OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of New Phytologist is 19. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Host selection shapes crop microbiome assembly and network complexity	356
Integrating the evidence for a terrestrial carbon sink caused by increasing atmospheric CO₂	286
Root traits as drivers of plant and ecosystem functioning: current understanding, pitfalls and future research needs	283
FungalRoot: global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations	229
The molecular–physiological functions of mineral macronutrients and their consequences for deficiency symptoms in plants	225
A starting guide to root ecology: strengthening ecological concepts and standardising root classification, sampling, processing and trait measurements	215
Systemic propagation of immunity in plants	204
Wax biosynthesis in response to danger: its regulation upon abiotic and biotic stress	193
Plant–microbiome interactions under a changing world: responses, consequences and perspectives	182
The regulation of ethylene biosynthesis: a complex multilevel control circuitry	178
Root effects on soil organic carbon: a double‐edged sword	177
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi enhance mineralisation of organic phosphorus by carrying bacteria along their extraradical hyphae	176
Evidence for the plant recruitment of beneficial microbes to suppress soil‐borne pathogens	172
An integrated framework of plant form and function: the belowground perspective	163
The impact of multifactorial stress combination on plant growth and survival	154
Biogeography of global drylands	153
Lichens redefined as complex ecosystems	152
Crop genetic erosion: understanding and responding to loss of crop diversity	148
Rhizosphere control of soil nitrogen cycling: a key component of plant economic strategies	148
Climate change alters plant–herbivore interactions	140
Linking root exudation to belowground economic traits for resource acquisition	136
Plant responses to multifactorial stress combination	135
Linking plant hydraulics and the fast–slow continuum to understand resilience to drought in tropical ecosystems	133
Wound‐ and mechanostimulated electrical signals control hormone responses	130
Enabling sustainable agriculture through understanding and enhancement of microbiomes	128

Temperature and pH define the realised niche space of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	127
The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity	126
Amylose in starch: towards an understanding of biosynthesis, structure and function	123
The ABI4‐RbohD/VTC2 regulatory module promotes reactive oxygen species (ROS) accumulation to decrease seed germination under salinity stress	115
Foliar functional traits from imaging spectroscopy across biomes in eastern North America	113
Pollination syndromes in the 21^st century: where do we stand and where may we go?	112
Repressors of anthocyanin biosynthesis	112
Root traits explain rhizosphere fungal community composition among temperate grassland plant species	108
Why trees grow at night	106
Root exudation as a major competitive fine‐root functional trait of 18 coexisting species in a subtropical forest	105
Plant carbon allocation in a changing world – challenges and progress: introduction to a Virtual Issue on carbon allocation	105
Phosphate‐solubilising microorganisms for improved crop productivity: a critical assessment	102
Integrative analyses of metabolome and genome‐wide transcriptome reveal the regulatory network governing flavor formation in kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis)	101
Water uptake depth is coordinated with leaf water potential, water‐use efficiency and drought vulnerability in karst vegetation	99
Fight hard or die trying: when plants face pathogens under heat stress	98
Abscisic acid promotes jasmonic acid biosynthesis via a ‘SAPK10‐bZIP72‐AOC’ pathway to synergistically inhibit seed germination in rice (Oryza sativa)	98
Regulation of shoot branching in arabidopsis by trehalose 6‐phosphate	97
Plant nutrient‐acquisition strategies drive topsoil microbiome structure and function	96
A rare single nucleotide variant in Pm5e confers powdery mildew resistance in common wheat	94
Underappreciated plant vulnerabilities to heat waves	94
Turgor – a limiting factor for radial growth in mature conifers along an elevational gradient	93
Regulating the regulator: nitric oxide control of post‐translational modifications	93
Apple B‐box protein BBX37 regulates jasmonic acid mediated cold tolerance through the JAZ‐BBX37‐ICE1‐CBF pathway and undergoes MIEL1‐mediated ubiquitination and degradation	92
An explanation for the isotopic offset between soil and stem water in a temperate tree species	92
A CNL protein in wild emmer wheat confers powdery mildew resistance	91
A new Cannabis genome assembly associates elevated cannabidiol (CBD) with hemp introgressed into marijuana	91
The way back: recovery of trees from drought and its implication for acclimation	89
Heat stress response mechanisms in pollen development	89
