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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
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Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants137
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi131
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering130
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens116
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis107
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers99
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions95
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern87
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses81
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments79
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort78
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation77
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development73
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll69
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal69
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis65
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling64
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes62
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants62
Editorial Board59
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism59
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development56
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways54
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity54
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions53
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?53
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation51
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants50
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule48
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations48
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment47
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae46
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Polymorphisms in plants to restrict losses to pathogens: From gene family expansions to complex network evolution45
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels45
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony44
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes44
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots43
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions42
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals42
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently42
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era41
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics41
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory41
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking40
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species39
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines38
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses38
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Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver37
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 202437
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives36
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity36
Diverse regulatory mechanisms of StARkin domains in land plants and mammals36
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway36
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters36
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera35
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants35
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae35
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering35
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company35
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities35
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis34
Editorial Board33
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory33
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins33
Editorial Board32
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules32
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization31
Fe acquisition at the crossroad of calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling31
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity31
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress31
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems31
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis31
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants30
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development30
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit29
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity29
Editorial Board29
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling29
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Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants29
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 restoration28
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species28
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering28
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging27
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis27
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses27
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development27
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms27
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis26
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens26
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties26
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes26
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 elements26
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants26
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants25
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity25
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Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions25
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development25
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability25
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development25
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis25
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet25
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control25
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new25
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx25
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors24
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors24
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes24
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses24
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 morphogenesis23
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites23
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules23
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The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment22
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies22
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Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries21
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem21
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins21
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program20
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism20
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism20
Editorial Board20
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants20
Heating up meiosis – Chromosome recombination and segregation under high temperatures19
Time's up: Epigenetic clocks in plants19
Building a biofactory: Constructing glandular trichomes in Cannabis sativa19
Prospects for functional genomics of genes involved in coffee-specialized metabolism through cross-species integrative omics19
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening19
The molecular coordination of tuberization: Current status and future directions19
Selective chemical probes can untangle the complexity of the plant cell endomembrane system18
Epigenetic processes in plant stress priming: Open questions and new approaches18
Species-specific ‘specialized’ genomic region provides the new insights into the functional genomics characterizing metabolic polymorphisms in plants18
Editorial overview: Cell biology and cell signalling18
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species18
