Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Article	Citations
Messenger and message: Uncovering the roles, rhythm and regulation of extracellular vesicles in plant biotic interactions	575
Detecting novel plant pathogen threats to food system security by integrating the Plant Reactome and remote sensing	122
Editorial overview: Advancing basic plant research and crop improvement through cutting-edge biotechnologies	118
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	114
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New genomic approaches for enhancing maize genetic improvement	102
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development	98
Editorial Board	97
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication	85
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	81
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Editorial Board	77
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Editorial overview: Tapping into the secret life of small molecules: Addressing the “dark matter” of metabolomes	76
Editorial overview: Dynamics underlying plasticity and robustness	74
Editorial overview: Not everyone can become a cell biologist, but a great cell biologist can come from anywhere	72
Editorial overview: Multifaceted dynamics and countless shades of green chromatin	71
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	71
Editorial Board	71
Genomic insights into the evolution of plant chemical defense	71
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control	69
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	64
Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses	63
How do plants reprogramme the fate of differentiated cells?	62
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	62

Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	61
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants	60
Better together: Protein partnerships for lineage-specific oil accumulation	59
Recent advances in local and systemic nitrate signaling in Arabidopsis thaliana	57
One hundred years into the study of ecotypes, new advances are being made through large-scale field experiments in perennial plant systems	53
Connecting the dots between cell surface- and intracellular-triggered immune pathways in plants	53
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	50
Conditioning plants for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis through DWARF14-LIKE signalling	49
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	47
Stories that can’t be told by SNPs; DNA methylation variation in plant populations	46
Crops of the future: building a climate-resilient plant immune system	46
Engineering pest tolerance through plant-mediated RNA interference	45
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	44
Potentials of single-cell genomics in deciphering cellular phenotypes	44
Editorial overview: Toward deciphering the molecular basis of plant phenotypic plasticity	44
Coding of plant immune signals by surface receptors	44
Plasmodesmata and their role in the regulation of phloem unloading during fruit development	43
Are we there yet? Driving the road to evolutionary graph-pangenomics	42
Solving the puzzle of Fe homeostasis by integrating molecular, mathematical, and societal models	41
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops	41
Distinguishing friends from foes: Can smRNAs modulate plant interactions with beneficial and pathogenic organisms?	41
Scaling up neodomestication for climate-ready crops	40
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications	40
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	40
Conditional and tissue-specific approaches to dissect essential mechanisms in plant development	39
Hormonal and genetic control of pluripotency in bryophyte model systems	38
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites	38
How did plants evolve the prenylation of specialized phenolic metabolites by means of UbiA prenyltransferases?	37
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	37
New frontiers in the biosynthesis of psychoactive specialized metabolites	36
New perspectives of post-GWAS analyses: From markers to causal genes for more precise crop breeding	36
Studying plant vascular development using single-cell approaches	35
Novel molecular insights into the machinery driving secondary cell wall synthesis and patterning	34
Plant specialized metabolism: Diversity of terpene synthases and their products	34
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	34
Current status of MSI research in Japan to measure the localization of natural products in plants	33
Dynamics of polycomb group marks in Arabidopsis	33
Stochasticity in gene body methylation	33
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface	32
Enjoy the silence: Canonical and non-canonical RNA silencing activity during plant sexual reproduction	32
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Root hairs vs. trichomes: Not everyone is straight!	32
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	32
Small size, big impact: Small molecules in plant systemic immune signaling	32
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	32
Spotlight on plant RNA-containing extracellular vesicles	31
The root extracellular trap; a complex and dynamic biomatrix network essential for plant protection	31
Celastrol: A century-long journey from the isolation to the biotechnological production and the development of an antiobesity drug	31
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	31
Editorial Board	31

Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	31
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	30
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	30
Pathways to engineering plant intracellular NLR immune receptors	30
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	30
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	30
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	29
On the hidden temporal dynamics of plant adaptation	29
Specialized metabolism and development: An unexpected friendship	29
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	29
Advancing designer crops for climate resilience through an integrated genomics approach	29
Jasmonate: A hormone of primary importance for plant metabolism	29
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	29
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	28
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	27
Compartmentalization at the interface of primary and alkaloid metabolism	27
Epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress memory: maintaining the good things while they last	27
How to utilize comparative transcriptomics to dissect morphological diversity in plants	27
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	27
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization	27
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	27
Need for speed: manipulating plant growth to accelerate breeding cycles	26
WOX going on: CLE peptides in plant development	26
How will I recognize you? Insights into endocytic cargo recognition in plants	26
Regulation of Flowering Time: When and Where?	26
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example	25
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	25
How chromatin senses plant hormones	25
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly	25
Editorial Board	25
The evolutionary and ecological significance of phylloclade formation: A morpho-anatomical approach	25
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Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	24
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Plant development meets climate emergency – it's time to plant an apple tree	24
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Epigenetic control of transposons during plant reproduction: From meiosis to hybrid seeds	23
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation	23
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Engineering plant disease resistance against biotrophic pathogens	22
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	22
Transcriptional regulation in plants: Using omics data to crack the cis-regulatory code	22
Three-dimensional genome organization in epigenetic regulations: cause or consequence?	22
Light-regulated pre-mRNA splicing in plants	22
Gene regulatory circuitry of plant–environment interactions: scaling from cells to the field	22
Plant–nematode interactions	22
Improving rice salt tolerance by precision breeding in a new era	22
Digital paradigm for Polycomb epigenetic switching and memory	22
The ETS-ETI cycle: evolutionary processes and metapopulation dynamics driving the diversification of pathogen effectors and host immune factors	22
Recent advances in understanding of fungal and oomycete effectors	21
Understanding plant responsiveness to microbiome feedbacks	21
Parental dialectic: Epigenetic conversations in endosperm	21
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity	21
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	21
The core microbiota across the green lineage	21
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	21
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants	21
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	21
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	21
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	21
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	21
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	20
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	20
Emerging roles of phase separation in plant transcription and chromatin organization	20
Chemical, pharmacological properties and biosynthesis of opioid mitragynine in Mitragyna speciosa (kratom)	20
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	20
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue	20
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors	20
Emerging trends in plant natural products biosynthesis: a chemical perspective	20
More than a Catharanthus plant: A multicellular and pluri-organelle alkaloid-producing factory	20
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The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins	19
Chromatin dynamics and epigenetic regulation in plant development and environmental responses	19
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	19
Genomic imprinting regulates establishment and release of seed dormancy	18
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	18
Functional diversity of Toll/interleukin-1 receptor domains in flowering plants and its translational potential	17
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	17