Global negative effects of nutrient enrichment on arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, plant diversity and ecosystem multifunctionality	89
ABI5 modulates seed germination via feedback regulation of the expression of the PYR/PYL/RCAR ABA receptor genes	84
Impacts of global change on the phyllosphere microbiome	84
Champions of winter survival: cold acclimation and molecular regulation of cold hardiness in evergreen conifers	83
Fruit development and epigenetic modifications	81
Strong photoperiod sensitivity is controlled by cooperation and competition among Hd1, Ghd7 and DTH8 in rice heading	81
Overcoming the trade‐off between grain weight and number in wheat by the ectopic expression of expansin in developing seeds leads to increased yield potential	80
Chloroplast immunity illuminated	80
Chloroplast development in green plant tissues: the interplay between light, hormone, and transcriptional regulation	79
Molecular dissection of rice phytohormone signaling involved in resistance to a piercing‐sucking herbivore	78
A highly differentiated region of wheat chromosome 7AL encodes a Pm1a immune receptor that recognizes its corresponding AvrPm1a effector from Blumeria graminis	78
Trait‐based aerial dispersal of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi	77
Ferroptosis contributes to developmental cell death in rice blast	76
Eco‐evolutionary optimality as a means to improve vegetation and land‐surface models	75
Seed‐borne, endospheric and rhizospheric core microbiota as predictors of plant functional traits across rice cultivars are dominated by deterministic processes	75
Regulatory network of fruit ripening: current understanding and future challenges	75
Hydraulic failure and tree size linked with canopy die‐back in eucalypt forest during extreme drought	75
From one side to two sides: the effects of stomatal distribution on photosynthesis	74
A theoretical and empirical assessment of stomatal optimization modeling	74
The seed germination spectrum of alpine plants: a global meta‐analysis	73
Tip‐to‐base xylem conduit widening as an adaptation: causes, consequences, and empirical priorities	73
Leaf reflectance spectra capture the evolutionary history of seed plants	73

Mesophyll conductance: walls, membranes and spatial complexity	73
The miR172/IDS1 signaling module confers salt tolerance through maintaining ROS homeostasis in cereal crops	72
WRKY33 interacts with WRKY12 protein to up‐regulate RAP2.2 during submergence induced hypoxia response in Arabidopsis thaliana	72
Transcriptional and post‐transcriptional regulation of heading date in rice	70
Routes to roots: direct evidence of water transport by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to host plants	70
Transcriptional regulatory network of the light signaling pathways	70
Recent advances in Cannabis sativa genomics research	70
Coordinated resource allocation to plant growth–defense tradeoffs	70
Host‐induced gene silencing – mechanisms and applications	69
Heterosis of leaf and rhizosphere microbiomes in field‐grown maize	68
Polyploid phylogenetics	68
AaWRKY9 contributes to light‐ and jasmonate‐mediated to regulate the biosynthesis of artemisinin in Artemisia annua	68
Adaptive genetic variation to drought in a widely distributed conifer suggests a potential for increasing forest resilience in a drying climate	67
Evidence for distinct isotopic compositions of sap and tissue water in tree stems: consequences for plant water source identification	67
Trehalose 6‐phosphate promotes seed filling by activating auxin biosynthesis	67
Linking xylem network failure with leaf tissue death	66
Histone demethylase SlJMJ6 promotes fruit ripening by removing H3K27 methylation of ripening‐related genes in tomato	65
Deciphering the role of specialist and generalist plant–microbial interactions as drivers of plant–soil feedback	65
SPX4 interacts with both PHR1 and PAP1 to regulate critical steps in phosphorus‐status‐dependent anthocyanin biosynthesis	65
The thermal tolerance of photosynthetic tissues: a global systematic review and agenda for future research	64
SeedGerm: a cost‐effective phenotyping platform for automated seed imaging and machine‐learning based phenotypic analysis of crop seed germination	63
Seed microbiota revealed by a large‐scale meta‐analysis including 50 plant species	63
Plant growth: the What, the How, and the Why	62
Combined high leaf hydraulic safety and efficiency provides drought tolerance in Caragana species adapted to low mean annual precipitation	62
Two homologous LHY pairs negatively control soybean drought tolerance by repressing the abscisic acid responses	62
On the expansion of biological functions of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases	61
Tree height and leaf drought tolerance traits shape growth responses across droughts in a temperate broadleaf forest	61
Bio‐organic soil amendment promotes the suppression of Ralstonia solanacearum by inducing changes in the functionality and composition of rhizosphere bacterial communities	61
