Trends in Plant Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Trends in Plant Science is 20. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Global Warming, Climate Change, and Environmental Pollution: Recipe for a Multifactorial Stress Combination Disaster460
How Plant Hormones Mediate Salt Stress Responses439
Stories of Salicylic Acid: A Plant Defense Hormone393
Microbiome-Mediated Stress Resistance in Plants360
Designing Future Crops: Genomics-Assisted Breeding Comes of Age252
Phytocannabinoids: Origins and Biosynthesis200
The CBL–CIPK Calcium Signaling Network: Unified Paradigm from 20 Years of Discoveries183
Root exudates impact plant performance under abiotic stress169
Linking the Phyllosphere Microbiome to Plant Health146
Plant immune networks140
Salicylic Acid Steers the Growth–Immunity Tradeoff139
Soil Rather Than Xylem Vulnerability Controls Stomatal Response to Drought134
Twenty years of plant genome sequencing: achievements and challenges131
Potential Applications of Plant Biotechnology against SARS-CoV-2130
Hormesis: Highly Generalizable and Beyond Laboratory130
Connecting Chlorophyll Metabolism with Accumulation of the Photosynthetic Apparatus126
Transcriptional regulatory network of plant cold-stress responses125
Proline metabolism as regulatory hub119
Vertical Farming: Moving from Genetic to Environmental Modification113
Coumarin Communication Along the Microbiome–Root–Shoot Axis108
Soil carbon sequestration by root exudates104
Phytomelatonin: An Emerging Regulator of Plant Biotic Stress Resistance103
Tightening the Phosphorus Cycle through Phosphorus-Efficient Crop Genotypes103
Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi conducting the hyphosphere bacterial orchestra95
Nitric oxide and hydrogen sulfide: an indispensable combination for plant functioning95
Challenges and Opportunities in Machine-Augmented Plant Stress Phenotyping95
Priming crops for the future: rewiring stress memory94
Nematodes as Drivers of Plant Performance in Natural Systems93
Hide-and-Seek: Chitin-Triggered Plant Immunity and Fungal Counterstrategies91
Recent Advances in Arabidopsis CLE Peptide Signaling90
The Induced Resistance Lexicon: Do’s and Don’ts88
Gossypium Genomics: Trends, Scope, and Utilization for Cotton Improvement87
Malate Circulation: Linking Chloroplast Metabolism to Mitochondrial ROS87
Small Millets for Enduring Food Security Amidst Pandemics86
Commercialization of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives85
The Coumarins: Secondary Metabolites Playing a Primary Role in Plant Nutrition and Health85
Genetic Control of Glandular Trichome Development84
The Hidden Costs of Nighttime Warming on Yields84
Delivering Integrated Pest and Pollinator Management (IPPM)83
Construct design for CRISPR/Cas-based genome editing in plants80
Crop Halophytism: An Environmentally Sustainable Solution for Global Food Security78
PTI and ETI: convergent pathways with diverse elicitors78
Niche Perspectives on Plant–Pollinator Interactions76
Fine-Tuning Immunity: Players and Regulators for Plant NLRs76
GORK Channel: A Master Switch of Plant Metabolism?76
Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus: Impact, Challenges, and Management75
Addressing Research Bottlenecks to Crop Productivity75
The Andes through time: evolution and distribution of Andean floras74
How roots and shoots communicate through stressful times70
Plant biodiversity promotes sustainable agriculture directly and via belowground effects69
Shade Avoidance: Expanding the Color and Hormone Palette69
Foliar Water Uptake in Trees: Negligible or Necessary?68
Chloroplast Transition Metal Regulation for Efficient Photosynthesis68
Roadmap for Accelerated Domestication of an Emerging Perennial Grain Crop67
Translation of Strigolactones from Plant Hormone to Agriculture: Achievements, Future Perspectives, and Challenges66
ERF Gene Clusters: Working Together to Regulate Metabolism65
Altering Plant Architecture to Improve Performance and Resistance65
Counting on Crossovers: Controlled Recombination for Plant Breeding65
Coordinating Sulfur Pools under Sulfate Deprivation64
Applications of hyperspectral imaging in plant phenotyping62
Legacies at work: plant–soil–microbiome interactions underpinning agricultural sustainability62
Age-Dependent Abiotic Stress Resilience in Plants62
LEDs Make It Resilient: Effects on Plant Growth and Defense60
Europe’s Farm to Fork Strategy and Its Commitment to Biotechnology and Organic Farming: Conflicting or Complementary Goals?60
Plastoquinone In and Beyond Photosynthesis59
Domestication of Crop Metabolomes: Desired and Unintended Consequences59
Calvin–Benson cycle regulation is getting complex58
Belowground facilitation and trait matching: two or three to tango?57
