OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Microbes and Environments is 5. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Unique Rhizobial Communities Dominated by <i>Bradyrhizobium liaoningense</i> and <i>Bradyrhizobium ottawaense</i> were Found in Vegetable Soybean Nodules in Osaka Prefecture, J	50
Size Distribution and Pathogenic Potential of Culturable Airborne <i>Clostridium</i> spp. in a Suburb of Toyama City, Japan	38
High Prevalence of <i>Pantoea</i> spp. in Microbiota Associated with the Sorghum Plant Bug <i>Stenotus rubrovittatus</i> (Heteroptera: Miridae)	28
Light-driven Proton Pumps as a Potential Regulator for Carbon Fixation in Marine Diatoms	27
Population Distribution of Phosphate-solubilizing Microorganisms in Agricultural Soil	25
Transcriptional Regulation of Methanol Dehydrogenases in the Methanotrophic Bacterium <i>Methylococcus capsulatus</i> Bath by Soluble and Insoluble Lanthanides	21
Phenolic Acids Induce Nod Factor Production in <i>Lotus japonicus</i>–<i>Mesorhizobium</i> Symbiosis	20
A Potential Indicator Gene, <i>tetM</i>, to Assess Contamination by Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Greenhouses in South Korea	19
Highly Reduced Complementary Genomes of Dual Bacterial Symbionts in the Mulberry Psyllid <i>Anomoneura mori</i>	16
Investigation of Microbial Community Shifts under the Mizumoto Japanese Traditional Sake Brewing Process Using Chemical Analyses and High-throughput Sequencing	16
Regulation of Root Nodule Symbiosis by Soybean <i>Rj</i> Genotypes and Rhizobial Effectors	15
Metagenomic Analysis of Five Phylogenetically Distant Anammox Bacterial Enrichment Cultures	14
Vertical Distribution and Seasonal Patterns of <i>Candidatus</i> Nitrotoga in a Sub-Alpine Lake	14
Exogenous Indole-3-Acetic Acid Induced Ethanol Tolerance in Phylogenetically Diverse Saccharomycetales Yeasts	13
A Rechargeable Biomineral Induced by the Sulfate-reducing Bacterium <i>Nitratidesulfovibrio</i> sp. HK-II	13
Phylogeny and Physiological Diversity of Cold-adapted Anaerobic Bacteria Isolated from Rice Field Soil in Japan	13
Biocontrol of <i>Phytophthora</i> Root and Stem Rot and Growth Promotion of Soybean Plants by the Rhizobacterium <i>Enterobacter pseudoroggenkampii</i> Strain GVv1 Isolated fro	11
Global Distribution and Diversity of Marine Parmales	10
Diversity and Quantitative Detection of Clade I Type <i>nosZ</i> Denitrifiers in the Arabian Sea Oxygen Minimum Zone	10
Modulation of Phytochemicals and Essential Trace Elements in Fruits of Different Tomato Cultivars by the Endophytic Fungus <i>Penicillium pinophilum</i> EU0013	10
Metagenome-assembled Genomes of Six Novel Ammonia-oxidizing Archaea (AOA) from Agricultural Upland Soil	9
Massive RNA Editing in Ascetosporean Mitochondria	9
Cultivation of Piezotolerant and Piezophilic Hyperthermophiles with a Newly Developed Constant High Pressure and Temperature Culturing and Monitoring System	8
Species-specific Microorganisms in Acid-tolerant <i>Chironomus</i> Larvae Reared in a Neutral pH Range under Laboratory Conditions: Single Dataset Analysis	8
Physiological and Genomic Characterization of Oligotrophic <i>Nitrobacter</i> Isolated from a Forest Soil in Japan	8

Isolation and Identification of Phosphate-solubilizing Bacteria in the Rhizosphere of <i>Robinia pseudoacacia</i> on the Loess Plateau and Verification of Phosphate Solubilization Capacity	7
Two Distinct Enzymes Have Both Phytoene Desaturase and 3,4-Desaturase Activities Involved in Carotenoid Biosynthesis by the Extremely Halophilic Archaeon <i>Haloarcula japonica</i>	7
Bioformulations Derived from <i>Enterobacter</i> sp. NRRU-N13 and Oligochitosan Alleviate Drought Stress in Thai Jasmine Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L. var. KDML105)	7
Diversity of <i>Candidatus</i> Patescibacteria in Activated Sludge Revealed by a Size-‍Fractionation Approach	7
Improvements in the Duckweed-Microbe Co-cultivation Method for the Stable and Efficient Isolation of Rarely Cultivated Bacteria Using Microfilter Membranes	7
Accelerated Iron Corrosion by Microbial Consortia Enriched from Slime-like Precipitates from a Corroded Metal Apparatus Deployed in a Deep-sea Hydrothermal System	6
Delayed Lysis Time at High Multiplicities of Particles in a Chlorovirus-<i>Chlorella</i> Interaction	6
Effects of Different Types of Additional Fertilizers on Root-associated Microbes of Napa Cabbage Grown in an Andosol Field in Japan	6
Analysis of the Bacterial Flora of Substrates Used for the Cultivation of <i>Agaricus bisporus</i>: Relationship between <i>Clostridia</i> and Yield	6
Syntrophic Interaction between an Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacterium and a Tetrathionate-reducing Bacterium in Anaerobic Benzoate Degradation	5
Differential Responses of Soil Ammonia-oxidizing Bacterial and Archaeal Communities to Land-use Changes in Zambia	5
Characterization of Lactic Acid Bacteria from Fermented Fish (<i>pla-paeng-daeng</i>) and Their Cholesterol-lowering and Immunomodulatory Effects	5
Plant Growth-promoting Effects of Viable and Dead Spores of <i>Bacillus pumilus</i> TUAT1 on <i>Setaria viridis</i>	5
Phage Genes Induce Quorum Sensing Signal Release through Membrane Vesicle Formation	5
Species-specific Primer and Probe Sets for Detection of Syntrophic Long-chain Fatty Acid-degrading Bacteria in Anaerobic Digestion Using Quantitative PCR	5
Environmental Variables Including Heavy Metals Significantly Shape the Soil Bacterial Community Structure in the Tatun Volcano Group, Northern Taiwan	5
Distribution and Characterization of the Novel Quorum-quenching Enzyme AiiB in <i>Priestia megaterium</i> Isolated from a Natural Environment	5