiopia	40
A comprehensive checklist of Mediterranean wild edible plants: Diversity, traditional uses, and knowledge gaps	33
Detecting and attributing climate change effects on vegetation: Australia as a test case	32
Safeguarding sandalwood: A review of current and emerging tools to support sustainable and legal forestry	30
Exchangeable lead (Pb) in lowland paddy soils of Sri Lanka as affected by the differences in agro‐climatic zones, soil orders, and water sources	29
A new feature of the laboratory model plant Nicotiana benthamiana: Dead‐end trap for sustainable field pest control	29
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The role of strigolactone structural diversity in the host specificity and control of Striga, a major constraint to sub‐Saharan agriculture	28
Cytogenetics of maize in Mexico as a field of transnational exchange: The case of Takeo Ángel Kato Yamakake	28
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Building a more predictive model of terroir for the Anthropocene	26
Perspectives on biotechnology: Public and corporate narratives in the GM archives	25
Agricultural biotechnology: Potential, challenges, and debate	24
Controlling banana bunchy top disease in Benin: Crop protection strategies with socio‐economic perspectives	24
Genomic responses to climate: Understanding local adaptation in the Andean tree species Nothofagus pumilio and implications for a changing world	24
Assessing the impact of strictly protecting 30%–50% of global land on carbon dynamics in natural and agricultural ecosystems	22
Resilient trees for urban environments: The importance of intraspecific variation	22
Most of the world's largest flowers (genus Rafflesia) are now on the brink of extinction	21
Meta‐analysis of Red List conservation assessments of Mexican endemic and near endemic tree species shows nearly two thirds of these are threatened	21
Accumulation of azafrin in the root apoplast of the medicinal plant Escobedia grandiflora might play a role in parasitism	21

Harnessing the nutritional potential of Cape wild edible plants: Insights, gaps and priorities	21
Raising awareness through the Global Tree Assessment: Extinction risk of six fully assessed tree groups	21
Diverse Prairie Mixtures Stabilize Biomass Yields for Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production	21
Vineyard maturity increases arbuscular mycorrhizal and decreases plant pathogen fungal relative abundance in bulk soil across a 1,000 km Chilean gradient	20
Modern pollen rain reveals differences across forests, open and mosaic landscapes in Madagascar	20
Crop–pollinator interactions in urban and peri‐urban farms in the United Kingdom	19
Challenges and limitations of introducing pigeonpea as a new crop into smallholder farming systems through farmer‐to‐farmer education in Zambia	19
Meta‐analysis on effects of Bt‐maize on nontarget invertebrates – Data transportability across continents	19
Endosymbionts in cranberry: Diversity, effect on plant growth, and pathogen biocontrol	18
Gibberellin action‐based strategies show promise in the control of Striga—A major threat to global agriculture	18
Using dendroclimatic analysis of exotic deciduous conifers in an arboretum to document tree growth in response to climate change, Northeast Ohio, USA	18
Global benefits and domestic costs of a cooperative surveillance strategy to control transboundary crop pathogens	18
Can seed exchange networks explain the morphological and genetic diversity in perennial crop species? The case of the tropical fruit tree Dacryodes edulis in rural and urban Cameroon	17
Status and future of seed conservation of threatened plants in the post‐2020 era	17
RNAi‐based genetically engineered rice resistant to black‐streaked dwarf virus does not show adverse genetic effects: A multi‐omics analysis	17
Extinction risk to the endemic trees of Papua New Guinea	17
Towards the sustainability of African sandalwood: Understanding the distribution and environmental requirements	17
Anthromes and forest carbon responses to global change	16
The societal roles and responsibilities of plant scientists in the context of genome‐edited crops	16
Bee pollination in the shadows: The role of pseudopollen and agamospermy in the mycoheterotrophic orchid Gastrodia elata	16
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Biodiversity science is improved when silent herbaria speak	15
Hot node limitations and impact of taxonomic resolution on phylogenetic divergence patterns: A case study on Ecuadorian ethnomedicinal flora	15
The role of crop diversity in escape agriculture; rice cultivation among Maroon communities in Suriname	15
Celebrating botanic gardens	15
A nationwide assessment of microplastic abundance in agricultural soils: The influence of plastic crop covers within the United Kingdom	15
Restoration of threatened plant species in Limahuli Valley on the Hawaiian Island of Kaua'i in the framework of the Global Tree Assessment	15
Plant biodiversity, vegetation structure and provisioning services in rainforest, traditional and industrial oil palm cultivation systems in Liberia, West Africa	15
A review of Madagascar's derived grasslands: Low palatability following anthropogenic fires may threaten food security	15