Sustainable Cropping Requires Adaptation to a Heterogeneous Rhizosphere57
Mineral nutrient signaling controls photosynthesis: focus on iron deficiency-induced chlorosis56
Pre-mRNA alternative splicing as a modulator for heat stress response in plants56
Ca2+talyzing Initial Responses to Environmental Stresses56
Sugar and Nitrate Sensing: A Multi-Billion-Year Story56
Cannabis Phytomolecule 'Entourage': From Domestication to Medical Use55
Prospects for Carotenoid Biofortification Targeting Retention and Catabolism55
Killing softly: a roadmap of Botrytis cinerea pathogenicity55
Stomata-mediated interactions between plants, herbivores, and the environment54
Hydroxycinnamate Amides: Intriguing Conjugates of Plant Protective Metabolites54
Parallel Transcriptional Regulation of Artemisinin and Flavonoid Biosynthesis53
Reuniting the Biogeochemistry of Algae for a Low-Carbon Circular Bioeconomy53
Advances in optical phenotyping of cereal crops53
X-ray computed tomography for 3D plant imaging52
How do plants sense volatiles sent by other plants?52
Vacuole Biogenesis in Plants: How Many Vacuoles, How Many Models?51
Foxtail Millet: A New Model for C4 Plants51
Hydraulic failure and tree mortality: from correlation to causation51
Insect frass and exuviae to promote plant growth and health50
Polyamines: double agents in disease and plant immunity50
Aromatic Amino Acids: A Complex Network Ripe for Future Exploration49
Breeding toward improved ecological plant–microbiome interactions48
Looking for Root Hairs to Overcome Poor Soils47
High-throughput plant phenotyping: a role for metabolomics?47
How Plants Synthesize Pyrethrins: Safe and Biodegradable Insecticides47
Rhizospheric Plant–Microbe Interactions: miRNAs as a Key Mediator47
Transgenic Poplar Designed for Biofuels47
Fine-Tuning of RBOH-Mediated ROS Signaling in Plant Immunity47
Nuclear Dynamics in the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi46
Modulators or facilitators? Roles of lipids in plant root–microbe interactions46
Exploring environmental selection on genome size in angiosperms46
Beat the heat: plant- and microbe-mediated strategies for crop thermotolerance45
Emerging Connections between Small RNAs and Phytohormones45
Ties between Stress and Lipid Droplets Pre-date Seeds44
Glyphosate-Modulated Biosynthesis Driving Plant Defense and Species Interactions43
PRC2 activity, recruitment, and silencing: a comparative perspective43
Chloroplasts are key players to cope with light and temperature stress43
Towards Unraveling Macroecological Patterns in Rhizosphere Microbiomes43
Abscisic acid and its role in the modulation of plant growth, development, and yield stability42
Plant metabolic gene clusters in the multi-omics era42
Bacterial volatile compound-based tools for crop management and quality40
De-Domestication: An Extension of Crop Evolution40
Waxy Editing: Old Meets New39
Nitrogen Systemic Signaling: From Symbiotic Nodulation to Root Acquisition39
The End of Botany38
Plant microbiota dysbiosis and the Anna Karenina Principle38
Pathogen Effectors: Exploiting the Promiscuity of Plant Signaling Hubs38
Dark septate endophytes: mutualism from by-products?36
Multifaceted Roles of Plant Autophagy in Lipid and Energy Metabolism36
Root-Apex Proton Fluxes at the Centre of Soil-Stress Acclimation36
Active and adaptive plasticity in a changing climate36
The Emerging Role of GSNOR in Oxidative Stress Regulation36
What Makes Bread and Durum Wheat Different?36
Single-Cell Genomics and Epigenomics: Technologies and Applications in Plants36
GRF-GIF Chimeras Boost Plant Regeneration36
Gaining Acceptance of Novel Plant Breeding Technologies36
At the Crossroads of Survival and Death: The Reactive Oxygen Species–Ethylene–Sugar Triad and the Unfolded Protein Response35
The decline of plant mineral nutrition under rising CO2: physiological and molecular aspects of a bad deal35
Plant Osmotic Stress Signaling: MAPKKKs Meet SnRK2s35
Susceptibility reversed: modified plant susceptibility genes for resistance to bacteria35
Bending to auxin: fast acid growth for tropisms35
Making Sense of the Way Plants Sense Herbivores35
Complex cellular and molecular events determining fruit size34
GSK3s: nodes of multilayer regulation of plant development and stress responses34
Ménage à Trois: Unraveling the Mechanisms Regulating Plant–Microbe–Arthropod Interactions33
Transcriptional regulatory network of high-value active ingredients in medicinal plants33
NO source in higher plants: present and future of an unresolved question33
Peptide Signaling during Plant Reproduction32
A G(enomic)P(ositioning)S(ystem) for Plant RNAPII Transcription32
Does the GABA Shunt Regulate Cytosolic GABA?32
