Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 7. 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.)
ArticleCitations
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Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers142
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens138
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions109
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation107
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll96
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort93
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis89
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes83
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis81
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern78
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants76
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development74
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling73
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments68
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses65
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering61
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal61
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism60
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?57
Editorial Board57
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions56
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment54
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants54
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity53
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation52
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways52
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule51
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations50
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development48
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony47
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking46
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots46
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Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions46
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently45
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era44
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes44
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels43
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory43
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses42
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines41
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals41
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species39
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera38
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics38
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 202438
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Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters37
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway37
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis36
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives36
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins36
Diverse regulatory mechanisms of StARkin domains in land plants and mammals36
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae36
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity36
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver36
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities35
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory35
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company34
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants34
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering34
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules33
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Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity32
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis32
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development31
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants31
Fe acquisition at the crossroad of calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling30
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress30
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization30
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems29
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity29
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development29
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling29
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology29
Triticeae genome sequences reveal huge expansions of gene families implicated in fertility restoration29
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms29
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species29
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Editorial Board29
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit29
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination28
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering28
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses28
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging27
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants27
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants27
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control27
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis27
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens26
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet26
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development26
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes26
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability26
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants26
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?26
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new25
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties25
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes25
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity25
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis25
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx24
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Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions24
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements24
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses24
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development24
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis23
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?23
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites23
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors23
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules22
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis22
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes21
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins21
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors21
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants21
Editorial Board21
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment21
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism20
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation20
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem20
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies20
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism20
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries19
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape19
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program19
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics19
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Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants19
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species18
Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system18
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening18
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa18
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling18
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions18
Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures18
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches18
Advances in functional proteomics to study plant-pathogen interactions17
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense17
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All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration17
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts17
Growing a glue factory: Open questions in laticifer development17
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality17
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff16
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants16
The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up16
Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation16
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots16
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root16
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems16
Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?15
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions15
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves15
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy15
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae15
Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity15
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity15
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae15
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants15
New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination15
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground14
Editorial Board14
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses14
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication14
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution14
Editorial overview: Toward deciphering the molecular basis of plant phenotypic plasticity13
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Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development13
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites13
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants13
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization13
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications13
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface13
Asymmetrical cell division in brown algae: How far can we take the paradigm?13
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops13
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation12
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example12
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly12
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms12
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue11
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators11
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants11
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity11
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency11
How chromatin senses plant hormones11
The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins11
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface11
Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways10
At knifepoint: Appressoria-dependent turgor pressure of filamentous plant pathogens10
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications10
Climate change challenges plant breeding10
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development10
Synthetic biology approaches in regulation of targeted gene expression10
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem10
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Editorial overview: Spatial and temporal regulation of molecular and cell biological process across biological scales10
Bouncing back stronger: Diversity, structure, and molecular regulation of gelatinous fiber development10
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling10
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint10
Transient expression systems to rewire plant carotenoid metabolism10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”10
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding9
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events9
Regulators regulated: Different layers of control for plasma membrane phosphoinositides in plants9
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities9
Establishing a regulatory blueprint for ovule number and function during plant development9
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Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs9
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Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation8
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models8
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots8
Fighting salt or enemies: shared perception and signaling strategies8
TIR domain-associated nucleotides with functions in plant immunity and beyond8
Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones8
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution8
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice8
Jasmonates and salicylic acid: Evolution of defense hormones in land plants8
Advancing root developmental research through single-cell technologies8
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy8
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides8
The metabolic homeostaTOR: The balance of holding on or letting grow8
Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells8
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways8
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Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis7
Control of resource allocation between primary and specialized metabolism in glandular trichomes7
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Advancing designer crops for climate resilience through an integrated genomics approach7
Dynamics of polycomb group marks in Arabidopsis7
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity7
Regulation of cytokinetic machinery in plants7
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Stochasticity in gene body methylation7
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Many different flowers make a bouquet: Lessons from specialized metabolite diversity in plant–pollinator interactions7
Engineering nitrogen and carbon fixation for next-generation plants7
Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants7
Novel molecular insights into the machinery driving secondary cell wall synthesis and patterning7
Root hairs vs. trichomes: Not everyone is straight!7
Hormonal and genetic control of pluripotency in bryophyte model systems7
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants7
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