OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Plants People Planet 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental origins of the cultivated tetraploid sour cherry (Prunus cerasus L.)	55
Practical consequences of digital sequence information (DSI) definitions and access and benefit‐sharing scenarios from a plant genebank’s perspective	52
The benefits of informed management of sunlight in production greenhouses and polytunnels	50
Kew declaration on reforestation for biodiversity, carbon capture and livelihoods	44
C₄ photosynthesis in Paulownia? A case of inaccurate citations	40
Effects of nitrogen deposition on carbon allocation between wood and leaves in temperate forests	36
Assessing Magnoliaceae through time: Major global efforts to track extinction risk status and ex situ conservation	26
A botanical oasis rather than a biological desert: Rediscoveries, new species and new records in a tropical city	25
Genomic evidence supports an independent history of Levantine and Eurasian grapevines	25
Towards increased shading capacity: A combined phenotypic and genetic analysis of rice shoot architecture	24
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Prescribed burning effectively maintains threatened species in semi‐natural grasslands on lava flows	22
Addressing another threat to food safety: Conflict	22
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Preventing species extinctions: A global conservation consortium for Erica	20
Small and in‐country herbaria are vital for accurate plant threat assessments: A case study from Peru	18
Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity	17
The Cornbelt's Last Open Pollinated Corn: Agricultural extension and the origins of the hybrid corn seed industry	17
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Expected yield and economic improvements of a yam seed system in West Africa using agro‐physiological modelling	15
Exploiting genetic variation from unadapted germplasm—An example from improvement of sorghum in Ethiopia	14
The biocultural heritage and changing role of indigenous yams in the Republic of Guinea, West Africa	14
Advancing breeding for climate‐resilient yam production in Côte d'Ivoire	14
Neglected plant parasites: Mitrastemonaceae	14

Governance and stewardship for research data and information sharing: Issues and prospective solutions in the transdisciplinary plant phenotyping and imaging research center network	13
Absence of botanical European Palaeolithic cave art: What can it tell us about plant awareness disparity?	13
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Multigenerational differences in harvesting and use of wild edible fruits and nuts in the South Caucasus	11
Organic nitrogen improves the water use of tropical tree seedlings cultivated for restoration plantings	11
The international political process around Digital Sequence Information under the Convention on Biological Diversity and the 2018–2020 intersessional period	11
Ethnolinguistic and genetic diversity of fonio (Digitaria exilis) in Senegal	10
Discovery of strigol synthase from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum): The enzyme behind the first identified germination stimulant for Striga	10
Prioritising crop wild relatives to enhance agricultural resilience in sub‐Saharan Africa under climate change	10
Exploring, harnessing and conserving marine genetic resources towards a sustainable seaweed aquaculture	10
Ethnolinguistic associations and genetic diversity of rice landraces in Nagaland, India	10
Planting and replanting: Continuity and change over four decades of forest restoration in Himachal Pradesh, India	10
Reintroduction of Buchanania barberi, a critically endangered tree endemic to the south Western Ghats of Kerala, India	9
Desert hyacinths: An obscure solution to a global problem?	9
The long road to a sustainable banana trade	9
Pedigree reconstruction for triploid apple cultivars using single nucleotide polymorphism array data	9
“Please list your favourite …”: How to measure online plant knowledge as a component of plant awareness	9
Cider and dessert apples: What is the difference?	9
Urban horticulture: Building the evidence base to support integration into cities and towns	9
Feeding specialization shapes the bottom‐up effect of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi across a plant–aphid–parasitoid system	8
Genomics in neglected and underutilized fruit crops: A chromosome‐scale genome sequence of cherimoya (Annona cherimola)	8
Whole genome resequencing reveals the evolutionary history and geographic isolation of the eastern Asian Hickory (Carya)	8
Distribution, ecology, and threats assessment of 11 endemic frankincense tree taxa (Boswellia) in the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen)	8
Constraints of commercially available seed diversity in restoration: Implications for plant functional diversity	8
Genetic fingerprinting reveals how traditional farming practices aided to preserve ancient table grape varieties in Almería (southeastern Spain)	8
The grassy ecosystems of Madagascar in context: Ecology, evolution, and conservation	8
A “plant love story”: The lost (and found) private herbarium of the radical socialist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg	8
Old meets new: Innovative and evolving uses of herbaria over time as revealed by a literature review	8
Global access to nomenclatural botanical resources: Evaluating open access availability	8
Evolution history and the importance of genomic diversity facing climate change. The case of Agave marmorata Roezl., a microendemic agave used for mezcal production	8
Innovation in plant and soil sciences to tackle critical global challenges	8
Beyond plant awareness disparity: Exploring intangible relationships with plants in the Catalan Pyrenees	7
Recalcitrant maize: Conserving agrobiodiversity in the era of genetically modified organisms	7
Safeguarding sandalwood: A review of current and emerging tools to support sustainable and legal forestry	7
How regulatory issues surrounding new breeding technologies can impact smallholder farmer breeding: A case study from the Philippines	7
Plant awareness is linked to plant relevance: A review of educational and ethnobiological literature (1998–2020)	7
Seeing the green cucumber: Reflections on variation theory and teaching plant identification	7
Mycorrhizal communities of Vanilla planifolia in an introduction area (La Réunion) under varying cultivation practices	7