Centrality of BAGs in Plant PCD, Stress Responses, and Host Defense32
Why and How to Dig into Plant Metabolite–Protein Interactions32
Coordination of Phospholipid-Based Signaling and Membrane Trafficking in Plant Immunity31
Plant Defense Networks against Insect-Borne Pathogens30
Stomata in a state of emergency: H2O2 is the target locked30
All Traits Are Functional: An Evolutionary Viewpoint29
Prime Editing: Game Changer for Modifying Plant Genomes29
Weed-induced crop yield loss: a new paradigm and new challenges29
Modeling Ambitions Outpace Observations of Forest Carbon Allocation29
Synergistic and antagonistic pleiotropy of STOP1 in stress tolerance28
A gift from parent to offspring: transgenerational hormesis28
Machine learning bridges omics sciences and plant breeding28
Deep inside the epigenetic memories of stressed plants28
Mass Spectrometry Untangles Plant Membrane Protein Signaling Networks28
Silicon mobilisation by root-released carboxylates28
The risk of transmitting antibiotic resistance through endophytic bacteria28
Brachypodium: 20 years as a grass biology model system; the way forward?27
Ecological Interactions, Environmental Gradients, and Gene Flow in Local Adaptation27
Functions of WRKYs in plant growth and development27
Genetically modified crops support climate change mitigation27
Do Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases Aid in Plant Pathogenesis and Herbivory?27
CRISPR/Cas-mediated plant genome editing: outstanding challenges a decade after implementation27
Calcium signaling in plant immunity: a spatiotemporally controlled symphony27
Plant defense strategies against attack by multiple herbivores26
Molecular evolution and functional modification of plant miRNAs with CRISPR26
Crafting a blueprint for single-cell RNA sequencing26
Evolution-Driven Versatility of N Terminal Acetylation in Photoautotrophs26
Lineage-Specific Genes and Cryptic Sex: Parallels and Differences between Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi and Fungal Pathogens26
Building soil sustainability from root–soil interface traits26
Fuels for ROS signaling in plant immunity26
Cell–cell signaling during the Brassicaceae self-incompatibility response26
Root cell types as an interface for biotic interactions26
Microalgae strain improvement strategies: random mutagenesis and adaptive laboratory evolution25
Promoting Ethically Responsible Use of Agricultural Biotechnology25
Resistance genes on the verge of plant–virus interaction25
Origins of strigolactone and karrikin signaling in plants25
Weeds: Against the Rules?25
Breeding Next-Generation Naturally Colored Cotton25
The role of ethylene in plant temperature stress response25
Microalgal nanocellulose – opportunities for a circular bioeconomy25
Revisiting plant salt tolerance: novel components of the SOS pathway24
Incorporating clonality into the plant ecology research agenda24
How to Grow a Tree: Plant Voltage-Dependent Cation Channels in the Spotlight of Evolution24
A ménage à trois: salicylic acid, growth inhibition, and immunity24
Dynamic epigenetic modifications in plant sugar signal transduction23
m6A Editing: New Tool to Improve Crop Quality?23
Noncoding but Coding: Pri-miRNA into the Action23
CBF-phyB-PIF Module Links Light and Low Temperature Signaling22
Does Gene Expression Noise Play a Functional Role in Plants?22
A rulebook for peptide control of legume–microbe endosymbioses22
Emerging Trends in Metalloid-Dependent Signaling in Plants22
Charting plant gene functions in the multi-omics and single-cell era22
Botanical Monography in the Anthropocene22
Mechanisms of lysigenous aerenchyma formation under abiotic stress22
Parsimonious Use of Pesticide-Treated Seeds: An Integrated Pest Management Framework21
Energy crosstalk between photosynthesis and the algal CO2-concentrating mechanisms21
Achieving Plant Genome Editing While Bypassing Tissue Culture21
Genome-wide association studies in plant pathosystems: success or failure?21
Time Will Tell: Intercellular Communication in the Plant Clock21
Making sense of the natural antisense transcript puzzle21
Phyllotaxis from a Single Apical Cell21
Physiological functions of malate shuttles in plants and algae20
Pectin Drives Cell Wall Morphogenesis without Turgor Pressure20
Noninvasive imaging technologies in plant phenotyping20
Interplay between autophagy and proteasome during protein turnover20
Take-All Disease: New Insights into an Important Wheat Root Pathogen20
Zn2+-Dependent Histone Deacetylases in Plants: Structure and Evolution20
Shining a light on NAD- and NADP-based metabolism in plants20
The origin and early evolution of plants20
Predicting ecosystem productivity based on plant community traits20
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