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Correction to “Characterizing the landscape of plant science careers in the United States II: Academic perspectives”	15
Integrating indigenous crops in agroforestry systems: Lesser yam and teak mixed systems are more profitable than monocultures in Indonesia	15
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Linking soil health to human health: Arbuscular mycorrhizae play a key role in plant uptake of the antioxidant ergothioneine from soils	14
A comprehensive review of the genetic control of cooking time in dry beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.)	14
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Interactions of rare earth elements with living organisms and emerging biotechnical applications	14
Fluctuating selection and rapid evolution of oaks during recent climatic transitions	14
Repositories of biocultural diversity: Toward best practices for empowering ethnobotany in digital herbaria	14
Impacts of climate change on the transcriptional dynamics and timing of bud dormancy release in Yoshino‐cherry tree	14
The contributions of urban horticulture to cities' liveability and resilience: Insights from Singapore	13
The urgency of genetic decline in New Brunswick butternut, Juglans cinerea L.	13
Preserving traditional systems: Identification of agricultural heritage areas based on agro‐biodiversity	13
Collection of native Theobroma cacao L. accessions from the Ecuadorian Amazon highlights a hotspot of cocoa diversity	13
Stronger increase of methane emissions from coastal wetlands by non‐native Spartina alterniflora than non‐native Phragmites australis	13
Eurosta solidaginis ‐induced stem galls affect strength and colour of botanical dyes extracted from giant goldenrod (	13
Towards resource‐efficient forests: Mixing species changes crown biomass allocation and improves growth efficiency	13
(Poly)phenols of apples contribute to in vitro antidiabetic properties: Assessment of Canada's Apple Biodiversity Collection	13
Climate‐driven intraspecific shifts in seed germination phenology: Consequences for native temperate woodland restoration and regeneration	13
Assessing the evolutionary distinctiveness of a highly threatened plant group: The urgency to preserve a unique lineage of evolution in Brazil	13

Potential distribution and susceptibility of Coffea arabica L. to climate change impacts	13
Environmental changes on grass flowering phenological trends (2000–2021)	13
Help from the past to cope with the future: Vitis sylvestris as a resource for abiotic stress resilience	12
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Genetic diversity and population structure of pedunculate oaks ( Quercus robur ) in Wytham Woods	12
Changes in tropical leafing behaviour with climate change over nine decades: A case study from the Singapore Botanic Gardens	12
Environment‐dependent influence of fruit size upon the distribution of the Malesian archipelagic flora	12
Fruit in focus: A sampler platter of research	12
Digitisation as archival intermediary: Quantifying and qualifying Greta B. Stevenson's mycological collector networks	12
2D and 3D visualization of herbaceous plant–plant contact zones using high‐resolution X‐ray computed tomography (HRXCT)	12
Ten golden rules for restoration to secure resilient and just seagrass social‐ecological systems	12
Yield, growth, and labor demands of growing maize, beans, and squash in monoculture versus the Three Sisters	12
Investigating plant awareness: Image composition affects student perceptions of flora and fauna	12
Strigolactone biosynthesis lgs1 mutant alleles mined from the sorghum accession panel are a promising resource of resistance to witchweed (Striga) parasitism	12
Towards a better understanding of the relationships between pollinators, human well‐being, and medicine plants in the Great Lakes Region of Eastern North America	11
Transcriptomic stress responses in Vaccinium spp. F1 hybrids: Implications for temperature‐resilient cranberry breeding using a crop wild relative	11
Right tree, right place, right reason: Using knowledge exchange and research co‐design to explore current challenges and opportunities for sustainable urban forest management	11
Expected yield and economic improvements of a yam seed system in West Africa using agro‐physiological modelling	11
Herbarium records reveal multiple phases in the relationship between minimum residence time and invasion ranges of alien plant species	11
Simulated elephant foraging alters tree root exudation rates: Species‐specific responses and implications for belowground carbon dynamics in tropical forests	11
Exploring Costa Rica's fungal trends: Insights from digitized specimens	11
Global shortfalls in threat assessments for endemic flora by country	11
Small and in‐country herbaria are vital for accurate plant threat assessments: A case study from Peru	11
Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens	11
Ex situ germplasm collections of exceptional species are a vital part of the conservation of Australia's national plant treasures	11
The pick of the plot: An evidence‐based approach for selecting and testing suitable plants to use in annual seed mixes to attract insect pollinators	11
Speciation with gene flow	11