Editorial Board18
HEI10 coarsening, chromatin and sequence polymorphism shape the plant meiotic recombination landscape18
Plant Pattern recognition receptors: Exploring their evolution, diversification, and spatiotemporal regulation17
TIR-catalyzed nucleotide signaling molecules in plant defense17
From procambium patterning to cambium activation and maintenance in the Arabidopsis root17
The making of a ring: Assembly and regulation of microtubule-associated proteins during preprophase band formation and division plane set-up17
Meddling with the microbiota: Fungal tricks to infect plant hosts17
Regulation of starch metabolism in banana fruit: Mechanisms shaping the nutritional quality17
Growing a glue factory: Open questions in laticifer development17
Transposable element evolution in plant genome ecosystems17
All roads lead to dome: Multicellular dynamics during de novo meristem establishment in shoot regeneration17
Where R-SNAREs like to roam - the vesicle-associated membrane proteins VAMP721 & VAMP722 in trafficking hotspots17
Bryo-FIGHTs: Emerging insights and principles acquired from non-vascular plant-pathogen interactions16
Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?16
Amino acids and their derivatives mediating defense priming and growth tradeoff16
Designing a home for beneficial plant microbiomes16
Advances in functional proteomics to study plant-pathogen interactions16
Advances in the analysis and application of metabolites from tropical plants15
Developmental genetics of fruit diversity in Brassicaceae15
Seeing is believing: Understanding functions of NPR1 and its paralogs in plant immunity through cellular and structural analyses15
Editorial overview: Biotic interactions - focus on the apoplastic playground15
The design of mapping populations: Impacts of geographic scale on genetic architecture and mapping efficacy for defense and immunity15
Multifaceted mechanisms controlling grain disarticulation in the Poaceae15
New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination15
Tuber, or not tuber: Molecular and morphological basis of underground storage organ development15
Evolutionary footprint of plant immunity15
Plant cell surface immune receptors—Novel insights into function and evolution15
The diversification of the shoot branching system: A quantitative and comparative perspective in meristem determinacy15
Integration of long-range signals in plants: A model for wound-induced Ca2+, electrical, ROS, and glutamate waves15
Evolution of inflorescence branch modifications in cereal crops14
EVO-MPMI: From fundamental science to practical applications14
Biomolecular condensates tunes immune signaling at the Host–Pathogen interface14
Editorial Board14
Tracking the messengers: Emerging advances in mRNA-based plant communication14
Dangerous sugars: Structural diversity and functional significance of acylsugar-like defense compounds in flowering plants14
Expanding our coverage: Strategies to detect a greater range of metabolites14
Editorial overview: Toward deciphering the molecular basis of plant phenotypic plasticity14
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The wheels of destruction: Plant NLR immune receptors are mobile and structurally dynamic disease resistance proteins13
How chromatin senses plant hormones13
R we there yet? Advances in cloning resistance genes for engineering immunity in crop plants13
Bryophytes as metabolic engineering platforms13
Killing me softly - Programmed cell death in plant reproduction from sporogenesis to fertilization13
Editorial overview: Dialogues with the good, the bad, and the ugly13
Shared infection strategy of a fungal pathogen across diverse lineages of land plants, the Fusarium example13
Chromatin dynamics and subnuclear gene positioning for transcriptional regulation13
The gene function prediction challenge: Large language models and knowledge graphs to the rescue13
Stomata conductance as a goalkeeper for increased photosynthetic efficiency12
An emerging connected view: Phytocytokines in regulating stomatal, apoplastic, and vascular immunity12
Proteinogenic dipeptides, an emerging class of small-molecule regulators12
Quantitative ambient mass spectrometry imaging in plants: A perspective on challenges and future applications11
Plasma membrane-to-organelle communication in plant stress signaling11
Synthetic biology approaches in regulation of targeted gene expression11
Computational prediction of plant metabolic pathways11
Novel structural insights at the extracellular plant-pathogen interface11
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem11
Grass awns: Morphological diversity arising from developmental constraint11
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Establishing a regulatory blueprint for ovule number and function during plant development10
Editorial overview: COPB issue 2022 on “epigenetics and gene regulation”10
Sensing host and environmental cues by fungal GPCRs10
Bouncing back stronger: Diversity, structure, and molecular regulation of gelatinous fiber development10
Editorial overview: Spatial and temporal regulation of molecular and cell biological process across biological scales10
At knifepoint: Appressoria-dependent turgor pressure of filamentous plant pathogens10
Network biology to uncover functional and structural properties of the plant immune system10
It is time to move: Heat-induced translocation events10
Plant immunity: Good fences make good neighbors?10
Polarizing to the challenge: New insights into polarity-mediated division orientation in plant development10
Editorial Board9
Transient expression systems to rewire plant carotenoid metabolism9
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Climate change challenges plant breeding9
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding9
Advancing plant single-cell genomics with foundation models9
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities9
Coordination and regulation of vascular development in roots8
TIR domain-associated nucleotides with functions in plant immunity and beyond8
The metabolic homeostaTOR: The balance of holding on or letting grow8
EDS1 signalling: At the nexus of intracellular and surface receptor immunity8
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Complex peptide hormone signaling in plant stem cells8
Engineering rice genomes towards green super rice8
Flowering time regulation through the lens of evolution8
Leveraging synthetic biology and metabolic engineering to overcome obstacles in plant pathway elucidation8
Connecting the plant cytoskeleton to the cell surface via the phosphoinositides8
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Fighting salt or enemies: shared perception and signaling strategies8
Origins and evolution of the dual functions of strigolactones as rhizosphere signaling molecules and plant hormones8
Regulators regulated: Different layers of control for plasma membrane phosphoinositides in plants8
Jasmonates and salicylic acid: Evolution of defense hormones in land plants8
Integration of discovery and engineering in plant alkaloid research: Recent developments in elucidation, reconstruction, and repurposing biosynthetic pathways8
Editorial Overview: Engineering plants and plant products for a green bioeconomy8
Advancing root developmental research through single-cell technologies8
Epigenetic dynamics during sexual reproduction: At the nexus of developmental control and genomic integrity7
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Hormonal and genetic control of pluripotency in bryophyte model systems7
Novel molecular insights into the machinery driving secondary cell wall synthesis and patterning7
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis7
Variation is important: Warranting chromatin function and dynamics by histone variants7
Many different flowers make a bouquet: Lessons from specialized metabolite diversity in plant–pollinator interactions7
Editorial overview: Tapping into the secret life of small molecules: Addressing the “dark matter” of metabolomes7
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Targeted gene regulation through epigenome editing in plants7
Regulation of cytokinetic machinery in plants7
Engineering nitrogen and carbon fixation for next-generation plants7
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Dynamics of polycomb group marks in Arabidopsis7
Control of resource allocation between primary and specialized metabolism in glandular trichomes7
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