Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Article	Citations
Contents	192
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	143
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	129
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	128
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	107
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	105
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	102
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	99
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	97
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	87
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	84
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	76
Beyond elongation: The multifaceted roles of gibberellins in symbiosis and root development	74
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	72
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	68
Editorial Board	66
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	64
Piecing the puzzle together: Analyses in plants at the single-cell resolution	64
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	62
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	62
Corrigendum to “NLR receptor subcellular localization and plant immune activation”[Curr Opin Plant Biol 90 (2026) 102855]	62
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	61
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	60
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	59
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	59

Monoubiquitination of histone H2A and H2B: News and views	57
Contents	53
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	52
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	51
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	51
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	50
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	50
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	50
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	49
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	48
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	48
Contents	47
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	47
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	46
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	45
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	45
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	45
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	45
Plant genome assembly and annotation	45
Some assembly required: Modularity and programmability as keys to decoupling growth-defence trade-offs in plants	43
Architects of plant immunity: Structure-informed strategies for engineering plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors	43
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	42
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	41
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	41
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	41
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	41
Systems-level understanding of plant immune networks through single-cell and spatial omics	41
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	40
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	40
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	40
Editorial Board	38
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	38
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	37
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	37
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	37
Editorial Board	37
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	36
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	36
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	36
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	36
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	36
Editorial Board	35
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	34
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	34
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	34
Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	33
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	32
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	32
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	32
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	32

Contents	32
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	31
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	31
Multilayered regulatory control of compound leaf development	31
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	31
Histone variants: Distinct building blocks of the chromatin acting at the core	31
Deciphering plastid retrograde signals and their roles in plant development	30
Sabotage behind enemy lines: Bacterial hijacking of plant cellular functions	30
Contents	30
Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling	30
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	30
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	30
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	29
Fortifying the frontier: cell wall modifications during plant immunity	28
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	28
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	28
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	28
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	27
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	27
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	26
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	25
Every step you take: How pathogens hijack host proteostasis from transcription, through translation, to degradation	25
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	25
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	24
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	24
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	24
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	23
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	23
Contents	23
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	23
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	22
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	22
Position and identity, two separable but inseparable processes in floral meristem patterning	22
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	22
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	22
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	21
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	21
Editorial Board	20
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	20
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	20
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	20
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	20
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	20
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	19
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	19
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	18
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics	18
Editorial Board	18
Bridging cells and stages: Plasmodesmata for the coordination of plant development	18
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants	18
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions	18
Arabinogalactan proteins: Decoding the multifaceted roles in plant reproduction	18
From genes to epidemics: Genomic insights into bacterial plant pathogen emergence	18
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape	18
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	17
DNA methylation dynamics: patterns, regulation, and function	17
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa	17
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches	17
Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures	17
Trans-grafting revolution: From molecular regulation mechanisms to biotech applications	17
Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation	16
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants	16
Editorial Board	16
Interplay between Polycomb-group associated histone modifiers and accessory proteins in plant evolution	16
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling	16
Gene expression scaling with cell size: Insights across kingdoms	16
Editorial Board	16
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root	16
Conserved, yet distinct: revisiting the roles of C core vacuole/endosome tethering (CORVET) and homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting (HOPS) complexes in plants	15
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality	15
Sense and sensitivity - decoding calcium signalling across cellular, autocrine, paracrine and endocrine pathways in plant resilience	15
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots	15
All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration	15
Divergent routes to specialization: Guard cells, myrosin cells, and beyond	15
Fine-scale 3D chromatin architectures and their regulatory mechanisms in plants	15
Orchestrating polarity in embryo: From molecular programming to geometric rules	15
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts	15
Signaling at the interface: The cell wall, peptides, and extracellular vesicles mediate partner communication during arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis	15
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems	15
The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up	15

Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system	15
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants	14
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae	14
Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity	14
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae	14
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions	14
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	14
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense	14
Telomeres: The EPI-Ending	14
Contents	13
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves	13
Stomatal patterning and development in grasses	13
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity	13
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	13
Asymmetrical cell division in brown algae: How far can we take the paradigm?	13
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy	13
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses	13
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground	13
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	13
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution	13
Editorial Board	13
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications	13
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites	12
Contents	12
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms	12
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface	12
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly	12
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	12
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization	12
Mechanisms and flexibility in plant asymmetric cell division	12
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity	11
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example	11
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators	11
How chromatin senses plant hormones	11
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation	11
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue	11
Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs	10
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events	10
The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins	10
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications	10
Bouncing back stronger: Diversity, structure, and molecular regulation of gelatinous fiber development	10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”	10
Climate change challenges plant breeding	10
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants	10
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface	10
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling	10
Editorial overview: Spatial and temporal regulation of molecular and cell biological process across biological scales	10
At knifepoint: Appressoria-dependent turgor pressure of filamentous plant pathogens	10
Editorial Board	10
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	10
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint	10
The art of interdigitation: Current views on pavement cell shape acquisition	10
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development	10
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots	9
Editorial Board	9
Long noncoding RNAs in plant chromatin 3D conformation dynamics	9
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution	9
Jasmonates and salicylic acid: Evolution of defense hormones in land plants	9
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models	9
Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells	9
Regulators regulated: Different layers of control for plasma membrane phosphoinositides in plants	9
TIR domain-associated nucleotides with functions in plant immunity and beyond	9
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides	9
Complex of Proteins Associated with Set1 complexes and their increasing roles in crop improvement	9
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways	9
Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation	9
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice	9
New frontiers in the biosynthesis of psychoactive specialized metabolites	8
Hormonal and genetic control of pluripotency in bryophyte model systems	8
Contents	8
Many different flowers make a bouquet: Lessons from specialized metabolite diversity in plant–pollinator interactions	8
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy	8
Engineering nitrogen and carbon fixation for next-generation plants	8
Contents	8
Function of nuclear envelope proteins in plant growth and development	8
Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants	8
New insights into plant gametogenesis: From mechanism to application	8
Editorial Board	8
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants	8
Contents	8
Novel molecular insights into the machinery driving secondary cell wall synthesis and patterning	8
Studying plant vascular development using single-cell approaches	8
Regulation of cytokinetic machinery in plants	8
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity	8
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	8
Editorial overview: Tapping into the secret life of small molecules: Addressing the “dark matter” of metabolomes	8
Advancing designer crops for climate resilience through an integrated genomics approach	7
Emerging trends in plant natural products biosynthesis: a chemical perspective	7
Dynamics of polycomb group marks in Arabidopsis	7
Epigenetic processes involved in the activation of the DNA damage response in plants: A link to stress memory	7
Contents	7
Natura non facit saltus: Conserved and rewired molecular pathways underpinning root ground tissue evolution in vascular plants	7
Celastrol: A century-long journey from the isolation to the biotechnological production and the development of an antiobesity drug	7
How do plants reprogramme the fate of differentiated cells?	7
On the hidden temporal dynamics of plant adaptation	7