Pore constrictions in intervessel pit membranes provide a mechanistic explanation for xylem embolism resistance in angiosperms	61
An increase in xylem embolism resistance of grapevine leaves during the growing season is coordinated with stomatal regulation, turgor loss point and intervessel pit membranes	61
New paradigms in cell adaptation: decades of discoveries on the CrRLK1L receptor kinase signalling network	61
Crop diversity enriches arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities in an intensive agricultural landscape	60
Species divergence with gene flow and hybrid speciation on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau	60
Fine‐root functional trait responses to experimental warming: a global meta‐analysis	60
Myb10‐D confers PHS‐3D resistance to pre‐harvest sprouting by regulating NCED in ABA biosynthesis pathway of wheat	59
Evolution of NLR resistance genes with noncanonical N‐terminal domains in wild tomato species	59
Genetic architecture underlying light and temperature mediated flowering in Arabidopsis, rice, and temperate cereals	59
The effects of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species and taxonomic groups on stressed and unstressed plants: a global meta‐analysis	59
The reduction in leaf area precedes that in photosynthesis under potassium deficiency: the importance of leaf anatomy	59
Temperature responses of photosynthesis and respiration in evergreen trees from boreal to tropical latitudes	59
On tree longevity	59
Increasing rates of long‐term nitrogen deposition consistently increased litter decomposition in a semi‐arid grassland	59
Home‐field advantage of litter decomposition: from the phyllosphere to the soil	58
Optimized metabarcoding with Pacific biosciences enables semi‐quantitative analysis of fungal communities	58
MYBA and MYBPA transcription factors co‐regulate anthocyanin biosynthesis in blue‐coloured berries	57
GmKIX8‐1 regulates organ size in soybean and is the causative gene for the major seed weight QTL qSw17‐1	57
A meta‐analysis of responses of C₃ plants to atmospheric CO₂: dose–response curves for 85 traits ranging from the molecular to the whole‐plant level	57
Embracing mountain microbiome and ecosystem functions under global change	57
Ustilago maydis effector Jsi1 interacts with Topless corepressor, hijacking plant jasmonate/ethylene signaling	56
Hydraulically‐vulnerable trees survive on deep‐water access during droughts in a tropical forest	56
SlWRKY35 positively regulates carotenoid biosynthesis by activating the MEP pathway in tomato fruit	56
Functional xylem characteristics associated with drought‐induced embolism in angiosperms	56
Altered plant carbon partitioning enhanced forest ecosystem carbon storage after 25 years of nitrogen additions	56
Auxin response factors are keys to the many auxin doors	56
Heatwave breaks down the linearity between sun‐induced fluorescence and gross primary production	56
Vertical decoupling of soil nutrients and water under climate warming reduces plant cumulative nutrient uptake, water‐use efficiency and productivity	56
Drought reduces water uptake in beech from the drying topsoil, but no compensatory uptake occurs from deeper soil layers	55
Epigenetic regulation of thermomorphogenesis and heat stress tolerance	55
Climate and functional traits jointly mediate tree water‐use strategies	55
Replaying the evolutionary tape to investigate subgenome dominance in allopolyploid Brassica napus	54
The JA‐responsive MYC2‐BADH‐like transcriptional regulatory module in Poncirus trifoliata contributes to cold tolerance by modulation of glycine betaine biosynthesis	54
A deep dive into the ancestral chromosome number and genome size of flowering plants	54
Determinants of legacy effects in pine trees – implications from an irrigation‐stop experiment	54
Fol‐milR1, a pathogenicity factor of Fusarium oxysporum, confers tomato wilt disease resistance by impairing host immune responses	54
Evolution of stomatal closure to optimize water‐use efficiency in response to dehydration in ferns and seed plants	54
Rht24b, an ancient variation of TaGA2ox‐A9, reduces plant height without yield penalty in wheat	53
A mis‐regulated cyclic nucleotide‐gated channel mediates cytosolic calcium elevation and activates immunity in Arabidopsis	53
Root phosphatase activity aligns with the collaboration gradient of the root economics space	53
CDK8 is associated with RAP2.6 and SnRK2.6 and positively modulates abscisic acid signaling and drought response in Arabidopsis	53
The spatio‐temporal biosynthesis of floral flavonols is controlled by differential phylogenetic MYB regulators in Freesia hybrida	52
JMJ17–WRKY40 and HY5–ABI5 modules regulate the expression of ABA‐responsive genes in Arabidopsis	52
Functional analysis of auxin receptor OsTIR1/OsAFB family members in rice grain yield, tillering, plant height, root system, germination, and auxinic herbicide resistance	52
HEXOKINASE1 signalling promotes shoot branching and interacts with cytokinin and strigolactone pathways	52