Predicting the potential for spread of emerald ash borer (Agrilus planipennis) in Great Britain: What can we learn from other affected areas?	6
An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals	6
High‐throughput phenotyping platforms for pulse crop biofortification	6
Rooting students in their botanical history: A method to engage students in botany and herbaria	6
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Herbarium records reveal multiple phases in the relationship between minimum residence time and invasion ranges of alien plant species	6
A new feature of the laboratory model plant Nicotiana benthamiana: Dead‐end trap for sustainable field pest control	6
Yield and cost–benefit analyses for apple scab sanitation practices in integrated and organic apple management systems	6
UKCropDiversity‐HPC: A collaborative high‐performance computing resource approach for sustainable agriculture and biodiversity conservation	6
Validating a novel genetic technology for hybrid maize seed production under management practices associated with resource‐poor farmers in Zimbabwe	6
Defining biodiverse reforestation: Why it matters for climate change mitigation and biodiversity	6

Fire incongruities can explain widespread landscape degradation in Madagascar's forests and grasslands	6
Realizing the potential of plant genetic resources: the use of phenomics for genebanks	6
Terroir and rootstock effects on leaf shape in California Central Valley vineyards	6
Strangler fig–host tree associations: Insights into the ecology and management of tropical urban green spaces	6
Empowered through our diversity: How to bring in a new age of plant science collaboration	5
Perspectives on biotechnology: Public and corporate narratives in the GM archives	5
Plant nutritional value of aquaculture water produced by feeding Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) alternative protein diets: A lettuce and basil case study	5
Towards conservation and sustainable use of an indigenous crop: A large partnership network enabled the genetic diversity assessment of 1539 fonio (Digitaria exilis) accessions	5
The Ginkgo—Covid connection	5
Environmental horticulture for domestic and community gardens—An integrated and applied research approach	5
Ethnobotanical knowledge against the combined biodiversity, poverty and climate crisis: A case study from a Karen community in Northern Thailand	5
Back to the future: Using ancient Bere barley landraces for a sustainable future	5
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Unraveling the genetic components of perenniality: Toward breeding for perennial grains	5
Exploring the role of mobile genetic elements in shaping plant–bacterial interactions for sustainable agriculture and ecosystem health	5
Utilizing drawings to understand how our backgrounds and experiences change our plant mental models	5
Assessing the impact of strictly protecting 30%–50% of global land on carbon dynamics in natural and agricultural ecosystems	5
Meta‐analysis of Red List conservation assessments of Mexican endemic and near endemic tree species shows nearly two thirds of these are threatened	5
The history of crop science and the future of food	5
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Carbon isotope values for grasses in Madagascar's Central Highlands establish baselines for historical and paleoecological research	5
Constructing sympatry networks to assess potential introgression pathways within the major oak sections in the contiguous US states	5
The role of millets in attaining United Nation's sustainable developmental goals	5
An ecological and evolutionary perspective of the historical US nursery flora	5
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Phenotypic characterization of a strawberry (Fragaria ×ananassa Duchesne ex Rosier) diversity collection	5
Exploring the polysaccharide composition of plant cell walls in succulent aloes	4
Genomic responses to climate: Understanding local adaptation in the Andean tree species Nothofagus pumilio and implications for a changing world	4
Resilient trees for urban environments: The importance of intraspecific variation	4
Mountain greening and rising temperatures erode habitats of ironwort (Sideritis), an important natural medicinal resource	4
“Ceylon cinnamon”: Much more than just a spice	4
Can strategic integration of cultivated pasture legumes into temperate agricultural systems provide stability to honey bee populations and associated industries?	4
Cytogenetics of maize in Mexico as a field of transnational exchange: The case of Takeo Ángel Kato Yamakake	4
Creating a university evolution garden: An integrated learning approach for teaching land plant evolution	4
Seedling performance, phenotypic traits and growing media for domestication of Lilium polyphyllum	4
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The medicinal plant Buddleja asiatica and its relation to the welfare of local people in the Pan‐Himalayan region: Past, present, and future perspectives	4
Shifts in plant functional trait dynamics in relation to soil microbiome in modern and wild barley	4
Coffee breeding in a time of crisis: F₁ hybrids in Central America since 1990	4
Spatial distribution of Annonaceae across biomes and anthromes: Knowledge gaps in spatial and ecological data	4
Dogs occupying grassy habitat near protected areas in eastern Madagascar rely on foods from forests	4
Utilizing mycorrhizal responses to guide selective breeding for agricultural sustainability	4
Plot‐level satellite imagery can substitute for UAVs in assessing maize phenotypes across multistate field trials	4
The influence of Opuntia ficus‐indica on human livelihoods in Southern Africa	4
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal‐induced tolerance is determined by fungal identity and pathogen density	4
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Cell wall polysaccharides determine cooking quality in cassava roots	4
The forgotten history of intercropping	4
Integrated conservation of Acer yangbiense: A case study for conservation methods of plant species with extremely small populations	4
Biosafety legislation and the regulatory status of the products of precision breeding in the Latin America and the Caribbean region	4
Eight arguments why biodiversity is important to safeguard food security	4
Plants, people and long‐term ecological monitoring in the tropics	4