Current Opinion in Plant Biology

Article	Citations
PTI-ETI crosstalk: an integrative view of plant immunity	390
Climate change and the need for agricultural adaptation	201
More is better: the diversity of terpene metabolism in plants	164
Conservation and diversification of flavonoid metabolism in the plant kingdom	142
5Gs for crop genetic improvement	137
Cutin and suberin: assembly and origins of specialized lipidic cell wall scaffolds	126
Diversity of anthocyanin and proanthocyanin biosynthesis in land plants	125
SnRK1 and trehalose 6-phosphate – two ancient pathways converge to regulate plant metabolism and growth	111
ABA-mediated modulation of elevated CO2 on stomatal response to drought	104
EDS1 signalling: At the nexus of intracellular and surface receptor immunity	88
Apoplastic effector proteins of plant-associated fungi and oomycetes	79
Plant genes hijacked by necrotrophic fungal pathogens	78
Metabolic regulation of systemic acquired resistance	76
Transport mechanisms of plant hormones	75
Plant NLRs get by with a little help from their friends	73
Epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress memory: maintaining the good things while they last	73
Regulation of Flowering Time: When and Where?	70
Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?	69
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	68
De novo domestication of wild species to create crops with increased resilience and nutritional value	66
CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing of banana for disease resistance	65
Improving rice salt tolerance by precision breeding in a new era	65
The initiation of RNA interference (RNAi) in plants	63
High temperature-induced plant disease susceptibility: more than the sum of its parts	60
Untapping the potential of plant mycobiomes for applications in agriculture	59

Old Town Roads: routes of auxin biosynthesis across kingdoms	56
Innovations in plant genetics adapting agriculture to climate change	55
A new era for plant science: spatial single-cell transcriptomics	55
Factors affecting plant responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhiza	52
Nitrogen and Phosphorus interactions in plants: from agronomic to physiological and molecular insights	51
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening	51
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	51
CRISPR/dCas-mediated transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in plants	51
New avenues for increasing yield and stability in C3 cereals: exploring ear photosynthesis	50
The rise and fall of genes: origins and functions of plant pathogen pangenomes	49
Towards understanding the hierarchical nitrogen signalling network in plants	48
Evolution of virulence in rust fungi — multiple solutions to one problem	47
Multifaceted functions of post-translational enzyme modifications in the control of plant glycolysis	46
The case for improving crop carbon sink strength or plasticity for a CO2-rich future	46
Histone variants take center stage in shaping the epigenome	45
Plant secondary metabolites altering root microbiome composition and function	45
Need for speed: manipulating plant growth to accelerate breeding cycles	45
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	44
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	44
Gene and genome duplications in the evolution of chemodiversity: perspectives from studies of Lamiaceae	44
Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses	44
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	43
Plant unusual fatty acids: learning from the less common	43
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	41
Mobile signals in systemic acquired resistance	41
Mediator subunit MED25: at the nexus of jasmonate signaling	41
Developmental regulation of stolon and rhizome	41
Tripartite mutualisms as models for understanding plant–microbial interactions	40
Ento(o)mics: the intersection of ‘omic’ approaches to decipher plant defense against sap-sucking insect pests	40
New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination	40
Oil crops for the future	39
MIXTAs and phytohormones orchestrate cotton fiber development	39
Exploring the application of wild species for crop improvement in a changing climate	38
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	38
How do plants transduce wound signals to induce tissue repair and organ regeneration?	38
Crops of the future: building a climate-resilient plant immune system	38
Jasmonate: A hormone of primary importance for plant metabolism	37
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	36
The important contribution of transposable elements to phenotypic variation and evolution	36
Virus-induced plant genome editing	35
Symbiotic bacteria of plant-associated fungi: friends or foes?	34
Designing a home for beneficial plant microbiomes	34
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	34
Phytohormone signaling mechanisms and genetic methods for their modulation and detection	33
One factor, many systems: the floral homeotic protein AGAMOUS and its epigenetic regulatory mechanisms	32
WOX going on: CLE peptides in plant development	32
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	32
To move or not to move: roles and specificity of plant RNA mobility	31
Towards a functional understanding of the plant metabolome	31
Evolutionary innovations in starch metabolism	30

Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	30
More than a Catharanthus plant: A multicellular and pluri-organelle alkaloid-producing factory	30
Nanoparticles for protein delivery in planta	30
Resistosome and inflammasome: platforms mediating innate immunity	30
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	29
Flavonols modulate plant development, signaling, and stress responses	28
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	28
Building and breaking of a barrier: Suberin plasticity and function in the endodermis	27
Climate change challenges plant breeding	27
‘Hijacking’ core metabolism: a new panache for the evolution of steroidal glycoalkaloids structural diversity	27