The exocyst complex is an evolutionary battleground in plant-microbe interactions	17
PTI-ETI crosstalk: an integrative view of plant immunity	17
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	17
Talk to your neighbors in an emergency: Stromule-mediated chloroplast-nucleus communication in plant immunity	17
Reactive oxygen species function as signaling molecules in controlling plant development and hormonal responses	16
Cross-kingdom regulation of calcium- and/or calmodulin-dependent protein kinases by phospho-switches that relieve autoinhibition	16
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	16
Pathogenic strategies and immune mechanisms to necrotrophs: Differences and similarities to biotrophs and hemibiotrophs	16
Inter-organismal phytohormone networks in plant-microbe interactions	16
Genome-wide characterization of nascent RNA processing in plants	16
Jumpstarting evolution: How transposition can facilitate adaptation to rapid environmental changes	16
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	16
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	16
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	15
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	15
Phosphorylation control of PIN auxin transporters	15
Engineering plant-based feedstocks for sustainable aquaculture	15
Plant secondary metabolites altering root microbiome composition and function	15
How to win a tug-of-war: the adaptive evolution of Phytophthora effectors	15
Building and breaking of a barrier: Suberin plasticity and function in the endodermis	15
Biosynthesis of oxindole alkaloids: Recent advances and challenges	15
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	14
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators	14
Xylem vessel cell differentiation: A best model for new integrative cell biology?	14
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	14
Cellular insights into legume root infection by rhizobia	14
Resolving plant development in space and time with single-cell genomics	14
C4 leaf development and evolution	14
The stomatal fates: Understanding initiation and enforcement of stomatal cell fate transitions	14
Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways	13
Auxin canalization: From speculative models toward molecular players	13
Putting heads together: Developmental genetics of the Asteraceae capitulum	13
Resistosomes at the interface of pathogens and plants	13
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	13
Synthetic biology approaches in regulation of targeted gene expression	13
One factor, many systems: the floral homeotic protein AGAMOUS and its epigenetic regulatory mechanisms	13
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling	13
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	13
Evolving best practices for transcriptome-wide association studies accelerate discovery of gene-phenotype links	13
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	13
Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution	12
Genome-scale modeling of the primary-specialized metabolism interface	12
Mechanisms in plant–microbiome interactions: lessons from model systems	12
Nanoparticles for protein delivery in planta	12
The emerging role of the nitrate and peptide transporter family: NPF in plant specialized metabolism	12
Biological role and mechanism of chromatin readers in plants	12
Approaches for investigating plasmodesmata and effective communication	12
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	12
The genetic basis of epigenetic variation and its consequences for adaptation	11
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	11
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	11
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	11
Biogenesis of post-translationally modified peptide signals for plant reproductive development	11
Gene editing to improve legume-rhizobia symbiosis in a changing climate	11
Finding the right balance: The enduring role of florigens during cereal inflorescence development and their influence on fertility	11
Crosstalk among pathways to generate DNA methylome	11
More than growth: Phytohormone-regulated transcription factors controlling plant immunity, plant development and plant architecture	11
Microtubule simulations in plant biology: A field coming to maturity	11
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	11
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	10
Energy as a seasonal signal for growth and reproduction	10
Regulation of cellulose synthesis via exocytosis and endocytosis	10
Decoding histone 3 lysine methylation: Insights into seed germination and flowering	10
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface	10
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	10
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Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	8
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	8
Frontiers and techniques in plant gene regulation	8
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	8
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	8
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	8
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	8
Plant immunity: Good fences make good neighbors?	8
Engineering plant microbiomes by integrating eco-evolutionary principles into current strategies	8
Pick a side: Integrating gene expression and mechanical forces to polarize aerial organs	7
SERKs and NIKs: Coreceptors or signaling hubs in a complex crosstalk between growth and defense?	7
Virus-induced plant genome editing	7
Calcium homeostasis and signaling in plant immunity	7
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint	7
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	7
Kaempferol as a precursor for ubiquinone (coenzyme Q) biosynthesis: An atypical node between specialized metabolism and primary metabolism	7
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	7
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants	7
De novo domestication of wild species to create crops with increased resilience and nutritional value	7
Engineering Nicotiana benthamiana as a platform for natural product biosynthesis	7
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	7
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	7
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses	7