Changes in soil fungal community composition depend on functional group and forest disturbance type	52
Impact of microclimatic conditions and resource availability on spring and autumn phenology of temperate tree seedlings	52
A receptor‐like protein from Nicotiana benthamiana mediates VmE02 PAMP‐triggered immunity	52
Devastating intimacy: the cell biology of plant–Phytophthora interactions	51
Far‐red radiation stimulates dry mass partitioning to fruits by increasing fruit sink strength in tomato	51
Plant carbohydrate depletion impairs water relations and spreads via ectomycorrhizal networks	51
Getting to the roots of aeroponic indoor farming	51

Rapid responses of root traits and productivity to phosphorus and cation additions in a tropical lowland forest in Amazonia	51
Several geranylgeranyl diphosphate synthase isoforms supply metabolic substrates for carotenoid biosynthesis in tomato	51
The hornworts: morphology, evolution and development	51
Accounting for mesophyll conductance substantially improves ¹³C‐based estimates of intrinsic water‐use efficiency	51
Coumarin accumulation and trafficking in Arabidopsis thaliana: a complex and dynamic process	51
PdGNC confers drought tolerance by mediating stomatal closure resulting from NO and H₂O₂ production via the direct regulation of PdHXK1 expression in Populus	50
Phytophthora infestans RXLR effector PITG20303 targets a potato MKK1 protein to suppress plant immunity	50
Key root traits of Poaceae for adaptation to soil water gradients	50
The other side of droughts: wet extremes and topography as buffers of negative drought effects in an Amazonian forest	50
Global models and predictions of plant diversity based on advanced machine learning techniques	50
Fungal endophytes can eliminate the plant growth–defence trade‐off	50
Maternal effects shape the seed mycobiome in Quercus petraea	50
Plant sizes and shapes above and belowground and their interactions with climate	50
Coordination of stem and leaf traits define different strategies to regulate water loss and tolerance ranges to aridity	50
Weak tradeoff between xylem hydraulic efficiency and safety: climatic seasonality matters	50
Chilled to be forced: the best dose to wake up buds from winter dormancy	50
Patterns and mechanisms of spatial variation in tropical forest productivity, woody residence time, and biomass	50
The MdMYB16/MdMYB1‐miR7125‐MdCCR module regulates the homeostasis between anthocyanin and lignin biosynthesis during light induction in apple	50
PR1‐mediated defence via C‐terminal peptide release is targeted by a fungal pathogen effector	49
Evolutionary biology of lichen symbioses	49
Linking drought‐induced xylem embolism resistance to wood anatomical traits in Neotropical trees	49
New insights into the functions of carbon–calcium inclusions in plants	49
Root trait–microbial relationships across tundra plant species	49
Recombination suppression and evolutionary strata around mating‐type loci in fungi: documenting patterns and understanding evolutionary and mechanistic causes	49
The plant protein NbP3IP directs degradation of Rice stripe virus p3 silencing suppressor protein to limit virus infection through interaction with the autophagy‐related protein NbATG8	48
Rooting depth as a key woody functional trait in savannas	48
The making of suberin	48
The role of root community attributes in predicting soil fungal and bacterial community patterns	48
Humidity and high temperature are important for predicting fungal disease outbreaks worldwide	48
Imaging canopy temperature: shedding (thermal) light on ecosystem processes	48
Kiwifruit MYBS1‐like and GBF3 transcription factors influence l‐ascorbic acid biosynthesis by activating transcription of GDP‐L‐galactose phosphorylase 3	47
Diversity and origin of carotenoid biosynthesis: its history of coevolution towards plant photosynthesis	47
Metabolomics‐driven gene mining and genetic improvement of tolerance to salt‐induced osmotic stress in maize	47
Heat‐induced changes in the abundance of wheat Rubisco activase isoforms	47
Functional specificity, diversity, and redundancy of Arabidopsis JAZ family repressors in jasmonate and COI1‐regulated growth, development, and defense	47
Functional classification of plant long noncoding RNAs: a transcript is known by the company it keeps	47
PIN‐mediated polar auxin transport regulations in plant tropic responses	46
A phytobacterial TIR domain effector manipulates NAD⁺ to promote virulence	46
Vitellogenin from planthopper oral secretion acts as a novel effector to impair plant defenses	46
Global patterns of biomass allocation in woody species with different tolerances of shade and drought: evidence for multiple strategies	46
HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN8 mediates jasmonate‐triggered trichome elongation in tomato	46
Understanding and predicting forest mortality in the western United States using long‐term forest inventory data and modeled hydraulic damage	46
Arabidopsis thaliana transcription factors MYB28 and MYB29 shape ammonium stress responses by regulating Fe homeostasis	45