Host-specialized transcriptome of plant-associated organisms	26
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	26
Epigenetics in plant organismic interactions	26
The ETS-ETI cycle: evolutionary processes and metapopulation dynamics driving the diversification of pathogen effectors and host immune factors	26
Network biology to uncover functional and structural properties of the plant immune system	26
Plant–nematode interactions	26
Towards targeted starch modification in plants	25
Unlocking the mechanisms behind the formation of interlocking pavement cells	25
The evolving landscape of cell surface pattern recognition across plant immune networks	25
Recent advances on the plant manipulation by geminiviruses	24
Determinants of endophytic and pathogenic lifestyle in root colonizing fungi	24
A revival of effective ploidy: the asymmetry of parental roles in endosperm-based hybridization barriers	24
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	24
Leguminous nodule symbiosis involves recruitment of factors contributing to lateral root development	24
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	23
To be a male or a female flower, a question of ethylene in cucurbits	23
Structural and functional insight into the nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport receptors in plant stress signaling	23
Stromules, functional extensions of plastids within the plant cell	23
Reactive oxygen species function as signaling molecules in controlling plant development and hormonal responses	23
Phosphorylation control of PIN auxin transporters	23
Robustness and the generalist niche of polyploid species: Genome shock or gradual evolution?	23
Jumpstarting evolution: How transposition can facilitate adaptation to rapid environmental changes	23
Engineering pest tolerance through plant-mediated RNA interference	23
Adaptation to novel environments during crop diversification	22
Auxin canalization: From speculative models toward molecular players	22
How to win a tug-of-war: the adaptive evolution of Phytophthora effectors	22
Plant zygote development: recent insights and applications to clonal seeds	22
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	22
Single-cell analysis of cis-regulatory elements	22
Computational approaches to unravel the pathways and evolution of specialized metabolism	22
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	22
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	21
Developing the role of legumes in West Africa under climate change	21
Skirmish or war: the emergence of agricultural plant pathogens	21
The roles of the IGT gene family in plant architecture: past, present, and future	21
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	21
Extrachromosomal circular DNA: A neglected nucleic acid molecule in plants	21
Mechanical control of plant morphogenesis: concepts and progress	21
Chromatin regulation in plant hormone and plant stress responses	20
Regulation of cellulose synthesis via exocytosis and endocytosis	20
Plant immunity: Good fences make good neighbors?	20
Getting to the root of grafting-induced traits	20
Morphology made for movement: formation of diverse stomatal guard cells	20
Epigenetics and plant reproduction: Multiple steps for responsibly handling succession	20
How to resist parasitic plants: pre- and post-attachment strategies	20
Mechanisms in plant–microbiome interactions: lessons from model systems	20
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	20
Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones	20
Biomolecular condensates in photosynthesis and metabolism	20
Engineering plant microbiomes by integrating eco-evolutionary principles into current strategies	20
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses	20
Coding of plant immune signals by surface receptors	20
Bloom and bust: understanding the nature and regulation of the end of flowering	19
What natural variation can teach us about resistance durability	19
Engineering plant disease resistance against biotrophic pathogens	19
Plant chromatin, metabolism and development – an intricate crosstalk	19
Synthetic biology approaches in regulation of targeted gene expression	19
Organelles-nucleus-plasmodesmata signaling (ONPS): an update on its roles in plant physiology, metabolism and stress responses	19
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff	19
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	19
Arabidopsis primary root growth: let it grow, can't hold it back anymore!	18
The emerging role of the nitrate and peptide transporter family: NPF in plant specialized metabolism	18
Stories that can’t be told by SNPs; DNA methylation variation in plant populations	18
The genetic control of succulent leaf development	18
Current status and future perspectives on the evolution of cis-regulatory elements in plants	18
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	18
Spotlight on plant RNA-containing extracellular vesicles	18
Higher dimensional metabolomics using stable isotope labeling for identifying the missing specialized metabolism in plants	18
More than growth: Phytohormone-regulated transcription factors controlling plant immunity, plant development and plant architecture	18
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops	18

Resistosomes at the interface of pathogens and plants	17
Circadian coordination of cellular processes and abiotic stress responses	17
Digital paradigm for Polycomb epigenetic switching and memory	17
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	17
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	17
Intertwined evolution of plant epigenomes and genomes	16
Biological role and mechanism of chromatin readers in plants	16
Light-regulated pre-mRNA splicing in plants	16
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	16
Delving into the evolutionary origin of steroid sensing in plants	16
Bracing for sustainable agriculture: the development and function of brace roots in members of Poaceae	16
