OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 20. 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.)

Article	Citations
Contents	155
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	142
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	138
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	109
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	107
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	96
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	93
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	89
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	83
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	81
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	78
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	76
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	74
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	73
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	68
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	65
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	61
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	61
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	60
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	57
Editorial Board	57
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	56
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	54
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	54
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	53

Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	52
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	52
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	51
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	50
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	48
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	47
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	46
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	46
Contents	46
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	46
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	45
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	44
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	44
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	43
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	43
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses	42
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	41
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	41
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	39
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	38
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	38
Contents	38
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	38
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	37
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	37
Diverse regulatory mechanisms of StARkin domains in land plants and mammals	36
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	36
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	36
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	36
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	36
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	36
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	36
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	35
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	35
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	34
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	34
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	34
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	33
Editorial Board	33
Editorial Board	32
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	32
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	32
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	31
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	31
Fe acquisition at the crossroad of calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling	30
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	30
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	30
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	29
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	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	29
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	29
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	29
Contents	29
Editorial Board	29
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	29
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	29
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	29
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	28
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	28
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	28
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	27
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	27
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	27
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control	27
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	27
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	26
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	26
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	26
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	26
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	26
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	26
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	26
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	25
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	25
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	25
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	25
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	25
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	24
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	24
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	24
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	24
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	24
Contents	24
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 metabolites	23
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	23
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	23
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	22
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	22
Editorial Board	21
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	21
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	21
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	21
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors	21
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants	21
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	20
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	20
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	20
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	20
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	20