OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 22. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

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
Contents	106
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
Genomic insights into the evolution of plant chemical defense	71
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
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
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	62
How do plants reprogramme the fate of differentiated cells?	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
Connecting the dots between cell surface- and intracellular-triggered immune pathways in plants	53
One hundred years into the study of ecotypes, new advances are being made through large-scale field experiments in perennial plant systems	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
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	37
How did plants evolve the prenylation of specialized phenolic metabolites by means of UbiA prenyltransferases?	37
New perspectives of post-GWAS analyses: From markers to causal genes for more precise crop breeding	36
New frontiers in the biosynthesis of psychoactive specialized metabolites	36
Studying plant vascular development using single-cell approaches	35
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	34
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
Stochasticity in gene body methylation	33
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
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	32
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
Contents	32
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
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
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
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
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	28
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
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
How will I recognize you? Insights into endocytic cargo recognition in plants	26
Regulation of Flowering Time: When and Where?	26
Need for speed: manipulating plant growth to accelerate breeding cycles	26
WOX going on: CLE peptides in plant development	26
The evolutionary and ecological significance of phylloclade formation: A morpho-anatomical approach	25
Editorial Board	25
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
Plant development meets climate emergency – it's time to plant an apple tree	24
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	24
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Editorial Board	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
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
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