OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Plant Biology is 21. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents	160
Maternal-filial transfer structures in endosperm: A nexus of nutritional dynamics and seed development	146
Hormonal regulation of inflorescence and intercalary meristems in grasses	144
β-Glucosidases in specialized metabolism: Towards a new understanding of the gatekeepers of plant chemical arsenal	117
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	107
Beauty is more than epidermis deep: How cell division and expansion sculpt the leaf spongy mesophyll	100
Phylogenetic and genomic mechanisms shaping glucosinolate innovation	96
The dynamics of maize leaf development: Patterned to grow while growing a pattern	94
Understanding signaling pathways governing the polar development of root hairs in low-temperature, nutrient-deficient environments	90
Developing for nutrient uptake: Induced organogenesis in parasitic plants and root nodule symbiosis	84
Steroidal compounds in Paris polyphylla:structure, biological activities, and biosynthesis	80
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	78
Transplastomic approaches for metabolic engineering	77
β-Glucan-binding proteins are key modulators of immunity and symbiosis in mutualistic plant–microbe interactions	77
Peculiarities of the regulation of translation initiation in plants	73
Context-specific functions of transcription factors controlling plant development: From leaves to flowers	68
Looking at mechanobiology through an evolutionary lens	63
Specialized metabolism in St John's wort	62
Editorial Board	62
Editorial overview: Plant metabolism without a border: The interface of primary and specialised metabolism	61
Plant growth and development: Experimental diversity is essential for dissecting plant diversity	57
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	57
Chemical tools for unpicking plant specialised metabolic pathways	57
Plant sphingolipids: Subcellular distributions and functions	56
Protein polarization: Spatiotemporal precisions in cell division and differentiation	54

At the root of plant symbioses: Untangling the genetic mechanisms behind mutualistic associations	54
Plant-microbiome crosstalk and disease development	54
How transposable elements are recognized and epigenetically silenced in plants?	54
The parental contributions to early plant embryogenesis and the concept of maternal-to-zygotic transition in plants	53
The evolution and function of transposons in epigenetic regulation in response to the environment	52
The regulation of ACC synthase protein turnover: a rapid route for modulating plant development and stress responses	50
Contents	49
Evolution of immunity networks across embryophytes	48
Biosynthesis of triterpenoids in plants: Pathways, regulation, and biological functions	47
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	47
Recent insights into air space formation in plant shoots	47
HD-Zip IV transcription factors: Drivers of epidermal cell fate integrate metabolic signals	47
The evolution of tropane alkaloids: Coca does it differently	46
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	44
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	44
Unlocking diversity from wild relatives of perennial fruit crops in the pan-genomics era	43
Mechanotransduction in the spotlight of mechano-sensitive channels	42
Rapid systemic responses to herbivory	42
Re-imagining crop domestication in the era of high throughput phenomics	42
Contents	41
The unsung roles of microbial secondary metabolite effectors in the plant disease cacophony	41
Biosynthesis of the triterpenoid withanolides in Withania somnifera	40
Editorial overview: Physiology and metabolism 2024	39
Uncovering an ancestral green ménage à trois: Contributions of Chlamydomonas to the discovery of a broadly conserved triad of plant fertilization proteins	38
Plant microtubule nucleating apparatus and its potential signaling pathway	38
Leveraging yeast to characterize plant biosynthetic gene clusters	38
Plant optogenetics: Applications and perspectives	36
It's time to go glyco in cell wall bioengineering	36
Light, CO2, and carbon storage in microalgae	36
The battle within: How pathogen effectors suppress NLR-mediated immunity	36
Mechanisms of heat stress-induced transcriptional memory	36
Pollen–pistil interactions: It takes two to tangle but a molecular cast of many to deliver	36
Transcriptional and post-transcriptional controls for tuning gene expression in plants	36
Diverse regulatory mechanisms of StARkin domains in land plants and mammals	36
Organogenic events during gynoecium and fruit development in Arabidopsis	36
The diversity of salicylic acid biosynthesis and defense signaling in plants: Knowledge gaps and future opportunities	35
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	35
Editorial Board	34
Editorial Board	34
Regulation of PIN polarity in response to abiotic stress	33
Tipping the balance: The dynamics of stem cell maintenance and stress responses in plant meristems	33
Insights into dynamic coenocytic endosperm development: Unraveling molecular, cellular, and growth complexity	33
