OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of New Phytologist is 75. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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A tail of two horses? Guard cell abscisic acid and carbon dioxide signalling in the Equisetum ferns	194
Issue Information	187
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Shining a new light on the classical concepts of carbon‐isotope dendrochronology	176
Actin filaments drive spindle positioning in Arabidopsis meiosis II	162
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Editing of upstream regulatory elements advances plant gene silencing	141
Tracing phosphorus from soil through mycorrhizal fungi to plants	138
Greenbeards in plants?	134
Mutualism, herbivory, and invasive ants as seasonally dependent drivers of root surface area in a foundational savanna ant–plant	132
Corrigendum to: Decadal soil warming decreased vascular plant above and belowground production in a subarctic grassland by inducing nitrogen limitation	131
To be or not to be: cell‐specific expression profiles reveal drivers of cell identity in C ₄	130
Adaptive evolution can mitigate the negative effects of temperature stress on plant–pollinator interactions	128
Anionic phospholipid‐mediated transmembrane transport and intracellular membrane trafficking in plant cells	121
Sequential Oligo‐ FISH reveals conserved synteny and rapid cytological diploidization in Chrysanthemum	121
Cambial viability is reduced in water‐stressed conifer saplings	119
Interplay between high‐energy quenching and state transitions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii : a single‐cell approach	118
A competition‐attenuation mechanism modulates thermoresponsive growth at warm temperatures in plants	117
The synaptonemal complex stabilizes meiosis in allotetraploid Brassica napus and autotetraploid Arabidopsis thaliana	117
Do grasses have meristemoids?	117
World‐wide impacts of climate change and nitrogen deposition on vegetation structure, composition, and functioning of shrublands	116
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Temporally disjunct herbaceous species differ in leaf embolism resistance	111
A PLETHORA3 /7 transcription factor shapes cucumber shoot architecture	108

The OsNLP3/4‐OsRFL module regulates nitrogen‐promoted panicle architecture in rice	108
Time‐integrated δ²H in n‐alkanes and carbohydrates from boreal needles reveal intra‐annual physiological and environmental signals	107
A 23‐million‐year record of morphological evolution within Neotropical grass pollen	106
An arbuscular mycorrhiza from the 407‐million‐year‐old Windyfield Chert identified through advanced fluorescence and Raman imaging	106
Scaling law links plant growth variation to grain yield in wheat stands	102
OsMYB4P regulates serotonin biosynthesis and ROS homeostasis to confer cold tolerance in rice	101
Island colonization in flowering plants is determined by the interplay of breeding system, lifespan, floral symmetry, and arrival opportunity	101
Exploring the importance of aromatic plants' extrafloral volatiles for pollinator attraction	101
Social and biological innovations are essential to deliver transformative forest biotechnologies	101
Tomato plants control leaf sodium levels to limit damage by Spodoptera littoralis larvae	101
Impacts of climate timescale on the stability of trait–environment relationships	98
All roads lead to Rome: alternative biosynthetic routes in plant specialised metabolism	95
Evaluation of combined root exudate and rhizosphere microbiota sampling approaches to elucidate plant–soil–microbe interactions	95
Drought and life‐history strategies in Heliophila (Brassicaceae)	94
Ontogenetic trajectories as the target of selection	92
Arabidopsis RabGDIs are essential for the asymmetric division of zygotes and embryonic development	92
Haplotype‐resolved genome assembly provides insights into the evolution of S‐locus supergene in distylous Nymphoides indica	91
HalALMT1 mediates malate efflux in the cortex of mature cluster rootlets of Hakea laurina, occurring naturally in severely phosphorus‐impoverished soil	90
Elevated CO₂ mediates ectomycorrhizal fungi species‐specific decreases of native soil carbon and causes negative priming under low nutrients	90
The signaling mechanism of phyA involves direct interaction with ATG8 to regulate	90
A consumer‐oriented approach to define breeding targets for molecular breeding	90
Photosynthetic capacity in seagrass seeds and early‐stage seedlings of Zostera marina	89
The RXLR effector PpE18 of Phytophthora parasitica is a virulence factor and suppresses peroxisome membrane‐associated ascorbate peroxidase NbAPX3‐1‐mediated pl	89
The unique root form and function on the Tibetan Plateau	89
Phosphorus limitation of early growth differs between nitrogen‐fixing and nonfixing dry tropical forest tree species	88
Plant PI4P is required for bacteria to translocate type‐3 effectors	87
The richness, frequency and relatedness components of mate diversity and mate portfolios	86
Harnessing the benefits of herbarium specimen digitisation for inferring recent and ongoing plant extinctions	85
Discovery of a second‐site nia2 mutation in the background of multiple Arabidopsis PIF	85
Mycorrhizal associations modify tree diversity−productivity relationships across experimental tree plantations	85
Complex climate‐mediated effects of urbanization on plant reproductive phenology and frost risk	84
Mechanisms of UV‐B light‐induced photoreceptor UVR8 nuclear localization dynamics	84
Arabidopsis PROTODERMAL FACTOR2 binds lysophosphatidylcholines and transcriptionally regulates phospholipid metabolism	84
Warming triggers stomatal opening by enhancement of photosynthesis and ensuing guard cell CO₂ sensing, whereas higher temperatures induce a photosynthesis‐uncoupled response	83
Beyond static symbioses: genome architecture and endobacterial partnerships reshape arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	83
Biomolecular condensation programs floral transition to orchestrate flowering time and inflorescence architecture	82
Plant‐to‐plant defence induction in cotton is mediated by delayed release of volatiles upon herbivory	82
The Magnaporthe oryzae effector MoBys1 suppresses rice immunity by targeting	82
Hypoxia response protein HRM1 modulates the activity of mitochondrial electron transport chain in Arabidopsis under hypoxic stress	82
Breeding for delayed bolting decelerated the circadian clock in cultivated lettuce	82
The good, the bad, and the phosphate: regulation of beneficial and detrimental plant–microbe interactions by the plant phosphate status	80
A step back to move forward: an effect of biomass removal on functional traits of clonal and nonclonal herbs during establishment growth	79
The ETI‐dependent receptor‐like kinase 1 positively regulates effector‐triggered immunity by stabilizing NLR‐required for cell death 4 in Nicotiana benthamiana	76
Why leaf N : P is not reliable for diagnosing nutrient limitation of productivity: answer from leaf phosphorus fractions	76
Methane emission from stems of European beech (Fagus sylvatica) offsets as much as half of methane oxidation in soil	75
Plant hydraulic modelling of leaf and canopy fuel moisture content reveals increasing vulnerability of a Mediterranean forest to wildfires under extreme drought	75
Modelling analysis confirms the role of NPQ saturation for the divergence of the GPP–SIF relationship during heatwave	75
Wood nutrients: Underexplored traits with functional and biogeochemical consequences	75
A paler shade of green: engineering cellular chlorophyll content to enhance photosynthesis in crowded environments	75
The PtoTCP19 – PtoOBE2 complex orchestrates phosphate deficiency tolerance and biomass production	75

Is it all about timing? Identifying the symbiosis critical points that govern interactions among bacteria, ectomycorrhizal fungi, and land trees