OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 18. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	184
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	135
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	127
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	125
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	105
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	104
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	100
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	95
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	94
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	82
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	81
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	73
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	71
Beyond elongation: The multifaceted roles of gibberellins in symbiosis and root development	70
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	65
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	64
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	63
Editorial Board	62
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	61
Corrigendum to “NLR receptor subcellular localization and plant immune activation”[Curr Opin Plant Biol 90 (2026) 102855]	60
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	60
At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	59
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	58
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	58
Piecing the puzzle together: Analyses in plants at the single-cell resolution	58

Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	56
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	53
Contents	51
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	50
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	49
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	49
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	48
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	48
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	47
Monoubiquitination of histone H2A and H2B: News and views	47
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	47
Contents	46
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	46
Plant genome assembly and annotation	45
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	44
Some assembly required: Modularity and programmability as keys to decoupling growth-defence trade-offs in plants	44
Architects of plant immunity: Structure-informed strategies for engineering plant nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors	43
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	43
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	42
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	42
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	40
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	40
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	40
Systems-level understanding of plant immune networks through single-cell and spatial omics	40
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	39
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	39
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	39
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	38
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	38
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	37
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	37
Editorial Board	37
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	36
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	36
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	35
Editorial Board	35
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	35
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	35
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	34
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	34
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	34
Editorial Board	34
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	33
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	33
Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	32
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	32
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	32
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	32
Histone variants: Distinct building blocks of the chromatin acting at the core	31
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	31

Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	31
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	31
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	30
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	30
Multilayered regulatory control of compound leaf development	30
Contents	30
Update on translational control modes in plant cell signaling	30
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	29
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	29
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	29
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	29
Deciphering plastid retrograde signals and their roles in plant development	28
Fortifying the frontier: cell wall modifications during plant immunity	28
Contents	28
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	27
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	27
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	27
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	26
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	25
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	25
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	24
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	24
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	24
Contents	23
Every step you take: How pathogens hijack host proteostasis from transcription, through translation, to degradation	23
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	23
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	23
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	22
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	22
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	22
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	22
Position and identity, two separable but inseparable processes in floral meristem patterning	21
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	21
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	21
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	20
Editorial Board	20
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	20
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	19
Bridging cells and stages: Plasmodesmata for the coordination of plant development	19
Arabinogalactan proteins: Decoding the multifaceted roles in plant reproduction	19
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	19
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	19
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	18
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	18
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	18
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	18