GDSL lipase occluded stomatal pore 1 is required for wax biosynthesis and stomatal cuticular ledge formation	45
Wood density predicts mortality threshold for diverse trees	45
CAM photosynthesis: the acid test	45
Growing pains: addressing the pitfalls of plant extracellular vesicle research	45
Pollen analysis using multispectral imaging flow cytometry and deep learning	45
OsPIN9, an auxin efflux carrier, is required for the regulation of rice tiller bud outgrowth by ammonium	44
Unveiling spatial metabolome of Paeonia suffruticosa and Paeonia lactiflora roots using MALDI MS imaging	44
Vulnerability and hydraulic segmentations at the stem–leaf transition: coordination across Neotropical trees	44
Lack of hydraulic recovery as a cause of post‐drought foliage reduction and canopy decline in European beech	44
Sucrose promotes D53 accumulation and tillering in rice	44
Prioritizing host phenotype to understand microbiome heritability in plants	44
The classical SOS pathway confers natural variation of salt tolerance in maize	44
Epigenetics: a catalyst of plant immunity against pathogens	44
The impact of invertebrate decomposers on plants and soil	44
Towards the flower economics spectrum	43
RootPainter: deep learning segmentation of biological images with corrective annotation	43
To what extent can rising [CO₂] ameliorate plant drought stress?	43
TRICHOME AND ARTEMISININ REGULATOR 2 positively regulates trichome development and artemisinin biosynthesis in Artemisia annua	43
A rice single cell transcriptomic atlas defines the developmental trajectories of rice floret and inflorescence meristems	43
ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR 115 integrates jasmonate and cytokinin signaling machineries to repress adventitious rooting in Arabidopsis	43
Aridity drives coordinated trait shifts but not decreased trait variance across the geographic range of eight Australian trees	43
Biogeography and phylogeny of masting: do global patterns fit functional hypotheses?	43
Repressor for hire! The vital roles of TOPLESS‐mediated transcriptional repression in plants	42
Growth–defense trade‐offs and yield loss in plants with engineered cell walls	42
Dual roles of the serine/arginine‐rich splicing factor SR45a in promoting and interacting with nuclear cap‐binding complex to modulate the salt‐stress response in Arabidopsis	42
FRIZZY PANICLE defines a regulatory hub for simultaneously controlling spikelet formation and awn elongation in bread wheat	42
Gene regulatory network and its constituent transcription factors that control nitrogen‐deficiency responses in rice	42
Role of a vacuolar iron transporter OsVIT2 in the distribution of iron to rice grains	42
A plant RNA virus activates selective autophagy in a UPR‐dependent manner to promote virus infection	42
Plant phosphorus‐use and ‐acquisition strategies in Amazonia	42
An increasing number of countries regulate genome editing in crops	42
Contribution of soil algae to the global carbon cycle	42
Orobanchaceae parasite–host interactions	42
Soil nitrogen dynamics and competition during plant invasion: insights from Mikania micrantha invasions in China	41
The other side of tropical forest drought: do shallow water table regions of Amazonia act as large‐scale hydrological refugia from drought?	41
Evidence for host–microbiome co‐evolution in apple	41
Role of H1 and DNA methylation in selective regulation of transposable elements during heat stress	41
The Arabidopsis leucine‐rich repeat receptor‐like kinase MIK2 is a crucial component of early immune responses to a fungal‐derived elicitor	41
An HD‐ZIP‐MYB complex regulates glandular secretory trichome initiation in Artemisia annua	41
Mechanisms of stress tolerance and their effects on the ecology and evolution of mycorrhizal fungi	41
Convergent evolution of tree hydraulic traits in Amazonian habitats: implications for community assemblage and vulnerability to drought	41
Targeted CRISPR‐Cas9‐based gene knockouts in the model brown alga Ectocarpus	40
miR319a/TCP module and DELLA protein regulate trichome initiation synergistically and improve insect defenses in Populus tomentosa	40
PuC3H35 confers drought tolerance by enhancing lignin and proanthocyanidin biosynthesis in the roots of Populus ussuriensis	40
Deciduous and evergreen oaks show contrasting adaptive responses in leaf mass per area across environments	40
Con‐Ca²⁺‐tenating plant immune responses via calcium‐permeable cation channels	40
PHOTO‐SENSITIVE LEAF ROLLING 1 encodes a polygalacturonase that modifies cell wall structure and drought tolerance in rice	40
Genetic variation in YIGE1 contributes to ear length and grain yield in maize	40
Grass secondary cell walls, Brachypodium distachyon as a model for discovery	40
Virus‐induced phytohormone dynamics and their effects on plant–insect interactions	40
An optimized genetically encoded dual reporter for simultaneous ratio imaging of Ca²⁺ and H⁺ reveals new insights into ion signaling in plants	40
Positive pressure in xylem and its role in hydraulic function	39