Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Article	Citations
Contents	624
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	137
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	131
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	130
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	116
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	107
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	99
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	95
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	87
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	81
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	79
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	78
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	77
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	73
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	69
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	69
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	65
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	64
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	62
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	62
Editorial Board	59
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	59
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	56
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	54
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	54

Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	53
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	53
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	51
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	50
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	48
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	48
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	47
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	46
Contents	45
Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution	45
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	45
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	44
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	44
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	43
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	42
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	42
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	42
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	41
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	41
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	41
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	40
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	39
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	38
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses	38
Contents	38
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	37
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	37
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	36
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	36
Diverse regulatory mechanisms of StARkin domains in land plants and mammals	36
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	36
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	36
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	35
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	35
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	35
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	35
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	35
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	35
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	34
Editorial Board	33
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	33
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	33
Editorial Board	32
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	32
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	31
Fe acquisition at the crossroad of calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling	31
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	31
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	31
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	31
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	31

How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	30
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	30
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	29
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	29
Editorial Board	29
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	29
Contents	29
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	29
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	29
Triticeae genome sequences reveal huge expansions of gene families implicated in fertility restoration	28
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	28
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	28
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	27
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	27
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	27
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	27
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	27
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	26
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	26
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	26
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	26
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	26
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	26
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	26
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	25
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	25
Contents	25
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	25
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	25
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	25
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	25
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	25
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	25
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control	25
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	25
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	25
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	24
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors	24
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	24
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	24
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	23
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	23
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	23
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	23
Editorial Board	22
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	22
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	22
Contents	22
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	21
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	21
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	21
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	20
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	20
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	20
Editorial Board	20
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants	20
Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures	19
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants	19
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa	19
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics	19
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening	19
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions	19
Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system	18
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches	18
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants	18
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling	18
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	18
Editorial Board	18
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape	18
Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation	17
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense	17
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root	17
The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up	17
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts	17
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality	17
Growing a glue factory: Open questions in laticifer development	17
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems	17
All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration	17
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots	17
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions	16

Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?	16
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	16
Designing a home for beneficial plant microbiomes	16
Advances in functional proteomics to study plant-pathogen interactions	16
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants	15
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae	15
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses	15
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground	15
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity	15
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae	15
New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination	15
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	15
Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity	15
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution	15
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy	15
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves	15
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops	14
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications	14
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface	14
Editorial Board	14
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	14
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	14
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites	14
Editorial overview: Toward deciphering the molecular basis of plant phenotypic plasticity	14
Contents	14
The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins	13
How chromatin senses plant hormones	13
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants	13
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms	13
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization	13
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly	13
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example	13
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation	13
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue	13
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	12
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity	12
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators	12
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications	11
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling	11
Synthetic biology approaches in regulation of targeted gene expression	11
Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways	11
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface	11
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	11
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint	11
Contents	10
Establishing a regulatory blueprint for ovule number and function during plant development	10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”	10
Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs	10
Bouncing back stronger: Diversity, structure, and molecular regulation of gelatinous fiber development	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
Network biology to uncover functional and structural properties of the plant immune system	10
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events	10
Plant immunity: Good fences make good neighbors?	10
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development	10
Editorial Board	9
Transient expression systems to rewire plant carotenoid metabolism	9
Editorial Board	9
Climate change challenges plant breeding	9
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	9
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models	9
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	9
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots	8
TIR domain-associated nucleotides with functions in plant immunity and beyond	8
The metabolic homeostaTOR: The balance of holding on or letting grow	8
EDS1 signalling: At the nexus of intracellular and surface receptor immunity	8
Editorial Board	8
Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells	8
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice	8
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution	8
Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation	8
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides	8
Contents	8
Fighting salt or enemies: shared perception and signaling strategies	8
Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones	8
Regulators regulated: Different layers of control for plasma membrane phosphoinositides in plants	8
Jasmonates and salicylic acid: Evolution of defense hormones in land plants	8
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways	8
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy	8
Advancing root developmental research through single-cell technologies	8
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity	7
Contents	7
Hormonal and genetic control of pluripotency in bryophyte model systems	7
Novel molecular insights into the machinery driving secondary cell wall synthesis and patterning	7
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	7
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants	7
Many different flowers make a bouquet: Lessons from specialized metabolite diversity in plant–pollinator interactions	7
Editorial overview: Tapping into the secret life of small molecules: Addressing the “dark matter” of metabolomes	7
Contents	7
Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants	7
Regulation of cytokinetic machinery in plants	7
Engineering nitrogen and carbon fixation for next-generation plants	7
Editorial Board	7
Dynamics of polycomb group marks in Arabidopsis	7
Control of resource allocation between primary and specialized metabolism in glandular trichomes	7