Fe acquisition at the crossroad of calcium and reactive oxygen species signaling	33
How bacteria overcome flagellin pattern recognition in plants	32
Spatiotemporal control of root immune responses during microbial colonization	32
Moving targets: Mechanisms regulating siRNA production and DNA methylation during plant development	32
Stem-borne roots as a framework to study trans-organogenesis and uncover fundamental insights in developmental biology	31
Soybean seed protein storage vacuoles for expression of recombinant molecules	31
Contents	31
Dynamics of DNA methylation and its impact on plant embryogenesis	31

Triticeae genome sequences reveal huge expansions of gene families implicated in fertility restoration	31
Editorial Board	31
Structural insights of cell wall integrity signaling during development and immunity	30
Turning up the volume: How root branching adaptive responses aid water foraging	30
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	30
Dynamic and spatial control of cellular activity during seed germination	30
Cell biology features and gene expression programs modulating cell expansion during root organ growth	29
A review of the role of metabolites in vegetative desiccation tolerance of angiosperms	29
Biomolecular condensates at the plasma membrane: Insights into plant cell signaling	29
Light and high temperatures control epigenomic and epitranscriptomic events in Arabidopsis	29
Trehalose 6-phosphate metabolism in C4 species	28
Creating an explosion: Form and function in explosive fruit	28
Cause or effect: Probing the roles of epigenetics in plant development and environmental responses	28
Non-canonical and developmental roles of the TCA cycle in plants	27
The evolution and development of sporangia—The fundamental reproductive organ of land plant sporophytes	27
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	27
Proteasome and selective autophagy: Brothers-in-arms for organelle quality control	27
Wet scissors: How biomolecular condensates cut cellular membranes	27
Cell type-specific control and post-translational regulation of specialized metabolism: opening new avenues for plant metabolic engineering	27
How to turbo charge respiration – thermogenic metabolism in plants	27
Illuminating the role of the calyptra in sporophyte development	27
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	26
Involvement of small molecules and metabolites in regulation of biomolecular condensate properties	26
Scaling-up to understand tree–pathogen interactions: A steep, tough climb or a walk in the park?	26
Innovations and threats facing the storage of sugar in sugar beet	26
Toward improving nitrogen use efficiency in rice: Utilization, coordination, and availability	25
Molecular mechanisms of reprogramming of differentiated cells into stem cells in the moss Physcomitrium patens	25
Elucidating the biology of transcription factor–DNA interaction for accurate identification of cis-regulatory elements	25
Rapid auxin signaling: Unknowns old and new	25
Current insights into plant volatile organic compound biosynthesis	25
Evolution of the sporophyte shoot axis and functions of TALE HD transcription factors in stem development	25
Innovations in two genes kickstarted the evolution of nitrogen-fixing nodules	24
Team effort: Combinatorial control of seed maturation by transcription factors	24
Whispers in the dark: Signals regulating underground plant–plant interactions	24
Disarming the defenses: Insect detoxification of plant defense-related specialized metabolites	24
Contents	24
Tanshinones: Leading the way into Lamiaceae labdane-related diterpenoid biosynthesis	24
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	23
Deciphering the molecular basis of tissue-specific gene expression in plants: Can synthetic biology help?	23
Blooming balloons: Searching for mechanisms of the inflated calyx	23
Convergent and divergent evolution of plant chemical defenses	23
The MVPs (masterful versatile players): Chromatin factors as pivotal mediators between 3D genome organization and the response to environment	22
Extracellular proteases from microbial plant pathogens as virulence factors	22
From birth to function: Male gametophyte development in flowering plants	22
Editorial Board	22
Epigenetic regulation in the shoot apical meristem	22
Composition and function of plant chromatin remodeling complexes	22
Plant galls induced by insects: Coordinated developmental reprogramming and defence manipulation	21
“Order from disordered”: Potential role of intrinsically disordered regions in phytopathogenic oomycete intracellular effector proteins	21
Natural variance at the interface of plant primary and specialized metabolism	21
Pairing omics to decode the diversity of plant specialized metabolism	21
Compositionality, sparsity, spurious heterogeneity, and other data-driven challenges for machine learning algorithms within plant microbiome studies	21
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	21
Revisiting plant electric signaling: Challenging an old phenomenon with novel discoveries	21
Editorial Board	21