Cotton architecture: examining the roles of SINGLE FLOWER TRUSS and SELF-PRUNING in regulating growth habits of a woody perennial crop	16
Connecting primary and specialized metabolism: Amino acid conjugation of phytohormones by GRETCHEN HAGEN 3 (GH3) acyl acid amido synthetases	16
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	16
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors	16
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	16
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency	15
One hundred years into the study of ecotypes, new advances are being made through large-scale field experiments in perennial plant systems	15
Structure and mechanism of histone methylation dynamics in Arabidopsis	15
Understanding Nod factor signalling paves the way for targeted engineering in legumes and non-legumes	15
Plant endomembranes and cytoskeleton: moving targets in immunity	15
Emerging principles in the design of bioengineered made-to-order plant immune receptors	15
Recent advances in understanding of fungal and oomycete effectors	15
Compounds from rhizosphere microbes that promote plant growth	15
Moving with purpose and direction: transcription factor movement and cell fate determination revisited	15
Fe acquisition at the crossroad of calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling	15
There is more to flowering than those DAM genes: the biology behind bloom in rosaceous fruit trees	15
Advances in functional proteomics to study plant-pathogen interactions	15
Crosstalk among pathways to generate DNA methylome	15
Conditioning plants for arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis through DWARF14-LIKE signalling	15
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves	15
Signaling by plant glutamate receptor-like channels: What else!	15
The metabolic homeostaTOR: The balance of holding on or letting grow	15
Chemical control of stomatal function and development	15
Biogenesis of post-translationally modified peptide signals for plant reproductive development	15
Energy as a seasonal signal for growth and reproduction	14
Connecting the dots between cell surface- and intracellular-triggered immune pathways in plants	14
Signaling phospholipids in plant development: small couriers determining cell fate	14
Inter-organismal phytohormone networks in plant-microbe interactions	14
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	14
Computational solutions for modeling and controlling plant response to abiotic stresses: a review with focus on iron deficiency	14
Don’t be fooled: false flowers in Asteraceae	13
Pathogenic strategies and immune mechanisms to necrotrophs: Differences and similarities to biotrophs and hemibiotrophs	13
Regulation of nucellar embryony, a mode of sporophytic apomixis in Citrus resembling somatic embryogenesis	13
Is the plant nucleus a mechanical rheostat?	13
TIR-domain enzymatic activities at the heart of plant immunity	13
In search of function: nuclear bodies and their possible roles as plant environmental sensors	13
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	13
Omics-guided metabolic pathway discovery in plants: Resources, approaches, and opportunities	13
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	13
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	13
It’s Morphin’ time: how multiple signals converge on ARF transcription factors to direct development	13
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense	13
Deposition and eviction of histone variants define functional chromatin states in plants	12
A playbook for developing disease-resistant crops through immune receptor identification and transfer	12
Transient expression systems to rewire plant carotenoid metabolism	12
Plant hormone signaling: Is upside down right side up?	12
Natural and induced epigenetic variation for crop improvement	12
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants	12
Advancing root developmental research through single-cell technologies	12
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	12
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	12
Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation	11
Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution	11
Pathways to engineering plant intracellular NLR immune receptors	11
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	11
Leveraging synthetic biology approaches in plant hormone research	11
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	11
Advancing designer crops for climate resilience through an integrated genomics approach	11
Deep roots and many branches: Origins of plant-specialized metabolic enzymes in general metabolism	11
Reaching the top through a tortuous path: helical growth in climbing plants	11
Are we there yet? Driving the road to evolutionary graph-pangenomics	11
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	11
Multi-level gene regulatory network models to understand complex mechanisms underlying plant development	10
Better together: Protein partnerships for lineage-specific oil accumulation	10
Plasmodesmata and their role in the regulation of phloem unloading during fruit development	10
Fighting salt or enemies: shared perception and signaling strategies	10
Xylem vessel cell differentiation: A best model for new integrative cell biology?	10
Kaempferol as a precursor for ubiquinone (coenzyme Q) biosynthesis: An atypical node between specialized metabolism and primary metabolism	10
Compartmentalization at the interface of primary and alkaloid metabolism	10
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution	10
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	10
Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways	10
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	10
Information on the move: vascular tissue development in space and time during postembryonic root growth	10
Rational design strategies for functional reconstitution of plant cytochrome P450s in microbial systems	10
At the molecular plant–nematode interface: New players and emerging paradigms	10