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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
PTI-ETI crosstalk: an integrative view of plant immunity	390
Climate change and the need for agricultural adaptation	201
More is better: the diversity of terpene metabolism in plants	164
Conservation and diversification of flavonoid metabolism in the plant kingdom	142
5Gs for crop genetic improvement	137
Cutin and suberin: assembly and origins of specialized lipidic cell wall scaffolds	126
Diversity of anthocyanin and proanthocyanin biosynthesis in land plants	125
SnRK1 and trehalose 6-phosphate – two ancient pathways converge to regulate plant metabolism and growth	111
ABA-mediated modulation of elevated CO2 on stomatal response to drought	104
EDS1 signalling: At the nexus of intracellular and surface receptor immunity	88
Apoplastic effector proteins of plant-associated fungi and oomycetes	79
Plant genes hijacked by necrotrophic fungal pathogens	78
Metabolic regulation of systemic acquired resistance	76
Transport mechanisms of plant hormones	75
Epigenetic regulation of abiotic stress memory: maintaining the good things while they last	73
Plant NLRs get by with a little help from their friends	73
Regulation of Flowering Time: When and Where?	70
Strigolactones, how are they synthesized to regulate plant growth and development?	69
Plant transcription factors — being in the right place with the right company	68
De novo domestication of wild species to create crops with increased resilience and nutritional value	66
Improving rice salt tolerance by precision breeding in a new era	65
CRISPR/Cas9-based genome editing of banana for disease resistance	65
The initiation of RNA interference (RNAi) in plants	63
High temperature-induced plant disease susceptibility: more than the sum of its parts	60
Untapping the potential of plant mycobiomes for applications in agriculture	59

Old Town Roads: routes of auxin biosynthesis across kingdoms	56
A new era for plant science: spatial single-cell transcriptomics	55
Innovations in plant genetics adapting agriculture to climate change	55
Factors affecting plant responsiveness to arbuscular mycorrhiza	52
Gene regulation in climacteric fruit ripening	51
NLR immune receptors and diverse types of non-NLR proteins control race-specific resistance in Triticeae	51
CRISPR/dCas-mediated transcriptional and epigenetic regulation in plants	51
Nitrogen and Phosphorus interactions in plants: from agronomic to physiological and molecular insights	51
New avenues for increasing yield and stability in C3 cereals: exploring ear photosynthesis	50
The rise and fall of genes: origins and functions of plant pathogen pangenomes	49
Towards understanding the hierarchical nitrogen signalling network in plants	48
Evolution of virulence in rust fungi — multiple solutions to one problem	47
Multifaceted functions of post-translational enzyme modifications in the control of plant glycolysis	46
The case for improving crop carbon sink strength or plasticity for a CO2-rich future	46
Plant secondary metabolites altering root microbiome composition and function	45
Need for speed: manipulating plant growth to accelerate breeding cycles	45
Histone variants take center stage in shaping the epigenome	45
Microbiota-root-shoot-environment axis and stress tolerance in plants	44
Gene and genome duplications in the evolution of chemodiversity: perspectives from studies of Lamiaceae	44
Histone methylation in epigenetic regulation and temperature responses	44
Tactics of host manipulation by intracellular effectors from plant pathogenic fungi	44
Plant unusual fatty acids: learning from the less common	43
N6-methyladenosine modification underlies messenger RNA metabolism and plant development	43
Mobile signals in systemic acquired resistance	41
Mediator subunit MED25: at the nexus of jasmonate signaling	41
Developmental regulation of stolon and rhizome	41
Integration of nutrient and water availabilities via auxin into the root developmental program	41
Ento(o)mics: the intersection of ‘omic’ approaches to decipher plant defense against sap-sucking insect pests	40
New insights into gibberellin signaling in regulating plant growth–metabolic coordination	40
Tripartite mutualisms as models for understanding plant–microbial interactions	40
MIXTAs and phytohormones orchestrate cotton fiber development	39
Oil crops for the future	39
Seeing is believing: Exploiting advances in structural biology to understand and engineer plant immunity	38
How do plants transduce wound signals to induce tissue repair and organ regeneration?	38
Crops of the future: building a climate-resilient plant immune system	38
Exploring the application of wild species for crop improvement in a changing climate	38
Jasmonate: A hormone of primary importance for plant metabolism	37