A national crop wild relative checklist for Zimbabwe reveals edible crop wild relative diversity of regional and global importance	11
Bridging biodiversity and ecosystem services through useful plant species	10
Towards conservation and sustainable use of an indigenous crop: A large partnership network enabled the genetic diversity assessment of 1539 fonio (Digitaria exilis) accessions	10
A high‐resolution model of the grapevine leaf morphospace predicts synthetic leaves	10
Shifts in plant functional trait dynamics in relation to soil microbiome in modern and wild barley	10
Teaching plant identification at a university in the age of artificial intelligence	10
Agricultural and environmental drivers of variation in the composition of food crops: A scoping review	10
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Innovation in plant and soil sciences to tackle critical global challenges	10
Trees, society, and the path toward resilient ecosystems	10
Aboveground and soil carbon in novel forest ecosystems in Singapore: A case study of abandoned plantation secondary forests	10
Could large‐scale silicon supplementation of crop‐lands mitigate the impacts of climate change?	10
How safe are peat‐free growing media? An exploration of plant pathogen risks to the horticultural industry and recommendations for risk mitigation	10
Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity	10
Azole antifungal contaminants disrupt mycorrhizal function and risk agricultural sustainability	10
Integrated conservation of Acer yangbiense: A case study for conservation methods of plant species with extremely small populations	10
Relictithismia: An underground fairy lantern	10
The influence of Opuntia ficus‐indica on human livelihoods in Southern Africa	10
Phenology of the spruce bark beetle Ips typographus in the UK under past, current and future climate conditions	10
Coffee breeding in a time of crisis: F₁ hybrids in Central America since 1990	10
Genomics in neglected and underutilized fruit crops: A chromosome‐scale genome sequence of cherimoya (Annona cherimola)	10
Evolution history and the importance of genomic diversity facing climate change. The case of Agave marmorata Roezl., a microendemic agave used for mezcal production	10
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Unveiling the health‐promoting potential of Sudanese sorghum landraces: A legacy rooted in Eastern Sudan, Kassala, and the Red Sea States	9
Correction to “Characterizing the landscape of plant science careers in the United States I: Government and private sector perspectives”	9
Ectomycorrhizal necromass turnover is one‐third of biomass turnover in hemiboreal Pinus sylvestris forests	9
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Landless peasants, soilless cultivation: British agricultural experimentation and intervention in post‐independence Iraq (1932–1958)	9
Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security	9
Comprehensive tree assessments for prioritising conservation action in Mesoamerica	9
Resilience through diversity: The potential of modelling species and variety interactions to enhance resilience of production systems	9
But does it taste good? A plea to consider the importance of flavor in managing plant genetic resources	9
Looking backward to move forward: Enhancing metadata in scientific collections through interdisciplinary collaboration	9
Urban forests as essential infrastructure for climate resilience and biodiversity: A call to policymakers	8
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal inoculation increases the bioavailability of zinc and iron in wheat grain	8
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Global potential distributions and conservation status of rice wild relatives	8
Sustainable production of ectomycorrhizal fungi in the Mediterranean region to support the European Green Deal	8
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Small proteins, great promises: Geographic bioprospecting of Bowman–Birk protease inhibitors and domestication side‐effects in African cowpea (Vigna unguiculata L.)	8
Sowing the wheat seeds of Afghanistan's future	8
Persistence and potential of soil organic carbon in nature‐based climate solutions: A review of managed disturbances	8
microRNA‐encoded peptides inhibit seed germination of the root parasitic plant Orobanche cumana	8
From genes to governance: Engaging citizens in the new genomic techniques policy debate	8
30 by 30 for plant diversity: How can we protect more of nature?	8
How many species of Rafflesia exist in Java, Indonesia and what are the implications for conservation?	8
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A transdisciplinary approach to define and assess wild food plant sustainable foraging in Norway	8
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Verification of wild apple (Malus sylvestris) nursery stock sold in the United Kingdom	8
How can policymakers and researchers develop effective insect resistance management guidelines? A quantitative and qualitative study of Brazilian farmers' perspectives and attitudes	8
Life after herbarium digitisation: Physical and digital collections, curation and use	8
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