The important contribution of transposable elements to phenotypic variation and evolution	36
Mechanisms of temperature-regulated growth and thermotolerance in crop species	36
Virus-induced plant genome editing	35
Designing a home for beneficial plant microbiomes	34
Recent advances in understanding thermomorphogenesis signaling	34
Symbiotic bacteria of plant-associated fungi: friends or foes?	34
Phytohormone signaling mechanisms and genetic methods for their modulation and detection	33
One factor, many systems: the floral homeotic protein AGAMOUS and its epigenetic regulatory mechanisms	32
WOX going on: CLE peptides in plant development	32
Amino acids metabolism as a source for aroma volatiles biosynthesis	32
Towards a functional understanding of the plant metabolome	31
To move or not to move: roles and specificity of plant RNA mobility	31
Regulation of pattern-triggered immunity and growth by phytocytokines	30

More than a Catharanthus plant: A multicellular and pluri-organelle alkaloid-producing factory	30
Nanoparticles for protein delivery in planta	30
Resistosome and inflammasome: platforms mediating innate immunity	30
Evolutionary innovations in starch metabolism	30
Omics-based interdisciplinarity is accelerating plant breeding	29
Flavonols modulate plant development, signaling, and stress responses	28
From hybrid genomes to heterotic trait output: Challenges and opportunities	28
Climate change challenges plant breeding	27
‘Hijacking’ core metabolism: a new panache for the evolution of steroidal glycoalkaloids structural diversity	27
Building and breaking of a barrier: Suberin plasticity and function in the endodermis	27
Host-specialized transcriptome of plant-associated organisms	26
The ETS-ETI cycle: evolutionary processes and metapopulation dynamics driving the diversification of pathogen effectors and host immune factors	26
Epigenetics in plant organismic interactions	26
Plant–nematode interactions	26
Network biology to uncover functional and structural properties of the plant immune system	26
Something old, something new: Conservation of the ethylene precursor 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signaling molecule	26
The evolving landscape of cell surface pattern recognition across plant immune networks	25
Towards targeted starch modification in plants	25
Unlocking the mechanisms behind the formation of interlocking pavement cells	25
A ‘hot’ cocktail: The multiple layers of thermomemory in plants	24
Leguminous nodule symbiosis involves recruitment of factors contributing to lateral root development	24
Recent advances on the plant manipulation by geminiviruses	24
Determinants of endophytic and pathogenic lifestyle in root colonizing fungi	24
A revival of effective ploidy: the asymmetry of parental roles in endosperm-based hybridization barriers	24
Engineering pest tolerance through plant-mediated RNA interference	23
Modes of secretion of plant lipophilic metabolites via ABCG transporter-dependent transport and vesicle-mediated trafficking	23
To be a male or a female flower, a question of ethylene in cucurbits	23
Structural and functional insight into the nuclear pore complex and nuclear transport receptors in plant stress signaling	23
Stromules, functional extensions of plastids within the plant cell	23
Reactive oxygen species function as signaling molecules in controlling plant development and hormonal responses	23
Phosphorylation control of PIN auxin transporters	23
Robustness and the generalist niche of polyploid species: Genome shock or gradual evolution?	23
Jumpstarting evolution: How transposition can facilitate adaptation to rapid environmental changes	23
Adaptation to novel environments during crop diversification	22
Auxin canalization: From speculative models toward molecular players	22
How to win a tug-of-war: the adaptive evolution of Phytophthora effectors	22
Plant zygote development: recent insights and applications to clonal seeds	22
Hormonal control of cell identity and growth in the shoot apical meristem	22
Single-cell analysis of cis-regulatory elements	22
Computational approaches to unravel the pathways and evolution of specialized metabolism	22
Cellular and molecular bases of lateral root initiation and morphogenesis	22
Polyploidy before and after domestication of crop species	21
Developing the role of legumes in West Africa under climate change	21
Skirmish or war: the emergence of agricultural plant pathogens	21
The roles of the IGT gene family in plant architecture: past, present, and future	21
More than an on-and-off switch: Post-translational modifications of plant pattern recognition receptor complexes	21
Extrachromosomal circular DNA: A neglected nucleic acid molecule in plants	21
Mechanical control of plant morphogenesis: concepts and progress	21